CE Courses

Security Planning and Design Part 2: Understanding Threats, Hazards, and Security Design Concepts

Part 2 of this series examines threats driving the need for security planning and design in buildings. It focuses on criminal and terrorist threats...

Earn 1.50 LU in HSW

Security Planning and Design Part 1: Security in the Built Environment

This course explores contextual issues for security at regional, community, and local levels. Emerging issues facing design professionals are...

Earn 1.25 LU in HSW

Right to the City: Equity, Sustainability, and Single-Family Zoning, Part 1

Growing US cities face escalating housing costs, residential and commercial displacement, homelessness, and the suburbanization of poverty. As...

Earn 1.50 LU in HSW

Understanding the Architect’s Standard of Care

This course addresses those elements that comprise the standard of care and the linkage to liability that an architect faces during a project’s...

Earn 1.50 LU in HSW

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...

Earn 2.00 LU in HSW

Improving Building Performance Case Studies Part 4: Courthouse POE Toolkit Pilot Study

Compared to indicative and investigative postoccupancy evaluations (POEs), diagnostic POEs tend to provide more comprehensive and in-depth evaluations...

Earn 1.00 LU in HSW

Improving Building Performance Case Studies Part 3: Deer Park Junior/Senior High School Career Academy

While investigative postoccupancy evaluations (POEs) tend to require more planning and resource allocation than indicative POEs, they often provide a...

Earn 1.00 LU in HSW

Improving Building Performance Case Studies Part 2: New Mexico K‒12 Public School Districts

Although cursory in nature, an indicative postoccupancy evaluation (POE) provides an indication of the major failures and successes in a building’s...

Earn 1.00 LU in HSW

Improving Building Performance Case Studies Part 1: The Alfred Newton Richards Medical Laboratory Building

While postoccupancy evaluations (POEs) can be used to measure the overall performance of a building in relation to its intended use, other building...

Earn 1.00 LU in HSW

Options for Brick Veneer

With growing interest in taller wood-frame buildings—many with five stories of wood on podiums and with wood-frame mezzanines—there has also been...

Earn 0.50 LU in HSW

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