American Institute of Constructors

The American Institute of Constructors (AIC) is a non-profit professional association dedicated to promoting professional excellence, ethics, and individual status within the construction management field. Founded in 1971, the AIC serves as the premier qualifying body for the industry, administering the rigorous Constructor Certification Program which awards the Certified Associate Constructor (CAC) and Certified Professional Constructor (CPC) designations. Through its educational foundation, scholarly publications, and strict code of ethics, the AIC works to elevate individual constructors to the same high professional standards and recognition as other disciplines in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

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EPDs Versus HPDs: Sustainability Showdown
EPDs Versus HPDs: Sustainability Showdown

The choices we make when specifying building materials can have significant effects on the planet and human health. The world is facing cataclysmic issues such as climate destabilization, pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and greenhouse gases. Construction produces vast volumes of waste and consumes colossal a...
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Escape from LA: Survival Strategies
Escape from LA: Survival Strategies

In the heart of Los Angeles, where the skyline meets the unpredictable forces of nature, a battle is brewing against earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, and more. As the city grapples with the looming threats of drought, smog, and power grid failures, design professionals are stepping up to create resilient buildings that...
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Essential Ecosystems: LEED v4.1 Protect or Restore Habitat Credit
Essential Ecosystems: LEED v4.1 Protect or Restore Habitat Credit

Protecting wildlife and preserving it for future generations is critical. Our planet desperately needs to be safeguarded, with climate change already wreaking havoc on our natural environment. In this course, we describe how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C Protect or Restore Habitat credit and reduce environmental impacts...
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  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
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Forever Chemicals: Risk Mitigation Strategies for LEED
Forever Chemicals: Risk Mitigation Strategies for LEED

This comprehensive course equips design professionals with essential knowledge about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as forever chemicals, and their pervasive presence in building materials. You'll discover how these persistent chemicals impact human health and the environment while learning pr...
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  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 1: What You Must Know as an Architect and Engineer in 2023 and Beyond
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 1: What You Must Know as an...

This course provides architects and engineers with a comprehensive overview of the critical requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as they apply in 2023 and beyond. Participants will gain practical guidance on designing accessible spaces, ensuring code compliance, and avoiding common pitfalls in archit...
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  • 1 AAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 ADA Accessibility / Barrier-Free Req.
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
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  • 1 OAQ Self Directed Learning Hour / Heure d'apprentissage autodirigé
  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 2: Accessible Routes
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 2: Accessible Routes

This course provides architects and engineers with a detailed examination of accessible routes as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 2023. Participants will learn what to look for when designing, evaluating, and documenting accessible paths, including sidewalks, ramps, corridors, and building ent...
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 3: Parking Spaces
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 3: Parking Spaces

In depth review of parking according to the ADA. The speaker will cover the definitions and learn about parking spaces and the number of accessible parking spaces required.
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 4: Toilet Rooms
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 4: Toilet Rooms

An advanced discussion over toilet rooms according to the 2010 ADA Standards.
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  • 1 AAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 5: Doors, Protruding Objects, Sales/Service Counters, and Dining/Seating
Godzilla & King Kong: CA & the ADA in 2023. Volume 5: Doors, Protruding Objects,...

This course provides architects and engineers with a comprehensive review of key ADA requirements related to doors, protruding objects, sales and service counters, and dining and seating areas. Participants will explore practical strategies for designing and evaluating these elements to ensure accessible, functional, and...
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  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
LEED + Wild: Certifying the Impossible
LEED + Wild: Certifying the Impossible

Welcome to a journey that will fundamentally challenge how you think about sustainable design. This course pushes far beyond the conventional net-zero checklists that have dominated green building practice for the past two decades. Instead, we're going to explore what happens when buildings become living entities, when c...
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
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  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
LEED v5 Materials and Resources
LEED v5 Materials and Resources

What if the biggest carbon problem in your next building project has nothing to do with energy bills? The construction industry has spent decades obsessing over operational efficiency — better HVAC, tighter envelopes, smarter controls. But a quiet revolution is underway, and it starts before a single occupant flips a lig...
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  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
LEED v5 Sustainable Sites: Nature Meets Practice
LEED v5 Sustainable Sites: Nature Meets Practice

