A Comprehensive Approach to Wood Building Design Education

Acquiring knowledge of wood building design outside of formal post-secondary education training has been difficult for many prospective learners. The wood industry, through the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), over the years has funded development of many design tools and education programs directed to design professionals to meet this need. Recently, the effort has been expanded to the digital realm to employ web technologies in combination with an effective direct contact education effort aimed at reaching more people with information they need to facilitate design of wood structures. All of these efforts to comprehensively deliver current wood building design educational programs are outlined in this paper.