Before technology is even introduced, home security starts with physical design. CPTED, as a design concept, aims to create an environment that deters criminal activity. This e-book addresses smart home tech as well as physical design to create comprehensive protection and peace of mind for homeowners.
Go to Class on Glass - Designs for Different Home Aesthetics
Glass can add unique character to any space. This paper highlights seven types of glass, helping you understand its versatility and benefits as well as showcasing ways to integrate it onto your projects.
Room to Breathe - Designing Homes that Balance Togetherness and Privacy
Based on design trends that have evolved with the uptick in multi-generation living and spending more, as well as longer periods of time in our homes, this paper showcases design elements that are keyed in to making spaces more functional for today’s consumers.
Lighting Trends That Increase the Feel of Natural Light
From large projects to small changes these trends will bring the transformative power of natural light to your jobs.
Performance Door System Video
Securing a tight home starts and ends at the door. See how the features of this high-performance door system work to keep the outside out and the inside in.
Style Trends You Need to Know
Following trends from sites like Houzz, Instagram and Pinterest, see what is hot right now and how to use it to your advantage.
Best Practices and Code Considerations for Specifying Fire Rated Floor Doors (Print Course)
Passive fire protection systems such as fire-rated floor doors provide incredibly important life-safety measures in commercial buildings. This course will discuss construction access products, the difference between active and passive fire protection, and how fire-rated floor doors provide passive protection.
We will also explain 2021 International Building Code requirements for fire-rated floor doors and how they differ from fire-rated access doors. Finally, you will learn about a project where fire-rated floor doors were used in a large New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority project.
Energy Efficiency Trends Impacting Architecture & Design
With energy prices skyrocketing and homeowners being more sustainably conscious, it is important to design for optimal efficiency. These trends will help you make easy additions with big impact.
Energy Efficiency Trends You Need to Know
From optimizing the sun through solar tempering to making the right heating and cooling system decisions, this paper details the energy efficiency solutions homeowners are looking for.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) in Building Product Manufacturing and the A/E/C Industry
This course will examine Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) through the lens of the A/E/C industry and building product manufacturers. It will review the evolution of ESG from the 1980s when organizations began to regulate and manage pollution, improve labor and safety standards, and improve other negative outcomes of economic growth. The three pillars of ESG will be discussed generally, then from the perspective of the A/E/C industry, and finally through the lens of a window and door manufacturer and their specific ESG agenda. The course will conclude with a case study that achieved Living Building Challenge certification and helped both an architecture firm and window and door manufacturer achieve ESG goals.