AIBD is about to break a record! [MondayMINUTE]

The highest number of Professional members in AIBD’s 71-year history was 1021, recorded on June 30, 1997.

We began this fiscal year (July 1, 2020) with 833 Professional members, and we closed April with 935.

Those are great figures! But 10 new Professional members per month does not get us to the summit.

We need to pick up our pace if we’re going to reach the peak by June 30th.

Are you up for the “New Heights Challenge?”

Keep an eye on your inbox and be a part of the expedition.

Join AIBD President Bernie Kern on May 14th to chat with some of AIBD’s elite women designers.

His featured guests include AIBD Fellow Janet Hobbs from Austin, Texas, AIBD Fellow Jannis Vann from Atlanta, Georgia, and AIBD Certified Professional member Carol Lavender from San Antonio, Texas.

Bernie hopes they will share some of their experiences in becoming the best in the nation in what used to be a male-dominated residential design field. Join us and become inspired by their success.

Register Here and Add to Your Calendar

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.

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The American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) is accepting entries until June 14, 2021

Get all the information and enter at ResidentialDesignAwards.com.

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Darren Hardy shares his journey in overcoming adversity and how he discovered that success comes from repeating good habits over time.

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Let’s keep climbing!

With only EIGHT more between now and June 30, AIBD will set a new record for the number of new CPBDs within a fiscal year.

Earn your CPBD designation and become eligible to receive one, two, or three years of free AIBD membership.

Get started today at AIBD.org/certification.

Be informed about all AIBD events at AIBD.org/events.

Here’s a quick list of what’s happening this week.

April 11 – May 5

This year’s code hearings offer ICC members/non-members, code officials, architects, builders, engineers, fire and energy conservation professionals the opportunity to provide input on proposed code changes to the Group A International Codes®.

Group A will cover the following sections of the IBC and IRC: 

See page 2 of the 2021/2022 Code Development Schedule for details on code chapters, notes, and committee information for the Group A codes.

A library of training videos provided by the Certified Training Institute (CTI), one of our newest CE Providers, now lives on AIBD.org.   

Each of the 25+ hours of training is identified and arranged according to the associated areas of knowledge and skills, according to the AIBD’s Building Designer Job Task Analysis (JTA), which is found on pages 39-43 in the CPBD Candidate Handbook.

There are four knowledge areas identified in the JTA – Business Administration, Business Practices, Design Process, and Building Design.

The new Certified Training Institute webpage currently includes instruction in only the first domain – Business Admin. But rather than waiting until all 56 CTI classes are uploaded, we’ll announce each of the parts as they go live (about two weeks apart).

Thanks to CTI, everyone wishing to become better skilled at their craft will have specialized training access.

Whether you’re a CPBD looking for approved Primary CEs, you’re preparing yourself for the CPBD exam, or you want to be the best you can be at what you do, bookmark AIBD.org/onlineCTI.

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.

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.