Continuing Education with Rugo Stone and NSI

Learn what inherent attributes make natural stone an easy option for sustainability goals, such as natural single-ingredient material, no VOCs, and low embodied energy. Explore best practices in the natural stone industry that address land impacts, excess materials, responsible manufacturing, and reducing our carbon footprint.

This one-hour course is your introduction to using natural stone as a building material. Reviewing the fundamentals of its formation and mineral composition will give you confidence in specifying this versatile material.

This course will compare the versatility, performance characteristics, and green building considerations for both natural stone and manmade materials.

This course will compare the versatility, performance characteristics, and green building considerations for both natural stone and manmade materials.

This one-hour session gives architects and designers an overview of how to specify natural stone.

This course highlights how the dimension stone sustainability standard (ANSI/NSC 373) can assist projects with sustainability goals.

This one-hour course will give design professionals a general understanding of natural stone and the best practices for care and maintenance.

This one-hour presentation is intended to explain how natural stone fits into the Green movement. The stone industry continues to reduce environmental impacts through technology advancements and responsible manufacturing and shipping processes.

This seminar will showcase the story of genuine stone in various ways, including a stone facility tour. Discuss the history of stone, modern quarrying techniques, and stone’s durability, beauty, and value. Learn and discuss landscape, interior, and exterior use and application of natural stone.

This one-hour course will familiarize design professionals with the resources available for installation methods and specifying standards for natural stone tile. We will review the characteristics of natural stone to understand how they might affect your project.

This one-hour class is designed to provide you with a basic understanding of a relatively new application (thin veneer) of a product (natural stone).

By communicating the proper expectations for performance and maintenance requirements, the consumer will better understand and appreciate using natural stone in their kitchens and bathrooms.

This session will guide you through the process needed to identify a quality natural stone company. This relationship is critical to developing an ally in the stone selection, fabrication, and installation processes.

With so many building materials on the market today, this course will remind you why architects and designers keep choosing natural stone for their projects.