Continuing Education for Architects: Mass Timber Courses
Leaf and learn.
Resources for Designing and Building with Wood: Continuing Education for Architects
Designing and Building with Mass Timber Construction
Mass timber building is becoming more and more popular as tenants and occupants demand buildings that are both durable and sustainable. Discover various types of mass timber construction and get insight and guidelines for how to design and build with mass timber by taking one of our AIA and GCBI accredited courses.
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.
Type
-
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. -
Designing Modern Wood Schools
In 2019, an estimated $98 billion was spent on educational construction, including new buildings and structures as well as renovations, site work and all associated utility work. -
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. -
Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings: Trends, Drivers, Challenges
This pre-recorded lecture will examine the recent trend towards steel-timber hybrids—as a subset of the wider trend towards mass timber—in high rise buildings. -
CLT in Residential Typologies, Presented by Jennifer Bonner
This presentation will examine the use of CLT in residential typologies - with a focus on projects that utilize space and geometry in a unique way. -
Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future
-
Design and Construction of Taller Wood Buildings
With rising demand for new urban buildings, and increased interest in sustainable and efficient construction, the potential for tall wood buildings is growing. Learn more in this AIA accredited CEU. -
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. -
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.