Check your list twice for year-end CEU credits from our list of top 10 and jingle all the way with winter renovations and our annual Timber Trends survey.
We’re wrapping up an eventful 2021 with winter remodeling inspiration, the year’s top 10 CEUs, and our annual Timber Trends survey.
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2022 Timber Trends: Share Your Predictions
Think Wood’s annual Timber Trends survey is back and we’re seeking your input. What design and construction trends will define our future landscape? Tell us your 2022 predictions in this two-minute survey and be entered to win a print copy of the upcoming 2022 Mass Timber Design Manual.
Time is running out for year-end CEU credits! Not sure where to start? Think Wood’s top 10 CEUs are a convenient—and AIA-accredited—way to meet your annual education requirements. Gain fresh insights and master new skills on everything from calculating wood's carbon footprint to designing spaces that promote health and wellness in a rapidly changing world.
Add a touch of elegance and loads of dimension with a coffered or box beam ceiling crafted from softwood lumber. See how you can make an often-overlooked area the focal point of your room in seven easy steps.
10 Single-Family Homes Featuring Exposed CLT This latest roundup of Dezeen's LookBooks highlights 10 single-family home projects with exposed cross-laminated timber including a 1980s housing block in Germany and a cozy Finnish cabin.
Raleigh’s ‘Next Level’ Downtown Developments The $2.2 billion mixed-use development in Raleigh, North Carolina, will include new apartment buildings, ground-floor retail, and a 180,000-square-foot office building that features exposed mass timber construction with 10-foot-high windows on all six floors.
Industry Special: Designing for Resilience with Wood Fire halls, police stations, health facilities, and other essential service buildings must meet rigorous seismic requirements while also mitigating climate change. To achieve these goals, an increasing number of communities are looking to mass timber.
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Truss Structures Researchers at MIT have created a set of computational tools to enable architects and engineers to design truss structures in a way that can minimize their embodied carbon.
Three projects with ties to the University of Arkansas were shortlisted in the 2020/2021 World Architecture Festival Awards program, including Adohi Hall, a 200,000+ square-foot, 708-bed residence hall—the nation's first mass timber project of its kind.
Representatives of Stora Enso, Google, the World Green Building Council, and others called on government and industry to reduce the construction sector’s environmental impact, including a life-cycle approach to emissions reduction and a commitment to radical collaboration across the value chain.
In Meerstad, a neighborhood in the Dutch city of Groningen, De Zwarte Hond is designing a multi-use supermarket made entirely of wood. Named the SuperHub, the project is intended to be a sustainable and flexible building that will also host a variety of social functions.
In Case You Missed It
Think Wood Virtual Tour
Have you seen this yet? This 360° virtual, museum-quality tour showcases the environmental and economic benefits of softwood lumber and engineered wood products in both residential and commercial construction.
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