TW Perry Gaithersburg - AIA Lunch & Learns

(60 minutes - 1 AIA LU/Elective)

Course Description:

How it’s made: raw materials to finished product. This presentation explains the process of turning galvanized steel coil into thermally broken steel windows and doors. It also compares cold-rolled steel manufacturing to hot-formed/tubular manufacturing and explains when/why each is used in steel manufacturing.

Learning Objectives:

Review the data and tools that building owners/clients need to manage their facilities.

Demonstrate through case studies how to leverage current technology to improve models while increasing value and providing additional services for building owners.

Explore how your firm can easily increase services offered post-occupancy to better meet the needs of facility management clients while also potentially adding a new revenue source.

Discover methods your firm can employ to provide more valuable models to building owners to optimize management of their renovations.

The French Steel Company

Course Title: The Evolution (and Devolution) of the Double Hung Window

(60 minutes - 1.5 CEU)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This presentation delves into the history of the double hung window, from its inception in England in the 1700’s through today. It will look closely at historic window componentry based on construction and building methods of this period. It will then identify the various changes and developments made throughout the years to these components, such as the addition of screens, balances, weather-stripping, insulated glass, and newer building materials such as aluminum, vinyl, wood composites, and fiberglass, and the impact these developments had on design aesthetics, operation, thermal performance, cost, and other factors.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Attendees will be able to explain how a double hung window works, and what made its design so useful compared to other windows available at the time it was developed.
2. Attendees will be able to identify all major component parts in a traditional historic wood double hung window.
3. Attendees will be able to explain how technological advances such as glass, weather-stripping, balances, and newer building materials changed the design of the double hung to result in the various options we see today.
4. Attendees will be able to understand and discuss the relative value points of traditional historic double hungs vs. modern ones, as relates to design, function, thermal performance, and cost.

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Lunch will be provided.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

TW Perry Gaithersburg, 8101 Snouffer School Road, Gaithersburg, United States