Continuing Education
In cooperation with AIA/CES, the AIA Trust provides opportunities for AIA Members to earn learning units in the areas of firm management, risk management, and financial management based on the programs and educational resources that the AIA Trust offers.
Webinars
The AIA Trust offers live and on-demand webinar presentations free to AIA members on topics about running a firm effectively—which range from managing cyber threats and copyright issues to starting a firm to retirement planning. Most of the webinars offer continuing education credit.
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Estate Planning 101: Share Your Love
Why should you take the time to plan your estate? Many people think they can wait until they are much older before they can...
Components ▪ Life & Health ▪ Retirement & Financial Planning ▪ WebinarCondominium Projects Webinar
The 90‑minute webinar, “Condominium Projects: If You Build It, They Will Sue,” focuses on the risks faced by architects in designing condominium projects which...
Professional Liability ▪ Professional Practice ▪ WebinarCreating and Maintaining a Professional Practice
Watch this archived webinar to learn what is needed to start and run a successful architectural practice from experienced architects running successful firms.
Firm Management ▪ Professional Practice ▪ WebinarFinancial Planning for Women
This podcast, presented by Equitable in conjunction with the AIA Trust, is designed to help architects, specifically women in the profession, succeed in saving...
Life & Health ▪ Retirement & Financial Planning ▪ WebinarDemystifying ESG for Design Firms: Risks and Opportunities
Simply put, ESG is an acronym that stands for environmental, social, and governance and is a framework for financial institutions to understand better a...
Climate Change ▪ WebinarGet Ahead of Cyber Risk Webinar
Learn how to avoid the professional and business liability implications of this increasing digital threat.
Cyber risk ▪ Firm Management ▪ Professional Liability ▪ WebinarHealthcare Coverage For Firms with Employees
This 30‑minute webinar about health care coverage for firms and employees is presented by Get Kasa (formerly Pendella) will answer your questions about: Funding: the...
Life & Health ▪ WebinarHealthcare Coverage For Individuals and Sole Proprietors
This 30‑minute webinar about healthcare coverage for individuals and sole proprietors is presented by Pendella* will answer your questions about: Access: where and how you...
Life & Health ▪ WebinarInsurance Beyond D&O
This webinar is about directors & officers (D&O), general liability and other insurances, plus types of claims, available limits, and sample pricing.
Professional Liability ▪ WebinarMediation for the Design Professional
Mediation is a cost‑effective dispute resolution vehicle commonly used in clashes involving design professionals.
Firm Management ▪ Professional Practice ▪ Small Firms ▪ WebinarManaging Professional Exposures as a Small Project Practitioner
This 60‑minute webinar on Managing Professional Exposures as a Small Project Practitioner presented by Frank Musica, Assoc.
Professional Liability ▪ WebinarNegotiating Contracts: Understand Your Risks
Architects are often faced with unreasonable contractual provisions generated by prospective clients or their attorneys.
Contracts ▪ WebinarPractical & Tactical Retirement Planning Strategies for Architecture Firms
This webinar, presented by Equitable in conjunction with the AIA Trust, is designed to help firm owners and managers determine the best retirement plan...
Firm Management ▪ Retirement & Financial Planning ▪ Small Firms ▪ WebinarStructuring Success: How to Start and Run Your Own Firm
Starting an architectural firm is a challenge; structuring it to survive is a formidable task.
Firm Management ▪ Small Firms ▪ WebinarTaking the Lead to Address Climate Change
As the climate changes and extreme climate variability characterizes our daily lives, design firms must respond in their solutions for the built environment.
Climate Change ▪ Professional Liability ▪ WebinarThe Champlain Tower Collapse
Analysis and Lessons Learned for Professional Design Firms ‑ Webinar for HSW Credit This webinar centers around the events that occurred before and after...
Professional Liability ▪ WebinarThe Changing Rules and Continuing Challenges of Employment Practices
This one‑hour webinar will help architecture firms address how to handle the complexity of employment conditions and practices.
Firm Management ▪ WebinarVirtual Architectural Practice‑An Alternate Reality
Learn about the many benefits of a virtual practice approach‑as well as the risks you’ll need to manage—and find out more about what a...
Professional Practice ▪ WebinarWebinar: The Risks and Rewards of Integrated Project Delivery
This webinar focuses on the unique risks and rewards that architects may face when participating in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contracts.
Contracts ▪ Firm Management ▪ Webinar
Self‑Assessment Tests
The AIA Trust offers numerous self-assessment tests based on AIA Trust resources including several risk reports and guides.