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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 USGBC 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\n1 GBCI LEED Specific BD+C and LEED Green Associate CE  \nAIA Member: $15\nUSGBC Member: $15\nNon-Member: $30\nStudents: FREE \nRegister Here>>\nRegistration closes at 4:00pm on 5/19. \n*There will be an after tour social hour at Eastern Divide Brewing Company\n3175 Commerce ST. Blacksburg\, VA
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 \nThe opening keynote by Virginia’s Chief Resilience Officer Greg Steele will frame the future challenges and opportunities facing the Commonwealth. 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 morning and afternoon roundtables centered on key sustainability issues — the focus of these breakouts will ultimately be defined by the attendees\, but topic prompts 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 summit 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: \nAgenda: \n8:30-9:00am: Arrival/check in & networking 9:00-9:30am: Opening keynote – Greg Steele\, P.E.\, Chief Resilience Officer\, Commonwealth of Virginia9:30-9:50: Morning Presentations \n\n\n\nPaul Battaglia\,  AIA – Advocacy and Legislation\nWilliam Abrahamson\, AIA\, CPHC\, LEED AP BD+C – Greening the Building Code\nRebecca Aarons-Sydnor\, CDT\, Assoc. AIA\, LEED AP BD+C\, LEED AP ID+C\, GPCP – Virginia’s High Performance Building Act\n\n\n\n9:50-10:15: Define 3-5 subtopics for breakouts/bio break/networking break10:15-11:15: Roundtables 11:15-11:45: Report out to larger group12:00-1:00: Lunch 1:00-1:30: Afternoon Presentations \n\n\n\nAndrew McKinley\, AIA\, LEED AP – Resilience in Coastal Virginia\nGwen  Murray\, AIA\, NCARB\, LEED AP BD+C\, True Advisor – Decarbonization\nBrendan Owens\, PE\, LEED Fellow – Operational Carbon and energy use\nBryna Dunn\, Assoc. AIA\, AICP\, LEED Fellow – Health and Wellness in Design\n\n\n\n1:30-1:45: Define 3-5 subtopics for breakouts 1:45-2:45: Roundtables 2:45-3:15: Report out to larger group3:15-4:00: Closing session \nLocationLost Office Collaborative5000 Old Main StreetHenrico\, VA 23231 \nTicketsAIA Member: $85Assoc. AIA Member: $75Non-member: $99Students: FREE \nPurchase Tickets HereRegistration closes on 5/26 at 12:00pm \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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