Course Overview

Do you want to build with Mass Timber but don’t know where to start?

Join Mark Wigston and Andre Lema of Western Archrib on the “How-To’s” of project managing a Mass Timber Building.

Learning Objectives

1. When should you engage trade partners.
2. What to expect from a mass timber partner.
3. How does design influence cost.
4. Preconstruction planning.
5. Staging and constructing a Mass Timber Building.
6. Understanding and mitigating risks.
7. Unique things about a Mass Timber Building.

Course Video

Speaker Bio

Coming Soon

Course Overview

Timber is a naturally sourced material that provides warmth to almost any design, and castings are manufactured from recycled material that offers free form geometric capabilities, strength and ductility. Used together, steel castings and timber hybrid-construction offer designers the ability to leverage the best attributes of both materials for architectural and structural design, while opening up a world connection solutions. In this webinar, explore projects leveraging both standardized “off-the-shelf” and custom-designed castings for timber structures, such as, Vancouver International Airport: Pier D Expansion, the John W. Olver Design Building at UMASS Amherst, and Roy Bickell Public School in Grand Prairie, and learn how designers successfully married timber and steel castings. We’ll also explore various fastening methods, study lessons learned when using stainless steel castings, and review different coating systems for cast steel connections.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify opportunities for steel castings to improve the aesthetics of connections in timber construction.
2. Discuss key considerations when using structural stainless-steel castings in contrast to typical structural steel castings.
3. Explain the merits of various coating systems for exposed steel castings to project stakeholders and assist in the selection of an appropriate system for a project.
4. Understand how cast steel components may be used within a timber project’s seismic lateral force resisting system.
5. Create a specification for custom-designed and standardized “off-the-shelf” castings which successfully communicates architectural and structural design criteria to castings suppliers such that the casting products delivered to the project can safely and efficiently carry structural loads and achieve the desired aesthetics.

Course Video

Speaker Bio

Tarana Haque, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.
Engineer, Technical Representative (Canada)
CAST CONNEX

Tarana Haque has been a design engineer with CAST CONNEX for over eight years, and is currently the Technical Sales Representative for Canada. Tarana holds a Bachelor and a Master of Applied Science degree from the University of Toronto, a registered professional engineer in the Province of Ontario, and a member of the Future Leaders Committee with the Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat. Her project highlights include the cast steel design for the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, CA, YVR International Airport in Richmond, BC, and The Leaf: Diversity Gardens in Winnipeg, MB.

Course Overview

In Canada, we are fortunate to have both structural engineers and architects who, because of the numerous benefits, would like to work with wood whenever they can. While many are comfortable using wood in traditional applications and in buildings that are relatively small in scale, not all have the requisite experience working with wood (whether traditional light wood-frame, heavy timber, or new engineered mass timber systems) in larger, non-traditional applications. In this context, the main purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate how a variety of structural wood systems can be successfully applied to a range of large-scale, low-rise building types – ones more typically constructed of steel. We believe that providing sound examples of structural wood systems for non-traditional applications can be a powerful tool to encourage developers, builders, architects, and engineers to use wood as the primary structural material in these types of buildings.

Learning Objectives

1. Importance of the Low-Rise Market.
2. Scope and Content of the Low-Rise Guide.
3. Review of Mass Timber and Hybrid Structural Systems Applicable to Low-rise Buildings.
4. Review of Light Framing Structural Systems Applicable to Low-rise Buildings.

Course Video

Speaker Bio

Claude Lamothe
President
Intra-Bois Inc.

Claude Lamothe, President Intra-Bois Inc. Claude graduated from McGill University in 1985 with a Civil Engineering Bachelor Degree. He worked four years in the lumber truss and steel industries before joining Trus Joist. After five years as a Technical Sales Representative and three years as Eastern Canada Regional Sales Manager, Claude joined Domtar Lumber Division as Marketing Manager and then worked for Goodfellow as Manager Engineered Wood Products. From 2002 to 2012, Claude was Sales Manager Structural & Industrial Segments for the Lumber Division of Resolute Forest Products. In 2012, Claude founded its own consulting firm Intra-Bois Inc. Intra-Bois offers structural engineering services and has performed several market studies for major North American forest products companies.

Course Overview

Mass Timber has arrived in the world capital infrastructure marketplace while architects and structural engineers are trying to get educated about how to design with this new advanced engineered wood material. This paper discusses three important aspects of mass timber design in outdoor and indoor (wet and dry service) conditions as well as important design questions such as major and minor axis horizontal shear as it relates to column and wheel point loads. Other design considerations will be discussed as well.

Learning Objectives

1. Mass timber design details for outdoor and indoor environmental exposure. 
2. Point loads due to column loading in mass timber systems both post and beam and CLT and simple platform and column.
3. Fire resistance ratings and advanced materials in mass timber buildings
4. Minor and major axis shear characteristics of CLT and impacts on design considerations for civil infrastructure.

Course Video

Speaker Bio

Dan Tingley, Ph.D., P.Eng., MIEust, CPEng., RPEQ,
Senior Wood Technologist / Structural Engineer
Wood Research and Development (WRD) Oregon, USA and Caboolture, QLD, Australia

Dr. Dan Tingley graduated from University of New Brunswick with a B. Sc. F.E. and later a M.Sc.C.E. Following this in the 90’s Tingley finished his Ph.D. in wood technology and structural engineering at Oregon State University. He has worked in the wood products field for 40 years. He currently serves as senior engineer for Wood Research and Development and Advanced Research and Development and makes his base in Portland Oregon. He has won the Civil Engineering Research Foundation’s Charles Pankow Award for Structural Innovation as well as the Nova Award for all construction products issued by Construction Innovation Forum for his pioneer work in high strength fiber reinforcement of wood and wood composites. Tingley holds over 40 patents worldwide and has over 125 referred and non referred publications. He specializes in timber structures design and restoration with a significant interest in timber bridges. He is currently acting as senior engineer providing oversight on 20 timber bridge restoration projects world-wide.

Course Overview

This webinar will discuss the fire-related national building and fire code changes related to a new construction type called Encapsulated Mass Timber Construction (EMTC) to be used for wood buildings up to twelve storeys. As well, it will provide an overview of ongoing fire research at the National Research Council of Canada into various performance aspects of mass timber construction and tall wood buildings.

Learning Objectives

1. Proposed new construction type EMTC.
2. Proposed new ULC encapsulation rating test.
3. Proposed additions for EMTC in the 2020 NBC and NFC.
4. Mass timber fire testing.

Course Video

Speaker Bio

Marc Alam
Manager, Codes and Standards in the fire division Canadian Wood Council

Marc Alam is a member of the Canadian Wood Council. As Manager, Codes and Standards in the fire division, Marc assists through participation in CWC’s building code and standards fire‐related initiatives and the development of CWC’s fire design tools, as well as code‐related fire research projects.