Building Technology electives explore advanced topics in construction systems, building performance, and analytical techniques. The content of the elective options varies from semester to semester.Section DescriptionBeginning with courses in the fall 2022 semester, several CCA faculty members have initiated a series of collaborations with the timber-producing community of Greenville, California, which was severely impacted by the catastrophic Dixie fire in 2021. Lost in the fire were many homes and commercial buildings, but also many businesses and employment opportunities, and the community is challenged with replacing both its physical and economic infrastructures. In this seminar, we will first survey the current state of mass timber building approaches, and then use that growing sector of building design and construction as the lens for developing timber-related building products and systems that will help rebuild the economic base for Greenville and similar timber-based communities. Students will work in small teams to design and propose timber products and related entrepreneurial opportunities based on the material and human resources of the community, and at the same time contribute to the larger challenge of expanding the mass timber offerings in the building industry supply chain. This seminar is part of an ongoing series of building technology seminars exploring mass timber building systems, and examining the environmental and economic advantages of using wood over concrete, steel and other alternatives. A complementary Integrated Studio offered this semester by the same instructor will also involve a project in the community of Greenville, and on applications of mass timber construction. Students are welcome to take either or both courses.Travel requirement: This course includes a required travel component. Students are expected to join a field trip to Greenville, California, from February 16 to February 18. The onsite program will begin at noon on Friday the 16th, and complete lateen Saturday the 17th, so expected travel times will be departing the Bay Area early Friday, and returning at your leisure on Sunday. Travel will be by student-organized groups in student cars, with mileage reimbursement from the school. If absolutely necessary, students with previous engagements or other unavoidable obligations will be excused from attendance in person, and will receive alternate research/project assignments in exchange, but it is understood that every effort should be made to attend the in-person meetings in Greenville. In order to participate in the field trip, students must complete the CCA Student Travel Emergency Contact Information and Release Form, which will be shared with them in advance of the trip. Students should anticipate spending no more than $100 for this trip.

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