Meeting Today’s Most Stringent Sustainability Standards

Healthy solutions, circular design, and digitalization are keys to reducing embodied carbon and waste in building environments
 
Sponsored by Armstrong World Industries
1 AIA LU/HSW; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU*; 1 AIBD P-CE; AAA 1 Structured Learning Hour; This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines; AAPEI 1 Structured Learning Hour; This course can be self-reported to the AIBC, as per their CE Guidelines.; MAA 1 Structured Learning Hour; This course can be self-reported to the NLAA.; This course can be self-reported to the NSAA; NWTAA 1 Structured Learning Hour; OAA 1 Learning Hour; SAA 1 Hour of Core Learning

Learning Objectives:

  1. List all the factors that contribute to Indoor Environmental Quality.
  2. Review complex sustainability criteria for screening materials for your projects.
  3. Discover industry platforms to access and specify material transparency.
  4. Examine the current and future environmental impacts of waste and embodied carbon.
  5. Explore how to deliver design solutions to minimize the environmental impact of projects.
  6. Identify best practices for specifying reclamation, healthy solutions, and material optimization.
  7. Discuss how digitalization is revolutionizing sustainable design and construction practices

This course is part of the Sustainability Academy

This presentation will offer specific instruction for interior designers, architects, and anyone that is choosing and specifying materials. This CEU includes various strategies to reduce embodied carbon and construction waste on projects

Sustainability Standards

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Armstrong World Industries Armstrong World Industries is a leader in the design and manufacture of innovative commercial ceiling and wall systems. At home, at work, in health-care facilities, classrooms, stores, and restaurants, Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions offer interior options that help create healthy, sustainable spaces that protect people and cultivate well-being and comfort so they can be at their best.

Armstrong is committed to developing new and sustainable ceiling solutions, with design and performance possibilities that empower its customers to create beautiful, high-performance residential and commercial buildings. Armstrong continues to grow and prosper for the benefit of all its stakeholders. armstrongceilings.com/commercial

 

Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in June 2023

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