Explore how real wood flooring supports sustainable and healthy building practices. This course covers carbon impacts, forest stewardship, green building programs, and how to select materials that reduce environmental harm.

This course is accredited for 2 LUs/HSWs (AIA).

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the journey of wood flooring from responsible forest management to finished product. This course connects sustainability, craftsmanship, and transparency in the supply chain.

This course is accredited for 2 LUs/HSWs (AIA).

A comparative deep dive into finish types, this course helps specifiers understand how oil and polyurethane finishes affect aesthetics, performance, long-term maintenance, and environmental impact.

This course is accredited for 1 or 2 LU/HSW (AIA)

This course empowers residential design professionals to use wood flooring as a design element—beyond function and durability. From plank dimensions to patterns, tones, and finishes, wood flooring offers endless customization. Learn how to integrate texture, color, layout, and finish to enhance the spatial and emotional experience of home environments.

This course is accredited for 1 LU/HSW (AIA).

This foundational course introduces architects and interior designers to the essential elements of specifying wood flooring. Participants will gain a clear understanding of wood flooring construction, species, finishes, and installation methods to make informed decisions early in the design process.

This course is accredited for 1 LU/HSW (AIA).

This course is about health benefits of natural wood in the built environment.

HSW Justification:
The course covers biophilic design and how wood improves indoor air quality, overall health, better sleep, and stress reduction. Additionally, we will discuss the sustainability of wood and its role in carbon sequestration. Finally, we will outline the benefits of manufacturing without harmful chemicals.

This course is accredited for 2 LU/HSWs.

This course is designed to assist design teams and construction professionals in understanding and applying sustainability certifications to commercial resilient flooring.

This course is accredited for 2 LU/HSWs.

The lecture advocates for open-source design using the new modular standard, demonstrating how global supply chains can be leveraged to fulfill the long-awaited promise of making housing a well-designed and affordable industrial product.

This course is accredited for 2 LU/HSWs.

In this learning program, the reasons and potential benefits of all-electric homes will be examined, with an overview of the energy-efficiency measures that can be employed to minimize operating costs.

This course is 2 LU/HSW

This introductory course covers basic knowledge of rubber flooring, the recycling process, and how they can help better balance the needs for modern living.

This course is 1 LU/HSW

This course talks about how to integrate and apply LED lighting in design, LED lighting specifications, optics technology innovations, and the advantages of being “small”.

This course is 2 LU/HSW

This course talks about the important of native plants and biophilic design within modern landscape architecture.

This course is 2 LU/HSW

A transformative discussion on residential and commercial architectural projects and designs from a minimalistic approach and conceptually has withstood the passage of time and emerges as one of the important topics in designing sustainable living environments.

Come along on a journey about “Little Red”, a transformative case study, with Betty Rexrode, founder and principal of Rexrode Chirigos Architects. “Little Red” is a 14-year laboratory demonstrating off- the-grid building and sustainable lifestyle approach toward zero-impact.

Joseph Vance walks through the process he has developed for producing projects from design through construction in integrated 3D software, demonstrating the profound benefits for architects and designers.

Planning and selecting carpeting for large, complex building corridors presents a unique set of challenges. This lecture covers the full cycle of corridor carpeting considerations including manufacturing, performance, regulatory requirements, fibers, installation, and maintenance.

This course is accredited for 1 or 2 AIA LU’s (HSW).

Natural fibers, including wool, cotton, linen, silk, sisal, jute, seagrass, paper, and coir, offer elegant and environmentally-friendly solutions to your carpeting needs. This lecture covers these natural fibers from harvest through maintenance: where they come from, how to distinguish among them, appropriate uses, installation methods and concerns, and proper care.

This course is accredited for 1 or 2 AIA LU’s (HSW).

