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This course explores using natural light and its importance in the built environment. This course will provide an overview of natural light’s benefits and key impacts experienced by building occupants and owners. Automated shading will be introduced as a natural light management solution to maximize quality daylight, preserve views, prevent glare, and minimize solar heat gain. By the end of the course, the benefits of daylight management should be clear, as well as how it results in more efficient buildings and better interior environments.
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This course provides architects with insights regarding the structural engineering concepts that are critical to successfully constructing concrete masonry structures.
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Adding wood, stone, or masonry accents can dramatically change the look of a space, but time, cost, or even structural requirements can interfere. This course reviews the use of realistic, lightweight, cost-effective, and easy-to-install options for decorative faux elements. The performance, design options, and installation of high-density polyurethane panels, beams, truss systems, mantels, and column covers are examined.
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This course examines automated shading as a core element of dynamic daylight management and explores its role within integrated building systems. Participants will learn how automated shading supports occupant comfort and wellbeing, contributes to building optimization, and aligns with broader sustainable design goals. The course highlights design strategies, coordination considerations, and performance outcomes that position automated shading as a critical component of high performing buildings.
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The most important assets in any organization are the people within. When a client decides to invest in physical security, like bullet-resistant barriers, it is the responsibility of AEC community professionals to understand what protection level is appropriate for the building depending upon the surroundings, the industry, and the client’s specific needs and provide a blueprint that includes the desired features while maximizing the building owner’s investment and protecting future occupants.
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This presentation explains the benefits of polished concrete flooring, including aesthetics, abrasion & stain resistance, sustainability, and reduced maintenance costs. We discuss the products and procedures involved in each flooring job type from new to restoration. Participants will discover the importance of jobsite mockups and how they are used to manage expectations. The program also shows how to protect and maintain finished concrete flooring according to flooring use. It includes tips for protecting finished floors from damage during building construction and beyond.
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Concrete Masonry has many advantages for building envelope construction. This course explains five key unexpected advantages that are not as widely known as they should be.
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Access control systems are used to limit entry into designated secure areas to certain personnel during predetermined time periods. In this one-hour course, we will review electrified door locking hardware and related components which interface with electronic access controllers to provide a complete security solution.
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Infrared patio heaters are a sustainable way to heat outdoor spaces. This course reviews the available options and their sustainability profiles, focusing on electric infrared heaters.
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Birds provide billions to our economy, yet bird populations are crashing, with collisions with glass a primary cause. Whether looking through glass at habitat beyond, or flying towards reflected habitat, birds collide at flight speed with fatal results, often days later, from internal injuries. Birds collide with glass on structures of every size, from shacks to skyscrapers, in urban, suburban and rural areas. Advances in technology are increasing use of glass curtain walls and other large glass features, increasing the rate of mortality. We will describe materials that can make buildings safe for birds without sacrificing light, appearance or view clarity. In 2011, San Francisco was the first U.S. city to require bird-friendly design for some new construction. The LEED Pilot Library added a credit for reducing bird collisions the same year and that has since been added to the primary credit system. Over 20 jurisdictions at levels from state to town, have now mandated bird-friendly construction and more are pending. Notably New York City, in 2019, adopted code requiring bird-friendly design for all new construction. We review use of the LEED credit and important features of legislation across the U.S. and Canada. This class explains how to recognize and remediate hazards to birds in the built environment. We illustrate how many strategies for controlling heat and light, and even security, can also reduce bird mortality. Techniques now in use for evaluating the relative threat level to birds of different materials are described, along with typical results. Resources, like American Bird Conservancy’s searchable database of bird-friendly materials are reviewed.
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform interior design operations, but lasting results depend on standardized data, connected workflows, and repeatable processes—not AI alone. This course explores best practices for building an AI-ready design and procurement practice by reducing manual work, improving specification management, standardizing product data, and connecting design, financial, and procurement workflows. Participants will learn practical strategies to improve efficiency, reduce costly errors, support brand consistency, and prepare their firms to leverage AI across increasingly complex commercial projects.
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The design of behavioral healthcare facilities should address the therapeutic and safety needs of patients and staff while meeting the applicable codes and regulations. Reviewed in this course are ligature-resistant products developed for patient rooms and bathrooms that strike the balance between providing the safest design solutions and creating a noninstitutional environment.
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This course covers how to design pre-insulated concrete masonry walls. We will discuss how to demonstrate compliance with Energy Code requirements, specification and details
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Join us for our June webinar, part of a monthly webinar series that explores the science and application practices in building protection. In this webinar we will specifically look at air barriers and assess how acrylic and bitumen compare so that you can walk away with a better understanding of what will work best for your projects moving forward.
