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  • Profit by Design: A Financial Bootcamp for Architecture Leaders

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    This engaging, bootcamp-style webinar is designed to enhance the financial acumen of Architect executives and professionals, offering foundational knowledge and practical strategies to empower your financial management skills. During the session, you will learn how to interpret crucial financial statements, harness technology for efficient financial management, and master the art of budgeting and forecasting. Additionally, […]

  • Transforming Construction Specs: 5 Game-Changing Strategies

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: Deltek In today’s architecture and engineering (A&E) industry, labor scarcity and cost pressures are driving firms to maximize efficiency. The time-consuming process of developing construction specifications can lead to wasted resources and lost revenue if not managed effectively. However, innovative technologies are transforming how A&E firms approach this challenge. […]

  • Designing with GFRC in the Modern Space

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: Trueform Concrete The purpose of this presentation is to give an introduction to GFRC (glass-fiber reinforced concrete), including the virtues and benefits seen when choosing to work with this material for the fabrication of residential or commercial furnishings. The course does this by exploring a common GFRC application – […]

  • Achieving Performance and Aesthetics with Engineered Building Enclosure Solutions

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    Credit: 1 AIA HSW LU Sponsored by: Sto Corp. This course presents a unique approach to designing for performance while achieving aesthetic goals, focusing on engineered systems that provide continuous control layers and connectivity between multiple claddings, and resulting in simplified design and construction processes.   Learning Objectives Describe the challenges of designing building enclosures. […]

  • How to Develop Winning Strategies for Architecture Proposals

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: OpenAsset If you work in the AEC industry, you know how important proposals are to the business growth and development process, and how much time and effort go into their creation. And… you know they can be stressful. Proposals require teamwork and collaboration from the entire firm, often from […]

  • Designing Automated Shading Systems

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    Credit: 1 AIA HSW LU Sponsored by: Hunter Douglas Architectural In this course, you will learn to identify the impact automated window shading can have on building design, be able to design for the aesthetic requirements of a building, and create occupant well-being (comfort) through automated shading design. This course will help identify the main […]

  • Requirements and Solutions for Automating Shades & Window Coverings

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    Credit: 1 AIA HSW LU Sponsored by: Hunter Douglas Architectural This course gives best practices for assessing building conditions that impact the design of automated shading/window covering systems and shows how they relate to occupant well-being (comfort) and the management of daylighting and solar heat gain. It then compares the main approaches to automation in […]

  • Benchmarking: The Secret Weapon of High Performing Architecture Firms

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: BQE Software Many architecture firms make decisions based on intuition rather than data-driven insights, often overlooking critical performance metrics. Leveraging data from over 1,500 architecture and engineering firms, BQE has compiled a comprehensive report on industry best practices for key performance indicators (KPIs) that all firms should be monitoring. […]

  • Functional Creativity with Ornamental Metals in Public Buildings

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    Ornamental metals have purposes that enhance both visual aesthetics and building functions. In high-profile urban projects, from retrofits of landmarked buildings to new components of transportation infrastructure, steel and aluminum components allow dramatic gestures, novel geometries, optimization of the materials’ properties, and purposeful contrasts in texture and form. The practical complications of combining customized metal […]

  • A Complete Approach to Rainscreen Design

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    Credit: 1 AIA LU Sponsored by: Sto Corp. Description: This course presents the complete design approach to rainscreens and explains why rainscreens are an important topic for the building envelope and enclosures. This course enforces the use of control layers to maximize the use of a drained, backed ventilated rainscreen system performance for both new […]