Event Overview

Outdoor Kitchen Design Using Stainless Steel Cabinetry

Presented by Brown Jordan Outdoor Kitchens
IDCEC 1.0 / AIA 1.0 HSW, NKBA, NARI

Selecting outdoor kitchen cabinetry and appliances that meet a client’s needs and budget and that address climate concerns can be challenging. This course explores the design of safe, functional, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor kitchen and living areas and presents the various types of cabinetry available, with a focus on stainless steel as a positive alternative for cabinetry. Included is a synopsis of outdoor kitchen design principles and considerations.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Discuss stainless steel cabinetry as a durable, versatile, sustainable, and timeless option for outdoor kitchens and describe the finishes, cabinets types, and door styles available.
• Design an outdoor space that enhances occupant lifestyle and fosters social interaction, and choose the appropriate outdoor appliances and components based on function, performance, budget, space, materials, and client needs.
• Explain the design issues, such as kitchen layout, grill location, lighting, and slip-resistant surfaces, that must be considered before starting an outdoor kitchen building project to ensure the final space is safe and functional.
• Incorporate heating/cooling and shelter as functional elements that address occupant comfort and protection and decorative elements that enhance the outdoor kitchen design and overall user experience.

Wood Flooring Saw Cuts: Appearance & Performance Attributes

Provider: National Wood Flooring Association and Presented by Metropolitan Floors with Tongue & Groove Premium Wood Flooring
IDCEC 1.0/HSW, AIA, ASID, IIDA, NKBA

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

Designing for Wellness: The Benefits of Sauna and How to Design for the Home

Provider: Thermasol Sauna and Steam
IDCEC, AIA 1.0 / HSW, NKBA, and NARI

Many around the world look to escape the modern stresses of life by incorporating healthier options of living, including the implementation of Smart Home Technologies. Wellness technology at home has evolved over the years, and in this course, participants will learn about the recent shift towards wellness-oriented smart home design and its marketplace.

We’ll discuss smart home technology that benefits air quality, natural light, comfort-focused sleep technology, water purifiers, steam shower systems, and many more. As we go through these topics, we’ll consider the key benefits and how wellness technology can improve the health, safety, and welfare of our lives.

Learning Objectives

• Review the home wellness-oriented market size and its statistics with a focus on air quality, natural light, better sleep, and water purification.
• Discover smart home technologies that can improve occupants’ health, safety, and welfare.
• Analyze the positive effects of wellness technology on an individual’s time & organization, interpersonal connections, and physical & mental health.
• Understand and integrate intelligent primary bathroom design with health, wellness, and steam shower.

Designing with Architectural Decorative Glass

Provider: Empoli Rep Group Presented by General Glass International
IDCEC 1.10/ HSW, ASID, IIDA, IDC, HSW, NARI

Today’s architects and designers have hundreds of choices when it comes to architectural glass for interior and exterior applications. Architects, designers and owners are continually looking for ways to make their buildings stand out and be distinct. Architectural decorative glass continues to lead the way in architectural design.
Glass Entrances and facades, glass floors and ceilings, frameless glass walls, glass balustrades for staircases, glass entrances, glass telephone kiosks and bus shelters, shower doors, partitions in sports arenas – all these are examples of areas where architectural decorative glass can play a major role without sacrificing performance.

This course will examine the use of architectural decorative glass in both interior and exterior applications. Addressing how the performance, safety and sustainable design can be incorporated by the choice of decorative glass.

Learning Objectives: After completion of this course, participants will be able to understand
the following:

• The definition and various types of decorative glass for architectural applications
• The performance capabilities of decorative glass
• The use of decorative glass in interior and exterior applications
• How to evaluate and specify decorative glass
• How decorative glass can contribute to sustainable design