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When designing a new headquarters in San Diego, California, DPR Construction envisioned an environmentally friendly workplace that would improve the office experience of its employees. In order to make this vision a reality DPR transformed an existing 24,000 sq ft suburban building into a sustainable prototype for future office spaces. The company incorporated various design elements including natural ventilation, day-lighting, efficient HVAC and lighting systems, and renewable energy to its open office environment. Along with these elements, DPR needed to increase the circulation of fresh air to create a comfortable, natural environment. Read More |
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AEC Daily offers the following FREE On-line Continuing Education courses at our On-line Learning Center.
These courses are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, and are registered with AIA, USGBC, and many more organizations.
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Protective Architectural Coatings: Eco-Durable, Industrial Strength provides an overview of protective architectural coatings and introduces new eco-durable coatings that meet the most stringent environmental regulations while offering greater durability than heavy industrial coatings. The unique hybrid chemistry, industry standards, case studies, and application best practices for a variety of substrates are discussed.
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Paintings and Coatings: Best Practices for Surface Preparations and Solutions provides an overview of the best surface preparation practices for drywall, wood, cement block, and metal, with a focus on paint ingredients and how paint adheres to the substrate. Included are discussions on common paint issues and solutions.
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Today's Design Challenge: How to make a good kitchen great! illustrates how embracing additional design criteria such as changing consumer preferences, emerging economic pressures, new product innovations, and the demand for a multi-tasking “live-in” kitchen space, can lead to the design of not just good kitchens—but great ones!
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High-Performance Coatings for Industrial Applications provides an overview of high-performance coatings for industrial applications, including a discussion of various types of industrial coating products, surface preparation techniques, primer selection, and specification issues.
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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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The Value of Designing with Stainless Steel provides an overview of the features, classifications, finish options, and fabrication techniques of stainless steel, including examples of architectural designs.
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