AIA Virginia

Cultivating A Path To Fellowship
2023-02-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom Virtual Meeting
Cultivating Your Path to Fellowship
Reverse Engineering the FAIA Submission Process to Develop Meaning & Purpose in Practice
Four, 1-hour sessions starting Wednesday, January 25th.
4 AIA LU | Elective
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Too often AIA members approach achieving Fellowship at the end of a significant phase of their career. The result is the demographic composition of the College of Fellows remains predominantly older, white males. These sessions seek to elevate diversity in the College’s ranks by teaching young and mid-career architects to reverse engineer their path to Fellowship using the AIA’s Sample Application, a specialized outline, storytelling techniques, and writing basics to define and amplify their voices and accomplishments. This method advances meaning and intention in attendees’ career paths and, ultimately, will bring younger and more diverse professionals to advancing the mission and leadership of the College of Fellows and its grant funding activities.
Mapping a career around AIA Fellowship provides a path to positively impact others and elevate the value, potential and reach of the many career paths architects take. Attendees will gain inspiration on finding time for introspection, planning and preparation to explore, define and elevate meaning in practice.
Learning Objectives

Gain detailed understanding of AIA Fellowship & the process of submission.
Learn about the value of AIA Fellowship for the advancement of individuals and their work.
Acquire skills to develop storylines and narratives to capture career milestones and projects.
Take-away resources on story structure and guidelines for better professional writing

The Windshield and Rear View Mirror: A Stock Market & Economy Recap of 2022 and What to Expect in 2023
2023-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
After his popular session in November, Samuel LaNeave from Wealth Management is back to share his economic insights.
1) Economic Summary for 2022 and 2023 Expectations
2) Stock Market Signals for 2023
3) Why Investing in Innovation Should Pay off in the Long Run
Register online.

Procrastinators Series
2022-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-14 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2022-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 and 4 more dates
Join AIAVA for our Procrastinator series – a series of Lunch and Learn sessions for those of us who couldn’t get around to it before now. These sessions are for you if you happen to be running behind on your learning units for the year or waiting till the last minute.
Because we get it.

We hope you’ll join us below:
Procrastinator Series

HRC Trivia Mixer
2022-12-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual – Online
Join AIA Virginia’s Historic Resources Committee for our second annual Virtual Trivia Mixer!
Mix up a cocktail (or mocktail) and join us for a night of trivia and fun. Connect with the preservation community in Virginia and test your knowledge of the built environment. Win prizes and glory.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU | Elective
Register online.
Classic Cocktail Recipe
Negroni
A popular and classic cocktail.
¾ oz Gin
¾ oz Campari
¾ ounce Sweet or Dry Vermouth
Fill a rocks or old fashioned glass with ice
Combine liquids into a mixing glass
Add ice and stir until chilled
Strain into the chilled glass
Add an orange slice or orange peel
An Old Fashioned Old Fashion

generous dash of bitters (Peychaud, orange, or both)
one teaspoon simple syrup (best if made with raw or brown sugar, 1:1 ratio sugar to water)
2 ounces rye
Club soda
Maraschino cherry for garnish

*In an old fashion glass (what else?), add a generous dash of bitters and one teaspoon of simple syrup.
*Add two ounces rye
*Add club soda to taste (best with small amount of club site, say two to four ounces)
*Stir, add ice
*Add maraschino cherry for garnish. (Make it a good cherry. If it is sold in the grocery store next to the ice cream sprinkles, that is not your cherry. Spring for a good jar of maraschino cherrries. You won’t regret it)

Interior Non- Load Bearing Partitions
2022-11-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Join us for a lunch and learn program about the evolving steel framing industry!
Learning Objectives:
• Understand interior partition framing
• Describe various types of metal studs
• Understand installation
• Explain code compliance of common materials in the marketplace today.
• Answer Questions
Lesson Agenda:
1. LEED
2. Specification
3. Basic Design Guidelines (Catalog Tables) Methods (Installation)
4. Uses and Resources
5. Code Compliance
6. Answer Questions
Earn 1.0 AIA LU|HSW
Register online.
Presented in partnership with MarinoWARE

This Too Shall Pass: Economic Outlook
2022-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Hear an economic update and learn what it means for your firm and investments. Take a look at the current bear market, discuss recession fears, inflation, midterms and learn what it all means for 2023.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU|Elective
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Visions for Architecture
2022-11-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA, 23220
Visions celebrates the achievements of those whose work makes especially strong contributions to society and celebrates the recipients of AIA Virginia’s Honors Awards and the Awards for Excellence in Architecture.
Visions for Architecture 2022 will be held on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A cocktail social will follow the awards celebration. Tickets can be purchased online at www.archex.net. You can add Visions to your ArchEx registration or purchase tickets for the awards program only by selecting “Social Events Only.”
Ticket sales close on Oct. 28

Architecture Exchange East
2022-11-04 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-11-03 08:00 - 18:30, 2022-11-02 09:00 - 17:30 | Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 North Third Street, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Join us Nov. 2-4, 2022 in Richmond (or online) as we begin to (re)connect our architecture community while we explore, workshop, and discuss ways to collaborate with stakeholders to (re)build the communities where we live, work, and play.
Register at www.ArchEx.net
Online registration closes Oct. 28. Tickets are available at the door.

High Performing Resilient Wood Framed Roofs
2022-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
This course provides an overview and discussion of resilient construction methods related to roof construction. We start by defining resiliency as a design objective, then investigate the financial ramifications of natural disasters on structures not designed with resiliency in mind. We describe numerous programs that promote resilient construction in the US, including a program designed to provide insurance discounts to homeowners that build to resilient standards. Finally, the program describes the construction techniques that qualify as resilient practices and provides a financial comparison of the costs of these practices.
As a result of participating in this presentation, attendees will be equipped to:

Identify and recognize the natural environmental forces that affect the design considerations of wood-framed roof systems.
Assess the advantages and disadvantages of resilient vs. non-resilient design.
Compare and contrast the performance characteristics of the components of a wood-framed roof system.
Provide best practice solutions for resilient design of wood-framed roofs.

Earn 1.0 AIA LU | HSW
Register online.
Presented in collaboration with Huber Engineered Woods.

Implementing the Guides for Equitable Practice
2022-10-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom Virtual Meeting
The AIA Guides for Equitable Practice make the moral, business, ethical, and societal cases for equitable practice in the profession of architecture. They provide key insights to hear insights on how the guides can change firm culture and create an environment that nurtures retention and inspires limitless thinking. In this course, participants will discover recommendations on how to achieve goals found within the Guides through utilization in practice and as a resource in connecting these goals with the work of their firm/organization.
1 LU | Elective
Free
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Download the Guides for Equitable Practice
Learning objectives

Explain why goals and motivations play an important role in equity, diversity, and inclusion work.
Compare and contrast equity as an input with diversity as an output
Utilize the AIA Guides as a resource by using a variety of strategies to engage the material
Navigate through multiple AIA Guides to better understand a single complex issue
Connect the work of their firm with goals or prompts in the Guides

The presenter

Renée Cheng, FAIA

Renée Cheng was named dean of the College of Built Environments in January 2019. Previously, Cheng served as head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota.
Cheng is a leader in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and advocates for equity in the field of architecture and in the practices related to the built environment. Recently, Cheng led the research effort for the AIA Guides for Equitable Practice.
Known for her pedagogical skill in designing classes and programs that empower students and integrate practice with academia, Cheng has twice won the AIA Practice Leadership Award. She has been named one of the top 25 most admired design educators in the U.S. by DesignIntelligence and an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor and was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows.
A licensed architect, her professional experience includes work for Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners and Richard Meier and Partners before founding Cheng-Olson Design.

