VectorView - September 2009
Seven Marketing and Business Development Tips for Architecture and Engineering Firms
Winning new work in any environment is a challenge. In today’s stressed economic market, the stakes have been raised even higher and the competition is fierce as companies struggle to grab a piece of a diminishing pie. How do you keep your edge (and your ethics) and win in this unprecedented sweepstakes? John and Sullivan Kreiss provide a few common-sense pointers to keep in mind as you ponder your marketing strategies and business development plans.
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RedVector Launches LEED AP Exam Prep
September Featured Courses:
LEED Certification and Green Building: An Introduction
This 1-hour interactive online course introduces you to green building and green certification programs, including LEED. The course begins with a look at what green is, why it is popular, and what impacts it has on the environment. It then moves into how the AIA standard forms provide for sustainable design issues. It wraps up by taking a close look at the USGBC's LEED Certification and Accreditation process.
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Residential Green Building: Design, Construction, and Certification
The course takes a close look at green building in relation to many aspects of design and construction including issues dealing with sites, landscaping, foundations, frames, exterior finishes, plumbing, appliances, insulation, ventilation, windows, finishes, and flooring. The course wraps up with information on testing, certification, and accreditation, including a look at the LEED program and the NAHB Green Home Certification Program.
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Green Design: Economics of Green Building
This 2-hour interactive online course uncovers the truths associated with LEED and the green building market. The Economics of Green Building is an "in depth" study of the perceived and actual costs associated with green building. It provides an overview of many federal, state and local tax credits available, life cycle cost analysis and business incentives to go green.
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Upcoming Licenses Renewals:
September: Alabama Architects, Florida Contractors - Pinellas County, Louisiana Engineers, Louisiana Land Surveyors, Texas Engineers
October: Oregon Electrical Contractors, Ohio Landscape Architects
November: Florida Building Inspectors, Florida Landscape Architects, Illinois Professional Engineers, Mississippi Archtiects, Utah Contractors
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RedVector Partners with BASF
RedVector has partnered with BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, to create and customize a number of online continuing education and professional development courses tailored specifically for the chemical industry.
BASF prides itself on educating construction professionals about high-performance construction, offering solutions to the industry’s unique problems and helping them maximize potential using the BASF portfolio. With product lines that range from oil and gas to chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals, BASF helps customers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its keen awareness of clients’ needs and intelligent solutions, BASF plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges, such as climate changes, energy efficiency, nutrition and mobility.
RedVector has developed the following BASF course content into online courses that meet continuing education requirements for license renewals.
Sustainable Design: Eco-efficiency of Roofing Insulation Systems:
This 1-hour interactive online course explores several popular roofing insulation systems - Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), Polyisocyanurate (Polyiso), Extruded Polystyrene (XPS), and Sprayed Polyurethane Foam (SPF) - and discusses the influences each one has on sustainable design.
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Sealant Repairs that Last: Hybrid Sealants for Building Restoration
This 2-hour interactive online course discusses the role that restoration can and does play in the arena of sustainability, and specifically the role that sealants play in sustainable design and repair.
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Spray Polyurethane Foam Air Barriers
Sustainable design includes the informed selection of materials and products to reduce product-cycle environmental impacts, improve performance, and optimize occupant health and comfort. This course on Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) barriers lays out the essential information for constructing superior, cost-effective building enclosure systems – that is, the layer of materials that separates the interior environment from the exterior environment in such a way as to avoid creating moisture-related problems.
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Concrete Additives: Water-Repellency & Efflorescence Control in Masonry
About 90 percent of the surface area of a masonry wall consists of concrete masonry units, with mortar joints making up the remaining 10 percent. Both concrete and mortar are porous materials and as such, can permit the passage of water. Therefore, a water-repellent masonry system should prevent the entry of water through both the concrete masonry units and the mortar joints.
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Industry News
Engineering News-Record reports OSHA 10 Hour now mandatory in seven states. Read More
USGBC tackles building performance head on. New initiative for comprehensive data collection and analysis methodology development will be shared with LEED building owners and project teams to help close performance prediction gaps. Read More
AGC of America reports job losses slow but not in construction; outlook for hiring, lending appears black. Read More
ABC Newsline reports nonresidential construction spending slips in July. For the second month in a row, private non-residential construction spending slipped, falling 1.2 percent in july, according to the September 1 report by the US Census Bureau. Read More
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