Timber Grows Up
Architects and engineers, drawn to wood for its environmental attributes, push the material to new limits.
Architectural Record
Learning Objectives:
- Define the term mass timber.
- Discuss the fire-resistive and structural properties of different types of wood construction.
- Outline the environmental benefits of building with wood.
- Describe the construction and structural strategies that some project teams are deploying in order to use wood in taller buildings.
Credits:
1 AIA LU/HSW
0.1 IACET CEU*
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 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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Image courtesy Rune Abrahamsen
Originally published in Architectural Record.
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