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New Courses Featured This Month
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Code Requirements for Fire Rated Doors and Hardware
Provides an overview of the 2006 International Building Code requirements for fire rated door assemblies, including door and hardware, framing systems, and core materials to create safe environments in the event of a building fire.
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Worship Seating: Maximizing Space Efficiency
Details the impact that seat design has on space efficiency, traffic flow, seating capacity, and reducing overall construction cost per person in a worship facility.
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Specialty Composite Roofing
This course provides an overview of specialty composite roofing, how it compares to its traditional counterparts, what to look for when choosing a specialty composite, and its sustainable characteristics including proper ventilation techniques.
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An Introduction to Priming
Provides an overview of the key reasons to apply a primer to every surface before painting a topcoat. Surface preparation, typical primer applications, stain-blocking and functionally specific primers are discussed.
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Designing with Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF)
Provides an overview of the construction flexibility features of insulated concrete forms (ICFs) which provide innovative solutions for designing sustainable, energy efficient, safe, healthy commercial and residential structures.
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STC: Room Acoustics: more than just a number
Provides an overview of basic acoustic definitions focusing on sound control techniques and products to reduce noise through wall systems.
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Three Centuries of Color
Illustrates how the use of color can express our individuality and culture, and how the past can inspire us with fresh ideas for using color in the present. Highlighting the prevalent colors of more than ten decades, this course also looks at the societal, political, technological and cultural influences which impacted and defined the personality of each decade.
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Exterior Appeal: The Technical and Environmental Considerations of Residential Siding
Provides an overview of the characteristics of various residential siding options with a focus on treated engineered wood siding products, including a discussion of the green and sustainable features of each.
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Marketing Tips
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Marketing Tips Provided by Architect Profits
Tip #1 - Uniqueness of Your Services
The services that you are offering to your clients each have their own qualities. For example, there is a big difference between doing residential and retail architecture. Those unique characteristics are what you need to emphasize with your future clients. Understand the foundation of the services your firm is offering to be able to explain these to the people in contact with you. Doing so will open the door to attracting the clients you want to work with.
Tools to use: Make a list of the most important aspects of your services that people choose from when working with you and your team; include the logical AND emotional draws to your services. For example, for logical “This is the only architect in my area that can do a Dental Office remodel”, and emotional would be that “I feel I will be listened to and all of my questions will be answered by this team.” You will build your future presentations in a way that promote and reinforce this critical information. Keep in mind, we are not talking here about what you think is important in your services for your future clients, but what they think is important for them.
Architect Profits currently sponsors an online education course on the AEC Daily website. Learn more... |
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Tradeshows
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Mark Your Calendar! December 2 - 4, 2009
21st Annual Construct Canada: New and Green Products, Enlightening Seminars, Great Networking Opportunities
Join over 23,500 architects, engineers, contractors, developers, consultants, and specifiers at the 21st annual Construct Canada; Canada’s largest annual building design and construction show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building, December 2-4, 2009.
View 1050 inspiring exhibits covering 30 distinct categories of the latest products, services, and technologies. Live demonstrations will spotlight commercial and residential products on the exposition floor.
Attend over 200 enlightening presentations and seminars covering a broad range of key topics, best practices, and case studies related to building technology, regulations, project delivery and management, interior design, green building and performance, and personal development skills.
Save $25 and register today for your free pass to the expositions at www.constructcanada.com. |
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AEC Daily Bulletin - October 2009
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Search GreenFormat from your iPhone!
CSI has released a FREE iPhone app for searching GreenFormat. Search and download sustainable construction product information by manufacturer, keyword or MasterFormat number. Visit iTunes or learn more about GreenFormat at www.greenformat.com. |
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MasterFormat 2004 iPhone Applications Now Available!
Convert MasterFormat 95 numbers to 2004, or Search MasterFormat titles and descriptions by keyword on your iPhone! CSI now has two MasterFormat iPhone applications available on iTunes. To learn more, or purchase these new applications, visit iTunes. |
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Oct. 21 & 28: FREE MasterFormat webinars -- learn how they made the switch!
Are you ready to make the switch? Whether you're a small A/E firm or a product manufacturer, hearing the stories of others who've converted may help! CSI will cease to license and support MasterFormat 95 on Dec. 31. CSI is now working with MasterFormat's sponsors to help the industry complete transition to MasterFormat 2004. Learn more. |
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25% discount on Masterformat 2004 Edition
CSI will cease to license and support MasterFormat 95 on Dec. 31. To assist in the transition, CSI is offering a 25% discount on MasterFormat 2004 Edition through Dec. 31. The discounted CSI member price is $81.75 and the discounted non-member price is $119.25. Learn more, or order now. |
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Oct. 20 CSI Webinar -- ADA and other Accessibility Codes: Past, Present and Future
This webinar will provide a general history of current accessibility codes, and their applicability and differences. A detailed summary of the proposed Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) changes, and the impact these may have on design and construction, will also be presented, as will a brief comparison showing the differences between the proposed ADAAG changes and the new International Building Code and ANSI requirements. Learn more or register now. |
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Oct 27: CSI Webinar -- Reducing Embodied Energy in Masonry Construction
Brick production has three major issues determining its environmental impact—material use, energy consumption, and associated CO2 emissions. Recent advances address these concerns with the development of fly ash brick, a composite of non-clay materials. This presentation explores the technology, delving into possible applications. Learn more or register now. |
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