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As development costs rise and timelines tighten, builders and land developers are under more pressure than ever to deliver high-quality communities—without breaking the budget. In this webinar, we’ll explore how smart infrastructure choices can unlock new opportunities for cost savings, speed, and sustainability.

Join us as we unpack strategies for reducing lot costs while staying ahead of community expectations, regulatory shifts, and environmental demands. From innovative technologies like solar-powered streetlighting to flexible installation models that reduce disruption, you'll gain actionable insights into building future-ready communities—faster, cleaner, and more affordably. Whether you're planning your next large-scale development or optimizing current projects, this session will help you design with confidence and build for what’s next.

The complex demands of today’s design-build projects are evolving — and so are the materials behind them. Copper-Clad Aluminum (CCA) Metal-Clad Cable offers an innovative alternative to solid copper wire — giving building design teams a smarter way to specify responsibly. CCA’s cost stability helps mitigate commodity volatility; its energy efficiency supports LEED building initiatives; and its low scrap value helps reduce theft-related disruptions on the jobsite.

Hear from Dustin Smith, Chief Commercial Officer at Copperweld, as he shares how CCA Metal-Clad Cable is being used in commercial projects across the country — and from Ryan McHugh, CEO of Hi Power Electric, who uses Copperweld CCA Building Wire on every project — including his own home and company headquarters. You’ll get insights from both the manufacturer and a leading electrical contractor — and walk away with practical knowledge about CCA you can apply to future specs.

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.

This course offers detailed information about modern Redwood timberland management approaches that contribute to the species’ long-term sustainability as a building material.

The course also provides insight into how third-party certification helps the Redwood industry communicate environmental stewardship.

The course details how wood is created through the process of photosynthesis and how carbon is sequestered long-term in wood products, drawing a connection between sustainably sourced Redwood lumber products and the ability to achieve carbon-neutral standards.

Lastly, the course defines Redwood grades and performance characteristics and describes how these properties achieve building code acceptance..

This course equips architects and design professionals with the knowledge needed to specify Advanced PVC products that enhance fire resistance in both residential and commercial settings.

It explores the principles of ignition resistance and non-combustibility, along with the significance of flame spread ratings in material selection. Participants will examine how Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) compliance influences design decisions in fire-prone areas and review the ASTM E84 test to assess the performance of PVC engineered polymers.

The course highlights strategies for integrating these fire-resistant materials to improve building resilience and minimize the potential for structural damage.

This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. The path to carbon-neutral concrete requires coordinated action across the entire value chain, with owners, developers, and public agencies playing critical roles in driving market and policy change. A major—often overlooked—source of embodied emissions is the widespread practice of concrete overdesign: mixes are routinely produced at strengths well above specification to compensate for perceived variability, resulting in unnecessary cement use and avoidable GHG emissions. This presentation demonstrates how overdesign directly inflates the carbon footprint of common mixtures and shows, through data, how specification practices shape those outcomes.

We also examine the climate impact of prescriptive infrastructure specifications that require minimum cementitious contents and restrict the use of lower-carbon SCMs such as fly ash and slag. These provisions, though well-intended for constructability and consistency, can force higher-emission mixes even when performance-based alternatives would meet safety and durability requirements. The research presented quantifies these effects and offers practical, low-carbon specification pathways that preserve structural integrity while substantially reducing embodied emissions.

This course will explore three building sectors—hospitality, multifamily housing, and senior housing—and the flooring challenges these projects face, including heavy foot traffic, maintenance, safety, and aesthetics.

Hard surface flooring such as tile, luxury vinyl tile, laminate, and engineered wood can be specified throughout these projects to meet the demands of public spaces such as lobbies and restaurants and private areas such as bedrooms and baths. The course will also examine a case study from each sector.