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Title	Knowledge Area	Certifications/LUs	Provider	Units
Disabilities Access for Dwellings	Accessibility	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.5
Accessible Public Accommodations	Accessibility	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.5
Accessibility - Stepping Through Vertical Heights	Accessibility	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	2.0
CALGreen 101: An Overview	Sustainability	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.0
CALGreen 2010 Non-Residential Measures	Sustainability	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.5
CALGreen 2010 Residential Measures	Sustainability	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.5
Making Chaos Work for You: Keys to Firm Management	Practice Management	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.25
Financial Management: Beyond Intuition	Practice Management	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.25
Firm Development: Times of Transition	Practice Management	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.25
Minimizing Risk During Construction Administration	Practice Management	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.25
Master Architects: An Evening with Lorcan O'Herlihy	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
Contract Language: The Foundation of Good Business	Practice Management	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.0
Arbitration and Litigation: A Trial Attorney's Perspective	Practice Management	AIA/CES (HSW)	AIA California Council	1.0
Ownership and Leadership Transitions - Demystified	Practice Management	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
Marketing and Business Development Essentials	Marketing & BD	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Jeanne Gang, FAIA: Fish, Sticks, Birds and Bricks	Design	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.0
Social Media: Taking Your Marketing Off-Road	Marketing & BD	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Tom Kundig, FAIA: Landscape, Community and Craft	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Dr. Dickson Despommier: The Vertical Farm and the Rise of Urban Agriculture	Design	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA: Linking Light and Landscape	Design	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Michael Maltzan, FAIA: No More Play	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Borja Ferrater: Architecture and Geometry	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
MDC 2011 - Peter Walker, FASLA: The 9/11 Memorial & Its Precedents	Design	AIA/CES	AIA California Council	1.0
Designing Net Zero Energy Buildings	Sustainability	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)	AIA California Council	1.0

Disabilities Access for Dwellings

This 90-minute video course, which complies with California's SB 1608 licensure requirements, discusses accessibility compliance requirements within multifamily dwelling buildings, including the California Building Code, the Fair Housing Act and other national accessibility standards.

Presenter:	Kerwin Lee, Senior Consulting Architect, Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc.
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.5 hours

Accessible Public Accommodations

This 90-minute video course, which complies with California's SB 1608 licensure requirements, discusses the complexities in complying with applicable regulations found in both the California Building Code and the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines.

Presenter:	Kerwin Lee, Senior Consulting Architect, Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc.
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.5 hours

Accessibility - Stepping Through Vertical Heights

This 120-minute video course, which complies with California's SB 1608 licensure requirements, focuses on accessibility requirements for vertical height changes and provides an in-depth look at issues related to curb transitions, pedestrian ramps, stairs, handrails, and elevators.

Presenter:	Janis Kent, CASp Architect, AIA, Certified Access Specialist, Stepping Thru Accessibility
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	2.0 hours

CALGreen 101: An Overview

This 60-minute video course provides an overview of CALGreen, the new California Green Building Standards Code effective January 2011, offers insight into the code development process, describes how local jurisdictions play a role in improving the impact of CALGreen, and explains how CALGreen fits within Title 24.

Presenter:	Dave Walls, Executive Director, California Building Standards Commission
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

CALGreen 2010 Non-Residential Measures

This 90-minute video course provides a basic understanding of Title 24 Part 11 "CALGreen" for non-residential projects, an overview of all the CALGreen Non-Residential mandatory measures (Chapter 5), and a brief summary of CALGreen Non-Residential voluntary Tier 1 and 2 standards.

Presenter:	Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED AP, BD+C and William J. Worthen, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, Simon & Associates, Inc.
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.5 hours

CALGreen 2010 Residential Measures

This 90-minute video course provides a basic understanding of Title 24 Part 11 "CALGreen" for residential projects, an overview of all the CALGreen Non-Residential mandatory measures (Chapter 5), and a brief summary of CALGreen Residential voluntary Tier 1 and 2 standards.

Presenter:	Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED AP, BD+C and William J. Worthen, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, Simon & Associates, Inc.
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.5 hours

Making Chaos Work for You: Keys to Firm Management

This 75-minute video course delivers no-nonsense insights into making order out of the chaos that is inherent in small firm management. Rena Klein, FAIA, provides valuable tips and practical tools that will help any manager navigate the world of unpredictable workloads, uneven productivity and lack of resources.

