Consider a Year-end Contribution to the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Fund
Before you close out your 2020 books, please consider a contribution to the AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship Fund, administered by the Dayton Foundation and AIA Dayton. The fund was created in 1991 by Lynn App, Emeritus AIA, and has grown in value over the years to more than $120,000. Scholarship awards are made each year to deserving students in the Miami Valley attending an NAAB accredited college/university.
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What is Virtual Reality doing in the Built Environment?
Sign up for CAT 2741 (Current Topics in Architecture) to find out! Try out a variety of gadgets, including a 360 camera and multiple VR headsets.
This course is worth 2 Credits and will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:45. Note: This hybrid format will meet in person one day per week (day TBD) with online content.
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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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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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AIA Dues Adjustment Program Information
AIA dues notices are due by January 15. For members with hardships, AIA is offering its Dues Adjustment Program again this year. This program is for members with a medical disability, those taking sabbatical or family leave, or members who are unemployed or partially employed. Contact AIA Dayton at 937-291-1913 for a form.
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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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Tya Winn takes the helm of Community Design Collaborative with racial equity a priority
Being unsure is not one of Tya Winn’s problems. She said she had most of her life goals set by kindergarten.
“I wanted to see Big Bird, I wanted to be Rocky, and I wanted to be an architect,” said the 34-year-old. Her family was the most supportive of the last one.
Some of her earliest memories growing up in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood include playing make-believe with other kids — and designing the imaginary towns and cities where she and friends wanted to be. One elaborate fantasy had her and classmates living in a dream house that included a McDonald’s, an arcade, and separate rooms for every child.
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How a Facebook Group for Women Architects Creates Community and Opportunity
Joann Lui knows what it’s like to feel invisible at work. The 31-year old architect, currently a workplace design specialist at Gensler’s New York office, was working at another firm as an intern architect in 2013, when she realized all of her male colleagues with similar roles had received raises. When she inquired about being left out, she was told women are easily overlooked in architecture.
“The message I received was that they’d forgotten me,” she told Commercial Observer, which named her as one of its 2020 Top Young Professionals. “The incident pushed me to find a job that would value me.”
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This South African-founded development company is converting vacant US hotels into affordable housing
A former Days Inn hotel chain in Branson, United States, sat vacant for eight years. Now, it has been transformed into affordable housing. The Los Angeles-based development company that completed the conversion thinks that this type of adaptive reuse could help quickly begin to address the housing shortage.
The project (now called Plato’s Cave) combined hotel rooms to create studio and one-bedroom apartments with rent starting at around R8000, designed to target renters who might be struggling to afford an apartment in the area but aren’t necessarily in the lowest-income tier—typically those making between 60% to 120% of the area median income. “We’re talking about folks that might not be poor enough to get subsidized housing,” says Richard Rubin, founder of Repvblik, the company that converted the property.
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Real Estate Investors Want to Know What Cities Are Doing About Climate Risks
After an increase in wildfires, storms and other natural disasters, many cities have begun both short and long-term planning for infrastructure that will blunt the effects of climate change. Their current property values could be at stake as well.
Real estate investors and developers are increasingly considering climate risk factors when deciding where to buy or build, according to a report this month from the Urban Land Institute, an organization that promotes the responsible use of land. This has also meant looking at how prepared local governments are to face such events, according to the study, which was conducted with Heitman LLC. The researchers interviewed firms including BlackRock Inc., CBRE Global Investors, Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Moody’s Corp. and Morgan Stanley on how they are considering climate risk.
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Architects and engineers coming up with innovative solutions to pandemic challenges
The world was unprepared for the first worldwide pandemic seen in 102 years. Now that the U.S. is in the eighth month of battling the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), it is leading the world with 8.3 million cases and 221,428 deaths as of October 22. Cases were soaring in many areas of the country, with about 418,000 new cases in the week prior to Oct. 22.
COVID-19 has brought many changes to how people work, attend school and recreate. Architects and engineers in Mississippi have been on the front lines of coming up with solutions to meet the challenges.
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AIA announces strategic partnership with True Wind Capital to invest in AIA’s Contract Documents business
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Contract Documents program announced a strategic partnership with True Wind Capital (TWC), a leading private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of technology.
True Wind Capital will invest in AIA Contract Documents (ACD), the leading provider of customizable legal contracts for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. AIA’s Contract Documents have been the gold-standard of legal documents and a thought leader within the industry since 1888.
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How Much Money Architects Make In Every State, Updated For 2020
Last year, we took a look at the best-paying states for architects, using what had been the latest data then available (from 2018) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Now, in 2020, the BLS has released updated wage data (from May 2019) for all occupations tracked by the BLS’s Occupational Employment Statistics (OES).
The average annual wage for architects in the United States currently is $89,560. Year after year, the average salary for architects has steadily increased on the national level. In 2017, the mean annual wage was $87,500 for architects, $88,860 in 2018 and $89,560 as of 2019.
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