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GreenFiber
Cellulose Insulation: The Versatile and Sustainable Solution


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of cellulose insulation, a sustainable material creating solutions for sound control, fire resistance, and thermal architectural challenges.

Recycled Rubber Roofing for Steep Slope Applications


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of features and benefits of recycled rubber roofing for steep slope applications.

The American Farmhouse and Queen Anne Style Guide


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of the Farmhouse and Queen Anne styles of residential architecture, with a focus on window, door and trim elements.

 

Industrial Louvers, Inc.
Sun Control Devices: Shading and Daylighting


1 Hour Program
This course provides an overview of sun control devices including the various components and critical applications in order to meet a building's daylighting and shading requirements.

Laminated Veneer Bamboo: Interior Grade Design Applications


1 Hour Program
Compares the performance properties of common interior grade building materials and illustrates how laminated veneer bamboo (LVB) is an innovative, versatile, sustainable alternative building product for today's environmentally conscious builder.

Managing Daylight with Automated Solar Control


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of the benefits of designing a space with ample views and daylight, the challenges this presents, and how motorized shading can help solve these issues.

Designing a Sustainable Masonry Building Envelope


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of the design elements, components, and construction techniques that characterize sustainable masonry building envelopes.

A Total Room Solution: Interoperability Strategies for Safe, Acuity Adaptable Patient Room Environments


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of the challenges of designing and equipping an acute care patient room, and explores how the connected activities that occur in the patient room can affect patient safety and the delivery of care, and how architects and planners must consider the "total room solution" where the design and technology successfully work together to meet the continuously evolving acuity and care needs of the patient.

Paint 201: High Performance Coatings


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of high performance coatings, with a discussion of the range of coatings available, sustainability issues and environmental considerations that influence coating selection, and which coatings to specify depending on the type of project and the extreme conditions it faces.

Daylighting with Electrochromics


1 Hour Program
Provides a brief review of daylighting principles and looks at windows systems to support daylight and more closely electrochromic windows.

Cellular PVC Trim: The Design Advantages


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of the types, features, and benefits of designing with cellular PVC trim, including a discussion on the installation guidelines and manufacturing processes.

Sustainable Design of Architectural Water Features and Fountains


1 Hour Program
Discusses the characteristics of water and how they can be manipulated to meet the visual, functional, structural, and performance requirements of sustainable architectural water features or fountains.

Extrusion Market Coatings


1 Hour Program
Provides an overview of how to evaluate coating chemistries and specifications for aluminum extrusion products. Discussions about industry tests and standards, and why certain coatings fail are included.