Georgia-Pacific Gypsum offers complimentary courses onsite for architectural firms. A trained AIA/CES facilitator will deliver a one-hour course for your group. Architects can earn one (1) Continuing Education credit.
Topics include:
- Changing the Way We Think of Prefabrication: New Solutions for Your Building Envelope:
Learn how prefabricated construction is advancing in vertical segments from hospital to government, hospitality to office, and beyond. Prefabrication firms are expanding, and new design-build business models, including their own prefabrication factories, are disrupting traditional building approaches with significant success.
- Durability in Commercial Roofing Assemblies:
Provides an overview of the types and performance characteristics of cover board materials used in commercial roofing assemblies, along with a discussion of the forces that threaten roof-system durability.
- Making Transitions: Keeping Air and Water Barriers Continuous:
In this course, we will focus on three transition areas: wall to foundation, openings, and roof to wall. Further, recognizing the innovations and risk mitigation needed in building envelope design, we will also look at the latest advances in all-in-one, integrated gypsum sheathing that include WRB and AB systems during manufacturing as alternatives to field-applied water- and air-barrier systems.
- Selecting Rigid Cover Boards in Commercial Roofing Systems:
The course discusses the evolution of roofing cover boards; explains how the forces of nature affect roof function and durability; summarizes the advantages related to the construction process and cost benefits when including a cover board; and states the roof system types, specialty systems, and attachment options that can be utilized specifically with glass mat gypsum cover boards.
- The Evolution of Water-Resistive and Air Barriers in Commercial Building Envelope Construction:
Understand the key functions required by building codes for water-resistive barriers, continuous air barriers, vapor retarders, and thermal barriers in a building envelope/enclosure.
Certificates are available after the session.
To Register:
https://www.buildgp.com/continuing-education/
Contact:
Chris Hunter, CTR, CCCA, RRO
Building Envelope & Commercial Roofing Manager - Eastern Canada
chris.hunter@gapac.com