Wood Solutions Conference

See how Wood WORKS! in your community! Western Archrib and Wood WORKS! Alberta debut a new tour as part of the Edmonton Wood Solutions Conference.

8:30am-3:30pm $80+taxes, includes bus and lunch and 3 unstructured professional development credits!

Schedule:
Park at Edmonton Expo Centre (parking included)
8:30am bus will leave Expo Centre
Start with a tour of Western Archrib
Stops afterwards include: The Meadows Recreation Centre, The PriMed Mosaic Centre (a late lunch is included in the fee and provided), Ritchie Market. The bus will return the tour group to the Expo centre parking lot at approximately 3:30pm

Eric Andreasen, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Adera Development Corporation, Vancouver, BC
Eric is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Marketing and Sales and works closely with the acquisition, development, and design of residential, commercial, and industrial projects across the Adera portfolio. Involved professionally in the Canadian Real Estate Industry since 1987, Eric has been with Adera since 2007, and was previously with Jayman Master Built Homes in Calgary. Throughout the duration of his career, Eric has been responsible for the sales and marketing of over 12,000 homes.

Cross Laminated Timber – The Building Material of the 21st Century
As steel was the preferred material of the 1800s, concrete the 1900s, Cross Laminated Timber is the building material of the 21st century. Eric discusses the benefits of building with Cross Laminated Timber and its impact on climate change.
Adera has long harnessed the advantages of building with wood, both in its raw form, and as an engineered material with a modernized application to design tall, beautiful, and fire-safe buildings. This year, Adera combined 50 years of innovation, engineering, and experience, announcing a proprietary mass timber material.
9:30am & 2:20pm

Lynn Embury-Williams, Executive Director, Wood WORKS! BC – a program of the Canadian Wood Council
Lynn is a Registered Professional Forester in the province of BC and has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario. She joined the BC Wood WORKS! program as Executive Director in 2014. Previously the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Canfor, Lynn has brought a wealth of experience and expertise in the areas of marketing and business development to Wood WORKS! BC.

North American Wood Design Awards: a Showcase of Wood Design Award Winners from 2018-19 
Wood is an extraordinary building material. It is strong, lightweight and safe. It is durable, versatile and adaptable. It is also sustainable and, as new products, systems, and advancements in manufacturing continue to come on-line, the applications for wood products are almost unlimited. Through design innovation, architects and engineers can create larger wood buildings of diverse occupancies that meet or exceed the requirements for safety and performance. Yet wood is also an intimate, precious material well suited to smaller projects and thoughtfully crafted installations. This presentation showcases award-winning projects of every type from the Wood Design Award programs held across Canada and in the US in the past year, shining a light on wood design excellence in both structural and architectural applications.
8am & 12:50pm

Rob Jonkman P.Eng, Director, Codes & Standards – Structural Engineering, Canadian Wood Council, Ottawa, ON
Completing a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Management degree at McMaster University in Hamilton in 1994, Rob worked for one year at a structural engineering consulting firm and over nine years at Normerica Building Systems, a Canadian manu- facturer of post and beam/timberframe buildings as “Design and Engineering Super- visor”. Rob joined the Canadian Wood Council’s Codes and Standards division in 2005, progressing to “Director, Codes and Standards – Structural Engineering” in 2014.

After completing a Bachelor of Civil Engineering at McMaster University, Michelle joined an Engineered Wood Manufacturer as a Field Engineer, after 9 years she took advantage of an opportunity to become an independent consultant, providing component design to the wood industry.

In 2008 she joined the Canadian Wood Council as a Technical Advisor, promoting the use of wood in institutional, industrial and commercial projects, including mid-rise and mass timber opportunities for the Ontario Market.

In 2018 she joined CertainTeed as an Architectural Solutions Manager for the Interior Products Group. She works with Architects and Designers on the specification and detailing of CertainTeed gypsum, insulation and commercial ceiling products.

This session will address three key areas of building design – Moisture, Fire & Sound.

Design consideration for Moisture, Fire and Sound design is critical for all building materials, with wood design there are many options to meet performance requirements, while remaining on budget and improving the well-being of occupants.

In this session we will explore how gypsum responds in a fire and how fire-resistance rated assemblies protects the structural components.

Sound control is another critical element in building design and with changes to the Building Codes accounting for flanking transmission, designers have a better metric for predicting how assemblies perform in the field. In this session participants will gain a better understanding of Apparent Sound Transmission Control (ASTC) and solutions that are available.

Sound quality is another element of sound control which we will explore. Large open spaces finished with hard reflective surfaces can suffer from poor sound quality, but there are options for sound control which can enhance sound quality and improve occupant well-being, all while maintaining the aesthetics of a space. 12:50pm

Forestry in Canada: Managing for Important and Multiple Values
Canada’s forests are a shared and precious renewable resource. Our forests are working forests – used for recreational activities and as an important source of food and economic opportunity for rural and northern Canada. These same forests are also a key weapon in Canada’s fight against climate change.
Given the role that Canadian forest sector workers play as stewards of our forests, this session will share information on how Canada’s forests are managed – and will look at the important values that must be considered as we deal with a dynamic landscape and a changing climate. 3:40pm

This presentation defines building code requirements and outlines acoustic principles. In addition to discussing efficient means of sound-insulation using multiple floor/ceiling assemblies for light wood-frame and mass timber buildings, you will be able to hear the difference between different acoustic ratings. This presentation will benefit any building and design professionals such as architects, designers, acoustic engineers, builders/developers and general contractors.
2:20pm