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Programs built around the specification.

Available today

Each program has a defined buyer and a defined audience.

Design professionals draw on the education and the open sections. Member manufacturers bring the product expertise behind them, and the alliance carries that expertise to the people who specify.

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Documentation

Sustainability & Transparency

Baseline reviews, quarterly guidance and transparency marketing so environmental claims hold up in specifications and project reviews.

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Education

Continuing Education

Accredited live online CEU sessions for design teams, course development and hosting for members, and a podcast in production.

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Specification

Guide Specifications

Open specification sections available today, and full guide spec development delivered through our spec writer members.

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Visibility

AI Crawler Audits

A per-page test of what AI assistants can read on a manufacturer site, a buyer-style question run, and a prioritized fix list.

In development

The next program puts a standard and a review at its center.

Every program in development points the same direction: an independent, product-neutral reference for the full opening system, and the standards, training and review that make it usable on a project.

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Practice

Openings Quality Program

A published practice standard for independent openings specification, accreditation of firms against it, and third-party review of the openings package before it goes to bid.

Open

March 11, 2027 · Boston

The Opening by Design Boston

Eighteen accredited courses on the opening and access control, organized by building type, in one day at Aloft Boston Seaport. Registration opens December 1.

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Podcast, Season Two

Conversations with members, educators, architects and code officials, hosted under the alliance's education banner.

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Monthly webinar series

A public series on openings topics, presented live and scheduled on a regular cadence.

Ongoing

Course development

New continuing education courses developed with member subject matter experts and hosted for learners in one organized place.