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Upcoming Events

I will be speaking at: BEC Cleveland  on December 7th and AIA Columbus  on December 9th Looking forward to seeing you there!    

Kaz’s Seminars on Amazon.com

This morning I received an email from Amazon, officially informing me that a $0.99 payment  was posted to our account. That’s not much money, because Amazon does not allow a seller of a video to set its price (I am not kidding, I discovered it only after we set it up). However, this email reminded me […]

Greening Building Envelopes – Canned Seminar on DVD – Coming Soon

Duration: 1/2 hour, although your results may vary.  The educational seminar runs for approx. 1/2 hour running time plus introductions and presentations. The original source seminar consisted of 90 slides. Comments: Greening Building Envelopes discusses sustainability of building envelopes the way nobody has yet examined the subject before. This is as different from the average bromidic sustainability […]

Façade Engineering With Glass – Canned Seminar on 2 DVDs – Coming Soon!

Duration:  4 hrs although your mileage may vary.  The educational seminar runs for approx.  4 hours running time plus introductions and presentations. The original source seminar consisted of 652 slides. Comments:  seminar about architectural glass, which addresses the typical architectural questions: how to use the glass to achieve the desired architectural goals, and what advances in […]

Thermal Engineering in Building Envelope Design – Canned Seminar on DVD

Duration: The educational seminar runs for approx. 2-1/2 hours, (although your mileage may vary if you pause the show to read individual slides) running time plus introductions and presentations. The original source seminar consisted of 713 slides and was delivered at high rate of speed. Comments: Seminar describes the means and goals of energy engineering with respect […]

Aspects of Building Enclosure Design in Hurricane Country: Hot and Humid Climate – Canned Seminar on DVD

Duration: 1-1/4 hour, although your mileage may vary.  The educational seminar runs for approx.  1-1/4 hour running time plus introductions and presentations. The original source seminar consisted of 270 slides. The DVD version has numerous videos added, with the average slide lasting for only 10 seconds. One attendant compared it to taking a sip from a […]

Curtain Walls – Canned Seminar on DVD

Duration: The educational seminar runs for approx. 1 hour running time plus introductions and presentations, although your results may vary.  Attendants typically commented about very rich content delivered at a very high rate of speed, which required them to pause slides often so they can digest them. The original source seminar consisted of 306 slides.  One […]

Principles of Facade Design – Canned Seminar on DVD

Duration: 1 hour, although your results may vary.  The educational seminar runs for approx. 1 hour running time plus introductions and presentations. The original source seminar consisted of 236 slides. The DVD version has numerous videos added, with the average slide lasting for only 10 seconds. One attendant compared it to taking a sip from […]

Online Video-on-Demand

I am currently in process of setting up the online video-on-demand system, which would make the facade engineering university videos available for an immediate download. It will require a paid site membership in order to view the videos. The idea is to replace the current system of producing physical DVD discs, which are still available via […]

The Events Where I Will Speak This Year

Here is the schedule for the only  seminars I will give this year. As you can see, the actual number of  events more than doubled from what I expected originally: 1. Wednesday, May 15, 2013 – Greening Building Envelopes with Director Reid Morgan of FAU, Miami-Dade Building & Facility Maintenance Show in Miami:   www.MI-FM.com 2. July 9th, […]

Lesson to be learned from Eastern Architecture

Impressive Modern Architecture Impacted by Deconstructivism. I just spent two weeks in an Eastern country. While sorting the 120GB of photos and videos taken there may easily take a year or so, I thought it would be interesting to share the early key observations. These items we often see in Western architecture as well; however, […]

Seminar “Façade Engineering With Glass”

Glass is the design medium of the today’s architecture and it will may easily become the material of choice of tomorrow. Kaz developed a new seminar about the architectural glass, which addresses the typical architectural questions: how to use the glass to achieve the desired architectural goals, and what advances in technology help to shape the […]