This high performance architectural steel siding is giving remodelers and contractors a new choice to deliver an authentic wood look - without the maintenance.
Read more about these siding options and how to incorporate this look into your next job.
Trends for Creating Spaces that Mindfully Manage Sound
It has come to light that loud noise can cause health problems affecting all age groups. Because of this, creating spaces that minimize noise has become necessary in today’s buildings. Here are solutions to common problems that you can easily add to your projects.
Made for Flexibility - Custom and Modular Prefabricated Interiors for Office, Retail, and Healthcare
In this age of constant change, it’s important for business owners working in retail, office, and healthcare to be able to pivot their operations and space needs quickly — and sometimes often. Whether you design retail environments, workspaces, healthcare facilities, or other configurable spaces such as education and hospitality — spaces that need to be capable of adjusting to changes in location, circumstance, or even human behavior — you’ve likely too often been forced to make uncomfortable trade-offs. This course will explore the dynamic nature of business environments today and design options for prefabricated, modular, customized structures that can help your clients adapt their physical spaces quickly while remaining design forward. The course will also help you understand how prefabricated structures combat construction waste and address sustainability.
Innovating Beauty: New Solutions in Steel Siding for Architecture & Design
A new high performance architectural steel siding is giving the design community an opportunity to deliver an authentic wood look - without the maintenance.
Read more about these siding options and how one luxury condominium project achieved this aesthetic.
Exploring the Connection Between Net Positive, Carbon Neutrality, and the Water-Energy Nexus (Print Course)
Achieving carbon neutrality and protecting the world's water supply are vital to the AEC industry because of the significant impact buildings have on the environment and occupant health. The structures that we live, work, and commune in use a vast amount of the energy and water consumed on the planet for building operations and maintenance.
Over the past two decades more and more organizations, from private companies to federal governments, have taken steps to minimize their impact on the environment and, more recently, on society's wellbeing as a whole. This has been accomplished through sustainable building design, social accountability, and ethical economic practices. This course will discuss a Net Positive approach to design and business operations.
Innovating Beauty: Sophisticated New Solutions in Architectural Steel Siding
A new high performance architectural steel siding is giving builders and developers the opportunity to deliver an authentic wood look - without the maintenance.
Read more about these siding options and how one luxury condominium project achieved this aesthetic.
Exploring How Open Web Floor Trusses Optimize Construction
Floor trusses are the ideal structural system for single family, multi-family, and other commercial builds due to their inherent design flexibilities, optimized construction advantages, and exceptional strength. Each floor truss is designed and engineered for the unique and specific project. Open-web floor trusses create downstream value through faster and safer on-site installation, efficient MEP installations, and additional opportunities for reduced material costs.
This course will demonstrate project benefits when utilizing open web floor trusses and discuss how they can improve your next project.
Fireplace Design Fundamentals and Trends: Incorporating Fireplaces into Your Dream Project
How to make your fireplace design ideas come to life. Fireplaces have long been a focal point of homes and gathering places. With advances in technology, the fireplaces of today can fit just about any space.
In this expert panel discussion with ARCHITECT's Editor-in-Chief, dive into the possibilities of modern fireplace design. Examine case studies and ideas for hospitality, commercial, and residential spaces; including fireplace types and fuels, specification considerations, and how to bring your vision to life.
The Art of Veneer: Exploring the Evolution and Design Assets of Engineered Wood Veneers
Designers have a plethora of options when specifying interior surface materials, but one stands out among the crowd, despite being an age-old material: veneer. This course will explore the evolution of veneering from ancient times to today and how factory-crafted veneer cabinetry remains a handcrafted art. We will also discuss design options and performance benefits that this sustainable material of choice offers.
10 KPIs Your Architecture Firm Needs to Track for Maximum Project Profitability
This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. 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.
Key performance indicators (KPIs) track project success by measuring how your projects (or team, clients, and so on) are performing. Because each architecture firm has different goals and ways of working, your vital KPIs will vary from project to project.
Effective KPIs, regardless of project type, are:
*Well-defined and quantifiable
*Communicated thoroughly to every employee
*Crucial measurements for tracking the progress of your goals
*Applicable to your firm and industry
Within the world of project performance and finance, certain KPIs should always be used to monitor and improve your success.