Webinars This Month: California Schools Connect the Drops and BIMagination

Oct 2, 2015 | Uncategorized

By Allison Maynard, Communications Associate


This month we have two great Webinars: California Schools Connect the Drops and BIMagination: From 3D to 5D.

For California Schools Connect the Drops three Bay Area firms will share the stories of how a few forward-thinking leaders and local K-12 schools challenged the system and their organizations and overcame regulatory and behavioral barriers in order to change minds, redefine values, and impact behavior around water – for themselves, the students, and their communities.The target audience for this course is school administrators, LEED consultants, teachers, parents, school boards and any others interested in making change at their schools regarding water usage. LEED experience is not required but could be helpful.

You can register for this webinar here!

At BIMagination: From 3D to 5D you can learn about Building Information Modeling (BIM) which enables designers and project teams to model various building elements, components, and configurations to achieve optimal energy usage and green building functionality. Many believe BIM will become standard practice for building green at some point in the future. It produces the greatest advantages when the entire project team is involved at the design phase by enabling team members to assess inputs and outputs as modeling intelligence grows with each modeling iteration.

Registration for this webinar is here!

WELL Building Standard Webinar

Sep 21, 2015 | Uncategorized

By Allison Maynard, Communications Associate


Join us at SMMA's Cambridge office for an in-person webinar focused on introducing the WELL Building Standard. The WELL Building Standard® (WELL) is the world’s first building standard focused exclusively on human health and wellness. It marries best practices in design and construction with evidence-based medical and scientific research – harnessing the built environment as a vehicle to support human health and wellbeing. This webinar will provide an overview of the WELL Building Standard ideology, structure, and certification process. The medical basis for the concept categories is introduced along with design and construction strategies to create healthy buildings.

The objectives for the webinar are to:

  • Articulate the financial, societal, and environmental benefits of WELL certification
  • Identify the role of the International Well Building Institute and the WELL Building Standard
  • Recognize the structure of the WELL Building Standard
  • Explain the 7 concepts of the WELL Building standard, the strategies to achieve them, and the health impacts they address
  • Summarize the certification process of the WELL Building Standard

Register here!