UMass Amherst: Building and Construction Technology

On Saturday, November 21, 2009, BCT and Continuing and Professional Education are hosting an intensive one-day workshop on LEED Platinum structures in the greater Boston area. Lectures are by Bill Reed and Betsy Pettit. Download the Sustainable Building Flyer for more information.

As featured on WFCR:
AMHERST, MA (wfcr) – Who isn’t in search of clean, cheap energy? Policy makers, residents and investors around the region are, and they are taking a close look at biomass energy, that is, burning low-grade wood or other plant materials for high-tech electricity generation.
There are three large-scale biomass plants proposed [...]

At the tail end of this past Spring, the Faculty Senate and other administrative bodies approved a revised undergraduate curriculum for the Department of Natural Resources Conservation that included a name change for Building Materials and Wood Technology (BMATWT).  We are now:
Building and Construction Technology
We believe that this name change more closely represents the breadth [...]

Google just published a video on the topic “Why do people model for Google Earth?”. UMass and Amherst are featured prominently in it. All of the three-dimensional models of the UMass campus buildings were made by students from BMATWT/BCT in NRC, LARP and Architecture at UMass. The models were created as part of Alexander Schreyer’s [...]

The proceedings for the 2008 Wood Structures Symposium and Northeast ACSA Conference “Without a Hitch: New Directions in Prefabricated Architecture” are available on the web.
You can access and download individual papers on the UMass ScholarWorks site: Scholarworks – 2008 Wood Structures Symposium
Or, if you would like to download or print the entire book, you [...]