Webinars
Watch as Morrison Hershfield experts share best practices, lessons learned or technical approaches on a variety of topics. Our free webinars are intended to educate, inspire and further the collective knowledge of our industry.
Assessing the Impact of Insulating Historic Masonry Structures
This presentation will explore the effect of cold water under the roof insulation and its impact on the effective thermal ... READ MORE
Drainage Capabilities and Heat Loss of Different Inverted Roof Assemblies
This presentation will explore the effect of cold water under the roof insulation and its impact on the effective thermal ... READ MORE
High-rise Window Replacement
This presentation will cover window and window wall system replacement considerations, technical challenges, thermal simulation options to optimize current systems, ... READ MORE
Open Joint Rainscreen Cladding
The building envelope (cladding, glazing and roofing assemblies) is an integral part of the architectural expression of any buildings ... READ MORE
Rapid Fire for Property Managers
Explore the many facets of maintenance and capital repairs for existing buildings. Learn what to consider for roofing, windows, masonry ... READ MORE
The Demand for Zero Carbon Buildings
Learn the challenges and complexities facing project teams pursuing net zero / zero carbon projects, as well as how to ... READ MORE
Implications for Building Envelope Design On the Path Toward Net Zero Performance
The building envelope (cladding, glazing and roofing assemblies) is an integral part of the architectural expression of any buildings ... READ MORE
Healthy Buildings for Everyone
Learn how one team approached this unique opportunity to develop a way to (literally) grow buildings by fusing synthetic biology, ... READ MORE
Using Integrated Project Teams to Achieve Net Zero Buildings
#MHWebinars Using Integrated Project Teams to Achieve Net Zero Buildings In this webinar, you’ll learn how to rally your project ... READ MORE
Data Center Trends: How the Customer Drives Industry Advances and Design Development
Learn the basics of mission-critical electrical systems, as well as current trends in electrical and mechanical engineering ... READ MORE
Energy and Air Barriers – Navigating the New Codes
Understand the theory and historical progression of air tightness requirements and the metrics that provide the baseline for levels of ... READ MORE
Mission Critical Commissioning vs. Traditional Commissioning – What’s The Difference?
Is there really a difference between traditional commissioning and commissioning for Mission Critical? Find out in this session ... READ MORE
The Building Envelope as a System – A Balanced Approach
This webinar is based on multiple large Canadian commercial buildings each targeting net zero carbon ... READ MORE
Building Envelope Commissioning and LEEDv4
The Commissioning process has historically attached itself to the active systems, leaving the primarily passive envelope systems undefined and unchecked ... READ MORE
Spandrel Glass Breakage
Tune in to our Spandrel Glass Breakage webinar to view examples of ceramic enamel frit coated glass breakage and review ... READ MORE
Energy and Thermal Bridging
Explore our team's most recent thermal bridging research and demonstrate how our energy performance mapping tool enables teams to visualize ... READ MORE
A Case History Review of ETFE on Current Projects
Review a variety of different failures that have occurred during laboratory mock-up testing, which reveal deficiencies in the design, assembly, ... READ MORE
Glazing Systems: Lessons Learned from Lab Testing Failures
Review a variety of different failures that have occurred during laboratory mock-up testing, which reveal deficiencies in the design, assembly, ... READ MORE
Roof Maintenance, Repair
Review the general concept of roof maintenance beginning at the most critical stages of a roofs life – the design ... READ MORE
Performance Anxiety: Confessions from the Building Envelope
How does the design of the building envelope actually perform? This presentation will explore this question and show a comprehensive ... READ MORE
Building Envelope & NECB
Alberta will soon be moving to an updated version of the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB) for ... READ MORE
QA, QC and QF: An Alphabet Soup of Standards is not Enough
Global procurement is often relied upon for curtain wall, window wall and other fenestration systems and components ... READ MORE
WHO’S SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR THAT? Managing Capital Budgets & Projects in Mixed-Use Developments
Examine the typical areas of overlapping use and benefit and different ways of budgeting for and managing shared repair and ... READ MORE
Fenestration Systems – It’s all about Plumbing
A few years ago the Toronto office experienced what we termed “the year of the crappy curtain wall”. In actuality ... READ MORE
Framed Walls: Insulation, Humidity, and Risk
With an increasing trend towards higher building envelope insulation levels to meet more stringent building energy requirements many designers have ... READ MORE
Waste to Energy Technologies
Landfilling costs are increasing and space is becoming scarce. The expense and feasibility of developing new landfills have become prohibitive ... READ MORE
Heritage Restorations Improving Energy Efficiency
The envelope is more than windows and doors. How can we improve the performance of heritage building envelopes, while respecting ... READ MORE