CEU Credit:​

1 AIA LU/HSW

 

Program Description:

The practice of building sciences has expanded way beyond water leakage and HVAC to include acoustics,

fire, IAQ and many other practices that have not traditionally been at the core of building sciences.

As such, quality assurance (QA) related services specific to Building Sciences have also changed

dramatically as Commissioning is taking a dominant position for the QA framework with an ever expanding array of functional performance testing. This course will focus on how these changes are impacting today’s building enclosures and give the audience the ability to understand these changes. We will review

the state of the art in QA and predict where the industry will be going forward and that attendees will

be better equipped to keep pace with this ever changing industry.

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Learning Objectives:

Understand the full spectrum of services and performances that Building Science now encompasses so that tomorrow’s buildings will be better equipped to deal with today’s problems (e.g. intense Hurricanes, poor air quality, frequent fires, looming threat of earthquakes).​

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Learn what type of quality assurance options there are for today's construction projects and

what is trending so that you can select the best value for your project to help ensure that

the building actually performs as intended.

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Review the enclosure commissioning process, deliverables and functional performance

testing options through case studies of the good and not so good outcomes.

 

Explore today's trends to predict where this industry is headed in the future so that we can be better prepared to build quicker, have less waste and achieve sustainable building all at an affordable cost.