AVAILABLE CEUS
McLain offers a wide range of CEU courses designed to inform, inspire, and actually be useful. Interested in a specific course? Just email us with the course number(s) you’d like to learn more about, and we’ll be in touch to schedule a session at a time that works best for you and your team.
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What You'll Learn
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Course 01 Identify the role acoustics play in influencing our physical and mental well being such as recognize the costs of poor acoustics, explore how room acoustics can impact, productivity and engagement, evaluate the specific types of acoustical, properties that are required during design an rreate strategies to help maximize acoustical comfort for each space you design.
Designation: HSW
Course 02This CEU will seek to educate attendees on the latest trends happening in both higher-education and corporate learning environments, exploring how the design lines are converging between vertical markets.
Designation: HSW
Course 03With so many textile options touted as “high-performance,” making sense of that label is equally challenging. This CEU reviews the progression of textiles and explores three elements that collectively define high-performance, durability, cleaning and maintenance, and fibers and finishes to help you make the right selection.
Designation: HSW
Course 04By establishing a firm understanding of the challenges neurodivergent employees experience at work, along with providing clarity and research around what makes a successful sanctuary space. This training provides practical workplace design solutions to incorporate intentionally designed sanctuaries into the workplace that accommodate the neurodiverse population and benefit entire organizations.
Designation: HSW
Course 05Explore how evolving employee engagement is reshaping the demand for privacy in the workplace and how designers can respond with thoughtful, varied solutions that rebalance the modern office.
Designation: HSW
Course 06How Modernism evolved after the Bauhaus and the way a unique American version was imported back into Europe: a study of the confluence of his education, life events and the combined impact of Ralph Rapson's work as academic and practitioner, with attention to its on-going relevance today.
Designation: HSW
Course 07This course will examine how a designer accounts for the technological needs of power/data for these areas when the fixed assets, of the older building and power infrastructure, were built to handle a historically attached world. The new technological requirements will be measured, and a variety of solutions will be examined to assist designers with these modern challenges.
Designation: AIA & HSW
Course 08Participants will learn to better understand acoustics and will discover its importance to the design process, which they will then be able to translate directly and instantly, to the benefit of both present and pending projects.
Designation: HSW
Course 09This course will educate the attendee about current US & International ADA/Accessibility requirements including the 2010 Standard (SAD) as it relates to room identification signs, and will provide education about the technical characteristics geared toward helping specifiers concerning the most commonly used material (photopolymer) for ADA compliant signage.
Designation: HSW
Course 10Understand considerations that matter in future-ready learning environments.
Designation: AIA & HSW
Course 11Understand changes and how we teach are leading to new spaces and palces within our schools.
Designation: HSW
Course 12This course introduces the A&D community, facility managers, building owners, and end users to BIFMA’s mission and explains how standards help support safer products, sustainability goals, and smarter procurement decisions—helping you specify with confidence.
Designation: HSW and AIA and GBCI
Course 13Wood Veneer 101 seeks to provide a better understanding of natural wood veneer used in contract furniture. Topics include anatomy of a log, grading process, process of creating veneer, cut types, layup, construction, common American wood species, reconstituted veneer and how it is made, FSC, finishing techniques and care and cleaning.
Designation:
IDCEC CEU/HSW, AIA LU/HSW, GCBI CEs.
Course 14This CEU is designed to help designers gain a better understanding of how sustainability claims are verified through testing, certifications, and chain-of-custody systems, learn to assess recycled content more critically, and discover practical strategies for selecting responsible materials in real-world design applications.
Designation:
IDCEC CEU/HSW, AIA LU/HSW, GCBI CEs.
Course 15Megan Lagueruela of Trinity Furniture follows a single chair from raw material to install, showing how a manufacturer's supply chain quietly shapes the quality, lead times, and warranty behind every piece you specify.
Designation:
IDC / IDCEC / IIDA