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Redefining Rooftops: Understanding Rooftop Deck Systems
Rooftop decks create valuable living and recreational space for building owners, residents, and clients. Accommodating restaurants, hotels, healthcare facilities, and everything from residential to government buildings, rooftop deck systems offer the design flexibility to create versatile, unique outdoor spaces over any structural surface. This course explores the features, surface materials, and design options for rooftop deck systems and provides an overview of recommended planning and installation guidelines.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key features of deck supports, including their weight bearing capacities, durability, and height and slope adjustability, that enable precise deck leveling and a safe, structurally sound rooftop deck.
- Recall appropriate installation conditions for rooftop decking systems, and provide installation guidelines to facilitate a durable and level deck installation that meets structural, loading, and building code requirements.
- Discuss the benefits of rooftop deck systems and their site furnishings, including the health benefits to building occupants and the environmental attributes of the materials used.
- Describe customization options for rooftop decking systems, and reference case studies to illustrate how a unique, usable outdoor space can be installed over any structural surface.
Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems – A Natural Connection
Incorporating nature into the built environment through biophilic design increases occupant well-being, productivity, and health and is an integral component of an ecologically healthy and sustainable community. Presented here is an overview of biophilic design, its relationship to sustainability, and its positive human, environmental, and economic outcomes. Case studies demonstrate how rooftop deck systems can contribute to biophilic and sustainable design objectives.
Learning Objectives:
- Define biophilic design and explain how it is linked to a truly sustainable built environment,
- Discuss the principles essential to the effective practice of biophilic design that result in a range of positive physical, mental, behavioral, and environmental outcomes,
- Present the economic argument that investments in biophilic design earn high returns in human health and productivity.
- Use case studies to illustrate how modular rooftop deck systems can contribute to biophilic and sustainable design goals and may help projects earn certification through LEED® v4 BD+C: New Construction, SITES® v2, and the WELL v2 Building Standard™.
Sustainability & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Green Connection
Rooftop deck systems offer the design flexibility to create adaptable, sustainable outdoor spaces that provide myriad enviromental, social, economic, and aesthetic benefits. This course presents the three pillars of sustainability and how building products, materials, and systems can contribute to sustainable design. It outlines forest management objectives and practices and the responsible sourcing of wood for rooftop deck tiles. Case studies exemplify how rooftop deck systems can contribute to sustainable design objectives.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the three pillars of sustainability and identify how building products, materials, and systems can contribute to sustainable design.
- Recall programs that monitor, evaluate, and verify product or material performance and sustainability claims.
- Discuss sustainable forest management objectives and practices that ensure a forest is being managed in an enviromentally responsible, socially beneficial, and economically viable way.
- State how modular rooftop deck systems contribute to sustainable design goals and may help projects earn certification through LEED® v4 Building Design and Construction (BD+C): New Construction, SITES® v2, and the WELL v2 Building Standard™.
New Needs for Existing Buildings
Adaptive reuse can change empty buildings into new vibrant places.
Learning Objectives
• Identify and recognize the significance of renovating existing buildings for adaptive re-use to achieve safety, wellness, and sustainability.
• Assess the health and wellness aspects of incorporating usable outdoor spaces such as decks, balconies, and Pop-Up-Parks in existing buildings.
• Explain the importance of good bathroom / restroom upgrades to meet current health, safety, accessibility, and sanitation standards in renovation projects.
• Determine ways to incorporate low maintenance, long-lasting terrazzo flooring to address health, safety, and welfare principles as presented.
Wellness-Based Design Strategies in Healthcare
Using new products and materials that support holistic care environments.
Learning Objectives
• Employ evidence-based design to inform a whole-person approach to healthcare design.
• Apply programs that help guide and improve wellness, healthy material selection, and indoor environmental quality in healthcare facilities, such as LEED, WELL, and the Living Building Challenge.
• Defend the holistic benefits of biophilic design, the integration of nature, and visual art applications in healthcare and create strategies for their implementation.
• Examine new material offerings, such as ceiling tiles, architectural products, elevated decks, gypsum panels, and plumbing technology, and analyze the potential improvements to health and safety.
Landscape Architecture – Designing with Nature
Combining the natural environment with the built environment.
Learning Objectives
• Identify the health, safety, and welfare aspects of designing outdoor spaces that also contribute to sustainability standards such as LEED, SITES, and WELL.
• Assess the sustainability aspects of different materials and products that are used for outdoor spaces, particularly regarding LEED, SITES, and WELL criteria.
• Explain landscape design strategies that include biophilic aspects for human benefit while coordinating directly with the design of buildings.
• Determine ways to incorporate the principles presented into buildings and sites as shown in project examples and case studies.
Multifamily Housing: More Popular Than Ever
Enhancing design, safety, and sustainability in higher density developments.
Learning Objectives
- Investigate the beneficial wellness attributes to people of incorporating outdoor living spaces using pedestal decks in multifamily buildings.
- Assess options for interior design that enhance wellness, design quality, and affordability in multifamily buildings.
- Explain the significance of properly used and specified fire-retardant treated wood (FRTW) for structural uses that address the safety of people and the protection of property.
- Determine the options to incorporate in-wall plumbing fixtures to enhance cleanliness, health, and compliance with accessibility requirements in living units.