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:

• Net‑Zero and high‑performance envelopes as primary design features, not afterthoughts
• Biophilic interiors that go beyond potted plants to integrate circadian lighting and living materials
• Warm minimalism that feels cozy, functional, and marketable to today’s buyers
• High‑end prefab and precision‑engineered modular systems addressing labor and schedule constraints
• Adaptive reuse strategies that graft modern residential luxury onto existing structures

Whether you’re wrestling with tight lots and smaller footprints, looking to differentiate your practice, or planning for clients who want to age in place, you’ll leave with immediately usable concepts you can bring into your very next design presentation.

This is a peer‑to‑peer conversation (no sales pitch or canned deck) just residential design professionals comparing lessons learned from both sides of the Atlantic.

Coffee With Bernie: European Residential Design Trends America Is Missing

• Date: Friday, June 12, 2026
• Time: 10:00–11:00 a.m. EDT
• CE: 1.0 P3 continuing education credit
• Format: Live, interactive discussion (cameras, screen sharing, and questions encouraged)

Reserve your spot now and bring your coffee, your camera, and your biggest design challenges:

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

P.S. If you already know you can’t make it live, go ahead and register anyway—we’ll send you the replay as soon as it’s available.