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.

Upcoming Webinars

Understanding - and Managing - the Carbon Intensity of Extruded Aluminum Components

August 7, 2024
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CT

Focusing on the theme "Detailing High Performance Facades: Strategy, Specifications, and Advanced Cladding Materials", the Aluminum Extruders Council is participating in the CE|Strong Midwest Virtual Workshop on August 7, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Central Time. Participants have the potential to earn 5 LU/HSW credits for the Virtual Workshop.

Credit type: 1 AIA HSW LU
Provider: Aluminum Extruders Council

Presented by Brent Slaton and Kassandra Spencer, LEED Green Associate, of Keymark Corporation

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Understanding - and Managing - the Carbon Intensity of Extruded Aluminum Components

August 7, 2024
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CT

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!

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Successful Application of Aluminum Extrusions for Automotive Components

October 17, 2023 | 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|Design News

The AEC will be conducting a one-hour introductory webinar, hosted by Design News, for those that are relatively new to aluminum extrusions in the automotive industry. The use of extruded aluminum shapes in North American light vehicles has more than doubled in a decade to over 50 pounds per vehicle. Today aluminum extrusions are used for crush cans, trim members, battery enclosures, rocker sections, and more — each with a unique set of performance requirements. This webinar will explore how engineers are optimizing performance in new applications and how your material decisions can minimize embedded carbon in the resulting parts.

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Finding A Path to Decarbonization with Aluminum Extrusions: A Panel Discussion

December 9, 2022; 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT)
|AN Trading Notes Panel Discussion

This panel discussion, led by AEC's building and energy code consultant, Tom Culp, Ph.D., will assess aluminum extrusions' impact on GHG – the source and extent of that impact. More importantly it will explore both strategies that can be employed to reduce the embodied carbon of aluminum (particularly extrusions) and the practical challenges of fully realizing those strategies– both relative to embodied carbon and to operational aspects of the building. Moderator: Thomas Culp, PhD, owner, Birch Point Consulting, La Crosse, WI; Panelists: Chris Devadas, Director of Technology, Hydro Aluminum Metals USA; Bennett McEvoy, President, Western Extrusions, Dallas, TX; Patrick Muessig, VP of Global Technical Operations, Azon USA, Kalamazoo, MI.

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Achieving Higher Performance Facades

February 2022
|AN Trading Notes Panel Discussion

It's easy to say we want high-performance facades for our commercial, hospitality and institutional projects … but often a challenge to bring this to fruition balancing the considerations of energy efficiency, occupant well-being, budget et al. This panel – all key players in achieving façade solutions – will discuss façade trends and the role that each of their specialties – glass, aluminum, thermal management, design, installation – will play.

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