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Join us for an in-depth look at designing for safer and more sanitary environments, specific to global health and the intersection of ongoing generational shifts. This includes direct impacts to the built environment in terms of generational needs, a deep dive into specific design sectors, and addressing the cultural psyche related to healthy spaces.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how solid surface & quartz improves safety, hygiene, and sanitary design considerations.
• Understand how generations are shifting and how it impacts needs and expectations on the built environment.
• Identify specific design problems in healthcare, food services, retail, education, and other sectors.
• Identify best practices for using solid surface and quartz in the building types above.

Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW

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Presented in collaboration with C.H. Briggs.

This course encourages participants to think outside the box and consider using polymer cladding as a material to create aesthetic, enduring, and moisture resistant rainscreens that will better protect buildings and its occupants.

We will discuss other more commonly used products and the issues faced with each. We will also consider life cycle costs of various cladding options, including polymer. Finally, participants will leave with a thorough understanding of how to install polymer extrusions as cladding. We will explore doing so on different substrates, detailing around openings, transitions between differing cladding materials and how to handle joints between cladding components with the goal of using polymer to promote health, safety, and welfare of both people and the environment.

Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW

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Complying with the more stringent acoustic performance criteria in the standards, guidelines, and building rating systems has become more challenging in today’s predominantly larger and more open commercial interiors. This is in part due to trends towards more reflective floor materials, fewer walls, and an abundance of glass. Higher amounts of sound absorption are required to limit reverberation, increase speech intelligibility and prevent widespread noise disturbances. This presentation will educate designers on achieving the required amount of noise control using high-performance, modular, acoustic ceilings. In locations where transmission of noise from one room into another needs to be prevented, the use of ceilings alone as sound blockers, for example when the demising wall stops at the ceiling level, no longer complies with the standards, guidelines and rating systems. This presentation will educate designers on blocking sound using walls and lightweight plenum barriers so that their designs comply not only with user expectations, but also the higher sound isolation criteria in the acoustics standards and guidelines.

Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW

Register online.

Presented in collaboration with Rockfon.