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A new category in the American Residential Design Awards, or ARDA, program, the Healthy Home award category will recognize excellence in making indoor environments healthier.

The award provides a national platform to showcase results from a range of housing and indoor health design ideas. Such as creative solutions to air and water quality. And by promoting activity and de-stressing using beautifully designed personal spaces, colors, open spaces, lighting, as well as in-door plants and gardens.

There are a dozen other ARDA categories. Check them out on March 1st at ResidentialDesignAwards.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.

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.

Join us for the 2021 Design & Build Winter Conference and learn about the most common and useful construction certifications that you can earn, as well as what to do with them once you have them.

The Weber State University Construction & Building Sciences Design-Build Day & Summer Internship Fair is an annual event where we connect students with internship and job opportunities in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry.

2500+ students come to find their future employment opportunities.

AIBD is an official “Industry Partner” and there might still be time for your company.

Email Jeremy Farner, jfarner@weber.edu (AIBD Pro Member & NCBDC Councilman) for more information on partnership level opportunities to recruit students for internship and job opportunities with your company.

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

Stay tuned, Bernie is keeping his thoughts to himself right now. But it really doesn’t matter, he’ll talk about pretty much whatever you’d like to discuss (unless you’re an internet troll).

Coffee with Bernie is a fun and informal roundtable, or virtual gallery of colleagues, open for discussion on any industry-related topic. We are not limited to talking about what Bernie has planned. If you have something to share please join us. Bring your most unique coffee cup or drinking glass. It’s a great way to kick-off the weekend.

Meeting virtually is not only essential during the current COVID-19 threats; this is how we are keeping our chapters going. As things progress, the meetings may continue to be virtual, actual lunch meetings may be scheduled, or both!

Now, it’s possible to follow the AIBD event on Hopin Explore.

Be a part of a HOPIN event in just 3 steps.

A webcam and mic are required to be on screen, but all you need are speakers and a keyboard to attend and participate.

If it’s your first time attending one of our virtual chapter meetings, HERE ARE some great tips, especially ones related to the best browser and how to use “incognito mode.”

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.

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.

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.