Join us for a day of learning and networking at Month of Modern’s CEU Blitz Day! This in-person event is your opportunity to gain valuable Continuing Education Units (CEUs) while connecting with professionals in the field. Mark your calendar for Tue. Sep 12 2023 and get ready to expand your knowledge!

Event Timeline

8-9am – BREAKFAST

9-10am

Discover the optimal elements and features for entertainment-focused clients and entertainment-based spaces.

  • Review the benefits of working with clients who prioritize entertainment in their space design and well-being.
  • Develop a needs assessment for clients who prioritize entertainment in their space design.
  • Identify the optimal indoor and outdoor products and features for entertainment-focused clients.
  • Implement indoor and outdoor kitchen zones for entertaining spaces, ensuring safety and optimizing flow for the best user experience.

Provided by: True Residential / BAC Appliance Center / Ferguson

The built environment has been stagnant in terms of innovation for years. For decades the perfect storm of challenges has been brewing throughout the construction industry, and this storm is now forcing change.

Construction material quality, escalating material costs, skilled labor shortages, increasing building code requirements, the need for more resilient structures, and a demand for healthy environments are challenges that architects, engineers, and contractors are scrambling to address – while working to balance design flexibility, budgets and innovation.

The good news is the AEC industry can combat all challenges of this “perfect storm” by optimizing one key component of the building system – and that is the Building Envelope. More and more options exist to save time, money, energy, and preserve occupant health, while achieving design creativity. These options all center around selecting a high performance building envelope to solve today’s challenges. This presentation addresses what attributes in the building envelope make a difference, what solutions exist for envelopes to combat the “perfect storm” and discusses the advantages of offsite/prefabricated vs. site framed building envelope systems both for Designers and Contractors.

Provided by: Premier Sips

10:15-11:15am

This CEU will seek to educate the attendees on how to design spaces with the planet, the people, the pocketbook and the psyche in mind.

Provided by: Bolon

Composite wood decking is a durable, environmentally sustainable product.

  • Recognize the importance and benefits of nature and outdoor settings
  • Discuss the concept of outdoor rooms
  • Identify how decking can play a role in increasing the accessibility of outdoor spaces
  • Describe the benefits of composite wood decking.

Provided by: Trex

11:30-12:30pm

This course is filled with many different important codes and major components of a ventilated facade system. The beginning of the course discusses the importance of a ventilated system and cladding such as drainage, ventilation and thermal solution. The health affects are later shown when talked about in the ventilation process because of its advantages to having a better air exchange between buildings and the solution for melting moisture away. Later in the course we discuss the differences and importance of single-element protection and multiple-element protection. the course is filled with many different. Lastly the course is filled with may different health advantages such as things that are environmentally friendly as well as energy saving.

  • Participants should be able to identify the major components/features of the ventilated facade system.
  • Participants will gain an understanding of appropriate use of the ventilated facade system
  • Participants should be able to correctly define various types of exterior cladding systems.
  • Participants will gain an understanding of the advantages of the ventilated facade when compared to other cladding systems

Provided by: Porcelenosa

Understand the impact of vertical acting door systems to achieve awe-inspiring space flexibility, occupant comfort and safety, and energy-code compliance.

Provided by: Powers Products

12:30-1:30pm – LUNCH

1:45-2:45pm

An overview of the origins and evolution of color pigments by looking at historical civilizations and time periods
Provided by: Benjamin Moore
  • Define human centric lighting and examine its four elements: quality light, natural light, connection to the outdoors, and adaptive and personalized control.
  • Explore design best practices for human centric lighting and determine ways to communicate the value to clients.
  • Analyze opportunities to specify human centric lighting in various space types (workplace, retail, recreation, higher ed) to improve the human experience.
  • Examine key design considerations and smart technologies that enable human centric lighting.

Provided by: Lutron / Harrison Home Systems

3-4pm

The colors that surround us every day play an important role in our emotions and behavior when we engage with a specific finish material or environment. This course provides an overview of how the human eye sees color, the effect it can have on our moods, behavior, and physiology, and lastly, how it can be used as a powerful tool to send messages about spaces or products to consumers.

Provided by: Cambria

From iconic historic projects to modern contemporary architecture, this presentation explores the evolution and benefits of translucent panel daylighting as well as advancements on the horizon.

Provided by: Powers Productss

4:15-5:15pm

At the end of the program, the participant will be able to:

  • Participants should be able to correctly define various types of exterior cladding systems.
  • Participants should be able to identify the major components/features of the ventilated facade system.
  • Participants will gain an understanding of the advantages of the ventilated facade when compared to other cladding systems.
  • Participants will gain an understanding of appropriate use of the ventilated facade system.

Provided by: Porcelenosa

This course provides information on the wood-alternative decking materials presently available including:

  • An understanding of the evolution of decking materials.
  • The differences among wood and various alternative decking materials.
  • The enhanced capability for building design and aesthetics offered by wood-alternative decking.

Provided by: Trex