AIA Ohio 2020 Convention Update
I hope you are well during this extraordinary time. The world is changing. I am glad I am an architect, ready to apply all of those hard-earned design skills to the myriad of changes we are confronting.
You may have seen a notice that AIA Ohio cancelled the 2020 convention scheduled here in Dayton. This final decision was made at last Friday’s AIA Ohio board meeting, and please be assured it was given much thought concerning safety, liability, obligation to members, financial responsibility, and other issues as only architects can enumerate. Everyone gathered (safely via Zoom) was concerned with the wellbeing of members and components. And though it is disappointing, we recognized the responsible path forward does not include a large gathering in Dayton this fall.
But, rest assured, the convention will be here in 2021! Our hosting opportunity moves to 2021, and our chance to showcase Dayton and our design prowess increases. We have time to make it bigger and better; make it safer and more responsible; make it accessible while remote; make it exciting and engaging; make it the best AIA Ohio convention ever! We have more time to make our vision a reality.
I will schedule a committee meeting this summer for us to start considering our vision for AIA Ohio 2021. I am excited to have this “extra” time to plan, and I hope you are as well. If you have questions or concerns, please contact me.
Be well. Be safe. Be six feet apart –
Charlie
Charlie Setterfield, AIA, President
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AIA Dayton welcomes
Bryan Greene
as a transfer-in member from AIA Cincinnati. Bryan has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Ball State University and has been with Champlin Architecture for nine years. He became a principal this year. Prior to this he spent almost six years with an architecture firm in Northern Virginia working mostly on multi-family and mixed use mid-rise and high-rise projects. At Champlin, he’s worked on projects at several universities and colleges across Ohio, including Sinclair, as well as medical office buildings locally.
Bryan enjoys coaching his kids in softball and baseball. He’s on the boards of Lebanon Fastpitch and Culture Works and was a member of the Big Hoopla's Local Organizing Committee this past year. He is a graduate of AIA Cincinnati's Vision program. In his spare time, he enjoy woodworking, hunting, fishing, and spending family time at Dale Hollow Lake.
Welcome Bryan!
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AIA Ohio Government Relations Update for Architects
Date:
Wednesday, May 20; 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker:
Luther Liggett, Attorney, Graff & McGovern
Platform:
This will be a Zoom virtual program
Registration:
Free for AIA Members; $25 for Non-members
This presentation will cover the three branches of Ohio's state government as affecting Architecture in current events.
The presentation includes support for legislating insurable indemnification provisions in contracts, and opposition to certification of interior designers from sealing blueprints. The presentation also includes opposition to Sunset of the Architect's licensing requirement, based upon the statutory standard of protecting the public's health, safely, and welfare.
Luther Liggett is an Ohio attorney with the Graff & McGovern law firm in Columbus. Mr. Liggett also serves as the AIA Ohio lobbyist, and will present this program via Zoom. Now is the time to get answers to your questions about issues affecting your livelihood.
Register for this program by 6 pm May 19 and you will be emailed a link for the Zoom presentation.
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Join us for a Virtual Happy Hour May 21st
Hello AIA Dayton members and friends,
You are invited to a Collective Architects Draught (CAD) Happy Hour Zoom meeting. Join us to talk architecture, going back to work and venturing out to restaurants and malls!
When: May 21, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern
Register in advance for this meeting:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Update Your Firm Profile
We are updating our firm listings on the
AIA Dayton website
. Please complete the form by
clicking here
. Only one person from a firm should update the form, so please determine who at your firm will complete and submit the form.
The deadline for submitting updated forms has been extended to June 1.
This is a free listing on the website, so please update your listing.
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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. (The AIA Houston meeting does carry a registration fee, but is offered to all AIA members as it is a virtual program replacing an what would normally be an in person program.)
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Louisville Full-Day Webcast Seminar
May 19, 2020 - 7:45 AM
Free - Live Interactive Webcast for Architects & LEED Professionals
Valid for 6 AIA HSW and GBCI Credits
This is a Kentucky-specific event as some courses are state-specific in content, so if you have projects in Kentucky this is a good course for you.
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Managing in Times of Uncertainty: What Should You Be Doing Now?
May 21, 2020 - 1:00 PM
Free - Live Webinar
This presentation will offer guidance on the actions firms can take to maintain the health and productivity of their colleagues, while fulfilling their responsibility to clients for project execution.
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AIA Houston hosts Small Firm Roundtable on May 28 and 29
AIA Houston has extended an invitation to AIA Dayton members to attend their
Thriving through Challenging Times
conference, May 28 and 29. The program has been organized by their Small Firm Roundtable and will be held via Zoom. A
preliminary agenda
and
registration information
are available online. Attendees can choose to attend either day or both days, and any AIA member, regardless of chapter, will receive the member rate.
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Free Online Accessible Design Training
Sponsored by the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
May 20 & 27, 2020
Free - Live In-Person Training
Valid for 6 AIA HSW Credits
The training's are designed for architects, builders, and developers involved with the design and construction of multi-family housing covered by the Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines.
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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. We host a full range of topics that meet the live education licensing and organization requirements you have.
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GreenCE Offers Free Webinars
We offer 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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Join the State & Local Government Network
Keeping abreast of legislative and policy issues is not only encouraged but is easier than ever once you sign up with the State and Local Government Network (SLGN). With access, you can discuss advocacy efforts, pose questions to colleagues, and access resources beneficial to the advancement of our industry. Click below to send an email to Michael Winn, AIA, to sign up for the SLGN.
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AIA Board approves new model for component organization
AIA’s Board of Directors voted unanimously during its April meeting to transition AIA’s component organizational structure from the current regional model to a state-based approach.
The “Adaptive Reuse of State Components” model eliminates regions from the AIA structure, creating a direct connection between state components and AIA National through state-elected Strategic Councilors. The elimination of regions is designed for flexibility, allowing individual components the opportunity to come together based on shared interests, issues or concerns.
Following more than a year of thorough, collaborative study, the Board concluded the “Adaptive Reuse of State Components” approach would increase efficiency and effectiveness and streamline the organization significantly while maintaining geographic input from members.
Terry Welker, FAIA
, served on the task force that proposed this reorganization to the Board. Under this scenario, Ohio will always have a representative on the Strategic Council.
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AIA Re-occupancy Assessment Too
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Architects and allied professionals are in a unique position to coordinate a range of mitigation strategies that, in aggregate, reduce the risk of exposure to and transmission of COVID-19 within non-health care settings. The goal of this assessment tool is to promote best practices that protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public while creating opportunities for businesses, schools, restaurants, and other non-essential facilities to provide services.
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2020-Q1 Report from AIA SFx National Member Group
The Small Firm Exchange wants to be a resource for small firms, especially at this time. Click on the link below for the quarter one report of the SFx. The committee is interested in hearing requests from members; so feel free to reach out to
Christopher Toddy, AIA, chair of the work group.
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AIA National F
REE CEU 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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How AIA Contracts Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
For the foreseeable future, the design and construction industry may experience considerable disruptions, such as material shortages, construction delays, work stoppages, and suspended and terminated projects due to the coronavirus pandemic. This article provides some tips on how to handle project delays, suspensions, and terminations with AIA documents, and also provides a list of some insurance issues to consider.
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While the convention has been cancelled for this year, there will still be some form of an awards program and a business meeting in the fall.
The deadline for awards submissions has been extended to July 1st.
Please click on the links below to make your submissions.
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AIA Ohio Honor Awards - NEW AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Architects are outstanding for more than the projects they design. They deserve recognition for their leadership, public service, mentorship and their work to make the profession of ever-increasing service to society.
AIA Ohio has a NEW HONOR AWARD category this year: the Emerging Professionals Award.
The AIA Ohio Emerging Professional Award identifies and promotes exceptional accomplishments of Associate Members and Young Architect members and their continuing development within the profession.
The Deadline for Submitting has been extended to July 1
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AIA Ohio Design Awards -
2020 Guidelines
The AIA Ohio design awards program seeks to promote and focus attention on quality design, sustainability, and AIA's 10 principles of livable communities. The jury will evaluate all projects based on the aesthetic, functional, contextual, social and sustainable characteristics of the design. The jury will also evaluate submissions based on their successful response to one or more of AIA's 10 principles of livable communities. The program opens April 1 - start thinking now about projects you can submit.
