How building designers get recognized.

You’re a highly qualified designer, but you don’t have the letters to prove it.

 

There are all these designations out there that you don’t have.

And it feels like something is missing from your career and your life. 

You want to be the best at what you do.

And those letters behind your name will help people know that you’ve been recognized as an expert in home design.

All of your competitors are getting these designations. 

What’s keeping you from joining them? 

Get all the information and enter at ResidentialDesignAwards.com.

Attend the AIBD’s Design & Build Summer Conference in person and/or virtually on July 30, 2021.

 

AIBD.org/SummerConference

The Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs is open (with some minor limitations) and wired for virtual paired events. Call the hotel to make your reservation and lock in your $159 room rate – (719) 955-5600 (48-hour cancellations)

The deadline for reserving your room is July 5th.

But this week, we have the privilege of thanking our SUPERHEROES!

 

The following 28 amazing people found time in their busy schedules (between four and eight hours) to proctor and judge the SkillsUSA National Architectural Drafting Contest.

Oscar Atkinson • Barry Binns • Joshua   Bratcher • Jon Carey • Kara Desaro • Fenelon Diaz • Jeff Dillon • Christopher Donahue • Victor Drozd • Jeff Fry • Nathan  Gerdau • Robert Gilliland • Jo Greer • Walt Jackson • Bobby Martin • Brandon Meinert • Tim Mosterdyke • Joshua Obukohwo • Elizabeth  Olaogun • Robert Platt • Sofia Rashid • Jason Robinson • Aaron Robinson • Charles Smith • Miguel Spinoza • Annie Lou von Mizener • Varina Wooster • James Wright

SkillsUSA is a career and technical student organization serving more than 395,000 high school, college, and middle school students and professional members enrolled in training programs in trade, technical and skilled service occupations, including health occupations.

The national contest began on June 1st and will conclude with the awards ceremony on June 24th.

THANKS, TEAM! We could not have pulled it off without you!

Making a bigger impact on our industry, year over year!

 

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

Need help scheduling your exam?

 

Watch this short video by ProctorU or Email us, certification@AIBD.org.

Earn your CPBD designation on or before June 30th and become eligible to receive one, two, or three years of free AIBD membership.

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

 

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

June 24 – American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) Judging, Jupiter, Florida (8:30 am to 4:00 pm EDT)

June 25 – American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) Judging, Jupiter, Florida (8:30 am to 12:00 pm EDT)

June 25 – AIBD, Denver Metro Chapter  (11:30 am ET/10:30 CT/9:30 am MT/8:30 PT) add to your calendar

With everything going on, the Texas Institute of Building Design decided to hold an “Unconvention” for TIBD this year. 

 

Register out this one day, laid back get-together: 

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.

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.

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.