Presenter:	Rena M. Klein, FAIA RM Klein Consulting
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.25 hours

Financial Management: Beyond Intuition

This 75-minute video course demystifies the practice of financial management for small- to mid-sized firms. The viewer will gain an understanding of the impact of macroeconomic conditions and receive step-by-step guidance for analyzing a firm's financial performance in order to make strategic operational decisions in the unpredictable environment in which we operate.

Presenter:	Rena M. Klein, FAIA RM Klein Consulting
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.25 hours

Firm Development: Times of Transition

This 75-minute video course takes the entrepreneurial design professional through the key times of transition--growth, ownership transition, and retirement--and imparts tools that can help firm leaders navigate through change and career stages. Through case studies and anecdotes, course-takers will gain knowledge, confidence to achieve work-life balance, career satisfaction and security.

Presenter:	Rena M. Klein, FAIA RM Klein Consulting
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.25 hours

Minimizing Risk During Construction Administration

This 75-minute video course provides design professionals with essential risk management practices to employ during the construction administration phase. Attorney Michele Gamble provides targeted, practical tips to help minimize potential risks that architects, engineers and allied professionals face during this critical phase of projects.

Presenter:	Michele L. Gamble, Attorney, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.25 hours

Master Architects: An Evening with Lorcan O'Herlihy

This 60-minute video course describes four innovative design perspectives: Ruthless Optimism, Contingent Patterning, Inflected Logic, and Reductive Thinking and how each leads to rational design outcomes and contextually-responsive designs. Lorcan O'Herlihy's descriptions, images and narrative motivate design professionals to experiment with building materials, reorganize interior spaces, and create buildings responsive to their urban context.

Presenter:	Lorcan O'Herlihy, FAIA, Principal, LOHA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Contract Language: The Foundation of Good Business

This 60-minute risk management course presents best practices in drafting and reviewing contracts between owners and design professionals. Attorney Brian Stewart examines onerous contract clauses that design professionals regularly confront and provides targeted suggestions for negotiating more balanced clauses.

Presenter:	Brian K. Stewart, Attorney, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Arbitration and Litigation: A Trial Attorney's Perspective

This 60-minute risk management course describes how and why arbitration and civil litigation are vastly different procedural mechanisms. Attorney Samuel Muir provides a candid comparison and dispels commonly-held myths as he provides design professionals insights into how to choose between arbitration and litigation and negotiate dispute resolution clauses that protect their interests.

Presenter:	Samuel J. Muir, Attorney, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart, LLP
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Ownership and Leadership Transitions - Demystified

This 60-minute video course demystifies the ownership and leadership transition process, provides targeted advice to enable you to make an informed decision about whether to pursue an internal or external transition, and provides a roadmap for implementing an internal ownership plan that supports your personal and strategic business goals.

Presenter:	Michael Strogoff, FAIA Strogoff Consulting, Inc.
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Marketing and Business Development Essentials

This course begins with a succinct and practical overview on the basics of marketing and business development, followed by a more detailed examination of the role that project managers can play in identifying new opportunities and leveraging existing relationships. Also explored in detail is how firms can differentiate themselves and come to dominate in a niche market. Other topics covered in the course include strategies for effective communication with clients, and profound and personal knowledge about how to succeed in global practice.

Presenter:	RK Stewart, FAIA, Ronald Altoon, FAIA, LEED AP, CPD, Richard Pollack, FAIA, FIIDA, Karen Compton, CPSM, Howard Wolff, Tim Culvahouse, FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Jeanne Gang, FAIA: Fish, Sticks, Birds and Bricks

How do the migration patterns of birds relate to the design of city towers? How can innovative community planning spur economic recovery in suburbs? Find out by stepping into the mind of 2011 MacArthur Genius Grant winner Jeanne Gang, FAIA, Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects. This 60-minute video offers fascinating insight into the creative process and thematic undertones that shape the work of one of America’s most visionary architects.

Presenter:	Jeanne Gang, FAIA, LEED AP
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Social Media: Taking Your Marketing Off-Road

Architects historically have employed limited marketing activities to attract new clients. In today's fiercely competitive world, they need to take a new direction or will be left behind. "Taking Your Marketing Off-Road" challenges the long-held belief that there is only one way that has always been embraced for architects to do business since they first began practicing. The course creates a new avenue for architects to advance and practice their careers along a different path. Architects, marketing directors, and others will hopefully experience a change in their attitudes and perceptions of how to market and promote themselves, and create an exciting direction for their own off-road marketing adventures.

