This micro-certificate covers specialized technical topics on mass timber products and building systems with a focus on the practical design of tall wood structures, utilizing current building standards and innovative design methods. It emphasizes the unique properties of wood as a construction material and demonstrates how designers can apply these properties to design safe and reliable tall wood structures in an efficient way.
This micro-certificate will help design professionals develop skills and competencies for an applied understanding of both advantages and challenges of wood in tall wood structures. The micro-certificate consists of four courses that cover different aspects of tall wood design and modelling.
What will you learn?
- Understand the strengths and limitations of mass timber as a construction material;
- Explore various high-capacity timber connection options and identify typical structural configurations for tall wood buildings;
- Learn gravity load design and explore various mass timber floor design options;
- Learn lateral load design with mass timber shear walls and braced frames, etc.;
- Understand ductile design, and capacity design and explore low-damage technologies for improved seismic resilience of mass timber buildings; and
- Explore analytical and numerical tools for structural analysis and learn how to select appropriate modeling/analytical tools for practical design.