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The Mechanics of Design: Insights into Wall-Mounted Toilet Systems

Dual-flush wall-mounted toilets help create modern, stylish bathrooms that strike a balance between sustainable water efficiency, flexible design, and space savings. This course compares this style with other traditional types of toilets, discusses how wall-mounted toilets benefit commercial and residential users, and explains how they satisfy the ...

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Geberit North America

IECC Energy Review and Masonry Compliance

Ensuring compliance with increasingly stringent energy codes is a leading architectural challenge. This course explores the latest edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) with a focus on the building envelope and how to achieve – and exceed – energy performance requirements when building with masonry....

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Oldcastle APG

Polyiso: The Next Generation Air and Water-Resistive Barrier

In the wake of the green movement, combined with rising energy costs, building sustainability has become an important topic. This course examines how foil-faced polyisocyanurate (polyiso) continuous insulation can function as a multiple control layer, providing a building with an air and water-resistive barrier and a thermal control layer. Addition...

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Rmax - A Division of the Sika Corporation

Photoluminescent Egress Path Marking Systems: 2015, 2018, & 2021 IBC®/IFC®

Authorities having jurisdiction all over the world, including in all 50 US states, have mandated photoluminescent egress path markings to support safe evacuation of high-rise buildings in the case of total power failure. This course reviews photoluminescent egress path marking requirements in the model International Building Code® and Internation...

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Safe-T-Nose

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Florida Wind Design for Low Slope Roofing

This presentation focuses on Florida's wind design requirements for commercial low-slope roofing. The presentation covers new building code requirements, ASCE 7, future tornado wind design requirements and agency approvals for wind uplift resistance for low-slope roofing....

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SOPREMA, Inc.

Don’t Lose Your R Over the Z

This course defines and explains building science behind the code for the four control layers of the building envelope: water, air, thermal, and vapor. Participants will then explore typical design principles as well as alternative system assembly approaches to exterior wall design. In addition, presentation covers common attachment strategies for ...

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DuPont Performance Building Solutions

Community Functional Resilience

With the global rise in natural disasters and the increasing need for sustainable environments, resiliency has become a necessity in the design and building industries. This course provides an overview of resilient design, how it relates to building codes and standards, and the role it plays in ensuring the safety and sustainability of the built en...

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Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association (CMHA)

How to Achieve Superior Building Envelope Performance in Rainscreen Wall Design

How to Achieve Superior Building Envelope Performance in Rainscreen Wall Design explores rainscreen wall design theory, how rainscreen walls control hygrothermal loads, and shortcomings of today’s multi-component backup wall assemblies used in rainscreen wall construction. The course will compare and contrast the common multi-component backup wal...

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CENTRIA, a Nucor company

New Developments for Effective Air and Water Barriers in Commercial Buildings

Conventional building practice consists of single functional materials combined to serve the building design needs. For example, an air barrier is a distinct and separate layer, and water resistive barrier is often a separate layer. New designs concepts where multiple functionality, such as air and water barriers, can be met at the same layer per b...

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DuPont Performance Building Solutions

Access Doors and Panels: Contemporary Solutions for Functionality and Aesthetics

This course examines the role of access doors and panels in building design. It covers their functions, material options, and performance requirements. Topics include resistance to fire, sound, and moisture, as well as durability, code compliance, and integration with surrounding finishes. The course also presents best practices for specifying and ...

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Best Access Doors

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Wall Protection

Commercial building interiors see all kinds of wear and tear on a daily basis. Various forms of wall protection can combat this wear and tear to help extend the longevity of a space, maintain a clean look, and cut down on maintenance costs. This course discusses the different wall protection products available, how to identify which wall protection...

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Construction Specialties

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A Building Professional’s Guide to Selecting MgO Products for Safe, Resilient Construction

Magnesium oxide (MgO) products are panelized construction products that can be used as a direct replacement for other panels, such as gypsum, plywood, and OSB. This course aims to provide insight into MgO products, equipping building professionals with the knowledge and tools to select and specify them correctly, which in turn impacts occupant safe...

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NEXGEN Building Products

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The Benefits of Implementing Water Conservation Standards by Building Beyond Code

The planet is currently in a water scarcity crisis, which is significantly affected by toilet water usage. This course examines the current plumbing codes, standards, and regulations that address toilet water usage, the need for and benefits of going beyond current standards, and the goals of a variety of beyond-the-code voluntary standards and rat...

