Learning Objectives:

• Understand how ASTM E2813 defines the phases and scope of building enclosure commissioning.
• Recognize the role of design review and consultation in achieving performance targets for the building enclosure.
• Differentiate between laboratory and field tests for assemblies, effectively integrating the standards into design documents.
• Discover how thermography and whole-building enclosure infiltration testing reinforce quality in a completed building.

Workshop Description:

The commissioning process for building enclosures coordinates the responsibilities of the Owner, Architect, and Construction Manager. Building enclosure commissioning (BECx) can seem complicated due to the many reference standards, and the fact that services often span all phases of project delivery. This presentation provides a framework to simplify the process of specifying and procuring the BECx services that match the project’s requirements. The common standards are explained in the context of this framework to provide an overview. Building designers, owners, and contractors will learn about how the BECx process can help them in managing risk and achieving performance.

Learning Units: 1 (CEU)

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Learning Objectives:

• Learn about daylighting metrics to allow selection of the right measurement for your project
• Develop an appreciation of different response functions of the retina and how they affect health
• Understand various types of glare and how it is quantified
• Develop an understanding of methods for computing relevant daylight metrics within the constraints of real project conditions

Workshop Description:

Daylight is complicated! The sun is always moving around us. Measuring how ‘good’ it is can be even more difficult. Building owners and operators are increasingly concerned with daylight access. This is because we continue to learn about how daylight regulates sleep, diet and mood. Contact us for a detailed explanation of the latest metrics for studying daylight quality. Basic aspects of vision and how they create buildings with luminous comfort will also be covered.

Learning Units: 1 (LU/HSW)

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Learning Objectives: 

• Understand how developers, design teams, and owners procure projects through the P3 process from start to finish
• Discover how P3 partnerships can accelerate and streamline project delivery methods.
• Learn about common expectations Universities have when creating high performance facilities on campus.
• Identify how P3 partnerships integrate with campus sustainability initiatives while creating optimal learning environments for students.

Workshop Description:

Over the years it has become more common for Public Institutions and Universities of Higher Education to partner with private companies to fund, design, and build campus infrastructure. This diverse panel includes three personnel highly experienced in the procurement of public-private partnership projects. This webinar will reflect on the market, discuss case studies, and speak from experience about P3 project types.

Learning Units: 1 (LU)

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Learning Objectives:

• Learn how departments within an institution can collaborate around shared goals in planning capital projects
• Discover ways to plan projects that recognize the influence of indoor environmental quality on occupant health and behavior
• Identify key metrics of organizational success and learn to implement them during the planning process
• Recognize ways that data analysis of occupant outcomes can inform the revenue projections of planned projects

Workshop Description:

When planning capital improvements, building designers are frequently tasked with code compliance regarding accessibility, life safety, ventilation, lighting, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency. When addressed piecemeal by specialists working in silos, the project may meet the “letter of the law” while having only modest impacts on the occupants of the space. Join this presentation to learn how collaboration between departments is a key to leveraging facilities for organizational outcomes. The presenters will share how a focus on student and faculty experience – including key metrics such as successful enrollments – can unlock value in the planning process.

Learning Units: 1 (LU)

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Learning Objectives:

• Learn the various ways the physical environment impacts occupant health and productivity
• Discover how indoor environmental quality (IEQ) plays a role in the design and delivery of capital building projects
• Understand how certification programs can emphasize physiological and psychological quality in the built environment
• Distinguish between wellness interventions that are based on intuition versus those based on evidence

Workshop Description:

Building owners and designers hear plenty about health and wellness regarding the indoor environment. Sit/stand workstations, open offices, sick building syndrome, and fitness rooms are just a few examples. It can be challenging to separate fads from genuine innovations, and to evaluate the relative merits of investments in wellness. This presentations provides an overview of wellness as it relates to the built environment, building off strong evidence from research. The WELL Building Standards is presented as framework for organizing strategies to achieve optimum human outcomes from investments in the built environment.

