Specifying Exterior and Specialty Roller Shades

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

This course outlines the key considerations for specifying exterior and specialty roller shade systems, including how a building’s structure impacts shade choice and the importance of material selection.

Proactive Proposals: How to Win When You’re Behind

Credits: 1 AIA LU

We’ve all heard the conventional wisdom that if an RFP hits the street and you didn’t know it was coming, you’ve already lost. This statement is probably true if you’re writing a reactive proposal. The secret to winning when you’re “behind” on the RFP process is to write a proactive proposal.

Revolutionizing Construction Workflows with Autodesk Build

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Today, collaboration and access to information from anywhere and at any time are critical to successful project management. Collaboration drives decisions and delivers insights, reports, and predictive dashboards, driving better decisions.

Glass Entrance Specification: A Review of Hardware, Codes, and Safety

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

Along with the benefits of glass entrances come unique challenges. This course covers current trends in glass entrance design and key considerations for hardware requirements in all types of buildings.

Simplifying Revit Sheet and View Management with IdeateApps

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Sign up for this informative webinar from Ideate Software. Using the collection of sheet and view tools within the IdeateApps suite of applications, we will review how to easily automate and manage Revit sheets and views.

The Seven Pillars of Highly Successful Architecture Firms

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Culled from experiences working with more than 3,000 AE firms over 25 years, this session will examine the seven common denominators of every successful firm. Success comes in many flavors.

Design at a Distance: Tools for Remote Collaboration

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Modern design software is a tool for remote collaboration, intuitive visualization, and efficient coordination. With projects around the world, Flansburgh has developed a BIM-centric workflow to work remotely with clients, consultants, and contractors.

The Dark Side of Email Management: Using email as a force for good

Credits: 1 AIA LU

When was the last time you met someone who genuinely enjoys opening their work emails? Waking up to a chaotic inbox, and being unable to see critical correspondence across the wider business is generally accepted as the norm.

Technical Advances in Structural Insulated Sheathing (SIS)

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

This course aims to review various hybridized sheathing solutions and show how the integration of advanced technology has improved performance, capability, and sustainability of SIS.

Specifying Interior Roller Shades

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

This course outlines the key considerations for specifying interior roller shade systems – including application, site and glazing conditions, location, project requirements, and budget – and how each relates to occupant well-being and the management of daylighting and solar heat gain.

How to Develop Winning Strategies for Architecture Proposals

Credits: 1 AIA LU

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 multiple departments and disciplines, but creating buy-in to the proposal process can be a challenge.

Optimizing Facades Through Automated Daylight Analysis

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Energy use within the building sector currently contributes up to 40% of the annual CO2 emissions of developed countries. A major proportion of this energy is dedicated to occupants’ thermal comfort, followed by lighting. A well-designed day-lit building is crucial for occupant health and happiness and helps reduce energy use by minimizing the need for electric lighting and heating.

10 KPIs Your Architecture Firm Needs to Track for Maximum Project Profitability

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Projects are the core of your architecture firm. Not only do they generate profits, but they are also at the center of your firm’s business operations. As such, doing everything you can to ensure their success should be one of your top priorities.

Your Architecture Firm is Leaking Money: How to Identify Losses and Plug the Holes

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Most firms look at profitability as a bottom-line metric. They use this as a gauge to determine if the firm is financially healthy. However, every firm is composed of countless independent elements: employees, clients, projects, phases, consultants, and a myriad of expenses.

Planning for Waste Management: DSNY’s new rule for residential buildings

Credits: 1 AIA LU HSW

New residential buildings over 150 units in New York City now need to submit a Waste Management Plan for DSNY review at the same time as they submit plans to DOB. Hear from DSNY how the process works, and what they need to see in a plan.

Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Natural Connection

Credits: 1 AIA LU HSW

Incorporating nature into the built environment through biophilic design increases occupant well-being, productivity, and health and is an integral component of an ecologically healthy and sustainable community.

Helpful Tips & Tricks for Bluebeam Revu

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Bluebeam Revu is an extremely powerful tool for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) community that allows users to markup, takeoff, organize, and collaborate PDF files easier than before. Annotating and measuring is now faster than before and the new studio features allow you to collaborate in real-time.

