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!
Making Your Extruded Aluminum Solutions More Cost Effective
The one-hour webinar touches on the attributes of aluminum and the extrusion process, and then focus on three key design variables – alloy selection, part geometry, and fabrication – and how they impact costs. Mini-case studies illustrate cost-effective extrusion solutions.
Specifying Aluminum Extrusions: Understanding the ASTM B221/B221M Standard
ASTM B221 and B221M is a material specification standard for aluminum extruded bars, rods, wire, profiles and tubes. This webinar provides an overview of the ASTM B221/B221M standard and walks through pertinent sections of the standard to help the learner better understand the ordering process for aluminum extrusions when ordering to an ASTM standard, and what to expect from the manufacturer.
Credit: 1.0 AIA LU Hour
Note: To obtain credit and your certificate you must take the quiz here. Please contact AEC with any questions at mail@aec.org, ATTN: Susan Homerding.