By Ulrich Dangel: Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: No. This presentation contains examples of Vorarlberg’s unique architectural styles in the design of wood buildings from its early beginnings to the present.
Courses
All course learning content is free for Students, Instructors and Industry Professionals. Courses can be accessed by clicking the Read More button at the bottom of each course description. However, to earn course credits you must first pass a quiz. To access course quiz you must register in the Wood WORKS! eLearning Centre and enroll in course. Both registration and enrolment are free.
041. Wood Solutions to Sustainability Questions
By Peter Moonen. Course Number WWOL041, Year Created 2012.Format – PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. Learn how using wood as a preferable building material can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
042. Expanding Horizons: Mass Timber and the Fort McMurray Airport
By Rob Grant. Course Number WWOL042, Year Created 2015. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Downloadable Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC -Through the project example of the new Fort McMurray Airport Terminal Building, this presentation will discuss a design approach for sustainable buildings in a northern climate.
043. Modern Timber Connectors
By Maik Gehloff: Course Number WWOL043, Year Created 2014. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. This presentation will introduce modern screw technology, describe the motivation for their development, the theory supporting their use, the design approach in their specification and provide a variety of applications for them.
046. Global Lessons from Local Forests
By Alan D Paradis – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. Through the example of the Biomass Power Plant at Hotchkiss School this presentation highlights distinctive and sustainable infrastructure.
047. The Revival of Timber Bridges
By Dan Tingley – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. This presentation will seek to provide an overview of timber bridge design and restoration and highlight the carbon benefits as well as cost and function.
048. Small To Tall; The Wood Innovation & Design Centre
By Eric Karsh. Course Number WWOL048, Year Created 2015. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. This course explains how the solid wood panel construction and the development of The Case for Tall Wood Study led to the just completed Wood Innovation and Design Centre, the tallest all wood building in the world.
049. Seismic Response of Multi-Storey Timber Buildings
By Dr. Tobias Smith. Course Number WWOL049, Year Created 2015. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. This presentation will focus on low damage multi-storey timber buildings. After a major seismic event a low damage building should not only be intact but be usable with no or minimal post quake intervention. The presentation will illustrate how over ten new structures using post tensioned timber walls or frames, recently constructed in New Zealand meet this expectation. Opportunities for Canada will also be discussed.
050. Wooden Towers or Wind Energy Plants
By Holger Giebel. Course Number WWOL050, Year Created 2015. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. Learn how TimberTower develops, erects and distributes wooden towers for multi megawatt wind energy plants including the foundations. It is a high tech company, which connects the construction of wind energy plants with modern timber work.
051. Passive House In Canada: the Past, Present and Future
By Dr. Guido Wimmers. Course Number WWOL051, Year Created 2015. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: No. This presentation will explore the roots of the Passive House Standard, its young history in Canada and successful projects as well as the influence the standard has on the building industry and policy makers in Europe
and in Canada.
