AIA Toledo Platinum Partner, Tri-County Block & Brick, and Glen-Gery, present "Resilient and Sustainable Brick: Another Look at a Time-Honored Material ."
June 12, 2025 | 12:00 pm -1:15 pm
Online
The concept of sustainability has moved beyond simply energy efficiency and recycled content toward high-performance buildings that include resilient design, waste reduction, and occupant health and wellbeing, among other topics.
This course will cover why brick has been used for millennia for its ready and abundant availability, durability, and infinite recyclability, which allows the material to contribute to resilient design and a circular economy. Despite its long history and use in more traditional architecture, there are many innovative applications for modern brick. This course will remind architects how brick is not just a resilient and sustainable building material but a beautiful one that should be considered for contemporary design, adaptive reuse, and green building projects.
Learning Objectives
Examine the broader aspects of sustainability that go beyond energy efficiency and have gained traction in recent years, including resilient design, reducing raw material and construction waste, and occupant comfort.
Evaluate the long lifecycle of brick due to its durability and how this lowers the embodied carbon of the material and contributes to resilient design.
Understand the brick manufacturing process and how the material contributes to a circular economy and prevents excessive construction and demolition waste.
Explore how buildings constructed of brick provide thermal and acoustic comfort and do not emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs), all leading to a healthier indoor environment for building occupants.
Earn 1.25 AIA LU HSW | 1 GBCI CE