Wiley CPE - Continuing Professional Education

This course offers a detailed exploration of the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design building assessment system for New Construction, or LEED–NC, in preparation for taking the exam to become a LEED Accredited Professional. After completing this course, you will be able to identify and explain each LEED category and credit, be familiar with the history and structure of the USGBC, understand the benefits of green building, explain how LEED Online works and how a project becomes LEED certified. It is recommended that you take this course before Learning to LEED: LEED AP Exam Preparation.

This course provides a review of all LEED-NC 2.2 categories, credits, and points, referenced standards, exemplary performance points, calculations, and terms. Additionally, you will learn how to sign up and prepare to take the LEED Accredited Professional examination and what to expect. The first part of this course reviews material you should be familiar with from having taken Learning to LEED: Overview of Green Design, USGBC, and LEED 2.2, and the second part offers mock LEED AP exams that can be taken as often as needed and which are graded based on category to know which areas or topics need further review. Also includes downloadable/printable flashcards for use as an additional study aid.

The U.S. economy is in the midst of an economic downturn that seems likely to be long-lasting and far-reaching. Architectural practices have historically been highly susceptible to changes in the economic environment, and this recession is no exception. The purpose of this course is to provide you, no matter how big or small your firm is or what your position is in it, with basic marketing information and tools that can help you to sustain your practice during these challenging economic times. With this vital information in hand, you and your firm will be equipped to retain existing clients and adapt to attract new projects in an increasingly competitive environment.

Structural glued laminated timber (glulam) is a material that combines the warmth and beauty of wood with modern engineering to create structures for the most demanding applications. From short-span headers and beams in residential construction, to graceful exposed arches and curved beams in churches, to long span beams and trusses for commercial spaces, glulam has the answer. Because glulam is primarily made of wood, a basic understanding of this natural material is necessary for effective design with glulam. This learning module provides the fundamental wood knowledge upon which the designer can build. Subsequent modules will focus on glulam’s unique properties and present methods for structural analysis.

Structural glued laminated timber (glulam) marries the traditional warmth and beauty of wood with modern engineering to create a beautiful material with outstanding structural properties. This learning module builds on the material properties presented in Course 1, "Fundamental Wood Properties and Lumber Characteristics", to provide an understanding of the fundamental structural properties of glued laminated timber necessary for effective design with this material.

Closing materials loops through use of reclaimed materials, reprocessed materials or recycled materials can go a long way toward reducing the use of resources and associated energy use and pollution impacts. This course offers a discussion of the issues surrounding these practices and strategies for their implementation. It addresses inputs and outputs of material production, emerging trends and policies in material manufacturing, strategies for reduction of resource use, understanding and overcoming the challenges of deconstruction, and standards and sources of recycled content materials.

Incorporating a high degree of rigor and science in the evaluation process, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool for deciding which materials fit the criteria for environmental friendliness. This course prepares project team members with an understanding of LCA and how to use it to gain information about the resources, emissions, and other impacts resulting from the life cycle of materials use, from extraction through disposal.

This course introduces integrated project planning, a collaborative and comprehensive process for expanding architectural services across the full building life-cycle. Topics covered include integrated project planning strategies, including Building Information Modeling, for successful design, teamwork, risk management, and communication. More than a dozen case studies are discussed that highlight best practices in integrated project planning.

The project management approach combines teamwork, communication, cooperation, and trust to obtain better control and use of existing resources. This course provides architects and design professionals with an overview of basic project management concepts from benefits, implementation, major roles and responsibilities to closing out a project.

Sustainable communities protect their natural and cultural resources and provide pedestrian-friendly built environments with a distinct sense of place. Because communities evolve incrementally – parcel-by-parcel – site planning is an integral activity in shaping the built environment. This course provides architects and planners with the tools to assess a site's suitability for a specific development or redevelopment program and to analyze the assets and liabilities (or opportunities and constraints) inherent to the site and its surrounding context.

Water leakage is the greatest threat to building envelopes. This course demonstrates the use of detail patterns that address water leakage. By using the detailing patterns in this course, designers will be able to create countless new details that conform to sound principles and can be economically and easily implemented.

Applying the Critical Influence approach to effective work environments, this course offers a practical approach for helping clients manage change through planned office design. Designers will learn the fifteen critical influences on behavior in the workplace, understand how to consider a company's cultural, environmental, and operational elements in order to optimize the workplace environment to improve productivity and better support organizational goals.

Based upon the popular Building Codes Illustrated book series, this course offers an introduction to the basic principals of the International Building Code and its application in building design. The course gives design professionals a graphically-oriented view of how the code is developed and how it is to be applied to project design, and lays out the steps to accomplish a code analysis that can serve as a basis for code-compliant design.

Green building assessment systems are intended to provide an indication of how green or environmentally friendly a building is. This course introduces the major national and international building assessment systems including LEED, Green Globes, BREEAM, CASBEE and Green Star. A case study of a LEED-NC Platinum rated building is examined in depth, along with a possible approach for improving the rigor of building assessment systems based on The Natural Step sustainability framework.

Each year, 12,000 lives are lost in building fires in the United States. Poorly designed interiors—their materials, in particular—have been implicated in many fires. This course covers the principles of fire safety including design, building codes, egress, materials and finishes, and detection and suppression systems.