Wood Education

Real Wood Solutions start with understanding the material. These are the courses we teach to architects, builders and dealers — the same sessions we present to AIA chapters and building industry associations, written up in full so you can read them any time.

Wood Science 101

The course we teach to architects and builders: how wood is built, why it moves, what modification changes, and how it fails. Written up in full.

Introductory · 60 min · Micah Sutfin

Lumber Drying

The companion to Wood Science 101: why we dry lumber, the drying-rate curve, kilns and their control, and how checks, collapse, honeycomb and casehardening happen.

Intermediate · 75 min · Micah Sutfin