Improving Multi-Story Building Design

New Millennium Building Systems

Course Credits:

.25 AIA LU/HSW

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.

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

Identify the 3 types long-span composite floor systems and their distinguishing characteristics.

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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