Courses

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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU

Data-Driven Building Design & Successful Project Outcomes

Data-driven science, control systems and even journalism are in vogue today, reflecting the increasing reliance on real facts and figures – rather than experience or subjective opinions – to drive successful pursuits.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU

Value Engineering: Where Quality Meets Cost Control

This course covers the history of value engineering, the benefits it provides (even those beyond the budget), the value engineering methodology, when value engineering should happen and when it absolutely should not.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Shadow Box Design: To Vent or Not To Vent

A curtain wall shadow box is a spandrel assembly consisting of vision glass at the building exterior and an opaque infill at the interior side of the curtain wall system.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Roofing Drainage Systems

Among the most fundamental of architectural elements is the roof. Its principal purpose is to shelter a building’s occupants, contents, and structure from the elements, most critically from precipitation.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Lasting Thermal Control For Building Façades

To keep interior spaces warm in the winter (and nice and cool in the summer), Building Teams report adopting more advanced approaches to envelope design and construction, whether for big-ticket cladding choices, window edge details, or meticulous

Learning Units: 1.5 AIA LU/HSW

Wood and Evolving Codes: The 2018 IBC and Emerging Wood Technologies

Increasingly, designers, builders, and building owners are turning to one of our oldest building materials: wood.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU

5 Legal Cases You Should Know

In 1981, two walkways collapsed inside a Kansas City hotel, killing 14 people. In 1984, a contractor delayed the opening of a casino by a few months and lost $14.5 million dollars as a result.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU

New Ideas in Building Envelopes

Designing and constructing the most durable and energy efficient building enclosures requires careful integration of materials and assemblies—as well as integration of the various disciplines on the project team.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH

Design of Long-Span Composite Steel Deck Slabs

This course reviews the design criteria for long-span composite steel deck slabs and shows how they can be designed to increase available space...
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

See-through and Safe

Failure modes of glass systems under the extreme heat and pressures of building fires are reasonably well known, yet still hard to predict.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

VIDEO COURSE: Great Buildings Deserve Great BIG Glass

Learn about glass fabrication processes with a concentration on BIG glass, an industry trend. Best practices for properly designing projects using big glass will be highlighted along with the benefits of using larger sizes.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Edge of Perfection: Designing High-Performance Façades

This course describes the multiple challenges in designing high performance fenestration systems for building envelopes meeting architectural design needs to deliver energy performance, sufficient glazed area for optimized daylight admission and v

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Wood and Indoor Environment

The objectives of sustainable design are broader than just environmental effects, having come to embrace issues of human health and performance. Many factors influence whether a building has a positive or negative impact on its occupants.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Thinking Wood as a Material of Choice

Designers today are finding new possibilities in one of the oldest building materials on earth.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings

When designing restaurants, stores, and low-rise offices, certain features come to mind as typical. These buildings tend to have large openings that allow plenty of daylight.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Multifamily, Mid-Rise Buildings Using Wood Construction

Multifamily housing is an active part of design and construction activity across the U.S.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Mid-Rise Wood Construction

Cost-effective, code-compliant and sustainable, mid-rise wood construction is gaining the attention of design professionals nationwide, who see it as a way to achieve higher density housing at lower cost—while reducing the carbon footprint of thei

Learning Units: 1.5 AIA LU/HSW

Mass Timber in North America

This course is intended for architects and engineers seeking current information on mass timber, including products, research related to structural performance and life safety, and available resources.

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests

As green building has evolved beyond its initial emphasis on energy efficiency, greater attention has been given to the choice of structural materials and the degree to which they influence a building’s environmental footprint.

Learning Units: 1.5 AIA LU/HSW

Designing Modern Wood Schools

This course takes a practical look at the design of wood schools, emphasizing opportunities with traditional wood-frame construction and, in particular, how to reduce costs.
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