Plano, TX - Tuesday April 22, 2025

Plano, TX

Event Date
Tuesday April 22, 2025

7:30 am - 5:30 pm

Available Credits

Up to 8 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)
Maggiano's Little Italy
6001 W Park Blvd
Plano, TX 75093
Registration Price

$100.00

Terms
Early Bird Discount! $30.00 off if purchased before Apr 8, 2025

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Event Agenda

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

7:30 am

Breakfast & Networking

8:00 am

Fortified Design: Enhancing Building Security Against Ballistic, Forced Entry and Blast Threats

Fortified Design: Enhancing Building Security Against Ballistic, Forced Entry and Blast Th...

Sponsored By Armortex
Presented By Rick Snelling
1 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)

In this one-hour course, design professionals will explore advanced blast, forced entry and ballistic-resistant technologies aimed at ensuring comprehensive protection for lives, assets, and buildings.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Assess the range of innovative resistance technologies designed to safeguard occupants and assets from threats such as ballistic, forced entry, and blasts.
  2. Investigate the standards organizations responsible for developing criteria and testing methods for resistance technologies, evaluating their effectiveness in protecting lives and securing buildings during blast or ballistic incidents.
  3. Examine the engineering behind panels, windows, doors, and other physical security products designed to enhance durability and safety against threats to life, buildings, and assets.
  4. Utilize insights from case studies to apply knowledge of anti-ballistic, forced entry and blast technology, showcasing products that offer robust protection and comprehensive security.

9:10 am

Stunning Design Within Your Grasp

Stunning Design Within Your Grasp

Sponsored By Livers Bronze
Presented By Lee Kirby
1 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)

Handrails and guardrails are a safety feature that we easily take for granted as common fixture of environment where stairs and balconies are a feature, aiding us in our coming and going.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify the different metals and their respective metal finishes.
  2. Explain the importance of selecting the proper manufacturer for decorative railing specification.
  3. Discuss the value of selecting a single-source provider.
  4. Review the significance of designing the proper mounting conditions to support railings.
Livers Bronze

10:20 am

The New Age of Construction: Silane Modified Polymer (SMP) Technology

The New Age of Construction: Silane Modified Polymer (SMP) Technology

Sponsored By Kaneka
1 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)
1 GBCI General Hour
1 IIBEC CEHs

This one-hour course delves into the advanced properties and benefits of Silane Modified Polymer (SMP) for architects and building professionals. Participants will explore SMP’s unique adaptability and bonding strength, which supports high-performance applications across varied climates and building types.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify properties of Silane Modified Polymer (SMP) products and their advantages over traditional construction materials, including the demand, site specific applications and health benefits of the product.
  2. Analyze the material and installation costs of SMP products, their features, best practices and sustainability benefits, compared to other market alternatives.
  3. Examine the standards, sustainability and testing that led to the formation of SMP, while focusing on its role in enhancing building envelope integrity.
  4. Explore relevant case studies related to SMP products, recognizing their contribution to sustainable architecture with solvent-free and isocyanate-free formulations.

11:30 am

Healthy Interiors: Using the WELL Building Standard to Design Commercial Spaces of the Future

Healthy Interiors: Using the WELL Building Standard to Design Commercial Spaces of the Fut...

Sponsored By Excel Dryer, Inc.
1 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)
1 GBCI General Hour
1 IDCEC HSW CEU(s)
1 IWBI WELL Specific

This course will explore a real-life example of a 5,000-square-foot office expansion recently completed in Western Massachusetts. We’ll take a deep dive into the owner’s and architect’s primary goals for the space; that it be beautiful, healthy, sustainable, and functional.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Define healthy and sustainable building in the post-COVID design era.
  2. Identify potential project goals related to the health and well-being of building occupants and the value of an integrated approach to design.
  3. Recognize how the strategies within the WELL Building Standard™ can be leveraged to support occupant health and well-being, sustainability, flexibility, and aesthetics.
  4. Learn about new product solutions for providing touchless hand hygiene in and outside of the restrooms.
  5. And, apply lessons learned from a real project to support future commercial office design projects.
Excel Dryer, Inc.

12:30 pm

Lunch & Networking

1:00 pm

Simplifying Multi Family HVAC Solutions and the Evolving Industry

Simplifying Multi Family HVAC Solutions and the Evolving Industry

Sponsored By National Comfort Products
Presented By Bill Stapleton
1 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)
1 RCEP PDH(s) for Engineers

Introducing a simplified approach to HVAC systems for multi-unit design projects. Join us in this one-hour course as we discuss thru the wall (TTW) HVAC units as they relate to the demand for individualized climate control in multi-unit living spaces.

Learning Objectives:
  1. Analyze the primary drivers for the demand in multi-unit real estate development and construction throughout the US and the role of thru the wall heating and air conditioning units in these spaces.
  2. Evaluate the advantages of thru the wall heating and air conditioning units including ease of installation, durability, cost-efficiency, ease of maintenance, aesthetics, and amenities. 
  3. Explore the current codes and standards with a focus on upcoming changes in energy efficiency criteria and refrigerant requirements as well as a review of emerging technologies for through the wall units.
  4. Investigate applicable case studies relevant to TTW package units and TTW split systems engineered for optimal occupant comfort to better understand site specific scenarios to inform selection and in the field applications.
National Comfort Products

2:10 pm

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3:20 pm

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4:30 pm

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State CE Requirements

Texas CE Requirements

Texas Board of Architectural Examiners
(512) 305-9000
Renewal Cycle: 
Annual
Total Hours Required: 
12 Hours
Renewal Deadline: 
Last Day of Licensees' Birth Month
Board Guidelines
12 HSW (1 hour SD or energy efficient design + 1 hour barrier-free design + min. 8 hours structured + max. 4 hours self-directed)