Mass Timber: Strategies for Carbon, Cost, and Constructability
Learn from a two-year multifamily mass timber study, which took prototypical multifamily residential structures at different scales and reimagined them in mass timber. Key findings on comparative costs, construction conditions, and GWP will be shared. Speakers will then share local mass timber projects that illustrate successes and challenges to implementing mass timber construction. The panel will finish by exploring the current mass timber landscape in the Northeast and what’s on the horizon, with the opportunity for mass timber to significantly contribute to a circular bioregional economy.
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Identify policy and code approaches that enable the acceleration of mass timber adoption.
Examine how the use of a mass timber structural system can reduce a building’s construction schedule and global warming potential (GWP) compared to more conventional construction materials.
Explore case studies featuring successful strategies for overcoming barriers to mass timber in the design and delivery process, including design optimization, cost management, and scheduling.
Explain the Northeast mass timber landscape as it exists today and what potential it has for shaping the future.
This session is pre-approved for 1 credit hour toward AIA (LU|HSW), LEED (BD+C), MA CSL, and NARI certification. Those who attend a full day of the conference are additionally eligible for credit toward Phius and RESNET certification.