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March 2019 #11236 Page #76
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Education on Wood Use Important to Marketplace Robert Glowinski is the President & CEO of the American Wood Council (AWC).
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very day, component manufacturers are dealing with the entire spectrum of traditional and engineered wood products. In fact, educating your customers may be a key factor in your sales and services.
Like you, the American Wood Council (AWC) sees how important education on wood can be to successful marketplace use of our industry’s products. That is why we, as a leading association in wood products design and use, provide free online and live education training to support building officials, designers, and the construction community in general on how best to design and use wood. Notably, in 2018 the most popular live and self-study webinars from AWC detailed the significant changes implemented for wood construction in the 2018 International Building Code (IBC) and International Residential Code (IRC). But education is not only about regulation. Proper use of wood runs the gamut from knowing properties of wood, to understanding standards used in design, and even learning about the products, their characteristics, and sustainability. This trend can be seen in looking at what subjects were the most popular among AWC’s range of educational offerings last year.
Most Popular Live Webinars of 2018 • 2018 IBC & 2018 IRC Changes (BCD130) • 2018 WFCM Changes (STD350) • Wood Shear Wall Seismic and Wind Design Example per 2015 WFCM and 2015 SDPWS (DES413-5)
Most Influential Webinars of 2018
(as determined by attendees self-reported skill level before and after the webinar) • Fire Resistance Design Primer for Mass Timber Construction (DES602-1) • Outcomes of ICC Tall Wood Ad Hoc Committee: Proposals and Discussion (DES605)
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