The Deadline for Submitting has been extended to July 1
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Coronavirus Resources
Best Practice Materials from AIA and AIA Trust
Additional Information
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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from the outbreaks in China and Italy, that shows the backside of the mortality curve declines slowly, with deaths persisting for months. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, it is possible that we lose another 70,000 people over the next 6 weeks as we come off that peak. That's what's going to happen with a lockdown.
As states reopen, and we give the virus more fuel, all bets are off. I understand the reasons for reopening the economy, but I've said before, if you don't solve the biology, the economy won't recover.
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How designers are remaking spaces for our new socially distanced lives
COVID-19 has reclassified many workers as first responders. Doctors, nurses and medical professionals, transit workers, garbage collectors, and grocery clerks all come to mind. Architects do not.
“People don’t typically think of architects as first responders,” said Amal Mahrouki, director of legislative affairs with AIA Pennsylvania. “But they can be…if they’ve gone through the right training.”
Slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus requires immediate adjustments to how we use and inhabit buildings and space.
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Workplace reimagined: COVID-19 to reshape the modern office experience
The American workplace has experienced more rapid, dramatic shifts in the past few weeks than it ever has before. But the real impact of Covid-19 on how millions of people work – and how they plug into a modern office – may only emerge in the coming months, say architects and real estate professionals who are not only navigating vast changes in their own businesses but also helping their forward-thinking clients plan for a post-pandemic world.
The wholesale move to remote working in response to the crisis has quickly changed habits, exposed weaknesses, and opened new opportunities for the work environment, say experts at Montroy DeMarco Architecture (MDA), Urbahn Architects, and Denham Wolf Real Estate Services. And it is forcing these professionals to assess the long-term implications for critical variables such as space utilization, technology, leases, operating costs, and corporate culture.
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My company’s always had 4-day workweeks. Here’s why they’re more important than ever
As millions of employees who still had jobs shifted to remote work full-time over the past couple of weeks, companies are adjusting to inevitable new norms. While still in the thick of the COVID-19 crisis, company management and C-suite executives are beginning to rethink office structure and processes to withstand current circumstances as well as those further into the future.
Will this “forced” trial run of remote work, in turn, make it more commonplace? How has it influenced the way we think about work-life balance? What can companies do moving forward to better support employee well-being amid growing anxieties or increasing professional and personal life demands?
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Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour
When they were home in Brooklyn Heights, Emily Roebling and her husband, Washington, could look toward the East River and see how work was progressing on the Brooklyn Bridge. Washington was in charge of construction. He took over after his father, the bridge’s genius engineer, John Augustus Roebling, died in 1869. Then Washington suffered the bends working in the pneumatic caissons he had designed for the underwater foundations of the towers, and
Emily
saw the project through to completion.
When the bridge opened in 1883, she was the first to cross it in a carriage.
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In Milan, tall buildings covered in trees offer a glimpse of what urban living could look like in the future
The major financial center of Milan boasts a number of tall buildings, many of which function as office space for firms like
UniCredit
and
Allianz
.
While the city may be the corporate hub of Italy, it is also home to the Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, a residential development of two visually striking towers that stand 80 and 112 meters high.
Located in the Porta Nuova area of Milan, the clue to what makes the Bosco Verticale scheme unique is in the name: its exterior is covered in plants and trees.
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Reimagining The Mall: A Reboot Might Be Closer To the Founder’s Vision, Amazon May Play A Part
There is little question in the minds of retail trend watchers and writers that the coronavirus has only hastened the inevitable demise or radical reinvention of our regional malls. I’ll spare you the nasty statistics surrounding the devolution of both the department stores and the specialty retailers, which are well documented. It is my intent to suggest a possible reboot for the retail format, whose original purpose has run it course. Ironically, one can gain insight to its rebirth, by going back to the founder’s vision of what was originally intended.
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Jane Treiber
(937) 291 1913
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