Attending the 2018 AIA Conference? This year, we’ll be leading sessions on everything from resilient design to virtual reality. Below are more details on sessions where you can catch us. You can find the full schedule of conference events here.
International Project Delivery in a Changing World
As U.S.-based architects continue to work on award-winning projects around the world, and explore new markets in far-off places, project delivery is becoming more complex. This panel discussion will draw from the experience of world-class international architects from a management side, going in-depth in how these projects are delivered including use of technology and how sustainability targets are managed.
Details
Friday, June 22 │ 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
New York Hilton Midtown
1335 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Speakers
Sara K. Beardsley, Sr. Architect, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Alison Laas, Associate, Payette
Steven W. Miller, FAIA, Managing Director, Planning And Design Consultants, LLC
Overcoming the Design Challenges of High Performance Building Envelopes
Three signature campus expansion projects. Countless obstacles. Resounding success. Join us at this session for a study of the design of high-performance envelopes—specifically, the need for early identification of energy targets combined with thermal and energy modeling. Presenters will walk you through their efforts to ensure envelope performance met project requirements at every step. Along the way, you’ll learn about an integrated process utilizing parametric modeling, daylight and glazing analysis, physical mockups, on-site testing, and a design assist delivery method. Don’t miss this firsthand look at wide-ranging, concrete solutions for issues that vex designers and architects alike.
Details
Thursday, June 21 │ 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
The New School
Speakers
Jeffrey Abramson, AIA, Associate, Payette
Andrea Love, AIA, Principal / Director of Building Science, Payette
Robert Pasersky, AIA, Associate Principal, Payette
Wesley Schwartz, AIA, Senior Associate, Payette
Resiliency Design Case Studies in the Developing World
In the developing world, designing for resiliency goes beyond considering future storm events or sea-level rise. Threats related to infrastructure unreliability and building operation and maintenance are immediate—and are pushing design to be responsive and creative. This session will explore such challenges and creative opportunities from the perspective of an architect, engineer, and urban planner working in different regions of the developing world. Through conversation and case studies, you’ll explore a range of issues that are increasingly pressing for architects and designers working in every community, including your own.
Details
Thursday, June 21 │ 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
The New School
Speakers
Ching Hua-Ho, Principal, Payette
Kostaras Kostaras, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Urban Development
Alison Laas, Associate, Payette
Pedro J. Sifre, Senior Principal, Simpson Gumnpertz & Heger Inc.
Cape Cod Community College’s Frank and Maureen Wilkens Science and Engineering Center is a net-positive energy building designed to transform the heart of campus.
The project approaches sustainability through a holistic and global approach, implementing a range of moves including passive solar shading overhangs, air-source heat pumps, high performance materials with low embodied carbon and the expansion of the range of thermal comfort and lighting power density. Combined with on-site photovoltaics, the project achieves net-positive energy use.
The project’s thermally modified wood rainscreen façade is a study of the modern expression of vernacular Cape Cod architecture while reducing embodied carbon. Early lifecycle assessments identified the immense carbon savings of wood over fiber cement. The design team did not stop there, furthering reductions by peeling back unnecessary finishes like carpet and ceilings. Together, these decisions enabled a 19% reduction in embodied carbon.
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