Timber Grows Up

Architects and engineers, drawn to wood for its environmental attributes, push the material to new limits.
Architectural Record
By Joann Gonchar, AIA

Learning Objectives:

  1. Define the term “mass timber.”
  2. Discuss the fire-resistive and structural properties of different types of wood construction.
  3. Outline the environmental benefits of building with wood.
  4. Describe the construction and structural strategies that some project teams are deploying in order to use wood in taller buildings.

Credits:

HSW
1 AIA LU/HSW
IACET
0.1 IACET CEU*
SAA
SAA 1 Hour of Core Learning
As an IACET Accredited Provider, BNP Media offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
This course is approved as a core course
This test is no longer available for credit

This course discusses recently completed, under-construction, and proposed mass-timber buildings. It outlines the environmental benefits, as well as the challenges, of using wood in unconventional ways—both in tall and low-rise structures. And it explores the structural, fire-resistive, and other performance qualities of engineered-wood products.

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Mass Timber Construction

Image courtesy Rune Abrahamsen

 

Originally published in Architectural Record.

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