AIA eClassroom has just added three new practice-oriented distance learning programs to its repertoire of continuing-education classes for architects. Drawn from the highest rated presentations at this year’s AIA national convention, these programs offer two credit hours each.

Standing Out in a Crowd—Consistent Practices of Successful Firms (TH01)
This course focuses on the world’s top architecture and design firms, management consultants, and advertising agencies to learn about their remarkably similar business practices and common themes.
You’ll:

• Gain new insight into practices that help improve quality, profitability, and growth
• See examples and tools that help incorporate these insights about success into daily practices and individual careers.

Course Instructor
Lucinda Ludwig, FAIA, serves as a vice president for the 850-person Leo A Daly firm, a third-generation, international architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Omaha. Her responsibilities include oversight of the business development activities for all 12 domestic offices, determining strategy and focus, training and developing marketing staff, and pursuing new business.

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The Architect’s Guide to Design-Build (TH28)
Through this course, you will examine the new Architect’s Guide to Design-Build, sponsored by the AIA Design-Build PIA and published by John Wiley and Sons.

You’ll learn about the:

• Growing design/build opportunities
• Composition of design/build teams
• Legal issues related to licensing, contracts, and construction
• Market opportunities here and abroad.

This course offers two health/safety/welfare learning units.

Course Instructors
Jose Angel Martinez serves as principal of Martinez & Associates and is primarily responsible for the professional services division and general administration of the company.
G. William Quatman, Esq., FAIA, is an attorney with the law firm of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C., and practices in the firm's Construction Law Section. He is also an architect and has extensive experience representing contractors, owners, architects, and engineers on both public and private construction projects.
Martin Sell, AIA, is president and CEO of RKETEK.COM, LLC, a design/build firm in the Midwest.

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Liability and Management Issues Presented by the Paperless Office (SA28)
The movement toward a paperless office is accelerating every day, imposing new professional liability exposures and changing the way architects manage the storage and distribution of business information. This course addresses each of those issues and provides useful techniques for controlling the associated risks and minimizing the potential financial exposures.

You’ll learn:

• To identify and assess the potential legal liabilities and administrative burdens
• What adjustments are necessary and how to implement them in written firm policies.

Course Instructors
Gunther O. Carrle, Esq., and Bruce D. Lombardo, Esq., are founding principals of Powell, Trachtman, Logan, Carrle Bowman & Lombardo, P.C. Attorneys at Law. Carrle lectures regularly to design professionals on a variety of topics relating to loss prevention and professional practice. Lombardo has substantial experience handling complex litigation in the areas of professional liability, products liability, and insurance coverage disputes.

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