CEFPI is a Registered Provider with The American Institute of
Architects Continuing Education Systems (AIA/CES). Credit(s)
earned on completion of this program will be reported to AIA/CES for
AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and
non-AIA members are available upon request.
This program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional
education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or
construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material
of construction or any method or manner of handling, using,
distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
Questions related to specific materials, methods, and services will be
addressed at the conclusion of each presentation.
Learning Objectives
North End ISD – Tex Hill Middle School
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn about the use of technology in the school to avoid wasting paper and
teach how to recycle effectively
2. Learn about use of technology to improve comfort and reduce waste
3. Learn about strategies used to improve safety for the occupants.
4. Learn about facility as a teacher
Learning Objectives
Northside ISD – Swim Center
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand Safety in design, the challenge in designing the separation
between athletes, coaches and the spectators.
2. Understand Joint use facility between the school District and the County. The
design needed to meet the needs for all the above, while considering safety
for all. Public swim facility which included a world class swimming and
diving.
3. Examine how An outdoor facility in south Texas created challenges for
spectator comfort. The design included several wind and sun studies
4. Value engineering in the usage of a combination of concrete and metal-pans
to build the tub of the pool. The issue is that each swim lane has to be built
with-in 1/16 of an inch.
Learning Objectives
San Antonio ISD – Hawthorne Academy
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn how community cooperation helped creating a successful design for
the facility, responding to health and safety concerns
2. Learn about the special issues of safety presented by common use of an
educational facility
3. Learn about the special issues of accessibility, safety and interior design
presented by a facility open for use to a vast range of age groups
4. Examine the most successful features that support learning achievement
and cooperation across all ages
Learning Objectives
State of Public Education in Bexar County
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Gain an understanding of education priorities and how they affect design of
projects in todays environment.
2. Understand how state funding mechanisms will affect available funding for
ISD construction/improvements
3. Understand how different school districts implement curriculum and how
school design can facilitate the abovementioned curriculum
4. Understand how to ‘future proof’ schools so todays designs incorporate
spaces, technology and flexibility to accommodate curriculum years from
now.
Learning Objectives
Northside ISD’s Bernal Middle School: A Case Study of TXCHPS designed from the School District’s, Architects and
Contractor’s Point of View
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the Texas Collaborative for High Performance School (TXCHPS) Designed Standards
2. Understand the Process that the Project Team Utilized for implementing TXCHPS at Bernal Middle School
3. Understand the School District’s, Architect’s and Contractor's role in
Implementing TX-CHPS Criteria
4. Review how a High Performance Building Assessment tool can be used as a
guide for implementing a District’s Sustainable Schools Initiative
Learning Objectives
Strategic Partnerships for Implementation of House Bill 5
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Mine and extrapolate data to gauge interest and need for career pathways
2. Harness the power of the network. Find and establish strategic partnerships
3. Instigate passionate learners through social learning, collaboration and
entrepreneurship
4. Create facilities that evolve with time: the tug of war: vision vs reality
Learning Objectives
Makerspaces: Making Outcomes Count
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Explore case studies of various types of makerspaces and the ways they
work inside and outside schools.
2. Understand learning outcomes related to making such as student direction,
provisional patents, and college/career readiness.
3. Experience Problem Based learning and problem identification.
4. Integrate community and mentorship in maker programs.
Learning Objectives
It’s About More than Initial Building Cost
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Review the History of whole life building cost in schools
2. Understand How material quality selection impacts ongoing operating and
renewal cost
3. Understand How space efficiency impacts ongoing operating cost and
energy use
4. Understand How quality, space efficient buildings impact energy use
Learning Objectives
Value Added Design: Building Systems that Save Money
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. receive new insight to unused building systems in educational design
through case studies
2. Learn how collaborative effort and integrated design process benefits ISD's
3. See student response to healthy, safe, unique and creative educational
environments
4. Educate practitioners in cost effective building systems and concept driven
design can affect future projects
Learning Objectives
BIM Execution Plans and AIA BIM Exhibits –What it Means to
Owners and How These Agreements Can Help Facilitate
Collaboration and Accountability
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Discuss the different BIM Agreements available for Owners to use, need for
using it and discuss the tangible results if used effectively
2. Explain how BIM Agreements can influence the need to create BIM
standards that establishes clear understanding of different Level of
Development (LOD) the model will be produced at different stages of design
3. Understand how BIM agreements will lay out expectations from consultants
and contractors in their collaborative use of BIM at multiple design stages
4. Learn what challenges K-12 Owners will face in utilizing/implementing BIM
Agreements in their capital projects and possible ways to solve them
Learning Objectives
Coordinating a state of the art Security system in a 21st century
School: A case study of Midland ISD’s new elementary schools
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Identify scope of security system during bond planning
2. Discuss the role of technology in schools
3. Share Best practices for coordinating an advanced security system
4. Learn How physical building design interacts with technological systems
design to ensure security
Learning Objectives
Enriching Educational Opportunities with Student Centered
Design: A Case Study of a Career Technical High School
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. better understand how student-centered designed environments can unify
and enrich the various career and technical high school programs to meet
unique opportunities.
