High Concrete Group representatives frequently visit designers' offices to present AIA-registered continuing education courses. Precast concrete courses carry 1 LU/HSW Hour or 1 LU/HSW/SD Hour, and are typically given over the lunch hour in offices with 20 or more design professionals participating. Box lunch courses are built around topical subjects that provide insights into the multitude of design and performance possibilities of building with precast concrete.
As an AIA Passport Provider, High Concrete Group logs AIA member participation in AIA Discovery. Certificates of completion are available upon request.
Use the links below to view precast concrete course descriptions and inquire about scheduling box lunch courses in your office.
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Architectural Precast
Designing Precast Facades with Thin Brick Finishes
An excellent choice for aesthetics and performance, thin brick finishes present a broad range of visuals for precast walls and cladding. Learn the basics of designing with various materials, take simple steps to control cost and quality, avoid pitfalls, and convert existing designs into beautiful, constructable precast thin brick facades.
Composite precast walls can deliver thermal efficiencies of R13 to R30, compress construction schedules, and provide smooth, ready-to-paint interior surfaces. This course explains the types and benefits of insulated walls, how to choose load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls and how they are used in various constructions including all-precast design.
Architectural Precast and Control of Cost and Quality
Find out why architectural precast offers greater design possibilities than other enclosure materials. Use totally custom textures, colors, shapes, finishes, details and reveals to achieve the effects you want. This course explains how architectural precast is made, how to specify, and to manage your project.
Composite precast walls can deliver thermal efficiencies of R13 to R30, compress construction schedules, and provide smooth, ready-to-paint interior surfaces. This course explains the types and benefits of insulated walls, how to choose load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls and how they are used in various constructions including all-precast design.
Garages of the 21st century can make significant contributions to project aesthetics, durability and sustainability. Learn the basics of managing cost and schedule, how to design and detail key features, and how to incorporate innovative and proven technical developments – including carbon fiber reinforcement – that contribute to reliable and lasting performance.
Hollowcore plank is an efficient building material and an economical choice for achieving fire ratings in key building types. Design floors, ceilings and roofs with this durable alternative to slab, steel and wood construction. Participants will learn at least four benefits, three manufacturing techniques, and six appropriate systems.
Hollowcore plank is an efficient building material and an economical choice for achieving fire ratings in key building types. Design floors, ceilings and roofs with this durable alternative to slab, steel and wood construction. Participants will learn at least four benefits, three manufacturing techniques, and six appropriate systems.
Extending over millennia, the history and science of concrete has evolved dramatically. This presentation explains concrete’s origins, its basic formulations, and shows triumphant projects made possible by this versatile and ubiquitous material. Participants will learn about recent innovative technologies in concrete that meet today’s most demanding design challenges.
Get your project off on the right foot with specifications that help ensure quality and conformity to requirements. This program covers key points to make in your precast specification, and what not to do. Participants will learn about structural precast, components and the impact of specifications on a precast project.
Architectural and structural building information models (BIM) are evolving separately but converging. This program explains the application of current BIM practice in precast projects, outlining the benefits of Tekla-based programming and providing an overview of capabilities. Covers design considerations, process and flow.
Learn strategies for reducing your project’s carbon footprint using lightweight precast concrete. Innovative reinforcement and mix designs result in performance improvements in thermally efficient facades and reduced embodied energy in architectural and structural members. Discusses component design, carbon fiber grid, cement substitution, lightweight aggregates, shipping, erection.
Designing for Optimal Thermal and Moisture Performance
Thermal loss and moisture damage are key issues in commercial construction. Learn the physical forces acting against buildings and the essentials of good design practice. R, k, U, infiltration and exfiltration and other concepts are explained.
Carbon fiber is lightweight, non-corrosive and far stronger than traditional mild steel. It is now the material of choice for secondary reinforcing in structural and non-structural applications. Participants will learn how carbon fiber is used to reinforce precast concrete and how specific components benefit and design goals are advanced.
A sustainable material, precast concrete is an excellent substrate for green roof applications. This program discusses precast systems and design considerations when using precast with typical green roof configurations. Precast and green roof benefits, installation procedures and LEED credits are explained. This program carries 1.0 HSW/SD learning units.
Tread lightly with CarbonCast®
The strong, thin, inert C-GRID® carbon fiber reinforcing at the core of CarbonCast products enables them to be lighter, insulating and durable, and leave a smaller carbon footprint than conventional precast.
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High-SRI Precast Concrete More sustainable precast, helps reduce and reverse the impact of the urban heat island effect.
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High performance double tees
Tread lightly. Lighter weight, highly corrosion-resistant CarbonCast® double tees leave a smaller carbon footprint than conventional precast by using less concrete and VOC-emitting admixtures and sealers.
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2011 PCI Design Award Winner
"There is a layering of materials, with buff-color precast used as the dominant form ... to highlight and counterbalance the dark brown metal and glass." - Jackie Bieghler, BSA LifeStructures. IU Innovation Center Go >
