News Brief 6-10-22
Chapter Programs
AIA Happy Hour at GDCG Design Studio:
Mark your calendar for June 28!

Join us on Tuesday, June 28 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM for an AIA Dayton Happy Hourl at the new GDCG Design Studio in Beavercreek, located at 3600 Dayton Xenia Road.
Come out and see what the Design Studio offers while socializing with AIA Dayton friends and community colleagues. AIA Dayton members and guests welcome.
AIA Conference
Join AIA in Chicago on June 24 for Friday’s final session, A Moderated Conversation With President Barack Obama.
A Moderated Conversation With President Barack Obama
Friday, June 24, 4pm
McCormick Place Convention Center
Seats are limited. Reserve yours today!
Chapter News
Rademacher Elected NCARB Secretary

AIA Dayton member John Patrick Rademacher, NCARB, AIA, was elected secretary of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) at the organization’s 2022 Annual Business Meeting. Rademacher was first elected to the NCARB Board of Directors in 2021 as the director of Region 4 (Mid-Central Conference).

Rademacher has been a member of the Ohio Architects Board since 2012 and in 2015, he was elected by his peers as the secretary of NCARB’s Region 4. He went on to serve as treasurer, vice chair, and chair before being elected Region 4 director in 2020 and 2021.

In addition to his service to NCARB, Rademacher is a past president of the AIA Cincinnati and a past member of the Board Advocacy Committee for AIA National, where he worked to develop the Citizen Architect Program and promote the organization’s legislative efforts. He is also a member of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA).

Congratulations John!
Volunteer Opportunity

Are you interested in sharing your love of architecture with kids around town, maybe even in a library that YOU helped design? 

Sign up to volunteer with Hatch Architects Design Center to join them at five different library branches next week. The schedule can be found on their website.

Email [email protected] if you're interested (or feel free to just show up--with or without kids in tow!). Don't worry if you can't make this one, there will be more throughout the summer! This camp was made possible through grants from the AIA Ohio Foundation and AIA Dayton.
Join an AIA Dayton Committee

Several AIA Dayton committees are looking for volunteers.

AIA Dayton Focus on Design Committee - Looking for volunteers to help plan this Fall's Focus on Design Lecture. Event will be held in November and will appeal to all members.

AIA Dayton Mini-Golf and TopGolf Outings - Looking for volunteers to help plan and promote the mini-golf family outing at Youngs in the fall, and the TopGolf Outing for all members in the spring of 2023.

AIA Dayton 2023 Student Design Committee - Looking for volunteers to help plan and execute the 2023 competition. Planning begins in the early fall and the program takes place with meetings with high school students from February - April.

If interested please contact Jane Treiber, Executive Director, at [email protected].
AIA Ohio News
Congratulations to Ohio and Dayton's
 Early Professional Friendly Firms!

Earlier this year, AIA Ohio announced the newly created Early Professional Friendly Firm Program. The goal of this program is to celebrate firms who offer exceptional support and opportunities for their early professionals. Additionally, the program seeks to foster a dialogue within firms across the state with the objective of creating new policies and practices that promote innovation, development, and progressive workplaces for the future members of the design profession.

An early professional is defined as someone who is part of the architectural staff and fills one of the following roles: architectural students, recent graduates, unlicensed emerging professionals within 10 years of graduation, or architects licensed within the last 10 years.

This year, there were two designations possible for a firm to receive. The Early Professional Firm Friendly Designation and the Early Professional Firm Friendly Plus+ Designation.

EP Firm Friendly Designation is earned by receiving a passing score of 70% (55 points) or above on the EP Firm Friendly questionnaire.

EP Firm Friendly Plus+ Designation is earned by receiving a score of 80% (63 points) or above.

