From happy hours hosted by firms to a crowd-sourced map of women-designed and constructed spaces in the city, Boston is gearing up to welcome attendees and celebrate how women have shaped Boston’s built environment.

For more than 20 years, WiD has annually honored women in the design community to recognize “a person who has built one’s own life around design, whose work exemplifies the best of process and product, and who uses a position of achievement to give back to the world of design and to the community at large.”

Join us on October 26 to discuss long-lasting, sustainable building enclosures. The 2023 Wagdy Anis Symposium on Building Science will be the fourth in a series of symposia that honors the legacy of renowned building enclosure expert Wagdy Anis FAIA, and explores aspects of effective building enclosures.

An interview with Sandra A. Jahnes AIA, Partner, RUHL | JAHNES Architects

It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of former BSA Executive Director Richard Fitzgerald Hon. BSA earlier this month.

The Boston City Council's recent amendment to the Building Energy Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO), known as BERDO 2.0, will require large existing buildings to move from energy reporting to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The BSA, with sponsorship from ROCKWOOL and the cooperative support of the Building Enclosure Council and Committee on the Environment Knowledge Communities, recently hosted John Straube, PhD, PEng, principal and senior building science specialist at RDH Building Science, to discuss implications for both new construction and retrofits of large buildings in Boston.

Janaya Hart AIA says unification is our biggest barrier to a net-zero world but that there is enough research and successful precedents to prove that it’s possible to achieve a net-zero world if we all participate and believe in achieving the goal.

Starting August 14th, Kimberlee Schumacher, an associate with Interim Executive Solutions, will serve as interim executive director of the BSA.