CEUs
Earn AIA, HSW, IDCEC, GBCI credits by visiting the Georgia-Pacific Building Products Contnuing Education Center! We support commercial and residential architects, designers, builders, and contractors with resources to advance their knowledge.
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Interior Fiberglass Mat Gypsum Panels: Evolution of Sustainable Construction
This course will help to enlighten the participant to the advantages and sustainability value contribution of fiberglass-faced gypsum boards products in a project’s design and constructability. This course examines fiberglass mat gypsum panels, discusses how sustainability has developed over the last 35 years, and specifics of how fiberglass gypsum board contributes to the overall sustainability effort.
On Demand
Changing the Way We Think of Prefabrication: New Solutions for Your Building Envelope
Prefabricated construction is advancing in vertical segments from hospital to government, and hospitality to office and beyond. Prefabrication firms are expanding, and new design-build business models, including their own prefabrication factories, are disrupting traditional building approaches with significant success. The benefits of prefabrication, including time savings and improved quality over traditional on-site construction methods, are now being extended to larger components of construction projects including interior and exterior walls and the building envelope.
On-Demand
High-Performance Gypsum Panels: Benefits for Moisture Management and Project Scheduling
This course considers the design of energy-efficient buildings, which must include an effective, lasting moisture management strategy. Moisture management is essential to resilient, sustainable, healthy buildings.
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Integral Sheathing Solutions for Multi-Family Projects
Multifamily construction is more competitive than ever. Even as mixed-use projects are filling in desirable tracts in urban cores, developers are locating projects in the suburbs and “exurbs,” as well In any case, key demographic groups, including millennials and baby boomers, are driving this demand, and their expectations are high: they want convenient transportation nearby, and they want to be close to restaurants, shopping, and work. Sustainability is important, too, but lowering energy use is no longer enough. Increasingly, the real estate market has embraced the language of low and zero-carbon.
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Finding Design and Construction Efficiencies with Integrated Weather Barrier Systems
Discover the benefits of integrated weather barrier systems. Combining OSB sheathing with air- and water-resistive barriers enhances building performance and efficiency. Learn key design details, code considerations, and installation advantages that optimize energy use and longevity.
Lunch and Learn
Overview of Firewalls and the Use of Glass Mat Gypsum Shafliner Panels
In multi-story, multi-family housing it is the separation wall (firewall) which prevents fires from spreading to adjacent units. This course examines the advantages of using glass mat shaftliner panels for firewall assemblies in multi-story, multi-family housing, and covers the installation procedures and special conditions.
Lunch and Learn
Advanced Design Against Adverse Conditions in a Commercial Roofing System
This level-200 course will build upon basic cover board education and teach you how to identify and articulate the most common risk factors (adverse conditions) for commercial roof damage. Further, you'll learn how to identify regional idiosyncrasies with these risk factors and understand the agencies, codes and corresponding test methods that address them. Lastly, you'll learn how fiber glass gypsum-faced panels can mitigate these risks and significantly impact the performance of roof assembly.
Lunch and Learn
Integral Sheathing Solutions for Multi-Family Projects
Discover the future of living with our innovative multifamily construction projects designed to meet the evolving desires of modern residents. As competition intensifies in urban, suburban, and even "exurban" areas, we've positioned ourselves at the forefront of this dynamic market by thoughtfully integrating sustainability, convenience, and community connectivity into every build.
Lunch and Learn
Interior Fiberglass Mat Gypsum Panels: Evolution of Sustainable Construction
This course will help to enlighten the participant to the advantages and sustainability value contribution of fiberglass-faced gypsum boards products in a project’s design and constructability. This course examines fiberglass mat gypsum panels, discusses how sustainability has developed over the last 35 years, and specifics of how fiberglass gypsum board contributes to the overall sustainability effort.
Lunch and Learn
Benefits of Rigid Cover Board in Commercial Roofing Systems
Provides an overview of the types and performance characteristics of cover board materials used in commercial roofing assemblies, along with a discussion of the forces that threaten roof-system durability.
Lunch and Learn
Changing the Way We Think of Prfabrication: New Solutions for Your Building Envelope
Prefabricated construction is advancing in vertical segments from hospital to government, and hospitality to office and beyond. Prefabrication firms are expanding, and new design-build business models, including their own prefabrication factories, are disrupting traditional building approaches with significant success. The benefits of prefabrication, including time savings and improved quality over traditional on-site construction methods, are now being extended to larger components of construction projects including interior and exterior walls and the building envelope.
Lunch and LEarn
Who's the Culprit in WRB-AB Leakage?
In this course, we will focus on these three transition areas in particular: wall to foundation, openings, and roof to wall. Further, recognizing the innovations and risk mitigation needed in building envelope design, we will also look at the latest advances in all-in-one, integrated gypsum sheathing that include WRB and AB systems during manufacturing as alternatives to field-applied water- and air-barrier systems.
Lunch and LEarn
The Evolution of Water-Resistive and Air Barriers in Commerical Building Envelope Construction
The purpose of this course is, first, to take a look at the evolution of water-resistive and air barriers—we’ll refer to them as WRB-ABs for short—in commercial building envelopes. And second, to introduce new, all-in-one integrated gypsum sheathing and WRB-AB systems as viable alternatives to traditional systems.
Lunch and LEarn
Making Transitions: Keeping Air and Water Barriers Continuous
Extreme weather events can stress wall assemblies, causing water to enter the building envelope. Fasteners attached to sheathing are a point of vulnerability requiring specific attention in order to avoid leaks and compromise building integrity. With some minor exceptions, the standardized test methods for water-resistive barriers (WRB) and air barriers (AB) do not consider the range of adhesive and mechanical cladding attachments. These standardized methods also do not include simulations of extreme wind and rain on the cladding attachment penetrations.
Lunch and LEarn
Why Use Cover Boards in North America?
Healthcare facilities of all types can be designed to address the needs of people and the long-term performance requirements on the exterior and interior by specifying the most appropriate construction products, such as fiberglass mat-faced gypsum board.