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SUMMARY:VA COTE + USGBC Building Tour: Leed Silver - Virginia Tech Data and Decision Sciences Building
DESCRIPTION:Join AIAVA COTE and USGBC for our 2026 building tour series! We wish to celebrate exciting and innovative sustainable building design around the Commonwealth. Each month we will focus on a project in one of the five AIA Virginia component areas that has achieved LEED or other sustainable certification. Tours will provide AIA and USGC CEU’s for participants. \nJoin us on May 21 for a tour of The Data and Decision Sciences Building at Virginia Tech is a 120\,000 SF\, four-story academic facility that opened in 2023 to support interdisciplinary collaboration in data analytics and decision sciences. Located on the campus in Blacksburg\, Virginia\, the building brings together students and faculty from the College of Engineering\, the College of Science\, and the Pamplin College of Business. Its Collegiate Gothic exterior clad in Hokie Stone reflects the university’s architectural traditions\, while the interior features a vibrant multilevel atrium\, advanced data visualization classrooms\, a trading lab\, and more than 30 team rooms designed for collaborative learning. \nThe tour will highlight key sustainability strategies integrated into the project\, including a 33% reduction in whole-building energy use\, 35% reduction in indoor water use\, and participation in demand-response programs. Additional highlights include high-performance indoor air quality strategies\, responsible material sourcing and transparency\, 87% construction waste diversion\, and biophilic design elements that support occupant wellbeing and connection to nature. \n1 AIA LU | HSW (submitted for approval)\n1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C and LEED Green Associate CE (submitted for approval) \nAIA Member: $15\nUSGBC Member: $15\nNon-Member: $30\nStudents: FREE \nRegister Here>>\nRegistration closes at 12:00pm on 5/20.
URL:https://www.aiava.org/event/va-cote-building-tour-leed-silver-virginia-tech-data-and-decision-sciences-building/
LOCATION:Virginia Tech Data and Decision Sciences Building\, 727 Prices Fork Rd\, Blacksburg\, 24060\, United States
CATEGORIES:COTE
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SUMMARY:Vision to Action: AIA Virginia COTE 2026 Sustainability Summit
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the AIA Virginia COTE 2026 Sustainability Summit on Thursday\, May 28\, 2026 in Richmond\, VA. \n\n\n\nThe Virginia COTE Sustainability Summit brings together design professionals across Virginia committed to advancing sustainability throughout our practices. This full-day summit is structured to spark inspiration\, elevate practitioner insight\, and produce tangible next steps for the profession. \nEarn 6 AIA LU | HSW \nPurchase Tickets Here \nAn opening keynote will frame the urgency and opportunity before us. Short\, focused presentations by practitioners will highlight critical topics\, innovations\, and on-the-ground experiences to set the stage for more in depth discussion. Participants will then engage in breakout sessions centered on key sustainability issues — the specific focus of these breakouts will ultimately be defined by the attendees\, but at a high level topics are anticipated to include policy and legislation\, energy innovations\, the AIA Materials Pledge\, and resilience imperatives across the state. Each group will identify strategic priorities and actionable recommendations before sharing insights with the broader audience. The day concludes with a collective synthesis session\, where themes are refined and distilled into a focused set of priorities to guide our shared work in the coming year. \n\n\n\n\n\nDraft Agenda for the day: \n8:30-9:00am: Arrival/check in & networking 9:00-9:30am: Opening keynote 9:30-9:50: Three 5-minute presentations by practitioners 9:50-10:15: Define 3-5 subtopics for breakouts/bio break/networking break 10:15-11:15: Breakout discussion sessions 11:15-11:45: Report out12:00-1:00: Lunch 1:00-1:30: Three 5-minute presentations by practitioners 1:30-1:45: Define 3-5 subtopics for breakouts 1:45-2:45: Breakout discussions 2:45-3:15: Report out3:15-4:00: Closing session – review priorities established during breakouts and confirm COTE priorities moving forward 2026-2027 \nLocationLost Office Collaborative5000 Old Main StreetHenrico\, VA 23231 \nTicketsAIA Member: $85Assoc. AIA Member: $75Non-member: $99Students: FREE \nPurchase Tickets Here \n(Photo credits: Illustration by Thanh Huong Bui on Unsplash)
URL:https://www.aiava.org/event/from-vision-to-action-aia-virginia-cote-2026-sustainability-summit/
LOCATION:Lost Office Collaborative\, 5000 Old Main Street\, Henrico\, 23231\, United States
CATEGORIES:COTE
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SUMMARY:VA COTE + USGBC Building Tour: The Edgar Shannon Library
DESCRIPTION:(Photo Credits: Tim Hursley) \nJoin AIAVA COTE and USGBC for our 2026 building tour series! We wish to celebrate exciting and innovative sustainable building design around the Commonwealth. Each month we will focus on a project in one of the five AIA Virginia component areas that has achieved LEED or other sustainable certification. Tours will provide AIA and USGC CEU’s for participants. \nJoin us on June 17 to tour the LEED-Gold renovation of Shannon library. The renovation brought the building up to current standards of performance\, safety\, accessibility and service. It was essential to restore the library to the position it enjoyed when it first opened in 1938 — a contemporary library with modern amenities suited to the needs of its users. Scope includes a new 130\,000-square-foot addition and renovation of 100\,000 square feet of the historic building\, encompassing open shelving for better access to the extensive holdings\, study areas\, reading rooms\, staff work areas and spaces for scholarly research and preservation of books. The building offers a better layout and more natural light\, including in two new study courts\, for members of the University community as they study\, research\, and socialize. Historic fixtures\, furniture and bookshelves were refinished and restored\, with the lighting converted to LED. 75\,000 gallon cisterns under Nameless field retain rainwater runoff\, and over 120 tons of metal shelving was recycled. Aligning with UVA standards\, there is no irrigation on-site. The project demonstrated over 40% energy cost savings from the baseline and prioritized low-emitting products and those with transparency in manufacturing and content. It is now ready to serve the University community for another century.\n \n1 AIA LU | HSW \n1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C and LEED Green Associate CE \nAIA Member: $15\nUSGBC Member: $15\nNon-Member: $30\nStudents: FREE \nRegister Here>>\n*Registration closes at 12:00pm on 6/16 \n 
URL:https://www.aiava.org/event/va-cote-usgbc-building-tour-the-edgar-shannon-library/
LOCATION:Shannon Library\, 160 McCormick Road\, Charlottesville\, 22904\, United States
CATEGORIES:COTE
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