Illinois Continuing Education Package

This 24-hour package meets state renewal requirements.

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Illinois 24 Hour Continuing Education Course Package

Meets state continuing education requirements

This 24-hour package contains:

Course #1 – (7 HSW hour Audio Course) Manage Your Way to Big Profits

Course #2 – (4 HSW hour Audio Course) Designing Worship Facilities

Course #3 – (3 HSW hour Video Course) Successful Renovations and Additions

Course #4 – (6 HSW hour Video Course) 2010 ADA Standards: Real World Application

Course #5 – (2 HSW hour Audio Course) ADA Paths – Part 1 No One Left Behind

Course #6 – (1 HSW hour Audio Course) 2023 FL ADV Gable End Anchoring/Framing in High Velocity Zones

Course #7 – (1 LU hour Audio Course) Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment

Credit(s) earned on completion of this course will be reported to AIA CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members will be available to print upon completion of this course. This course is registered with AIA CES for continuing professional education.

Manage Your Way to Big Profits

Instructor: Paul Acker

This course is designed to be the next step in raising your construction management skills to the next level. The class will help prepare the learner for the scope of responsibilities that a professional construction project manager, whether for residential or commercial projects, must be prepared to perform. The course begins with preconstruction services and project start-up tasks. As the project continues, controlling the finances, overseeing the project progress, safety, environmental and energy concerns are just a few of the many tasks a project manager must supervise. Finally, a successful manager must properly close out the project, all while achieving a profit, and securing a satisfied customer.

Upon completion of this course, participants will:

Be able to assemble a project team, ensuring they are qualified to perform the work in accordance with specifications and requirements.
Recognize the role of OSHA in the workplace and describe the causes of the most common workplace injuries.
Understand environmental regulations that govern construction activities for protecting water, air and land quality.
Develop a close out procedure that will verify accuracy and completion of all building component systems, including warranties and certifications, prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy.

This Course Covers:

Planning and startup
Project progress
Environmental and energy concerns
Safety
Close out

Designing Worship Facilities

Instructor: Paul Spite

Many decisions need to be made when undertaking the design of a facility to be used for worship. Some are esoteric, dealing with considerations on how to design the structure to best approach God. But others are more mundane, concerned with the fact that before the building may be occupied, the designer must first please men. This course will deal with the second.

Satisfying the needs of people involved in the project will involve those both inside and outside of the client group. Unless societal guidelines, like codes, zoning restrictions and existing easements are honored, regulatory agencies can make sure the building process doesn’t begin. Lending agencies will impose restrictions that must be honored. Site conditions will result in sometimes inflexible conditions on how the land may be used. The needs of the building community that will be translating construction documents into a physical reality must be addressed, as well as the way that process will come to fruition. Finally, every member of the religious group called the client will be bringing their own ideas to the table regarding the desired end result.

This course is designed to look at the many, sometimes seemingly endless parameters and decisions that must be made and addressed, before and during the design of a worship facility.

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills.

A thorough understanding of the types of parameters that must be satisfied in the design of worship facilities
An increased awareness of the various functions usually needing accommodated in worship facilities
Knowledge of basic options available to religious groups facing the need to change or expand their facilities to accommodate growth
How to guide religious groups in acknowledging the many costs besides the building, involved in completing projects, considering sources for capital and determining their financial feasibility of proceeding
Educating clients regarding various players who will be involved in making their dream a reality and how to go about selecting them
Different societal guidelines that act as parameters to be met while designing worship facilities
Master planning considerations that should be incorporated in sites, buildings, systems and furnishings for religious clients
Basic acoustic considerations to be addressed while designing the primary spaces of buildings used for assembly purposes
Practical considerations and rules of thumb that help with initial layouts and schematic design of worship facilities
Typical areas of concern found in building code restrictions, tending to govern the design of worship facilities.

This course covers:

Introduction
Options for Growth
Counting the Costs
Potential Sources of Capital
Players in the Process
Master Planning
Acoustics in Worship
Practical Concerns / Rules of Thumb
Materials and Choices
Rules and Regulations
Building Codes Pertinent to Worship Facilities
Conclusion

Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment

Instructor: J. MacDowell

This one-hour course will provide learners with an understanding of sexual harassment, forms of harassment, reporting procedures for harassment, and employer responsibility and liability in the prevention of sexual harassment. Extensive examples, scenarios, and case studies are included for real-world applications.

You will learn to:

Recognize sexual harassment forms and types
Understand reporting procedures for harassment
Acquire knowledge of whistle blower protections
Apply class concepts to scenarios and examples

Successful Renovations

This course is designed to address the needs of both designers and builders. The topics that will be covered include pre-design, building design, structural concerns, making a watertight envelope, code issues, and construction details. Each of these topics will be addressed in the light of both renovation and addition projects. Real-life stories will relay information that will help any designer to successfully navigate through the challenges of this very specific type of building design. This course will highlight the right questions, demonstrate how to investigate the important conditions and bring attention to the critical issues. Through the many following examples, this course will offer instruction on how to approach a renovation or addition project with justified confidence.

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

Be able to translate the requests of the client into a realistic, safe, and cost-effective project.
Gain confidence in the ability to specify and identify any code related issues or requirements in order to facilitate proper construction.
Demonstrate how to investigate the important conditions and bring attention to critical issues.
Identify and integrate strategies that involve existing conditions, building design, structural concerns, and common issues.

This Course Covers:

Renovations
- Pre-Design: Existing Conditions
- Design
- Structural
- Water-Tight Envelope
- Code
- Details
Additions
- Pre-Design
- Design
- Structural
- Code

2010 ADA Standards: Real World Application

Instructor: Roger Peck

The ADA is one of America's most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstream of American life — to enjoy employment opportunities, to purchase goods and services, and to participate in State and local government programs and services. The 2010 Standards set minimum requirements – both scoping and technical – for newly designed and constructed, or altered State and local government facilities, public accommodations, and commercial facilities to be readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.

This 6 hour video course covers the second chapter of the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design. Chapter 2: Scoping Requirements sets the stage for all the following chapters of the ADA Standards. In this video course, material is presented by simple narration and power point video presentation, as well as on-site, real world video examples in various accessible buildings, used by both the public and by private businesses.

After completing this course participants will be able to:

Recognize how the overall philosophy of the Americans with Disabilities Act can, and does create an environment of opportunity and non-discrimination.
Be able recognize what facilities can, and should comply with ADA standards.
Outline at least one design strategy based on ADA standards for the construction of either a public or private building.
Summarize the options available to the design or building professional when designing a facility per the requirements of the ADA Standards.

This Course Covers:

Existing Buildings and Facilities
General Exceptions
Protruding Objects
Accessible Routes: Work areas, Amusement parks, Recreational areas, Entrances, Lifts
Accessible Means of Egress
Parking Spaces, Passenger Loading Zones and Bus Stops
Stairways, Windows, Fire Alarm Systems and Signs
Toilet and Bathing Facilities
Transportation Facilities
Dressing, Fitting, and Locker Rooms
Medical Care and Long-term Care Facilities
Depositories, Vending Machines, Change Machines, Mail Boxes and Fuel Dispensers
Detention, Correctional and Residential Facilities
Amusement Rides, Pools & Spas, Boating Facilities and Recreational Facilities

2023 Advanced Building Code Internet Course – Gable End Anchoring and Framing in High Velocity Hurricane Zones

Course Description

This class provides the one-hour of Advanced Building Code CE which, in addition to a one-hour Advanced Building Code Update class would satisfy the minimum requirement for renewing an architect’s license in Florida. It covers a selection of codes from Chapters 15, 21, 22, and 23 that deal directly with design and construction of structures in Florida’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zones.

Learning Objectives

This course will help refresh students’ understanding of and familiarity with codes in the latest edition of the Florida Building Code that deal directly with design and construction in high-velocity hurricane zones (HVHZs). By the end of this course, students will have:

Updated their knowledge of Florida codes that govern construction in HVHZs;
Reinforced their awareness of the additional roles and responsibilities for construction in HVHZs that Florida assigns to architects and engineers;
A clearer understanding of how risk categories are determined;
Explored how codes for masonry, steel, and wood are tailored to the needs of buildings in HVHZs; and
Focused on the additional vulnerability of gable ends in extreme weather events and the need to design them to resist storm forces and windborne debris in HVHZs.

Course Outline

Our class is divided into three lessons. Each of these lessons will address a key topic area within the Florida Building Code as it is applied to design and construction in High-Velocity Wind Zones.

High-Velocity Wind Zones (HVHZs)
Exterior Walls: Codes on Masonry Construction & Steel Construction
Exterior Walls: Codes on Wood Construction

ADA Paths – Part 1 No One Left Behind

Course Description

In September of 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice published the “2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design,” a comprehensive set of standards about designing buildings to facilitate their use by the handicapped. The publication contained two parts, one establishing accessibility laws for facilities built with public funds, and one providing guidelines for public buildings built by private entities. Since that time, numerous model codes, building codes and published standards have been released, based in part or in whole on those standards, creating some confusion as to what exactly is required. This course is a comprehensive overview of the original guidelines and their intent.

The “2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design,” though quite lengthy, have been broken out and grouped into nine categories of information, presented in the following sequence. A series introduction discusses the creation of the standards and their applicability as regulations. This course then focuses on the additional parts of the standards addressing; accessible parking facilities and accessible building entryways.

An attempt was made to simplify these regulations and present them in an orderly and comprehensible fashion. Hopefully, the resulting information will be of use in designing public accommodations and commercial facilities, making them readily accessible to, and usable by, individuals with disabilities.

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

An understanding of the difference between accessibility laws mandated for buildings constructed using governmental funds, accessibility guidelines for buildings built by private entities for public use, and practical exceptions to both
Design principles to ensure parking facilities accommodate use by the handicapped
An overview of the importance of providing accessible routes between parking facilities and building points of entry
Materials and methods to construct walking surfaces allowing easy passage and use by the handicapped, including stairs and ramps.
An overview of design principles resulting in making vertical transportation equipment, like lifts and elevators, of better use to the handicapped
Maneuvering clearances needed at, and between, doors and gates

This Course Covers:

Compliance Dates
Scope of Coverage
Exceptions
Requirements Pertaining to Specific Building Types
Additional Exemptions
Parking Space Requirements
Location of Parking Facilities
Physical Characteristics of Parking Facilities
Accessible Routes
Entrances
Doors, Doorways and Gates
Elevators and Lifts
Security Barriers
Accessible Means of Egress
Accessible Routes
Stairways
Case Study
General Provisions
Doors, Doorways, and Gates

Credit(s) earned on completion of this course will be reported to AIA CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available to print upon completion of the course.