Workplace Health and Safety - The WELL Health-Safety Seal
Joint Meeting with AIA Dayton, CSI and the
Construction Builders Association
Date: Monday, March 2, 2021
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 AM
Speakers: Michael Berning PE, CEM, LEED Fellow | Chief Innovation Officer | HEAPY;
Charlie Droessler | Client Executive | LJB, Inc.
The session will be presented via Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom invitation prior to the start of the session .
Thousands of building owners are prioritizing the Health and Safety of their building’s occupants by earning the WELL Health-Safety Seal.
· Are you prepared for a safe and secure return Back-to-Work?
· Are you already Back-to-Work and wonder if you have done the best effort at keeping
everyone safe and healthy?
· Do you worry your company culture has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis?
· Are you prepared for what could (will) be next?
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for organizations to have proactive strategies that deliver a healthy environment and help occupants and visitors feel safe and healthy. These goals can be difficult to achieve without clear guidance and direction.
The WELL Health-Safety Rating is an objective, third-party certification system backed by science, and verified by experts. It helps you reduce guesswork and validates the effectiveness of your practices and processes for occupant wellbeing. This presentation will provide insight into the policies and procedures outlined in the WELL Health-Safety Rating system and how they are focused on safeguarding employee and visitor wellbeing.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Attendees will:
1. Understand how the WELL Health-Safety Rating guides decision making and
policies to ensure their facilities are safe now and in the future.
2. Recognize how they can safeguard employee and visitor wellbeing and build public
trust in their organization using the policies and procedures outlined in the WELL
Health-Safety Rating system.
3. Realize how achieving the WELL Health-Safety Seal can improve productivity and
support their company culture.
4. Learn how attaining the WELL Health-Safety Seal will state they have made health
and safety of their building’s occupants a top priority.
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Thermal Comfort and Air Movement with HVLS Fans
Joint meeting with ASHRAE and AIA Dayton
Date: Monday, March 8, 2021
Time: 11:30 - 11:45 AM - Social Time; 11:45 AM -12:00 PM - Business and Introductions; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST - Main Presentation
Speaker: Christian Taber, Principal Engineer, Codes and Standards for Big Ass Fans
The session will be presented via Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom invitation prior to the start of the Session .
In this course, we explore how HVLS Fans can contribute to thermal comfort, energy savings, and LEED v4.1. Our team explores the basics of ASHRAE Standard 55 requirements in LEED v4.1 BD+C. We discuss how air movement can assist with meeting the indoor air quality performance and energy performance requirements in LEED. Finally, we review how HVLS Fans can provide additional benefits for green building projects.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the factors that affect thermal comfort and the basics of ASHRAE Standard 55 requirements in LEED v4.1 BD+C
2. Discuss how air movement can assist with meeting the indoor air quality performance and energy performance requirements in LEED v4.1 BD+C and v4.1 O+M
3. Explain the use of elevated air speed for increased air distribution efficiency and energy savings within conditioned and unconditioned spaces
4. Understand stratification and the significant energy saving potential from destratifying a large open space
5. Describe the additional design benefits of using fans in Green Building projects
The course is approved for 1.0 AIA CES HSW credit.
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AIA Dayton's Art in Architecture Student Design Competition Going Virtual This Year
The 40th annual Student Design competition will be a virtual design exercise this year. The program is open to all high school students, grades 9 - 12, interested in art, architecture, or design, and living within AIA Dayton's 9-county geographic region (Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby counties). The program kicks off with a design charrette on February 27 and ends with an awards ceremony on May 1.
This year's project is Gem City Market - Farm to Table Restaurant. The program will address food scarcity and the availability of healthy, affordable dining choices within certain areas of our communities.
For questions about the program, or if you would like to become a sponsor of the program, contact the AIA Dayton office at [email protected].
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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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PLAN is excited to announce that we are hosting a second live webinar.
Join Us Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 1:00 PM EST for a free live webinar. This program focuses on developing best practices for design professionals performing construction site observation duties. Detail is spent on preparing for and conducting site visits and what to do when there are unsafe conditions on a construction project.
