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The Savvy Homeowner: How to Optimize Design, Verify Performance + Communicate Value
CourseThis course will help you make the most of your budget by balancing construction costs with home performance. We’ll also show you how to verify what was designed is what was built as well as methods for communicating the value of home performance.
$29
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Building Science: Key Principles for Creating a Healthy + Comfortable Home
CourseThis course will help you understand how your house works so you can gain control over your indoor environment and avoid common in-home health and comfort problems. It will also help you reduce your operating and maintenance costs.
$39
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Coming to a House Near You: Innovative Products from the 2026 International Builders Show
CourseIn this installment of our Exploring Architecture series, we're making a virtual tour of Vizcaya Museum + Gardens in Miami, Florida. Previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former estate of James Deering.
Free
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How + Why You Should Pressure Test Your House
CourseIt’s important to understand pressure testing because you may encounter testing results in MLS input fields, home listings, home performance (heating/cooling) company sale pitches, home inspection reports and the energy code affidavit for a home.
Free
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What Matters: Inexpensive Yet Impactful Opportunities to Improve Your Home
CourseBuilding or improving a property offers some big opportunities for efficiency and optimization though those big opportunities are missed if you’re not looking for them.
$29
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How to Choose the Best Energy Code Compliance Path for Your Project
CourseJoin us to learn how you can use the energy code to your advantage and avoid missed opportunities. We’ll walk you through the questions you need to select your project team members and facilitate discussion about what’s best for your project.
Free
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Exploring Architecture: Vizcaya Museum + Gardens
CourseIn this installment of our Exploring Architecture series, we're making a virtual tour of Vizcaya Museum + Gardens in Miami, Florida. Previously known as Villa Vizcaya, is the former estate of James Deering.
Free
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Exploring Architecture: Whitehall Flagler Estate
CourseJoin us for a virtual exploration of one of the finest and most historic homes in Florida: the Henry M. Flagler House known as Whitehall.
Free
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How to Manage Cost, Capacity + Distribution for Hot Water in Your Home
CourseWater heating is a complex topic that combines in-home energy use with fuel choices, maintenance and water conservation. Join us so you can make informed decisions about water heating and distribution in your home.
Free
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We’re a residential architecture firm. We provide services for renovations, additions and new construction projects.
We also provide education. We teach what we practice to help homeowners and professionals improve their lives and communities.
This is our learning management system (LMS). We've built a curriculum for homeowners and the professionals who serve them that we deliver in a series of courses.
We use this LMS to make course content available to you at any time so you can use the content as a reference for your decisions and have a place to ask questions.
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He's a walking encyclopedia!
There are very few architects who provide education-translating the technical aspects of design, construction and maintenance into practical lessons for real estate professionals. I only received one negative comment from the 1st time I hired RTA: there wasn't enough time to cover everything the agents wanted to learn from Ryan. He's a 'walking encyclopedia' with great technical knowledge who's learned to build context around his answers to help agents see how one issue affects many others. Ryan's a great resource.
Ryan serves on the AIA National Codes & Standards Committee: about a dozen architects from across the country appointed to provide guidance for the Institute's building code and standards policies. He's served as an invited speaker at multiple local, state and national AIA events, webinars and conferences. It's rare to find a professional with the credentials Ryan has earned and it's even more uncommon to find one who can translate the technical topics he addresses into plain English so his audiences see both practical and potential application.
Ryan is a great presenter!
Ryan is a great presenter, whether he's managing an audience while moderating a panel discussion, chairing a building code development committee meeting or presenting at a conference. He has a great way of figuring out how to communicate a problem, its solutions and their practical application to his audience. He's built an uncommon skill set through training and experience though it's his years of Q&A interaction at all sorts of events that have taught him how to lead his audiences to understand a subject. I recommend Ryan as a nationally recognized speaker and look forward to his continued service in our community.