The land beneath our buildings tells a story of disrupted ecosystems, rising temperatures, and communities bearing the weight of inequitable development. LEED v5 Sustainable Sites gives design professionals the framework to write a different one, where buildings restore habitat, manage water responsibly, cool overheated...
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  • 1 AAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
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  • 1 OAQ Self Directed Learning Hour / Heure d'apprentissage autodirigé
  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
LEED v5: Resilience Is Non-Negotiable
LEED v5: Resilience Is Non-Negotiable

Buildings outlive the climates they were designed for — and people are dying because of it. LEED v5 doesn't treat resilience as a bonus feature; it makes it a prerequisite. From mandatory climate hazard assessments to envelopes engineered to keep occupants alive when the grid collapses, this framework forces the building...
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Low-Emitting Materials For LEED v4.1 Projects
Low-Emitting Materials For LEED v4.1 Projects

In this course, we explore strategies to improve indoor air quality and how to achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C EQ Low-Emitting Materials credit. In addition, we review the applicable requirements such as (CDPH) Standard Method v1.2–2017. Finally, we discuss how buildings with excellent indoor environmental quality pr...
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  • 1 AIC CPD Hour
  • 1 EPP CE Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific ID+C
  • 1 NWTAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Mass Timber Cities: Urban Innovation and LEED
Mass Timber Cities: Urban Innovation and LEED

Welcome to this comprehensive exploration of Stockholm Wood City, one of the world's most ambitious mass timber developments. This course examines how this groundbreaking project is reshaping urban construction through innovative use of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and other engineered wood products. We'll dive deep into...
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
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Mass Timber Revolution: Design for the Climate-Conscious Professional
Mass Timber Revolution: Design for the Climate-Conscious Professional

Mass timber is revolutionizing modern architecture, offering design professionals an unprecedented opportunity to create buildings that actively fight climate change while delivering superior occupant experiences. This cutting-edge construction method is transforming skylines from Portland to Stockholm, enabling architec...
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  • 1 AIC CPD Hour
  • 1 BOMI CPD Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific ID+C
  • 1 NWTAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Material Consequences: Building Materials in LEED v4.1
Material Consequences: Building Materials in LEED v4.1

The LEED v4.1 Materials and Resources (MR) credit category focuses on minimizing the embodied energy and other impacts associated with the extraction, processing, transport, maintenance, and disposal of building materials. The requirements are designed to support a life-cycle approach that improves performance and promot...
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  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
  • 1 NWTAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 OAQ Self Directed Learning Hour / Heure d'apprentissage autodirigé
  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Mindful Specifications: Using HPDs For LEED v4.1 Projects
Mindful Specifications: Using HPDs For LEED v4.1 Projects

In this course, we explore how Health Product Declarations (HPDs) contribute to the LEED v4.1 rating system. Our team discusses how design professionals can achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C and ID+C Material Ingredients credit. In addition, we review the HPD Open Standard and discuss how it can influence design professionals t...
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  • 1 BOMI CPD Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific ID+C
  • 1 NWTAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 OAQ Self Directed Learning Hour / Heure d'apprentissage autodirigé
  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Navigating the Uncharted: Esoteric LEED Credits Demystified
Navigating the Uncharted: Esoteric LEED Credits Demystified

Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of esoteric design strategies in shaping the future of sustainable architecture? What design strategies are innovators, disruptors, and mavericks using to advance sustainable design? In this course we explore uncommon LEED v4.1 BD+C pilot credits and review how projects...
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  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
  • 1 NWTAA Structured Learning Hour
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour
Rainwater Management For LEED v4.1 Projects
Rainwater Management For LEED v4.1 Projects

In this course, we describe how design professionals can achieve the LEED v4.1 BD+C and O+M Rainwater Management Credit. In addition, we discuss green infrastructure and low-impact development strategies and how they can help for project sites.
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  • 1 EPP CE Hour
  • 1 FBPE PDH for FBPE Members
  • 1 GBCI General Hour
  • 1 GBCI LEED Green Associate
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C
  • 1 GBCI LEED Specific O+M
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  • 1 SAA Core Learning Hour

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