Title:  High Performance Envelope Design (HSW) (SD)

LO #1:  Review the physical interaction between the building envelope and the mechanical systems.

LO #2:  Identify the conditions where the building envelope becomes critical to building performance.

LO #3:  Articulate the principles of heat transfer, moisture migration, and air infiltration to design for energy efficiency and good indoor air quality.

Title:  The 10 Worst Contractual Provisions (HSW)

LO #1:  Discuss the business and professional risks generated by onerous contractual provisions.

LO #2:  Demonstrate how to educate clients on contract language as a guide to professional performance.

LO #3:  Identify alternatives that provide real value without unmanageable risk that can be negotiated as substitutes to unreasonable provisions.   

Title:  Designing for Aging Baby Boomers as Opposed to Seniors: What's the Difference? (HSW)

LO #1:  Identify upcoming trends in senior housing as affected by baby boomers as they begin to become seniors.

LO #2:  List differences between previous and upcoming seniors and extrapolate what the differences mean to designing for the new seniors.

LO #3:  Evaluate lessons learned and analyze research and real-life projects from the people who created them.

Title:  BIM Strategies from Public and Private Clients: Owners' Perspective (HSW)

LO #1:  Assess the dynamic business conditions cultivated by BIM-related technologies based on a wide range of concrete examples.

LO #2:  Discuss the new opportunities in integrated professional services and deliverables associated with BIM-related mandates and requirements posted by major public and private owners.

LO #3:  Review the GSA’s business motivation for BIM as well as the latest progress on developing a BIM guide.

Title:  The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters

LO #1:  Discuss ways to make life less frenetic and complicated through a series of questions that determine the apparent absoluteness of each circumstance.

LO #2:  Practice listening for what clients are really looking for and reevaluate programmatic needs based on that information.

LO #3:  Employ tools to start living a more fulfilling life without having to change anything other than perspective.

Title:  Smart Buildings: How to Integrate Advanced Building Systems (HSW)

LO #1:  Identify the technical systems and their interrelationships in a smart building.

LO #2:  Summarize the impact of smart buildings on architectural and design issues.

LO #3:  Analyze, through a case study, how the cost of smart buildings is justified to clients.

Title:  Building for Accessibility Affects Our Lifecycle (HSW)

LO #1:  Discuss why accessibility from the beginning creates a more usable product for all.

LO #2:  Discuss errors that are not necessarily code violations.

LO #3:  Identify errors that are red flags for complaints.

Title:  Architect-led Design-Build: A Practical Business Plan

LO #1:  Create and establish a feasible, profitable, and personally rewarding business structure, reverting to the architect’s traditional role of master builder.

LO #2:  Bifurcate your design-build practices into separate design and construction companies that reduce your overall liabilities to less than what you presently incur in traditional practice.

LO #3:  Structure and organize an effective designbuild team with contractors to perform the construction for your projects using your
newly developed design-build capacity to market and sell your services more effectively.

Title:  Toward Eco-Effective Design (HSW) (SD)

LO #1:  Define high-end performance goals in terms of site, water, materials, energy, indoor environmental quality, mobility, and
community.

LO #2:  Demonstrate how to bridge the gap between these high-end goals and project realities and limitations of budget, resources, schedule, and technology.

LO #3:  Discuss how systems like LEED may need to evolve in order to truly address a sustaining future.

Title:  Structural Bamboo: Thinking Outside the Wooden Box (HSW) (SD)

LO #1:  Identify bamboo appropriate for construction and compare the designs of effective bamboo connections and details.

LO #2:  Outline a process for gaining building code acceptance for new sustainable materials using bamboo as an example and contrast the International Organization for Standardization’s standard for bamboo with ICC certification.

LO #3:  Compare environmental benefits of bamboo construction with wood, steel, and concrete and appraise the overall importance of such materials decisions by architects in terms of sustainability.

Title:  Hit the 50 Percent Reduction Mark Using Today's BIM Tools (HSW) (SD)

LO #1:  Discover why the most important energy decision an architect can make is in the building design scheme selection process.

LO #2:  Determine that analyzing the energy of each scheme can be cost effectively done with today's BIM tools as well as sharing
information with an engineer, energy consultant, or LEED consultant.

LO #3:  Achieve a 50 percent fossil fuel reduction in energy by determining how to use an engineer effectively in scheme selection and early charrettes to greatly increase the chances for an energy- and resource-efficient design.

