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  STRUCTURED DISTANCE LEARNING
  Home Study: Building and Barrier-Free Codes
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
This course covers the essential information concerning code requirements for the practicing interior designer and architect. It offers background information on codes, flammability issues, requirements for safe exiting, as well as the specific provisions ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
  Home Study: Custom Window Treatment (Intermediate)
For Interior Designers   
Custom drapery projects often are lost when designers and workrooms estimate too much fabric and costs soar. Understanding the material in this course establishes the basis to build design skills in custom window treatments. The designer learns the formulas ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
  Home Study: FBC Course - Indoor Environmental Quality
For Architects, Interior Designers, Contractors and Landscape Architects   
NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN ADVANCED FLORIDA BULDING CODE COURSE.
TO EARN ADVANCED FBC CREDITS, CONSIDER: HOME STUDY: ADVANCED FBC - RESIDENTIAL

With most people spending ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm

  Home Study: Feng Shui for the 21st Century
For Architects and Interior Designers   
Translated from Chinese as "wind" and "water", Feng Shui benefits from a 4,000 year-old history of ensuring the harmonious flow of energy or "chi" through an environment to promote health, well-being, and prosperity. "Feng Shui for the 21st Century" ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
  Home Study: Making Historic Properties Accessible (PB32)
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
Historically, most buildings and landscapes were not designed to be readily accessible for people with disabilities. In recent years, however, emphasis has been placed on preserving historically significant properties, and on making these properties ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
  Home Study: Modern Architecture
For Architects and Interior Designers   
One of the most important challenges to design professionals in the Information Age of the twenty-first century will be to assimilate technological changes and developments, and to invent new forms that express the new age. The Modern Age of the twentieth ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
  Webcast - Green Criteria for Materials Selection
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
Materials are a major emphasis of ecodesign. Their selection impacts not only resource consumption, but energy efficiency and indoor air quality as well. After reviewing the scale of these impacts, this webinar will discuss the following topics:

  Webcast: Tile and Stone Grout - The Future is Clear and Green!
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
In the world of tile and stone, grout is one of the industry's largest problems, largely due to improper selection and inaccurate specification of the correct grout for the correct applications. In this course we review the various types of grout, why ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
  SEMINARS
  Designing with Natural Stone
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
Despite the natural durability found in stone, there are a number of applications -- both exterior and interior -- where issues can arise due to improper use, specification, installation, care, and/or maintenance. This seminar provides the knowledge ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Dallas, TX, Thu, June 21, 2012
Austin, TX, Wed, August 8, 2012
Houston, TX, Fri, August 10, 2012
Santa Fe, NM, Fri, September 28, 2012
San Antonio, TX, Fri, October 12, 2012
Nashville, TN, Thu, November 29, 2012
Dallas, TX, Thu, December 13, 2012
  High-Impact Materials For High-Income Projects
For Architects and Interior Designers   
New advances in material sciences are delivering fascinating new products to the marketplace every day. Distinctive products and materials such as translucent concrete, LED wallpaper, or emotionally-reactive fabrics can give design professionals an edge ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Orlando, FL, Fri, October 26, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Fri, December 7, 2012
  Indoor Environmental Quality - FBC Advanced Course
For Architects and Interior Designers   
With most people spending about 90% of their time indoors where pollutant levels are often 2 to 5 times higher than outdoors, indoor environmental quality deeply affects our health, safety and welfare. This 2-hour program concisely addresses the causes ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Estero, FL, Thu, September 13, 2012
Tampa, FL, Thu, September 13, 2012
Miami, FL, Fri, September 14, 2012
West Palm Beach, FL, Fri, September 14, 2012
Orlando, FL, Thu, October 25, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Thu, December 6, 2012
  Intelligent Homes
For Architects and Interior Designers   
Our eight-hour* "Intelligent Homes" seminar explores a simple - yet often overlooked - concept: homes should be intelligently designed so they may adapt to the changing lifestyles and abilities of the end users rather than occupants having to adapt ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Minneapolis, MN, Fri, March 23, 2012
Nashville, TN, Fri, May 4, 2012
Birmingham, AL, Fri, July 20, 2012
Chicago, IL, Thu, September 20, 2012
Orlando, FL, Fri, October 26, 2012
New Orleans, LA, Fri, November 30, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Fri, December 7, 2012
  Lighting Design: Latest in Applications, Regulations and Technology
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
This 8-hour seminar provides a holistic approach to lighting design, from basic knowledge of light quality, quantity, and energy consumption (as well as its effects on the user's safety and health) to the latest in lighting applications, regulations, ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    San Antonio, TX, Thu, March 15, 2012
Austin, TX, Fri, March 16, 2012
Minneapolis, MN, Thu, May 24, 2012
Houston, TX, Fri, June 22, 2012
  New ADA Regulations: What are the Impacts and How to Comply
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
This 8-hour seminar provides in-depth coverage of the revised ADA-ABA guidelines in comparison with the currently-enforceable ADAAG standards. Also addressed are the implications of newly-revised state standards. The course helps designers and architects ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Houston, TX, Wed, March 14, 2012
Dallas, TX, Thu, March 22, 2012
Chicago, IL, Sat, September 22, 2012
Orlando, FL, Thu, October 25, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Thu, December 6, 2012
  Sustainable Flooring Essentials
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
Ceramic tile or decorative concrete? Marble or granite? Laminate, hardwood, or bamboo? And does anyone use linoleum or parquet tiles any more? What about the new anti-microbial and slip resistant coatings on the market? Our eight-hour* "Sustainable Flooring ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Minneapolis, MN, Fri, April 27, 2012
Tallahassee, FL, Thu, July 12, 2012
Jacksonville, FL, Fri, July 13, 2012
Tampa, FL, Thu, July 19, 2012
Orlando, FL, Fri, July 20, 2012
Estero, FL, Thu, July 26, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL, Fri, July 27, 2012
Chicago, IL, Fri, September 21, 2012
  Tile and Stone: The Gritty Truth
For Architects, Interior Designers and Landscape Architects   
This seminar uses "real world situations" to break down the major design items of all types of tiles and stones and how to properly specify, install and maintain each. Case studies are used to illustrate the most common types of failures that occur and ... Read more, call 1.800.264.9605 to register or register online at www.designarts.net/register.htm
    Las Vegas, NV, Fri, November 9, 2012
 

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