2024 Resource Round-Up
Jan 15, 2025
WoodWorks
This past year, our team released a wealth of resources to help you succeed with light-frame, mass timber, and hybrid wood building systems—whether you’re tackling technical design challenges, seeing how wood pencils out, or looking for inspiration.
From in-depth technical papers to detailed case studies, our resources are tailored to equip you with the knowledge and confidence to realize successful wood projects. We’ve rounded up all our releases from the past year in one place, making it easier to access the latest in our library of free resources.
Dive into the roundup below.
Guides, Manuals & Inventories
Mass Timber Insurance Playbook – U.S. Edition
The Mass Timber Insurance Playbook – U.S. Edition (MTIP) gives developers, design/construction professionals, and insurers a comprehensive framework for working together to resolve challenges that impact the insurability of mass timber buildings, making it easier for teams to bring more of these projects to fruition.
Expert Tips
Tips form our team of wood experts, often based on questions we frequently answer while providing technical assistance to design and construction teams across the U.S.
- How to Create a Vertical Addition with Mass Timber
- Design for Two-Way Spanning Cross-Laminated Timber
- Exterior Walls in Buildings with Mass Timber Floors – Part 2: Common Floor-to-Wall Details
- Beam, Column, and Beam-Column Stability Considerations
- Hybrid Design: Mass Timber Floor and Roof Panels Over Light-Frame Wood Walls
- CLT on Cold-Formed Steel Stud Bearing Walls: Engineering Tips for Hybrid Construction
- Developing a Functionally Equivalent Design for Comparative WBLCA
- Code Path and Requirements for Podium Projects
- LEED Credits for Use of Wood Products
Case Studies
Behind the scenes details from team members on innovative wood projects.
- 16 Stories of Mass Timber: 1510 Webster
- Industrial Design: Janicki Warehouse
- Class A Office: 619 Ponce
Technical Video Series
Learn more about important mass timber design topics from experienced team members.
Mosaic Architecture / Morrison-Maierle / Photo Heidi Long, Longview Studios
Mass Timber Comparative Life Cycle Assessment Series
A series of studies documenting how the embodied carbon impacts and cost of mass timber compare to functionally equivalent steel and concrete systems.
Solution Papers
In-depth papers on important wood design and construction topics – ranging from the basics of mass timber to the nuances of building code and cost estimating.
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