Continuing Education
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Sto Corp. has developed a suite of AIA/CES Learning Units designed to help you stay up-to-date on best business practices and specifications. Our instructor-led courses are offered in-person or virtually and cover a wide range of topics.
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Current Continuing Education Courses
Enhancing Building Resiliency with High-Density Fiber Cement Rainscreen Cladding
Fiber cement rainscreen systems combine timeless, designer aesthetics with advanced energy efficiency, creating a superior building envelope solution. This course discusses the history and characteristics of high-density cement fiber cladding. It then illustrates how a fully engineered, multi-layered system integrates an air and water-resistive barrier, a robust sub-construction made from aluminum or steel brackets and profiles, mineral wool thermal insulation board, and durable high-density fiber cement. Images illustrate how the fiber cement panels can be custom-fabricated into various shapes, offering design versatility. Ideal for both modern and traditional architecture, fiber cement rainscreen systems ensure long-lasting performance, durability, and adaptability to any design vision
Course No: STO25Fi-Cement – 1 LU / HSW credit
New Course!
Rainscreen Sub-construction: A Key to Highly Performing Walls
Rainscreen sub-construction forms the structural link between the facade and the substrate. It absorbs the wind and dead loads on the facade and redirects them into the substrate. Rainscreen sub-construction assemblies are invisible yet indispensable, forming the primary supporting structure for aesthetically appealing rainscreen cladding facades. In this course, we’ll review the importance of rainscreens and illustrate how sub-construction assemblies create even more protection for the building and its occupants. We’ll review several projects with sub-construction assemblies and show the variety of cladding systems compatible with rainscreen sub-construction.
Course No: STO2024RAIN2 – 1 LU / HSW credit
New Course!
Modern Stucco Systems: Performance & Aesthetics
This course provides a comprehensive overview of stucco as a versatile and durable cladding solution for both residential and commercial buildings. Participants will explore the definition of stucco and gain an understanding of the different stucco systems available in the market today. The course highlights the critical role of drainage mats and planes in promoting long-term building durability and ensuring occupant safety. Attendees will learn about the advantages of insulated stucco systems, including their contribution to thermal performance and occupant comfort. The program also examines how stucco assemblies comply with relevant building codes and regulations and concludes with a discussion on the wide range of aesthetic options that stucco systems offer to meet diverse architectural design goals.
Course No: STO24SPowerwall – 1 LU / HSW credit
New Course!
Exploring Aesthetics and Performance of Opaque Glass Rainscreen Systems
This topic combines creativity and performance in the form of an opaque glass, drained and back-ventilated, complete rainscreen system. The main objective is to illustrate that the use of opaque glass is a robust rainscreen solution for architects, façade consultants, and design professionals.
Course No: STO2024RAIN1– 1 LU / HSW credit
Rainscreen Systems and the Building Code
A rainscreen is a type of assembly applied to an exterior wall consisting of an outer layer, inner layer, and a ventilated cavity between the two. These systems have been used extensively in other markets but are relatively new to the US. As codes evolve, and building science advances, rainscreens are becoming a popular way of enclosing buildings. They greatly increase performance while simultaneously enabling designers to achieve new and striking designs.
Course No: STO2023RAIN1 – 1 LU / HSW credit
Rainscreen Systems Made Easy
This course presents the History of Rainscreen design and explains why rainscreens are an important topic for the building envelope and enclosures. This course enforces the use of control layers to maximize the use of a drained, backed ventilated rainscreen system performance for both new and existing buildings. The audience will learn and be able to identify different rainscreen technologies and how a complete approach is beneficial to a building’s performance, by ensuring compatibility among components and understanding the relationship of control layers of the exterior wall assembly for the health and safety of occupants. Lastly, the course will review this approach using real-world rainscreen systems.
Course No: STO23RNS02 – 1.0 hour (1.0 LU/HSW)
Next Level Cladding with Resin Cast Shapes
Designers, owners, and occupants all value the appeal of natural brick and wood for exterior cladding and interior surfaces. But these natural materials come with drawbacks. Wood can split, warp, cup, mold, and attract insects. Brick is heavy and susceptible to efflorescence. Quality control is not assured. The fresh alternative is resin cast shapes that mimic wood and brick, delivering the benefits of biophilia and a sense of connection with the natural world, but without the problems. This course examines the wood and brick aesthetic of resin cast shapes and demonstrates their sustainability and performance qualities. They are durable, lightweight, easy to install, and contribute to a continuous building envelope. Case studies of noteworthy projects illustrate the superior form and function of this next-level cladding alternative.
Course No: STO230801RAIN – 1.0 hour (1.0 LU/HSW)
EIFS – Combining Performance and Aesthetics
This course explains how EIFS provides ultimate performance and aesthetic versatility. We will demonstrate how EIFS offers superior moisture protection, thermal properties, and durability and meets the most stringent energy codes. When other claddings claim to be full systems, they only offer one or two layers of the building enclosure. EIFS is the only system that incorporates all the control layers of the building envelope while allowing the architectural community to custom design the final look of the project.
Course No: STO23101EIF – 1 LU / HSW credit
Simplify Multi-Aesthetic Façade Designs with Engineered Building Enclosures
Today’s building facades combine a variety of materials to produce a unique, multi-cladding aesthetic. This leads to increased complexity, including designing for transitions, testing for compatibility of materials, and coordinating orders from multiple suppliers and installation by multiple trades. This course describes how engineered building enclosure systems can provide continuous control layers and connectivity while achieving multiple cladding aesthetics, resulting in simplified design and construction processes, and better performing building enclosure.
Course No: STO202211BES – 1 LU / HSW credit
The ART of Facade Restoration
We tend to connect architects with aesthetics. But they are increasingly becoming so much more. It is paramount for today’s architect to have a strategic mindset when approaching a restoration project, from the look to its performance. This course presents all things to consider when restoring building façades. The audience will learn the importance of function and compatibility among each component of a façade and how attention to detail can impact human health and safety.
Course No: STO23501RST1 – 1 LU / HSW credit
