This program is being offered as a hybrid program. You may attend either in person or on Zoom.
Join Woodworks for this program on tall timber structures. As interest in and use of mass timber in the U.S. has grown, so too has interest in pushing these timber structures to greater heights. Using international examples of successful tall wood buildings as precedent, some designers have proposed tall wood projects in the states using a project-specific performance-based design approach. In order to provide a uniform set of code provisions for these tall wood buildings, the International Code Council established an ad hoc committee on tall wood buildings that proposed a set of code changes allowing up to 18 stories of mass timber construction. Those code changes were announced as approved in January 2019 and will become part of the 2021 International Building Code. Following a brief discussion of history and motivators, this presentation will introduce the new tall wood code provisions and construction types, as well as the technical research and testing that supported their adoption.
This program is worth 1 HSW. Lunch will be provided for this who attend in person. For those who attend on Zoom, you must attend the full session in order to get AIA credit. If you leave the Zoom meeting early, no credit will be reported.
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