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ONTARIO WOOD BRIDGE REFERENCE GUIDE

...the Canadian Wood Council publication Wood Highway Bridges from 1992 are typically referenced by designers of timber bridges in Ontario. This new reference is intended to provide updated background information...

Surface Pre-treatment

...deep into the wood. In New Zealand, framing lumber has been treated with borates using this process since the 1950s. Dip-diffusion works well with wood species that are mostly sapwood...

Hamilton and Oyster River Fire Halls – Richmond and Comox, BC

...built up wood members, tie downs and plywood sheathing. The challenges come with the coordination of each discipline: architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical to position wood shear walls and structural...

Introduction to Wood Design

Resource Description This comprehensive course package provides educators with a ready-to-use framework for teaching structural wood design, aligned with CSA O86 and the Wood Design Manual. Suitable for advanced undergraduate...

Timber and Off-Site Construction

...Bio Derek Ratzlaff, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., PE Technical Director WoodWorks BC Derek began his career in the wood industry in high school working on single and multi-family light wood frame construction....

Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

...of the new code provisions for EMTC in BC. Derek Ratzlaff, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., PE Technical Director, WoodWorks BC Canadian Wood Council Derek began his career in the wood industry in...

BP3 – Termite Control and Wood-Frame Buildings

Wood products have long been the building materials of choice for home construction in North America. The wood-frame construction system has a solid history of producing housing of the highest...

BP1 – Moisture and Wood-Frame Buildings

...construction has proven it can stand the test of time. The art and technology of wood building, however, has been changing through time. Can modern wood-frame buildings perform as well?...

CLT Design Considerations

...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...

Aspen Art Museum: Creating an Innovative Wood Structure

Course Overview The Aspen Art Museum, designed by architect Shigeru Ban, includes a long-span three-dimensional wood space-frame roof. Ban’s charge was to create a wood space frame with spans of...

Magazine, Revue

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 100

Reaching one hundred issues is a milestone worthy of both celebration and reflection. Wood Design & Building, once upon a time called Wood le Bois, began as a modest trade...

Canadian Preservation Industry

Canada has had a wood preservation industry for about 100 years. Canada is tied with the UK as the world’s second largest producer of treated wood (the USA is first,...

Shearwalls Course

Course Overview The Shearwalls Course introduces learners to the WoodWorks Shearwalls Program, a tool designed for modeling and analyzing wood-frame structures. This course...

Rock Community Church – Planned for Growth

Rock Community Church is located in Woodbridge, Ontario, directly north of Toronto. Several years ago, the congregation bought a large, wooded property and used an existing...

Civic Buildings, Woodworks

Residential Prescriptive Exterior Wood Deck Span Guide

The intent of this document is to provide guidance on joist spans, built-up beam sizes, and supporting column sizes for exterior wood decks. The following items which are...

CWC, Wood Decks

Fire Safety Design In Buildings

In a recent survey of building specifiers, the majority perceived wood to be the most environmentally friendly building material. Compared to other major building materials...

CWC, Fire Safety

Ontario Mid-Rise Reference Guide

On September 23, 2014, after many years of research, development, stakeholder feedback and discussion, the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing announced...

Mid-Rise Buildings, Woodworks

Insuring Timber Buildings: Best Practices for the Best Rates!

Course Overview Recent code changes and advancements in timber products are allowing for larger and more complex buildings to be built in timber. These multi storey, complex...

A Mechanics-Based Approach for Determining Deflections of Stacked Multi-Storey Wood-Based Shearwalls

The 2009 edition of CSA Standard O86, Engineering Design in Wood (CSA 2009), provides an equation for determining the deflection of shear walls. It is important to note that...

CWC, Shearwalls

Design of Stacked Multi-Storey Wood Shearwalls Using A Mechanics Based Approach

This document is a Design example of Stacked Multi-Storey Wood Shearwalls Using A Mechanics Based Approach. It shows a floor plan and elevation along with the preliminary...

CWC, Shearwalls

Considerations in the Design & Prefabrication of Mass Timber Buildings for Architects

Resource Description This resource is intended to provide educators with a clear framework for teaching the principles of mass timber design and prefabrication. The content...

Joining Tradition and Innovation with Mass timber Connections

Course Overview An overview of traditional, state of the art and innovative wood fasteners and connectors. This course is of particular interest to structural engineers and...

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 99

As the design and construction industry collectively strives towards a more sustainable built environment, one of the more interesting challenges in architecture today is how...

Construction Sites

The vulnerability of any building in a fire situation is higher during the construction phase when compared to the susceptibility of the building after it has been completed...

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ONTARIO WOOD BRIDGE REFERENCE GUIDE

Surface Pre-treatment

Hamilton and Oyster River Fire Halls – Richmond and Comox, BC

Introduction to Wood Design

Timber and Off-Site Construction

Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

BP3 – Termite Control and Wood-Frame Buildings

BP1 – Moisture and Wood-Frame Buildings

CLT Design Considerations

Aspen Art Museum: Creating an Innovative Wood Structure

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 100

Canadian Preservation Industry

Shearwalls Course

Rock Community Church – Planned for Growth

Residential Prescriptive Exterior Wood Deck Span Guide

Fire Safety Design In Buildings

Ontario Mid-Rise Reference Guide

Insuring Timber Buildings: Best Practices for the Best Rates!

A Mechanics-Based Approach for Determining Deflections of Stacked Multi-Storey Wood-Based Shearwalls

Design of Stacked Multi-Storey Wood Shearwalls Using A Mechanics Based Approach

Considerations in the Design & Prefabrication of Mass Timber Buildings for Architects

Joining Tradition and Innovation with Mass timber Connections

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 99

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ONTARIO WOOD BRIDGE REFERENCE GUIDE

Surface Pre-treatment

Hamilton and Oyster River Fire Halls – Richmond and Comox, BC

Introduction to Wood Design

Timber and Off-Site Construction

Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

BP3 – Termite Control and Wood-Frame Buildings

BP1 – Moisture and Wood-Frame Buildings

CLT Design Considerations

Aspen Art Museum: Creating an Innovative Wood Structure

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 100

Canadian Preservation Industry

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