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Course Credits: 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. Valued for its versatility, low carbon footprint, and aesthetic qualities, not to mention its cost performance, wood has long been a preferred choice for constructing durable structures that are resilient in the face of hazardous conditions.
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Architectural Glass Mutates as Building Teams Innovate

Novel concepts in glass and glazing are opening new vistas in the buildings world. From massive openings and bent panels to decorative finishes and integrated smart technologies, a cornucopia of glass innovations have been hitting the market in recent years.
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Applied Parametrics For Façade Designs and Materials

Parametric modeling has proven an invaluable toolset that enables architects to test complex design concepts and organize large quantities of data into manageable work streams. This process facilitates rapid idea testing and identification of efficiencies within a concept while also meeting client demands and schedule expectations.
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Photo courtesy of Edmon Leong.

Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Architectural Glass Mutates as Building Teams Innovate

Novel concepts in glass and glazing are opening new vistas in the buildings world.
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Applied Parametrics For Façade Designs and Materials

Parametric modeling has proven an invaluable toolset that enables architects to test complex design concepts and organize large quantities of data
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU

New Skin and Bones: Mastering the Campus Building Envelope

Building envelope choices for campus, cultural, and infrastructure projects are shaped by particular conditions.
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU

Predicting Costs for Tomorrow's Builds: Useful Ways to Future-Proof Today's Designs

Accurately predicting the future costs of construction projects is an essential and growing competency for leaders in the architecture, engineering
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU

Scoping It Out: Cost Estimates Excel with Data-Driven Scopes of Work

What’s the most critical step in creating a new building?
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU

Building Enclosure Design of Exterior Soffits

Commercial building designs have long incorporated exterior soffits, better known outside of the building design/construction industry as the under
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BIG Glass: BIGGER Views, BETTER Performance.

When the view means everything – go BIG with oversized glass from Viracon. Sizes up to 130”x236”.  
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Deconstructing the Window

Over the years, the industry has relied heavily on the increasing performance of low-e coatings to drive window U-factors (thermal transmittance) l
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH

Total Steel Project Performance

Instructor-led video course discusses actual project scenarios where collaborative steel joist and deck design have reduced total-project costs.
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH

System-Based Steel Building Solutions

This course reviews today’s range of structural steel joist and deck systems -- including long-span composite “thin slab” floor systems...
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU

Design + Construction of Cannabis Facilities

Right now, 33 states allow the sale of marijuana for medical purposes; another 14 allow it under more stringent medical supervision.
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Course Credits: 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
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Seattle's Iconic Landmark Gets a Fenestration Performance Overhaul

Built in 1962 for the World’s Fair, the Space Needle stands 605 feet above Seattle and welcomes more than 1.3 million guests from around the world
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Course Credits: 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, wh
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Course Credits: 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 t
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Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Roofing Drainage Systems

Among the most fundamental of architectural elements is the roof.
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Course Credits: 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 d
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