Elevating Design With Copper
About the Provider
About CDA
The Copper Development Association Inc. is the market development, engineering and information services arm of the copper industry, chartered to enhance and expand markets for copper and its alloys in North America.
Membership in CDA is open to copper producers worldwide and to brass mill, wire mill and foundry fabricators of copper and copper alloys with production facilities in the USA.
Membership provides the opportunity to be part of an industry wide market development and technical service program so large and diverse that no one company would be prepared to undertake it alone.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine the inherent properties of copper that make it an efficient building material and how design professionals can incorporate these characteristics into high performing buildings and infrastructure
- Assess recent construction projects utilizing copper and copper alloys in roofing, wall cladding, and ornamental systems
- Define copper, identify common copper alloy families, and interpret how copper is 100% recyclable
- Discuss the functional contributions of copper and copper alloys as part of a sustainable building design
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(05) Metals