2. learn the programming/planning process which transformed staff factions
and conflicting goals into meaningful teamwork opportunities, and ultimately
in to a successful place of discovery.
3. learn how critical the difference creative interior design is (furniture, finishes,
vistas, graphics, etc.) to the ultimate success of the educational performance
of the facility.
4. experience the various responses of educators and students feedback to the
facility.
Learning Objectives
Delivering Real World/Hands On Education Through an
Innovative Partnership
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Explore INNOVATIVE Opportunities for Partnerships between AEC
community and school districts
2. Understand the value of DELIVERING educational spaces for alternative
learning opportunities
3. Seize the opportunity to create a SUSTAINABLE and passionate labor
pipeline for the AEC marketplace
4. Realize the potential for utilizing TOOLS TODAY to provide students with
real world, market desirable skills and knowledge for TOMORROW'S jobs
Learning Objectives
How Student Centered Design can support the Common Core
Practices: A Case Study of Trillium Creek Primary School
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. understand the common core practices that provided the foundation for the
creation of Trillium Creek
2. explore and articulate strategies to design a school and schoolyard that
promote student learning that can empower students to be agents of
change.
3. associate the importance of student voice with the successful design of a
school and improve their understanding about the courage required of
educational leaders to authentically engage students in the design of their
learning environments.
4. understand strategies to continue to build on the design guiding principles to
help establish a school culture that sustains over time.
Learning Objectives
Designing Schools for the Next Generation of Innovators
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. gain knowledge about the challenges and deficiency of our current
elementary through secondary school education system.
2. Gain insight about critical skills needed to make our high school students
college ready and competitive in the global market place.
3. Develop an understanding about how to engender a capacity for innovation
among students preparing for college.
4. Learn about the key characteristics of innovation in the context of teaching
and learning.
Learning Objectives
Planning & Designing 21st Century Schools
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Develop a methodology and strategy around facility planning and design.
2. Create a culture of innovation among school leaders and planners.
3. Build consensus around changes in the learning environment and delivery
method.
4. Drive stakeholder engagement and support
Learning Objectives
The Classroom Re-Imagined for Tomorrow
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Learn how young designers and students collaborated to imagine future
personalized learning spaces
2. See the results of the intensive design and collaboration process
3. Understand how partnerships like the Design Fellowship can help analyze
and solve community problems
4. Learn how grants can supplement and augment the facility design and
implementation process
Learning Objectives
Alamo Heights High School, a case study in sustainability
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand Sustainable strategies which affect the well being of students in
a high school environment
2. Understand how Sustainable strategies can be used as teaching
opportunities in a K12 environment.
3. Realize the ROI for Sustainable strategies.
4. Learn unique requirements inherent to solar PV arrays required to ensure
safety
Learning Objectives
Framing a Meeting: Maximizing Conversations with End Users
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Define the planning process as related to end users and construction/design
professionals
2. Understand the framework of end user input
3. Clarify roles of construction/design professionals and end users in the
planning process
4. Identify obstacles to a successful planning meeting
Learning Objectives
Game of Lifecycle
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Evaluate first-cost and operational-cost of building projects
2. Identify that certain key decisions impact lifecycle cost of building projects.
3. Experience the difference between working together with a consensus-
based approach versus individual decisions.
4. Demonstrate that there are fundamental, but hidden assumptions in any
project. If the right questions are not asked, and the right people not
consulted, these issues will either go unresolved or be resolved by someone
with inadequate expertise.
Learning Objectives
The New Vo-Tech: Transforming 20th Century Vocational
Workshops into 21st Century Learning Labs
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand historical vo-tech planning ideas from the 1970s and 1980s.
2. Explore and compare current CTE planning models
3. Understand PBL and CTE Career Strands
4. Discuss current planning techniques.
Learning Objectives
Innovate, sustain and deliver historic design projects on
historic campuses in historic urban neighborhoods
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. become familiar with the history of SAISD with respect to its many campus of
historic, cultural, and design significance.
2. Explore ways to identify and engage local stakeholders into the decision
making process with the goal of making them players in finding innovative
solutions for sustainable and healthy facilities.
3. Learn how to find and sustain balance between the curriculum and facilities
requirements of the District with the community desire to maintain the
character and fabric of a historic neighborhood
4. Develop an understanding of the broad range of influences that affect the
how we can successfully innovate, sustain and deliver historic design
projects
Learning Objectives
An innovative Way to Watch the Hen House – Using an Owner’s
Representative for Quality Assurance for New Facility Design
and Construction
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Highlight Project Delivery Methods
2. Learn how to Mitigate Facility Life-Cycle Risks to the School District
3. Understand the Integrated Quality Assurance Role
4. Refresh School District Leadership Attention to Risks of New Facility
Projects
Learning Objectives
Right on Track – A Race to Retrofit and Resurface Ten High
School Tracks
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Understand the importance of proper need identification and scoping; new
health and safety requirements
2. Identify critical issues related to track/field renovations with regards to safety
and health risks
3. Understand the Importance of material selection, installation and
maintenance when it comes to retrofitting with regards to safety and health
risks
4. Understand the roles and value each consultant brings to overall track
renovation process
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This concludes The American Institute of Architects
Continuing Education Systems Course