Eight Attributes of Contract Furniture

Evaluate your contract furniture choices based on quality and craftsmanship, safety and performance, health and wellness, and sustainability.


Continuing Education Approvals
  • 1 IDCEC CEU | HSW-Sustainability | CC-108634-1053 (Your CEU will be reported to IDCEC on your behalf) 
  • 1 AIA LU | HSW | 8ACFRENEW (AIA Members: Please contact education@asid.org to have your completion recorded or add your AIA Member number to your ASID account profile.)


Supported by
Keilhauer



Description

Become a more informed specifier through this exploration of eight key attributes of contract furniture. You’ll gain insight into many of the crucial factors to weigh in your decision-making, including performance, sustainability, and health and wellness. We’ll provide information and tools you can use to assess each of these eight attributes and evaluate the optimal balance in order to create spaces that meet unique design criteria and work effectively for the occupants. 


Content Provider
BIFMA


What you will learn
  • Describe the importance of original and authentic design, process controls in manufacturing, construction methods for wood and upholstered furniture, and how this impacts safety.
  • Recognize how furniture contributes to the health and wellness of occupants including chemical exposure, ergonomics, and the importance of ethical companies.
  • Evaluate important dimensions of planetary health, and the sustainability attributes associated with common materials used in commercial furniture.
  • Identify relevant verification and certification systems and discuss the value they contribute toward product evaluations.


Access period: One year from registration date.

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This CEU is registered with the International Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC) for continuing education credits. This credit will be accepted by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), International Interior Designers Association (IIDA) and Interior Designers of Canada (IDC).

The content included is not deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by IDCEC of any material or construction or any method or manner of handling, using distributing or dealing in any material or product.

Questions related to specific materials, methods and services should be directed to the instructor and provider of the CEU.

This program is registered for 1 CEU value | HSW-Sustainability. The IDCEC class-code is: CC-108634R2.

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Course Completion and Credit Certificate
1.0 IDCEC CEU HSW-Sustainability credit  |  Certificate available
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