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Entrapment Protection for Motorized Doors

This course explains the need for entrapment protection devices on motorized commercial and industrial doors and discusses how to specify the appropriate sensing edge actuation method and monitoring function to meet design, safety, and industry code requirements for specific building projects.

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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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Aggregate Piers for Settlement Control and Bearing Capacity

Provides an introduction to ground improvement technology and an in depth look at aggregate piers, their function, installation and benefits.

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Sustainable Building: From Concept to Design

Provides a general overview of sustainability and the built environment and is intended to familiarize architects with sustainability concepts and the processes involved in building sustainable structures.

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Specifying Northern Hard Maple Athletic Floors

Provides an overview of the role and programs of the MFMA (Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association) and the attributes of Northern Hard Maple that combine to make it the preferred option for sports floor applications. As well, a discussion of the specification considerations, sub floor designs and configurations of wood flooring systems is presented.

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Vertical Transportation: Machine Room-Less Elevators

Provides an overview of machine room-less (MRL) elevators and includes discussions on the history of elevators, low-rise and mid-rise applications, industry standard configurations, and the green benefits achieved using machine room-less elevators.

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Specialty Door Hardware

Provides an overview of specialty door hardware with a focus on the specific components that make up this category, including a discussion on applying specialty door hardware to specific projects.

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AEC Daily's Learn & Earn Contest is BACK!

Successfully pass 5 courses in the Learn and Earn course collection, and you can be entered to win a Dyson Air Multiplier AM01, valued at $299USD!

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Connect to Product Information From Your AutoCAD or Revit Interface!

Now you can easily search, find and insert Building Product Manufacturer content into your design documents within AutoCAD or Revit.

The free BPM Select Content Connector will 'plug in' to the ribbon interface, allowing you to quickly access BPM Select – the industry’s leading building product search engine – right within your workflow. There’s no need to leave AutoCad or Revit to find product information! You can download this free plug-in at www.thebluebook.com/connector.

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