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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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Firm Management ▪ Professional Liability ▪ Webinar

Blockchain 101

Understanding blockchain technology and potential use cases and applications that could impact architects is the topic that Yvonne Castillo Esq, Vice President & Director...

Professional Liability ▪ Professional Practice ▪ Webinar

Condominium Projects Webinar

If You Build It, They Will Sue The 90‑minute webinar, “Condominium Projects: If You Build It, They Will Sue,” focuses on the risks faced by...

Firm Management ▪ Professional Practice ▪ Webinar

Creating 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.

Life & Health ▪ Retirement & Financial Planning ▪ Webinar

Financial 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...

Climate Change ▪ Webinar

Demystifying 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...

Cyber risk ▪ Firm Management ▪ Professional Liability ▪ Webinar

Get Ahead of Cyber Risk Webinar

Learn  how to avoid the professional and business liability implications of this increasing digital threat.

Life & Health ▪ Webinar

Healthcare 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 ▪ Webinar

Healthcare 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...

Professional Liability ▪ Webinar

Insurance 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.

Firm Management ▪ Professional Practice ▪ Small Firms ▪ Webinar

Mediation for the Design Professional

Mediation is a cost‑effective dispute resolution vehicle commonly used in clashes involving design professionals.

Professional Liability ▪ Webinar

Managing 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.

Contracts ▪ Webinar

Negotiating Contracts: Understand Your Risks

Architects are often faced with unreasonable contractual provisions generated by prospective clients or their attorneys.

Firm Management ▪ Retirement & Financial Planning ▪ Small Firms ▪ Webinar

Practical & 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 ▪ Small Firms ▪ Webinar

Structuring Success: How to Start and Run Your Own Firm

Starting an architectural firm is a challenge; structuring it to survive is a formidable task.

Climate Change ▪ Professional Liability ▪ Webinar

Taking 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.

Professional Liability ▪ Webinar

The 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...

Firm Management ▪ Webinar

The 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.

Professional Practice ▪ Webinar

Virtual 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...

Contracts ▪ Firm Management ▪ Webinar

Webinar: 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.

Self‑Assessment Tests

The AIA Trust offers numerous self-assessment tests based on AIA Trust resources including several risk reports and guides.