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New Courses Featured This Month
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Perimeter Fire Containment in Multi-Story Buildings
Provides an overview of the importance, components, and the design principles of perimeter curtain wall fire containment, along with a discussion of life safety elements and their utilization in a balanced approach to life safety.
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Storage Solutions for Educational Facilities
Provides an overview of the storage planning considerations and storage solutions for educational facilities, along with a discussion of the trends that are influencing the design/planning of educational environments.
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Solutions to Moisture Control in the Building Envelope
Provides an overview of the building envelope. Issues of industry response to moisture problem is addressed through the discussion of paperless gypsum technology in exterior wall assemblies, interior assemblies exposed to weather, and low slop commercial roofing assemblies.
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Sustainable Compressed Agricultural Fiber (CAF) Panel Systems
Provides an overview of the features, manufacturing process, and economical and environmental benefits of Compressed Agricultural Fiber (CAF) panel systems.
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Improving Visibility Using Photoluminescent Products
Provides an overview of the characteristics, testing, and applications of photoluminescent products as well as a discussion on the safety and environmental benefits of specifying PL wayfinding systems.
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Commercial Fenestration Products: Dock & Drive Through Openings
Provides an overview of commercial fenestration products including sectional doors, rolling sheet doors, and rolling steel doors. Discussions pertaining to common door features, hardware, insulation, installation and optional types of electric operators available for these doors are included.
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Revit® Architecture - Creating and Modifying Schedules
This course will explore Revit’s schedule tools. You’ll learn how to schedule rooms, areas, furniture, walls, doors, windows, curtain wall panels, planting, topography, electrical fixtures. This course covers custom fields, shared parameters, and grouping to schedule keys, formulas, and exporting.
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Insulated Concrete Sandwich Walls
Provides an overview of insulated concrete sandwich panels, their benefits, applications, thermal and moisture resistant properties and contribution to sustainable buildings.
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Technology’s Influence on Water Delivery in the Home
Provides an overview of how technology is being used to create water delivery solutions throughout the home to suit a variety of user needs. Discussions regarding essential design considerations and for the kitchen and the bath are included.
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Cellular PVC Trim Materials
Provides an overview of cellular PVC trim, types, applications and installation methods.
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Appliances & The Green Home
Provides an overview of the importance of sustainability when selecting appliances, as well as information on how to evaluate, compare and specify energy efficient refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers.
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AEC Daily Bulletin - March 2009
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Sustainable Design Features on AEC Daily
The economy may be slowing down but the staff at AEC Daily aren’t. We are making it easier to acquire information on sustainable design, whether for continuing education requirements or to complement your practice. Two new enhancements: our sustainability design rating system and a new sustainability blog, will make it easier to find and attain sustainable design information.
A new search mechanism identifies all of our courses that contain SD information and our green rating system lets you know what to expect in the way of amount and level of information. We are thrilled to have Mark Johnson, FAIA, NKBA Educator, consultant, residential architect and certified kitchen designer authoring his blog called GreenDesignGuide on our site. And for those who have an accessibility continuing education requirement, we’ve also added an accessibility rating system.
Scroll through our courses and look for the green apples identifying SD courses and wheelchair symbols noting accessibility ratings. A description of the rating system can be found on the Sustainable Design tab which also hosts the link to Marks blog. Happy reading! |
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Tradeshow, Events + Conferences
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Webinar: Climate Change + Implementations of Net Zero Energy Ready
March 19, 2-3:30pm ET
In this review of Net Zero Energy concepts, you'll learn the meaning of "climate neutral," "cap and trade," "carbon taxes," "carbon offsets," and "carbon abatement strategies" and how they relate to project documentation. Emerging ISO and ASTM GHG reduction references standards will also be discussed. Learn more, or register now. This session qualifies for CSI CEN credit. |
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Webinar: Building Elements and Manufacturer Content for BIM
March 31, 2-3:30pm ET
Quality BIM content is a driving force behind the BIM explosion. The AEC community is demanding good BIM content -- the same way good specs and CAD details are needed. In this session, you’ll discuss why this is happening, how BIM benefits both the AEC team and the building product manufacturer, best practices for actual development of content, and implementation strategies for AEC teams and building product manufacturers. Applications will be highlighted through live software demonstrations including Revit and Solibri. Learn more, or register now. This session qualifies for CSI CEN credit. |
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GreenFormat Product Listings
GreenFormat (www.greenformat.com) is an online resource where manufacturers can self-report the sustainable attributes of products in a spec-friendly format. With more than 700 product listings, GreenFormat’s traffic continues to increase. New product listings are added daily, such as Masonry Technology Inc.'s Floor Edging, Sure Cavity, and GreenSeam! Manufacturers: Subscribe to GreenFormat at www.greenformat.com. The one-year subscription price is $995 and includes one product listing. Each additional product listing is $100. CSI members receive a 20% discount on the subscription price. Contact Susan Konohia at 800-689-2900 ext. 4744 or skonohia@csinet.org to receive your promo code. Questions? Contact 800-689-2900 or greenformat@csinet.org. |
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CSI Sustainability Practice Group meeting March 26
CSI's Sustainability Practice Group will hold its next webinar-based meeting on Thursday, March 26. Join the group and attend the webinar for free! Join now. |
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