Achieving a Balance of Life Safety and Wellness
Designing buildings for life safety and wellness is getting easier.
Architecture, Design and Building Science
This program's collection of continuing education courses provides the architect/student with a catalog of courses on every construction division. Courses include products and their application, safety, the environmental impact of products, and application case studies. Users can search the catalog using CSI division numbers, keywords, manufacturer names, or product descriptions.
Achieving Beauty, Wellbeing, and Functionality in Design
Beauty, functionality, and wellness-enhancing can co-exist in design, with the right products. This article explores solutions that help architects achieve these important multi-benefits. Pavers that create beautiful outdoor spaces that are easy to maintain. Skylights that allow daylight and fresh air into the interior. Underlayment that improves acoustics and sound management, while protecting the integrity of the interior air quality. Each improves the functionality of the space and the wellness of the people in the built environment.
Bird Friendly Glass Solution
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. The solution is bird-friendly glass that delivers on performance, energy efficiency and the needs of people. This course from Guardian Glass is intended to provide the basis for a better understanding of how to recognize issues affecting the bird population while learning about best practices and design fundamentals for smarter, safer buildings.
CEU: Code Requirements for Rooftop Equipment and Supports
This course will teach students how to recognize non-compliant rooftop equipment support scenarios and will discuss their impact on safety and the public health, general welfare, and property value.
Composite Panel Products – Division 6 Materials & LEED® Credits
This course will equip participants to compare features, benefits and limitations of particleboard and medium density fiberboard (MDF) with considerations of product grades and their physical properties for proper end-use selection.
Learning Objective 1:
To help students understand the health benefits of composite products and how testing is an essential means to verify performance.
Learning Objective 2:
To explain to attendees the alternative resin technologies used in the manufacturing process.
Learning Objective 3:
To help students to become familiar with various composite panel products and their environmentally-friendly make-up.
Learning Objective 4:
To familiarize attendees with the variety of ways that composite panels contribute to LEED credits.
Create Safer, Healthier, and Better Sounding Interiors
Program: Architecture, Design and Building Science
This course explores a few of the many ways that interiors impact the health and well-being of the people inside them. From restrooms being designed to reduce contact with contaminated surfaces and inhibit the presence of bacteria, to acoustics solutions that absorb or isolate noise, making interiors more comfortable and productive. Biophilic design, a health-focused design concept that encourages the inclusion of plants, daylight, and natural elements like wood and stone, is also discussed, as are the options designers have for bringing stone elements inside.