Title:  The Barefoot Home and the New Informality (HSW) (SD)

LO #1:  Explore ways to create houses that address the new informality, affecting how homeowners think about home, where they want to live, and how they live at home.

LO #2:  Compare the green-leaning new informality movement and ecologically aware Barefoot Home ideas—such as openness and indoor/outdoor living—with sustainable design and the trend toward smaller, more efficient houses.

LO #3:  Identify products, materials, architectural elements, and design characteristics that contribute informality, openness, and
“barefoot” texture to indoor/outdoor houses that are durable, low maintenance, and sustainable.

Title:  The IBC: A Step-by-Step Process (HSW)

LO #1:  Initiate an International Building Code (IBC) code-compliant architectural design to use the code in conceptual, schematic, and design development phases as a tool for design rather than a governmental mandate.

LO #2:  Apply the procedural steps necessary to create an IBC code-compliant building and locate/apply the correct code tables and
provisions.

LO #3:  Analyze a project for code compliance for the major aspects of the 2006 International Building Code, thereby arriving at a
code-conforming design.

Title:  BIM Best Practices, Best Results (HSW) (SD)

LO #1:  List BIM analysis tools in several categories that contribute to the design of sustainable, high performance buildings.

LO #2:  Analyze the case studies presented and apply the best practices in your firm to improve collaboration and information management on your projects.

LO #3:  Explain to others in your firm what BIM deliverables the U.S. General Services Administration requires, the content and
relevance of the U.S. National Building Information Model Standard, and the concept of design data licensing.                                                       

Title:  100 Years since the San Francisco Earthquake (HSW) (SD)
Subtitle:  Critical Lessons about Earthquake Design Components

LO#1:  Attendees will be able to describe the conditions of the 1906 earthquake analyzing why some buildings suffered extreme damage while others did not.

LO#2:  Attendees will identify the state of seismic technology as it is today and summarize the modern marvels as well and its limitations.

LO#3:  Attendees will explore the advances in technology of performance based engineering and discuss how future buildings will be designed for earthquake conditions.

Title:  Architect's Discuss America's New Regionalism (HSW) (SD)
Subtitle:  Seminar and Evening Exchange Program

LO#1:  Attendees will discover the many influences a building derives from its region from overall design to construction details.

LO#2:  Attendees will identify methods for combining traditional building components and techniques to create new, sustainable buildings, and comprehend public perception of regionally appropriate design.

LO#3:  Attendees will analyze systems for designing comfortable buildings that minimize damage to the environment and maximize the enjoyment of light, air, color, texture, and patterns and evaluate techniques for achieving design excellence on limited budgets.

Title:  Griffith Observatory - LA's Most Ambitous Rehabilitation Ever (HSW) (SD)
Subtitle: n/a

LO#1:  Describe the most ambitious rehabilitation in California's history of one of its most well known landmarks.

LO#2:  Summarize the structural challenges that occurred with preserving the entire historic structure while excavating the ground below the structure to make way for new exhibit and office space.

LO#3:  Summarize the design processes that are involved with such a massive rehabiltiation project.

Title:  Innovation on Budget: Using Cost as a Design Tool
Subtitle:  n/a

LO#1:  We will explore the language of cost, how it is expressed, how program and non-program area influence cost and how to improve project value by monitoring cost “drivers” such as:site, project type, building configuration, program, efficiency, quality,etc.

LO#2:  We will provide tools to help the design team facilitate the dialogue between cost and design. We will discuss ways to empower your design team and hold your clients accountable for requirements and changes that influence project cost.

LO#3:  Participants will learn how to safeguard their client’s budget and their own fee.  Participants will learn how to align and manage scope requirements, quality expectations and available funding as a powerful design tool.

Title:  Multi-Cultural Modernism
Subtitle:  Los Angeles: An Incubator of Change

LO#1:  Knowledge: expand current paradigms in modern applied architecture to include a more Multi-Cultural, global view.

LO#2:  Application: use of the principles illustrated in the lecture into everyday practice, sensing place and listening to the people for which the individual designs.

LO#3:  Evaluation: compare and contrast the paradigms within modern architecture and that of global architecture and analyze the the benefits of using a Multi-Cultural design approach to everyday practice.

Title:  Preventing Moisture in Building Envelopes (HSW)
Subtile:  Solving Problems Before They Occur

LO#1:  Participants will learn the fundamentals of water management in the exterior envelope.

