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• The Truth Behind Utilization, Realization and Profitability

  6 Lessons in AIA Courses, All Courses, BQE

  Many firms focus on their staff’s utilization rate and concentrate every working moment toward a client’s project. While this seems to make sense, the actual path towards greater profitability has very little to do with this simple metric. An analogy would be your physical health. While it’s fine to take yourself to the gym every […]

• If Your Firm is So Successful, Where is All the Money?

  2 Lessons in AIA Courses, All Courses, BQE

  If your firm takes pride in its ability to create sustainable architecture, you owe it to yourself and your clients to make your firm equally sustainable. Join us in this exciting webinar presented by Steven Burns, FAIA, Chief Creative Officer at BQE Software. With more than 20 years of experience managing a successful architectural practice […]

• Understanding powder and liquid FEVE coatings for curtainwall and architectural applications

  6 Lessons in AIA Courses, All Courses, Finishes, LEED / Sustainable Design, Lumiflon, Openings

  This course will review the features and benefits of FEVE fluoropolymer topcoats for bridge and curtainwall applications. The course will examine the various uses on new and existing structures and will detail a number of performance tests both real and accelerated to determine the life of the coatings. Lastly this course will assess the life-cycle […]

• Understanding the impact of transitions on façade performance

  6 Lessons in AIA Courses, All Courses, Finishes, LEED / Sustainable Design, Openings, The Architects Newspaper

  This course will explore the challenges on air and water tightness, thermal continuity, constructability and accountability caused by changes in geometry, materials, systems and gaps in scope allocation using completed interface examples. Using at-grade, in-plane, overhead and parapet transition details from one project as a baseline, the importance of careful interface detailing for high-performance envelopes […]

• Understanding Window and Door Hurricane Requirements for Your Region

  6 Lessons in AIA Courses, Al-Farooq Corporation, All Courses, Finishes, LEED / Sustainable Design, Openings

  This on-demand course is a recorded webinar.  The course will provide an introduction to hurricane design criteria and impact requirements for windows and the building envelope.  The course will also address how to determine and design for the minimum criteria that are needed to meet your project requirement based on building type and location. NOTE: […]

• Window Films For Architectural Applications

  6 Lessons in AIA Courses, All Courses, CSI Division, Eastman Chemical - Performance Films Division, Openings

  Window films can help enhance occupant comfort, energy efficiency, aesthetics, design, safety, and security. This presentation reviews these benefits and more, and also covers a product line overview, installation examples, and recent innovations in low-e window films. The pace of the presentation is kept brisk and fresh with case studies and real world applications. Take […]