Accurately predicting the future costs of construction projects is an essential and growing competency for leaders in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) fields.
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1.0 AIA LU
What’s the most critical step in creating a new building? Savvy architects, owners and developers find this question easy to answer: It’s the scope, of course. With every project start and every new building team, the first and often most daunting hurdle is establishing a decent budget estimate.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU
Instructor-led video course discusses actual project scenarios where collaborative steel joist and deck design have reduced total-project costs.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH
This course reviews today’s range of structural steel joist and deck systems -- including long-span composite “thin slab” floor systems...
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH
Right now, 33 states allow the sale of marijuana for medical purposes; another 14 allow it under more stringent medical supervision. Eleven states have OK’d it for both medical and recreational use. Only Idaho, Nebraska, and South Dakota have a total ban on the sale of marijuana.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU
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
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
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
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
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 mockup and installation practices.
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW
This course reviews the design criteria for long-span composite steel deck slabs and shows how they can be designed to increase available space...
Learning Units:
1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH
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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