Don’t Miss This Week’s Events


This week, AIBD members have two interactive virtual roundtables designed to help you solve real problems, share experience, and strengthen your professional community.​


Members Helping Members Roundtable

Join fellow AIBD members for an informal, solutions-focused roundtable where you can bring questions about design challenges, business growth, career direction, or personal resilience. Use AIBD.org/RoundtableQuestions to anonymously submit any question—no names, no judgment, just honest support from peers who understand residential design.​

  • Format: Peer-to-peer discussion, practical feedback, and shared resources you can apply immediately to your practice.​
  • Registration: Reserve your complimentary spot at AIBD.org/webinars.​

Whether you have a pressing question or just want to listen and contribute, this roundtable is a simple way to stay connected and supported by your professional community.​


Coffee with Bernie

In this month’s Coffee with Bernie, we’ll focus on cost-effective build and design strategies for clients when budgets are tight but expectations are high. Through a guided conversation, you’ll explore how to balance smart design, material choices, and client expectations in a high-cost construction environment.​

  • Topic: Cost-Effective Build and Design Ideas (1.0 P3 CE)​
  • What we’ll discuss:
    • Smart design strategies that save money through efficient footprints and simplified massing.​
    • Materials and methods that balance cost and performance, including engineered lumber, SIPs, ICFs, and more.​
    • Client management tactics for setting realistic budget expectations from the start.​
  • Registration: Grab your seat (and your coffee) at AIBD.org/webinars.​

Both sessions are open to all residential design professionals who want to trade real-world examples, uncover new ideas, and leave with actionable strategies for their projects and businesses.​

AIBD Professional Members get complimentary access to both.

See you there,
Garrett Mickley
Communications Director
American Institute of Building Design (AIBD)

P.S. The Members Helping Members Roundtable is unlikely to have a replay. If you want to see it, you'll have to be there. Register at AIBD.org/webinars.​

American Institute of Building Design (AIBD)

The American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) is a professional association that promotes the highest standards of excellence in residential building design. AIBD offers a variety of resources to its members, including continuing education, networking opportunities, and marketing assistance. AIBD is a valuable resource for anyone interested in a career in residential building design. If you want to improve your skills, network with other professionals, and stay up-to-date on the latest trends, AIBD is the perfect organization for you.

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