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Learning Objectives

1. How to prequalify a wood treatment by reviewing its performance in the rigorous US fire testing pipeline that evaluates and certifies all FRTW options.

2. How to identify impregnation treatments vs surface treatments and coatings, by studying the product’s acceptance criteria, testing, accreditation, and evaluation.

3. Learn about how single-ingredient mineral salts like sodium borate can span both FRTW and insect resistance. Studying the IRTW (insect resistant treated wood) standards can help the specifier to establish simple best practices that work across use categories, climate zones, and applications.

4. Learn to identify environmental rating systems that can reward wood treatments with low human and eco-toxicity profiles, and use a mineral salt treatment’s first-inclass Environmental Product Declaration(EPD) to quantify its low embodied carbon footprint in comparison to other structural options like light-gauge steel.

Comments

Excellent

David

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Very informative

Jerry

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I've never read about this type of treatment before

susan

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GOOD COURSE

MATTHEW

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Excellent.

Alejandro

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Great subject but so much information that needs to be understood.

Richard

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A lot of information packed into one hour

Sally

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too much information to follow

John

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Ok

Sophia

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Very educational

Ryan

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good information more technical than I expected

Terry

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great

Yingying

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Excellent coverage of the material. Learned a lot about the various coatings and uses.

John

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Good presentation! There are many abbreviated terms - I had to stay focused.

Ivanka

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Very informative

Ramona Venera

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A much more complex issue that originally thought. Well done presentation of the constantly changing issues with preservative treated wood, glue lam wood, and etc.

William

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NA

Allison

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interesting

JD

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No comment

Jesse

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It was a very tough course but very very directive provided. thank you

Farhad

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Very Informative

Alan

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Great overview of FRTW and IRTW wood treatments, their evaluations and different uses. Learned about Sodium Borate treatment of wood for insect protection, not a treatment I had heard of in the passed.

John D

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Thank you for providing an information dense one hour seminar on Sodium Borate Treatment Technologies, new information that I can use now and in the future.

William

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Very interesting

William

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Very interesting presentation that gives a clear description of an extremely complicated subject.

Tracy

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Helpful.

Kelly

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This is a very good course to study

Adelia

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Good overview.

David

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Very insightful

Bojana

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Good talk

Sheldon

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Great content throughout the course.

John

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good

Norman

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I enjoyed learning about FRTW and IRTW preservation.

Kevin

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Thank you.

Carol

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Definitely an emerging topic that is deserved of much more attention and exploration.

Lionel

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Informative

Andrew

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Interesting new things in development

Spencer

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too much emphasis on the 'LEEDS' aspects; should be a separated topic.

DORIAN

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Difficult course. The video kept stalling too.

Karle

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Very technical, but informative.

Thomas

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There was a lot of jargon that was confusing to me, but in general the info of this class was comprehensible and useable for me.

Wesley

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good job

Thomas

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Thorough and knowledgeable presentation of materials and processes unfamiliar to this architect. Curious to more about the methods available.

Joe

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Informative

Connie

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Very informative

Loretta

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Very informative

Loretta

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good

Habib

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Good presentation

R. Scott

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good job!

Michael

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good

Peter

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Great Course

Scott

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Excellent course 👍

John

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Nice refresher of pertinent information.

Christopher

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VERY GOOD

Kenneth

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Good information

Josseph

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Lots of depth of information but done very well.

Duane

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Great!

Matson

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good course

Robert

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Thank you!

Sean

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Good

Slobodan

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Excellent Presentation of technology all Architects will eventually be involved with as clients become enlightened to the benefits of wood in design

douglas

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very interesting seminar - it's a complicated subject

Richard

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Thanks

Cherie

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good info to have at hand will be specifying wood

Ron

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INFORMATIVE

DALLAS

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Informative course

Lloyd

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good class

Pedro

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Great Seminar

Albert

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Great Course

V Randall

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Very good

mark

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good course

Nicholas

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Very informative, good information Thank you

Axel

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Well detailed and informative

Kellee

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Very informative

Elias

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Thanks

Matthew

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Great Presentation

Nathan

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Good presentation, more residential reference would be great

Craig

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More into the weeds

Anders

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Great topic!

Francisco

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none

Michael

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new info!

Kate

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Very informative presentation.

Camilo

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tough course

Mark

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quite technical with so many abbreviations: mind boggling

Dominique

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Great

Adam

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Good information, I was overloaded with the amount of information in presentation.

Mark

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Truly informational

Todd

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A lot of info, thanks

Charles

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Informative

Afsaneh

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A lot of information packed into a short time.

Nicholas

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Buen curso para refrescar conocimientos. Poco ameno.

Julio

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Thanks

Abbie

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Lot of technical items but informative.

Todd

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Excellent topic. thanks

DAVOUD

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useful information.

Kishor

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There were evaluation criteria I was not familiar with—a lot of information to learn.

Karla

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Good Course

Otto

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A new topic for me, as I do not practice in a termite zone. Very knowledgeable presenter, I learned a lot.

Janet

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Very informative !

Sarah

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informative

James

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Informative

Keltie

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Good course with detailed presentation

Rohit

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Thanks!

Alexandre

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