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New Course Early ACCESS: April 1–23 Only

By Ellie Falcon posted 8 days ago
Be among the first to experience AIAU's groundbreaking Design for Decarbonization series with free access to the inaugural course, The Built Environment's Carbon Challenge —for a limited time. This exclusive opportunity ends after April 22 (Earth ...
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AIA25: Explore Building Performance Events at Boston’s Architecture Conference

By Luz Angela Toro Acuna Intl. Assoc. AIA posted 24 days ago
Boston is gearing up for a landmark event in architecture and design, and you won’t want to miss it. This year’s AIA Conference on Architecture & Design (AIA25) brings together top minds in AEC for four dynamic days (June 4-7). Be sure to mark ...
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Building Performance Knowledge Community - Deep Focus on Performance on All Scales

By William P. Babbington FAIA posted 10-14-2024
This article ran in the COTE News / November-December 2024 Issue Building Performance Knowledge Community - Deep Focus on Performance on All Scales by Will Babbington | FAIA, PE – Chair with contributions from BPKC Leadership ...
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Building Performance KC mission and goals

By Joseph J. Deringer AIA Member Emeritus posted 07-15-2020
Mission The mission of the Building Performance Knowledge Community (BPKC) is to increase building performance related to occupant comfort and health, and to the function, durability, sustainability, and resilience of buildings. Goals This Mission ...
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The development of pressure equalized rain screen walls for masonry construction

By E. B. Gellert AIA posted 09-13-2019
The development of pressure equalized rain screen walls for masonry construction By International Masonry Institute (IMI) and E. Bradford Gellert, AIA With the introduction of steel columns into “transitional masonry buildings” the structural responsibilities ...
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Conservation and fire science: a delicate balance

By Daniel J. Lemieux FAIA posted 05-06-2019
Conservation and fire science: a delicate balance By Daniel J. Lemieux, AIA, RIBA and Nicholas E. Ozog, PE Energy efficiency and conservation of our natural resources have arguably become two of the most significant influences on the design and construction ...
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AEC TECH+ Conference 6/13 NYC

By Susan Kramer posted 04-10-2019
The Architect's Newspaper 3rd annual TECHplusExpo.com/nyc/ NYC 6/13 @New York Academy of Sciences, 7WTC. Great lineup: Morning Keynote Dr. Andrea Chegut/ Director of the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab INDUSTRY ...
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Join the AIA Code Review Team

By Paul Karrer posted 03-19-2019
We are seeking AIA members interested in participating in the AIA Code Review Team evaluating code change proposals during the International Code Council (ICC) model code development cycle. This includes members who are: Current and former members ...
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Intelligent building design: The Johnson Controls Headquarters Asia Pacific

By Stephen A. Katz AIA posted 03-06-2019
Johnson Controls, a leading provider of intelligent building technology and energy efficiency solutions, hired Gensler to design a new headquarters for its Asia Pacific Region in Shanghai. The 35,000sm building is located in Changning District and is ...
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Interior Design Trends for New Construction in 2019

By Brooke Collits posted 02-19-2019
Home is a single place where people can be who they really are. At least, it should be so: our home regardless it is the place of constant living or our holiday residence should accompany our identity, awake our true nature, enhance it with the aura of ...
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Letter from the Chair - June 2018

By E. B. Gellert AIA posted 05-24-2018
Letter from the Chair, 2018 to the members of the Building Performance KC: 2017 was a great year for the B uilding P erformance K nowledge C ommunity under the strong leadership of our outgoing chair Pamela Sams and the hard work of the KC team. ...
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Building Simulation - Call of Abstracts Aug 10

By Pamela Sams AIA posted 07-28-2016
One-Page abstracts are sought for peer-reviewed papers to be presented at Building Simulation 2017 in San Fancisco, California, August 7-9, 2017. This is the 15th biennial conference for the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBIPSA). ...
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Working Toward High Performance: Roles and Responsibilities

By Joseph J. Deringer AIA Member Emeritus posted 05-02-2016
By Joseph Deringer, AIA, LEED-AP | May 2016 Technique What are high performing buildings? They provide the following: High performance for its occupants Comfort – thermal, visual, acoustic, + Productivity Well-being: ...
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Addressing Foundation Wall Vapor Drive

By Drake A. Wauters AIA posted 05-02-2016
By Drake A. Wauters, AIA | May 2016 Technique When reading about fearless world famous architects and the building scientists that support their projects with their active skins, advanced materials, and many innovations one would think that change ...
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Letter from the Chair: May 2016

By Pamela Sams AIA posted 05-02-2016
I have the honor of being the 2016 and 2017 Chair of TDBP. I wanted to send out a greeting and update our members on the current state of TDBP focus and activities. At this moment in our profession, we are confronting the questions of “What is the ...
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Managed Windows

By Drake A. Wauters AIA posted 10-29-2015
Decades ago there was a fairly extensive efforts to help manage solar heat gain and cold weather heat loss through windows around the nation. Since most windows were single glazed and not even thermally improved in any way, these methods resulted in ...
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Net Positive Realities

By Drake A. Wauters AIA posted 10-24-2015
Net Zero energy still seems like a faraway place to many as we grapple with definitions, discover (or rediscover) better ways to design to lowest energy use, how well on site solar and wind work, and what energy storage options are available. But as ...
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Codes on Basement Vapor Drive

By Drake A. Wauters AIA posted 07-15-2015
Habits are very hard to break and this is why we have regulations and codes. A large part of our nation is experiencing many times the normal summer rain and attendant water problems this. Yet we continue to build homes with no vapor impermeable waterproofing ...
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Building for the Ages

By Drake A. Wauters AIA posted 05-19-2015
Supported by a vibrant community of architects as designers and influencers, architecture is one essential and structural pier to our civilization. There are other essential piers that make up our built design, construction, and operation environment ...
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Good Design is the Solution

By Drake A. Wauters AIA posted 04-10-2015
Recent decades in our profession have been defined by the dichotomy of eye grabbing design and sustainability chess games. The results can be stylistically unforgettable or achieve high marks in a sustainability program or some fusion of both but what ...
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