20 Questions—and 20 Answers – to Better Risk Management
(Approved for 1.0 AIA CES HSW/LU)
Date: Tuesday, November 10
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Speaker: Brian Baumgardner, Associate Client Executive, Deign/Consultation, Oswald Companies
Cost: Free for AIA and AIAS members; $25 for non-AIA architects
Via Zoom. After registration you will be sent a Zoom invitation on November 9.
By the end of the program, participants will be able to:
· Identify risk factors that lead to project upsets and claims
· Develop strategies and tools to improve risk management practices and prevent losses
· Improve the Health Safety and Welfare of project participants and the public at large
· Implement practice improvement programs at all levels of management
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AIA Dayton Annual Membership Meeting
The Annual Membership Meeting was held Wednesday night via Zoom, officially sanctioned this summer by the State of Ohio as an approved way for nonprofits organizations chartered in Ohio to meet the obligation in their bylaws to hold an annual membership meeting.
Zoom meetings have become one of the most popular and widely used platforms in 2020 for holding meetings. And Happy Hours, and Awards Programs, and sometimes conferences…
The annual meeting was preceded by a 15-minute Happy Hour this year but, sadly, appetizers were not included.
Highlights of the annual meeting were reports given by directors and committee chairs of the activities of AIA Dayton over this past year. Despite the pandemic, AIA Dayton was still visible to its membership through special forums, education series, the student design competition and a fun mini-golf event.
Equally important was the election of officers and directors for 2021. Here are your new officers and directors: Joe Bissaillon, AIA, President; Dan Wyckoff, AIA, President-elect: Rebecca Hughes, AIA, Treasurer; Alex Bohler, AIA, Secretary; Fernando Oseguera, AIA, Program Director; Dianna Conboy, AIA, Sponsorship Director; Pamela Rigling, Associate AIA, Student Design Associate Director; Charlie Setterfield, AIA, AIA Ohio Director and also Past President.
Congratulations to the new officers and directors!
Recognized at the meeting for becoming a registered architect over the course of 2020 were: Rebecca Hughes, AIA; Whitney Locker, RA; and Laura Seifert, RA. Congratulations new architects; you are cordially invited to attend AIA Dayton meetings as our guest!
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Breast Cancer Awareness
NFL outreach for Breast Cancer Awareness affects a local member’s family. Terry Welker, FAIA, recently learned that his daughter-in-law, who was pregnant, also had breast cancer. Click HERE to read the story.
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Annual AIAS BGSU Co-op Fair
The annual AIAS BGSU Co-op fair is a professional development event that allows professionals and architecture students to network and find potential employment opportunities. The Co-op Fair takes place on Friday, January 22, 2021, from 12-3 PM.
Click the link below to register, (Scroll to the bottom of the page upon clicking the link.) This will allow you to reserve a spot at the Architecture Student exclusive co-op fair. If you would like free registration, please confirm with a registration form by January 4, 2021.
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AIA Ohio SAP Training
Post-disaster Safety-Assessment Program
(AIA Members will earn 6.5 AIA HSW CEUs and non-AIA members will receive certificates)
Date: November 17-18
Cost: $100 for AIA members; $120 for non-members
Locations: Via Zoom
This training session will take place virtually, over two days. Attendees will receive one field manual from the Applied Technology Council (ATC): ATC-45 Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Windstorms and Flood; as well as ATC-20 Postearthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings. AIA SAP instructors share personal experiences from the field and interactive case studies. Attendees will learn about building performance and protocols for disaster deployment.
*Pre-registration is required. Registration for this event will close on Nov. 3 to allow for time to ship materials.*
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Free CE Programs
Multiple vendors and organizations are offering free CE programs to AIA members. Below are links with very brief descriptions so you can check out the programs you may have an interest in.
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ATS Invites You to its Free Webinars
Live 1-Hour FREE Courses Featuring Today's Product Innovations and Architectural Solutions. ATS files your credits with the AIA and USGBC. Valid for 1 AIA HSW and 1 USGBC credit. (AIBC, AAA, OAA). Easy to register, easy to join at course time. Interactive courses allow you to ask questions and download materials.
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Ron Blank & Associates Offers Free Webinars
If you prefer live, interactive continuing education but prefer the comfort of your office, studio or home, webinars may be the perfect fit for your CE needs. Ron Blank hosts a full range of topics that meet the live education licensing and organization requirements you have.
