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As
a design professional, you may know Ron Blank & Associates,
Inc. through the free continuing education courses
we have offered since 2000, when AIA continuing
education began. What you may not know is that
RBA has also
been educating design professionals through one-on-one
meetings in architecture firms all across the
U.S. since 1985. We have a team of specification
consultants that travel nearly thirty weeks
per year to the fifty largest
metro areas in the U.S. These consultants have
backgrounds in the A&E
profession and bring valuable information about
new and exciting building product technologies
to design professionals to keep them informed
about best practices and changing
trends in the building products industry. Our
consultants are not manufacturer reps and are
not paid on commission
and are certainly never paid by you, the design
professional. On each visit they make to a
particular firm, about
every 8-12 months, they bring to the design professional
the following: |
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• A short presentation about
six to ten different building product technologies |
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• A
brief synopsis of each product with a website
reference for you to keep |
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• A
list of all available lunch-and-learn programs
from various sponsors |
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• A
newsletter that has a calendar of our CE Academy
dates across the U.S. |
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• A
reference of our online continuing education
courses |
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our presentation, we will report back to our
manufacturer clients only what you
have requested from them; this may include: |
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1. A lunch-and-learn
AIA course given at your firm |
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2. Product
binder or brochure for your reference |
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3. Product
samples |
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4. Digital
information, such as a web link or specification
files and CAD/BIM details |
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5. An office
visit by local representative |
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6. Contact
from a technical advisor about the particulars
of a product |
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again, these items are strictly delivered to
you upon request only. In addition,
being that many of us come from the design profession
ourselves, we know how valuable your time is
and will call to make an appointment
with you at your request and discuss the key
points that you are interested in. This program
succeeds because
we adhere to our mission of bringing quality
information to design professionals in a concise,
educational and efficient
manner, while helping to build productive and
collaborative relationships between design professionals
and building product manufacturers. |
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more information about this program, please call
800-248-6364 or
e-mail Carol Davis at carol@ronblank.com. |
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