Glulam rivets (or Griplam nails) are high strength steel nails originally developed in Canada to connect glued-laminated timbers (glulam) by means of pre-drilled steel side plates. Glulam rivets are considered one of the most efficient connectors in wood construction mainly because of their high load carrying capacity. However, CSA-O86.1, Code for Engineering Design in Wood does not provide design values for glulam rivet connections with sawn timber. 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. This project involving testing and analysis of sawn timber glulam rivet connections was initiated in the 1990/91 fiscal year. Since then, progress has been communicated to members of the Glulam Rivet Task Group of the TC on Engineering Design in Wood. Lateral resistance, rivet withdrawal, rivet embedment, and rivet bending tests were performed. Lateral load resistance test data were analyzed to investigate the effect of species, loading type and direction, environmental conditions, density, waiting period between assembly and test, pre-drilling, and plate thickness. Withdrawal load test data were analysed to investigate the effect of species, environmental conditions, density and waiting period. Recommendations for code implementation were made. Rivet embedment and rivet bending test data were used as input parameters with the European Yield Theory to predict the lateral resistance in rivet yielding failure mode.