Presenter:	Laura Davis, AIA, IFDA, Director of Marketing, Vice President HPD Architecture LLC and Larry Paschall, AIA, Vice President HPD Architecture LLC
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Tom Kundig, FAIA: Landscape, Community and Craft

In this 60-minute course, Tom Kundig, FAIA, takes us through a vast body of his past and current work. Filled with wonderfully imaginative designs, inspiring solutions and more than a little subversion, Kundig's brilliance is on display as he discusses the aspects of architecture that are most personal and meaningful to him and have continued to resonate with him since he began working as an architect. Tom's inspirational lecture discusses four key aspects of his work: Craft and Making, Site, Hot-Rodding and Reuse, and Community.

Presenter:	Tom Kundig, FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Dr. Dickson Despommier: The Vertical Farm and the Rise of Urban Agriculture

In this 60-minute video, Dickson Despommier, PhD, demonstrates the concept of vertical farming, a unique way of using technology to change how we grow food, treat the earth, and form our urban spaces. In a simultaneously heart-wrenching and uplifting lecture, packed with astounding facts, statistics and anecdotes, Dr. Despommier illustrates that humanity's future can easily be a bright one, but only if we act now.

Presenter:	Dr. Dickson Despommier, PhD
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA: Linking Light and Landscape

In this 60-minute video, Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA, explores the integration of buildings with light, season, and landscape. Shim's engaging lecture is filled with examples from her firm's cutting-edge work, significant not just for their construction, but by the way they are informed by their surroundings and context in the larger world. Similarly, Shim provides a larger context for her lecture, examining (among many topics) art, geography, and how intertwining light, water and landscape is redefining architectural practice.

Presenter:	Brigitte Shim, Hon. FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Michael Maltzan, FAIA: No More Play

How can architecture convince people to live, work and play in a single community? How can public housing be as beautiful as it is efficient? In this 60-minute video, Michael Maltzan, FAIA, draws on his significant architectural experience to offer new ideas for transforming the way we design, build and think about public structures and the cities they help to define.

Presenter:	Michael Maltzan, FAIA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Borja Ferrater: Architecture and Geometry

In this 60-minute viceo, Borja Ferrater, a part of the family team at the innovative firm, Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), demonstrates his and the company's unique work. Ferrater delivers an engaging, entertaining and often amusing lecture, packed with fascinating projects incorporating techniques utilizing light, geometry and materials in ways that have only recently been possible. The projects themselves span a variety of different scales, budgets and purposes. Yet, given Ferrater's interest in buildings as systems, the projects form a cohesive and narratively-driven portfolio, populated by some work from one of the most exciting and innovative international firms.

Presenter:	Borja Ferrater
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

MDC 2011 - Peter Walker, FASLA: The 9/11 Memorial & Its Precedents

In this 60-minute video, Peter Walker, FASLA, reviews his landscape architecture work on one of the most significant new projects in the United States: the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Walker puts the Memorial's design in the context of his firm's previous work on several notable projects and examines the special techniques he helped to develop in order to implement his vision. Peter also provides a detailed account of how the Memorial came to exist in its current form: what challenges were overcome, what concepts changed, and how he helped to create a unique and somber landmark.

Presenter:	Peter Walker, FASLA
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

Designing Net Zero Energy Buildings

Compilation - energy efficient buildings

This course begins with a succinct and practical overview on the strategies and tactics for designing net zero energy buildings, followed by a more detailed examination that demystifies technical terms, cites building science and uses specific examples directly sourced from practice. Also explored in detail are design strategies to achieve grid-neutral energy performance in an urban public school. Other topics covered in the course include building commissioning as a quality control method applied throughout a project, and sustainable lighting design, specifically low-energy lighting strategies.

Presenter:	John Kouletsis, AIA, EDAC, Scott Shell, FAIA, LEED AP, John Dale, FAIA, Tom Hootman, AIA, LEED AP, Ron Wilkinson, LEED AP and Mark Loeffler, IALD, IESNA, LEED AP BD&C
Provider:	AIACC
Certification:	AIA/CES (HSW/SD)
Learning Units:	1.0 hours

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