Add to cart IBC Code Mapping for Architects $30.00 This course, IBC Code Mapping for Architects, is intended to help guide designers through this circuitous labyrinth more quickly and with confidence.
Add to cart Lean On Me – Choosing Railings Carefully $45.00 This material briefly examines the materials and methods used to construct barriers against fatal falls. Codes governing the performance of railings will be examined, because safety is the main justification for such regulations.
Add to cart NetZer0 Design – A Guide for Architects $75.00 The intent of this course is to address the complex topics that feed into the goals for achieving a NetZero environment.
Add to cart An Overview of Sustainable Design $60.00 This course will be an overview of sustainability concepts, with an emphasis on when in the project these aspects should be considered for the most effective application of these principles.
Add to cart Designing for Energy Efficiency $45.00 This course encourages and examines the impact of decisions and methods to conserve energy. Because all such actions ultimately result in a desirable preservation of natural resources for the security of generations to come.
Add to cart Professional Ethics for Architects $15.00 The intent of this course is to address the complex topics that feed into the goals for achieving a NetZero environment.
Add to cart Reviving Minimalism $45.00 The course will show how the influences of these design principles support sustainable and eco friendly design and construction.
Add to cart The Basics of the Design of University Labs $30.00 This course will introduce you to academic/university lab design. It will cover the basics for designing teaching and research labs as well as the buildings dedicated to such.
Add to cart Simulating a Building Envelope Through BIM Revised $60.00 How can building information modeling (BIM) not just represent but also simulate building envelopes for air, water leakage, and optimization? This course proposes that this could be our industry “moon shot” to achieve processes, technologies, and organizational transformation to improve envelope performance.
Add to cart Sound Advice for Acoustics $60.00 Acoustic design is addressed here in an incremental fashion. Fundamentals include basic principles regarding sound, how its energy moves through matter, how its path and intensity can be altered, and how success in the manipulation of sound is measured.
Add to cart Speaking of Older Buildings $45.00 When the question of what to do with older buildings arises, it usually resolves itself to choices of reusing them as is, repairing them, restoring them, repurposing them or replacing them.
Add to cart Starting From the Bottom $45.00 When designing floor systems, the best approach is one that is systematic. It begins with consideration of the project climate and moves all the way through selection of the finished flooring materials.
Add to cart That Dangerous Damp $60.00 Despite our best efforts to keep it out, water has found its way inside the building. This course examines the question of what to do next. Since abandoning the building to its eventual collapse, is not usually an option.
Add to cart Urban Design $75.00 This course explains the origins of urban design theory and practice, from its roots in modernist architectural theory in the 1950s to present-day priorities of “placemaking,” combined with increasingly urgent concerns for sustainability and urban resilience.