Summer Programs explore timely design issues and trends while enabling participants to exchange ideas and experiences with faculty and peers. They cover topics in architecture, urban planning, health care and educational facilities design, residential design, sustainability and green design, real estate development, leadership, management, and more and are open to architects, planners, real estate and building industry professionals, and others interested in the built environment.

The information below is based on the programs offered in 2009, and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for the 2010 courses.

Programs from Summer 2009:

• Architecture and Sustainability: Integrating Built and Natural Environments
• BIM and Process Change
• Comprehensive Due Diligence for Commercial Real Estate Assets
• Daylighting Buildings
• Design Firm Leadership in a Declining Economy
• Distressed Real Estate: Examining Debt and Equity Structures to Mitigate Losses and Identify Opportunities
• Emergency Department of the Future: Optimizing Design and Operations
• Historic and Current Structural Systems
• Hotel Design and Development: Hospitality Today and Tomorrow
• Housing for Colleges and Universities: New Perspectives
• How to Avoid Building Envelope Problems
• Master Planning: Moving Toward a Sustainable City
• NCI Charrette System Program
• The New ADA/ABA and an Introduction to Universal Design Concepts in Practice
• The New American Courthouse
• New Communities: Concepts of Master Planning
• Next Generation Airport Design: Toward a Customer Friendly, Efficient, Safe, and Secure Passenger Airport
• Planning and Building Sustainable Campuses
• Planning and Design for a New Generation of Seniors: A Focused Look at Retirement
• Real Estate Finance Fundamentals
• Retail Principles for New Urban Communities, Historic Downtowns, and Suburban Retrofitting
• Rethinking the Office: The Business Case for Design
• So You Want to Lecture at a College or University
• Understanding the Markets of Real Estate: Supply, Demand, and Performance
• Universal Design, Fair Housing, and the New ADA/ABA

Registration

• On-line Registration
• Printable Registration Form (pdf)
• Registration Policies
• General Program Information
• Registration is now closed for Summer 2009 programs.