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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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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 and construction (AEC) fields.
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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? 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.
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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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BIG Glass: BIGGER Views, BETTER Performance.

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

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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Course Credits: 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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Course Credits: 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.
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Course Credits: 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.
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Course Credits: 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 desig
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