This course explores how integrated digital workflows can support architects and designers in evaluating and reducing the carbon impact of building projects. Participants will examine how sustainability data, performance metrics, and benchmarking can be incorporated into early and ongoing design decision making using digital tools. The session focuses on understanding how carbon related insights can inform design alternatives, support regulatory and voluntary reporting requirements, and align project workflows with industry sustainability commitments, including the AIA 2030 Commitment. Emphasis is placed on practical application, data informed decision making, and the role of technology in advancing environmental responsibility within architectural practice. 

A safe and secure healthcare environment involves passive fire protection, safety, and security features, requiring unique door hardware solutions. This session is structured to engage the senior practitioner as well as the emerging professional.  Join our presenters as they walk you through solutions for door locking, fire and smoke protection, and ligature resistance, while maintaining functionality and code compliance in challenging healthcare environments.

Rainscreen systems are designed to protect a building's exterior and interior from moisture, improve thermal efficiency, and enhance the building's durability in areas prone to high levels of moisture and wind-driven rain. This course will explore the importance of designing resilient buildings and the dangers of moisture intrusion for building longevity. It will examine how rainscreens manage moisture, their components, and climate specific considerations. It will demonstrate how fiber cement siding and horizontal steel furring can be used to create a rainscreen system, including important installation considerations. 

How much progress have the more than 24,286 projects totaling 3.4 billion gross square feet (GSF) designed last year made toward achieving net-zero carbon? The AIA 2030 Commitment, a major climate initiative, brings together almost 1,600 architecture and design firms that have agreed to monitor their projects' energy data with the aim of attaining carbon neutrality in the built environment. Following the release of the 2030 By the Numbers 2025 report, we will discuss the report's main findings. We will examine the trends in overall energy performance, the growing use of energy modelling, and the way in which renewables, fuel sources, and embodied carbon are reported. Looking to the future, since the Commitment has now been in place for 17 years and is less than five years away from 2030, the Working Group is suggesting a move away from the energy savings defined in CBECS 2003 towards total carbon reporting — a change in direction which will start with a series of iterative updates starting next year.

Join AIA Chief Economist Richard Branch for a quarterly conversation about the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI). The ABI is a leading monthly economic indicator that uses proprietary AIA data to predict nonresidential construction activity 9–12 months ahead. Get ahead of emerging challenges and opportunities and inform your strategic planning with key insights into the industry’s latest economic data and trends.

Designing inclusive justice facilities requires more than strong architectural intent or stakeholder consultation; it requires delivery models that embed collaboration into the structure of the project itself. Justice and public safety facilities are uniquely complex, balancing security, public access, long term adaptability, and community trust—often across multiple jurisdictions and stakeholder groups. This session explores how Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) can function as a practical collaborative methodology for addressing these challenges.  Using a confidential law enforcement project as a case study, the session examines how IPD enabled early alignment between municipalities, justice stakeholders, designers, engineers, and trade partners to address long term growth, operational complexity, and evolving public safety needs. The project brought together multiple municipal owners and a multidisciplinary team within an IPD framework that emphasized early partner engagement, transparent cost modeling, and facilitated validation—allowing critical conversations about scale, flexibility, systems integration, and future readiness to occur when they could meaningfully influence outcomes.  The session focuses on how IPD shifts collaboration from isolated engagement moments to a continuous, integrated process. Participants will learn how early partner involvement supports shared understanding of justice operations, reduces disciplinary silos, and improves the translation of functional requirements into spatial and systems decisions. Rather than positioning IPD solely as a risk management or cost control tool, the session frames it as a collaborative methodology that supports more inclusive, resilient, and future ready justice environments.

Window and door frames shape far more than sight lines and operation. In custom residential design, frame material choices influence window and door sizes, structural performance, thermal behavior, condensation risk, durability, maintenance, resilience, safety, and long-term homeowner satisfaction. Participants will learn how pultruded fiberglass is manufactured and how it compares to other composites, focusing on performance characteristics such as strength, durability, exterior finishes, certified mulling and design flexibility.  The course concludes with an overview of Marvin’s fiberglass product collections and provides participants with application guidance to help make informed decisions on the best use cases for each product collection.

Intended for licensed architects, engineers, or certified building inspectors, this training certifies attendees as Building Evaluators in the nationally recognized Safety Assessment Program (SAP). To register | Click Add to cart and complete the checkout process. Evaluator Field Manuals |  ATC 45 | ATC 20 | Participants are responsible for purchasing these texts from ATC. They are not included in the course cost. The program is managed by Cal OES with cooperation from professional organizations, including AIA. It utilizes volunteers and mutual aid resources to provide professional engineers, architects and certified building inspectors to assist local governments in safety evaluation of their built environment in an aftermath of a disaster. SAP is the training standard of the AIA Disaster Assistance Program, which provides leadership, advocacy, and training to architects who are interested in volunteering their professional skills in times of crisis. This workshop will teach participants to conduct rapid damage assessments of structures affected by earthquakes, wind, and water. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to consistently and safely assess structures for habitability and will receive a nationally recognized Cal OES registration ID card from the state of California. AIA SAP Training Program