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11 Excellent Think Wood CEUs of 2024
Continuing education is an essential tool to keep AEC practitioners up to speed with evolutions and revolutions in the built environment, and to learn new ways to make their buildings more sustainable and to expand their practices. Keep up with industry innovations with Think Wood’s ever-growing library of insightful, timely, and interesting courses for designing and building with wood.
Explore how to improve occupant well-being through design and material choices. Learn about the latest in the use of wood structural systems for commercial buildings. Dive deeper into low-carbon building strategies. We invite you to expand your knowledge by taking some (or all!) of our top 11 CEUs of 2024.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
Designing and Constructing the All-Wood Building: Presented by Ben Waechter
Examine Waechter Architecture’s innovative all-wood Mississippi Building in Portland, Oregon, through an engaging course that highlights the flexible “6 Rooms” approach, structural systems using mass timber products, and the integration of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
Designing Beneficial Spaces for Living, Working, and Well-Being
Occupant health and well-being are more important than ever, especially given the fact that Americans, on average, spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. Explore architecture designed to improve the well-being of building occupants.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
Resilient Wood Construction: Designing for Earthquakes and High Winds
Earthquakes, high winds, and hurricanes are harsh realities for much of the United States, but properly designed and constructed wood structures that comply with building code requirements are resilient, performing with minimal damage while protecting occupants during both seismic and high-wind events.
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1.5 AIA LU/HSW; PDH Potential 1.5 hour
Innovations in Wood: Understanding the Latest Advances in Wood Research and Design
Dive into Architect University’s on-demand webinar, hosted by Architect’s Editor in Chief, on the benefits of specifying wood in buildings, including elevating the design of the project, enhancing sustainability initiatives, and creating comfortable, aesthetically pleasing spaces.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
Learning and Architecture: What Mass Timber Can Teach Us
Explore the intersection of sustainable building practices and educational environments through the lens of the Evergreen Charter School. This course, presented by the school’s architect, Martin Hopp, examines how mass timber construction can address key challenges in K-12 education, such as facility inequity, student well-being, and sustainability goals.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
While ecosystems, supply chains, and building materials are complex, using natural, renewable products represents a simple decision with considerable environmental benefits. Take this course to improve your knowledge of the sustainability of wood as a building material and understand the impacts of North American timber harvesting on forest health and resilience.
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AIA LU/HSW; GBCI 1 CE
Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future
Learn from design teams who are embracing innovative strategies—incorporating greenspace; community building + placemaking; lowering building carbon footprints; and designing for density and affordability—to deliver solutions that begin to address some of the most urgent global issues of our times.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
How to Calculate the Wood Carbon Footprint of a Building
Explore the principal methods and tools used to assess the carbon impact of building materials through this course’s thorough coverage of life cycle assessments (LCAs), environmental product declarations (EPDs), carbon footprint, embodied carbon, and whole building LCA (WBLCA) tools.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
Timber Above the City, Innovative Wood Solutions for Vertical Extensions
Lightweight wood systems can be used for overbuilds, adding density to existing buildings through additional floor area to address the affordability and sustainability crisis that affects our urban environments. Register for the on-demand webinar to strengthen your knowledge of overbuilds constructed with wood.
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1 AIA LU/HSW
Mass Timber as a Solution for Commercial Offices
Mass timber and innovative wood products can be an ideal choice for mid-sized commercial office building projects where attention to detail is critical to satisfy environmental goals. Discover the sustainable benefits, flexible design options, and economic opportunities in specifying mass timber in mid-size office building projects.
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1.5 AIA LU/HSW; PDH Potential 1.5 hour
Advances in Wood Construction and Sustainability: Reimagining the Future of the Built Environment
Reimagine the future of the built environment through Architect University’s on-demand webinar in which two firms using wood in sustainable ways, CO Adaptive and Lord Aeck Sargent, provide a unique look into how the use of wood—through adaptive reuse, low-carbon design, sustainability, and as an educational experience—supports their projects’ needs and goals.
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There’s no limit to how you can expand your knowledge of designing and building with wood. These top 11 CEUs of 2024 are merely the beginning. Our e-learning platform, The Wood Institute, provides free, on-demand content from Think Wood, WoodWorks, and the American Wood Council, including 190+ CEU courses accredited by AIA, ICC, GBCI, and others.
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