The smarter way to find your next career move My Account | Job Search | Manage Resumes | Job Alerts When you're ready for your next career move, the question isn't just what job to pursue — it's where to look. Generic job boards flood you with irrelevant postings, leaving you to do the filtering yourself. The AIBD Career Center is different: every opportunity posted here comes from employers who specifically seek candidates connected to the AIBD Career Center and the professional standards we...
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Hello Reader, Congrats on surviving Monday and crushing Tuesday. Now, Wednesday beckons you to take a break and step into a pattern of discovery. Welcome to the Midweek Meander. Did someone forward this to you? Please consider subscribing. This past week, I had the chance to sit down with John Jones of SoftPlan Architectural Systems—one of those conversations where you expect to talk shop, and we did. He has some very interesting perspectives on AI and where it's headed in architecture. But I...
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Join us today at 2:00 p.m. ET for the next High-Performance Homes Team session, “Whole Building Design and the WBDG®,” and earn 1.0 P4 continuing education credit. The Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG®) is a comprehensive, web-based platform created by the National Institute of Building Sciences to help practitioners plan, design, construct, and operate truly high-performing buildings from a whole-building perspective. In this session, we will explore how to tap into WBDG® resources to...
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June 15, 2026, Edition #CreatingWherePeopleLive This weekly newsletter is created by and for those designing homes in North America. Its editorial staff is the American Institute of Building Design, Inc., the premier association of residential design professionals. Here's what you get: Field Notes Nuts & Bolts Highlights Workshops & Gatherings What We're Up To Amazing sponsors who help keep this newsletter free for the industry. Let's dive in. Email servers may truncate this newsletter...
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Most residential designers spend the year putting out fires. Client revisions, code changes, proposal after proposal — and somewhere in all of it, the big-picture stuff gets pushed to the back burner. The skills you meant to sharpen. The peers you meant to connect with. The credentials you meant to finish. AIBD's Design+Build Cleveland (aka The AIBD Annual Conference) exists to fix that in four days flat. From July 29–August 1 at Metropolitan at The 9, the AIBD Annual Conference brings...
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The entry window for the American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) is closing soon, but there is still a fast, low-friction way to get your work in front of the judges: enter the Working Drawings category. If you already have a solid set of construction documents, you’re closer to “ARDA-ready” than you think. In fact, this is the one category where you don’t have to chase down new photography or create marketing copy from scratch—you can submit the drawings you’re already using in the field....
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Hello Reader, Congrats on surviving Monday and crushing Tuesday. Now, Wednesday beckons you to take a break and step into a pattern of discovery. Welcome to the Midweek Meander. Did someone forward this to you? Please consider subscribing. I’m writing to you this week from the front porch of the Southernmost House in Key West, Florida. The Atlantic Ocean is providing my background audio, the breeze is warm, and if I look closely enough, I can see Cuba from where I'm sitting. Not really. That...
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05_Full width Entry Door Upgrade Offers Functionality and Fresh Air Vented sidelites with removable mull posts are an innovative option for ProVia® Signet® fiberglass entry doors with FrameSaver® frames.To create a temporary wider opening for large objects, the mull post between the entry door and sidelite can be removed, clearing the way for transporting bulky items. The post inserts back into position and latches securely when the task is complete.Homeowners who frequently transfer...
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European residential designers are turning strict energy codes, tight footprints, and historic preservation rules into premium, high‑profit selling points. Meanwhile, many American custom homes are still playing catch‑up. Join us for this month’s Coffee With Bernie, “European Residential Design Trends America Is Missing,” and see how your peers are translating cutting‑edge European ideas into practical, buildable solutions for their clients. In this interactive session, we’ll explore:...
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