CCE Education Presents: Mass Timber Engineering

With Canadian building codes allowing for taller wooden buildings, along with new decarbonization targets and government incentives, demand for mass-timber construction is growing across the country.As such, demand is also growing for professional engineers who understand how best to design buildings with encapsulated mass timber as a major material. With these trends in mind, Canadian Consulting Engineer has gathered the top experts in the field (see bios below) to share their knowledge, experience and specialized expertise.

CCE Education is presenting a series of four one-hour webinars on Mass Timber Engineering, each presented by two experts.

• Part 1: Products and Concepts
• Part 2: Fire Design and Connections
• Part 3: Lateral Design
• Part 4: Lessons Learned from Real-world Projects

Speakers

Ying Hei Chui

Ying-Hei is a professor and director of the Nasseri School of Building Science and Engineering at the University of Alberta’s department of civil and environmental engineering. He is one of Canada’s leading experts in timber engineering, with more than 30 years’ research experience and more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is currently leading a multi-institutional research project, Next Generation Wood Construction, supporting more than 50 graduate students at 14 Canadian universities, and is engaged in building code and design standard development.

Carla Dickof

Carla Dickof is associate principal and director of research and development (R&D) at Fast + Epp. She has more than 15 years’ experience in timber, steel and concrete, with particular specialization in mass timber, having contributed to many of Fast + Epp’s timber projects across North America, including the Walmart Home Office, The Hive and the Ottawa Public Library. She has been an author in scientific and technical publications, industry design guides and professional practice guidelines, and is a member of the technical committee for Canadians Standards Association (CSA) O86, Engineering design in wood.

Steven Craft PhD, P.Eng.

Steven is a founding partner of CHM Fire Consultants in Ottawa and Toronto. He has served as an adjunct professor in the fire safety engineering program at Carleton University and as a research scientist with Canada’s National Forest Products Research Institute (FPInnovations). He is chair of the Underwriters Laboratories Canada (ULC) fire test committee, vice-chair of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) committee on fire standards and chair of the task group on fire resistance for Canadians Standards Association (CSA) O86, Engineering design in wood.

Andrew Harmsworth

Andrew is principal at GHL Consulting, blends 30 years’ expertise in research and fire testing with involvement in the code change process, alternative solution development and performance-based design. He is a licensed professional engineer in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the state of Washigton. He is also a member of the standing committee on fire protection for Codes Canada and the task group on fire ratings for mass timber for Canadians Standards Association (CSA) O86, Engineering design in wood.

Marjan Popovski, PhD, P.Eng.

Marjan is a lead scientist in the building systems group at FPInnovations and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC’s) department of wood science at the University of Northern British Columbia’s (UNBC’s) Centre for Integrated Wood Design. He has 35 years’ research and technical experience in the seismic performance of buildings, specializing in mass timber, and is author and co-author of more than 190 scientific and technical publications, textbook chapters and special publications.

Thomas Tannert

Thomas joined the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in 2016 as BC leadership chair in tall and hybrid wood construction. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC), a master’s degree in wood science and technology from the University of the Bío Bío in Chile and a civil engineering degree from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany. He has worked in multidisciplinary teams in Germany, Chile and Switzerland and at UBC Vancouver, holds a Canada research chair and is an executive member of the technical committee for CSA O86, Engineering design in wood.

David Moses, P.Eng.

David is founder of Toronto-based Moses Structural Engineers and of TimberFever, a design-build competition for engineering and architecture students across Canada and the U.S. He is a recognized leader, designer, teacher, researcher, writer and invited lecturer specializing in timber engineering, with more than 25 years’ experience in structural engineering projects across Canada and the U.S., including early computer numerical control (CNC) routing of mass timber in Canada, the first Canadian and Ontario cross-laminated timber (CLT) buildings and the first Passive House building in Canada.