AEC Webinars
The AEC offers webinars aimed at educating engineers and designers on the advantages of and practical considerations for designing with aluminum extrusions.
ALExtrusionTech Webinars
Our new series, Aluminum Extrusion Tech, is intended to inform and educate those with some knowledge of aluminum extrusions but who are interested in a more technical focus. Look for this logo identifying these advanced-level webinars.
Webinar Archive Spotlight
Understanding - and Managing - the Carbon Intensity of Extruded Aluminum Components
Focusing on the theme "Detailing High Performance Facades: Strategy, Specifications, and Advanced Cladding Materials", the Aluminum Extruders Council participated in the CE|Strong Midwest Virtual Workshop on August 7, 2024.
Webinar presented by Brent Slaton and Kassandra Spencer, LEED Green Associate, of Keymark Corporation
Aluminum extrusion-based products have a proven history in commercial buildings. Whether in façade systems, window framing, entrance doors, sun shades or interior components like light shelves and moveable partitions, extrusions have offered specifiers strength, durability, a wide range of aesthetics and often enhanced energy efficiency.
Yet extrusions have a downside as well - embodied carbon.
Aluminum is regarded as the third most significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in construction, trailing concrete and steel. While aluminum’s GHG is significantly less than those materials, it is important to understand how it can be minimized.
This presentation will explore aluminum extrusions’ impact on GHG: what drives it, and what the specifier can do to minimize it.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key drivers of aluminum extrusions’ embodied carbon
- Assess the most recent EPD data for aluminum extrusions
- Analyze trade-offs between various extrusion characteristics and finishes
- Employ strategies to minimize the embodied carbon from extrusions in their projects
Join us for an enlightening session!
EXTRUDED ALUMINUM MOTORIZED ENCLOSURE SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY
Learn how extruded aluminum’s attributes benefit this ingenious product, and how the extruded design, fabrication, finishing, assembly, and installation of the Roll-A-Cover retractable enclosure system has re-ignited the renovation market in major U.S. cities.
LEVERAGING TODAY'S EXTRUSION TECHNOLOGY: HOLLOWS AND MORE!
This presentation goes beyond extrusion fundamentals, addressing how to leverage the ability to create more-complex profiles that "put the metal where it is needed" to meet particularly demanding vehicle applications. A particular focus will be on complex hollow shapes, particularly multi-void hollows, which can be engineered for a combination of crush resistance, strength, light weight, thermal management and more.
Aluminum Extrusions and the Challenge of Decarbonization
This webinar will explore aluminum's - and specifically aluminum extrusions' - impact on GHG: what drives GHG, and what strategies the architect can employ to minimize that impact - both relative to embodied carbon and to operational aspects of the building.