Mac Carbonell, founder and creative director of Verdant, presents a case study of The Enclosed Forest, a recently completed 4,800-sq. ft. interior landscape and post-industrial atrium at Crye Precision’s New York headquarters in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Learn how renewable energy elements can be integrated into construction projects, understand the regulatory restraints that can that affect a project’s success and review invaluable case studies.

Accredited for 2 CEU credits through AIA.

Discover how one Tribeca startup is using sustainable agriculture, indoor hydroponic vertical farming, hyperlocal sourcing and the newest technologies to grow Manhattan’s freshest microgreens and edible flowers.

Accredited for 2 CEU credits through AIA. 

Offering insights to both the uninitiated and the initiated, Glenn Gissler will show designers how to integrate fine art into projects, educate oneself about art, locate works, sell art to clients and make decisions on lighting and framing.

Accredited for 1 CEU credit through AIA, ASID and IIDA.

This lecture equips design professionals with the essential criteria for specifying carpeting in commercial applications. Participants will learn to make informed decisions prioritizing sustainability, performance, indoor air quality, and budget considerations.

Accredited for 1 or 2 CEU credits through AIA, ASID and IIDA.

A fascinating lecture on the intersection of architecture, sustainability and urban agriculture with architect and designer, Leslie Hoffman who currently works in the legal marijuana industry.

Matthew Tirschwell will discuss project challenges, and things to consider LED as lights have become the norm.

Accredited for 2 LU/HSW credits through AIA.

Ted Sheridan presents a passive commercial retrofit in Brooklyn, demonstrating how to reduce energy in homes in accordance with NY’s “80×50” plan, which seeks to decrease greenhouse gases 80% by 2050. 

This lecture is accredited for 2 LU/HSW credits through the AIA.

NYC will send zero waste to landfills by 2030. Learn how design can play a major role in achieving and sustaining zero waste.

Accredited for 2 LU/HSW credits through AIA.

Back by popular demand, Joe Sultan will provide practical techniques and personal experience to professionals beginning product design.

Accredited for 2 LU/HSW credits through AIA.

A talk on the essentials of obtaining, navigating, and sustaining a product licensing deal in the home furnishings industry.

Accredited for 2 LU/HSW credits through AIA and .2 credits through ASID.

Master the art of selecting staircase carpeting by knowing your design options, installation techniques, padding and how to assess quality and performance expectations.

Accredited for 1 or 2 CEU credits through AIA, ASID and IIDA.

Learn to distinguish for quality among the many choices when specifying carpeting for your residential clients.

This course is accredited for 1 or 2 AIA LU’s (HSW).

CEO of Chilewich, Joe Sultan will illuminate the unique advantages design professionals possess when collaborating with product manufacturers. He will outline practical tips that equip designers with knowledge to work with US manufacturers, leading to more innovative, domestic partnerships.

Jeff Betts of Ecovative- the first company to develop bio-based resin and foam-like materials made out of mushrooms- explains the benefits of using innovative, living materials to replace traditional building components and how to specify these exciting materials in architectural and design projects.

Learn to spearhead projects that go beyond just environmental sustainability. Master the criteria for new LEED Social Equity pilot credits. You’ll review what makes a building benefit the communities around it, the people who build and maintain it, and the people who manufacture materials that make up its structure.

Textile designer and artist Suzanne Tick will focus on recent art and design aesthetics related to “the self” through the lens of today’s economic and technological landscape. Her lecture will also explore ideas of the self related to existentialism, narcissism, and altruism in present day culture and how these themes are reflected in art and design.

Gain an intimate knowledge about using currently available methods that today’s practitioner can utilize to incorporate renewable energy into their commercial projects. This course will discuss how current regulations and the global energy situation can be used as a tool to make these projects move forward sustainably.

Striving for energy neutrality from conceptual phases through construction and operation – a project presented by The Vermont Performance Lab Campus. It’s a great opportunity to have a discussion with Ted Sheridan who will demonstrate both the strengths and weaknesses of materials, methods, and engineering.