Mass Timber Tour: Vae View Elementary School Renovation

What you’ll learn

• Discuss typical construction practices for mass timber projects, including safety best practices, installation efficiency, and coordination with follow-on trades.
• Highlight a variety of structural and architectural uses of CLT panels, glulam and light-frame wood through an in-person tour of an under-construction project, highlighting the biophilic benefits of exposed mass timber for students.
• Demonstrate connection detailing techniques used in code-compliant mass timber integrated into an existing buildings to ensure appropriate structural capacity, fire resistance, and consideration of the project construction type.
• Explain the diverse methods of project development and approaches used by the design team, including owners, contractors, architects, and engineers, to achieve a successful mass timber project.

Attendance notes

Active jobsite; attendees are required to wear PPE (safety vest, hard hat, safety glasses) and sturdy hard-soled flat shoes. A limited number of loaner PPE items are available upon advance registration request.