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 - Presented by The Kleingers Group and TrueScan
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.
Approved for 1.0 AIA LU credit.
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AIA Dayton Announces Awards Ceremony for Student Design Competition
Saturday, May 1 from 10:00 – 11:00 AM is the date and time of the virtual Awards Ceremony for the 2021 Student Design Competition. This year’s competition was 100 percent virtual, with students and volunteers tuning onto Zoom for the charrette and all the design reviews. Fifteen students from eight area high schools signed up for the competition, which is only about a quarter of the normal registrants. The pandemic and school closures prevented several area high school classes from undertaking the competition as a class project.
On submission day, 10 students uploaded their completed projects to a secure FTP site. The projects were then downloaded to an AIA Dayton site and judges were given a link to view the submissions. A Zoom meeting confirmed the winners last Friday.
This year’s program was to address food scarcity and the availability of healthy, affordable dining choices within certain areas of our communities. The new Gem City Market and the Salem Avenue Community Garden are both helping to mitigate this food crisis in northwest Dayton. The students’ assignment was to design a farm-to-table restaurant as a free standing building directly adjacent to the new Gem City Market site.
This Saturday’s awards program will feature the winners’ submissions. In addition, Hannah Peterangelo, a graduate student at Miami University, will present a short summary of her graduate thesis.
All AIA Dayton members, students, family members of students, and high school advisors are invited to attend the ceremony. (See below for the Zoom invitation.)
This program would not have been possible without the financial support of the following:
L2 Engineering – donated a $1,000 scholarship award
John Poe Architects – donated a $500 scholarship award
Sinclair Community College – donated a Pathway Scholarship for one semester
Hatch Architects – donated $200 for award prizes
Our Other Platinum Sponsors – Snyder Brick & Block and Marsh Building Products for general program expenses
Thanks to the Student Design Committee co-chairs: Rebecca Hughes, AIA; Alex Bohler, AIA; and Pamela Rigling, Associate AIA.
Tune in Saturday at 10:00 AM for more information!
Topic: Awards Ceremony - Student Design Competition
Time: May 1, 2021 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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AIA Dayton' s 2020 Year-End Report
Click here to view Dayton's 2020 year-end Architrave report.
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AIA Ohio 2021 Design Awards
In a year where celebrations have been few and far between, it's time to CELEBRATE DESIGN! The AIA Ohio Design Awards Program promotes projects that have distinguished themselves, through attention to quality design, high performance design, and AIA's Framework for Design Excellence. These awards recognize the best of Ohio Architecture.
In the spirit of embracing change and recognizing the differences between project types, AIA Ohio has changed the Design Award submission categories and added two new supplemental awards.
· Category 1: Newly Completed Buildings
· Category 2: Additions, Renovations and Restorations
· Category 3: Interior Architecture
· Category 4: Small Projects (Less than 5,000 sf and under $1.5M)
· Category 5: Unbuilt Projects (Not built and not intended to be realized)
· Category 6: 25 Year Award
In addition to the above six categories, AIA Ohio shall have two supplemental design awards available for considerations. These include:
· The AIA Ohio Impact Award
· The AIA Ohio People’s Choice Award
All projects must be submitted by July 1, 2021.
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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:
Get your ticket to the architecture & design event of the year!
The AIA is hosting an all-digital event featuring some of the biggest names in architecture and design. Spread out over four days, the Conference will cover the timely topics that matter to your practice now: Firm resilience, sustainable practice, community engagement, and building efficiencies. Each day includes seminars, product demos, activities, and more. There are also eight keynote events—let's just say we've cooked up something special.
Hurry! Tickets are $99 for AIA members through May 4.
AIA Conference on Architecture 2021
Jun 17, Jul 8, Jul 29, Aug 19
All digital in 2021!
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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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PLAN Webinar - The Need for Improved Project Delivery in a Post-Pandemic World
Presented by Robert Hager and Justin Alabara (Brennan Manna & Diamond LLC)
The pandemic pushed many industries into action, including the construction and building industry. This webinar will help you understand evaluation and selection of improved project delivery methods, and how the proper project delivery method can be used to improve communication and collaboration, avoid and resolve disputes, manage risk and improve predictability in managing project time and cost.
When: Thursday, May 20, 2021, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT
Credit: AIA
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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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Architects Share Visions of the Workspace’s Future
With vaccine rollouts accelerating the prospective relaunch of offices and Manhattan the epicenter of this comeback, Commercial Property Executive opened up a discussion about the type of workplace the global health crisis is shaping. Four New York City-based design experts shared their vision and placed their bets on the future of workspaces.
Last year’s developments have inched up to one essential question: What are the ultimate benefits of separating the workspace and gathering employees under one roof? Once considered standard and typical, the pandemic has—at least temporarily—shifted this perception.
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Future 100 – Introducing the top 100 architecture and design graduates of the class of 2021
Here are the top 50 interior design and 50 architecture students graduating this year in North America, chosen to be the inaugural Metropolis Future 100. Nominated by their instructors and mentors, they hail from some of the best architecture and interior design schools in the U.S. and Canada, from Harvard University to California College of the Arts, and call everywhere from Atlanta to Toronto home. They are a diverse group—with many identifying as BIPOC or LGBTQIA—who advocate for openness, equity, and inclusion through their work and extracurriculars. They are leaders on their campuses who are sure to be forces in the industry.
If you would like to contact any of these students for professional opportunities, please send an email to Lauren Volker, [email protected]. We would be happy to connect you.
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Two Years Later, Here’s the Latest With Notre-Dame’s Restoration
The world watched on as the church’s spire fell on April 15, 2019, after a fire destroyed the centuries-old landmark. Now, two years later, the church is still going through a massive restoration. This jewel of Gothic architecture is being rebuilt with oak trees from local forests, as 200 construction workers operate on-site every day. The goal, according to French president Emmanuel Macron, is to have the church repaired before the city hosts the 2024 Summer Olympics, which is slated to begin on July 26, 2024, in Paris. But is that a realistic goal?
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“Good Design” Is Making Bad Cities, but It Doesn’t Have To
Everyone knows there’s no arguing about taste. What the past half-century of urban growth in the United States presupposes is: What if there is? The promotion of good design in new buildings—distinct from the idea of preserving old ones—has become as much a local government objective as making sure every kid has a seat in school. Older American cities and suburbs are blanketed with zoning codes, historic districts, and design commissions that make sure communities that look nice stay looking nice.
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What Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal Could Mean for Architects
President Biden laid out the framework for the American Jobs Plan, a $2.25 trillion infrastructure proposal, at the end of March. Whatever else can be said about it, the plan is breathtakingly expansive and expensive—yet represents, as the president put it, “a once-in-a generation investment in America.” The proposal put forth an almost incomprehensible scale of spending— it has already been decried as too large by conservatives and too small by Green New Deal proponents— but is envisioned as igniting the American economy, not only by financing conventional infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels, but also in renewing and expanding affordable-housing stock and public education facilities, and funding green technology. Biden, acknowledging it is big and bold, said, “We can get it done.”
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These architects popularized the open office. Now they say ‘the open office is dead’
As a longtime designer of office spaces for big companies such as Google, Microsoft, and the advertising firm TBWA\Chiat\Day, Los Angeles-based Clive Wilkinson Architects has helped define how offices around the world look and feel. One of its biggest innovations was a push toward the open office floor plan—the big, wallless room full of clicking and chattering desk workers that optimized the square footage of offices and democratized the workplace.
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