The WELL Building Standard – Commercial
Office Space CEU
Description:
A real-world project, certification, and products used.
Excel Dryer, the global leader in touchless hand hygiene solutions, recently unveiled a state-of-the-art office expansion and renovation project. Guided by the WELL Building Standard, this initiative was designed to merge beauty, health, wellness, and sustainability into the company’s workplace. Continuing Excel Dryer’s mission to lead through innovation, this project’s forward-thinking insights and methodologies have been adapted into a groundbreaking continuing education unit (CEU) course, which is offered by Architectural Record magazine in its Continuing Education Center and serves as a detailed roadmap of Excel Dryer’s journey.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how COVID-19 transformed commercial building design priorities.
- Discuss how the WELL Building Standard helps to create healthier buildings.
- Identify specific features and products geared toward earning WELL Points.
Green Building Rating Systems
Description:
Building certification systems offer valuable frameworks for designing buildings with environmental and human outcomes in mind. This presentation reviews the mechanics, goals, values, and the relative cost and effort of five common building certifications on the market today (LEED, WELL, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge, and Green Globes) providing attendees with a deeper understanding of which rating system might be most appropriate for their next project.
Learning Objectives:
- Define green building rating system mechanics and identify corresponding components of each rating system.
- Recognize the benefits and considerations for the following third-party green building rating systems: LEED, WELL, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge, and Green Globes.
- Gain a general understanding of certification costs, recertification requirements, prerequisites and minimum requirements, health and environmental benefits, and market maturity of each rating system.
- Identify which rating systems would be most appropriate for a project based on client objectives and budget.
Presented by
Summer Minchew
Commercial Restroom Design To Promote Safety, Sustainability and Savings
Description:
This course will help you consider what it takes to design restrooms that are sustainable and safe, without breaking the bank.
Learning Objectives:
- Articulate the role that commercial restrooms play in supporting occupant health and well-being.
- Identify key safety considerations within commercial restrooms, to protect building occupants.
- Describe sustainability considerations within commercial restrooms, including those that promote occupant well-being.
- Recognize opportunities for cost savings when designing commercial restrooms.
Designing Touchless Solutions For Proper Hand Hygiene In Commercial Restrooms.
Description:
Designing restrooms to maximize proper hygiene is important in reducing the spread of germs. This course discusses the elements of hygienic restroom design and how reducing required touchpoints helps to increase safety and cleanliness. The key steps in proper hand hygiene are also discussed. The course then focuses on hand dryers and considers their impact on hand hygiene and sustainability. The future of commercial restroom design is then explored.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how to design a touchless, hygienic restroom environment that supportshealth and wellbeing.
- Define proper hand hygiene techniques and the role they play in commercial restroom design.
- Detail how including hand dryers in your commercial restroom design can mitigate the spread of germs and improve workplace health and safety.
- Recognize key sustainability attributes of hand dryers and the future evolution ofcommercial restroom design.
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A More Transparent Shade Of Green: Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) Drive Restrooms to the Lead In Green Design.
Description:
Construction is going green. As both sustainability and efficiency advance in the built environment, architects, specifiers, and buyers are increasingly concerned with purchasing products that are environmentally friendly and can achieve project performance and client welfare goals. Architects and designers are, in essence, visionaries. This course explores options that architects and designers have when choosing products that accurately support and fuel their passion for possibilities while maintaining the health, safety, and welfare clients need. Definitions for PCRs, LCAs, and EPDs are discussed and various case studies are examined.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how environmental product declarations (EPDs) allow for apples to applescomparisons of building products in terms of hygiene, welfare, and health performance.
- Explain how product category rules (PCRs) establish clear, consistent evaluation methods for building products as a means to help ensure and validate the environmental performance of buildings.
- Describe how PCRs, LCAs, and EPDs can be used together to assess and optimize thehygiene, health, and sustainability characteristics of high-performance restroom designs.
- Apply the information provided by environmental and efficiency standards when makingproduct and welfare decisions.
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Leading-Edge, Sustainable Stadium Design.
Description:
Professional sports stadiums form large complexes with enormous impacts on the environment and local communities. Owners, architects, and operations managers can use this influence to generate a net positive effect on people, the natural environment, and the bottom line. In this video, the executives and consultants involved in the design and daily operation of Gillette Stadium and Mercedes-Benz Stadium discuss the challenges and opportunities of sustainable stadium design. Topics discussed include district energy generation, gray water treatment, evaluation and implementation of new technologies, partnering with local utilities, cost recovery, profitability, and community health.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the concept of sustainable stadium design and gain an understanding of this unique project type and associated building performance and fan experience objectives.
- Explain best practices and current and future trends in sustainable stadium design.
- Apply practical knowledge gained from industry professional insights on the design and operation of two different leading US sports venues.
This CEU course is also available at your preferred CEU course provider:
Next Generation
Green Restroom
Design V.2
Description:
Construction is going green. As both sustainability and efficiency advance in the built environment, architects, specifiers, and buyers are increasingly concerned with purchasing products that are environmentally friendly and can achieve project performance and client welfare goals. Architects and designers are, in essence, visionaries. This course explores options that architects and designers have when choosing products that accurately support and fuel their passion for possibilities while maintaining the health, safety, and welfare clients need. Definitions for PCRs, LCAs, and EPDs are discussed and various case studies are examined.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize how green restroom design can help address the global need to conserve water, energy, and other natural resources within the built environment.
- Describe the environmental, health, and economic benefits of water-saving products and high-speed, energy-efficient hand dryers versus paper towels.
- Apply product selection strategies through the use of independent life cycle assessment studies to earn points toward LEED® v4 credits and other certifications.
- Determine the benefits realized by facilities that have adopted green restroom design and the use of water-saving products and high-speed, energy-efficient hand dryers through case study examples.
This CEU course is also available at your preferred CEU course provider: