Air Knife Technology: Engineered to Solve Problems Others Ignore
Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
Speaker: Sarah Duran, Architectural Specifications Manager, Dyson Airblade
The course provides an overview of hand drying concepts and the advantages of hand dryers with air knife technology. It reviews the impact the choice of hand-drying equipment has on public health, occupant comfort, facility operations, and our environment.
Learning Objectives
• recognize the environmental, health, and economic benefits of energy-efficient hand dryers and define the criteria for a hygienic hand dryer
• discuss how hand-drying choices can affect the accessibility and design of a space and impact restroom hygiene, occupant comfort, and public health
• explain how air knife technology works and the benefits of using touchless, water-saving products to create healthier, safer restroom spaces for all users, and
• describe hand-drying methods in terms of sustainability and energy efficiency and how the new technologies can reduce the environmental impact of the public restroom
Approved for 1.0 AIA HSW credit.
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The AIA Dayton Architectural Scholarship
The AIA Dayton Architecture Scholarship Fund of The Dayton Foundation was established to encourage and assist students graduating from high schools and college students from the Dayton/Miami Valley region to pursue a degree in architecture at a college or university with a NAAB accredited architecture program. The fund is administered by AIA Dayton and provides scholarships with matching funds from AIA National.
If you know of a high school senior who has been accepted into an architecture program for the fall of 2021, or a current college student enrolled in an architecture program, please let them know of the scholarship opportunity available.
Go to www.daytonfoundation.org and click on ScholarshipCONNECT to access the online scholarship application. Scholarship applications are due March 26, 2021 by 4:00 p.m. For more information, contact The Dayton Foundation scholarship program office at (937) 222-0410 or [email protected].
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AIA Dayton' s 2020 Year-End Report
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Society of American Military Engineers Seeks 2021 Scholarship Applicants
Please make deserving students aware of the Kittyhawk (Dayton) Post of the Society of American Military Engineers’ (SAME) scholarships program. SAME’s scholarships encourage students to pursue careers in fields related to the Society’s mission including engineering, architecture, construction, facilities management and environmental management/science. The program assists all levels of post-high-school education to include associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degrees. Information and applications for the scholarships are now available on their website at https://www.same.org/kittyhawk at the STEM tab.
Applications are due by April 2, 2021. For more information, please contact Nadja Turek, [email protected] or 937-531-1287
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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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Please Join Us! Free Web-Series for Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, & Ohio
Event Dates
Monday, March 29 | Tuesday, March 30 | Wednesday, March 31 | Thursday, April 1
Available Credits
8 AIA HSW/LU CE Hour(s)
2 GBCI General Hour(s) for LEED Professionals
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10th annual Symposium on Sustainability in Health Care
Co-hosted by HEAPY and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), this year’s symposium will be a hybrid event on May 25, offering both virtual and
in-person learning opportunities at Sharonville Convention Center in Sharonville, Ohio.
Join fellow healthcare professionals, facility managers, designers, architects and engineers for a full day of expert insights, education opportunities, and a keynote address from Diana C. Anderson, MD, M.Arch.
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ICHRA: Control Your Healthcare Spend, Once and For All
Ever increasing and often erratic health insurance renewals can blow up even the most well-planned annual employer budget. Adopting an ICHRA model can literally fix the healthcare expense line with a predictable number that won’t change, regardless of your claims experience.
Secret be told, the vast majority of companies who initiated an ICHRA in 2020, renewed their plan at the same employer cost in 2021 (for real!). That’s why the Departments of Labor, Treasury and Health & Human Services predict that by the end of 2025, 800,000 organizations will offer an ICHRA to their employees, insuring over 11,000,000 people.
Join us for a 60-minute webinar, March 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM ET to learn what the early adopters already know, that employers really can control their healthcare costs!
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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 Conference on Architecture 2021
The AIA Conference on Architecture 2021 will launch in June as a virtual series delivered through four online events across two months. The series will address firms' business needs in a post-COVID world whose economy has also been simultaneously impacted by climate change and equity. Read more HERE.
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Advocacy Begins with You: A Series for Architects
AIA Ohio’s mission is to advocate for the profession of architecture. This six-part series empowers members to support our mission by exploring ways you can become a stronger leader and advocate for the profession. Members may attend all six sessions and gain the tools and techniques needed to become advocacy leaders in the profession or, select a few sessions that focus on your individual advocacy training needs. All sessions are free to attend for AIA Ohio members.
Session: Finding Your Voice
Date: April 21
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET
There is an advocate inside all of us. No matter where you are in your career, you can use your voice to advocate for the issues you are passionate about. This session will equip you to speak up as you meet and become inspired by advocates and learn about their interesting and sometimes unconventional pathways to becoming community leaders.
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Nationwide Fellows/EP Mentorship Program Announcement
The past year has brought increased awareness and activism for social, political, and environmental change that has stretched and challenged the architecture we do, to do more. Having open and honest conversations on these topics is how we will all grow together. Mentorship is a critical component to our profession in helping foster these conversations, and to cultivate the next generation of Architects. And we need to mentor now, more than ever, as we navigate the aftermath of this pandemic and civil unrest.
To respond to this need, several young architects in the AIA are partnering with the College of Fellows to develop “Nexus”, a national mentorship program, built as a virtual platform, in an effort to build new connections across our geographically dispersed membership. The program aims to create meaningful dialogue around work culture, professional knowledge, leadership strategies, and society at large, between one generation and another.
Nexus will be open for applications/participants in the coming quarter, so keep your eyes open for a follow-up announcement- but feel free to let us know now if you are interested in being notified when the program is beginning! Email [email protected] or [email protected].
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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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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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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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The Case for a Feeling Architecture
Although I’m only 15 years old, I’ve wanted to be an architect for as long as I can remember. Ever since I could hold a Lego, I’ve been fascinated by the process of building, and to me, that process has always been an experience. Designing and building felt dynamic, exhilarating, and deeply absorbing. I loved the feedback loop that would open up between my physical environment and my imagination, as well as the way in which the constraints of my environment would force me to find new ways in which to manifest my ideas.
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6 Women Making Waves in Architecture and Design Education
In this two-part series honoring Women’s History Month, Interior Design speaks with 11 women forging positive change as architecture school deans in the northeast. In addition to being heavyweight researchers, writers, industry leaders, and advocates, they bring a unique perspective about what it's like to break barriers at some of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning—most of which have historically seen men dominate top leadership roles.
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Here is the 2021 class of AIA Young Architects Award winners
The American Institute of Architects has recognized 20 emerging practitioners with its annual Young Architects Award. The program honors early-career individuals for outstanding leadership and significant contributions to the architecture profession.
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The 10 most innovative architecture companies of 2021
For an industry accustomed to working with timelines that span several years into the future, architecture spent 2020 decidedly rooted in the present, as COVID-19—and its economic fallout—stalled or killed scores of projects. But that didn’t stop many firms from finding ways to put their design skills to work. Some responded specifically to the pandemic, others adapted their skillsets in the face of pressing needs, and yet others pushed relentlessly forward on stellar new projects that show the increasingly thoughtful work the profession continues to produce.
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The Pandemic Prompts Cities to Rethink the Parking Spot
ONE MORNING LAST March—Maura Thomson can’t recall specifically when in the early haze of the pandemic—Thomson and three others piled into a van and set out to bag the meters.
Thomson is the interim director of the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority, which oversees the city’s 67-square-block core abutting the University of Michigan. It was clear to her and her fellow travelers—another authority employee plus two workers from its parking contractor—that things were about to change, at least for a few weeks. She understood that the street, the physical space of Ann Arbor, would need to change along with it. So just as the darkness started to lift, the group began to slip orange NO PARKING bags over about 100 meters, tacking TAKEOUT/DELIVERY PARKING signs above them. The reconfiguring of Ann Arbor had begun.
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ENR's Best of the Best Projects 2020
These 20 awards come as the result of a nearly yearlong effort by ENR editors and about 100 members of the construction industry who judged project submissions at various stages of the contest. The projects represent the pinnacle of design and construction achievement in their respective categories from across the U.S. among those completed between May 2019 and May 2020.
The contest began last March with a call for entries. Despite logistical and staffing challenges posed by COVID-19, the industry resoundingly responded with nearly 900 project teams submitting their work. In each of ENR’s 10 regions, editors assembled a panel of judges to select winners in 20 categories, listed on the opposite page, which moved up to the national competition—around 200 projects in total. A new group of judges examined each project in an effort to determine the best of the best in terms of teamwork, safety, overcoming challenges, innovation and quality. For more information, visit AOE2021.com.
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This massive light fixture could disinfect public spaces. But is it safe?
As vaccines continue to roll out and life starts to get a little more normal, Studio Roosegaarde is releasing a project that could help it stay that way—and maybe mitigate other viruses in the future.
The project, called Urban Sun, is a light fixture designed for public spaces, which the Dutch design firm says can “safely clean up to 99.9% of the coronavirus” by emitting far-UVC light at a specific wavelength (222 nanometers) that early research shows can deactivate viruses without harming humans.
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Jane Treiber
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