Explore how lightweight natural stone panels bring sustainability and design flexibility to both exterior and interior applications. This course covers how stone is responsibly sourced and engineered into innovative panel systems that reduce material use while maintaining the strength and beauty of natural stone. Learn how these panels meet structural and environmental performance standards, contribute to LEED certification, and unlock new aesthetic possibilities.

Presented by Matt Reimer, Coldspring USA

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how natural stone can be selected and extracted using sustainable practices and provide the basis for creating lightweight stone panels.
• Learn about the manufacturing process to create a lightweight stone panel, which utilizes less stone and saves natural resources.
• Identify the various aesthetic options and architectural features that can be achieved when using lightweight stone panels.
• Discover how utilizing lightweight stone panels can meet structural performance requirements, are safe in extreme environmental conditions, can achieve LEED credits, and can help reduce design, engineering and final installation costs.

Please note newer location: Holidays Pub and Grill, (Cypress Room) 3950 N. Richmond Street, Appleton, WI 54913

This AIA Northeast Wisconsin-hosted program begins promptly at 12:00 PM. Please plan to arrive by 11:50 AM to review the menu and place your lunch order so the presentation can begin on schedule.

Submitted for AIA/CES approval