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On Demand

AIA|DC On Demand Education
Choose courses below to earn HSW|LU or LU credit.
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Being a good neighbor: A Successful Design Process within Economically and Ethnically Diverse Stakeholder Groups
During this session, HDR’s team behind the Virginia Hospital Center will unwrap a challenging but successful 14-month journey that included the community, client, and state and local authorities as stakeholders to deliver an essential healthcare facility for the community of Arlington, VA. Presenters will share the processes, tools, and methods they utilized to bring each of these stakeholders to the table and create a collaborative design process to ensure that all voices were heard.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

The Equitable Urban Block: A Philadelphia Case Study
Join this session for an exploration of how to design a successful urban block using a diverse array of urban typologies of varying sizes to demonstrate how social equity can be supported through urban design.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

A Work in Progress: Equity in Practice
During this session, presenters will share snapshots from their on-going equity journey, and how their firm’s internal efforts to promote diversity and equity has positively influenced how they work, the type of project they seek, and the type of advocacy they encourage in the communities where we live, work and play.
1.0 LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Reducing Embodied Carbon: Strategies and Implementation
This session identifies the key contributors to the embodied carbon footprint of buildings and presents case studies for reduction strategies, including information on availability for implementation in the DC market. The session will also introduce future potential for new strategies progressing towards net zero embodied carbon emissions.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

The DMV Design Community and Reuse Nonprofits: Partnering to Support Environmental Sustainability and Community Development
This presentation will explore how the architect and design community in DC can partner with local nonprofit reuse organizations like Community Forklift to effectively reduce waste, meet sustainability goals, and support community development by redistributing/donating surplus or gently used building and home materials.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

The Time is Now to Decarbonize Your Design!
The presentation will discuss how to align design metrics and measures with energy and carbon reductions goals to meet benchmarking ordinances and other industry requirements. Participants will also learn what metrics are being mandated and which tools to use for evaluating energy design efficiencies that align with intended building performance outcomes.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

How a Government Agency is Reducing Emissions: The DC DGS Energy Management Plan
In order to address climate change and decarbonization, policymakers are enacting building performance laws that require buildings to meet certain performance standards. This presentation will provide an overview of the Energy Management Plan (EMP) developed for DC's Department of General Services (DGS) to identify a multidecade roadmap for energy management, including targeted conservation scope types for approximately 300 buildings and transformative policies and programs that support an energy management culture.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Building Community Resilience from the Inside-Out and Outside-In
The new Bridge District in Washington DC serves as a model for how responsible development can foster connection, sustainability, and resilience at both the community and individual level. Sited within a flood zone on one of the last undeveloped waterfront parcels in DC, the development will serve as a critical urban link between Anacostia and Downtown DC while also tackling the challenges of climate change head on. 
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Architecture Everywhere: Architecture and Edith Wharton’s Novels
Edith Wharton, one of America’s most distinguished writers, explained: "The impression produced by a landscape, a street or a house should always to the novelist, be an event in the history of a soul." People, as she explains, are products of their environment and the buildings they inhabit—whether small and humble or luxurious mansions with grand interiors—play an important part in an individual’s life. For Wharton, buildings are not just backdrop, but actors. This presentation will look at her novels House of Mirth and Summer, as well as her other writings, including The Decoration of Houses and Italian Villas and Their Gardens.
1.0 LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Architecture Everywhere: Talking with Architecture
Architecture is already exhibition. To put architecture on display, then, is to make it talk. Architecture exhibitions translate the built environment into other forms of communication. They make legible architecture’s influences and motivations and reveal its ambitions and speculations. They are an extension of the work of architecture into other territories.
1.0 LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

PROVOCATIONS: Brutalism: Remove or Reuse?
In recent years, the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I.M. Pei’s firm, was demolished here in DC. Yet elsewhere, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York saved Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum of American Art (now The Met Breuer) while IKEA saved his New Haven-based Pirelli Building by transforming it from an office building into a hotel. What should be the future for these controversial Béton Brut buildings?
1.5 LU (1.5 hours)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Lunchtime Learning: Moisture Management & Exterior Cladding Performance (by Wolf Home Products)
This course examines categories of exterior cladding and how they perform as part of a moisture management system. We outline the osha specs for using fiber cement siding and the precautions needed to work with it properly.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Lunchtime Learning: Creating Healthy Living Environments with Advanced Paint Technology​ (by Benjamin Moore)
This course provides an overview of sustainable design and the creation of healthier environments with architectural paints. Included are discussions about the components of paint; VOCs, independent testing methods and standards; categories of LEED®; the specification of paint systems; and trends in sustainable design.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Lunchtime Learning: The Art and Science of Structural Deck Engineering (by EPIC Metals)
This course will cover the use of architecturally-aesthetic design solutions for open structure projects ranging from simple canopies to huge airport concourses. Many types of projects—schools, gymnasiums, natatoria, canopies, transportation facilities, conference centers, wellness facilities, multi-tenant buildings, perforated architectural screening, and more are addressed.
1.0 HSW|LU (1 hour)
$10 AIA|DAC Members; $25 Non-Members

Lunchtime Learning: Fluid Applied Roofing Systems
1.0 HSW|LU

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Performance Precast Concrete Enclosure Systems
1.0 HSW|LU

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Energy Star 101: Navigating Building Energy Performance Standards
1.5 HSW|LU

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Lunchtime Learning: Meeting LEED v4 Acoustical Requirements for Schools
1.0 HSW|LU

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Lunchtime Learning: The Importance of Quality Detailing
1.0 HSW|LU

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Discovering Art Deco DC
1.5 LU

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Wellness: How Design can Reduce Stress and Anxiety
1.5 HSW|LU

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Book Talk: Native Places with Frank Harmon
1.0 LU

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Building a ‘Common Ground’ through Public-Private Partnerships
1.5 LU

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Lunchtime Learning: Merging Architecture and Landscape Design
1.0 LU

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Lunchtime Learning: Designing With Polymer Windows and Doors
1.0 HSW|LU

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Lunchtime Learning: An Architect’s Guide to Designing for Natural Gas
1.0 HSW|LU

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DC Energy and Green Code Updates
1.0 LU

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AIAU offers more than 150 courses, including:

Building for Resilience: Challenges, Advantages, and Strategies
1.5 HSW|LUs
Green Construction Code: Setting the Minimum Standards for Indoor Environmental Quality
1.25 HSW|LUs
Innovative Stormwater Management in the Nation's Capital
1.25 HSW|LUs
Designing for the Future: Incorporating the Passive House Standard
1.5 HSW|LUs
Climate Ready DC: The District’s Climate Adaptation & Preparedness Plan
1.0 HSW|LU
Green Construction Code: Setting the Minimum Standards for Indoor Environmental Quality
1.25 HSW|LUs
Counting Up, Another Way of Getting to Netzero
1.5 HSW|LUs


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