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 Benefits of Reality Capture to AEC Projects
Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 AM EST
Speakers: Brendan Welsh, PS, PE TrueScan Group Leader, and Jared White, TrueScan Project Manager
This course demonstrates various reality capture methods, including laser scanning, photogrammetry, and the scan-to-BIM process. Learn about field methods, data processes, and final deliverables for architectural design. TrueScan experts explain the setup and procedure for attaining accurate share coordinates for placement within Revit software. The program concludes with understanding the process for developing as-built field measurements into an accurate Revit model to serve as a basis for design.
Submitted for 1.0 AIA LU credit.
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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: Advocacy and You
Date: May 19
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET
Advocacy opportunities are not limited to federal, state, and local government politics. This program will explore the opportunities for members to develop their personal advocacy brand and contribute their skills outside of AIA Ohio's state government issues. Our speakers will share some of the many opportunities that exist for architects to engage with AIA's advocacy efforts and discuss how they developed their passions into advocacy. Raise your voice and make it work for the things you care about the most.
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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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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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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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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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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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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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February Billings Index Up for First Time in a Year
The American Institute of Architects reports that the February Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score was 53.3, up from 44.9 in January. February’s score marks the first time in a year that the index has exceeded 50, marking an increase in billings. The inquiries index for February reached a 22-month high with a score of 61.2, compared to 56.8 in January.
“Hopefully, this is the start of a more sustained recovery. It is possible that scores will continue to bounce above and below 50 for the next few months, as recoveries often move in fits and starts,” said AIA chief economist, Kermit Baker.
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‘When Seattle Shakes’ online exhibition explores historical preservation and seismic risks
There’s a striking map in architect Mary Waelder’s “When Seattle Shakes” online exhibit that shows each and every unreinforced masonry building in the city of Seattle.
Red dots pile upon red dots in some areas and almost every neighborhood has at least a few.
The map is a stark reminder about the seismic future of historic buildings in our city.
“It’s not if, it’s really when, right?” said Eugenia Woo, director of preservation services at Historic Seattle.
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Brutalist buildings aren’t unlovable. You’re looking at them wrong.
In the mornings, they collect paper-pushers and patterns of sun and shade. In the evenings, their shadows swallow entire streets, their surfaces swell with yellow light.
Whether humdrum haunts of government bureaucrats or temples of avant-garde design, the Brutalist buildings of D.C. invite both disdain and devotion. They are imposing monsters and gentle giants. They are the detritus of drab mid-century modernism and bold, futuristic icons. To some, they are awkward, and to others graceful.
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The first 3D-printed housing community in the US is being built in the California desert
Developers in Southern California are building what they say will be the first 3D-printed zero net energy neighborhood in the United States.
Palari Group said it plans to build 15 eco-friendly 3D-printed homes on a five-acre parcel of land in Rancho Mirage, an upscale community in the Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs.
The 1,450 square foot, single-story homes will be made from a stone composite material that is strong, fire resistant, water resistant and termite proof, Palari Group founder and CEO Basil Starr told CNN.
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Who Are Architects Marrying?
An interactive info graphic published by Bloomberg last month, which scanned 2014 U.S. Census Bureau information from more than 3.5 million households, shows how married professionals are pairing up. Whether people are marrying others in the same field (like artists tend to do), or outside their profession, (as metal fabricators, secretaries and administrative assistants do), Bloomberg finds that falling in love may have more to do with work proximity than destiny.
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Critics want Cleveland to replace zoning code allowing controversial, oversized townhouses, ‘slot houses’
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Faced with rising demand for new townhouses and outmoded zoning that forced developers through endless hoops in order to get them built, the City of Cleveland revamped its zoning code in 2018 to streamline the approval process.
Since then, the city’s Planning Commission has approved more than two dozen townhouse projects primarily in Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway on the West Side, but also in Glenville on the East Side. It’s all part of the mission to rebuild a city that has been losing population and tax base for decades.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
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