Frameworks for the Future: Resilience in Materials & Methods

Frameworks for the Future: Resilience in Materials & Methods

Hosted By: Ganahl Lumber

📅 Wednesday, December 3, 2025

📍 The Odyssey Restaurant, Granada Hills, CA

⏰ 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM

🎟 Free Event | Includes Dinner | 1.5 LU/HSW Credits

Join us for an evening of networking, education, and innovation. Connect with industry vendors during our reception and exhibition, enjoy a plated dinner, and engage with a keynote presentation designed to expand your knowledge on smarter, performance-driven framing strategies.

This course will cover both the fundamentals and advanced approaches to residential wood framing—highlighting how optimized design can increase structural efficiency, resilience, and energy performance while lowering costs.

Why Attend?

• Earn 1.5 LU/HSWs toward your continuing education.
• Network with peers & vendors in architecture, design, engineering, and construction.
• Learn advanced framing techniques that improve project outcomes and align with Title 24 compliance.
• Enjoy a complimentary dinner in a premier setting.

Key Learning Takeaways:

✔ Foundational understanding of residential framing principles for resilient construction.

✔ Strategies to optimize framing layouts for efficiency, durability, and thermal performance.

✔ How Framing Factors influence Energy Design Ratings (EDR) and code compliance.

✔ The cost, labor, and sustainability benefits of Advanced Framing and alternative systems like SIPs.

About Keynote Speaker:

Chad Gretzner is a research engineer for Kliewer and Associates, LLC and a NFPA Reducing Wildfire Risk to Property: Professional. In early 2024, he helped design and build a burn test study to test advanced framing coupled with energy efficient and non-combustible building materials in a high-density setting. Lessons learned from that burn test study and years of research lead him to develop the Parcel Assessment for Wildfire Hardening (PAWH) form. Recent accomplishments include building wildfire hardened modules at the Southern California Edison’s Energy Education Center with the K&A team to showcase Class 1, 2, and 3 ignition-resistant construction per the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. He has years of experience as an ICC special inspector and laboratory testing of building materials.

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• Andersen Windows
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