Mark your Calendar for the August Meeting
Title: Introduction to Lean in the Design Phase
Speaker: Greg Fox, VP Lean Construction, Miller Valentine Group
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM EST
Location: Kettering Govt Center, Virginia Room (North Building above the Police Station)
Registration: Coming Soon!
During the Design Phase, teams seek ways to improve client outcomes while maximizing design excellence. Introduction to Lean in The Design Phase participants gain insight to Lean approaches and tools relative to the design phase to optimize team communication, collaboration and results. Learners will understand how a Lean strategy can drive innovative solutions by connecting people, principles and practices. This course is foundationally important for anyone involved in preconstruction to improve the impact you are having on the project outcomes.
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AIA Dayton is Taking a Break!
There is no continuing education program in July. Programs resume in August, with Greg Fox, Miller Valentine Group, presenting Introduction to Lean in the Design Phase on August 10 at 8:00 AM.
Mark your calendar now for the meeting.
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AIA Dayton Annual Golf Outing
Date: Monday, July 19, 2021
Time: 11:45 AM - 7:00 PM EST
Cost: $125 AIA Members & Sponsors; $80 AIA Emerging Professionals; $145 Non-AIA
Location: Meadowbrook Country Club, Clayton
A little over 3 weeks left until the annual AIA Dayton Golf outing, this year to be held at Meadowbrook Golf Club. Join your fellow AIA members, associates, sponsors and guests for a day of camaraderie and golf! The outing includes a grab-and-go lunch followed by 18 holes of challenging golf on a Dayton Parks public course with refreshments along the way, then social time to visit with friends before dinner and door prizes, including a whopping $10,000 prize for a Hole-In-One, on one of the preselected golf holes! Dust off your clubs and register to play today!
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Sinclair Offers New Construction Administration Courses Starting Fall 2021
In response to industry requests, Sinclair is offering a series of four eight-week evening courses in Construction Administration. The new courses have been developed by Steve Ford, who last year transitioned from managing $60,000,000+ of recent Sinclair construction projects to be full time faculty.
These courses are included in a new fourteen credit hour Construction Administration certificate, or may be taken individually as needed. Course content includes project delivery methods, stakeholders, change management, project closeout, and more. Detailed descriptions are available at: https://www.sinclair.edu/program/params/programCode/CADM-S-STC/
Register before August 16 for fall term classes that begin August 23. For additional information contact Nina Allen at 937-512-2183 or [email protected]
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AIA Conference on Architecture 2021
The need for change.
With seven Grand Slam titles, five Wimbledon championships, and four Olympic gold medals, tennis champion Venus Williams is arguably one of the most accomplished and inspiring women in the history of sports. She is also a steadfast advocate for equality, using her influence and career to stand up for equal pay, equal opportunities, and equal representation.
Venus’ keynote wraps up A’21 with a powerful message about the need for change, purpose-driven leadership, and resilience and building a better future that’s inclusive, equitable, and sustainable, together. Don’t miss it!
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Enter the AIA Film Challenge today!
The AIA Film Challenge 2021 invites you to share your story about architects partnering with civic leaders and communities to design a zero-carbon, resilient, healthy, just, and equitable built environment.
Produce a 1:30- to 3-minute short film on any device for your chance to win up to $7,000, plus recognition by the architecture and film communities.
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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: Implementing a Successful Advocacy Plan
Date: June 30
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. ET
Take advocacy to the next level by building a successful advocacy plan. This session will offer members an opportunity to join in the conversation with leaders from different sized components across the United States who identified their passions, created successful advocacy plans, and put their ideas into action. Learn how they did it, what obstacles they overcame, and the successes they realized.
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AIA Dues Adjustment Program Information
It's still not too late! 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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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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AIA Announces Board of Directors 2021 Election Results - Congratulations to Tim Hawk, FAIA of Columbus!
Three new leaders were elected to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors today.
AIA delegates elected Emily A. Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA, of Boston Society of Architects/AIA Massachusetts as the 2022 First Vice President/2023 President-elect; Timothy C. Hawk, FAIA, of AIA Columbus/AIA Ohio as the 2022–2023 Treasurer; and Kevin M. Holland, FAIA, of AIA Los Angeles/AIA California as the 2022-2024 At-large Director.
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Who cares about good design?
Americans spend 90% of our time in buildings; by the time you turn 80, that’s 72 years you will have spent indoors. Of the 10% of our time spent outside, most of that is still in an environment shaped by buildings. Is it any surprise then that the design of our physical environment influences our mood, behavior, and health? Who cares about good design? You should.
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This Barrier-Breaking Architect Wants to Elevate the Next Generation
Growing up in Memphis, Robert L. Wesley would go door-to-door at Christmastime offering his services as a budding artist. “I would ask neighbors, ‘Would you like me to draw a decoration on your window? You know, a bell, holly leaves, Santa Claus?’ ” he says. “I decorated lots of homes when I was a kid.” That artistic passion, and an early revelation that it was possible (if rare) for a Black person to become an architect, set Wesley on a path that ultimately led to his becoming, in 1984, the first Black partner at the Chicago-based architecture giant Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Last year, the firm’s foundation launched an academic grant program in Wesley’s name to benefit BIPOC architecture, engineering, and planning students. Here, Wesley, 83, reflects on that honor and on the life that led up to it.
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AIA launches seventh annual film challenge
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is launching its seventh annual AIA Film Challenge.
The AIA Film Challenge 2021 invites architects, filmmakers, and storytellers to produce a short documentary film between one and a half and three minutes long that tells the story of architects, civic leaders, and their communities working together to achieve a zero-carbon, resilient, healthy, just, and equitable built environment.
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How Building Performance Standards Are Addressing Climate Change
As many cities in the United States are setting ambitious net-zero carbon goals to address climate change, one of the biggest areas of greenhouse gas emissions they will have to tackle is existing buildings. In the United States, buildings account for about 40 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, but in individual cities, those percentages can be much higher. For example, in New York, buildings account for almost 70 percent of emissions, and in Washington D.C., it’s 75 percent.
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