This is the most comprehensive ARE preparation package available to help you pass all nine ARE 3.1 divisions before the 4.0 transition. The library offers significant savings and products on multiple platforms to reinforce subject material, including: study guides, question and answer handbooks, practice vignettes, test bank CD-ROMs, flashcards, and access to online interactive exercises.

Features

• Content organized according to ARE, includes codes and illustrations
• Hundreds of questions with detailed answers
• Multiple exams and self-diagnostic tool
• Evaluate areas of strength and weakness
• Online interactive exercises and video tips
• 472 flash cards

Purchase the Building Design/Materials & Methods Learning System and save.  This comprehensive focused and flexible Learning Systems has everything you need to prepare for this ARE division, including Building Design/Materials & Methods Flash Cards.  (Flash cards not available for individual sale.)

This volume allows you to test yourself on both theory and practice. Building Design/Materials & Methods Questions & Answers offers targeted questions that will help you hone in on topics that require additional review.

Features

• Nearly 100 questions with detailed answers

Contents

Principles - Environmental Issues - Codes and Regulations - Materials and Technology - Project and Practice Management

Author: John F. Hardt, AIA, Consulting Editor

This targeted exam review explores the safety, economy, practicality, durability, and architectural expression of modern building materials and methods. Also covers construction methods, specifications, and potential defects.

Features

• Illustrations, charts, and graphs
• Chapter and final exam questions with in-depth rationales

Contents

Principles - Environmental Issues - Codes and Regulations - Materials and Technology - Project and Practice Management - Sustainable Design

Author: Caleb Hornbostel

This CD-ROM offers invaluable practice for the Building Design/Materials & Methods exam.

Features

• Multiple exams timed according to the number of questions selected
• Self-diagnostic feature indicates areas of strength and weakness

Contents

Principles - Environmental Issues - Codes and Regulations - Materials and Technology - Project and Practice Management

Consulting Editor: John F. Hardt, AIA

The Building Planning exam requires candidates to integrate programmatic and contextual requirements into a cohesive solution, including interior space design, furniture arrangement, schematic designs for two-story buildings, and site and environmental requirements. This Learning System has everything needed to fully prepare for this exam. Includes: study guide, practice vignettes, CD-ROM, flash cards, and online interactive review.

Features 

• Aligned to ARE in organization, content, style, standards, and number
• Sample vignettes with exam strategies
• Online interactive exercises and video lectures
• Test bank and flash cards for all graphic divisions

This unique and effective study tool offers invaluable practice for the Building Planning exam. Includes a suggested graphic solution for each vignette and analyzes the design principles involved in each solution.

Features

• Vignettes test to the latest standards
• Rationales make solutions easier to understand
• Similar to the ARE in style, standards, and number of vignettes

Contents

Interior Layout - Schematic Design

Consulting Editor: Cayl S. Hollis, Consulting Editor

This practical approach to building planning will fully prepare you for all the topics found on the Building Planning exam.

Features

• Chapter organization allows for effective presentation of key issues and easy readability
• Topics organized by ARE content area
• Illustrations, charts, and graphs
• Sample vignettes with strategies for exam day success
• Bibliography

Contents

Interior Layout - Schematic Design

Author: Lester Wertheimer, FAIA; Thomas Wollan, Contributing Editor

Includes Building Planning study guide, online review and practice vignettes.  Together, these unique and effective study tools offer invaluable practice for the Building Planning division of the exam.

Features

• Organized by ARE content area
• Includes codes, illustrations, charts and graphs
• Similar to the ARE in style, standards and number of vignettes
• Vignettes test to the latest standards
• Online interactive exercises and video lectures
• Solution rationales make solutions easy to understand

Contents

Interior Layout - Schematic Design

This Learning System covers the integration of building systems into a cohesive solution that responds to technical and life-safety considerations, accessibility requirements, and considerations involving public health and safety, everything found on the Building Technology exam. Includes: study guide, practice vignettes, CD-ROM, flash cards, and online interactive review.

Features 

• Codes and illustrations
• Resembles ARE in organization, content, style, standards, and number
• Sample vignettes and exam strategies
• Online interactive exercises and video lectures
• Test bank and flash cards for all graphic divisions