Continuing Education for Architects: Green Building & Sustainability
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Resources for Designing and Building with Wood: Continuing Education for Architects
Sustainable Building Products: Is Wood on Your List?
Green building, including the sustainability of construction materials, is increasingly expected from commercial and residential tenants. Check out our AIA and GCBI accredited courses and discover how to use renewable wood components to enhance environmental performance and why wood from sustainably managed forests is viewed as a responsible choice.
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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Mass Timber 2030: Preparing Your Practice
Interested in designing with mass timber, but unsure how to incorporate it into your toolbox? Hear from three AEC leaders—an architect, a developer, and an engineer—regarding their unique role in the project pipeline and their expertise with specifying mass timber and hybrid building systems. -
Learning and Architecture: What Mass Timber Can Teach Us presented by Martin Hopp
This course explores the intersection of sustainable building practices and educational environments. -
Designing and Constructing the All-Wood Building: Presented by Ben Waechter
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the design and construction of all-wood buildings, with a focus on Waechter Architecture’s innovative Mississippi Building in Portland, Oregon. -
Creating Beautiful, Accessible, and Equitable Spaces with Mass Timber Presented by Chandra Robinson
This course delves into the innovative use of mass timber in architecture. -
2021 IBC: Building Bigger and Taller with Low Carbon Wood
In this course, you’ll learn about the 2021 International Building Code (IBC) changes related to tall wood construction, including three new building types that allow for wood buildings up to 18 stories and even taller using an Alternate Materials and Methods Requests (AMMR). -
Disruptive Ecologies: Mass Timber as a Lower-Carbon Building Approach, Presented by Susan Jones
In this lecture, Jones provides insight into an ecological journey of a decade-long search for sustainable design strategies. -
Building the Regenerative City
The built environment is responsible for an estimated 40% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions as well as a host of other global ecological and social impacts. -
The Woodpecker’s Delight: Nader Tehrani on the Role of Wood Architecture in Culture and Ecology
This guest lecture is presented by Nader Tehrani, Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. -
Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future
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Designing Beneficial Spaces for Living, Working, and Well-being
Occupant health and well-being is more important than ever. This CEU explores architecture designed to improve the well-being of building occupants. -
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. -
The Role of Wood Products in Green Building
Material choice greatly affects the environmental impact of buildings, both during construction and over the building’s lifecycle. Learn about tools and certifications for green building in this CEU. -
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. -
Wood and Indoor Environment
Discover how using wood as a structural or finish material impacts indoor air quality, acoustics and well-being. This course also covers research supporting the growing trend of biophilic design. -
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. -
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 Durability
Even as the use of wood is expanding, one significant characteristic of wood buildings is often underestimated: their durability. Learn design and construction techniques to control moisture and insect impacts. -
Building Resilience: Expanding the Concept of Sustainability
Explore wood construction in the context of resilience and sustainability, including performance during natural disasters, building code compliance, and the relevance of wood’s light carbon footprint and low embodied energy.