This thoughtfully condensed one-hour course provides participants with a thorough overview of the increasingly central role that wood is playing in architecture and design. Participants will be briefed on how wood is being used around the world, new techniques in sustainable sourcing, and how to specify with confidence. An optional 20-minute Q&A at the end is available for participants to ask detailed questions about their own projects.

Participants with less experience with wood will be encouraged by the instructor's ability to present the subject in an accessible manner. Participants with more experience will be stimulated by the instructor's deep knowledge of the field and are encouraged to bring their most challenging questions to the session.

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Your office

Credits: Participants will receive a certificate for one learning hour that can be submitted to the OAA, LOA or ARIDO for a continuing education credit.

Cost: Free for OAA member companies

Materials: North on Sixty will provide all training materials, as well as Fair Trade maple crystal milk chocolate. Host to provide refreshments, if desired.

We’re very open about our end-game in this course: We want to see more local, Canadian, well-engineered woods specified in traditional and non-traditional uses—because the case for doing so is overwhelming. In addition to carbon sequestration, wood offers immense direct benefits to human health, and designers of all stripes are picking up on cultural best practices. Shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of forest bathing, acknowledges that forests—and wood generally—reduce stress and improve the immune system’s natural killer cells. Natural wooden rooms are in almost every Japanese home, and just about every Finnish home in the form of a sauna.

It’s about using the most cost-effective, versatile, engineerable material that this beautiful planet has to offer. We cover the key wood types (natural, pressure treated, modified) and how best to use them outdoors to ensure that, when conditions are present, wood can dry. We're helping to ensure that your team has the technical components required for your projects to utilize wood in a way that extends its life cycle.

We also provide a snapshot of the culture of wood in Canada and the status of our forests, and leave you with concrete resources for continued learning.

An optional 20-minute Q&A at the end is available for participants to ask detailed questions about their projects — but we also encourage questions throughout the main presentation.

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Your office

Credits: Participants will receive a certificate for one learning hour that can be submitted to the OAA, LOA or ARIDO for a continuing education credit.

Cost: Free for OAA member companies

Materials: North on Sixty will provide all training materials, as well as Fair Trade maple crystal milk chocolate. Host to provide refreshments, if desired.

In this OAA learning-credit-approved 50-minute presentation, Yuill takes participants through what wood is, why some woods naturally last longer than others outdoors, and how pressure treating certain species barely extends their life while pressure treating others ensures life cycles of 30 years and beyond. This is the third in Yuill’s series of wood presentations.

An optional 20-minute Q&A at the end is available for participants to ask detailed questions about their projects — but we also encourage questions throughout the main presentation.

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Your office

Credits: Participants will receive a certificate for one learning hour that can be submitted to the OAA, LOA or ARIDO for a continuing education credit.

Cost: Free for OAA member companies

Materials: North on Sixty will provide all training materials, as well as Fair Trade maple crystal milk chocolate. Host to provide refreshments, if desired.