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Wood is a natural, reproductive, raw material and one of the first materials processed by human beings. Its special properties _ easy workability, high strength, low weight and decorative appearance _ make wood a material with the same high development potential as stone, metal and plastic. Structure, properties, veneers and materials are all covered in this must-read article.

A carpenter is only as good as his scribing tool and scribing is an important part of any installation job; one that requires precision. After being frustrated with inconsistent results from using a standard compass and pencil, I felt it was possible to make a better scribing tool and I believe I did - here's how.

GuildQuality helps builders, remodelers, and contractors manage their most valuable asset _ their reputation. By analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of your business you can create a culture of quality with your employees. Making gains in customer satisfaction leads to referrals and money in your pocket.

Business owners are embracing review sites and social media as a way to drive qualified leads. Data shows that negative reviews will deter a client 80% of the time, but the opposite is also true. GuildQuality provides customer satisfaction surveying and performance reporting to help you monitor, improve, and articulate the quality of your serivce. People are talking about your company, don't you want in on the conversation?

All of i-lighting's LED "Easy Plug" systems Each year in the United States, there are over 1 million accidents on stairs that result in injury. The stair light kits come complete with everything you need to complete the job including "Easy Plug" wiring, an LED fixture designed at a 22? angle to shine on the tread, color matched stainless steel screws and staples to neatly tie up wiring. i-lighting's stair lighting kits provide the solution to meeting code and providing a safe environment for friends and family.

It's simple to make the "Easy Plug" system a profitable extension of your business. i-lighting's revolutionary LED "Easy Plug" landscape and masonry lighting is reasonably priced and installs in half the time as traditional systems. All of our fixtures come with built in "Y" connectors, LED bulbs, stakes and poles. The entire system consists of three steps.
1. Order fixtures with "Y" connectors.
2. Order "Easy Plug" extension cable's.
3. Order the DC power supply.

All of i-lighting's LED "Easy Plug" systems simply plug together--there is no need for cutting, crimping, striping wire, or wire nutting. You get everything you need to do the job in half the time as standard systems, allowing you to profitably incorporate stair, post, landscape, and masonry lights into all of your projects.

This On Demand CEU is a recorded presentation from a previously live webinar event. Developing the next generation of leaders is essential for every architecture firm's long-term success and sustainability, whether you're a solo practitioner or amongst the largest firms in the world. Leadership development is not just about succession—it's a critical investment in building firm value, motivating employees, increasing retention, and ensuring profitability. Firms that embed leadership training into their culture earn the trust and loyalty of their employees and clients while positioning themselves as industry leaders.

This webinar provides practical, scalable strategies to create a leadership pipeline tailored to firms of all sizes. Building on the principles of succession planning, this session demonstrates how leadership development drives innovation, strengthens business resilience, and secures your firm’s future.

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.

Learn how the latest geographic information systems (GIS) technology can help create happier, healthier, more prosperous cities. Research has always played an important role in what architects, designers, and urban planners do.

As we more closely examine equity and sustainability—and how to make our cities better places for everyone to live, work, play—research is especially important. In this Session ARCHITECT's Editor-in-Chief discusses projects driven in part by research using tech tools, including GIS.