Ethics provide a method for architects to deal with the dilemmas they often encounter in practice. This course provides a framework for analyzing...
Ethics provide a method for architects to deal with the dilemmas they often encounter in practice. This course provides a framework for analyzing...
This course explains concepts for making buildings more resistant to the effects of ballistic attacks, forced entry, and explosions. Blast mitigation...
This part of the series highlights the assessment process used to define security needs. Methods are described for analyzing assets, threats, and...
Part 2 of this series examines threats driving the need for security planning and design in buildings. It focuses on criminal and terrorist threats...
This course explores contextual issues for security at regional, community, and local levels. Emerging issues facing design professionals are...
Growing US cities face escalating housing costs, residential and commercial displacement, homelessness, and the suburbanization of poverty. As...
This course addresses those elements that comprise the standard of care and the linkage to liability that an architect faces during a project’s...
Adaptive reuse is becoming increasingly common because it not only preserves important historical features of existing buildings but is also...
Compared to indicative and investigative postoccupancy evaluations (POEs), diagnostic POEs tend to provide more comprehensive and in-depth evaluations...
While investigative postoccupancy evaluations (POEs) tend to require more planning and resource allocation than indicative POEs, they often provide a...