This seminar analyzes the characteristics of cork, bamboo, and hardwood. Architect and design professionals will become more familiar with these materials as a flooring option in an effort to properly specify the material that will perform best in their client projects. Sustainability, indoor air quality, and maintenance for each material will be examined as well.

Learning Objectives

· Identify the major differences among cork, bamboo, and hardwoods as a flooring material.
· Discuss the growth cycles and sustainability of cork, bamboo, and hardwoods.
· Explain how the use of cork, bamboo, and hardwoods as a flooring material improves indoor air quality.
· Describe the routine and long-term care and maintenance of cork, bamboo, and hardwood flooring.

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

IDS: 1 CEU

IIDA: 0.1 CEU

This seminar explores the uses and benefits of engineered wood flooring. Architect, construction, and design professionals will become more familiar with the construction and manufacturing processes of engineered wood flooring to properly specify the material for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Identify the construction of engineered wood flooring and how it differs from solid wood flooring

· Understand the manufacturing process for engineered wood flooring

· Recognize when and where to specify engineered wood flooring products

· Understand the renewability of engineered wood flooring

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

IDS: 1 CEU

IIDA: 0.1 CEU

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding the environmental impacts of real wood flooring so that they can effectively specify wood flooring for their client projects, and meet potential green building program criteria.

Learning Objectives

· Understand the renewability of real wood floors

· Discuss the life cycle of real wood floors

· Describe the impact of real wood flooring on natural resources

· Identify the impact of real wood flooring on global warming

· Recognize the impact of real wood flooring on landfill waste

· Explain the impact of real wood flooring on indoor air quality

· Define VOCs

· Summarize the sustainability of real wood flooring

· Convey the maintenance of real wood flooring

· Detail the value of real wood floors

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

This seminar explores the process of how trees become wood flooring. Architect and design professionals will become more familiar with wood and its use as a flooring material in an effort to properly specify the product for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Understand how US forests are managed and harvested to promote sustainable growth

· Explain the manufacturing process for both lumber and wood flooring production

· Discuss what happens to wood flooring after it is manufactured

· Describe the different ways that wood flooring can be installed

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit

IDS: 1 CEU

IIDA: 0.1 CEU

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding how real wood flooring is graded in an effort to properly specify the product for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Understand history of wood floors

· Discuss why grading rules became necessary

· Name grading programs

· Identify wood flooring grades

· Define how grade affect appearance

· Recognize differences for unfinished vs. factory-finished grades

· Explain differences for solid vs. engineered grades

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

IDS: 1 CEU

IIDA: 0.1 CEU

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding the processes involved in properly maintaining and refinishing real wood flooring so that they can effectively specify wood flooring for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Explain maintenance of real wood floors

· Discuss color changes

· Examine seasonal fluctuations

· Understand maintenance coats

· Describe sand, refinish

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

IDCEC: 1 Credit

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding the characteristics of wood flooring so that they can effectively specify real wood flooring for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Understand the history of real wood floors

· Discuss the advantages of real wood floors

· Describe the types of real wood floors

· Review the Janka scale measuring the hardness of solid wood

· Identify wood flooring grades

· Discern how cut affects the appearance of real wood floors

· Differentiate the cuts for both solid and engineered wood floors

· Recognize how real wood floors react to moisture

· Explain the sustainability of real wood floors

· Examine the maintenance of real wood floors

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

IDCEC: 1 Credit

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding the physical properties and characteristics of wood and the variables that should be considered when specifying it as flooring for their commercial client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Understand the physical properties, characteristics of hardwood, softwood

· Describe variables considered when wood flooring is used in commercial spaces

· Identify which wood floors perform best in commercial applications

· Discuss potential issues that could arise when using wood flooring in commercial settings

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

This course explores how different saw cuts will affect the appearance and performance of real wood flooring. Architect, construction, and design professionals will become more familiar with the different sawing methods available for wood in an effort to properly specify the material that will best meet their client’s aesthetic and performance expectations.

Learning Objectives

· Identify the different saw cuts used to produce real wood flooring

· Explain how each of these saw cuts affects the appearance of real wood flooring

· Understand how each of these saw cuts affects the performance of real wood flooring

· Recognize how lumber is dried and how the process differs depending on saw cut

· Describe how moisture will affect wood flooring performance based on how it is cut from the tree

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

IDS: 1 CEU

IIDA: 0.1 CEU

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding the species used for wood flooring so that they can effectively specify real wood flooring for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Recognize the difference between hardwood and softwood

· Identify the aesthetic characteristics of real wood

· Understand the mechanical properties of real wood

· Discuss the sustainability of real wood

· Define domestic species and their characteristics

· Examine imported species and their characteristics

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

IDS: 1 CEU

IIDA: 0.1 CEU

This course assists architect, construction, and design professionals in understanding wood flooring trends and how these trends impact the specification process of real wood for their client projects.

Learning Objectives

· Explain the benefits of real wood vs. wood look-alike products

· Discuss the preference for domestic vs. imported wood species

· Examine the shift from solid to engineered wood flooring

· Discuss the move from unfinished to factory-finished wood floors

· Explore the switch from strip wood floors to plank and wide plank

· Discuss the wide variety of parquet patterns

· Review the benefits and uses of end-grain

· Describe the drift from character-free wood floors to character-inclusive

· Understand the desire for natural vs. stained wood

· Identify the evolution of finish preference

ASSOCIATIONS:

AIA: 1 LU, HSW

ASID: 1 Credit

IDC: 1 CEU

IDCEC: 1 Credit, HSW

IDS: 1 CEU