AIAT Continuing Education Seminars
November 10, 2009
Location:  Principal Financial Group, 4141 Parklake Avenue, Raleigh

6 Total- 2 HSW's, 2 HSW-SD's, 2 LU's for the entire day!

Members:  $20 for the am session, $50 for the pm sessions.  Register for both and lunch is included! 
Non-members:  $40 for the am session, $100 for the pm sessions.  Register for both and lunch is included!

Building Materials for Sustainable Interiors (updated for LEED 2009) and Life Cycle Assessment
10am-Noon
2 HSW- SD

Once energy and water efficiencies have been achieved in a project, attention turns to the interior finishes.  Carefully considering material selection can help optimize LEED credits in the areas of Materials & Reuse as well as Indoor Environmental Quality and may make the difference between silver and gold or gold and platinum ratings.  Even more importantly, careful material section can help to engage tenants in the sustainable intents of the building.  This course will examine what material credits are available in LEED-NC and how to choose the right interior products to optimize LEED credits.  This course considers a range of new materials being used for building products, including rapidly renewable,  high recycled content, local, reclaimed and reused building products available for architects to specify in new projects focused on sustainable design.  Actual product samples will be demonstrated. 

AND....With so many options and ‘green’ messages in the marketplace, how do you know what is really green and what is green washed?  This course is designed to provide architects and designers with a toolkit of options to truly evaluate the sustainability of interior products based on Life Cycle Analysis.  Several existing tools are considered, including BEES 4.0, Pharos lens and many of the certification bodies that evaluate green products including SCAQMD, GreenSpec, GreenSeal, GreenGuard and others.  Participants are provided with guidelines for evaluating products, an interview guide to truly assess sustainability, and a listing of resources to assist in Life Cycle Analysis of interior building products. 

Objectives include:
 

•          New materials available for interiors

•          Get the most value from your green efforts

•          Understand the objectives of the end result

•          Define ‘sustainable/green’ for interior building materials

•          Learn a simple framework for sustainable material selection

•          Examine the environmental life cycle assessment process

•          Identify resources for material selection
•          Understand Material Related LEED credits

SPEAKER

Stacy Glass, President, CaraGreen has her BA from the University of Minnesota and MBA from Duke University. Stacy has worked on an international level developing and executing start-up strategies for businesses and social enterprises, as well as contributing to rapid growth and expansion by developing new markets and managing multi-million dollar projects.

Afternoon

The Business and Professional Risks of Integrated Project Delivery
1-3 pm
2 HSW

Collaborative design and Integrated Project Delivery is on everybody's mind as the design and construction industries explore ways to work together to give the client a better project. Although there are many forms of collaborative design ranging from basic design-build to pure forms of alliance contracting where the designer, constructor and client join in a risk and reward sharing arrangement, the purpose of collaborative design efforts is to obtain a goal that often eludes the participants in a traditional project delivery system.

The goal of a refabricated design and construction process is the delivery of projects that come in on time, within budget expectations, and without the hassles of RFIs, change orders and litigation.  But while reaching this goal may provide benefits to all project participants, the challenges presented by collaborative arrangements include an assault on the professional status of firms, a venture into an area unclear in the current legal system, confusion over appropriate compensation, risk and reward, and difficulties in obtaining insurance coverage responsive to new practice paradigms. Hear about some of the insurance and liability issues around creating project specific legal entities and participating in forms of Alliance Contracting and other forms of Integrated Project Delivery.

By participating in this session, architects will be able to:

• Evaluate in general the benefits and risks of new practice paradigms that use collaborative design and construction contracts, tools and techniques.
•  Learn the importance of careful contractual arrangements to mitigate their business and professional liability exposures by looking at AIA, ConsensusDOCS and other examples of contracts for Integrated Project Delivery.
• Develop a better understanding of how law and insurance are challenged by the rapid changes of new forms of practice so that they can determine their uninsurable business risks and develop their own risk management methodologies to avoid liability exposure to their practice.

Don't Let Green Design Cause Red Ink
3-5 pm
2 AIA LU's

From government regulations on energy use, to manufacturers’ claims of sustainability, to the LEED "numbers game," green design presents new professional liability exposures. The heightened standard of care created by certification programs, the hyperbole accompanying green design, and the many unknowns in product manufacturer claims all create the possibility that a design professional’s desire to design green and to meet client aspirations will result in claims that force the design professional's balance sheet to show red ink. Design professionals have always considered energy efficiency and life-cycle costs and attempted to balance owner needs and public welfare. Now, the new push to quantify the benefits of green design will lead to a new range of claims. From allegations of misrepresentation or fraud to professional liability exposures, green design can result in a level of claims that could jeopardize the financial viability of many firms, and destroy the ability of design professionals to respond efficiently to resource challenges. Design professionals must be aware of these exposures that accompany the services to foster sustainability and protect health, safety, and welfare.

By participating in this session, architects will be able to:

• Recognize the exposures generated by unrealistic expectations about the benefits of green design.
• Identify the contractual and professional risks created by contracts stating absolute benefits of green design and changing the design professional's role in protecting public health and safety.
• Evaluate how the increased levels of service and risk intrinsic in meeting LEED or other certification requirements should affect compensation to insure the design professional has the resources to carry out the legal, professional, and ethical duties to protect the environment and the public.

SPEAKER
Frank D. Musica, Esq., Assoc. AIA, is the senior risk management attorney with Victor. O. Schinnerer & Company.  He has over thirty years experience in running and advising architecture and engineering firms. With his professional degree in architecture, a Masters in Business Administration and a law degree, Frank uses his education and experience in firms and with professional societies to examine the evolving design and construction industries to determine how professional liability insurance can enable the transition and facilitate the ability of design firms to manage risk.  For over 15 years he served as Insurance Counsel to the AIA Documents Committee including during the development of the 2007 traditional series of documents and through the initial stages of creating the 2008 Integrated Project Delivery Documents. 

Please register by November 6th at 5pm.  Refunds (minus a $5 per ticket service fee) will be provided PRIOR to November 2.