The Spec Shaman

The Spec Shaman

The building industry's top specification experts, LEED gurus, and design hotshots offer their best advice, research, and insights to help building product manufacturers increase product specifications. Building product specification is what keeps us up at night. Our team of experts are dedicated to helping building product manufacturers implement meaningful action to create positive outcomes. The goal of this blog is to create insightful, relevant content that building product manufacturers can utilize in their daily lives. Whether you are the company Owner, President, Marketing Manager, Sales Leader, Product Rep, or office intern we hope to provide you with strategies to improve product specification results and grow key parts of your business significantly.

On: Jul 15, 2019 By: Brad Blank
How To Leverage Online AIA CE Courses For Product Specification
Building product specification is about creating strong, reputable relationships with design professionals in the AEC community. An effective way to create relationships and build brand awareness is by hosting free AIA online courses and GBCI online courses. No matter the size of your company, offering free AIA courses can build name recognition for your company and brand.
On: Jul 2, 2019 By: Brad Blank
How Trade War with China Could Cost AEC Industry Billions
The current stalemate between the United States and China over a trade deal could cost the construction industry and other sectors of the economy tens of billions of dollars. The next round of U.S. tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods hasn’t gone into effect yet, so there may be time to reach an agreement. How devastating would a trade war affect the AEC industry?
On: Jun 26, 2019 By: Brad Blank
What is a LEED v4.1 Certification Webinar?
What is a LEED v4.1 certification webinar? A LEED v4.1 webinar answers questions about the new version of LEED. USGBC and GBCI experts discuss the LEED v4.1 rating system, LEED credits, and educational resources. How can you become involved? Let’s find out...
On: Jun 17, 2019 By: Brad Blank
How LEED v4.1 Affects Interior Design Projects
What is LEED v4.1? LEED v4.1 is the most comprehensive, collaborative, accessible and effective LEED system to date. LEED v4.1 improves energy performance, emphasizes human health, and integrative building design. How will LEED v4.1 affect the interior design of projects?
On: Jun 10, 2019 By: Brad Blank
Direct Impact: Why Your AIA Course Is Not Increasing Product Specifications
Are you happy with only 30 architects a month taking your AIA course? Do specifiers have to read your AIA course like a college term paper? Many building product manufacturers waste precious budgetary dollars on underperforming AIA courses that offer low ROI and don’t increase product specification opportunities.

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GreenCE offers AIA HSW online continuing education, LEED online courses, ADA online courses, and LEED Exam Prep. GreenCE helps design professionals obtain their AIA HSW hours, LEED-specific hours, barrier-free hours, and IDCEC CE hours. The website delivers LEED Exam Prep for the LEED Green Associate exam, LEED BD+C exam, and LEED O+M exam. The online LEED certification courses educate architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, and students.

GreenCE is a USGBC Education Partner that offers the only free LEED exam prep in the country. The LEED certification course includes a free LEED exam study guide, free LEED practice questions, and LEED certification tips and strategies. In addition, GreenCE offers free courses for LEED APs to obtain their LEED BD+C hours, LEED ID+C hours, and LEED O+M hours. Most GBCI courses are free and in video format.

GreenCE is an AIA Education Provider and offers free AIA online courses. The free AIA courses are sponsored by building product manufacturers. In addition, the platform offers barrier-free ADA courses for Texas and California architects. Texas barrier-free online courses and California Accessibility courses meet state requirements. TX ADA courses and CA ADA courses are created by the top ADA experts in the country.

Building product manufacturers can get specified by using GreenCE services. GreenCE develops AIA and LEED courses for product manufacturers to educate architects. The online architect courses help build brand awareness about building products. In addition, GreenCE hosts manufacturer webinars for 200-300 architects at a time. The AIA webinars and LEED webinars are free for architects who can learn about various products.

Finally, GreenCE helps manufacturers develop Health Product Declarations (HPDs), LEED v4 product documentation, mindful MATERIALS documentation, Google Portico documentation, and Declare Labels. We value our relationships with design professionals and building product manufacturers. They are crucial to our success.