Architectural Record's 2 Millionth Test Taker Sweepstakes


Let's Celebrate!

This year marks our 21st anniversary as an official AIA continuing education provider, and soon our two millionth continuing education test will be taken. To celebrate, we are hosting a TWO MILLIONTH TEST TAKER SWEEPSTAKES.

Take any test at ce.architecturalrecord.com between November 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019 for a chance to win the following prizes:

The more tests you take, the more chances you get!

How to Enter

Architects who take a test during the sweepstakes promotion will automatically be entered to win. The 2 millionth test taker will win the Grand Prize and ten runner ups will be chosen at random and also awarded prizes.

The winner will be notified by April 30, 2019.

Contest Rules
Every architect who completes a test on the CE Center between November 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019, is eligible for entry into the contest.

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Media-Assisted Crystallization
A Sustainable Solution to Hard Water Scale
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Water Safety and Backflow Prevention
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The critical role of comprehensive water management systems
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Reinventing Multifamily Housing for a New Age
Atypical, innovative design solutions meet the moment
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A Whole Systems Approach
Water management best Practices for healthy multifamily housing
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Structural Steel for Low-Carbon-Emission Lightweight Frames
Using structural steel for building frames to enable more flexible, lightweight structures while red...
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Facades - The Ultimate Skin Care
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Biophilic Design in Action
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Success in the Classroom Starts with Sound
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The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
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The Art of Estimating Fees
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Universal Design and Aging in Place
Addressing color and finishes to improve the quality of life of an aging population
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High-performance results are readily achievable
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Using Wood and Mass Timber in Library and Community Projects
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Newly Proposed Urban Policies and How They Benefit Cities
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Old Buildings – New Life
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High-quality LED display mounting systems are key to ensuring a crisp, seamless appearance
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Decision Point – Examining the Advantages of Insulated Metal Panels Against Tilt-Up
Understanding insulated metal panels in modern building construction
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Aluminum framed windows and doors continue to expand sustainable and luxury design opportunities for...
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Navigating Codes and Standards in Regard to Single-Ply Roofing Systems
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Heat Crisis in the Built Environment
Finding building solutions to combat heat crisis effects on aging infrastructure
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From Survive to Thrive: Buildings that Enrich Health and Wellness
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Architectural Record’s 2023 Innovation Conference
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Built to Last
Protecting interiors from expected and sometimes unexpected occupant behavior.
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Cracking Why Buildings Move
Absorbing Thermal Loads with Movement Joints
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BIM and Communication
Improving the design process through enhanced communication tools
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Creating solutions for the urban community through technology and planning
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Building owners and users want both good design and functionality
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Accommodating Movement in Building Design
Mastering the Physical Movement of Earth’s Elements Around the Built Environment
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Adolescent Mental Health and School Security Best Practices, Planning, and Standards
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How architectural glazing supports mental health and wellness through daylight and views
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How wood can promote well-being in the quest for affordability
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Enduring Metal
Unique qualities make metal a smart building solution for sustainable design
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Aesthetics in Designing With Metal Composite Material (MCM)
Curved, bended, textured, or patterned, metal composite material panels can be used to create decora...
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Designing Outside the Box
IMPs and their role in a low carbon world
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Creative interior design strategies showcase function and hospitality
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Creating a sense of place using landscape design techniques
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The Enduring Advantage
Using Commercial Roofing to Enhance Building Lifecycle Value
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The Power of Protective Glass and Glazing
Designing for enhanced building security
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Roof Edge Metal Flashing Requirements
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Glass product solutions and other strategies for reducing bird collisions
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Exploring the potential of mass timber in affordable housing developments
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Exploring sustainable practices and innovative building solutions within a circular economy
Maneuvering Through the Building Codes with Cold-Formed Steel Framing
Important Insight for Designing Cold-Formed Steel Projects
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Picture This!
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Reading the Room
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Beyond Windows – Designing with Large- Format Glazing
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The Active Adaptive Facade
Advanced and energy-harvesting envelope technologies
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Advanced Design Against Adverse Conditions in a Commercial Roofing System
Mitigate Risks Before They Become a Reality
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Meeting Today’s Most Stringent Sustainability Standards
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Design Trends for Custom Homes: Form, Function and Flexibility
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Big Glass, Big Returns
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Evaluating, selecting, and pricing architectural metal cladding systems
