Long-span composite floor systems provide unique advantages in the construction of multi-family and hospitality facilities.
Courses
Courses
Learning Units:
.25 AIA LU/HSW
Using a real world example, course takers will learn challenges and solutions using acoustical deck in a gymnasium in Rogers, Arkansas. Users will learn about types of standard and special profile joists.
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Learning Units:
.25 AIA LU
The façade is one of the most important factors in shaping the overall aesthetics and performance of a building. At the same time, architects are under pressure to design building envelopes as quickly and inexpensively as possible.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW
Parapets serve not only as a functional building component, but also as an aesthetic statement. By incorporating elements such as cornices, bands, pediments, balusters, and embattlements, a parapet can provide a continuation of the facade, or a visual termination.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW
Rural hospitals present unique opportunities and challenges for healthcare facility operators. Oftentimes, the infrastructure and building systems have not been updated for years and require significant improvements in order to meet today’s modern medical demands.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW
Standing seam metal roofs (SSMRs) have many functional and aesthetic advantages and a long history of reliable performance. They are system designs in which all the pieces must work together in complete harmony to have a successful outcome.
Learning Units:
1.25 AIA LU/HSW
Insulated metal wall panels (IMPs) offer a sleek, modern, and lightweight envelope system that is highly customizable.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH
The rise in multi-story building design and construction is supported today by a range of long-span composite floor systems. This short introductory course explains the three types of systems that represent the trend in long-span, “thin slab” floor design.
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Learning Units:
.25 AIA LU/HSW
This course outlines the attributes, functions, benefits, limits, and acoustic qualities of composite deck slabs.
Learning Units:
1.25 AIA LU/HSW
This course describes numerous ways designers, mason, and contractors can prevent cracks in brickwork due primarily to elastic deformation of the brick.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU
From the stained glass windows that welcome variegated light into cathedrals to the steel-framed geometric designs of Art Deco and the bold leaded glass of the Prairie style, windows have served to define the character of buildings and spaces since the advent of glazed fenestration.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW
Thanks to data and analytics used routinely today to model and predict building performance, new and remarkably subtle approaches are being used to create facades and interior glass assemblies that allow more visible light transmission (VT) while reducing undesirable heating by direct sunlight, m
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW