Cost
$10 – AIA, AIAS, AFC, ASHRE, 2030 District, CNU Midwest, Green Umbrella, NOMA, ULI Cincinnati, and USGBC Members
$25 – Non-Members
Free for full-time students
Location
ARCO
Program Overview
Architects have an astonishing opportunity to bend the giant firehose of money and material that drives our buildings and cities in directions that move us towards prosperity, equity, and restoration. To do that, we have to connect with our clients in new ways that connect with the hopes most people have for a better world that we’ve been trained to think aren’t practical or reasonable to ask for.
The “Framework for Design Excellence” adopted by the AIA membership as the basis for practice challenges us to make every project combine beauty, environmental responsibility, support for human health and equitable communities—with an economy of means.
How do we shift real architectural practice with real clients in that direction? It’s about carbon tracking and energy modeling and difficult conversations and moments of delight. Our goal is nothing short of beautiful, affordable, carbon-neutral architecture by 2030. It's practical and less expensive than you might expect.
PLEASE NOTE: WEARING MASKS IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT.
Learning Objectives
Make use of the AIA Framework for Design Excellence to improve your firm's design process to deliver beautiful buildings that work better for people and the planet.
Use the ZERO CODE to provide a practical, affordable approach to guide your design choices, and offer clients the opportunity to integrate on-site and off-site renewable energy to achieve net-zero carbon operation, tracking progress through the AIA 2030 Commitment Dynamic Data Exchange.
Apply quick rules of thumb to estimate and reduce the carbon emissions associated with new construction or renovation.
Find common ground with clients using the growing evidence of the connection between low-cost green design and better occupant health and productivity in a COVID-aware world.
Keynote Speaker
Z Smith, PHD, FAIA, LEED FELLOW, WELL AP
Z Smith is Principal and Director of Sustainability and Building Performance at EskewDumezRipple. His built work includes academic, laboratory and residential buildings, including winners of the RAIC Green Building Award and the AIA COTE Top Ten Award. He brings training and experience in physics (MIT) and engineering (Princeton) to the field of architecture (UC Berkeley), and is named as inventor on 10 patents and author on over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications.
He serves as North American representative to the International Union of Architects (UIA) Sustainable Development Commission. He has taught at the Tulane School of Architecture, served on the national Advisory Group of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE), the USGBC Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group, served as Chair of the 2017 SCUP Southern Regional Conference, and is former Chair of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) Louisiana Chapter. He is a member of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL), the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE), and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP).