Join AIA Virginia for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch-n-Learn sessions for those who still need LUs and specifically HSW credits before December 31, 2025.
We hope you’ll join us below:
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Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
Description: This course explores how architectural films transform glass and other surfaces to enhance privacy, elevate design, and express brand identity within modern work environments. Participants will learn how decorative, branded, solar, safety, exterior, and bird-safety films support productive, visually cohesive spaces while also offering opportunities for improved comfort, sustainability, and occupant well-being. Emphasis is placed on responsible design practices, including the use of film as a retrofit strategy that gives existing glass new life—reducing waste, extending material longevity, and supporting environmentally conscious building improvements. The course highlights creative applications, emerging trends, and best practices for using film as a strategic medium to enrich user experience, strengthen identity, and deepen consumer connection through narrative-driven and emotionally resonant design.
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify how architectural films can enhance privacy, aesthetics, and overall spatial quality to support productive and visually cohesive work environments, and how retrofitting existing glass with film can extend material life and reduce waste.
2. Understand the ways decorative, branded, and custom film applications contribute to expressing identity, strengthening brand storytelling, and improving consumer connection while facilitating healthier, safer, and environmentally responsible building outcomes.
3. Discuss how various film types—including solar, safety, exterior, and bird-safety films—can offer additional opportunities for improved comfort, environmental responsibility, and occupant well-being when incorporated thoughtfully into design solutions.
4. Apply best practices for selecting and specifying film solutions that align design intent, privacy needs, branding goals, and broader environmental or performance considerations within modern architectural spaces.
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
Description: This is the first course in our CMU embodied carbon series, focusing on how concrete masonry units (CMU) differ from traditional wet-cast concrete in terms of carbon impact. We will set the stage for the concrete and carbon sequestration discussion by looking at the larger geologic carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions; and how it all relates to climate change. We will then look at the concrete carbon cycle and recent CMHA sequestration research and testing which demonstrates the accelerated sequestration rates substantially reducing the overall embodied carbon of dry-cast CMU construction.
Learning Objectives: 1. Explore how concrete masonry construction offers interconnected sustainability strategies.
2. Explore the relevant similarities and differences between dry-cast concrete masonry units (CMU) and wet-cast concrete. These differences are why CMU assemblies have lower embodied carbon and increased carbon sequestration rates.
3. Define terms that describe how concrete masonry construction fits into the climate change conversation and explain why concrete sequesters carbon dioxide.
4. Review sequestration research conducted by the Concrete Masonry and Hardscapes Association (CMHA) that separates CMU from other types of concrete when evaluating embodied carbon
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
Description:
Provides an overview of walkable, waterproof roof deck membranes and roofing systems, including a discussion of the key principles of deck design, design considerations, and how to install and specify roof deck membrane systems. This program will be extremely beneficial to architects, specifiers, and contractors involved in single and multiple-family homes that include decks, balconies, and rooftop decks.
Learning Objectives: 1. Types of walkable roof decks, various waterproofing options, and their common problems.
2. The characteristics, advantages, and applications of walkable roof decks and outdoor flooring systems.
3. Important design concepts and considerations for walkable roof decks, balconies, and walkways.
4. Walkable roof deck and waterproof outdoor flooring system common details and installation considerations.
5. Understanding of key specification issues for roof deck membranes.
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
Description: Learning doesn’t have to come in the form of a lecture! This course is delivered in a fun interactive game format. It discusses the basic hardware requirements for specifying door hardware along with some of the code requirements that determine what hardware that must be specified to comply with building and fire and life safety code.
Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:
Describe locking hardware that can be used to secure an opening that will meet the owner’s needs while still complying with codes.
Define “knowing act” switches, when/where they can be used, and list code requirements that pertain to them.
Describe door protection hardware and how code requirements affect your choices.
Specify opening hardware that best fits the use of the opening, while remaining code compliant.
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
Description:
Structural fire protection guards essential structural components from the devastating effects of fire. This course examines the various active and passive fireproof methods that are available, with a focus on the features, types, and design considerations of Fire Trol structural columns designed for exposed exterior and interior load-bearing columns. This course is designed for structural architects and engineers, CM’s, GC’s and building owners.
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain the difference between active and passive fire protection and strategies used in commercial building. 2. Define the applications, composition, shapes, features, and standards related to the Fire Trol column. 3. Understand lifetime cost savings that can be realized by utilizing Fire Trol columns vs. other passive forms of fire protection.
4. Comprehend design and erection considerations related to Fire Trol columns.
Join AIA Virginia for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch-n-Learn sessions for those who still need LUs and specifically HSW credits before December 31, 2024.
We hope you’ll join us below:
(click the subject below to be taken to registration link)
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
We hope you’ll join us below:
December 16: Choosing the Right Roofing System with Paxton Whitmore from Garland Industries, Inc. (1 AIA LU | HSW credit)
Description:
This presentation is intended to provide participants with an understanding of the three most common commercial low slope roofing systems and the various application options available. It also provides an overview of various ASTM testing methods used to define the performance of each system.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the proper analysis and evaluation in selecting the right roof system
2. Learn about the ASTM testing methods used to define the performance of roof systems
3. Learn about the three most common commercial low slope roofing systems
4. Determine which application method will best suit your needs
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute, because we get it.
We hope you’ll join us below:
December 17: Transportation Noise Control In Residential Buildings with Scott Harvey from Phoenix Noise and Vibration (1 AIA LU | HSW credit)
In urban and suburban environments, transportation noise continually impacts residential properties 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This applies to not only major sources such as interstate highways, airports, and railways but to secondary streets in urban environments as well, where buildings crowd closely to busy roadways. Understanding the fundamentals of noise, noise regulations, building shell design, and implementation are key to creating quiet living spaces in close proximity to major and “minor” transportation noise sources.
Learning Objectives:
1: Define basic noise metrics
2: Understand local transportation noise regulations
3: Identify primary building shell noise control parameters
4: Incorporate fundamental noise control techniques in building design
