The Fastenings Subcommittee of the CSA Technical Committee (TC) on Engineering Design in Wood has identified a need to extend the use of glulam rivet connections to sawn timber with appropriate service condition factors, and to investigate the effect of plate thickness on joint capacity. A total of 640 lateral resistance tests on glulam rivet/sawn timber specimens were performed. The load carrying capacity of glulam rivet/sawn timber connections was determined in rivet yielding mode. Preliminary data analysis on the effect of species, loading type and direction, environmental conditions, density, waiting period between assembly and test, pre-drilling, and plate thickness on the load carrying capacity was performed. In the 1992/93 fiscal year, the remaining testing will be completed, findings will be discussed with the members of the Glulam Rivet Task Group, and then submitted to the Fasteners Subcommittee of CSA TC on Engineering Design in Wood.