Meeting Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Place: Fred’s Texas Cafe
Address: 7101 Camp Bowie W. Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76116
Check In: 11:30am
Announcements begin: 11:55am
Presentation begins: 12:00pm
Cost: $30.00 for members,
$40.00 for non-members
$20.00 for students
PROGRAM:
Early Design Decisions: Priming Mass Timber Projects for Success
Presented by:
Mr. Mark Bartlett
Bio:
Mark Bartlett is the WoodWorks Senior Regional Director for Texas, a non-profit organization that provides free project support for commercial and multi-family wood buildings, a robust nationwide education program, and a wide range of published resources. Before joining WoodWorks in 2017, Mark spent 11 years as a practicing structural engineer, eight years as a field engineer with Simpson Strong-Tie, and six years in engineering business development. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas and Oklahoma. Mark received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structures from Lehigh University.
Presentation Description:
Mass timber is a unique, non-commodity building material and, to lay the groundwork for success, certain critical decisions must be made as early as possible. These decisions can have a big impact on cost and can either increase or limit opportunities later in design. There are many cases of project teams that want to realize the full benefits of mass timber, but, because they base their designs on traditional building practices instead of optimizing them for mass timber, end up with avoidable price premiums. This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others. Topics will include construction types, fire ratings, column grids and beam/panel spans, acoustics and MEP integration. Completed mass timber projects will be used to illustrate the variety of viable options when navigating these key decisions.
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