Seeking Nominees for AIA Dayton Board
Joe Bissaillon, AIA, AIA Dayton President Elect and Chair of the Nominating Committee is seeking candidates for the 2021 AIA Dayton Board of Directors. There are multiple openings, including:
Treasurer (two-year term)
Director (one-year term)
Associate Director (one-year term)
AIA Ohio Director (three-year term)
If you are interested in serving as an AIA Dayton Board of Director, or would like more information about any of the positions, please contact Joe Bissaillon or Jane Treiber.
Election of officers takes place at the Annual Business meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, October 28.
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Center for Tissue Innovation and Research Phase II Project Update and Tour
(Approved for 1.5 AIA CES HSW/LUs)
Date: Wednesday, August 26
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Speakers: Shook Construction and John Poe Architects
Location: 2900 College Dr., Kettering
Parking: Ample parking is available at the site.
RSVP: Free for AIA members; $25 for non-members
Register by Monday, August 24
John Poe Architects is currently designing a 135,000 sf expansion to the 90,000 sf Center for Tissue Innovation and Research that was built in 2011. The expansion adds 16 state of the art ISO Class Five Clean Rooms to expand production of tissue grafts that enhance the lives of countless recipients throughout the US.
In addition to the Clean Rooms, the expansion will include open offices, conference facilities, a training center, post production processing areas, central sterile, sterile supply, material handling and receiving facilities and distribution and shipping facilities.
Additionally, the project scope also includes an emergency power generating facility capable of fully powering both buildings.
HARD HATS, VESTS, BOOTS AND GLASSES ARE REQUIRED. IN ADDITION, ATTENDEES SHALL PROVIDE AND WEAR APPROPRIATE PPE INCLUDING FACE MASKS.
This tour will be conducted by John Poe Architects and Shook Construction.
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The Ohio Building Code for Rookies and Road Warriors- MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
(Approved for 8 AIA CES HSW/LUs; each session is 2 HSW credits)
Dates: October 6, 13, 20, 27
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 AM
Via ZOOM
Facilitator: Terry Welker, FAIA, Chief Building Official, City of Kettering
Fees: $55 AIA and OBOA members; $42 Associates; $20 AIAS Students; $80 Non-members
Registration: Coming Soon!
AIA Dayton invites you to join us in October for a weekly series of two-hour code seminars, led and facilitated by Terry Welker, FAIA. Terry has been with the City of Kettering since 2000 serving as the Chief Building Official and Certified Master Plans Examiner.
The aim of this series is to provide new insight and approaches to understanding the Ohio Building Code. The programs are designed for all architects and building/fire officials/inspectors across the state.
The sessions include:
BOOKENDS – Overview of the Ohio Building Code from Chapters 1 to 35
THE FOUNDATION CHAPTERS – Ohio Building Code Chapters 2-6
THE FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY CHAPTERS – Ohio Building Code Chapters 7-10 & 34
THE BENCHMARK CHAPTERS – Ohio Building Code Chapters 11-33
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Message from Timothy Hawk, FAIA, Chair, AIA Government
Advocacy Committee
As a fellow architect and chair of the AIA Government Advocacy Committee (GAC), I am excited to finally share with you the 2020 AIA Policy Platform ! This Policy Platform serves as a statement on AIA's policy priorities for the final U.S. presidential candidates and administration. The AIA is launching this Policy Platform in an effort to better define our advocacy priorities for the next administration and Congress, and to ensure that AIA's voice is heard.
This is the first time that AIA has provided a Policy Platform to the major presidential candidates, Congress, and other policymakers. AIA was very intentional in formulating a singular platform statement, rather than a partisan one. We hope that this will encourage members of all political parties to reach across the aisle to better address the growing needs in the built environment and beyond. I think we can all agree that the acrimony in Washington continues to stifle productivity and progress.
AIA has already shared its Policy Platform with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC). The Policy Platform focuses on three key areas: the economy (infrastructure), climate action, and healthy and equitable communities.
It is critical to note that the AIA GAC worked with AIA Knowledge Communities, component executives, and leadership to establish the parameters and substance for this Platform. If you find the AIA 2020 Policy Platform as inspiring as I do, please feel free to share it with your friends and colleagues. AIA will also be working with interested component leaders to further distribute this to state and municipal leaders.