ARE® Prep Session
2022-10-08 09:00 - 16:00
Whether you’re studying for several divisions of the ARE® exam or are an established architect, this seminar will review the basic concepts of statics and the mechanics of materials, along with a selection of appropriate structural systems for different design criteria. Presented as a set of criterion and in-process construction photos, the seminar will include general discussions of axial, perpendicular and eccentric loading. Additionally, focus will be on the lateral stability of building structures, including discussion and presentation of concepts such as Moment Resisting Frames, Braced Frames, Diaphragms and Shear Walls. A survey of foundations and retaining walls, along with an overview of wind and seismic forces, will also be covered in this session presented by Prof. David Thaddeus.

Here is the link to more info and registration: https://aianova.org/event.php?eventID=2489

Embodied Carbon and Adaptive Use
2022-10-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
In a continuation of COTE’s Embodied Carbon 101 series, Virginia’s Historic Resources Committee presents “Embodied Carbon and Adaptive Use.”
Existing buildings represent significant investments in energy and resources, so it stands to reason that one of the best ways of reducing embodied carbon is to adapt and reuse them. Discover strategies for maximizing the potential of the already embodied carbon in existing building stock.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU|HSW
Register online.

Q&A with Past and Future Leaders of AIA
2022-10-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom Virtual Meeting
Only 17% of all registered US architects are women and the percentage of women in leadership positions is still very slow.

Join us to hear from AIA National Past Presidents and the Presidents-Elect to talk about their goals, struggles, lessons learned during their term as National Presidents, and their advice to the upcoming leaders of the AIA.

Panelists:
· Kimberly Dowdell, AIA – AIA President-Elect 2024
· Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA- AIA President-Elect 2023
· Jane Frederick, FAIA – AIA President 2020
· Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA – AIA President 2015
· Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA – AIA President 2014
· Kate Schwennsen, FAIA – AIA President 2006
· Susan Maxman, FAIA – AIA President 1993

Date:
October 4, 2022
Time:
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST

Online via ZOOM
Link will be emailed upon registration

Fee:
AIA Member $10
Non-Member $15
Student Free

Embodied Carbon 101: Process + Firm Culture
2022-10-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual – Online
Learn how to integrate sustainability work into your firm’s standard practices and procedures.
In order to make true progress toward carbon reduction, carbon-thoughtful design must be part of the AEC industry’s standards and culture, instead of approached on a project-by-project basis. Hear from sustainability leaders representing a range of practices, including architecture, engineering and consulting, construction, and design/build firms who share the vision and infrastructure of their own firms’ sustainability and embodied carbon practice, and elaborate on how they arrived at a place where sustainable design and construction is built into their firms’ cultures. These leaders identify barriers to adopting carbon-thoughtful design and strategies for breaking down those barriers, including leveraging existing cultural and industry structures (for example: the AIA 2030 Commitment) and strengthening the connections between the existing values of firm leadership (for example: operational energy reduction; for example: materials and occupant health) and carbon reduction.
Presented by Virginia COTE with support from AIA Virginia’s Knowledge Community Grant program and the following sponsors:
GOLD
Kingspan Insulated Panels
SILVER
Mafi
BRONZE
Bamforth Engineers + Surveyors
Earn 1.5 AIA LU|HSW
Register online.

Embodied Carbon 101: Open Forum
2022-09-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Online
Join the Virginia COTE community and fellow attendees of the Embodied Carbon 101 series for an open forum discussion about what we’ve learned.
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Fluid Applied Roof Systems
2022-09-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual – Online
Fluid-applied roofing and waterproofing systems are an emerging trend in the industry due to their versatility and the advancements in liquid polymer technology that enables these systems to provide sustainable long-term performance.
This presentation will focus on the cost-saving, environmental and performance benefits fluid-applied roof systems provide building owners and facility managers and key qualification and installation techniques to ensure their success.
Earn 1.0 AIA LU|HSW
Register online.
Presented in collaboration with The Garland Co.
