Request a Lunch & Learn
Elevate Your Skills
Looking to enhance your team’s knowledge of air barrier systems and building enclosure best practices? Request a Lunch & Learn session from the Air Barrier Association of America (ABAA), an approved AIA Continuing Education Provider
ABAA’s accredited presentations offer practical, non-proprietary education on topics such as air barrier design, material performance, and energy-efficient construction. These sessions are ideal for architects, engineers, contractors, and other building professionals seeking to improve building durability and overall enclosure performance.
Presentations are typically delivered online by ABAA-approved speakers and are accredited by multiple industry organizations, including AIA.
Course Listing
Introduction to ABAA / Building Science
Review the “Building as a System” concept and what Review of key performance requirements and definitions of Air Barrier materials, assemblies and systems. Introduction into the concept of building as a system and the physics behind heat, air and moisture flow. Dispel some of the myths of building airtightness and air barriers.
Credits: 1.0 CEU/HSW
Achieving a High-Performance Air Barrier System
Review of important design considerations, how to properly detail critical interfaces, key items to include in your specifications and the proper installation techniques, quality control and testing parameters for a variety of air barrier systems.
Credits: 1.0 or 1.5 CEU/HSW
How to Sleep Good at Night: Don’t Have Your Air Barrier Installation Become Your Nightmare!
Review of exactly what quality assurance is, how it is different than quality control, the impact of poor quality on a building system and the key components of the quality assurance program for air barriers.
Credits: 1.0 CEU/HSW
The Big Disconnect – The Importance of Wall to Roof Connections for the Air Barrier
Review of air barrier considerations for roof to wall connections.
Credits: 1.0 or 1.5 CEU/HSW/GBCI
Oh No! What Did I Miss? How to Properly Specify an Air Barrier System
The importance of a proper specification cannot be understated, and a well-articulated document will ensure that the owner is provided with materials, performance and quality. A review of key specification language to include in your project specifications, along with code requirements and material testing.
Credits: 1.0 or 1.5 CEU/HSW/GBCI
Air Barrier Material Evaluations and Testing: Why Peanut Butter is Good for a Sandwich, but NOT for Your Air Barrier.
As the air and water resistive barrier industry has grown over the past decade, new materials have come on the market. These materials have a short track record, but should you shy away from using them? This presentation shows how you can sort out the different materials and how you can get help in choosing the right one for your project.
Credits: 1.0 CEU/HSW/GBCI
New Tools to Help Drive Decisions in your Air Barrier Specifications
Review of new tools in choosing different levels of airtightness and the potential energy savings and reduction in moisture transport. Discuss new research done on air barrier adhesion to the substrates and the effect of different penetrations through the air barrier.
Credits: 1.0 or 1.5 CEU/HSW/GBCI
Trust, but Verify – Air Barrier Field Testing of Various Air Barrier Materials during Construction Process
Demonstrate and show various quality control tests that can be performed during the air barrier application.
Credits: 1.0 or 1.5 CEU/HSW
General Design Considerations for Air Barriers
Review key design considerations, critical interfaces for continuity, material performance requirements and specification language for the proper design and selection of the air barrier assembly.
Credits: 1.0 or 1.5 CEU/HSW
Ground Hog Day – Recurring Field Installation Issues
Review of consistent field related installation issues for a variety of air barrier products.
Credits: 1.0 CEU/HSW
All programs are registered with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for continuing education credits, including those eligible for Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW). Several are also recognized by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) for continuing professional education, as well as the International Code Council (ICC) Education Provider Program.
Please note: AIA and GBCI credits are only available when these presentations are conducted in person by an ABAA-approved speaker.
