Stay Put. | Stay Focused. Stay Informed. |  | A New Webinar Series in Partnership with the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)! | CSI Webinars are 90-minute interactive Internet education programs presented at 2 pm ET, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Each session provides convenient, quality learning at an affordable price — you'll be able to see materials, hear an instructor and ask questions in real time. Participants are charged by site, which means you can invite as many colleagues as you wish to attend a session for one low price! Train your entire team with one registration fee!
The cost per webinar site is $75 for CSI members or $95 for nonmembers. Most CSI webinars qualify for 0.15 CSI Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and 1.5 AIA Learning Units (LUs). Registration questions?
Contact Tara Behmer |  Fundamentals of Sustainable DesignNow available for on-demand viewing. Register Now Speaker: Professor Chris Grech, CSI, RIBA
Master of Sustainable Design Program, The School of Architecture and Planning at The Catholic University of America Session Description: This webinar is intended for students and designers or construction industry professionals. As the first in a series of webinars by faculty from The Master of Sustainable Design Program at The Catholic University of America on the topic of Sustainable Design this session will cover some of the basic concepts behind the intentions of sustainable integrated practice with respect to the selection of construction materials. Consideration of the fundamental criteria determining material choices and how they may produce more sustainable buildings than the accumulation of ‘points’ in a rating system. Learning Objectives: - Understand why sustainability seems like a new concept but in fact isn’t
- Understand the concept of Integrated Practice
- Understand concepts of material choice such as: Embodied Energy, CO2 Emissions, Life Cycle Analysis, Best Management Practices and Pollution Minimization
Credit: 0.15 CSI CEUs, 1.5 AIA LUs, HSW |  Software and Sustainability: Fueling Green Design with BIMNow available for on-demand viewing. Register Now Speaker: Erin Rae Hoffer, AIA, LEED AP
Industry Programs Manager for Autodesk, Inc. Session Description: Aesthetic and cost imperatives can challenge the goals of sustainable, energy-efficient design. Building information modeling (BIM) is an innovative approach to design and construction which provides professionals with opportunities to gain a deeper understanding about sustainability trade-offs, leading to better decision-making throughout the process. This session will illuminate the link between BIM and Sustainable Design. Learning Objectives: - Learn how building information modeling and sustainable design fit into practice for firms today
- Understand how a building information model can be used for specific types of analysis relevant to design sustainability and validation in systems such as the USGBC LEED© rating system
- Become aware of the links between BIM and specifications practice
- Consider project examples which illustrate how a BIM process meets the goals of designers, builders and owners
- Learn about the current trends and future possibilities for BIM and Sustainable Design
Credit: 0.15 CSI CEUs, 1.5 AIA LUs, HSW Sponsored by:
 |  Construction Project Disputes from the Legal PerspectiveThis event has been postponed until further notice. Speaker: Marilyn Klinger
Head of the Los Angeles Construction Practices Group for Sedgwick. Session Description: A program focused on construction project disputes from the legal perspective. This program will examine the following project disputes: (1) disputes over plans and specifications, the RFI process, and the inability to come to a quick resolve; (2) disputes over differing site conditions on the project; (3) disputes over the contractor's access to the project and a change in construction sequencing resulting from such; (4) owner withholds based on contractor's alleged delay in progressing the work of the project; and (5) default termination. We will set the stage and then identify the key contractual and legal provisions that lawyers work with to resolve those disputes. Learning Objectives: - Learn what to look for in reading and drafting those aspects of the general and special conditions that relate to issues that will become subjects of dispute during the project
- Understand how lawyers, judges, and juries look at the contractual provisions that are particularly relevant to construction disputes
- Project dispute examples will be provided to demonstrate how they are resolved in the legal context
Credit: 0.15 CSI CEUs, 1.5 AIA LUs, HSW |  Building Information: A Life-Cycle Approach to Design ManagementNow available for on-demand viewing. Register Now Speaker: Dennis Hall, FCSI, FAIA, SCIP Managing Principal, Hall Architects, Inc.
Nina M. Giglio, Assoc. CSI, AIA, SCIP Hall Architects, Inc.  Session Description: Technology is transforming the way in which architect's practice. Trends toward building information modeling and integrated practice demand more effective processes in the management of building information, which includes the physical and functional characteristics of a building and its related life-cycle information. Even on a small scale, the amount of information required to satisfactorily design, construct, and operate a building is voluminous. This information may include existing conditions, building codes, reference standards, products, and building performance. Accumulation and management of building information begins when the architect first interviews a client and must be organized so that is can be easily stored, retrieved, and manipulated within the building information model throughout a facility's life-cycle. A common misconception is that building information modeling is simply a 3-dimensional graphic model of a building; in fact, the graphic model is only one component of the building information. This presentation will examine how building information in written and graphic form can be linked through the use of data tags to identify properties of objects. The discussion will include philosophy for classifying, organizing, and using building information and explore collaboration tools available to support the evolution of information into essential knowledge. Learning Objectives: - Understand the evolution of building information in the life-cycle of a facility and how Building Information modeling is changing how architects practice.
- Learn methods of classifying organizing, and retrieving building information.
- Examine where technology and the industry will drive the need for building information knowledge in the future, including what is being proposed in the National Building Information Model Standard.
- Explore collaboration tools for development and maintaining building information and the outlook on new tools that are being created.
Credit: 0.15 CSI CEUs, 1.5 AIA LUs, HSW Sponsored by:
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