YES.YOU.CAN. Design for Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, AND Embodied Carbon Reduction with Metal Roof & Wall Systems!
Course Summary:
This program explores the role of metal roof and wall systems in advancing sustainable design strategies. Architects will learn how these systems support long-term energy performance, durability, and reductions in embodied carbon—key drivers in achieving resilient and environmentally responsible buildings.
- Prerequisite Knowledge – Participants should be familiar with designing building envelopes incorporating standing-seam metal roofing and/or architectural metal wall panels. A working knowledge of portable roll forming—both fixed-facility and on-site methods—will also be beneficial.
- HSW Justification – The course reviews the materials, methods, and equipment behind the fabrication of architectural metal systems, with a focus on their impact on health, safety, and welfare. Architects will examine how metal cladding systems contribute to the “triple bottom line” of people, planet, and profit through life cycle performance, recyclability, and responsible sourcing.
- Learning Objective #1 – Sustainability: Explain how specifying durable, long-lived metal cladding supports sustainable design goals, as demonstrated through Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and the high recyclability of steel and aluminum.
- Learning Objective #2 – Energy efficiency: Understand how advanced resin-based coatings with solar-reflective pigments mitigate heat gain, reduce cooling loads, and enhance overall building energy efficiency.
- Learning Objective #3 – Embodied carbon reduction: Evaluate how on-site fabrication strategies for metal panel systems minimize transportation emissions, packaging waste, and the overall project’s embodied carbon.
- Learning Objective #4 – Sustainable production of steel and aluminum: Compare U.S. advancements in sustainable steel and aluminum production to global benchmarks and understand how material sourcing choices directly influence project sustainability outcomes.
Additional Course Information:
- AIA Course Number – In-Person: SMIF2F00325
- AIA Course Number – Distance Learning: SMIDL00325
- Credit: 1.00 LU/HSW Hour
- Delivery Format: Slide show (with audio)
- Device Format: Desktop / tablet
- Course & Quiz Details: 10 multiple-choice questions
- IMPORTANT: A score of 80% or higher is required to receive a Certificate of Completion from Sheffield Metals International.
To inquire about the in-person version of this course, please contact:
NORTHEAST / NORTH CENTRAL / NORTHWEST
Wendy DeCapite
Phone: 440.752.7456
SOUTHEAST / SOUTH CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
Anne Roeper
Phone: 321.474.2629