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
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
By Brian Court, Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, HPO, EIC – Handout: Yes. The Bullitt Center, a sixâstory heavy timber building, recently competed in Seattle, is predicted to be the worldâs 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.
Vorarlberg, Austria
By Ulrich Dangel: Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: No. This presentation is a protral of Vorarlberg\’s unique architectural styles in the design of wood buildings from its early beginnings to the present.
Wood Products – Climate Change and Carbon Benefits
By Adam Robertson – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – Handout: No. The carbon benefits of using wood products will be explored, including forests as carbon sinks, wood building products as long-term carbon storage devices and emissions reductions through product substitution.
Wood Solutions to Sustainability Questions
By Peter Moonen: Format – PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. Learn how using wood as a preferable building material can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
