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Procrastinator’s Series presented by AIA Virginia: Going with the Grain: Mass Timber
December 10, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
We hope you’ll join us below:
December 10: Going with the Grain: Mass Timber – TYLin | Silman Structural Solutions with Justin Den Herder (1 AIA LU credit)
Going with the Grain explores the philosophical and ethical basis for the implementation of mass timber within architecture and the interconnectivity between the natural environment (forests) and the built environment. It will also touch upon key design considerations for mass timber and touch upon precedent projects and built examples.
Learning Objectives:
1. An ethical basis for the use of mass timber for structural systems within buildings at scale.
2. An understanding of environmental product data (EPD), embodied carbon, and renewable resources with respect to mass timber.
3. A technical description of mass timber structural systems and typologies.
4. Key design considerations with when implementing mass timber.
