INTRO TO COMMERCIAL

Commercial Interiors offers continued learning of the design solutions for large-scaled spaces such as healthcare, hospitality, institutional, retail, government facilities (state and federal) projects that are non-residential. Learning the appropriate finishes, code requirements and commercial rated furniture to incorporate into a commercial facility is the key to success in the commercial design world. This course is valuable to students on track to take the NCIDQ exam.

Course Objectives:

• Understand the difference between residential and commercial building finishes.
• Develop a finish schedule which is used on drawing sets for contractors.
• Education on Systems Furniture vs. Freestanding Commercial Furniture
• Understand the areas of Commercial Vertical Markets such as educational facilities, government, corporate, retail, hospitality and healthcare.
• Develop an appreciation and understanding of life safety codes in the commercial setting such as building codes, universal design, way finding, security issues, signage, fire suppression and detection, and travel egress paths.
• Learn the ADA (ABA for federal funded facilities) codes for commercial spaces.

Course Tuition:

• $395.00 for CSID enrolled students
• $495.00 for non-enrolled CSID students

Length: 6 weeks

Prerequisite: Design I or transfer equivalent.

Required Textbook: Textbook from Interior Design CSID101
Beginnings of Interior Environments by Lynn M Jones
Amazon price $123.00

• Publisher: Pearson
• Print ISBN: 9780132786003, 0132786001
• eText ISBN: 9780133074871, 0133074870
• Edition: 11th
• Copyright year: 2014

Attendance Requirements:
Do not miss more than 2 classes (Refer to Incomplete Grades/Attendance Requirements in the Course Catalog).

Grading Information:
Student will complete this course successfully by attendance and class participation on all presentations and projects. Upon successful completion a certificate of completion will be issued.