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October 1, 2024 - Regional In-Person Event (Long Beach, CA) This course examines the use of mass timber in construction and the positive environmental benefits it can bring to a project, with case studies illustrating wood’s impact on sustainability outcomes.
October 1, 2024 - Regional Online Event (GA, LA, FL, LA, MS) Learn what new opportunities the 2021 International Building Code will create for mass timber multi-family housing in the 6-18 story range.
October 3, 2024 - Regional In-Person Tour (Brookhaven, GA) Join Laura Cullen as she leads a tour of the new Brookhaven City Hall. The four-story building includes an atrium, retail, restaurant, an event space with a catering kitchen, and a rooftop terrace.
October 4, 2024 - Regional Online Event (CA-South, AZ, NM) This course examines the use of mass timber in construction and the positive environmental benefits it can bring to a project, with case studies illustrating wood’s impact on sustainability outcomes.
October 8, 2024 - Regional In-Person Seminar (Philadelphia, PA) Mass timber is a unique, non-commodity building material and, to lay the groundwork for success, certain critical decisions must be made as early as possible. This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
October 8, 2024 - Regional In-Person Seminar (Denver, CO) This presentation will cover some of the design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings and focuses on mid-rise mass timber construction, highlighting examples in the five- to eight-story range—including office, mixed-use, and multi-family projects.
October 9, 2024 - National Online Event. This webinar focuses on the critical role that gravity-loaded connections play in the success of a mass timber project, emphasizing their importance in ensuring structural integrity, meeting aesthetic goals, and complying with design codes.
October 10, 2024 - Regional Online Seminar (CO, MT, NE, ND, SD, WY) This presentation will cover some of the design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings and focuses on mid-rise mass timber construction, highlighting examples in the five- to eight-story range—including office, mixed-use, and multi-family projects
October 10, 2024 - Regional Online Seminar (PA, NJ) Mass timber is a unique, non-commodity building material and, to lay the groundwork for success, certain critical decisions must be made as early as possible. This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
October 22, 2024 - Regional In-Person Workshop (Boston, MA) New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) and its partners are hosting the first in a series of workshops aimed at growing the market for climate-smart forest products and connecting with efforts to incentivize climate-smart forest management across our region.
October 22, 2024 - Regional In-Person Tour (Nashville, TN) Earn CEUs and tour a seven-story mass timber building providing creative office space and ground-floor retail in Nashville. The seminar will build on the environment of shared learning in the mass timber community, providing an overview of everything from available products to the planning, design, and implementation methods across disciplines that maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
October 30, 2024 - Regional In-Person Seminar (Buena Park, CA) This presentation will focus on the most common detailing issues and areas of misunderstanding related to exterior walls and their intersection with rated floor assemblies, along with detailing for elevator, stair, and mechanical shafts.
October 30, 2024 - Regional Online Seminar (NC, SC, TN) This presentation will build on the environment of shared learning in the mass timber community, providing an overview of everything from available products to the planning, design, and implementation methods across disciplines that maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
November 12-14, 2024 – Regional In-Person Event (Philadelphia, PA) Co-produced by WoodWorks & Forest Economic Advisors, Mass Timber+ at Greenbuild is where wood-based offsite construction’s suppliers, buyers and specifiers meet to explore opportunities, exchange ideas and introduce technologies to move this industry forward.
November 12, 2024 - Regional Online Event (KS, AR, MO, OK) This presentation will focus on common detailing issues and areas of misunderstanding related to exterior walls and their intersection with rated floor assemblies, followed by discussion of detailing code requirements, code compliance, and rationale for approval with an emphasis on constructability and practicality.
November 13, 2024 - Regional In-Person Event (Birmingham, AL) This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
November 15, 2024 - Regional In-Person Tour (Des Moines, IA) This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others. After the seminar, join us for a tour of Star Lofts hosted by Scott and Mary Cutler.
November 18, 2024 - Regional Online Event (GA, AL, LA, MS) This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
November 19, 2024 - National Online Event. A delegated design engineer is often brought on to handle specific components of timber-related engineering. Teams must plan for the handoff to the specialty engineer. Through this presentation, attendees will gain a deep understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved, focusing on the crucial information that the AOR/EOR must provide to the delegated design engineer.
November 20, 2024 - Regional Online Event (IL, IA, MN, WI) This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
November 20, 2024 - National Online Event. The 2025 Mass Timber Competition: Building Sustainable Schools will provide $1.8M in total funds to support projects that demonstrate mass timber’s application in schools, their biophilic benefits, and their ability to quickly reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment.
November 21, 2024 - Regional Online Event (NC, SC, TN) This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
November 21, 2024 - National Online Event. This presentation offers an overview of structural engineering modeling techniques for horizontal mass timber diaphragms under wind and seismic loading. The presentation will also explore the impact of connections on diaphragm system behavior, lateral load distribution, and key parameters influencing performance under lateral loads.
November 21, 2024 - Regional In-Person Event (Portland, OR) This workshop will connect designers, contractors, and other key industry professionals with developers to discuss critical decisions and strategies for successful mass timber projects.
December 4, 2024 - National Online Event. This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
December 10, 2024 (Regional In-Person and Online Event) This presentation will review the allowable construction types, with an emphasis on the opportunities and advantages of using light-frame wood in Types III and V. Common framing methods will also be discussed in the context of ensuring that projects are designed to be structurally sound, constructable, and code compliant.
December 11, 2024 - Regional In-Person Event (Muskegon, MI) This workshop will focus on the implementation of mass timber within the Adelaide Pointe mixed-use development. After the workshop, join us for a tour of Adelaide Point.
December 11, 2024 - National Online Event. This presentation will provide an overview of how wood can reduce embodied carbon emissions, including how to measure and compare carbon emissions using whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA) and the importance of biogenic carbon. It will also review the Mass Timber Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Series.
January 14, 2025 - National Online Event. This presentation will provide an introductory review of structural wood design for vertical (gravity) loads, including bending, shear, deflection, vibration, tension, compression, and connections.
January 16, 2025 - National Online Event. This presentation will provide an introductory review of structural wood design for lateral (wind and seismic) loads, including traditional diaphragms and shear walls as well as alternate systems.