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A comprehensive look at the tools and techniques of cleaning historic architecture. "Restoration Cleaning" categorizes types of contaminants. It compares and contrasts abrasive, water and chemical cleaning. The program concludes with 10 "must know" tips for successful restoration cleaning.
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The selection of a wall system for a building envelope involves several key considerations. In this course, we evaluate the characteristics of pre-cast concrete, tilt-up concrete panels, insulated concrete forms, lightweight metal frame, pre-insulated masonry, and conventional masonry. We compare the performance of these wall systems on these considerations: (1) cost, (2) resilience, (3) sustainability (particularly global warming potential), (4) energy conservation, and (5) long term operating costs and environmental impacts.
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This presentation will focus on the challenges to changing climate trends and the benefits of using green roofs of various types for adding environmental features and benefits including handling the rainfall that falls on a building. The presentation includes a discussion of how to properly waterproof the roof of a building to accommodate the various elements of the building’s insulation plus the components to create a successful green roof. The presentation discusses the different types of green roofs that can be developed on roof tops.
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Architectural resin panels are engineered to suit the demands of a wide array of interior and exterior applications and offer almost unlimited combinations of color, pattern, and design. This course presents the features and options that allow resin panels to meet design requirements for both function and beauty, and discusses how resin panels may play a role in projects seeking LEED®, Living Building Challenge®, or WELL Building Standard® certification.
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This course discusses the use of concrete masonry as a veneer. Participants will learn how concrete masonry compares to other materials used for veneer, how the various components of a cavity wall function, how to compare choices for the components of a cavity wall based on critical performance criteria and what aesthetic options are available with concrete masonry.
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Modern high performance buildings demand more than independent envelope components. They require a coordinated air control strategy that begins with the details to the final building air leak testing. This course examines the role of continuous air barriers in improving energy efficiency, durability, and occupant comfort in commercial construction. Participants will explore how air leakage increases condensation risk, reduces thermal efficiency and impacts long-term building performance. This course will review best practices for detailing critical transitions such as roof-to-wall and wall to below-grade connections, where discontinuities often lead to failures. Special attention will be given to vapor permeable air barrier systems and their ability to maintain airtightness while supporting drying potential within the assemblies. Through discussion of real-world projects across mission-critical facilities, large-format industrial buildings, multi-family housing, and commercial construction, attendees will learn how integrated, permeable enclosure strategies support long-term resilience, effective moisture management, and reduce building failure risk.
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This course examines the role of Exterior Insulation and Finish Systems (EIFS) in supporting building performance, occupant health, and long-term durability. Participants will explore how EIFS integrates critical control layers, air, water, vapor, and thermal, to help mitigate moisture intrusion, improve energy efficiency, and support code compliance. The course will also address how proper design and detailing of EIFS assemblies contribute to safer, more resilient building enclosures while enabling a wide range of architectural aesthetics. The course also examines how facade design strategies contribute to sustainable building practices, including energy efficiency, material optimization, and reduced environmental impact.
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In this one-hour course, explore door interlocks, man traps, and sally ports. Learn their types, applications, and configurations to meet design criteria effectively.
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This course will scratch the surface of the linear drainage world, including trench drain, slot drain and utility trench. We will discuss what exactly defines a linear drain, and what all the various parts and pieces are. A review of the history of linear drainage will provide some context as to where the industry has been and where it is going. Next, an in depth look at the common failures experienced by linear drains historically will be followed up by design considerations to ensure that you have the basics needed to make informed decisions and avoid those typical pitfalls. Lastly, we'll have a look at some various case studies which highlight the depth and breadth of what a linear drain solution can do on a variety of different projects.
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Antimicrobial additives are used in roofing systems, wall assemblies, coatings, and sealants to control mold and algae growth. For architects and contractors, the goal is to protect materials from damage and help them last longer in real-world conditions. Performance, however, depends on more than just adding an antimicrobial. Jobsite conditions such as moisture, temperature swings, and environmental exposure are common threats and can directly affect how well these additives perform. This session examines how antimicrobial systems are formulated, tested, and evaluated using standards such as ASTM G21, ASTM D3273, and MIL-STD fungal resistance testing measures. It also explores how and where real-world performance and where gaps can occur. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how to asses antimicrobial effectiveness make more informed material and specification decisions. Attendees should have moderate to advanced knowledge of/experience with: Coating selection, roofing systems, wall assemblies, or material specification decisions.
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While most builders and designers are familiar with structural steel for building support, most are less familiar with the economies and capabilities of cold-formed steel framing. This session shows where code requirements in both the International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), and other code bodies encourage the use of steel framing, and how these framing systems meet and exceed high-wind code and performance requirements for multiple areas across the country. To fully express how CFS performs under testing and pressure conditions, a product comparison between multiple materials (IE: wood vs. steel) will be presented.
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