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Designing high-performance building envelopes with expansive glass spans
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Carbon and the Building Enclosure
Why Every Decision Matters Toward Decarbonization
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Mid-Century Modern Revisited
A contemporary look at mid-century modern influences in residential architecture
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How rigid cover boards can impact the health and safety of building occupants
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Decarbonizing Concrete
Material Makeover: The design and construction industry chips away at concrete’s outsize carbon fo...
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ADA-Friendly Modular Construction
How off-site fabrication leaves room for accessibility, affordability and design ingenuity
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Linear Drain System Specification 101 for Accessible Bathrooms and Wet Rooms
Streamlined shower design feature offers sophistication and sanitation
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Updates in Whole Building Airtightness Testing
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Defining Sustainability
Architects grapple with the lack of consistent industry terminology for building performance
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Adaptability Creates Opportunity
Emerging ways of living in the home
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Urban Academic Buildings
Today's challenges and the flexibility of structural steel
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Mass Timber Building Enclosures
Design and performance considerations for modern construction
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Exploring Hospital Privacy Curtains
Key considerations for patient comfort and healing while weighing operational efficiencies
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Office-to-Apartment Conversion of a Modern Skyscraper
Evaluating redevelopment prospects through the lens of a speculative design competition
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High-Performance Cold Storage Roof Design
Bundle Up, It’s Cold Inside!
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Ethically Sourced Materials
Forced-Labor Free: Architects embrace the nascent movement to reform the supply chains for building ...
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Educational Buildings: Safety and Durability by Design
Attention to detail in multiple places is key to better performance
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Adventures at the New Frontier
Sustainability at every stage
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Site Selection Criteria for Commercial-to-Residential Conversions
Evaluating buildings, locations, and communities
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Acoustics in Office Interiors
Learn about acoustic considerations and design choices for office space interiors
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The Benefits of Architectural Collaboration and Competition
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Designing Modern Wood Schools
How to create high-performance structures that are also cost effective
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Roofing Risks: How to Avoid Costly Mistakes
Protecting your property against the spread of fire
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The Art of Terra Cotta & Color
Understanding the range of colors available when working with terra cotta
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Managing Sound In the Wide Open Spaces
The Importance of Acoustic and Reverberation Control in Large Indoor Spaces
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Elevating Exterior Design with Glass and Glazing Solutions
High-performance glass facades offer aesthetic versatility and greater energy efficiency
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Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Glass?
High-performance curtain wall design
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Mitigating Glare and Solar Heat Gain with Exterior Shading Systems
Fabric zip systems, venetian blinds, and rack arm systems are highly effective strategies for optimi...
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ADA Signage
Mastering the compliance basics
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Moisture Movement in Building Enclosures
Why the Enclosure Leaks Water When it’s Not Raining
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Thick Porcelain Tiles Elevate Outdoor Installations
Gauged porcelain tile pavers provide durable, innovative design opportunities for high-use exterior ...
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More Than Skin–Creating Total Facade Designs
Balancing appearance and performance requires a total design process
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Speed is the New Green
Advanced fundamentals for high performance doors
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Building Resiliency in Healthcare Spaces
Resiliency strategies and designing for adaptability to improve patient outcomes
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Architectural Record’s 2022 Innovation Conference
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Carbon-Neutral Campuses
Architects are helping colleges and universities get to carbon neutrality—and beyond.
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Complementary Systems: Innovative Design Strategies for Steel-Timber Hybrid Buildings
How steel-timber hybrid construction often offers the best of both worlds, combining the strength, p...
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How Do Roofs Defend Against Hail Damage?
Designing for the Impacts of Very Severe Hail on Low-Slope Roof Assemblies
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Do-No-Harm Design
Maximal products that minimize risk for healthcare facilities
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Passive House and Embodied Carbon
As awareness of the emissions associated with materials and construction grows, architects take a mo...
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Metal Composite Material (MCM) Building Code Fire Requirements
Uses and applications of metal composite materials (MCM), with regards to code compliance and fire-s...
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Wood in Architecture: Education Design
A framework for the practice and process of using wood materials in creating exceptional learning en...
Designing Interiors with a Full Palette of Choices
Consider all the options for creative results
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Hospital Privacy Curtains
Key considerations for patient comfort and healing while weighing operational efficiencies
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Celebrating Women's Design Leadership
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How to Determine When Roof Restoration is an Option
To Restore or Replace? How to Make the Call
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Accessibility in Toilet Rooms - The Why, What and How of Universal Design
Inclusive architecture so everyone can live a fulfilling life on a level playing field
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Multifamily Buildings with Multiple Design Criteria
Balancing user desires, operational needs, performance, and design
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The Advantages of Drywall Grid
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Climate-Positive Development
