- A Concept Kitchen: Contemporary Casual
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the changing kitchen design preferences, discusses specific differences between the European Contemporary and American Contemporary design aesthetic detail and shows product installation options the design professional can consider when merging contemporary cabinet details with American appliance specifications.
- An Introduction to Acuity Adaptability
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1 hour program
Provides an introductory overview of concepts relevant to hospital design that are presently part of ongoing conversations on acuity adaptability. Keeping the human element, technology and flexibility in mind, arguments for designing with acuity adaptability and those against it are presented.
- Designing a Sustainable Kitchen: Principles of the National Green Building Standard
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the sustainable design solutions and green building practices which can be integrated into kitchen design projects to improve the sustainability of a home.
- Developments in Power-Actuated Fastening Technology
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1.5 hour program
Provides an overview of power-actuated fastener (PAF) principles, including powder- and gas-actuated fastening systems, as well as applications, testing and performance data, and recent system developments.
- Flexibility in Design With Lab Storage Components
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of laboratory design principles and trends, laboratory pegboards and glassware drying racks, narcotic security storage cabinets, stainless steel countertops, and stainless steel shelving systems for the research laboratory and health care industry.
- 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.
- How Storage Contributes To Your Sustainable Design and LEED® Certification Efforts
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of compact storage (also known as high-density mobile storage) in green building design, and how compact storage can help contribute to green building goals and possible points towards LEED® certification.
- Hybrid Heat Pump Systems: Energy Efficient Comfort Solutions
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1.5 hour program
Provides an overview of the operation of hybrid heat pump systems and hybrid heat pump geothermal systems, including their energy savings, low electrical consumption, and efficient use of reclaimed heat.
- Infusing Color Throughout Kitchen & Bath Design
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the use of color in kitchen and bath design and includes discussions on color basics, physiological response to color, socio-cultural color associations, the history of color in the kitchen and bath, and infusing color in kitchen and bath design.
- Interoperability Strategies for Safe, Acuity Adaptable Patient Room Environments
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the challenges of designing and equipping an acute care patient room, and explores how the connected activities that occur in the patient room can affect patient safety and the delivery of care, and how architects and planners must consider the connected room solution where the design and technology successfully work together to meet the continuously evolving acuity and care needs of the patient.
- Metal Locker Solutions
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of metal locker solutions and locker accessories, including specification, installation, and maintenance considerations.
- Next Generation Green Restroom Design
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the newest technologies in high efficiency plumbing products and fixtures for sustainable restroom design including practical, economical and environmental benefits of high speed energy efficient hand dryers, water use and trends, how to choose water saving products and an explanation of how these products apply to new, best practice green building.
- 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.
- Overhead Patient Lift System Design Structural, Aesthetic & Clinical Outcomes
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of overhead patient lift system design and how to balance structural, functional, and aesthetic design requirements to facilitate optimal clinical patient outcomes.
- Patient Room Design for Bariatric & Obese Populations
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the specialized healthcare equipment needed for treating and handling bariatric patient populations and how these equipment and care giving needs impact patient room design and layout considerations.
- Restroom Design: The Water Efficient Factor
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of water use and trends in the U.S., with a focus on “green building” programs, a discussion on green design restroom application, and how to choose water saving products.
- Storage Solutions - The Economical Use of Space in a Work Environment
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the types of storage solutions available to today’s workplace environment with their cost effectiveness and space saving qualities. The benefits, advantages and features of high-density mobile storage and their many applications are discussed.
- Storage Solutions for Educational Facilities
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the storage planning considerations and storage solutions for educational facilities, along with a discussion of the trends that are influencing the design/planning of educational environments.
- Storage Systems: Managing Space and Efficiency
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the types of high density storage solutions including shelving, rotary systems, mobile systems, and vertical and horizontal carousels. Includes a discussion on the factors used to determine the best system to meet the client’s requirements.
- Strategies for Infection Control & Hand Hygiene
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of infection control and hand hygiene compliance in hospital environments, including a discussion of the available resources and options which assist designers/architects in planning an effective infection control strategy.
- Submetering for Intelligent Building and Sustainability: Measurement & Verification
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of submetering, measurement and verification (M & V), technologies and products, and illustrates how they can be integrated into building management systems (BMS) to reduce energy consumption and overall operating costs.
- Sustainable Bath & Kitchen Design
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of the importance of water conservation, the components of a green building, methods to improve the water and energy efficiency of the average home, as well as discussions on green product selection and related certification programs.
- Today's Design Challenge: How to make a good kitchen great!
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1 hour program
Illustrates how embracing additional design criteria such as changing consumer preferences, emerging economic pressures, new product innovations, and the demand for a multi-tasking “live-in” kitchen space, can lead to the design of not just good kitchens—but great ones!
- Toilet Flushing Technologies for Residential and Commercial Applications
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of how dramatic changes to sanitary flushing technologies over the past decade have been driven by water conservation initiatives. Discussions pertaining to toilet design, key usage questions and national standards illustrate how quality and performance do not have to be sacrificed in order to save water.
- Toilet Flushing Technologies for Residential and Commercial Applications - PODCAST
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1 hour program
Provides an overview of how dramatic changes to sanitary flushing technologies over the past decade have been driven by water conservation initiatives. Discussions pertaining to toilet design, key usage questions and national standards illustrate how quality and performance do not have to be sacrificed in order to save water.
