Master Specialist and Technical Leadership
12 of 12 modules published. Each module is four lessons, a question bank and a practical task.
4 lessons · about 58 min
Advanced enclosure failure investigation
How to investigate a failed roof-edge or wall enclosure element with a documented method: four failure families, the standards and published numbers behind them, worked calculations, and how to verify, case-study and report the evidence.
- Advanced enclosure failure investigation: principles and terminology
- Advanced enclosure failure investigation: materials, standards and design constraints
- Advanced enclosure failure investigation: methods and worked application
- Advanced enclosure failure investigation: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 41 min
Forensic water intrusion diagnosis
How a leak is reasoned to its cause: the four components of a leak, what each standard covers, a documented sequence with a worked rainfall and joint count, and a conclusion that states its evidence and its limits.
4 lessons · about 52 min
High wind and extreme weather systems
The weather hazards that load a building enclosure and the scale or standard that speaks to each, a worked wind screening for a roof edge with two pressure bases, how storms and hail damage edge metal, and how to verify a claim and document a failure.
4 lessons · about 50 min
Historic restoration and conservation
The four federal treatments for historic buildings and who decides, replacing and substituting historic sheet metal, thermal movement and galvanic separation, a measured-record method with a limits check, and defects, inspection and verification.
4 lessons · about 44 min
Complex custom architectural metalwork
When a flashing or trim job becomes custom work: what makes it complex, how the specs and AFS's limits constrain it, a ten-step method with worked examples, and how to diagnose defects and document the evidence.
4 lessons · about 46 min
Major commercial project coordination
How a flashing scope is carried through a large commercial job: the submittals, RFIs, mockups and meetings, the owner and roof-edge standards behind them, a worked method for pieces, joints and schedule, and where coordination fails.
4 lessons · about 50 min
Manufacturing process engineering
How an AFS order flows from drawing to delivery with its control points, the limits and thickness bands that bound a flashing process, worked limits, yield, flow and bend-development methods, and how to verify and diagnose a defect.
4 lessons · about 48 min
Specification conflicts and design resolution
How to recognise a conflict between drawings, specifications, codes, standards and maker instructions, who ranks the documents and who answers a question about them, and how to settle one in writing before any metal is cut.
- Specification conflicts and design resolution: principles and terminology
- Specification conflicts and design resolution: materials, standards and design constraints
- Specification conflicts and design resolution: methods and worked application
- Specification conflicts and design resolution: defects, verification and case study
4 lessons · about 45 min
Technical audits and expert inspections
How an audit, inspection, observation, investigation and commissioning differ, how to plan a check, record evidence and word a finding, and how to verify a correction. Worked examples use AFS fabrication limits, piece counts and survey coverage.
4 lessons · about 40 min
Mentoring and competency verification
Why competence has to be shown rather than assumed, what OSHA rules, apprenticeship and credential programs say about training, records and re-checks, and a method for writing a standard, watching the work and signing what was seen.
4 lessons · about 45 min
Research, testing and product development
What it takes for a flashing detail to be called tested: the four ways to prove a requirement, the ES-1 wind test standard, a development path from requirement to documented detail, and how to read test evidence, substitutions and honest research.
- Research testing and product development: tested, calculated or claimed
- Research testing and product development: the edge-metal test standard
- Research testing and product development: from idea to a tested, documented detail
- Research testing and product development: defects, bad evidence and case studies
4 lessons · about 45 min
Integrated master capstone
One constructed teaching job carried from drawing to closeout: the documents and handoffs, the four constraints on edge metal, a worked method for limits, pieces, joints, movement and wind, and diagnosis through warranty review.