Putting Down Roots: MASS Design Group’s Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture breaks new g...
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Effective Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration in BIM
Streamlining project workflows with new and improved digital tools
Having It All
Creating a circular economy in residential construction
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Hospitable Healthcare Spaces
These innovative and welcoming medical facility projects move beyond conventional healthcare design
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Giving Elevators a Lift
Cab interior Retrofits in Major Projects
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The Ins and Outs of Architectural Glass Design
From performance and sustainability benefits to sheer beauty, designing with architectural glass sol...
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All About Glass & Metals: Guide for Architects
The High-Performance Façade Equation
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Less Is More Sustainable: Taking a Pre-engineered Approach to Reducing Embodied Carbon
Architects are embracing pre-engineered solutions that reduce embodied carbon and increase energy ef...
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Maximizing Returns in Real-Time
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Building for Now, Building for the Future
How enhanced concrete offers solutions for construction challenges and achieves aesthetic
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Hearing the Future
The role of stone wool acoustical tiles for innovative IEQ design
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Sound Experiences in Buildings
Using principles of acoustics in products and materials for better designs.
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It’s a Material Thing
Building confidence in enhanced health and welfare decisions through third-party material certificat...
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Beyond Energy: How Glass in Architecture Contributes to Occupant Well-Being and Comfort
Glass as a multifaceted solution for post-pandemic commercial and residential construction
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Defense Against Mold: Antimicrobial Coatings
Choosing the Right Prevention for Growth
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Why Heavy Timber Is the Future of Design and Construction
The Evolution of a Proven Building Method
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Nowhere to Go but Up: Schools on tight urban sites are raising the roof.
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Pursuing a Circular Economy
Understanding how materials, design, and planning can increase sustainability
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Sustainability in Action: Working Towards 2030 Climate Goals
These projects demonstrate the industry’s focus towards sustainability
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Climate Justice
From resilient housing to handling heatwaves
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Terrazzo’s Comeback–It’s Not Just for Floors
Emerging from its Art Deco and mid-century popularity, new and exciting terrazzo designs have burst ...
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Appealing and Long-Lasting Hospitality and Retail Design
Design doesn’t need to suffer in order to achieve performance
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Building Envelope Auditing—Let’s Get Started
The time is now for non-residential energy conservation
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Digitally Crafting a Box of Trees: Squam Lake House Case Study
Practical use of digital tools for otherwise impractical ideas
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Colored by Design
The use of color in architectural practice can set the tone for the entire project.
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The Science of Visible Light and Its Impact on Paint Specification
A foundational understanding of how artificial and natural lighting affect paint color
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Three Approaches to Non-Residential Interior Design
A restaurant, a library and an office building and their unique interiors
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Inventive Interiors Take a Global Spin
Award-winning projects shine a spotlight on the best, most well-designed interiors from around the w...
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The Science of Light and Its Impact on Paint Color, Specification, and IEQ
Using artificial and natural lighting to help specify paint for healthy spaces
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High-Performance Glass Solutions
A systems approach to efficient building envelopes
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State of the Art of Insulating Concrete Forms
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3-D Printed Houses
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Traditional vs. Innovative WRB/AB Approach
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Resilient Flooring and Sustainability: Environmental, Health, and Social Impacts
The importance of utilizing a multi-attribute approach in the selection of resilient flooring
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The Collision of AGILE and MESSY
Transforming learning through physical space
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Designing Breathable Interiors: Enhancing Health and Wellness Through Indoor Air Quality
Addressing the impacts of indoor air quality (IAQ) on occupants’ well-being and the creative ways ...
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Blueprint for Wellness: Building for Good Health
Incorporating healthy building and sustainable practices is at the heart of good design
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Designing Smarter Places of Learning
Considerations for efficient design of learning environments using structural steel
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At the Roof Edge: Water, Air, Thermal, and Vapor Control
"Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
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Optimizing Daylight in Different Buildings
Not all buildings are the same, and neither are their daylighting solutions
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Concrete Impacts
How life-cycle assessments (LCAs) of buildings help reduce carbon footprint
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Firm Climate Commitments
The Conversation: How to talk to clients about ambitious environmental targets and get their buy-in.
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Transforming Outdoor Spaces: Placemaking
Some new products help create better results
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Prioritizing Well-Being for a Healthier Built Environment
These projects show what can happen with a focus on well-being
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Your Architecture Firm is Leaking Money
How to identify losses and plug the holes
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Three Hot Topics in Commercial Bathroom and Shower Design
ADA Compliance, the Rise of Modular and Overcoming Field Problems
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More than Just Code
ADA and Accessibility Considerations for Inclusive Design
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Sign of the Times
ADA compliance as an element of design for commercial spaces
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