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Niagara

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Radon Abatement: Controlling Radon Gas in Residential Construction

Radon is a colorless, odorless gas, a Class A carcinogen, the leading cause of cancer after smoking, and the leading cause of death for nonsmokers. It is found in soil, rock, and groundwater. If radon enters a home through slabs, basements, and crawl spaces, breathing it can lead to illness or even death. This course examines how the gas travels th...

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Advanced Building Products, Inc.

Selecting & Designing Rooftop Necessities & Accessories on Metal Roofs

Discover the correct selection, specification, engineering, and design process to create safe and permanent roof attachments for various needs. Learn how to properly identify rooftop thermal cycling and manage the correct installation process. Identify correct installation practices of any rooftop penetration to maintain weathertightness warranties...

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S-5! Metal Roof Innovations, Ltd.

High-Performance Building Envelope Designs with Insulating Concrete Forms

Insulating concrete form (ICF) products use a cost-effective and robust structural material option (reinforced concrete) to turn a building envelope into a high-performing thermal, moisture, and air enclosure with disaster resistance and built-in compliance with energy code requirements. As a result of ICF performance, building owners can complete ...

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Airfoam Industries Ltd.

Achieving Resilience-How Masonry Supports Resilient Designs

This course will provide an overview of resilient design and discuss how resilient design is not covered by typical building codes and standards. The role of masonry construction in meeting resilient design goals is explained, and the inherent properties of masonry that make it resilient are described. There will be examples given in the presentati...

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Oldcastle APG

Fire Protective Coating Applications: Alternative to FRT Wood / IRC Fire Protection of Floors

Course will cover where FRT wood is specified in the codes, definition of FRT wood, and the use of coatings as an equivalent solution to FRT wood in various construction types....

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No-Burn, Inc.

Architectural Fire Extinguisher Cabinets: Supporting Life Safety with Custom Designs

Life-safety systems encompass both passive fire-protection features, like compartmentation and firestopping, and active ones, such as sprinklers and alarms. Portable fire extinguishers are an integral part of life-safety systems and must meet code-mandated number and placement requirements in most building types. This course looks at how fire extin...

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Morris Group

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Building the Perfect Envelope with Insulated Metal Panels

Understanding building physics is critical to proper building envelope design. Examined here are practical concepts for the building designer, including how cladding systems perform across different climate zones and applications. Environmental control layers and hygrothermal loads are reviewed, as is the concept of perfect/universal wall design. T...

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CENTRIA, a Nucor company

Attic Ventilation: Performance Starts from the Top

Attic ventilation is an important component in proper structural design. By encouraging airflow, attic ventilation plays a key role in maintaining structural integrity, ensuring roof component durability, providing a healthy indoor environment, and minimizing energy consumption. Additionally, proper attic ventilation hinders or prevents mold growth...

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O'Hagin, LLC

Attic Ventilation: Performance Starts from the Top

Attic ventilation is an important component in proper structural design. By encouraging airflow, attic ventilation plays a key role in maintaining structural integrity, ensuring roof component durability, providing a healthy indoor environment, and minimizing energy consumption. Additionally, proper attic ventilation hinders or prevents mold growth...

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O'Hagin, LLC

When Sound Control Matters: Floor Underlayment Solutions

Sound abatement products are not just a building owner and occupant preference; minimum sound abatement ratings are required by many local building codes for multistory residential, commercial, and multipurpose buildings. Following an introduction to the basics of sound, this course presents a summary of the most common sound control methods, with ...

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Proflex Products Inc.

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Fire Safety for Exterior Wall Assemblies

Manufacturers, industry groups, architects, designers, and homeowners all share an expectation of safety in the buildings we occupy and use every day. This course discusses the key chapters where important exterior wall fire provisions can be found in the International Building Code® and examines many common features of global fire incidents. The ...

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North American Modern Building Alliance

Masonry Anchors and Ties for the 2022 TMS 402 Building Code

This presentation aims to aid architects, engineers, and specification writers in choosing anchoring systems to comply with the 2022 edition of The Masonry Society’s (TMS) TMS 402 Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures and the International Building Code® (IBC®). ...

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Heckmann Building Products

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