LO#2:  Participants will be presented with a framework for an approach to locating and addressing exterior envelope problems in new construction.

LO#3:  Participants will have the opportunity to review and discuss unique solutions related to moisture problems using case-study examples.

Title:  Rebirth of the Master Builder - The BIM Paradigm Shift
Subtitle:  The New Modes of Representation are Challenging the Status Quo of Design and Construction

LO#1:  Identify cases where the Building Information Modeling process may be of use as opposed to conventional modes of representation.

LO#2:  Appraise and compare design solutions at an advanced level.

LO#3:  Analyze complex problems and solve them before construction.

Title:  Running a Design Focused Practice Like you Mean It
Subtitle:  Getting Creative about Being a Creative Business

LO#1:  Participants will be able to evaluate their current practices using benchmarks and standards explained and provided in the seminar.

LO#2:  Participants will learn how to use and integrate specific tools, checklists, example language/phrases, form letters, etc. into the everyday working of their practice.

LO#3:  Participants will be able to make a series of adjustments to their existing office practices, procedures and policies that will result in a more financially sustainable business model.

Title:  Sharpening Your Presentation Skills
Subtitle:  Architeture as Performance Art I

LO#1:  Attendees will gain an understanding of how oral presentations differ fundamentally from written or graphic communication, and how writing or graphic skills do not necessarily translate to oral presentations.

LO#2:  Attendees will develop a structure for creating and performing their own oral presentations that has shown to be successful in a variety of client and public settings.

LO#3:  Attendees will learn several of the pitfalls that are unique to design professionals in presentation contexts, and how to avoid those pitfalls while making compelling presentations.

Title:  Starting a Design Firm
Subtitle:  The Architect's Essentials of Starting and Operating a New Firm.

LO#1:  Participants will learn how to determine if they 'have what it takes' to start a firm.

LO#2:  Participants will learn what to do to actually start a firm, including how to market and sell, capitalize, organize, and most important, plan.

LO#3:  From real examples and models, participants will learn from the efforts and results of others, the things to do and not to do to continue in operation successfully.

Title:  Strategies for Finding/Creating the Structures of Place
Subtitle:  Elements of a Place-based Practice

LO#1:  Discuss how to incorporate elements of a Place-based Practice into your work: absorb/qualify the patterns of the place; expand the benefits to the built realm.

LO#2:  Explore ideas to bring places to life: with form, with activities, with events. Find/bring human measure in the place. Structure a variety of encounters.

LO#3:  Learn methods to enhance a distinctive mix of city fabric and characterizing incident, open to/celebrate the passage of time and transformation; embed natural process and respond to the larger landscape. Leave room for improvisation and appropriation.

Title:  The Building Information Model as a Collaboration Tool
Subtitle:  n/a

LO#1:  Identify the features of Building Information Models that support effective collaboration in project teams.

LO#2:  Demonstrate how Building Information Models can radically improve the effectiveness of project team collaboration and bring direct value to a project.

LO#3:  Describe challenges of implementing model-based collaboration and how they can be overcome.

Title:  The Business of Architecture: The New Practice Frontier
Subtitle:  The Key Business Success Factors in Consideration of the Architectural Firms of the Future

LO#1:  Identify the internal and external Key Success Business Factors and how the factors are to be considered by a firm in the future.

LO#2:  Discuss each of the factors and the impact of these factors on the firm - determining the gap between today's firm and that of tomorrow.

LO#3:  Propose various approach methodologies that would aid in attaining realistic and measurable goals for a key factor.

Title:  The IBC - A Step by Step Process  (HSW)
Subtitle:  n/a

LO#1:  Initiate an IBC code-compliant architectural design.

LO#2:  Apply the steps necessary to create an IBC code-compliant building and locate / apply the correct code tables and provisions.

LO#3:  Analyze a project for code compliance for the major aspects of the International Building Code, thereby arriving at a code-conforming design.

Title:  The Next Architect
Subtitle:  New Paradigms in Professional Practice

LO#1:  Participants will understand the short-term and long-term trends that are causing a fundamental re-alignment in how the profession operates.

LO#2:  Participants will learn specific techniques to cope with the pressure to lower fees and accelerate project schedules while still respecing the bottom line.

LO#3:  Participants will gain new insight about the role of the architect as the overall leader in design and construction, gaining new leverage in the process.