Prof. Development

After 20 years, Mayor Thomas Menino will step down at the end of his current term. This leadership transition provides challenges and opportunities for our profession and our communities. This forum invites all mayoral candidates to explore a variety of topics related to community, development, jobs, sustainability, and livability in our city. Renee Loth, ArchitectureBoston editor and Globe columnist, will moderate the discussion.

ProExpos Group is proud to present the 8th annual Northeast Buildings & Facilities Management Show & Conference. This event will feature over 300 exhibitors displaying products and services necessary for the operation, management, maintenance and renovation of buildings and facilities in the greater New England region. The BSA will be at Booth 522.

Register online at www.nebfm.com.

Lizabeth Cohen Dean presents Place, People, and Power: City Building in Postwar America, current scholarship examining urban renewal, a reprise of her inaugurallLecture as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. An Historic Preservation Month

Jamie Wolf, owner of the design-build firm Wolfworks, will share his process of developing and accruing experience with Passive House through both an iterative design process and directly managing construction. In addition to past Passive House design projects that were not built, he'll present the Harwinton House, Connecticut's first certified Passive House and winner of Connecticut's 2012 Zero Energy Challenge. 

The agenda for the next meeting of the AIA MA Government Affairs Committee, on May 14 at 8:30 am at BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston), includes a status report on the House budget, reports on legislation, and other matters. Join us.

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This course will take you right to the intersection of technology, innovation, planning, design, and the future of place making in smarter cities. With rapid global changes—greatly caused by technology advances in an increasingly connected world—we need to rethink how we design, build, and operate buildings, and how we provide incremental value offerings to all constituents that use our built environment.

Risk reduction for communities and the critical infrastructure they depend on is fast becoming a major focus of planning and design practice. From Hurricane Katrina to Superstorm Sandy to droughts and wildfires, recent weather events have helped shift attention to the role climate change has played in these noteworthy events. Learn how regional infrastructure scale measures can reduce risk and improve resilience in the face of storm surge, increased rainfall, sea level rise, and other threats.

Increasingly severe weather events have made clear the impacts of climate change on a growing scale, suggesting a need to plan ahead for resilient design. This trend has unprecedented implications for design professionals to understand new information and tools, and to meet new standards of care for natural hazard mitigation and associated public health, safety, and welfare. This course emphasizes building and neighborhood scale projects and introduces technical measures, decision frameworks, and basic science that support climate adapted design.

Explore the rapidly evolving changes in library services and information technology and their effect on library design. Intended for architects and librarians, staff and trustees, this comprehensive course examines the evolving role of the library in the digital age. The program covers theoretical and practical issues in an interactive class format. Reviews of emerging library trends are balanced with an examination of the processes required to bring a project from conceptual goal to built reality.

America’s practice landscape has become a new frontier. There is a renewed resolve among decision-makers as design firms learn to work in the “new normal.” Successful leaders understand that they need to create resiliency in the face of continuing change, negotiating issues including sustainability, community, globalization, technology, and discipline integration as part of their offer or losing out to those who can and do. This two-day seminar is intended for firm leaders and owners responsible for developing the strategic agenda and managing its implementation.