Board: Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses (IBOL) Board of Architectural Examiners
Credit Hours: 2.00
Approval Number: J607BGS17
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Course Description
Course Objectives
- Summarize how water moves, migrates, and behaves
- Identify typical sources of excess moisture in our built environments
- Discuss proactive prevention of unwanted moisture through planning and design
- Explain methods used during construction to prevent the intrusion of water
- Describe post-construction prevention of leakage by building envelope inspection and the prevention of water intrusion through control of condensation
- Recognize common points of failure through which water can gain entrance
Instructor Bio
Paul Spite, BS, BA
AFD Consulting, Founder and Principal
Paul is a Registered Architect with over forty years of experience, a course developer and has been a teacher in multiple venues in the past. He is also a writer in many venues, having developed many studies, a few published articles, numerous short stories, multiple screenplays, two non-fiction manuals for church design and one novel. More to the focus of this endeavor, Paul has also created presentations for twenty-six lunch and learn presentations for building material manufacturers, webinars covering the subjects of Aging-in-Place and Architectural Acoustics and eleven distance learning courses for architects, engineers and contractors. As he nears retirement from managing his small architectural practice, Paul hopes to focus even more of his energy on teaching and on course development.