Annual Membership Meeting / Election of Officers Sinclair Community College October 16, 2008 Focus on Design Awards Dinner Schuster Center November 20, 2008 Board of Directors Meeting/Dinner December 11, 2008
Issue #3 - 2008
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architrave page 02 President’s Message page 06 2008 AIA Dayton Programs page 08-09 Annual Sponsor Appreciation Picnic page 11 CANstuction page 13-15 GreenBytes page 16 What Chapter Members Need To Know
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Analyze This -5.4% Percentage that construction spending is down for the first half of this year ($514.2 billion) compared to the same period ($543.6 billion) in 2007. The Table offers a snapshot of the value of construction put in place, measured at a seasonally adjusted annual rate. As you can see, some sectors are posting positive numbers. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Type of construction Percent change from June ‘07 to June ‘08 Total construction -5.9 Residential -26.4 Nonresidential 10.8 Lodging 32.8 Public safety 21.7 Power 30.1 Manufacturing 39.8 According to the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) semi-annual Consensus Construcarticle continued on page 5
President’s Message J. William Williams, AIA
While writing this message for the third quarter edition of the Architrave it became apparent on how busy this quarter has been for the AIA Dayton Chapter and its membership. The highlights from the quarter shows the varying degrees the impact the Chapter has on its membership, the profession and the community. MEMBERSHIP OUTREACH In August around 100 golfers attended the AIA Dayton Golf Outing at Sugar Valley Country Club in Bellbrook, Ohio. The outing provided the members of AIA Dayton and its sponsors and allied professionals a chance to spend the afternoon together enjoying a round of golf along with good food, drink and fun. The Golf Committee headed by Diana Conboy, AIA should be recognized for all their hard work associated with this event. Close to $10,000 was raised for the Chapter. Some of these proceeds will be given to the AIA Dayton Scholarship Fund on behalf the Chapter. Through support of this event, $8,000 in scholarships were given this year to area high school and college students. Please see the photos for the golf outing at the AIA Dayton website as well as a donor card in this issue for your use in contributing directly to the AIA Dayton Scholarship Fund. Over 40 people attended the Aileron Building and Campus Tour in Tipp City held in September. Thanks to Tom Hesse, AIA for arranging this tour for AIA Dayton and Lee Skolnick, FAIA, principal at LHSA+DP who lead the tour of Aileron Campus which included a brief history of Aileron, types of services offered, and discussion on the buildings, environmental design and LEED certification. The Architectural Basic and Bagel (ABB) morning seminars continue to be well attended and in the coming months programs will feature Audio/Visual design parameters and ADA accessibility requirements in housing. All ABB seminars are provided free to AIA Dayton members. PROFESSIONAL OUTREACH The AIA Dayton Focus on Design Awards program will take place in the Wintergarden space at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Center on Thursday, November 20, 2008. The program will be an opportunity to celebrate design and to honor posthumously the 2008 Recipient of the Architecture Advocacy Award – Benjamin Kline, former architectural columnist and reporter for Dayton Daily News. The Design Awards Jury for this year program includes Jim Dalton, FAIA of Kent State University, Bill Browne, AIA of Ratio Architects and Jonathan Hess, AIA of Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects. Our annual Sponsor Appreciation Dinner was held again at Siebenthaler Company’s Cabin in Beavercreek. Over 50 Sponsors and AIA Dayton members enjoyed an evening of food and fellowship. Mark Ruetschle, AIA and Matt Franklin, AIA joined me in presenting certificates of appreciation to our Chapter’s sponsor for 2008. Through Mark’s and Matt’s hard work we were able to increase chapter sponsorship this year. Please check out the Chapter’s sponsorship listing on our website and weekly News Brief and please take a minute to thank any of our Chapter’s sponsor you may see in the near future. COMMUNITY OUTREACH CANstruction program was held again at the Dayton Art Institute during the Oktoberfest Weekend and featured teams from Interbrand-Design Forum, Miami University and a combined team from LJB and the CANstruction Committee Members to build structures out of canned foods. These teams designed and planned the “Can You Play” themed structures with a total of 14,038 lbs of food. In addition to donating the can foods used in the structures, a check for $9,000 was given to The Food Bank of Dayton to further help their organization. Special thanks to the CANstruction Committee, Wende Morgan-Elliott, AIA and Julie Sabourin, AIA for their hard work and dedication to this project. DOWNTOWN DAYTON STRATEGIC REUSE PLAN: The Downtown Dayton Partnership and the local architectural community, through the AIA Dayton Chapter, are teaming up for a very important project –a study of the potential strategic reuse of some key buildings in downtown Dayton. As you know, downtown has numerous buildings that are currently under utilized and are prime for potential redevelopment. article continued on page 3
Contributors: Bill Williams, AIA, Jim Faulkner, AIA, Jane Treiber, Dan McNulty, AAIA, Shawn Hicks Graphic Editor: Jessica Graham, Matrix Architects Editors: Jim Faulkner, AIA, Jane Treiber
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Through a collaborative effort, we would like to re-imagine some of these architecturally-significant and strategically important buildings and attempt to determine potential reuses for them. On October 9th a press conference was held with the City of Dayton, Downtown Dayton partnership and AIA Dayton to announce the buildings and firm participating in the building reuse study. The participating firm and buildings are as follows: BUILDINGS 18-20 S. Jefferson Building 146 E. Third Street 25 S. Main Street KeyBank Building Price Stores Building Transportation Center Walker Building David Building, 115 E. Third St. Leigh Building Merchants Row, Third Street
ARCHITECTURE FIRM Matrix Architects Greg Lauterbach Architects Jeff Wray Architects Levin Porter Associates Earl Reeder Architects Rogero Buckman Architects The Architectural Group John Poe Architects Lorenz & Williams App Architects
As President of AIA Dayton, I’m pleased that the firms and architects noted above have “stepped up” and have committed their time, their expertise and their resources for this exciting project and I look forward to presenting our final designs later this year to the Community where we all live and work.
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AIA OHIO PAC Fund: “If you are not at the TABLE, then you are on the MENU!” Please remember it’s not too late to contribute to the AIA Ohio PAC fund. In this election year, AIA Dayton is answering the challenge of AIA Ohio by asking individual members and firm owners to contribute to political campaigns to the tune of $2,500. Each Ohio chapter has been issued a challenge in order to keep the AIA Ohio PAC healthy and working for the interests of the Ohio architects. To date our chapter was raised just over $1,000 toward this goal. One option is for individuals to mail personal checks to the campaign of the state legislator of their choice; then send a copy of their cancelled check to AIA Ohio. The AIA Ohio PAC then makes a matching contribution up to $100. The second option is for individuals to contribute directly to the AIA Ohio PAC fund by sending checks to the AIA Dayton office. Please contact Alan Moody, AIA at 937-223-6500 or me for additional information on the AIA Ohio PAC Fund. As always, I welcome your questions and comments and I hope to see you at the AIA Dayton Focus on Design Awards event on November 20th! J. William Williams, AIA AIA Dayton President 937-224-1931
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tion Forecast, a survey of the nation’s leading construction forecasters, the nonresidential sector has experienced cutbacks in demand for new space, and the projections for construction activity for new nonresidential facilities are in for a mild decline in 2008, with a more significant downturn in 2009. The forecasts are more negative for commercial and industrial buildings, with an especially large drop-off in the office and retail sectors. The forecast also calls for a 1.9% decline in inflation-adjusted activity in 2008, followed by a projected 6.7% decline in 2009. Source: American Institute of Architects
Market Segment Consensus Growth Forecasts Institutional Commercial/industrial 2008 2009 Retail -8.3% -9.9% Office buildings -3.7% -12.3% Hotels 6.6% -9.9% Industrial facilities 4.6% -5.5% Health care facilities 0.2% 1.1% Education 2.7% -1.1% Amusement/recreation 3.6% -8.5% Public safety 5.9% -1.9% Religious -11.7% -1.2% -14% Percentage drop in the number of fatal work injuries involving electrocutions in 2007 compared to the next lowest year (2003). Fatalities resulting from fires and explosions were also at the lowest totals ever in the 2007 census. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 10% Largest percentage gain in construction employment over the last 12 months posted by an individual state (Wyoming). From June 2007 to June 2008, employment fell in 34 states, rose in 13, and was unchanged in the District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Mexico, and North Dakota. The largest gains during that time were in Wyoming (10%) Louisiana and Oklahoma (4% each), and Texas and New Hampshire (3% each). The largest decreases came from Arizona and Florida (-14% each), South Carolina (-11%), California (-10%), and Michigan (-9%). The full report is available at www.bls. gov/sae. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
AIA Dayton 2008 Board Members PRESIDENT: Bill Williams, AIA Levin Porter Associates, Inc. 24 North Jefferson Street Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-224-1931 Fax: 937-224-3091 Email: bwilliams@levin-porter.com PRESIDENT ELECT: Tim Bement, AIA App Architecture 615 Woodside Drive Englewood, OH 45322 Phone: 937-836-8898, ext. 31 Fax: 937-832-3696 Email: tim.bement@App-Arch.com SECRETARY: Jim Faulkner, AIA Matrix Architects, Inc. 249 Wayne Avenue Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-224-7700 Fax: 937-224-7125 Email: jfaulkner@matrixarchitects.com TREASURER: Barry Buckman, AIA Rogero Buckman Architects 123 Webster Street Studio 4 Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-225-5122 Fax: 937-225-5123 Email: bbuckman@rbaoh.com
DIRECTORS: Matt Franklin, AIA Levin Porter Associates, Inc. 24 N. Jefferson Street Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-224-1931 Fax: 937-224-3091 Email: mfranklin@levin-porter.com Mark Ruetschle, AIA Ruestchle Architects 222 Linwood Street Dayton, OH 45405 Phone: 937-461-5390 Fax: 937-461-6829 Email: mark@ruetschle.com ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS: Ward Scantlin, Associate AIA John Poe Architects 116 East Third Street Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-461-3290 Fax: 937-461-0260 Email: wscanlin@johnpoe.com Dan McNulty, Associate AIA App Architecture 615 Woodside Drive Englewood, OH 45322 Phone: 937-836-8898 Fax: 937-832-3696 Email: dan.mcnulty @App-Arch.com
AIA OHIO DIRECTOR: Alan Moody, AIA, LEED AP Lorenz Williams, Inc. 434 E. First Street Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-223-6500 Fax: 937-461-2934 Email: amoody@lorwil.com PAST PRESIDENT: William J. Kaly, AIA Lorenz Williams, Inc. 434 E. First Street Dayton, OH 45402 Phone: 937-223-6500 Fax: 937-461-2934 Email:wkaly@lorwil.com EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jane Treiber Mailing: P.O. Box 342 West Milton, OH 45383 Shipping: 28 Lowry Dr. West Milton, OH 45383 Phone: 937-291-1913 Fax: 937-698-6153 Email: jane_treiber@aiadayton.org
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2008 AIA Dayton Programs Program events are subject to change. Emailed News Briefs and Bulletins will confirm all program information. October 16 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
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Annual Membership Meeting / Election of Officers Architecture Basics & Bagels: AV Systems Integrated w/ Building Design AIA Ohio Board Retreat Board of Directors Retreat International Building Code Session 9, WPAFB Focus on Design Awards Dinner @ Schuster Center Architecture Basics & Bagels: Fair Housing Accessibility Laws Board of Directors Meeting/Dinner
Reminder of AIA Dayton’s ARE Lending Library The study guides are available at the offices of John Poe Architects, Inc. located at 116 East Third Street in Dayton. Please contact Ward Scantlin, Assoc. AIA for the availability of the guides. He can be reached at 937-4613290.
Please congratulate the following new AIA Dayton Chapter members: Laura McCaffrey, Assoc. AIA Interbrand Design Forum Elizabeth Schulze, AIA Fanning Howey Associates Inc. Natalie Snyder, Assoc. AIA Evergreen Architects
Ornamental Metals Ornamental Railing Exterior Panel Systems Daylighting Canopies and Sunshades
Sam Davis 937/299-0781 sdavis@spohnassociates.com
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Annual Sponsor Appreciation Picnic Held the Week the Lights Went Out in Dayton Submitted by Jane Treiber Did you lose power and for how long? was the prevailing question of the evening when AIA Dayton members and sponsors gathered at the Siebenthaler Landscape & Nursery Cabin in Beavercreek on September 18, 2008, for the annual AIA Dayton Sponsor Appreciation Picnic. Most all of the 50 attendees had been affected to some degree by the Hurricane Ike wind storm that swept through the area on September 14. Members drove around Road Closed signs and a partially-downed utility pole in order to get to the picnic. Some were still without power at home and/or at work, and the prospect of a steak dinner and some good conversation was enough to bring members out. Siebenthaler Nursery itself was without power, but the Cabin was powered by a generator and, of course, the steaks were cooked on a grill! This is one of the “free” events for members that comes with a dinner and drinks for all who attend. Hosts Robert and Jeff Siebenthaler and the rest of the Siebenthaler crew went all out this year prepping the grounds and even adding more picnic tables. There were zero bugs, a nice breeze and the temperature was falllike at 70 degrees.
AIA Dayton took the opportunity to thank its three Platinum Sponsors, 18 Gold Sponsors, and 6 Silver sponsors with certificates of appreciation and a planter of beautiful mums from Siebenthalers.
Platinum Sponsors Advanced Solutions Inc Pella Sales Snyder Brick & Block
Gold Sponsors Andersen Windows APG Office Furnishings Blundall Associates Inc Command Roofing Elastizell Systems Inc Elements IV Interiors Everybody’s Workplace Solutions Heapy Engineering JMD Architectural Products Inc Performance Concrete Products Ltd Prater Engineering Associates Inc Real Art Design Group Salem Office Products Sand Hill Inc Selvaggio, Teske & Associates Inc Shell + Meyer Associates Shook Construction STE Safety Through Engineering
Silver Sponsors Acoustical Systems Inc The Dapper Co Domicone Printing Inc DuPont Tyvek McGraw Hill Dodge Construction Spohn Associates Inc
Invitation From the Editor: We are always looking for news and articles for upcoming Architrave issues. If you would like to contribute or have an event you would like to see covered, we’d like to hear about it. Please email our Graphic Editor at jgraham@matrixarchitects.com.
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Seven Tons Of Food Builds Art Structures During Canstruction Submitted by Shawn Hicks Teams Interbrand Design Forum, Miami University and a combined team from LJB and the Canstruction Committee Members came to the Dayton Art Institute to build can-food structures during the 4th Annual Canstruction Competition. The teams came together on Tuesday, October 30 to layout and build their “toys”. They designed and planned the “Can You Play” themed structures with a total of 14,038 lbs of food which were on display during the Art Institute’s 37th annual Oktoberfest.
Cloister the Canstruction Committee thanked Mound Printing for printing the invitations and programs, AD Pro for subsidizing this year’s t-shirts, Long & Associates for buying dinner during the build out, pianist Tim Raberding for playing during the reception, Dayton Art Institute for accommodating this year’s event and this year’s food sponsors: Cub Foods, Lofino’s Market, Save-a-lot and SuperValue. Ms. Sabourin recognized Mr. Warren Disch, Vice-President of Market Development for SuperValue, with whom
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children annually, ally, providess more e than ha 115,000 warm m meals to kids through Kid’s Café...” Julie Sabourin, AIA served as Master of Ceremonies and warmly greeted the crowd that came to celebrate this great cause. The Selveggio, Teske and Associates’ Can Spirit Award was presented to Interbrand Design Forum for having the most cans in their “Can You Play Blocks” structure. Miami University received the Best Meal Award for their “Video Game” structure. The Best Use of Labels award was presented to Interbrand Design Forum. Kids First Award, a new award given for structures that help the Foodbank of Dayton’s Back Pack Program, was given to the Independent Team for their “Monopoly” structures. During the course of the week, the public was invited to visit the exhibit and vote for the People’s Choice Award structure by filling out Foodbank pledge cards. The 2008 People’s Choice Award went to Interbrand Design Forum. This event helps feed the hungry in Montgomery, Greene and Preble Counties. During the Tuesday evening reception at the DAI’s Gothic
the Canstruction Committee worked closely. She also thanked Mike Lofino, owner of the local Lofino’s Marketplace and Cub Foods with the help from store manager, John Alge, the General Manager at Save-A-Lot, Todd Fitz, as well as Peter Gunderson who represents the Ohio Valley’s General Manager, and Tim Healy who helped organize the SuperValue order and transport it to the Institute. The Dayton Foodbank serves 24,000 children annually, provides more than 115,000 warm meals to kids through Kid’s Café and has a backpack program that serves almost 800 children with food to sustain them through the weekend during the school year. During the Canstruction reception a $9,000 check was presented to Linda Repkin, Associate Executive Officer of The Foodbank of Dayton. They concluded the evening by deCanstructing and loading the cans into trucks bound for The Foodbank of Dayton.
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GreenBytes - Integrated Project Delivery & Expanded Sustainability By James M. Suehiro, AIA, published online at www.aia.org
Architects play an important role in preserving the health of our planet. Two tools that support this role are Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Integrated Project Delivery reduces waste in the building and design process and BIM can facilitate key design decisions about the life cycle of a building. Together, they support an expanded process to increase life cycle sustainability of a building – plan, design, construct and operate. Sustainability, Integrated Project Delivery, and BIM Buildings consume nearly 50 percent of U.S .energy and building operation consumes 75 percent of U.S. electricity. By 2035, the number of buildings in the U.S. will nearly double, with
two thirds of them being replacement and new buildings. This gives architects the opportunity to greatly influencing the net effect of buildings on global warming.
conflicts. BIM is also by nature a collaboration tool for the design, process, delivery, and communication of realizing architecture. Life Cycle Optimization
Integrated Project Delivery is a tool for sustainable design and construction. According to owners, the traditional design, bid, build project delivery method wastes approximately 30 percent of the total resources of a project. New design technology and software, combined with delivery methods, such as Integrated Design and Integrated Practice, can reduce much of this waste. IPD, as a project realization approach, can optimize delivery of buildings. This is enabled by new project business models such as “Project Alliance” type agreements. The IPD approach requires a common contractual arrangement between the owner, constructor, and designer focused on common goals.
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BIM enables effective collaboration toward common goals identified in an IPD approach. BIM virtually constructs the building and allows all design and construct disciplines to contribute diverse expertise to help achieve owner goals. Using BIM helps make sure the building is cost effective by providing quantification metrics, reducing errors and unknown design conditions, and resolving construction
Building life cycle optimization is a sustainable approach that is especially pertinent to facility needs of major institutions. Life cycle optimization is a difficult goal to achieve for many major institutional building types since these buildings require change on a regular basis. Some basic design principles that enable sustainability are: • Infrastructure design must be adaptable or flexible to accommodate change • The design must be expandable to accommodate growth • Building finishes must be durable and easy to maintain to optimize operational costs. In addition, the design must provide humane experiences, respond to environmental conditions, provide comfortable spaces for people, and reduce energy loads to lower operating cost. Strategic planning and facilities planning are critical phases of building delivery for incorporating these principles and meeting sustainability goals. By beginning design with an integrated planning and delivery approach in conjunction with BIM, Architects can achieve sustainable life cycle optimization for all buildings, including those serving major institutions. Expanding the Role of BIM BIM technology is the underlying tool for strategy, planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance of sustainable buildings. Its use can positively influence any business enterprise and its sustainable future. article continued on page 14
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BIM files can serve as the entity containing information gathered from other digital program decision tools. Linking BIM to spreadsheet programs can facilitate demand and capacity analyses; allow for consideration of concept alternatives; create simulations of functional processes, and track performance metrics of sustainable design elements. BIM has value in demand and capacity analysis and programming Major institution facility planning involves anticipating future growth trends, analyzing the existing capacity of facilities and then developing concepts that meet future requirements. Facilities have operational processes that are designed to suit the needs of their functions. Traditionally, a demand/capacity analysis involves understanding the physical character-
tics and operational performance of a facility by using two dimensional drawings to separately calculate floor areas and then measure process flow. These two knowledge components serve as the fundamental basis to determine requirements for new facilities and physical planning alternatives. With BIM software, these two traditionally disparate forms of information are merged into one tool. As the model is drawn, information such as areas, volumes, operational parameters and demand/capacity calculations are assigned to objects that graphically represent the facility. This information is viewed within the model and can be exported as a spreadsheet for tabulations and calculations where each functional result can be compared to others within the facility and thus provide a holistic perspective.
As a multi-dimensional model, BIM allows for visualization of various facility improvement concepts, derived during alternative analysis. With BIM, they can be visually evaluated within the context of the program and relationship to the physical environment. Concept alternatives include functional, operational, cost, and sustainable design information which can all be visualized and critiqued during the process of deciding by using the BIM tool. Major institutional projects typically involve interfacing with the community and stakeholders in a workshop forum and by using BIM, concepts can be better understood through enhanced visualization of the proposed developments.