Learning Units: 1 (LU)

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Learning Objectives: 

1. Comprehend the Living Building Challenge program, understand all the petals associated with certification 
2. Analyze the Core Green Building Certification and what it takes to certify 
3. Identify how the Pikes Peak Summit Complex is achieving each petal’s intent and goals 
4. Analyze specific design concepts that help achieve sustainability goals, like zero water and zero energy 

Workshop Description:

At nearly three miles above sea level, the Summit House has operated since 1963 and has seen its share of highs, lows and extremes. After 55 years in operation, the time had come for the weather-beaten Summit House to be replaced. In 2014, an Environmental Assessment request was issued to address the decades of guest and climate wear and tear. The top minds in architecture (RTA Architects and GWWO Architects), engineering and construction (GE Johnson) came together to collaborate with the stakeholder group, comprising the U.S. Forest Service, Army Corps of Engineers, City of Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Cog Railway and Pikes Peak America’s Mountain. This group’s focus was to build a new Summit House that could: 

• Be ecologically sensitive while withstanding and living with the extreme environment. 
• Achieve net zero energy and water. 
• Improve and enhance the visitor experience. 
• Assure that it would not, “individually or cumulatively, significantly affect the quality of the human, biological, or physical environment.” 

The design team, along with the stakeholder group, decided that the new Summit Complex would seek to achieve LEED Silver and certify all petals of the Living Building Challenge. 

The LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE is an ever-evolving program shaped by the incredible experiences of our project teams as they continually break new ground. Over time, feedback from a diverse array of stakeholders actively using the challenge helps us understand how to refine and improve the program to have the greatest impacts. 

Living Buildings are: 

• Regenerative buildings that connect occupants to light, air, food, nature, and community. 
• Self-sufficient and remain within the resource limits of their site. 
• Create a positive impact on the human and natural systems that interact with them.

Learning Units: 1 AIA-LU

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Learning Objectives:

• Understand how quality assurance procedures for building enclosure improves indoor air quality and energy efficiency
• Recognize the role of design review and consultation in achieving performance targets for the building enclosure.
• Identify common pitfalls in project delivery that lead to leaks and thermal bridges.
• Discover how field validation reinforces quality in a completed building while protecting occupant health.

Workshop Description:

The construction industry is expecting higher performance from the shell of the building than ever before. Requirements for airtightness, energy efficiency, and durability are ratcheting up while construction schedules are being compressed. This presentation will highlight how a quality assurance program for delivering building enclosures helps manage risk and safeguard a healthy indoor environment. We will use real-world examples to show how effective teams use enclosure consulting.​

Learning Units: 1 CU/HSW

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Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to use WELL’s online tools for managing certification
• Identify risks associated with performance verification
• Realize differences between performance and predictive certification programs
• Develop greater understanding of approaches that assure performance

Workshop Description:

The WELL Building Standard has just crossed the 100 million SF threshold for project registration. As a performance-based standard, WELL includes requirements that the project actually operates in accordance with the standard in order to achieve certification. What many teams are discovering in the process of pursuing WELL is that the evolution from prescriptive standards, like LEED, to performance standards like WELL, introduces a new paradigm into the design process. “How will my building perform?” and “what happens if it doesn’t?” are questions that have to be analyzed in the design process. Forte Building Science, a division of M.E. GROUP, will share strategies that their team is using on WELL projects to achieve the performance requirements, particularly in the areas of Air, Water, Light and Comfort. Projects that will serve as WELL case studies include both new and existing commercial interiors, K-12, speculative office developments, and a historic building renovation. These case studies will highlight the different approaches available for new buildings vs. existing buildings; what makes WELL projects different than LEED projects; and how to set your project up to succeed when performance verification occurs.

Learning Units: 1.5 (LU)

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Learning Objectives: 

• Analyze how smart building technologies help manage building systems with less risk and extend the operating life of facilities via monitoring-based commissioning.
• Understand how data reported through this platform can be interpreted to create safe and healthy environments for tenants.
• Interpret automated building data to help re-entry post-COVID as well as energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
• Learn how the real-time data collected and reported through this integrated platform is used for monitoring-based commissioning.

