5:00 - 6:00 PM ET

Need additional HSW to meet your Kentucky licensure requirements before the year's end?

Stop in to Louvered Outdoor's showroom right next door to Jeptha Creed for a free tour worth 1 AIA LU | HSW!

All members who receive a tour will also be entered in our prize drawing to be announced during the party! 

(Advanced registration appreciated but not required.)

Description: 

This showroom tour will provide a non-proprietary examination of residential and commercial aluminum shade structures and their role in creating safe, durable, comfortable, and environmentally responsive outdoor environments. Participants will observe raw materials, structural components, and completed assemblies while learning how shade structures can be designed and specified to address occupant protection, structural performance, weather exposure, thermal comfort, and long-term durability.

The course will explore material characteristics such as non-combustibility, corrosion resistance, recycled content, and resistance to significant wind and snow loads. Participants will also examine integrated accessories and smart-control technologies that allow shade structures to respond to changing environmental conditions, including sun, wind, rain, and temperature. Discussion will emphasize how appropriate material selection, structural design, and bioclimatic strategies can support occupant health, safety, comfort, and responsible use of resources in residential and commercial applications.

Learning Units:

1. Evaluate how the planning and design of residential and commercial outdoor spaces can support occupant health and welfare by providing appropriate shade, weather protection, thermal comfort, and usable extensions of interior environments.

2. Explain how pergolas, cabanas, and other shade structures can contribute to safer and more comfortable year-round outdoor environments through protection from solar exposure, precipitation, wind, and other environmental conditions.

3. Identify material and specification considerations for aluminum shade structures—including structural capacity for wind and snow loads, non-combustibility, corrosion resistance, durability, and maintenance requirements—that contribute to occupant safety and long-term building performance.

Describe how bioclimatic design strategies, operable components, sensors, and automated controls can enable aluminum shade structures to respond to changing environmental conditions while improving occupant comfort, energy performance, and responsible use of resources.