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This course offers insight into the environmental performance of Redwood Lumber. The details and results of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) comparing Redwood and plastic/composite decking options will be shared as will information about Redwood’s Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

The course also provides comparisons between Redwood Lumber and other wood species, as well as details about the sustainability of modern Redwood forestry management practices.

Finally, this course provides details on important product attributes of Redwood Lumber including grades, fire performance, strength, and finishing options among others.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of the design and construction of all-wood buildings, with a focus on Waechter Architecture’s innovative Mississippi Building in Portland, Oregon. The course highlights the flexible "6-Rooms" approach, structural systems using mass timber products, and the integration of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems. Participants will also gain insights from post-occupancy evaluations of air quality, acoustics, and thermal performance. The course will also discuss a matrix of design options developed by Waechter Architecture, offering a range of scalable and adaptable strategies for future all-wood building projects. Supported by research and learnings from completed projects, this course equips architects and design professionals with practical tools and knowledge to design and implement mass timber solutions in future building projects.

This course explores the innovative applications of softwood lumber, particularly western red cedar (WRC), in contemporary residential architecture across North America. Through detailed project case studies, three acclaimed architects—Raylene Hill (RAD Architects, Nova Scotia), Laura Marion (Flight Architecture, Colorado), and Jake Weber (GII Scout and Weber, Oregon)—share their design philosophies, construction strategies, and aesthetic decisions involving softwood lumber products. The course highlights the structural and sensory benefits of WRC, including its natural weathering, cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and biophilic appeal, both on building exteriors and interiors.

This course explores how robotics, AI, and computational design are transforming architectural practice and construction workflows. Drawing on research from Princeton’s Adel Research Group (ARG) and ETH Zurich, participants will examine multi-robot assembly, AI-driven material optimization, and human–robot collaboration in off-site prefabrication. Case studies—including the DFAB House—reveal how robotic fabrication increases precision and productivity, improves worker safety, and supports lower carbon and resilient building systems.

In this session, you’ll get a rare, data-backed look into what actually drives results in home building sales conversations. Patrick Johnson from Rilla will unpack insights drawn from over 27 million real-world sales calls, revealing the communication habits, customer cues, and coaching patterns that separate top-performing sales teams from the rest. These aren’t theories — they’re trends built from the words and behaviors of thousands of reps in the field.

You’ll learn how AI-powered conversation analysis is transforming how home builders understand their buyers. From identifying the phrases that build trust to spotting the subtle talk tracks that increase conversion rates, we’ll explore how data can now give leaders a clear picture of what’s happening in every conversation — without needing to listen to every call. Patrick will also share benchmarks across the industry, so you can see where your team stands and where the biggest opportunities lie.

By the end of the webinar, you’ll have a fresh perspective on how to coach smarter, sell faster, and close more confidently using insights hiding in plain sight — your own sales conversations. Plus, you’ll walk away with practical steps to start applying AI in your sales process immediately. See how leading home builders are using Rilla Intelligence to turn everyday conversations into actionable data and measurable growth.

Add a stand-out feature to the homes you design and build. Home elevators are in increasing demand, thanks to a desire for convenience lifestyles—especially as builders maximize land use with taller, narrower homes—as well as an aging population and a trend toward multi-generation households.

Join Savaria expert David Richter for an overview of home elevator basics, including: Design and application, Technical aspects and safety features, Site requirements and limitations, and Applicable code and regulations.

Rilla is the leading conversational intelligence platform for home builders. Sales reps record their conversations with prospects using the Rilla app, and we use AI to transcribe and analyze the conversation for coachable moments — helping builders coach 100x more and increase their sales. Builders using Rilla are seeing +45% increases in sales with less leads and less reps.

Builders who work with Rilla agree with us that sales is a sport, and the best teams win with data.

In an effort to help builders overcome the challenges of this slower market, we analyzed several thousand sales conversations with Rilla to find what top sales reps are doing differently, and how managers can take these tactics and build a championship-winning system, and put up huge numbers in this recession.

This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. Facade design is often the most complex aspect of a building project, requiring teams to balance client expectations, aesthetics, performance, regulatory requirements, budget, and schedule simultaneously. This course examines how prefabricated facade systems — integrating exterior finishes, insulation, framing, and pre-installed windows into a single coordinated assembly — can simplify this process while supporting the overall project vision. Participants will explore how this approach reduces design risk, accelerates construction schedules, and improves quality control through factory precision.

The course also addresses how prefabricated concrete facade systems contribute to occupant health, safety, and welfare through enhanced durability, fire and weather resistance, and reduced site hazards. Real-world case studies and a review of the Design Assist delivery model provide practical strategies for incorporating prefabricated facade systems effectively from early design through construction.

This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. Artificial intelligence is moving beyond isolated tools and generative outputs. The next phase is agentic: systems that reason across data, coordinate work, and act alongside human teams. This transformation will be both beneficial and disruptive. Productivity will increase. Many new roles will emerge. Expectations will change.

For architecture and engineering firms, this shift reshapes the entire project lifecycle: planning, staffing, forecasting, design coordination, risk detection, and delivery. AI is becoming the connective layer across disciplines, while robotics and new delivery technologies close long-standing gaps between design and construction.

In this session, we take a practical, wide-angle view of what an AI-enabled, agentic A&E firm could look like. We will discuss specific products, real-world applications, and emerging platforms, not to promote tools, but to ground the conversation in practical reality. The focus is on how AI reshapes workflows, roles, decision-making, and firm structure and how to prepare intentionally.

This course provides evidence that Redwood Timbers are a safe, strong, and sustainable option for exterior and interior building projects where natural wood is desired. It will explore the use of Redwood Timbers for post and beam construction, decorative elements, deck posts, and outdoor living structures such as arbors, pergolas, and gazebos.

The course also provides information about Redwood’s insulation properties and Class B flame spread, as well as details about modern redwood forestry management practices that ensure Redwood will remain a renewable natural resource into the future.

Finally, this course provides details on the product attributes of Redwood Timbers including grades, dimensions, fasteners, finishing options, and strength among others.