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ATS Invites You to Tuesday's Free
Building-Envelope Live Webcast Seminar
If the topic of Building Envelope interests you, register today for the January 26 event open to Eastern Time Zone architects. This live webcast event features 7 courses
all valid for AIA HSW and USGBC credit.
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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 Ohio Grassroots: A Virtual Day at the Statehouse
Join your fellow members for a virtual version of our annual Day at the Statehouse on February 24, 10AM-3PM. Learn about AIA Ohio’s advocacy initiatives for the new General Assembly. Participate in visits with legislators. Seize the opportunity to meet with Ohio’s key legislative leaders. Gain an understanding of AIA Ohio’s legislative priorities for 2021 and learn how you can be a part of the action!
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AIA Dues Adjustment Program Information
AIA dues notices were 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. There is still time to contact AIA Dayton at 937-291-1913 for a form.
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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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Seattle begins phasing fossil fuels out of its buildings
Electrification of the building sector has become a trend along the West Coast, particularly as jurisdictions struggle with poor air quality due to out-of-control wildfires. Berkeley made history in July 2019 as the first city to ban natural gas infrastructure in new low-rise residential buildings, sending a ripple effect across California where more than 40 cities, including San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland, have now implemented measures to push fossil fuels out of new construction.
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Here’s How One Kansas City Architecture Firm Stays Winning At The Super Bowl
Brady Spencer grew up in northwest Arkansas, and after earning a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Arkansas, he set his sights on Kansas City.
“It’s the home of sports architecture,” he said, thinking he might try it for a few years. “And 25 years later, I’m still at it.”
Spencer joined the architectural design firm Populous in 1996. Now a senior architect and principal, he specializes in National Football League and collegiate football projects. He’s served as lead project architect for renovations at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, and project architect for four other NFL stadiums.
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Meet Two Pioneering Black Women Architects
Joining the conversation were Patricia Morton ('83 MArch), an art history professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Roberta Washington ('71 MArch), founder of Roberta Washington Architects. All four participants are involved with Pioneering Women of American Architecture, an online resource that profiles 50 female architects who have transformed the field.
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Sprawl ruined Silicon Valley. Can world-class architecture help fix it?
In the heart of Silicon Valley, where the landscape is dominated by self-contained tech campuses and low-density car-oriented urbanism, a major new development is bringing in a team of world-class architects to add a collection of mixed-use projects to downtown San Jose. Concentrating modern workspaces and residences near the growing city’s key amenities and forthcoming regional transportation links, the sustainability-minded development could be the start of an urban revolution in the valley.
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An Exclusive Look Into the World’s First 3-D Printed School
Maggie Grout, the founder of the nonprofit Thinking Huts, is on a mission. With pressing educational needs and over 1.2 billion children displaced globally as a result of the pandemic, and more than 260 million children with no access to education worldwide, Grout has set out to address this critical issue. She created her nonprofit to serve underprivileged communities, and now plans to build schools out of 3-D printed material.
Humanitarian-driven technology developed by Hyperion Robotics is at the core of the technique. Grout also partnered with San Francisco–based architectural design agency Studio Mortazavi (founded by Amir Mortazavi) to create the world’s first 3-D printed school set on four acres of land off the coast of Africa, on Madagascar. While 3-D printing technology has been used for many projects of late including cars and some aspects of architecture, this will be the first full-scale school using this methodology.
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Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?
In the past three decades, a series of quiet revolutions in design have changed the way offices are used, erasing former hierarchies of walls and cubicles and incorporating workplace methodologies from the technology industry into team-based, open-plan layouts. At the same time, digital tools such as e-mail, Excel, Google Docs, video conferencing, virtual whiteboarding, and chat channels like Slack have made a worker’s presence in those offices less essential. The pandemic has collapsed these divergent trends into an existential question: What’s an office for? Is it a place for newbies to learn from experienced colleagues? A way for bosses to oversee shirkers? A platform for collaboration? A source of friends and social life? A respite from the family? A reason to leave the house? It turns out that work, which is what the office was supposed to be for, is possible to do from somewhere else.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
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