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APA – The Engineered Wood Association

For over 85 years, APA – The Engineered Wood Association has focused on helping the industry create structural wood products of exceptional strength, versatility and reliability. Combining the research efforts of scientists at APA’s 42,000 square-foot research with the knowledge gained from decades of field work and cooperation with our member manufacturers, APA promotes new solutions and improved processes.

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Engineered Wood to the Rescue

For builders and design professionals, the benefits of mass timber construction are many. Mike Dyer of Oregon’s Western Wood Structures explains why.
Dec. 12, 2024
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Engineered Wood Gets an Easy A

Engineered wood is never too cool for school. Cost-effective and aesthetically appealing, wood is ideal for school construction.  Birney Elementary is home to one of Tacoma...
Nov. 12, 2020
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2019 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition

APA – The Engineered Wood Association, the American Wood Council (AWC) and Simpson Strong-Tie partnered with the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA)...
Oct. 26, 2020
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Exposing the beauty of engineered wood

The McLaughlin Middle School/Marshall Elementary School, located in Vancouver, Washington, is one of the largest mass timber projects in the Pacific Northwest, at an astonishing...
Oct. 1, 2020
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Back to basics: Framing big buildings right

The demand for commercial and multifamily construction remains high, and the framing industry is expanding to meet this demand. But with inexperienced workers on site, rookie...
Aug. 20, 2020
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Measuring the environmental performance of engineered wood products

One of the most commonly accepted methods of analyzing a product’s environmental impacts is life cycle assessment. An LCA is a comprehensive measure of the total environmental...
July 14, 2020
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Fire Phraseology FAQs: FRT versus Fire Rating

A quick explanation of some commonly used fire safety terms and their implications for building construction.   Fireproof? Probably Not. Because most inhabited buildings...
June 12, 2020
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The basics of wood frame connection design

Wood’s strength depends on the direction of the grain. The technical term for this variance is “orthotropic,” which means having different strengths in three planes perpendicular...
May 11, 2020