Free Workshop on LEEDv4

Jordan & Skala Engineers present a FREE workshop on LEEDv4! Check out the attached flyer for more information.

AIA COTE Scholarship - Help get the word out!

Please spread the word in your regions.If you have contacts at universities, please make sure they and their students are aware of the opportunity.

http://www.aias.org/website/article.asp?id=2768

Brandt Companies Corporate Headquarters Tour

AIA Members gathering before the tour

 

      AIA Dallas COTE Committee sponsored a tour of Brandt Corporate Headquarters on March 6th. This tour was set up to review this LEED Gold facility and see many sustainable features. Brandt engineers lead the tour with members of the design team from Good Fulton and Farrell Architects and Interiors.



Discussing the Rainwater Harvesting System

Some major highlights include:

-BIM Modeling/ Coordination Room
-Rainwater Harvesting using Siphonic Roof Drainage Systems
-Solar Water Heating
-Condensate Recovery
-Geothermal Heat Exchange
-Skylights for Daylight Harvesting

This tour was not only a good learning experience of sustainable features in action, but it also showed that good environmental design can be functional and visually appealing.

Thank you to Brandt for an informative tour and to our sponsors, AIA Dallas COTE and Axiom.

-Laura 

Interdisciplinary Design in Education?

A topic close to my own heart popped up this morning on the COTE Knowledge Community. Architect Peter Papesch is petitioning the AIA & NAAB to make interdisciplinary design an explicit requirement of accredited programs:

 

Thread: Preparing future architects for interdisciplinary design collaboration

 

Petition: Require of graduating architects full competence to design energy-neutral buildings

 

 

Sam