BC Wood Specialties Group - Factory Pre-finishing of Exterior Building Materials: a Sustainable Practice This session identifies causes for on-site exterior paint failure issues and how these factors can be eliminated through factory pre-finishing. Then examines the factory coating process for pre-finished exterior woodworks and substrate materials from an industry leader that supplies exterior cladding…  Read more

Passive House Canada - Controlling Water on Roofs and Below-Grade The design, selection, and placement of control layers can be challenging. Given the highly insulated nature of passive house buildings, even small mistakes in water and air control can create problems. Simply adding insulation to traditional wall and roof assemblies is risky, so air and…  Read more

Engineers and Geoscientists BC - Joint Professional Practice Guidelines: Design and Installation of Elevating Devices in New Buildings and Alternation of Elevating Devices in Existing Buildings This webinar will review and discuss the two Joint Architectural Institute of BC and Engineers and Geoscientists BC Professional Practice Guidelines: Design and Installation of Elevating Devices in New…  Read more

K2 Stone - Building with Natural Stone Materials - Sustainably Sourced Building Materials Within North America Building with natural stone materials - What are they? Where do they come from? How are they produced and where can they be incorporated onto the building envelope? The outcome of this course it to identify common stone masonry…  Read more

RAIC - Is the Greenest House the One Already Built? Real Life Case Studies The oft-heard phrase, “the greenest home is the one already built,” emphasizes the importance of embodied over operational carbon. To adequately combat climate change, we must consider both operational carbon emissions together with embodied carbon in buildings. This webinar will present…  Read more

Cascadia Windows & Doors - Navigating Emerging Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) More and more jurisdictions are implementing Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) to help address the poor energy efficiency of buildings—a key contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and overall energy consumption. While some of these new standards may seem restrictive or simply adding costs,…  Read more

RAIC - Removing Barriers: The Cost to Retrofit Existing Buildings to Ensure Meaningful Access Nearly half of Canadian adults have a permanent or temporary physical disability or live with someone who does – a trend that’s only expected to grow as the population ages. Despite an increasing awareness of these issues and efforts to remove…  Read more

RDH Building Science - Deep Dive into Rainscreens Session 5: The Last Line of Defense Deep Dive into Rainscreens Session 5 explores the last line of defense for water intrusion: the water-resistive barrier (WRB) membrane. In this session, you will discover how WRB membrane selection and placement within the rainscreen wall design can either enhance…  Read more

Cascadia Windows & Doors - Combustible Windows & Façade Components in Non-Combustible Construction – Testing, Research, and Expanding Methods We desperately need better energy efficiency from building enclosures, from both windows and insulated wall assemblies. Today, the best products and components to enable this are generally made from low conductivity materials. Most of these materials…  Read more