Pre-Conference Workshops:
Thursday & Friday, Nov 3 & 4
Meaningful financial support is available for registered Apprentices and Journeyworkers.
Continuing Education Units for architects and engineers are available for many of the seminars.
Contact our office for details.
These workshops are an opportunity to hone your skills in an all-day intensive sessions with a small group of participants and expert instructors. Participants will receive up to 14 Continuing Education Credits for successful completion.
A separate registration fee is required and does not include the main conference registration.
Pre-Conference registration includes food and lodging,
except for SIPSchool, which is a different deal. Check it out!
All prices increase by $50 on October 7th
TWO-DAY WORKSHOPS
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE Includes two night's lodging (11/2 & 11/3), breaks and six meals Beginning with Dinner 11/2. |
ONE DAY WORKSHOPS
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ONE-DAY INTENSIVE Includes two night's lodging (11/2 & 11/3), breaks and six meals Beginning with Dinner 11/2 Plus access to any and all Friday events. |
WORKSHOP #1:
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE 14 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Brought to you by the TFG Apprenticeship Training Committee, open to all.
Assessments will be delivered to program participants.
Developed drawing predates CAD and the calculator, yet remains a core curriculum component at Europe’s best timber framing academies. Bruno Sutter, long-time lead instructor at the American College of the Building Arts, is a graduate of France’s legendary Compagnon program. Developed drawing with simple drafting tools will reward you with insights into the spacial relationships of even the most complex timber frame elements. Come learn this hands-on method for understanding more deeply the “math beneath the math” of building. Your computer will never tell you this stuff.
WORKSHOP #2:
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE 14 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Assessments will be delivered to program participants.
Two of our most experienced and talented instructors, AL and Grigg will teach you what you need to know to safely and efficiently raise timber frames (including covered bridges) with hand power, only.
They will begin with rope and important knots (a universe of knowledge in itself) and proceed through various tackle, and the concepts of mechanical advantage, reeving and friction.
This is a very hands on session, involving the movement of heavy objects from A to B with 'A' frame, gin pole and derrick. You'll be taught to estimate loads, properly calculate the center of gravity in a complex bent, and more.
Bring personal protective equipment.
WORKSHOP #3:
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE 14 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Assessments will be delivered to program participants.
This workshop targets those interested in experiencing the viability and efficiency of scribe as a layout option. Will Truax will help explore how to implement plumb line as an integrated system by executing a small frame in which timbers go into multiple and adjacent layup - bent/wall and wall/roof. Will hopes to throw some hewn and naturally curved sticks into the mix, and participants will leave knowing how to scribe an entire frame. Join us to learn about this valuable approach to layout and gain a sense of how scribe easily adds options to a framer's kit.
WORKSHOP #4:
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE 14 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Assessments will be delivered to program participants.
The Timber Grading Rules are the common denominator for engineers, designers, customers, and timber framers. We'll be dealing with Western and Eastern rules for both hard and soft woods. This Structural Timber Grading workshop for journeyworkers and apprentices is open to all. There will be hands-on timber grading, classroom discussions, and demonstrations of best practices timber grading. This course will cover the major grade determining features of timbers as outlined in the Grade Rule Book and students will learn the limiting factors of each grade.
Fire Tower Engineered Timber will contribute by destructive stress testing timbers graded by the group so that Timber Grade characteristics, assigned working stresses, and engineering values can be verified. Ben “the Breakmeister” Brungraber will bend it till it breaks.
Bruce Lindsay, the “Lumber Doctor,” has spent nearly forty years working with lumber and is an accomplished educator, speaker, consultant, and expert on quality forest products, beams and timbers. He has a teaching degree from the University of British Columbia and is the founder of Evergreen Specialties, Ltd., est. 1990. Bruce is a solid and engaging presenter with an infectious enthusiasm for his trade. He's been know to invent grades out of whole cloth to keep students in the game.
WORKSHOP #5:
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE 14 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Assessments will be delivered to program participants.
Day one of this workshop will cover parts of Section 16 of the Guild apprenticeship curriculum on preservation and conservation. You will be expected to have reviewed Section 16 in advance of the class. We will also learn the differences among preservation, replication, restoration, and conservation, as well as how various organizations regulate or effect restoration efforts. Day two will provide an opportunity for hands-on repair work. Discussion will cover such matters as making joinery and hardware decisions, combining old and new material in a repair, lifting or relocating buildings, replicating historic timber frames, and more. Bring work clothes, latex gloves, eye and hearing protection, a mallet, and chisels.
WORKSHOP #6:
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1.5-DAY INTENSIVE 10 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Assessments will be delivered to program participants.
This interactive workshop introduces you to a new arsenal of tools. The im- portance of communication, in various forms, is illustrated with numer- ous challenging examples. Special considerations for timber frame projects will be highlighted, and sample documents and worksheets will be shared. Strategies will be examined that mitigate risks on your projects and bring you more satisfaction in your work and crew dynamics. Participants will be assessed at the end of the program, which runs until noon on Friday. Instructor Randy Churchill shares his bruises and scars and has a unique method of getting folks to think and ask questions about their own behavior.
WORKSHOP #7:
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ONE-DAY INTENSIVE 7 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
Topics will include, but certainly not be limited to:
Jeremey Bonin & Paul Malko: Structural Insulated Panel/building design Coordination.
Jim DeStefano: Sustainable Design with timber framing.
Brad Douglas: American Wood Council National Design Specification 2012 overview..
John Judd & Paul Thorley: Cross-laminated lumber research.
Mack Magee: Wood Preservation II
Jim Rossberg: History, development and philisophy of the American Society of Civil Engineers Standard 7.
Lance Shields: The effect of through-tenon keys on the tensile strength of mortise and tenon joints.
WORKSHOP #8:
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ONE-DAY INTENSIVE 7 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
This workshop will focus on strategies for timber framers to improve their cost efficiencies within operations, and will demonstrate an easy way to evaluate costs for each job. It will also show by detailed comparison the benefits of implementing advanced production technologies such as pre-cut timber and CNC equipment.
WORKSHOP #9:
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ONE-DAY INTENSIVE 7 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment Registration Options Above. |
In this session participants will learn the value of strategic planning process and how to facilitate this activity in their own company, large or small. Laurie will walk you through the steps and identify some of the pitfalls you may encounter. You will go home with the tools you need to plan for a successful future - even in these tough times.
WORKSHOP #10:
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TWO-DAY INTENSIVE 14 CEU's Available Apprenticeship Credit by Assessment |
An off-site workshop described in more detail here: