Virginia Rehabilitation Code Seminars

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We are excited to announce a new professional development program focused on the 2012 Virginia Rehabilitation Code (VRC). Developed by J. Kenneth Payne, Jr., AIA, presenter of seminars at AIA National Convention, Jack A. Proctor Virginia Building Code Academy Lead Instructor on the Virginia Rehabilitation Code, and one of the best-reviewed presenters at Architecture Exchange East, these full-day workshops will cover the new building code specifically for existing buildings. This new code provides a proactive mechanism for the reuse and continued use of existing buildings while still providing a balanced level of protection, life safety, sustainability, and resiliency. Please check this space for updates and registration links as we move through the year. We hope that you join us at one of the below sessions.

Schedule:

NEWPORT NEWS :: Thursday, June 9 :: at the VT Hampton Roads Center
ALEXANDRIA :: Friday, June 17 :: at the Lee Recreation Center Auditorium
ROANOKE :: Thursday, July 14 :: at the VT Roanoke Center
CHARLOTTESVILLE :: Friday, September 23 :: at Piedmont Valley Community College
RICHMOND :: Wednesday, November 2 :: Architecture Exchange East (Greater Richmond Convention Center)

6 LU|HSW available.

The Richmond session will be included in the Architecture Exchange East program, so please sign up through the ArchEx registration when it opens on August 30.

Register online>> Registration has now closed for individual sessions. To register for the session at ArchEx, please visit the ArchEx Registration Page.

Demystifying Fellowship Webinar

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a Fellow? Not sure where to start on your application?

Join Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA, on June 2 at noon for a one-hour webinar on what it takes to prepare a successful package.

The webinar isn’t just for people ready to apply. It’s never too early to start thinking about Fellowship. The sooner you start preparing, the better off you’ll be!

There is no charge for this webinar.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Noon – 1 p.m.
1 LU available.
Register>>

The AIA Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to Fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of the architect as an individual, but also honors before the public and the profession a model architect who has made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.

Virginia’s Historic Courthouses Symposium

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Preservation Virginia would like to invite you to attend the Virginia’s Historic Courthouses Symposium being held May 19 and 20, at the Historic Staunton Foundation.

Evening Reception May 19  6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and day-long program of speakers and sessions May 20  9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

In 2015, historic courthouses were named to Preservation Virginia’s Most Endangered Historic Places list. The thematic listing is intended to bring attention to the challenges of maintaining these structures while meeting requirements for space, security, and other 21-century usage concerns. Preservation Virginia and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources are partnering to present the Historic Courthouses Symposium to be held in Staunton, May 19-20, 2016. The symposium will bring together elected officials, judges, architects, and others to look at best practices and case studies that balance these obligations, and look at the economic benefits of preserving these centers of community.

Conceived as an informational meeting for those responsible for decisions pertaining to use, maintenance, restoration, and the general administration of the judicial system in Virginia, the targeted audience is those who work in and steward these facilities. Invitations have been sent to decision-makers, law practitioners, and related associations or advocacy groups, including county commissioners and administrators, judges and court administrative staff, facility maintenance staff, architects, contractors, consultants, and historic preservation advocates.

From this symposium, we hope to begin crafting a set of best practices and case studies that couldices could: influence new legislation or the formal adoption of a historic preservation approach to courthouses, empower preservationists and advocates to better educate their elected officials and the public on the benefits of re-use/adaptation, and formalize the role of public participation in such important decisions. Topics to be addressed include: the role of public participation, funding sources, economic benefits of a historic preservation approach, the role of tax credits, regional governance and the relations between city and county governments, as well as design-oriented issues like planning and needs assessment, incorporating historic fabric, security and life safety, energy efficiency and sustainability.

On the evening of May 19, John O. Peters, a former commercial litigator who has extensive practical, research, and writing experience with Virginia’s courthouses, will speak to the role of courthouses

For additional information, including online registration and lodging information, please visit:
http://preservationvirginia.org/programs/historic-courthouse-symposium

Elevation

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The theme for the 29th annual AIA Virginia convention will be Elevation

  • Elevation of the human condition through the power of architecture
  • Elevation of the profession through the sharing of knowledge
  • Elevation of your career through professional development
  • Elevation as a view of crucial architectural elements
  • Elevation as we look at rising sea levels and climate change
  • Elevation to Fellowship

Have an idea for an event, tour or seminar? Contact Marshall Dreiling, Education Manager, mdreiling@aiava.org

Registration opens in August.

Call for Entries: 2016 AIA Virginia Prize for Design Research & Scholarship

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Compelling architectural research happens in universities and firms across Virginia every day. The AIA Virginia Prize for Design Research & Scholarship was created in 2008 to encourage a healthy dialogue between researchers in the universities and firms.

The Prize will be announced in September and recognition will be given by AIA Virginia at Architecture Exchange East, the annual conference and expo, held Nov. 2–4, 2016, in Richmond.

Eligibility

The AIA Virginia Prize for Design Research & Scholarship will be awarded to a faculty member at a Virginia institution of higher learning OR a  practicing architect in Virginia for outstanding design research and/or scholarship in the field of architecture. Download the Entry Form>>

Options for submission include:

• Papers or articles that have been published in a journal or conference proceedings within the past two years

• Papers or articles that have been submitted to journals or conferences, but have not yet been accepted

• Research projects completed within the past three years and summarized in a paper or article

• Innovative project case studies completed within the past three years and summarized in a paper or article

Important Note: This is NOT a prize for design projects unless the project is being submitted as a representation or extension of the work described in an accompanying paper or article. Design projects should be submitted for consideration through other AIA Virginia design award programs (i.e., Inform Awards or AIA Virginia Awards for Excellence in Architecture).

Deadlines

Entries and Submissions Due: 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 31, 2016

About the 2015 Honoree

Virginia Tech  professor Joe Wheeler, AIA was awarded the Prize for Design Research and Scholarship for his work on futureHAUS. The jurors recognized that futureHAUS was “exemplary in regards to innovation” and “the potential impact on housing could be substantial.”

World Deaf Architecture Conference

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WDA_white_logo.jpgThe National AIA is pleased to announce that World Deaf Architecture (WDA), a newly created group for AIA Knowledge Networks and Communities, is working toward becoming an AIA Knowledge Community.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 8:00AM-4:30PM – a pre-convention day
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Admission is free
Meeting room and convention building will be announced shortly.

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION – 8:00AM to 9:00AM
Pre-Convention Planning: WDA Symposium*
Welcome and Introduction to WDA with Acting President, Vice President and Acting Treasurer

WDA/AIA – A NEW KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY AND NETWORK – 9:00AM to 11AM
Why, how, and what WDA can do for AIA? How to build a new relationship with AIA members for better communication between hearing and deaf in work, design team, and collaboration. We’d like to open with a discussion of our perceptions, values, beliefs, education, etc. which create our comfort zone and impacts our function as architects. We need to work together to build up a new WDA in the AIA Knowledge Community.*

Q&A/SOLUTION 11AM – 11:45AM – 15 MINS BREAK

WDA LUNCHEON 12PM – 1:45PMGuest speakers (2 people) from AIA National Diversity Council*

NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS – 2PM – 4:30PM
We need a new Secretary, three to five board of directors, and International Liaison(s) for the election at the end of the symposium. We also need to develop new strategic and action plans for WDA and define officers’ responsibilities to commence after the convention.*

6PM-8PM
WDA Reception/Dinner at Restaurant – TBA

RSVP: Go to a link: www.worlddeafarchitecture.org and click for “2016 WDA Symposium” to fill in the form.

*Interpreter(s) & CART for all events and luncheon with guest speaker(s).
Any questions or inquires, please contact: robert.nichols@worlddeafarchitecture.org

Open Door Policy

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What is the allowable opening force for egress doors?

That’s a question that Bureau of Capital Outlay Management (BCOM) reviewers are frequently asked — and an important issue as egress doors can sometimes be too heavy for persons with disabilities or limited strength to open. The current building code, the 2012 Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, and the current design standard for accessibility, the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design published September 15, 2010, address the door opening force requirements.

The force for pushing or pulling open interior swinging egress doors, other than fire doors, shall not exceed 5 pounds. The operating force is permitted to be higher for exterior doors and fire doors. Exterior doors are exempt from the 5-pound requirement because air pressure differentials and strong winds may prevent doors from automatically closing. Fire doors are exempt from the 5-pound requirement because fire doors are required to close and latch shut. For these doors, a maximum of 15 pounds is required to release the latch, 30 pounds to set the door in motion, and 15 pounds to swing the door to the full-open position. See Virginia Construction Code, Section 1008.1.3.

This short YouTube video clip illustrates an opening force pressure test.

Reprinted with permission from Department of General Service, Bureau of Capital Outlay Management. To subscribe to the BCOM Newsletter, simply complete this online form.

Design Forum XII is a Wrap

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Design Forum XII – Transformation: The Turning Point was held April 1-2, 2016 at the Slover Library in Norfolk. Nearly 200 attendees enjoyed presentations from Jason Long, Anne Fougeron, FAIA, Archie Lee Coates, IV, Stephen Kieran, FAIA along with our moderator, Z Smith. Thank you to those who attended!

 

Photos by Nick Seitz

We would also like to take this opportunity to again thank our sponsors who made this event possible:

Clark Nexsen
Tymoff+Moss Architects
College of William and Mary, Dept. of Art & Art History
Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas
Stantec
Work Program Architects
BCWH Inc.
H & P Electric Co.
M. Sykes Inc.
Beck Roofing Corporation
Gulf Seaboard General Contractors, Inc.
HITT Contracting, Inc.
Mark S. Orling, AIA
Milliken Carpet
Provectus, Inc.
Pyrok, Inc.
Ritter Norton Architects
Shade & Wise Inc.
South Wood Building Systems, Inc.
Tanner Windows and Doors LLC
LKH Architects, LLC

And the AIA Virginia Design Committee members:

Chair: Camilo Bearman, AIA
Ghazal Abbasy
Paul Battaglia, AIA
Andrew Cocke
Robert Dunay, FAIA
Allison Ewing, AIA
Michael Gibson, AIA
Evan Mackenzie, Assoc. AIA
Mark Orling, AIA
Ed Pease, AIA
Andrea Quilici, AIA
Wilson Rayfield, AIA
Simone Saidel, Assoc. AIA
Roberto Ventura

AIA LU|HSW credits will be uploaded prior to April 15. If you do not receive a confirmation email from AIA regarding your credits, please contact Marshall Dreiling at mdreiling@aiava.org. Certificates of completion will be sent to the email with which you registered for the event. These certificates will be sent to you within the next two weeks.

ArchEx Call For Presentations

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Architecture Exchange East is the annual thought-leadership conference and expo curated by AIA Virginia. It will be held Nov. 2–4, 2016, in Richmond, Virginia, with an audience of several thousand architects and allied professionals over the course of the three-day event. Our goal is to bring together the brightest minds and most engaging speakers to present talks that are future-focused on a wide range of subjects ― and to provoke important conversations among design professionals.

Though Architecture Exchange East has a 29-year history, we are looking forward to building on the energy of last year’s conference with a renewed and vigorous focus on curating exceptional, inspirational content. We hope you will consider being an integral part of this gathering of creative professionals.

Your talk could range from a one-hour session to a full-day workshop. We don’t want to box you into a particular format. We’re encouraging creative approaches to content delivery, including panel discussions, tours, and guided collaborative conversations. We welcome all proposals.

Propose an offering you think is relevant and timely, or pick something from the Suggested Topics list below. To propose an offering, complete and submit the Presentation Proposal Form by April 30, 2016. Your proposal will be reviewed and you will be contacted by July 2016.  Incomplete forms will not be accepted.

Those vendors interested in presenting a sponsored, please contact Judy Cheadle at jcheadle@aiava.org (804) 237-1777.

Requirements

  • Submit a completed proposal form online
  • Proposals must be received by the deadline date
  • Expert speakers with public speaking experience are preferred
  • Presentation content must be sufficient for the proposed length of the session

Deadline is 10 p.m., April 30, 2016

Decision Process

All proposals are evaluated by AIA Virginia’s Program Advisory Group to ensure they address educational needs of the audience and that the program is well balanced. Course selections begin in May and will continue until the entire program is set.

Suggestions and Questions

Suggestions for potential speakers or questions about the conference can be directed to Marshall Dreiling, Education Manager at mdreiling@aiava.org or (804) 237-1769.

Seminar Tracks

There are seven educational tracks: Design (includes all design-related topics, urban and universal, interior design, landscaping, Master Architects Series, etc.); Tech (trades, BIM, codes, software, emerging technology, regulations, contracts, AIA Documents, etc); Historic (includes tax credits, research, restorations, rehabilitations for alternative uses, etc.), Business (includes all business topics); Green (includes sustainable design, materials, building practices, etc.); and  General (includes AIA Virginia organizational meetings, activities and events, tours, Keynote, etc.)  

Suggested Topics

  • Master Architect Series — examining the work of a prominent or master architect, which may include someone of historical interest or a modern master
  • Tours — Projects of interest, in progress or recently completed, restoration, redevelopment, urban planning, historical architecture, etc.
  • Excellence in Design
  • New Uses of Technology
  • Codes
  • Accessibility
  • Sustainable Design

The topics below were identified by past attendees as desirable seminars for 2015

  • ADA
  • Building Codes
  • Business planning
  • Creativity
  • Mentorship
  • Leadership
  • Marketing
  • Design/Build
  • New materials
  • Theory
  • Emerging professionals
  • Technology
  • Design process
  • Coping with changing nature of architectural practice
  • Office management
  • LEED and design/construction problems
  • Project collaboration systems/software
  • Envelope design
  • Moisture-proofing systems
  • Residential design
  • Emerging technologies
  • Adapting to challenging economic conditions
  • Affordable and practical ways to conserve energy
  • Evidence-based design
  • Websites and social media for architects
  • Green Globes vs. LEED
  • Innovative building practices
  • Climate resilience
  • Basic building materials
  • African American architects
  • Integrating research with practice
  • Use of BIM in the small firm
  • Designing spaces for alternative medicine
  • Wellness facilities
  • Zero-impact, self-contained structures in resource-development areas
  • Healthcare and wellness
  • Integration of trades, such as HVAC, electrical systems, communications, AV
  • Future of architecture as practiced in the U.S.
  • Retirement
  • Surviving unemployment during recession
  • Advances in BIM for Facility Maintenance
  • Balancing work and family/life
  • Related fields such as mechanical design
  • Common causes of Change Orders

The 2016 Resilient Virginia Conference

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Take the Lead in Building and Infrastructure Resiliency

The 2016 Resilient Virginia Conference, taking place March 22-23, 2016 in Richmond, Virginia provides Virginia design professionals with skill enhancing opportunities in the resiliency area.  This inaugural conference has the goal of activating community and business stakeholders around the Commonwealth:

  • to learn about resiliency planning and design in order to address current and future climate, social, and economic challenges, and
  • to become leaders in their communities to formulate plans for a resilient future.

In addition to design professionals, the conference brings together state and local governments, businesses, the military, and community leaders to network, learn and explore opportunities for resiliency in their buildings and organizations.

Agenda presentations on building design and resiliency planning will feature:
– Daniel Slone, McGuire Woods, on resilient design concepts for buildings and communities,
– Rachel Minnery, FAIA, LEED AP, on LEED Resiliency Pilot Credits,
– Therese McAllister, National Institute of Standards and Technology, on their newly published “Community Resilience Planning Guide: Infrastructure and Buildings”
– Greg Mella, SmithGroupJJR, on Living Building Challenge design;
– Representatives from Arcadis and Dewberry on long range planning and infrastructure solutions

Find additional details about the Agenda and Speakers at www.resilientvirginia.org.
Register to join other resiliency leaders in shaping a resilient future at  www.resilientvirginia.org.