Cost of workshop, lodging, and meals during the workshop are covered. Travel expenses (Roundtrip airfare or car rental, shuttle bus, taxi) will be reimbursed shortly after the workshop.
Speakers
Nathaniel Hardy began his career in KPFF’s Portland, OR office before launching KPFF’s Birmingham, AL office in 2021. He has broad experience working on a wide array of building types, including U.S. Embassies, airport facilities, hospitality, and higher-education buildings. Nathaniel has also contributed to or led the design of 10 mass timber buildings across the United States. His passion for mass timber stems from the positive impact this construction material has on each of its stakeholders in the supply chain; from the land owners, timber suppliers, manufacturers, designers, contractors, and rural communities positively impacted by the positive effects of the robust timber industry.
Emily McGlohn has been a professor at Rural Studio since 2017 and was the Clerk of Works in 2003. She teaches a variety of 3rd-year classes and coordinates 3rd-year teaching. Her varied professional interests including design/build education, building performance, residential design and construction, and affordable housing. Since 2016, McGlohn has partnered with the AIA’s Building Performance Knowledge Community to develop a glossary designed to help architects better understand ambiguous building performance terms, which will be widely available through AIA in 2019. In her spare time, she likes to build desserts out of Jell-O and serve them to unsuspecting friends.Venue Host - College of Architecture, Design and Construction, Auburn University
Workshop Sponsor - Think Wood
Reed Kelterborn joined the Softwood Lumber Board as the newly appointed Director of Education. In this role, Kelterborn defines and advances the strategic direction of the Industry Partners
Workshop Sessions | Auburn University CADC Research Park, Auburn, AL
Auburn College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) Research Center is located in a new research park near Auburn University's Main Campus and will be the workshop base location.
Forest Management & Tree Harvesting Site | Alabama
The workshop will include a visit to an actively managed Southern Yellow Pine forest. Principles of sustainable forestry and responsible harvesting will be discussed with forest management professionals.
Sawmill & Lumber Production | Rex Lumber, Troy, AL
Rex Lumber has been manufacturing the forest products since the 1920’s. In the 1970’s Southern Yellow Pine lumber became Rex's main product and they pride themselves at being a leader in the softwood lumber industry.
CLT Production & Fabrication | SmartLAM, Dothan, AL
SmartLAM's Southeast production facility in Dothan, Alabama is the first manufacturer to offer Southern Yellow Pine CLT products in the US. The state of the art 225,000 square-foot plant is ANSI/APA certified and meets all the requirements to achieve PRG 320 product certification.
Visit Wiregrass Innovation Center | Dothan, AL
Wiregrass Innovation Center just completed and is made from CLT and glu-lam produced at nearby SmartLam factory. Attendees will see building systems and components that will need to be considered for coordination with mass timber structure for a typical office building.
Mass Timber Building Visit | KPNC Environmental Education Building, Auburn, AL
Designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the new Environmental Education Building preschool facility is nestled within the 120-acre tract of the Kreher Preserve and Nature Center. The preschool promotes wonder and exploration of the natural world and cultivates a sense of stewardship toward our community and environment. Constructed from timber harvested on-site, the preschool celebrates the potential of wood – aesthetically, economically, and environmentally. The preschool will incorporate cross laminated timber (CLT) produced in nearby Dothan, Alabama with loblolly pine from the site as a demonstration of this new, sustainable building product with great potential for Alabama’s forestry-based industries.
Visit Student-Built Projects | Rural Studio, Newbern, AL
To date, Rural Studio has built more than 200 projects and educated more than 1,200 students in the Black Belt. Around four dozen students are invited to attend each year to participate in this context-based service-learning curriculum, where students live and work alongside our neighbors, finding solutions together. Our design-build program challenges students to consider not what can be built but rather what should be built.
Visit Mass Timber Buildings | The Kendeda Building at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is the first building in Georgia and 28th in the world to earn Living Building Challenge (LBC) certification, the world’s most ambitious and holistic green building achievement. Rather than being less bad for the environment, The Kendeda Building fosters regenerative and restorative relationships amongst humans and nature where people give back more to the environment than they take. The building is net-positive energy and water over the course of each year. By incorporating salvaged materials during construction, the building diverted more waste from the landfill than it sent. To keep economic benefits local, at least 50% of the building materials and services were sourced from within 621 miles of the site. And it prioritizes occupant health and happiness.
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Visit T3 West Midtown | Atlanta, GA
T3 West Midtown is a 7-storey 232,149-square-foot mass timber office development which uses Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) floor and roof panels over a Glulam frame with a steel brace frame lateral system.
