Continuing Education for Architects: Construction Materials
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Resources for Designing and Building with Wood: Continuing Education for Architects
Building with Wood: Benefits and Guidelines
The use of wood in construction can lead to many benefits, including durability, sustainability, thermal performance and more. Explore our AIA and GCBI accredited courses to learn how to incorporate wood as a residential and commercial building material in a variety of structures, from light-frame, prefab and modular construction to mass timber and more.
We’re dedicated to helping architects and designers discover the power of using wood in new applications. Whether you’re interested in using wood in multifamily buildings, commercial structures, or mass timber framing, Think Wood has an extensive CEU library with AIA and GCBI accredited courses to support your needs and continuing education requirements.
Check out our continuing education for architects and see what piques your interest.
Check out our continuing education for architects and see what piques your interest.
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Beauty and Strength: An Examination of Western Red Cedar Finishes
This course will explore mass timber construction, including the different types of mass timber products that are manufactured from Douglas fir, spruce-pine-fir, and Southern pine species. -
Specifying and Using Pressure-Treated Southern Pine for Marine Applications
Southern pine (SP) is a group of four highly versatile and durable softwood species with a unique cellular structure that permits deep, uniform penetration of preservatives, making it preferred for pressure treatment in aquatic environments. -
Multifamily Mid-Rise Wood Buildings
This course explores the sustainability and economic benefits, and code requirements of using wood construction for mid-rise multifamily or mixed use buildings. -
How to Calculate the Wood Carbon Footprint of a Building
This course explains the principal methods and tools that are used to assess carbon footprint in the context of building materials. It includes a primer on product terminology and highlights ways to track and assure wood comes from sustainable forests. -
Using Wood to Achieve Thermal Performance Goals
Discover how wood meets and exceeds performance requirements for commercial and nonresidential buildings, including energy efficiency, comfort, durability, code compliance, structural integrity and sustainable outcomes. -
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
As green building has evolved beyond energy efficiency, selection of structural materials is seeing increased focus. Learn how wood from sustainably managed forests is viewed as a responsible choice. -
The Business Case for Building with Wood
Developers face tough challenges with reducing construction costs, securing tenants and differentiating properties in a crowded market. Learn five ways wood construction is helping meet market demands. -
Introduction to Wood Building Systems
Whether designing for light frame or mass timber structural systems, see how wood can help increase your project's versatility, sustainable supply chain, benefits to occupants, as well as thermal, acoustic, seismic and fire performance. -
Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings
Learn more about the use of wood framing systems in low-rise commercial projects, including code implications, cost impacts and implications of multi-tenant occupancies. -
Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Buildings
Learn how prefabricated wood components can help to solve many design and engineering challenges such as material and process efficiency, environmental performance and life safety. -
Designing for Earthquakes
Earthquakes cannot be prevented, but sound design, research and code compliance can reduce their effects. See how wood has become a proven choice for seismic-resistive construction.