Format: PDF Documents and Videos – Length: Two Hours Handouts: Yes – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – The Building Green with Wood Toolkit by naturally:wood is a comprehensive course on issues required when considering building rating systems, codes and any other “green” related initiatives.
Sustainability
Climate Change and Carbon Benefits of Wood Construction
By: Adam Robertson, Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – Handout: No. The evolution and linkages between contemporary climate change mitigation strategies at the global, national, provincial and municipal levels will be discussed.
Forestry in Canada: Managing for Important and Multiple Values
By Derek Nighbor – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations and EIC – Handout: Yes. Given the role that Canadian forest sector workers play as stewards of our forests, this session will share information on how Canadaâs forests are managed â and will look at the important values that must be considered as we deal with a dynamic landscape and a changing climate.
Forestry Myth Busters, a Practitioners Perspective
By Al Stinson – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Downloadable Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – In this presentation, Al tackles some existing myths and misconceptions about modern-day forestry operations.
Passive House Principles
By Scott Kennedy – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing and EIC – Handout: No. This course will explore how Passive House Principles will influence future wood frame projects.
The Bullitt Center: Heavy Timber and the Living Building Challenge
By Brian Court, Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, HPO, EIC – Handout: Yes. The Bullitt Center, a six-storey heavy timber building, recently competed in Seattle, is predicted to be the world’s most energy efficient commercial building. In this presentation, Project Architect Brian Court will give a short overview of the LBC, discuss the design strategies for the Bullitt Center, and highlight structural and environmental virtues of the heavy timber structural system such as renewability, contribution to energy efficiency, and light carbon footprint.
The Elements of Enriched Environments
By Tye Farrow. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes.nIn this presentation Tye discusses the concept of activated optimal health, which is driven by space, and the elements of our physical space.
The role of Certification in Mass Timber Construction
Presented by Annie Perkins . Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – Handout: Yes. Certified wood offers an excellent solution for building projects. When procured from responsibly managed forests, building with wood addresses climate change, conservation, and biodiversity, and provides renewable building materials with lower embodied carbon than traditional building materials.
Vorarlberg, Austria
Why Forestry is not about trees
By Etienne Belanger. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations. Handout: Yes. This course will discuss forestry from the origins of the forest science to current challenges. It will explain how the definition of sustainable forest management continues to evolve, notably through forest management certification standards.
