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Through professionally certified courses, Decorative Films provides expert insight into the performance capabilities, design applications, and functional benefits of architectural window film.
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Course 2: Branded Environments
1 CE, Approved by USGBC/GBCI
Join Our Upcoming Live Webinar on Tuesday, March 17 at 12pm!
Attendees receive 1 CE credit.
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About This Course
This course examines how architectural films can transform glass and other surfaces to enhance privacy, elevate aesthetics, and express brand identity in modern work environments. Participants will explore decorative, branded, solar, safety, exterior, and bird-safety film applications, with a focus on improving comfort, sustainability, and occupant well-being. Emphasis is placed on film as a responsible retrofit solution that extends the life of existing materials while supporting cohesive, experience-driven design.
Objectives
- Identify how architectural films can enhance privacy, aesthetics, and overall spatial quality to support productive and visually cohesive work environments, and how retrofitting existing glass with film can extend material life and reduce waste.
- Understand the ways decorative, branded, and custom film applications contribute to expressing identity, strengthening brand storytelling, and improving consumer connection while facilitating healthier, safer, and environmentally responsible building outcomes.
- Discuss how various film types—including solar, safety, exterior, and bird-safety films—can offer additional opportunities for improved comfort, environmental responsibility, and occupant well-being when incorporated thoughtfully into design solutions.
- Apply best practices for selecting and specifying film solutions that align design intent, privacy needs, branding goals, and broader environmental or performance considerations within modern architectural spaces.
Join Our Upcoming Live Webinar on Tuesday, April 14 at 12pm!
Attendees receive 1 CE credit.
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Course 1: Solar Bird Safety Film
1 CE / Approved by USGBC/GBCI
About This Course
Glass-forward architecture offers transparency, daylight, and strong connections to the surrounding environment—but it can also introduce a significant and often overlooked design challenge: bird–glass collisions. This course presents a real-world case study demonstrating how an existing glass building addressed bird strike risk through thoughtful retrofit strategies that balanced aesthetics, performance, and sustainability goals.
Through the lens of a completed retrofit project, participants will explore how bird safety considerations can be integrated into both new construction and existing buildings across a wide range of typologies, including commercial, institutional, civic, and cultural projects. The session examines how bird safety window film was used to dramatically reduce collisions while preserving views, improving energy performance, and delivering measurable return on investment.
Geared toward architects and specifiers, the course covers bird-strike causes, proven mitigation strategies, testing and performance criteria, retrofit versus new-build considerations, and how bird-friendly design can align with broader sustainability initiatives, funding opportunities, and municipal requirements, helping design professionals confidently incorporate bird-friendly glass solutions into high-performance building designs.
Objectives
- Understand the ecological impacts and primary causes of bird–glass collisions, including how building height, lighting, landscaping, and glass visibility contribute to strike risk at nature centers and low-rise buildings.
- Interpret bird safety performance standards—such as the American Bird Conservancy’s Material Threat Factor (MTF) and prescriptive spacing guidelines—to evaluate the effectiveness of bird strike prevention solutions.
- Evaluate the Cylburn Arboretum case study to understand how bird strike data, building performance challenges, and stakeholder partnerships were used to justify and fund a full-building retrofit.
- Identify a replicable framework for implementing bird-safety film projects by aligning conservation goals with energy-efficiency metrics, ROI, and grant criteria commonly used by public agencies and utilities.
