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  • Tour of Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment – Building F

    This educational site tour hosted by WoodWorks offers an in-depth walkthrough of Building F within the Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment. The nine-story, 273,000-square-foot building combines cross-laminated timber panels with cold-formed steel bearing walls to establish a sustainable, biophilic residential environment. Participants tour…

  • Mass Timber School Design + Workbench Tour

    This regional WoodWorks seminar and project tour explores mass timber applications across education and commercial sectors. The session begins with an instructional course focused on mass timber adoption in K-12 schools, covering building code pathways, construction speed, acoustic and fire performance, cost…

  • Early Mass Timber Design Decisions Seminar + Ascent Tour

    This regional technical seminar and building tour demonstrates how upfront engineering choices shape tall wood architecture. Structural engineer Eduardo Morales examines fundamental early decisions, including building code construction types, structural grid layouts, beam spans, acoustics, MEP routing, fire-resistance strategies, and connection detailing.…

  • Early Design Decisions for Mass Timber Success & Saddleback ATEP Tour

    This regional WoodWorks seminar pairs a technical lecture with an on-site building walk of the mass timber facility at Saddleback College at ATEP. The presentation covers fundamental front-end design choices, including International Building Code construction types, fire-resistance approaches, structural column grids, panel…

  • Mass Timber Tour: Bush Middle School

    Join WoodWorks for a detailed jobsite tour of the new Bush Middle School in Seattle. The two-story, 24,000-square-foot educational facility incorporates cross-laminated timber panels and glued-laminated framing to deliver a biophilic campus setting housing classrooms, administration, dining, and common areas. Walking the…

  • Tour of Junction and Goldfinch Lofts in Des Moines, IA

    This regional in-person tour explores two progressive multi-family housing developments demonstrating mass timber and light-frame hybrid construction. Participants visit Junction Lofts, the first residential mass timber building in the state and recipient of a US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant, alongside Goldfinch…

  • Mass Timber Building Tour: South San Francisco Wellness Center

    This WoodWorks regional tour offers an on-site look at the South San Francisco Wellness Center, an all-mass timber project housing medical offices and a community wellness clinic. Led by structural engineer Chelsea Drenick, the walkthrough details how the design team integrated glulam…