Our continuing education courses are designed for building industry professionals looking to strengthen their building science knowledge and stay current with evolving codes, materials, and construction practices.
Courses Built for Professional Growth
Our courses are available in-person, virtually, or in hybrid formats, and can be customized to your team's specific needs and market. Many offerings are eligible for continuing education units (CEUs) through AIA, AIBC, and other accrediting organizations. Led by experienced building science specialists, they cover practical, real-world content spanning foundational principles to advanced design strategies.
Every building tells a story about how it will perform, how long it will last, and how comfortable it will be for its occupants; understanding that story starts with building science fundamentals. This multi-part course series is an interactive learning experience that equips AEC professionals with a practical understanding of heat, air, and moisture management in the building enclosure grounded in local climate, code requirements, and real-world construction realities.
High-performance buildings depend on well-designed enclosures. RDH’s building enclosure course options covers core building science and high-performance design strategies to help practitioners manage water, air, vapor, and thermal performance, reducing risk and improving durability across a wide range of building types and climates. Take each course individually or build your own series.
Building codes and standards evolve constantly in response to climate risk, urban growth, and regulatory change. RDH’s jurisdiction-specific courses help practitioners stay current with the latest requirements, supporting safe, compliant, and high-performing buildings while reducing project risk, delays, and costly errors across the regions where they work. Select a course below or contact us to deliver one for your jurisdiction.
Mass timber is reshaping how we design and build, offering speed, sustainability, and aesthetic appeal, but it also introduces unique enclosure and moisture management challenges that demand careful attention. RDH’s mass timber design course series helps practitioners navigate best-practice enclosure strategies and construction-phase moisture risks, supporting durable, high-performing mass timber buildings across climate zones in the US and Canada.
Reducing carbon emissions in the built environment has become a top priority as governments tighten regulations and institutional leaders set ambitious targets toward net-zero. RDH’s two-part carbon emissions course series helps practitioners understand both operational and embodied carbon, where emissions come from, how they are measured, and what strategies can be applied to meaningfully reduce them across the building life cycle.
Tightening energy and emissions regulations, aging building stock, and increasingly extreme weather are converging to make retrofit planning more urgent and more complex than ever. RDH’s retrofit course series helps building owners, managers, and design professionals define the challenge, develop a tailored retrofit roadmap, and prepare for successful implementation that aligns carbon and energy goals with long-term asset management.
The Passive House standard offers a performance-driven approach to building design to deliver exceptional energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and indoor air quality. RDH’s three-part Passive House course series introduces practitioners to the standard’s fundamental principles, the certification process, and the enclosure design strategies essential to delivering high-performing Passive House buildings.
"Continuing Education Program RDH is a registered CES provider with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a Recognized Educational Provider (REP) with the Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC), and an Approved Provider with Phius. We can also support approval of your educational engagement through GBCI for LEED credit."