BIM has value in concept alternatives analysis
When a preferred concept has been selected, the design is further refined
BIM has value in cost and sustainable design analysis
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and will include more information for detailed cost and sustainable design analysis. BIM allows specific unit costs and sustainable design measurements to be attributed to each object drawn. As a result, cost and sustainable design information is embedded into the multi-dimensional model allowing the information to become dynamic in nature. Objects can be modified visually (expanded or reduced) and the information will adjust accordingly. Every exported spreadsheet file from the BIM model will result in the most current information. BIM has value beyond planning and design as a management tool Simulation modeling is another planning and design tool that has been developing into 3-D form. This tool simulates the movement and processing of people or other elements within the model, based on process data, schedules, and time/distance metrics. Simulation is essentially a fourth-dimension that measures functional performance of a facility through a timeline and is a management tool to measure level of service. Merging BIM and simulation modeling as one product becomes a very powerful dynamic tool that can be used throughout the
life of the facility and its future development. BIM can also be saturated with pertinent and useful information, from the beginning of master planning through construction. Facility managers then have a tool to determine life cycle costs and to apply operational metrics—yet another avenue to achieving sustainability. Properly maintained, this model becomes a living, as-built depiction of the facility without the obsolescence associated with paper documents. BIM can be used by major institutions to manage the balance between operational need and financial resources with planned facility improvements and expansions. tBIM is a valuable sustainable design tool because it enables an integrated practice methodology for architects and constructors, and potentially, an integrated delivery process for owners. Through the use of these practices, owners will find value in an improved delivery process that reduces waste and produces more stable results. For constructors, use of IPD and BIM will reduce constructability issues and provide more certainty in scheduling. And for designers, these processes and tools will result in fewer issues with building systems coordination and enhanced creative freedom. Once implemented industry-wide, IPD and BIM will give all involved less risk and more potential for excellence in sustainable design. When this article was first published, Jim Suehiro, AIA, was Principal at NBBJ, Seattle. He is currently Principal, Suehiro Architecture, and is AIA Northwest + Pacific Regional Director on the AIA National Board. He is Chair of the Board’s Integrated Practice Discussion Group Figure 1. Des Moines International Airport Master Plan: BIM is linked directly to cost modeling program. (Source: NBBJ)
Figure 2. Des Moines International Airport Master Plan: BIM is linked directly to facilities program analysis. (Source: NBBJ)
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What Chapter Members Need To Know Submitted by Jane Treiber
There’s a whole lot of new information out there from NCARB and the Ohio Architects’ Board that is important. If you haven’t read up on the following developments, please take a few minutes to go to the Ohio Architects Board’s website at http://arc.ohio. gov/pub.stm and click on the Fall 2008 Newsletter. The Fall 2008 newsletter contains information about the Board’s name change from the Ohio Board of Examiners of Architects to the Ohio Architects Board; continuing education rule changes on the state level; new titles allowed for Interns and Emeritus Architects upon application to the state; NCARB’s new rule that requires all IDP training units to be reported within six months of completion; changes in the Firm Certificate of Authorization rules; and NCARB’s launch of the new ARE 4.0. Getting in on the Action There are two faces in the photograph on the front page of the Ohio Architects Board Fall 2008 newsletter
that are familiar to AIA Dayton: Terry Welker, AIA, City of Kettering; and Stephen Sharp, AIA, McCall Sharp Architecture. Terry is currently serving as President of AIA Ohio, and Stephen is Vice President of the Ohio great spaces. Architects Board Great spaces are designed to perform. Let Elements IV Interiors support your and serves on great spaces with integrated floors, walls, furniture and technology. the Planning Contact us for information on enhancing your clients’ facility and organizational performance or visit our new LEED-CI Silver Programming showroom. and Practice Committee of 3680 Wyse Rd. Dayton, OH 45414 NCARB, writing 937.918.1000 www.elementsIV.com test questions. The photograph commemorated better serve their clients and commuthe signing of SB225, changing the nities through environmentally responBoard’s name, into law. sible projects. The issue of climate Update on AIA Continuing Education Requirements Beginning January 1, 2009, 4 of the total 18 AIA CES Learning Units (LUs) required in a given calendar year must focus on sustainable design in a way that meets the established guidelines for sustainable design mandatory continuing education (MCE). The sustainable design MCE does not replace the original requirement for 18 total hours, 8 of which must be in Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) subjects, as HSW is a subset of Learning Units, and sustainable design may be a subset of HSW. It designates that 4 of the total hours be in sustainable design topics. Sustainability has been a focus of architectural practice for more than 30 years, and the AIA has provided resources and tools to help its members
change and the impact of buildings on carbon emissions created a new expectation among clients and the public to look to the expertise of architects for solutions that can help them leave a greener footprint. Social, political, and economic factors are all driving the market toward mainstreaming sustainability, and AIA architects who educate themselves in sustainable design will have an advantage, and again, have the privilege of providing ever greater service to clients and community.
AIA DAYTON ARCHITECTURAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND UPDATE
Fund Balance as of 09-30-08: $36,362.00 List of Contributors since last year: James Faulkner Karen Planet Bill Williams Clarence Cross AIA Dayton Chapter
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