Visit our virtual booth this week! [MondayMINUTE]

The show doesn’t formally open until tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10 am ET, but you can sign up for your Free IBS Exhibit Hall Pass and start checking out the booths and doing your planning today.

View new products, check out the demos, and make connections.

Tour The New American Home, designed by AIBD Professional Member and 2020 ARDA Best In Show winner, Phil Kean.

See keynote speaker Mike Rowe during the opening ceremony at 11 am ET on Tuesday (Feb 9).

View the four-day show schedule…

Use this link to go directly to the AIBD booth: americaninstituteofbuildingdesignaibd.ibsxvirtual.com

Sam Rashkin and Green Builder Media announce the Housing 2.0 Program, a wide-ranging engagement, and education program dedicated to optimizing the housing sector.

AIBD Members get a $500 scholarship when registering for “Option 1” and a $1000 scholarship when registering for “Option 2” (by February 28).

The Housing 2.0 program will empower building professionals—with a special focus on production builders—to design and construct higher performance, healthier, more sustainable homes at a fraction of the cost.

The first step is to REGISTER and fill out a survey, to see if you qualify.

A monthly “fishbowl” open space discussion hosted by AIBD President Bernie Kern on the second Friday.

Writing blogs to market your business.
(In case you didn’t know, a blog is short for weblog)

Join us this month with an all-star cast of guests. AIBD’s External Vice President and Editor of the AIBD Magazine Yu-Ngok Lo, AIBD College of Fellows and author of the new You-Inspired Living blogs Jennifer Pippin, AIBD Communications Director and our personal Social Media Guru Garrett Mickley, and AIBD Member and Staff Professional Technical Writer at VMware Bonnie Kern (Yes, my wife!), will be joining us this month for an informal roundtable discussion on how to write blogs and market your business easily.

Bernie will have nine seats open in his “fishbowl” (i.e., Session). There’s only one rule – one seat must always stay open. This is so anyone attending may join the discussion when they feel they have something to contribute or get. Everyone will also be able to network and chat.

A fishbowl conversation is a form of dialog that can be used when discussing topics within large groups. The advantage of the fishbowl is that it allows the entire group to participate in a conversation. Any member of the audience can, at any time, occupy the empty chair and join the session. When this happens, an existing fishbowl member must voluntarily leave the fishbowl and free a chair. The discussion continues with participants frequently entering and leaving the fishbowl.

The AIBD will begin recognizing healthy home design beginning with 2021 ARDAs!

What kind of entries will qualify? “When we think about a Healthy Home, it includes a large range of factors, from the air, water, colors to open spaces and personal spaces.” Says ARDA Chairman Ted Hake. “It also calls for lighting that promotes activity and de-stressing, as well as indoor plants and small gardens.”

The American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) spotlights the most creative design professionals and builders in the nation. All residential industry professionals are eligible, and entries are not grouped by square footage or value because judging is conducted by a panel of residential design and construction experts based on the entry itself’s quality.

March 17, 18, & 19, 2021 – 1 pm to 5 pm EST, daily.

That’s right, exhibitors and attendees can get complimentary “limited access” tickets to the D&B Winter Conference, with “full access” available for a fee.

Typically, no one needs to be certified to be in the construction industry. In fact, most people can begin their career working as an apprentice.

Although it isn’t strictly needed, certification shows a steadfast commitment to your industry and lets others know you are dedicated. With the right certifications, you’ll stand out above the rest, increasing your value and worth.

Get the details at AIBD.org/winter-conference.

The AIBD has ad space available in this weekly e-newsletter, Monday Minute.

We are also filling the 2021 dedicated blast schedule. A dedicated blast is an email exclusively dedicated to your company and a message sent to over 8,400 AIBD subscribers.

Availability is limited and sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact Kathy Dowdy, Account Manager (kdowdy@associationrevenuepartners.com), if you have any questions or if you’d like to secure your campaign.

The decision has been made to postpone the 2021 NC-SC AIBD Design Conference and Trade Show until March 4th & 5th, 2022.

We hope you will mark your calendars ahead and plan to attend.

Of course, this is contingent on getting the virus under control, or better — eradicating it — so we can get back to normal.

As time passes in 2021 and we see how things are going, we will notify you about plans for the 2022 conference and trade show.

We’ve increased the discount available to AIBD members when registering for on-demand online education at AIBD.org/continuing-education. The normal price for a one-hour course is $50, and rather than AIBD members paying $35, that figure has been reduced to $21. That’s a $29 savings on each course.

We said 60% off; it’s actually 58%, we rounded up.

One course per month (with a month or two off) means you’ve paid for your annual membership and more.

There are three ways to get ahold of the discount code.

While you are preparing to establish yourself in the field of total design, you might consider whether there are services you could perform for your clients in your own right after the design stage, without the need for additional members of your team.

Some of you are currently involved in the process of bid-letting and construction inspection, but many building designers are not.

This blog post will deal with a few possible areas for building designer service after the drawings are complete.

Would you enjoy getting a short email from me (Steve Mickley) every Friday that provides a little morsel of fun before the weekend?

4x Friday is a concise email I send out with four of the coolest things I’ve found, learned, or experienced that week.

It could include new products, ideas, tips, articles, hacks, and tricks.

It’s concise. A tiny bite of goodness before you head off for the weekend.

Listen to the AIBD podcast, Let’s Talk Certification, on iHeartRADIO, a free broadcast, podcast, and streaming radio platform founded in 2008.

Thanks to the work of AIBD Communications Director, Garrett Mickley, ten episodes are currently available featuring Sam Morgan, Jeremy Farner, Brendan Smythe, Miguel Villalobos Sandoval, Casey Thompson, Kristen Kaiser, Pamela Macior, Dan Turner, Larry Stephenson, Past AIBD President, David Pillsbury, and AIBD Certification Director, Rusty Hudnet.

If you’re interested in becoming a building designer, want to earn your CPBD designation, or want to hear some great career advice, join in the second Tuesday of each month to meet guests who have completed or are currently on their journeys to becoming a CPBD.

Set up a Job Alert to have relevant newly posted jobs sent directly to your inbox and be the first to see and apply to those open opportunities.

An uploaded resume in your job seeker account makes applying quick and easy.