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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Designing for Fire Protection

Wood construction offers economic, performance and environmental advantages not typically found with other structural materials. Wood is cost effective, versatile and adaptable. It’s renewable and has a light carbon footprint.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Designing for Earthquakes

This continuing education course provides an overview of seismic-resistive design issues in wood-frame buildings with a focus on compliance with the 2015 International Building Code (IBC) and American Society of Civil Engineers/Struct
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Designing for Durability

Misperceptions still exist that buildings made of materials such as concrete or steel last longer than buildings made of wood.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Building Resilience

This course will consider traditional wood framing and mass timber systems in the context of resilience, including performance during and after earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters, as well as the relevance of wood’s light carbon footprint
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Building Materials Matter

With an abundance of information and competing environmental claims, determining a material’s true impacts can be a challenge. Does wood reduce a building’s carbon footprint in a meaningful way?
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Learning Units: 1.5 AIA LU/HSW

Creative, Custom & Capable: New Directions in Metal Architecture

Custom engineered using integrated design and fabrication technologies, metal building systems are increasingly versatile, expressive and cost-effective for a range of architectural styles and building applications.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Optimizing Occupant Experience with Wood

This course will examine how wood structures and finishings can help meet tenancy trends and the benefits wood provides to owners and occupants, such as aesthetics, high-performance and life safety.
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Learning Units: 1.25 AIA LU/HSW

The Business Case for Building with Wood

Increasingly, building owners and design professionals are turning to wood construction to satisfy all of these industry, market, and regulatory demands and challenges.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings

This course will examine how wood structures and finishings can help meet tenancy trends and the benefits wood provides to owners and occupants, such as aesthetics, high-performance and life safety.
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Learning Units: 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.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU

Specifying Brazilian Exotic Hardwood Flooring

Brazilian hardwood is unique in the world. The forests of Brazil are home to a broad and exclusive array of species that deliver the hardest and most breathtaking wood products.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Exceeding Thermal Performance Goals by Choosing Wood

Designing with wood offers architects the flexibility to design projects with increased insulation. From a thermal perspective, wood-frame building enclosures are inherently more efficient than steel-frame, concrete, or masonry construction.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Structural Wood Building Systems

This course examines the key differences between light frame and mass timber systems.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Wood Buildings

Prefabricated wood buildings should be considered when designing and building both multi-family and commercial buildings, as prefabrication is an efficient and sustainable building practice.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Resilient Design in Metal Building Roof and Wall Panels

This course explains why severe weather events are causing designs, standards, and codes to be revisited.
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Slip-resistant flooring, such as these Maycrest 6x24-inch porcelain tiles, is recommended for universal design in kitchens and bathrooms. Photo: Mohawk Flooring

Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

16 Things You Should Know About Universal Design

Universal design is a term, and a mode of architectural practice, that is often misunderstood.
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Benefits of Traceable Construction

Today, transparency and traceability of construction projects is not only of great benefit in terms of time and money for all project participants, but is also an essential success factor for lean construction projects to ensure a clean and trustw
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW, 1.0 PDH

Advancing Steel Structures with Composite Floor Systems

For a typical building project, the construction and design team face a range of choices in steel-based floor systems. One of the team’s biggest hurdles to clear is selecting the most appropriate, functional, and cost-effective fl oor system.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU

Urban Placemaking: Building Equity by Design

The U.S. is in the midst of an urban renaissance. People are returning to cities, sparking new investment and growth.
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Learning Units: 1.0 AIA LU/HSW

Storefront Rehabilitation and Design

Rehabilitation and design of storefront systems demands consideration of many factors, from thermal performance and operability to historic landmark sensitivity and appearance.
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