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Designing Against Deflection

Apr 24, 2025 • 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm • AIA Brooklyn

Location: Floor & Decor Showroom
850 3rd Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232

Attention: Principals, project architects and designers! Come-one-come-all for this important presentation and live demonstration hosted by AIA Brooklyn sponsor Floor & Decor.

We all know that structures are designed with a degree of deflection in mind. If you have been working with venerable Brooklyn brownstones or other vintage structures, you know that these beloved buildings are sturdy but often too flexible to support tile floors, especially during this moment when large format porcelain floors are so popular. The “old school” mud-bed-and-cleavage-membrane detail that many of us grew up with is often too thick and cumbersome and too time-consuming for contemporary aesthetics, budgets and schedules.

Floor & Decor is hosting this presentation with Schluter-Systems to educate us about structural deflection and the wide array of thin, contemporary systems that allow us to deliver the finishes our clients want hassle-free and crack-free.

At 31st Street and Third Avenue near Industry City, Floor & Decor is closer than you think — only an 8-minute walk from the 36th Street D-N-R Station. There is also a big free parking lot. Light fare will be served and you’ll earn one HSW learning unit.

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Heat Pumps and Electrification: An Architect’s Guide

Apr 10, 2025 • 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm • AIA Brooklyn

Ephoca Showroom, 106 West 56th Street

Join us for a compelling presentation on state-of-the-art heat pump technology and its impact on decarbonization, Local Law 97 compliance, and sustainable design solutions. Tailored for architects, engineers, building owners, and consultants, this event, presented by Howard Schlesinger AIA, will highlight how innovative technologies, together with ventilation, clean air, and domestic hot water soutions can reduce carbon footprints and enhance health and wellness of our built environment.

Wine and Cheese will be served and there will be a raffle for wine from the Wine County in Northern Italy where EPHOCA is manufactured.

This is an opportunity to engage with industry experts and be inspired to lead the way to improve the quality of our built environment.

Space is limited so register early.

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Designing Against Deflection

Apr 24, 2025 • 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm • AIA Brooklyn

Location: Floor & Decor Showroom
850 3rd Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11232

Attention: Principals, project architects and designers! Come-one-come-all for this important presentation and live demonstration hosted by AIA Brooklyn sponsor Floor & Decor.

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