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 your calendar for the official Building Performance events, but that’s just the beginning. AIA25 offers a lineup of inspiring sessions designed to educate, connect, and shape the future of design.
BPKC events
Reducing Carbon: Better Enclosures by Studying the Best
1.25 HSW/RIBA/LU | WE126 | 6/4/2025 1:30 am- 2:45pm | Register here
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
253AB
Architects are challenged to create increasingly efficient building enclosures to meet both new energy codes and societal goals to reduce carbon emissions. This session will highlight cutting-edge projects to demonstrate lessons learned about enclosure analysis, systems integration, design, and detailing. By learning from projects striving for net zero, passive house, or the Living Building Challenge, you'll gain valuable insights that you can apply to more common commercial and institutional projects to deliver proven enclosure assemblies, identify where to focus detailing effort, and recognize how to incorporate iterative energy analysis. This presentation is sponsored by the AIA Building Performance Knowledge Community.
Speakers
- Eddy Santosa
Building Performance and Climate Responsive Design Leader - North America - Mott MacDonald
Managing Performance and Resilience in Building Renovations
1.25 HSW/RIBA/LU | TH300 | 6/5/2025 4:00 am- 5:15pm | Register here
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
253C
The Building Performance and Historic Resources Knowledge Communities have collaborated to bring you this outstanding session. In this session, the presenters will review recent projects involving envelope renovation and additions or restoration. Join us to learn about the design process as well as decision-making and challenges related to building performance—specifically, sustainability and carbon neutrality. After reviewing the selected projects, panelists will share general best practices and discuss detailing for facade renovations. You'll have ample opportunity to pose questions and offer your thoughts on the topic at hand.
Estimating Indoor Lighting & Heating Properties From a Single Panorama
0.5 RIBA/LU | WE146 | 6/4/2025 3:30 am- 4:45pm | Register here
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
210B
For the millions of homes listed online for sale, rental, and renovation, we need more than just a showcase of 3D floor layouts, interior materials, and environmental context. Understanding indoor lighting and heating properties is also crucial. This session will highlight a novel 3D rendering technique that pairs indoor and outdoor panoramas to generate floor layouts and render new virtual scenes under different lighting conditions—all without manual modeling. You'll also learn about applications that estimate indoor global light distribution and create panoramic heat maps from a single indoor panorama, which streamlines the standard design process and building performance analysis.