Designing Smarter Places of Learning

This course explains the how structural steel building systems are suited to construction of education facilities.

New Millennium Building Systems

Course Credits:

1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH

Steel building systems provide unique advantages in the construction of education facilities. This introductory course explains these benefits can be tailored towards specific learning environments.

Learning Objectives:

Learning objective 1: Open Floor Plan Design - Designing for spaces that are flexible and adaptive
Learning objective 2: Acoustics - The importance of acoustical design in learning environments
Learning objective 3: Sustainability - Selecting building materials and structural layout with optimal efficiency
Learning objective 4: Aesthetics - Knowing substrate and coating options for holistic floor and ceiling system design

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Photo courtesy Arup

Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Steel structures offer faster path to climate benefits

Faster delivery of buildings isn’t always associated with sustainability benefits or long-term value, but things are changing.

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Contextually inspired material mixing for One Essex Crossing’s curtain wall façades weave together panels of warm brick and Italian terra cotta. Photos courtesy CetraRuddy

Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Solutions for cladding performance and supply issues

From a distance, today’s building innovations in cladding performance, aesthetics, and construction appear unconstrained and quite varied.

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Material and MEP system choices drove reductions in embodied carbon and operational carbon for Arizona State University’s new Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health. Photo courtesy McCarthy Building Cos.

Course Credits: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW