Join AIA New York Committee on the Environment, ASHRAE, and the Building Energy Exchange for this two-part series on planning and executing a successful commercial net-zero energy retrofit.

In January of 2020, ASHRAE broke ground on the renovation of their new global headquarters, a showcase project embodying the organization’s core commitments—excellent indoor environmental quality and cutting-edge energy efficiency requirements.

Beyond these core objectives, ASHRAE’s new headquarters stands as an educational tool, providing insight for industry stakeholders into how sustainability and resiliency can be integrated into cost-effective, replicable building retrofit solutions that reduce energy use and improve occupant health and comfort.

We hope you join us for this remarkable opportunity to learn from the project team responsible for not only meeting, but exceeding ASHRAE’s energy, comfort, and indoor air quality standards in this state-of-the-art net-zero building retrofit project.

Part 1: Designing for Net Zero
September 29th, 9-10:30am EST

For the first session of this two-part series, we’ve invited two core members of the project team, Greg Walker, Partner at Houser Walker Architecture, and Ginger Scoggins, Building Ad-hoc Committee Chair at ASHRAE, to expand on the collaborative design process that helped to define project requirements and ensure for a project that exemplified ASHRAE’s core sustainability commitments.

Speakers
Ginger Scoggins, Chair, Building Ad-hoc Committee, ASHRAE
Greg Walker, Partner, Houser Walker Architecture

Part 2: Energy Modeling for Net Zero
October 1st, 9-10:30am EST

For the second session of this two-part series, join Stanton Stafford, Managing Principal at Integral Group, and Shreshth Nagpal, Principal at Elementa Engineering, for a deep dive into the energy modeling and design analytics required to verify the project’s net-zero energy status and ensure that the project team delivered on stringent sustainability and occupant health and wellness objectives.

For energy modeling engineers and other technical professionals– this session is not to be missed!

Speakers
Stanton Stafford, Managing Principal, Integral Group
Shreshth Nagpal, Principal, Elementa Engineers

All killer, no filler! This virtual tour presents the very best ghost stories of the East Village and Greenwich Village. With tales hand-picked by our expert guide, Andrea Janes, we will ring in the spookiest month by delving into the ghostly lore of these historic neighborhoods. These stories will be situated within the broader narrative of our neighborhoods, melding historical context, and ghostly legends. Bring your skepticism, morbid fascinations, and love of NYC history — and your respect for the unseen world that rests at the edge of our perceived reality.

Andrea Janes writes ghost stories and is the owner and founder of Boroughs of the Dead LLC, a boutique tour company dedicated to dark and unusual walking tours of New York City. Her obsessions include New York City history, slapstick comediennes, witches, ghosts, all things nautical, and beer.

Co-hosted by Boroughs of the Dead, the Merchant’s House Museum, and the Village Alliance.

*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.*

In this Archtober lecture, design strategist and activist De Nichols will share insights and a collective call-to-action for womxn designers to further activate our vision, voice, and power during the current moments of economic, public health, and racial crises facing the U.S. With consideration of the 100 years since Women’s Suffrage, the disenfranchisement of Black women that continued through the Civil Rights era, the leadership of womxn in recent uprisings, and the possibility of the nation’s first woman of color as Vice President, remarks will provide celebration, critique, and critical insights that uplift the legacies of womxn’s leadership in social movement development. De will draw from her experiences as an arts organizer during the 2014 Ferguson Uprising, as well the women leadership that grounds much of the national Design as Protest efforts she co-leads. Participants will leave with concrete action steps they can take immediately within their professional spaces and social networks, and they will be equipped with insights and resources to further develop their creative power for change.

Speaker:
De Nichols, Designer, Activist, Social Entrepreneur, Lecturer

Moderator:
Kavyashri Cherala, Associate AIA, LEED AP BD+C , AIANY Women in Architecture Committee, Media Communications

About the speakers:

De Nichols is a designer, activist, social entrepreneur, and lecturer addressing racial inequities within the built environment through the production of interactive art experiences, digital media, and social interventions. Nichols is a 2020 Transnational Fellow with Monument Lab and serves as the Principal of Design & Social Practice at Civic Creatives in St. Louis, MO. Through multimedia artwork and lectures, she has championed the power of design and storytelling to inspire and equip change-makers to protest social injustices and civic design solutions for progressive change across American communities. Her efforts as an arts organizer in the 2014 Ferguson Uprising catapulted her to the international spotlight, with the artwork Mirror Casket (2014), which was collected by the Smithsonian Institute. Since 2011, Nichols has been deemed as a national Ideas that Matter recipient, a two-time Clinton Global Initiative innovator, and a St. Louis Visionary recipient for her community impact in the arts. Nichols holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in communications design from Washington University in St. Louis and earned her Master of Social Work specialization in social entrepreneurship from its Brown School of Social Work. She additionally is a Loeb Fellow of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Citizen Artist Fellow of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, and a 2018 Artist Fellow with the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, MO.

Kavyashri Cherala is an Architectural Designer and Researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She serves as a consultant with the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes and the RETI (Resilience, Education, Training and Innovation) Center to create equitable public space in New York City neighborhoods that are disproportionately affected by urban heat. Working with local community organizations, she helps manage the design and implementation of prototypes for street cooling and shading, and contributes to public programming in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Previously, Cherala worked at Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York City, where she was involved in the design of a variety of planning, institutional and commercial projects. She served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and also worked at architecture firms in Mumbai and Goa in India. Kavya earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pune and her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. She is a LEED Accredited Professional, and serves as the Media Communication Manager for the New York Chapter’s Women in Architecture Committee. Cherala is a Licensed Architect in India.

*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.*

Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. This special program will have Thomas Phifer, FAIA sit down with an interviewer as they discuss his career over a custom cocktail that the audience can make from the comfort of their home.

Speaker
Thomas Phifer, FAIA, Owner, Thomas Phifer and Partners

Interviewer
TBD

Since founding Thomas Phifer and Partners in 1997, Thomas Phifer has completed an expansion of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, an expansion of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the United States Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and numerous houses in the Hudson River Valley of New York State. Ongoing projects include the Museum of Modern Art and TR Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw; Cine Colombia headquarters in Bogotá; an outdoor performance pavilion in Austin; a student center and an International Studies Center for Indiana University in Bloomington; private residences in Portugal, Texas and New York. Thomas Phifer is also engaged in the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project in Lower Manhattan. Thomas Phifer received the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1996 and was awarded the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects  in 2004. He was elected as an Academician of the National Academy of Design in 2011. In 2013, Thomas Phifer received the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2016, he was honored by the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects with the President’s Award and by the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation. He also gave the 2016 keynote lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. In 2019, he was awarded the National Design Award in Architectural Design from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Thomas Phifer is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation.

Enjoy the talks, then buy the book!
From 2012 through 2018, the AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee’s Cocktails and Conversation series has hosted some of architecture’s most interesting and provocative practitioners to discuss what informs their designs. These conversations have been collected into a book intended to inspire and delight its readers. You can purchase a copy here.

WORKTECH20 North America is the virtual forum for all those involved in the future of work and the workplace as well as real estate, technology and innovation.

Faced with the unimagined challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, WORKTECH is stepping up its online delivery of thought-leadership content, and delighted to announce our first WORKTECH Virtual Conference Series, to bring our global community together around shared interests, evidence and ideas.

Delegates will enjoy all elements of a WORKTECH Conference, Exhibition and Networking eventin a virtual format over two half days. Aimed at our North American audience, the virtual conference will be running during the following times:

Tuesday October 13th : 9am – 13.00 PDT / 12.00 – 16.00 EDT

Wednesday October 14th: 9am – 13.00 PDT / 12.00 – 16.00 EDT

We will be updating this website with further information on the agenda and speakers, so keeping checking back for more information!

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Learn to unleash the full creative, aesthetic possibilities of architectural precast concrete exteriors and how new technologies are giving you more options than ever. The webinar will showcase the vast finish options of precast concrete including surface treatments, pigments, color/aggregate selection, formliners and other articulations, embedded elements such as thin brick, terra cotta, and graphic imaging technology that imparts any image or pattern onto the face. The program will also educate about PCI’s newly improved architectural precast concrete certification program and how to specify products with the help of the new guidelines.

This is part one of a two-part “Precast Essentials” education series. Part two on October 20 will discuss wall panel design for performance, energy efficiency and life-safety.

Learning Objective

– Learn about the PCI’s newly improved architectural precast concrete certification program and how to specify products with the new guidelines and tiered classifications
– Identify advantages of precast concrete enclosures and the benefits relating to the COVID-19 crisis and jobsite concerns
– See the aesthetic possibilities of precast concrete technology and explore case studies of award-winning jobs.
– Learn about emerging aesthetic technologies such as graphically imaged concrete to create iconic facades

WEBINAR SUMMARY

1. What new technology initiatives is the CRE industry adopting when it comes to industrial development and design?
2. What have you seen regarding wireless connectivity needs within industrial spaces?
3. How are warehouse design and development evolving? What are the architectural challenges associated with these changes?
4. What are some immediate steps owners and property managers can take to ensure their assets have sufficient connectivity and technology capabilities?
5. What projects do you currently have under development? How are you using technology to create a more efficient building process?

WHY THIS MATTERS

FEATURED PRESENTERS

When Covid entered the United States’ largest cities economic activity came to a screeching halt. Commercial real estate deals, leases and major transactions haven’t been spared in this year fraught with business interruptions. Yet, some of the most talented leaders and teams continue to announce new leases, acquisitions and major real estate sales, and while this is the first major economic downturn faced by up-and-rising industry stars, they’re navigating it like they’ve been here before. Tune in to hear how the 2020 Commercial Observer Young Professionals Honorees are delivering fresh perspectives, new ideas and tech-infused solutions to the table to drive commercial activity forward.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Ansel, Savills
Jeff Friedman, Mesa West Capital
Amanda Gray, Invesco Real Estate
Peyton Johnson, Savills
Thomas Viscardi, Freddie Mac Multifamily

Join us on YouTube Live for our Keep Music Alive virtual gala. Funds raised will support music education for tens of thousands of NYC children in school year 2020-21.

Joining ETM in support of Music Education will be special appearances and performances by:

• Joshua Bell – Internationally Renowned Violinist
• Marc Cohn – Grammy Winning Folk-Rock Artist
• Norm Lewis – Broadway and Film Star
• Quincy Jones – Music Legend and Impresario
• Kelli O’Hara – Broadway and Opera star

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of public education. Schools face impossible challenges this fall with physical distance controls, logistical nightmares, and over $180M in budget cuts this school year.

Education Through Music partners with schools to integrate music into the curriculum, hire and train music teachers, and create a sustainable model for music in schools. When you join our Keep Music Alive campaign, your support will directly help tens of thousands of young people keep their music teacher and classes for school year 2020-21.

Registration is FREE!

How To RSVP and Donate:

Use the left menu to RSVP or Make a Donation.

Fashion comes and goes, values change, yet images remain. Photographer Julius Shulman, who would have turned 110 on October 10, furnished the visual materials with which to shape our expectations of the modern world. Even now, when contemplating “the good life” we imagine a modernist perch in the Hollywood Hills or a desert house in Palm Springs, as lensed by Shulman. His contribution to the enduring California mythos is beautifully told in Eric Bricker’s 2009 film Visual Acoustics, newly released on Blu-Ray with a commemorative 164-page hardbound book.

To mark the release, The Architect’s Newspaper is screening Bricker’s film over October 9–12 and 16–19. And on October 16, AN will host a special panel discussion between the filmmaker, Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee, and Kelly McLeod of Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture. The talk will aim to locate the relevance of Shulman’s work at a time of greater inclusivity. Don’t miss it!

Tickets are available for purchase at the following registration link, with a part of the proceeds going to California Preservation Foundation. Registrants will receive confirmation by email, with a link to the screening.

Class A office amenities are being reimagined. Conference rooms, common areas, and fitness centers will still be important, but may take a backseat to health and safety-centric amenities as de-densification and staggered work schedules become part of the new normal.

Managing the long-term health and wellness of office building tenants across the portfolio will be the highest priority during these pandemic and post-pandemic periods. Asset owners and developers are beginning to look at new ways they can repurpose their existing amenities towards value-add tenant services -both inside and outside of the buildings they work in.

Tune in to hear how landlords and commercial tenants across the industry are collaborating with healthcare partners and the latest medical knowledge to make their key short-term and long-term public health decisions and protect the health and wellness of their tenants.

Bisnow is excited to introduce Digital Summits, an expansion of our virtual platform. Your digital ticket purchase includes 3 hours of content which will also be available on-demand for 30 days after the event. In addition, your ticket will also give you access to 3 virtual networking opportunities, including 1:1 attendee chat to swap your digital business cards, the ability to request and accept private video meetings during the day and three-minute video-enabled speed networking to build warm leads.

Bisnow Annual Student Housing

Student housing was supposed to be recession-proof. College enrollment was only growing, and students were demanding nicer accommodations and more amenities. But with some campuses operating at half capacity and others shut down entirely, student housing professionals may be clawing to fight their way through the pandemic.

But competing factors make the landscape uncertain for student housing. Economic slowdowns have traditionally led to slowdowns in enrollment as students look to cheaper alternatives close to home. But it’s not all negative: as many colleges look to de-densify students, they are looking to student housing owners with vacancies to help house students who otherwise would have lived in dorms.

Together with the help of our all-star lineup of panelists, we’ll dive into investment trends, developments, P3’s, operations, design trends, and the future of the student housing industry! Don’t miss out on Bisnow’s first-ever Student Housing Digital Summit!

Unable to attend live? You should still buy a ticket! You will be able to access recordings of all Digital Summit sessions for 30 days after the summit! You must register prior to the end of the summit to view on-demand.

Questions about your ticket purchase? Reach out to digitalsummits@bisnow.com for customer support.

As we start a new decade, industry experts must be increasingly adept at pivoting strategies in a continuously evolving playing field. This became ever more apparent in light of the market crisis that emerged in Q1 and is continuing through the fall. The ability to identify fleeting moments from long-term shifts is critical in determining which deals make sense in a rapidly changing climate. The New York Fall Financing CRE Forum will discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak as they relate to commercial real estate finance, where it’s safe to invest, opportunities for yield, the shift to a lenders’ market and how firms are moving business forward in this new normal.

Join our expert speakers as they discuss:

– If there are any windows of opportunity with current market volatility
– Which deals are moving forward and which are struggling
– Domestic and foreign investor strategies
– Key differentiating factors between competing finance sources
– How strong commercial real estate is as an industry to withstand the impacts of this new crisis

Since the 1980s, we have gathered architects, designers and industry professionals together for the Heritage Ball, a fundraising gala that attracts over 1,100 guests.

In 2020, it has become increasingly clear that we’re all living in a new and different world, one that calls upon the practice of architecture to confront the future in unexpected, and vital, ways. Additionally, in lieu of traditional honorees this year, we will be recognizing projects, people and groups who have exemplified outstanding leadership in creating a more just and equitable future these past few months.   

We called upon our community to help us find a new name for our gala, one that aligns with the architecture visionaries that the event brings together and signifies our hope and belief in a more just and equitable future. It is our pleasure to introducethe new name and format of ourgala, Common Bond: The Center for Architecture Gala.

Thank you in advance for your support. Questions? Email development@aiany.org.

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• Patrons

  Beyer Blinder Belle Architects; Ennead Architects; FXCollaborative; Gensler; JB&B; Kohler Ronan Consulting Engineers; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Langan; Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Silman; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; STUDIOS Architecture; Thornton Tomasetti; WSP;

   

• Sponsors

  Mitchell Giurgola

• Supporters

  Arup Consulting Engineers; Desai Chia Architecture; Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP

• Friends

  COOKFOX Architects; icon.5 architects; Mancini Duffy; Rockwell Group; Weiss/Manfredi

  List as of September 17, 2020

• Event Circle

  Barry Bergdoll, Hon. AIANY
  John Bredhorst, PE, LEED AP
  Matthew Bremer, AIA
  Lance Jay Brown, FAIA
  Mary Burke, FAIA, IIDA
  Katherine Chia, FAIA
  Duke Claghorn
  Christina Davis
  Michael Debiak EVP, PSP, RMP-PMI
  Michael DesRochers
  Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
  Gerard F.X. Geier, II, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP
  Rocco Giannetti, FAIA, LEED AP ID+C, NCARB
  Evie Klein, Assoc. AIA
  Andrea Lamberti, AIA LEED AP BD+C
  Steve Lembo, PE, LEED AP BD+C
  Kenneth Lewis, AIA
  Kristin Liu, LEED AP
  Carol Loewenson, FAIA
  Scott Lomax
  Lucie Meier
  Joseph Mizzi
  Kerry Nolan, AIA
  Bob Owens
  Cecilia Ramos, Assoc. AIA
  Caroline Russo
  John B. Simoni, Jr. Esq.
  Hayes Slade, AIA
  Jeffrey Smilow, PE, F.ASCE
  Joseph Tortorella, Hon. AIANY, PE
  Kim Yao, AIA
  Ayodele Yusuf, Assoc. AIA

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In this one-hour course, we will discover the strengths and advantages of FEVE fluoropolymer topcoats. We will evaluate coating performance tests including accelerated weathering and real-time weathering and what the implications are for the life of different coatings.

We will explore the many design possibilities that FEVE technology provides and assess the sustainability benefits of FEVE topcoats despite their higher initial cost compared to other topcoat formulations.

Learning Objectives:

• Define FEVE coating technology, history, and unique weatherability properties as well as its ease of application in the architectural market
• Discuss the importance of the form of coatings including color, finish, and gloss range
• Discover the function of a fluoropolymer coating in terms of performance, substrates, and types
• Describe the sustainability and environmental impact of long-life coatings