BIFMA’s flagship course, covering influential topics to the commercial built environment. A brief history of space design and the macro trends of today connect furniture to the needs of occupants. BIFMA’s standards and programs are explained to help professionals make confident furniture decisions.  

In this presentation, we explore the many benefits of various daylighting strategies and material options for successful project planning. By incorporating daylighting into projects, architects can create innovative environments that not only improve the health, safety and welfare of occupants, but can also meet sustainability goals for a brighter future.

This course will highlight the pitfalls of traditional doorways and doorway protection as well as provide design solutions to minimize health and safety issues, benefit patient well-being, and extend the life of interior doorways.

From home offices to gyms to entertaining, homes have become multifunctional spaces. The use of smart technology provides innovative options for people to control and manage their homes for comfort and well-being on a daily basis. Smart home technology allows people to customize their homes. This course discusses how smart technology can interconnect household spaces to increase comfort, cleanliness, and well-being. NKBA approved course. This course qualifies for 0.1 CEU.

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This course will review the process associate with design, specifications and installation of joint sealants for high performance building enclosures. This course outlines the benefits related to the selection of proper sealants for the vertical and horizonal joints

What do you wonder about furniture? This course compares and explains various sustainability rating tools used in the built environment and overlays LEVEL® by BIFMA’s furniture rating system to understand it’s role in these environments.

Traditionally, home has been a place for retreat and sanctuary. But as more people work from home, it is increasingly difficult to disengage from work responsibilities and set aside the time needed to refresh ourselves. As our stress levels rise, so does the need for self-care. This course looks at two areas of the home that are ideal for performing self-care and improving our well-being, assisted by investing in luxurious items: the bathroom and the kitchen.

This course provides an in-depth review of overcoming common challenges to designing higher performing, digital buildings of the future.

Discuss the meaning of biomimetric design and how it can affect commercial shading solutions for heat, light and glare control.

Over time urban parks and other open landscaped areas are being lost to development. One solution to mitigate this issue is to reconsider undeveloped areas such as building roofs to create green amenity spaces. Amenity decks can provide some alleviation of lost green space, while affording developers the potential to monetize unutilized spaces in their buildings and provide an advantage over older buildings to attract tenants.

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This course is a discussion about the use of PMMA/PUMA technologies in the construction industry. This presentation exhibits key physical properties and the performance/benefits that they provide to the end user. Typical installation procedures recommended will be reviewed by for most common applications ie. vehicular coating and below-grade waterproofing.

This course will provide an understanding of innovative design trends including current market drivers, comparing high performance glass vs. high performance shading and how to increase visual and thermal comfort by automating the balance of natural and artificial light. This course will build the connection between current design trends influence on building performance using automated facades. We will discuss design strategies using automated solar management and its impact on these design trends.