- Porcelain Tile: Beyond Recycled Content
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1 hour program
Porcelain tile containing recycled content provides residential and commercial building projects with a durable, easy to maintain finish material for interior or exterior, floors, walls, or other surfaces. This course highlights the eco-friendly production practices of porcelain tile and details its contributions to the design and performance of a building.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Laminated Veneer Bamboo: Interior Grade Design Applications
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1 hour program
Compares the performance properties of common interior grade building materials and illustrates how laminated veneer bamboo (LVB) is an innovative, versatile, sustainable alternative building product for today’s environmentally conscious builder.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Selecting Insulating Glass Sealants for Durability and Energy Efficiency
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the characteristics insulating glass (IG) sealants must provide to ensure long-term thermal performance, structural durability and longevity of insulating glass units (IGUs).
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Sun Control Devices: Shading and Daylighting
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1 hour program
This course provides an overview of sun control devices including the various components and critical applications in order to meet a building’s daylighting and shading requirements.
- Controlling Moisture Movement In Buildings: The Complete Air Barrier Approach
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the benefits and advantages of air, vapor and moisture barriers designed to protect buildings, and includes a discussion on moisture sources and travel, and their negative impact upon the building and how they can contribute to building sustainability.
- Green Kitchen Remodeling: Functional, Practical, Sustainable
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of green kitchen remodel design considerations, material selection, and the product choices available today to suit any lifestyle and budget.
- Metal Roof Systems: Design & Installation Considerations
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the components, the energy efficient features, and specification considerations of metal roofing assemblies, as well as discussions on design considerations and architectural details that impact project requirements.
- When to Use Storefront or Curtain Wall Construction
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the differences between curtain wall and storefront designs and functions. System fabrication and installation, and water performance are also discussed.
- High-Performance Fiberglass Windows and Doors
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the characteristics, benefits, and green credentials of pultruded fiberglass products, including the high-performance glazing options that are available. As well, a review of the unique capabilities of fiberglass window systems is presented through a variety of commercial and residential project reviews.
- Radiant Barrier Structural Roof Sheathing
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1 hour program
An overview of radiant barrier roof sheathing technology, how it works, its effectiveness, and installation guidelines.
- Using Water Repellents to Prevent Water Intrusion into Above-Grade Masonry
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of problems water creates for masonry structures, and how water repellents can help to prevent those problems.
- LEED® Certification and Sustainable Steel Building Systems
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of how the use of steel building systems can contribute to LEED certification, including a discussion of the characteristics of green building products, LEED requirements, and features of steel building systems.
- Life Cycle Costs of Metal Roofing Products
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the types, characteristics and benefits of metal roofing products, cool roofing, and related finishes as well as a comparison of Life Cycle Costs (LCC) of metal roofing versus conventional roofing systems.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Green Roofs: A Sustainable Strategy
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of green roof systems including the types, benefits, components and related standards, as well as a discussion on how green roofs mitigate urban heat island effect and reduce stormwater run-off.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Color, Light, and Metamerism
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of color, light, and metamerism and how they affect design choices.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Green Painting: How Paint Contributes to LEED® Rating
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of LEED® rating system, its uses, background, current trends, and future implications, focusing on how paint and coating products can contribute to LEED® rating.
- Acoustical Solutions: Designing with Cementitious Wood Fiber Products
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of cementitious wood fiber products in creating acoustically sound commercial spaces. Products including ceiling panels, interior panels, and structural roof deck systems are reviewed.
- Effective Waterproofing
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of effective concrete waterproofing technologies and how they improve the durability and lifespan of structures and includes discussions on water penetration, system selection, membrane protection, and cementitious waterproofing.
- Paint 101: Paint and Coatings Technology
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of paint and coatings technology and includes discussions on the components of paint, paint selection and finishes, green painting solutions, and common paint failures.
- Créer des milieux de vie sains grâce à une nouvelle technologie de peinture
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1 hour program
Introduction au design durable et création d’environnements plus sains par des peintures architecturales. On trouvera aussi des réflexions sur les composants de la peinture; des méthodes d’évaluation et des normes indépendantes ; les catégories LEED® ; enfin, les particularités des systèmes de peinture pour le designer d’aujourd’hui.
- Cool Roofing: A Solution to National Energy and Environmental Challenges
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the performance characteristics and benefits of cool roofing systems using reflective white vinyl roofing. Green roofing, energy saving programs, environmental challenges and solutions are also reviewed.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Optimal Storage Solutions
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of steel shelving for a wide variety of applications and reviews an analysis of user needs.
- Gas Hearth Appliances: Enhancing Living Environments
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the variety of Gas Hearth Appliances (GHA) and the types of venting systems that are available today, as well as a discussion of the factors that require consideration to facilitate a successful GHA installation.
- Tankless Water Heating Solutions
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of tankless water heating technologies, including the history, features and functions, and the energy and environmental benefits of a tankless system, as well as a discussion on how they compare to existing tank heater technology.
This course is part of one or more "Course Collections". Click here to view the details.
- Sustainable Site Pavement Systems
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of sustainable stormwater management, the use of permeable concrete pavers, their components, capabilities and uses.
