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AIA Continuing Education Opportunities
Daylight Specialists the Midwest leader in commercial daylighting solutions and is pleased to offer a range of continuing education opportunities for your professional team. You choose the topic, format, and location. We will take care of the rest.
Select the format:
- Morning: Start the day with a presentation or casual drop-in. We’ll bring the bagels and pastries.
- Lunch: Full presentation in the traditional lunch-and-learn format.
- Happy Hour: End the day with a casual presentation with some drinks and snacks.
Convenient for those in any location:
- Presentations available in office, remote, or combination format.
Presentation topics available:
- Introduction to Tubular Daylighting Devices (AIA) – Credit 1LU/HSW
- Introduction to optical daylighting technology and products
- Inspiring Applications of Tubular Daylighting (AIA) – Credit 1LU/HSW
- A visual tour of bringing daylight into unique and inspiring spaces.
- Improving Student Performance (AIA) – Credit 1LU/HSW
- Review the science connecting daylight and student performance.
- Daylighting Storm Shelter Facilities with Tubular Daylighting Devices (AIA) – Credit 1LU/HSW
- Overview of ICC compliant daylighting solutions for storm shelters.
- Successful Daylighting for Wellness and Sustainable Design (AIA) – Credit 1LU/HSW
- Incorporating daylighting to achieve wellness and sustainable design objectives
- Project specific workshop on daylight modeling.
- Work through daylight modeling scenarios for a sample project.
Daylighting and Iowa’s Local Building Codes: What You Need to Know
Bringing natural light into buildings is more than a design choice; it’s a strategic tool for energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and sustainability. But if you’re planning to integrate daylighting like skylights and tubular daylighting devices in Iowa, you’ll need...
Seasonal Variations and Daylighting Efficiency in Iowa
There’s an old saying around here: If you don’t like the weather in Iowa, just wait fifteen minutes. While it’s often used to joke about spring storms or sudden cold snaps, it’s also an unwitting nod to a truth daylighting designers know well: light itself changes...
Public Awareness and Adoption of Daylighting Solutions in Iowa
If you’ve lived in Iowa long enough, you know how the seasons can really affect your sense of light. One week it’s all sunshine and green fields, the next it’s gray skies that hang low over Main Street for days at a time. That relationship we Iowans have with sunlight...