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GreenCE Offers Free Webinars
GreenCE offes live instructor-led continuing education webinars. The webinars can offer LEED Specific Hours, AIA HSW CE Hours, and ADA/Barrier-Free CE Hours.
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Practice Innovation Chaos Sessions!
You are invited to join the AIAS and the Young Architects Forum for a new virtual collaboration, Practice Innovation Chaos Sessions! This initiative will be a series of four 1-hour workshops taking place over the course of four weeks - each testing a different platform. Through the chaos of trial and error, participants will test, brainstorm, and troubleshoot virtual collaboration methods. The goal of these workshops is to test the limits of virtual collaboration, find out what it takes to innovate in the digital realm, and disrupt the practice of architecture.
Brought to you by the Young Architects Forum and the AIAS Design & Technology Task Force, the Practice Innovation Chaos Sessions are open to all students and professionals to connect, explore, and input their perspective on collaborating in a virtual environment.
The workshops will take place via Google Meets. Click below to access each session:
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Power Moves: A WLS Virtual Series
Power Moves is a new virtual series that aims to help women architects overcome the challenges they're facing right now. Based on AIA's Women's Leadership Summit-the largest leadership event for women in architecture-Power Moves is three powerful professional development sessions designed to help women architects build virtual networks with other women in architecture, get tips and successful tactics for overcoming professional and personal challenges, and learn key strategies to succeed in end-of-the-year negotiations.
November 19 session:
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FREE AIAU Courses for AIA Members
Working 100% from home is new territory for many of us, as is the rapidly changing business environment that’s impacting our jobs, our firms, and our work. To help navigate these uncertain times, we’re offering valuable learning resources—some of AIAU’s best business and tech courses—to AIA members for free.
Learn about virtual practice, successful business strategies, risk management, and more from some of the most innovative architects, firms, and design professionals.
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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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Powder rooms were created during Spanish Flu. Will COVID-19 also change how we live?
Rewind the clock about 100 years and you’d see closed schools, masked people and a lot of hand washing. Sound familiar? The Spanish Flu pandemic was responsible for millions of deaths around the world, but did you know it was also responsible for the advent of the modern day powder room?
Not accustomed to frequent handwashing, but quickly realizing the need to eradicate germs, people began installing small vanity rooms with sinks on the ground floor of their homes. These powder rooms gave homeowners, guests and delivery people a way to wash up upon entering the house.
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Is The Covid-19 Pandemic Reviving A Historic Residential Design Feature?
The pandemic has changed our relationship with our homes, possibly permanently. One of those changes is the desire to maximize our outdoor living spaces. The reasons include new pressures on indoor rooms to multi-task for study, work and exercise – at the expense of relaxation – and a desire to enjoy safe, healthy outdoor time.
“Scientific evidence continues to mount that when we spend time immersed in nature or surrounded by even modest natural features, it boosts our mood and leaves us feeling emotional restored. During stressful times, these moments to find beauty and peace become more important than ever,” comments Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix.
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Yes, COVID-19 really is destroying the open office
The pandemic may finally make that happen. According to a new survey of tech companies, fewer than half of offices with fully open plans expect to keep that layout in the post-pandemic era. For some offices, the open plan is already on its way out.
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For Post-Covid Design, Architecture, and Consumer Goods, Classics Are Still King
The pandemic may have caused immediate and dramatic shifts to our day-to-day lifestyle, but for most consumers and property buyers, this hasn’t led to major changes in taste, said panelists on Day 3 of Mansion Global’s inaugural Luxury Real Estate Conference on Thursday.
Instead, buyers are drilling down to basics, focusing on amenities like location, quality and comfort from already-trusted luxury brands.
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Classical or Modern Architecture? For Americans, It’s No Contest
Corinthian columns and Carrara marble do more for Americans than concrete and steel, according to a new poll on America’s architectural tastes. And it’s not even close.
The survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, asked more than 2,000 Americans to consider seven pairs of images, most of them side-by-side photographs of various federal buildings — one classical in design, the other more modern-looking. “Which of these two buildings would you prefer for a U.S. courthouse or federal office building?” asked the survey, which was organized by the National Civic Art Society, a nonprofit that promotes classical approaches to architecture and urbanism.
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