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Popular Topics: Mass Timber Fire Tests Sustainability Events

- March 20, 2025
Webinar: Efficient Tall Wall Framing using Engineered Wood Products
- Learn best practices for designing efficient tall walls with engineered wood, from material selection to software tools, in this free webinar.
- March 20, 2025

- March 13, 2025
Webinar: Diversify Your Structural Portfolio: Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Construction
- Discover how to incorporate wood into low-rise commercial buildings, optimize material selection, and avoid common pitfalls in this free webinar.
- March 13, 2025

- February 24, 2025
Webinar: Encapsulated Mass Timber: A New Construction Type for the 2020 National Building Code
- Join OACETT's free webinar on fire-related code changes for EMTC and related research, featuring insights from our expert speaker.
- February 24, 2025

- September 22, 2025
Woodrise 2025
- Woodrise 2025 brings global experts together to advance mass timber construction through networking, innovation, and sustainability in Vancouver.
- September 22, 2025
- Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada

- March 11, 2025
Calgary – Innovations and Challenges in Mid-Rise Construction Workshop
- A one-day workshop on designing and building Mid-Rise buildings.
- March 11, 2025
- 1316 33 Street Northeast, Calgary, AB, Canada

- March 10, 2025
Edmonton – Innovations and Challenges in Mid-Rise Construction Workshop
- A one-day workshop on designing and building Mid-Rise buildings.
- March 10, 2025
- 11420 117 Street Northwest, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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