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Improving Building Performance Part 1: Building Performance and Post Occupancy
Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) examines the performance of a building in a comprehensive manner and can help architects understand and correct problems on recently completed projects and make better decisions in future projects. POEs contribute to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare as a continuous improvement tool for the built environment...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Improving Building Performance Part 2: Planning, Conducting, & Applying the POE
Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) examines the performance of a building in a comprehensive manner, addressing health, safety, security, and functionality, as well as social, psychological, and cultural appropriateness...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Professional Conduct Part 4: Honesty
This course provides an overview of the Model Rules of Conduct pertaining to honesty, with actual and hypothetical cases illustrating the issues related to corruption and bribery in the practice of architecture...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Why Buildings Fail Part 1: Forces & Destructive Agents
Even the most successful individuals keep in mind that failure is a possibility...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Why Buildings Fail Part 5: Errors During the Construction Phase
Failure is an always present possibility, especially when the potential for failure is not fully considered by design professionals...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Why Buildings Fail Part 6: Operational Errors; Failure Avoidance & Dispute Resolution
The study of failures equips the competent design professional with increased knowledge that leads to more successful achievements...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Security Planning and Design Part 8: Putting Security into Practice
This course provides practical advice about security considerations in both the business operations and project delivery aspects of architecture practice...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Sustainable Design Part 3: Performance Metrics (Part A)
The primary purpose of “Performance Metrics for Sustainable Design” is to explore what building designers can do to reduce the impacts of building construction and operation on the environment...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Sustainable Design Part 4: Performance Metrics (Part B)
The primary purpose of “Performance Metrics for Sustainable Design” is to explore what building designers can do to reduce the impacts of building construction and operation on the environment...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Sustainable Design Part 5: Trends in the Profession, Performance, and Practice
In order to ensure that future iterations of sustainable design will respond to the changing requirements of environmental, societal, and economic conditions, research continues to document the successes, challenges, and opportunities to make continuous improvements in this important area of design...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Sustainable Design Part 1: Green Building Standards and Certification Systems
This course provides an introduction to green building standards and certification systems in use around the world with an emphasis on differentiating between single-attribute and multiattribute programs...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Architectural Acoustics Illustrated Part 2: Room Acoustics Qualities
The study of architectural acoustics is a three‐dimensional endeavor. Presented here are the qualities of room acoustics that are essential to understand and address from the earliest stages of design, for optimal speech intelligibility and music listening...
Level: Intermediate
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Historic Preservation Part 4: Economics & Sustainability
The primary purpose of “Economics and Sustainability” is to examine preservation in the 21st century as it becomes more relevant and mainstream...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Predesign Planning Part 2: Values and Architecture
One of a series of ten courses about the reasons to conduct and methods to accomplish effective predesign planning in architecture, this course discusses the importance of discovering strongly held values as a beginning point for predesign planning...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Predesign Planning Part 7: Questionnaires and Surveys
This is the fourth of five courses focusing on methods used in predesign planning...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Predesign Planning Part 8: Work Sessions
This course is one of a series of ten courses about the reasons to conduct and methods to accomplish effective predesign planning in architecture to identify client goals, user and community needs, and codes and regulations...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 30m
Sustainable Design Part 6: Economic Analyses
Sustainable design provides not only improved indoor environmental quality for building occupants and reduced environmental impact on the earth, but also financial benefits to building owners...
Level: Intermediate
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Planning for Sustainable Development Part 1
To effectively plan for and implement sustainable development requires a clear understanding of the organizing principles for meeting human development goals while sustaining the natural systems and resources of the environment...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 15m
Adaptive Reuse: An Environmentally and Socially Beneficial Alternative to New Construction
Adaptive reuse is becoming increasingly common because it not only preserves important historical features of existing buildings but is also inherently sustainable...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Spotlighting Social and Environmental Attributes to Enhance Preliminary Design
This course explores and illuminates the design process, from orchestrating stakeholder participation to finalizing schematic designs...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 30m
Practice Management: Strategies for Enhancing Public Welfare and Service Delivery
This course focuses on practice management from the perspective of supporting both public welfare and client interests through enhanced service delivery...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h
Historic Preservation Part 2: What Is Historic?
We preserve buildings to tell our stories, provide continuity in our culture, and stabilize our structures for public safety...
Level: Introductory
Format: Text-based
Duration: 2h 45m
Climate Action Part 2: Leading on Climate Action Through Adaptation and Mitigation
Listen to an episode of the Practice Disrupted podcast with hosts Evelyn Lee and Je’Nen Chastain to earn 1.5 LUs in HSW continuing education...
Level: Introductory
Format: Multimedia
Duration: 1h 30m
Climate Action Part 1: Leading on Climate Action for a Positive Future
Listen to an episode of the Practice Disrupted podcast with hosts Evelyn Lee and Je’Nen Chastain to earn 1.5 LUs in HSW continuing education...
Level: Introductory
Format: Multimedia
Duration: 1h 30m