American Institute of Architects Triangle Chapter

Kristin Hawk, AIAT Joint Lecture Series

Mon, 02 Nov 2009

Kristin Hawk

November 2, 2009
7pm

NC State University School of Architecture/AIA Triangle Chapter Joint Lecture Series presents Kristin Hawk. Hawk will lecture at 7 p.m. in Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall, on NC State's Campus, Monday, November 2.

Kristin Hawk
Kristin Hawk is the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship. The goal of this fellowship is to allow students to broaden their education through a summer of travel. Three winners are chosen anonymously from 19 eligible universities in the US and Europe.

Currently an intern architect in KlingStubbins in Raleigh, NC, Kristin graduated in December 2008 with a Master in Architecture from NC State’s School of Design. While at NC State, she received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Henry L. Kamphoefner Honor Fellowship and the AIA Henry Adams medal.

AIA members can receive CES units for attending any of the lectures.

All lectures will be held at 7pm in the Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall at North Carolina State University, College of Design.

Parking is available in the Coliseum parking deck. Limited parking may also be found in the Riddick or Peele parking lots after 5pm. Please note that parking along campus streets is not permited unless otherwise noted.

Call 919.515.8350 for more information.

Design Connection-An Opportunity for Architects to Confer

Wed, 04 Nov 2009

Design Connection-An Opportunity for Architects to Confer
November 4, 2009
Three Cities - Three Opportunities
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill

AIA Triangle - Raleigh Monthly Breakfasts

Would you like to know what is going on with other local architectural firms? Would you like to find out how other local firms are surviving the current economy? Do you miss getting together and discussing great design projects with other architects?

The Raleigh Monthly Breakfasts may be for you! AIA Triangle has organized breakfasts to be held the first Wednesday of each month. Join us November 4th for breakfast at The Flying Biscuit, 2016 Clark Ave., Raleigh at 7:30 a.m. The breakfast will be served from The Flying Biscuit's standard menu and the price is dependent upon your order (paid at the restaurant).

AIA Triangle - Durham Monthly Luncheons

Would you like to know what is going on with other firms in Durham? Would you like to find out how other local firms are surviving the current economy? Are you interested in discussing great design projects with other architects? Do you want a good reason to support an establishment in downtown Durham?

The Durham Monthly Luncheons may be for you! AIA Triangle has organized luncheons to be held the first Wednesday of each month. Join us on Wednesday, November 4th for lunch at Parker and Otis, 112 Duke St. Durham at 11:30 a.m. The lunch will be served from Parker and Otis' standard menu and the price is dependent upon your order (paid at the restaurant). Click for the Parker and Otis website.

AIA Triangle - Chapel Hill/Carrboro Monthly Breakfasts

Are you interested in meeting other architects practicing in Chapel Hill and Carrboro? Would you like to find out how local firms are surviving the current economy? Do you want to find out who designed the latest project under construction in town? Do you want to enjoy a great breakfast while catching up with friends?

The Chapel Hill/Carrboro Monthly Breakfasts may be for you! AIA Triangle has organized breakfasts to be held the first Wednesday of each month. Join us on Wednesday, November 4th for breakfast at Elmo's Diner at 7:30 a.m. The breakfast will be served from Elmo's standard menu and the price is dependent upon your order (paid at the restaurant). Elmo's Diner is located in Carr Mill Mall at 200 N. Greensboro Street in Carrboro. Free parking is available at the mall.

AIA Assoc/AIA Members only.
No reservation is necessary

Monica Ponce de Leon, AIAT Joint Lecture Series

Mon, 09 Nov 2009

Monica Ponce de Leon

November 9, 2009
7pm

NC State University School of Architecture/AIA Triangle Chapter Joint Lecture Series presents Monica Ponce de Leon. Ponce de Leon will lecture at 7 p.m. in Burns Auditorium, Kamphoefner Hall, on NC State's Campus, Monday, November 9.

Monica Ponce de Leon
Monica Ponce de Leon is a Venezuela-born architect and founding principal with Nader Tehrani of Office dA, Inc. in Boston. Throughout her career, she has exhibited a strong commitment to teaching and practicing architecture concurrently. On September 1, 2008, she assumed the position of dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Ponce de Leon previously was a professor of architecture and the director of the Digital Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

AIA members can receive CES units for attending any of the lectures.

All lectures will be held at 7pm in the Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner Hall at North Carolina State University, College of Design.

Call 919.515.8350 for more information.

3 AIAT Continuing Education Seminars:Building Materials for Sustainable Interiors (updated for LEED 2009) and Life Cycle Assessment The Business and Professional Risks of Integrated Project DeliveryDon't Let Green Design Cause Red Ink

Tue, 10 Nov 2009

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.

AIAT-Wake Forest Meeting

Wed, 11 Nov 2009

AIA Triangle-Wake Forest Meeting

November 11, 2009
"Principles of Sustainable Design, Practice of Sustainable Design" 1 HSW, 1 SD

noon-1:30pm

If interested in attending, email james@jae-arch.com or call 919-341-7088.

AIAT Spring Design Gala Planning Meeting

Wed, 11 Nov 2009

If interested in attending, email aiatriangle@bellsouth.net .

AIA Triangle YAF Mentoring Happy Hour

Thu, 12 Nov 2009

Join AIA Triangle's Young Architects Forum for a Mentoring Happy Hour.

Who: ALL architects, interns and students are welcome
When: Friday, November 13^th, 7-9pm
Where: TBD
What: A time for mentors/mentees to meet and share their experiences.

RSVP by Wednesday, November 11 to jmp@id-aep.com

AIAT Board Meeting

Mon, 16 Nov 2009

AIA Triangle Women in Architecture Committee Meeting

Tue, 17 Nov 2009

Come on November 17 for wine and hors d'oeuvres for the 1st meeting of the AIA Triangle Women in Architecture Committee. An opportunity for women to listen, teach, learn, support and mentor to each other. Help us shape this organization by bringing your ideas, talents and experience to women in the architectural field across the triangle.

When: Tuesday, November 17^th, 5:30-7pm
Where: Serena Restaurant and Bar, 5311 S. Miami Blvd. Durham

No charge for AIA Members, $10 for Non-members.

A cash bar will be available and dinner may be purchased from Serena's menu.

Please register prior to November 16, 2009.

AIA Triangle YAF Pullen Baptist Church Tour

Tue, 17 Nov 2009

YAF Pullen Baptist Church Tour
6:30pm – 7:30pm

No safety gear is required on this tour.

Pullen Memorial Baptist Church
1801 Hillsborough St
Raleigh, NC 27605

RSVP to hrule@bbh-design.com by November 16th.