Finally, it is more important than ever that we, as architects, exercise our right to vote. If you would like to register to vote or request an absentee ballot, please go to the AIA's Voter Registration Center. You will find information about the candidates, absentee voting, early voting, and more.
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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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ATS Invites You to its Free Webinars
Live 1-Hour FREE Courses Featuring Today's Product Innovations and Architectural Solutions. ATS files your credits with the AIA and USGBC. Valid for 1 AIA HSW and 1 USGBC credit. (AIBC, AAA, OAA). Easy to register, easy to join at course time. Interactive courses allow you to ask questions and download materials.
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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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ARCHIPREP IS FREE THROUGH AUGUST!
COVID-19 is changing everything, and AIA wants to help. ArchiPrep is free through August 31, 2020. Use promo code FREEMONTH by July 31, 2020
Offer valid for Assoc. AIA members only, Free access is provided in one-month increments, and may be renewed on a monthly basis using FREEMONTH promo code. Promo code valid through July 31, 2020, 11:59pm EDT. No credit card required.
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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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Important AIA Resources
AIA Trust
AIA National
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Outdoor Space Tops Architect Bjarke Ingels’s Plan to Fix Urban Living
When pandemic stay-at-home orders were implemented in March, people in cities around the world were made prisoners in their own apartments. Residents in many buildings designed by the Danish-born architect Bjarke Ingels found themselves spending time on their balconies.
“One of our first buildings, in Copenhagen, has these very long balconies that are staggered,” Ingels says. There, residents connect with neighbors in a physically distant way. “People were sending me videos of ‘block parties’ where everyone was outside, enjoying the sunset and listening to music—but safely.”
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Getty Research Institute Invests $2 Million in the Conservation of Modernist Architecture
Innovation is typically met with curiosity and enthusiasm, but when it comes to architecture, it often tends to affect commercial value negatively in the long run. In other words, some architecture is just too weird to stay popular over time.
In particular, buildings that fall under the category of modernist architecture often seem to be “too” unique. Modernism, a movement beginning in the early 20th century in response to large-scale changes in both technology and society, predominantly adopted the use of concrete, glass, and steel to streamline architecture.
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NOMA Hosts Its Annual Summer Architecture Camp Virtually
The National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) has launched its annual Project Pipeline summer camps in an online format this year—a move that ensures the group can continue introducing 6th-through-12th graders to the fundamentals of architecture and design amid restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Access to programs like Project Pipeline is important for minority students to provide them with knowledge about careers in architecture and urban planning as we look to make the field of design more representative of the communities we serve,” says Tiffany Brown, NOMA’s executive manager, citing the alarmingly small percent of licensed architects who are African American.
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Coronavirus: How are architecture schools planning to reopen?
It may nominally be the summer holidays but staff at architecture schools across the UK are busier than ever preparing for the start of a very different academic year in September.
With the UK still gripped by social distancing rules designed to control the spread of Covid-19, universities are in the midst of rejigging their plans for 2020-21.
‘We had [next year] pinned down last Christmas,’ says Tom Ebdon, architecture course leader at Falmouth University in Cornwall. ‘We would have been working on the following year at this stage; but instead we’re re-working how to deliver safely in September.’
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Don't demolish old buildings, urge architects
They say property owners should be incentivised to upgrade draughty buildings, not just knock them down.
That is because so much carbon is emitted by creating the steel, cement and bricks for new buildings.
The campaign by the Architects’ Journal is backed by 14 Stirling Prize winners
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Sliding walls, hideable offices: How pandemic could change home design
When Spain’s coronavirus lockdown ended in late June, one thing was at the top of Teresa Silvi’s priority list - to sell her apartment and find somewhere more suitable for her family to live now they were spending far more time at home.
Three months of remote working with a toddler and a husband was a challenge, especially given the lack of dedicated workspace, the university researcher told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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How the world’s most advanced biohazard labs could prevent the next pandemic
The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic has, like many recessions before, led to a slowdown in building projects, from education to retail to office towers. One outlier? The niche world of high-risk pathogen research facilities.
“The COVID pandemic has been a huge eye-opener,” says Paul Hansen. He’s a principal in the science and technology division of Flad Architects, which focuses primarily on buildings for research organizations, universities, and healthcare institutions, such as the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense in Maryland and the Department of Homeland Security’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Kansas. “I think the [facility] operators and the public health community is really asking how do we sustain this and ensure that we’re prepared for the next pandemic.”
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Jane Treiber
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