AIA Ohio is pleased to announce that the following firms have earned the Early Professional Friendly Firm Plus+ Designation: Listed first below are the three firms receiving the top three scores, who are deserving of special recognition:

1st Place: Phillips Sekanick Architects, inc |PSA Architecture
2nd Place: Robert Maschke Architects Inc.
3rd Place: studioTECHNEarchitects

AIA Ohio EPFF Plus+ Firms:
DNK
DS Architecture, LLC
JBAD
MODA4 Design
Moody Nolan
Richard L. Bowen + Associates, Inc.
RWA Architects, Inc.
TC Architects
ThenDesign Architecture
Thomas Porter Architects
WSA Studio

Additionally, AIA Ohio is pleased to announce that the following firms have earned the Early Professional Friendly Firm Designation:
App Architecture, Inc.
Bialosky Cleveland
Bostwick Design Partnership
CBLH Design, Inc.
GBBN Architects, Inc
Hiti, DiFrancesco and Siebold, Inc.
Levin Porter Architects
Makovich & Pusti Architects, Inc.
Perspectus Architecture

These EP Friendly Firm designations are a one-year designation, with the option to renew the designation annually. Firms are expected to maintain the policies and practices they have implemented at the time of submission throughout the designation period. 
Applications for the EP Friendly Firm program will be accepted annually, from February 1 to March 15.
AIA Ohio 2022 Programs

AIA Ohio Technology Summit
July 28-29 | Dayton
Attend training seminars and case study workshops to learn how integrating technology in practice impacts design and project delivery.
Registration will open soon.



AIA Ohio Design Symposium
September 22-23 | Cleveland
This program will get you out in Cleveland! Tour different Cleveland area buildings and hear from architects and designers on their projects. Stay for the AIA Ohio Design Awards presentation.
Registration will open in July, 2022
Other CE Opportunities
FREE AIAU Courses for AIA Members
Browse free courses for AIA members to support architects, design professionals, and architecture firms prepare for the future.
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.
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.
 
In The Media
A legal battle between Marlon Blackwell Architects and HBG Design will have lasting implications for architectural practice
An intellectual property (IP) dispute over the design of the Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, settled this past January, might easily have been a subplot in Netflix’s Ozark, as the case has all the twists and turns of a rustic neo-noir tale. 


Read More: Architect's Newspaper
How to fireproof a house

By 2030, climate change will make one in 25 Australian homes “uninsurable” if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, with riverine flooding posing the greatest insurance risk, a new Climate Council analysis finds.

As a professor of architecture, I find this analysis grim, yet unsurprising. One reason is because Australian housing is largely unfit for the challenges of climate change.


Read More: Fast Company
Architects earn more from renovations than new builds for first time, fueled by workplace revolution

Architecture firms are billing more from reconstruction and renovation projects than they are from new builds for the first time; a milestone driven by soaring demand for office renovations. In the 20 years that the AIA has been collecting data on billings for renovations versus new build projects, the share of billings received from renovations has been consistently rising for over a decade, suggesting the new milestone is not entirely attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Read More: Archinect
When thinking about green energy and new construction, build smarter

From solar solutions to rainwater reclamation, of the many advancements in green energy that’ve been made over the past few decades, city and county administrators should take particular note of those made in the building construction sector.

In 2018, for example, a little more than $300 billion in public dollars was spent on new construction, according to Statista. Especially now, with trillions in the federal pipeline slated for public infrastructure projects, consideration of green design practices is paramount for the environment and because it’s the fiscally responsible thing to do.


Read More: American City and County
‘Onslaught’ Of Office Renovations Taking Place As Companies Redesign Spaces For Hybrid Work

A magnitudinous confluence of the corporate return-to-work push, supply chain issues that appear to be worsening, rising interest rates and the realization that office space needs to be recently built or updated to be competitive is fueling a historic surge in renovations.
In recent months, for the first time ever, architectural firms are making more income from renovation work than new construction, said American Institute of Architects Chief Economist Kermit Baker, who expects the run on retrofitting to be more than a late pandemic blip. 


Read More: BisNow