Workshop Description:

Members of BranchPattern’s smart building team and Switch Automation will share case studies for combining advanced analytics software with building automation systems to assure facilities are efficient, safe and healthy. Learn how smart building technologies help extend the operating life of facilities, and how automated building data can help re-entry post-COVID while maintaining energy efficiency and sustainability goals.

Learning Units: 1 AIA-LU

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Learning Objectives:

• Gain a basic knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Identify aspects of indoor environmental quality that are relevant to inclusive design
• Learn what research supports regarding ASD and the built environment
• Apply lessons from research to the design of schools

Workshop Description:

If school administrators, designers, and teachers are not thinking about people with autism, they probably will be soon. Individual diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD have the same rights to functional, comprehensible spaces that the non-ASD world enjoys. With 1 in 68 children diagnosed with autism in 2012, the issue is less about accommodation than it is about accessibility. Including students diagnosed with ASD in general classrooms is a challenging mandate, and it necessitates an individualized approach. Architects are generally unaware of design strategies for this group. Even with the “perfect” building design, inhabitants must be empowered to interact with and modify spaces to meet their immediate needs – blurring the line between design and policy. This presentation highlights what we know about the how the built environment helps and hinders occupants with ASD. The literature also suggests that buildings designed around the needs of students with ASD work better for all students.

Learning Units: 1 (LU)

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Learning Objectives:

• Analyze high performance design strategies to calculate ROI for clients
• Define iterative analysis and show successful examples of how it’s used
• Identify where iterative analysis has the largest impact on the project’s goals
• Measure how analysis can be integrated into the design process

Workshop Description:

As clients continue to seek high performance and net-zero buildings, how do you prove that you are making the best decision for your clients? This course will focus on designing buildings using iterative analysis as a way to justify design decisions, and show some case studies of where this form of analysis has been successful. Furthermore, the course will identify the points in the project lifecycle where analysis can have the greatest impact, and equip designers with questions to ask of your analysis team so that you get the best results. Iterative analysis is quick enough to provide feedback on design decisions so that the results can inform design. It integrates into the team’s design process and provides feedback on cost, energy consumption, daylighting, comfort, and health of the building and occupants. This presentation will introduce iterative analysis, and provide a forum for discussion on how analysis can be integrated into your design process.

Learning Units: 1 (LU)

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Learning Objectives:

• Learn to incorporate research and analysis in the planning phase of projects to improve building performance and occupant well-being
• Discover how Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) assessment and design fits into traditional building delivery method
• Learn to structure commissioning services as a learning experience on projects to meet owner expectations
• Recognize how developments in lighting, HVAC, and building enclosures are impacting building operations

Workshop Description:

When architects get a call about a previous job, it normally means bad news. This is in part because many building owners see the design team as solely a part of the building procurement process. However, architects have a unique ability to benefit building users throughout the life of a project and transfer lessons from one project to the next. This presentation summarizes experience with institutions across the country in conducting research as part of the commissioning process. Attendees will learn to use evidence to design and assess building performance with respect to energy and occupant satisfaction. Specific strategies for aligning building systems with program requirements are reviewed.

Learning Units: 1 (LU)

Learning Objectives:

• Identify environmental factors which influence human health and well-being
• Explain the intent of each WELL Concept and identify key themes which underpin WELL Features
• Describe the structure of the WELL Building Standard, including the certification process and the key differentiators
• Describe the health effects of VOCs and airborn particulate matter addressed in Feature 01. Air Quality Standards of the WELL Building Standard v1.
• Explain the intent of Feature 86. Post-occupancy Surveys of the WELL Building Standard v1 and provide an example of a topic addressed.

Workshop Description:

This 1-hour introductory workshop will introduce broad audiences to the WELL Building Standard. The organization and development of the WELL Building Standard is presented in the context of the healthy buildings movement. Key public health research is presented to provide the basis for the 7 WELL concepts, and some research on the value of WELL is discussed in conclusion.

Learning Units: 1 (CEU)

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