Pratt Continuing Education

	The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a non-profit composed of leaders from every sector of the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Our more than 11,000 member organizations and our network of 75 regional chapters are united to advance our mission of transforming the building industry to sustainability.

	Through innovation and creative product design, CertainTeed has helped shape the building products industry for more than 100 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Company, the firm made its slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," which quickly inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is North America’s leading brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, windows, fence, decking, railing, trim, foundations, pipe, insulation, walls, ceilings and access covers.

	Williams Scotsman has been solving space needs for over 50 years. Our modular building consultants provide an alternative to conventional construction that saves precious time and affords flexibility. Modular buildings are constructed in a controlled factory setting while the site work is completed, thereby reducing the overall cycle time from concept to completion by up to 50 percent. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Williams Scotsman was formed by the merger of two market leaders. In 1990, Williams Mobile Offices and Scotsman Manufacturing Company joined forces. Capitalizing on the unique strengths of both Williams and Scotsman, the new company quickly became the supplier of choice for modular buildings, mobile offices, classrooms, and storage products. As a result of significant organic growth and strategic acquisitions, the company operates more than 100 locations throughout North America and Spain and serves more than 30,000 customers in 450 diverse industries, winning awards and customer accolades along the way.

	Learn how to solve common roof and wall construction and water management problems in wood-framed construction. This course will introduce architects, specification writers, and other design professionals to innovative barrier systems for roofs and walls. Participants will learn about an alternative to traditional methods of protecting roofs and walls from water intrusion. Learn what projects are appropriate, what to look for in products, and when to specify this new method.

	When planning and designing homes, architects should know that nearly 60 million Americans rely on propane for energy needs throughout the home. Propane can be stored above the ground or beneath the ground in underground propane tanks, an option many builders are choosing to fuel homes off the natural gas mains.

	The aim of the course is to provide information that would be a guide to creating colored concrete projects. It covers the chemical and physical properties of the pigments, as well as the techniques for the safe, and successful application and finishing of color concrete products.

	Thermique Technologies was formed to create total solutions using heated glass technology. We do this by developing products that can utilize heated glass technology and providing the information-sharing needed to bring this technology to broader markets. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Engineered Glass Products (EGP), we share over 50 years of lineage in specialty glass coatings and glass fabrication. Starting out as a fabricator of glass for early television tubes, EGP has gone on to develop scratch-resistant glass for scanners and is now one of the world's leading producers of heat barrier glass, which is used in such applications as oven doors.

	This course, which is HSW approved, provides an introduction to the increasingly important topic of daylighting, and to an effective means of achieving daylighting objectives, tubular daylighting devices (TDDs). The course concludes with an example showing the before and after effects of introducing TDDs into an institutional space, and a discussion of some of the design considerations involved in the use of TDDs.

	What do your clients want their kitchen to be? Sub-Zero refrigerators, freezers and wine storage units are the definitive kitchen components. Made by hand. Tested to the nth degree. The only brand with dual refrigeration. Built to the same exacting standards, Wolf cooking instruments help give fullest expression to the love of good food and the pleasure of preparing it. Wolf fuels your clients' passion for cooking.

	For more than 30 years, finishes based on Kynar 500® PVDF resin have helped protect commercial, industrial, and residential buildings around the world. Kynar 500® is a special grade of PVDF resin used by licensed industrial paint manufacturers as the base resin in long-life coatings for aluminum, galvanized steel, and aluminized steel in applications such as metal roofing and siding, window and door frames, curtain wall and other miscellaneous metal trim and components.