Reviewing the top six Revit Data Management workflows using Ideate BIMLink

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Sign up for this informative webinar from Ideate Software. Sash Kazeminejad and Richard Taylor will each review three Revit Data Management workflows that can be greatly improved by using Ideate BIMLink from Ideate Software.

Complexities and Benefits of Facade Automation Systems

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

An automated window/vent facade system can provide a wide range of benefits to a building design, such as ADA compliance and integration with a fire life safety system for smoke exhaust, but here we will specifically be discussing the application of using the automated facade to provide a natural/hybrid ventilation system.

Navigating Growing Pains: Optimizing Efficiency without Sacrificing Culture

Credits: 1 AIA LU

You know the saying “the devil is in the details”? When your firm is growing and the big picture looks great—that’s when growing pains seep in if you’re not proactive in managing your operations. Scaling your business means there’s a new set of challenges in front of you.

Aluminum Extrusions & High Performance Building Envelopes: Still the Answer

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

For well over a decade, architects, developers and builders have been focused on reducing the carbon footprint of their projects. Through a combination of site-generated energy, highly energy-efficient building systems, and creative design, net-zero buildings have become not only feasible but also practical.

Design and Collaborate Better with Autodesk Construction Cloud

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Today, collaboration and access to information from anywhere and anytime are critical to successful project management.

Join us as Nick Marchek, BIM Specialist at Microsol Resources, reviews the Autodesk Construction Cloud (released in early 2021). Focusing on the design phases, Nick will provide an overview of this new platform and review the key features and capabilities of the following products: Autodesk Docs, BIM Collaborate, and BIM Collaborate Pro.

Optimizing Renovation Projects Using Building Performance Analysis

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Buildings contribute nearly 40% of annual global CO2 emissions currently and about two-thirds of the global building stock will still exist in 2040. If not retrofitted, the existing buildings will continue to generate unsustainable levels of carbon emissions. Thus, this session will showcase how each one of these projects can be an ideal opportunity to incorporate enhanced energy performance strategies, without much extra effort or expense.

The Future of Architecture: Scaling for Growth in 2022

Credits: 1 AIA LU

What if you had the tools to understand where you are with regard to all aspects of your firm? Key Performance Indicators can be defined and implemented to guide you towards both professional and personal success. If you can’t measure it, you can’t track it, and you won’t know how to improve it.

Advancements in Cladding Support Systems. Design + Performance.

Credits: 1 AIA LU

How cladding is attached and supported from the exterior of the wall assembly to the interior structure of the building is no longer just a question of transferring weight. The type of support system used can greatly affect energy performance, air and moisture penetration into the wall cavity, and the effectiveness of the finished design.

Energy and the Architectural Fenestration Industry

Credits: 1 AIA LU

This course is designed to show the advantages of aluminum extrusion use in many architectural designs, from curtainwall to windows and doors, as well as railings and walkway covers, and will inspire limitless design opportunities for architects and engineers.

Achieving Performance and Aesthetics with Engineered Building Enclosure Solutions

Credits: 1 AIA LU

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.

Spinach Ice-Cream for Architects – How to Have Fun while Keeping Your Firm Healthy

Credits: 1 AIA LU

Who doesn’t love design? It’s like a bottomless bowl of chocolate ice-cream.

Just like our bodies can’t survive merely on sweet desserts, your firm needs vegetables and protein too.

Most firms struggle with maintaining the proper balance between the fun side of our practice and the necessary effort to keep a firm running smoothly: managing projects and staff, keeping the cash flowing (more in than out), acquiring new business, on-and-on.

Join us for an engaging, live webinar presented by Steve Burns, FAIA, Chief Creative Officer at BQE Software. You will see how easy it is to finally bring balance to your firm by applying the same care and design to firm management as you do your projects.

Cloud computing is transforming firms like yours and how the rules of the game have been upended.

AEC Professionals are from Mars and Owners are from Venus

Credits: 1 AIA LU

As the title would suggest, what owners want (need) out of their BIM is worlds away from what the architects, engineers and contractors need to build the owner’s building.

Bird-friendly Glazing Solutions: Understanding the Fundamentals of Safe Design

Credits: 1 AIA HSW LU

Architecture tells us a great deal about society. In fact, glass and glazing are used to blur the lines between inside and out, helping elevate performance and the experiences of people. Yet while humans can use environmental cues to identify glass as a barrier, there is growing realization that birds cannot.