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Water Saving Solutions for Spa-Like Showers |
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When it comes to designing a spa-like shower system, a designer must balance the client’s desire for a spa-like experience with the requirements of stringent codes and standards. This course discusses water conservation; applicable codes, standards, and guidelines; and the showerhead technologies that address conservation issues.
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Total Steel Project Performance |
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This course will discuss overall project performance from the perspective of improved steel joist design and metal decking design. This includes ways to improve the request for information (RFI) process, and ways to reduce a range of traditionally tolerated project costs. Best engineering practices, cost-accountable architectural achievement, practices that reduce the consumption of raw materials, and the importance of taking the project owner's point of view when designing the steel package will be summarized. Building information modeling (BIM) - based project collaboration will also be discussed.
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Pressure Equalized Rainscreens (PERs) for High-Wind Conditions |
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The typical challenges faced by designers of multistory building envelopes pale in comparison to wind forces of tornadoes and hurricanes. This course investigates how pressure equalized rainscreens (PERs) address heat loss, air infiltration, moisture migration, fire safety, and lateral forces—even under extreme wind and projectile testing. Aluminum composite material/metal composite material PERs are outlined in detail vis a vis standard tests, types of fabrication, and relevant building code requirements.
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Electric Radiant Heating: Thermal Comfort & Energy Savings |
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During the cold winter months it is nearly impossible to ignore the rising costs of heating bills. Designers, builders, facility managers, and homeowners are consciously seeking ways to lower their energy consumption without sacrificing indoor comfort levels. This course introduces a unique heating system that evenly heats the interior from ceiling to floor or from floor to ceiling using radiant heating panels. This heating method can reduce electrical costs and maintain occupant comfort by preventing heat from escaping a room.
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Through-Wall Flashing for Masonry Cavity Walls |
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Water leaks and damage are some of the biggest problems encountered with masonry construction and cavity walls. The proper choice and installation of flexible through-wall flashing, however, can ensure that moisture is directed out of the wall cavity and the risk of potential damage is minimized.
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The Technical Side of a Kitchen Faucet |
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In a good kitchen design, the kitchen faucet plays a key role in terms of both function and style, therefore, choosing the right solution is a critical consideration. This course provides an overview of the functional and style options of kitchen faucets, as well as a discussion of the factors that relate to the quality of a kitchen faucet, including cartridge type, construction and finish.
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Porcelain Pavers: Applications and Use |
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Outdoor porcelain pavers have many benefits. They are frost-resistant, skid-resistant, durable, easy-to-clean and have incredibly high breakage loads (up to 2200 lb) creating the perfect solution for gardens, terraces, and high traffic outdoor areas. This course will provide an overview of the manufacturing process of porcelain pavers, explain various installation methods, and discuss how porcelain pavers can contribute to today’s green building programs.
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Residential Kitchen and Bath Design: Sustainability and Performance |
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Our planet’s resources are finite. Fresh water in particular, is under ever-increasing constraints. By choosing more efficient, eco-friendly fixtures and following sustainable building and product design programs, we can have a positive impact on this global issue, without sacrificing our current lifestyle. In this course, we will review these issues and discuss sustainability programs, products and design choices that can have a positive impact.
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Tapered Roof Insulation Systems |
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Ponding water on a low-sloped roof can greatly reduce the performance and lifespan of the roof membrane. Tapered roof insulation systems reduce or eliminate ponding water when a roof deck does not provide adequate slope. This course describes the benefits of tapered polyisocyanurate insulation and discusses the profiles, panel repeats, and design options available. Also addressed are cricket installation guidelines, tapered roof system average R-values, and specification tips.
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Sustainable Performance Fabric in Luxury & Lifestyle Design |
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The proven durability and colorfastness of performance fabric allows it to maintain its appearance even in harsh outdoor environments. Today’s high-quality performance fabric looks right at home indoors, too, with soft, inviting textiles available in a wide array of colors, textures, and patterns. This course provides an analysis of the manufacturing processes, testing, and relevant sustainability considerations, and discusses the many possibilities for designing exceptional luxury and lifestyle spaces with performance fabrics.
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Increasing Concrete Durability and Sustainability with Crystalline Waterproofing |
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Although known for being a strong and versatile building material, there are a number of factors that affect the sustainability of concrete, and a variety of measures that can be taken to increase its durability and extend its service life. This course discusses the environmental impact of concrete and some of the main causes of concrete deterioration, and examines how crystalline waterproofing technology can be employed to increase the durability and sustainability of concrete.
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Recent News |
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Prestigious Award for VaproShield |
VaproShield’s Two Component Air Barrier System™ received the 2016 Beyond Green™ Award of Merit for a High–Performance Innovation by the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC). This unique award recognizes the innovations that shape, inform, and catalyze the high-performance building market, as well as the real–world application of high–performance design and construction practices.
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Glass for the Creative Mind in Tempe: Another Award-Winning Texture from Meltdown Glass? |
TEMPE, March 10, 2017- It's never a boring day when you work at Meltdown Glass Art & Design. This Monday, employees created a new linear texture that would attract various clients. The texture, recently named Coastal, was created by hand at their Arizona based factory. It can be used in kiln-fired glass installations ranging from large monolithic feature walls, privacy partitions, counter and tabletops, signage, doors, cabinets, water features, and more.
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