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WOW! The Green Building EXPO is HERE! The Green Building EXPO is July 28th and 29th at the BJCC. This is an amazing opportunity for Birmingham (and AIA). There are over 200 green sustainable companies exhibiting. These are products you can get in our region. We need to make sure this EXPO is a success. Birmingham needs to be put on the map for a successful GREEN EXPO. We are behind in green areas, let’s make sure everyone knows we have caught up to the rest of the US!
REGISTER TODAY FOR THE GREEN BUILDING EXPO.
AIA members receive a DISCOUNTED rate.
Peace and AIA love,
Rhea Williams,
Executive Director
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Karan Grover is an internationally acclaimed Indian architect who in 2004, became the first architect in the world to win the USGBC “Platinum” Award for the greenest building on earth.
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Dr. Charles J. Kibert is the co-founder and President of the Cross Creek Initiative, a non-profit industry/university joint venture seeking to implement sustainability principles into construction.
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Meet Ed Beagley in Birmingham at the Green Building Expo
Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center July 28th & 29th
Click here to register
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2009 SAVE THE DATES
July 10th-12th Alabama Council State Convention
Grove Park Inn, Ashville NC
Click here to register
July 21st Summit Club Chapter Meeting 1LU
Albert Kahn Presentation, hosted by KAHN
Birmingham Architectural Foundation- Scholarship Awards
$20 members - $15 Emerging Professionals - $30 non-members
11:30 – 1:00 RSVP by July 17th
Business attire, no jeans
July 28th Green Building Focus Expo
& 29th Click here for more info
August 18th Green Seminar 3HSWs/SDU
Chapter Meeting (during lunch program)
Black Warrior River – Brook Nelson
ECOscapes – Roald Hazelhoff
Urban Gardens – Edwin Marty
8:45 – 1:00
$25 members $20 Emerging Professionals $40 non members
$20 Chapter meeting/lunch program only
Southern Environmental Center, Room 205
Birmingham Southern College
Rsvp by August 13th
August 22nd Barkitecture Charity Auction at
Old Car Heaven Museum
115 35th St. South
September 15th Chapter Meeting/4 HSW ADA Continuing Education
More info next month
October 13th Sponsor Appreciation Product Show
Temple Emanu-El
2100 Highland Ave. South
October 15th AIA Annual Golf Tournament
Robert Trent Jones
ALBERT KAHN EXHIBIT – July Chapter Meeting – Summit Club
We are happy to announce an exhibit at LITE BOX Gallery in Pepper Place of Albert Kahn’s work July 20 – 26th. The July Chapter Meeting at the Summit Club will kick off the opening of the exhibit and then there will be a reception at LITE BOX Gallery later in the week. This is an event we hope will raise public awareness of architects.
Albert Kahn faced innumerable obstacles in pursuit of his ambition to be an architect. His family could only afford to provide him a formal education until the age of 11 and he needed to work to help support the large family. He was fortunate to find two mentors --Julius Melcher, a sculptor and artist, who taught him drawing skills and George Mason, an architect in Detroit, who taught him design and gave him the opportunity to quench thirst for knowledge in the office library.
- 1890 - Awarded traveling scholarship to Europe by American Architect
- 1895 - Founded his own architectural firm
- 1900 - First industrial work: Boyer Machine Company
- 1901 - First experimented with reinforced concrete in design of Palms Apartment House
- 1902 - Joins American Institute of Architects
- 1903 - Designed first industrial plants for Packard Motor Car Company: Plants 1 through 9
- 1905 - Designed first saw-tooth roof to provide day lighting at the Burroughs Adding Machine Plant
- 1905 - Designed first industrial plant utilizing reinforced concrete at Packard Motor Car Company Plant Number 10
- 1907 - Designed first building without brick wall panels using steel and glass sash at Mergenthaler Linotype Plant
Birmingham Architectural Foundation Awards Scholarships
President Trevor Matchett will announce three scholarship winners at the July Chapter Meeting at the Summit Club hosted by KAHN. The applicants have to attend an accredited school of architecture and be a resident of one of the twenty counties in the AIA Birmingham Chapter. The B.A.F has awarded $11,000 in scholarships since 2006 when the foundation was formed. Visit the site: www.birminghamarchitecturalfoundation.org
2009 AIA Birmingham Design Awards
Have you seen all the press for AIA Birmingham Design Awards? The Birmingham Business Journal published ALL ENTRIES, Birmingham Home & Garden will publish the residential entries and Business Alabama will publish the winners. The AIA Birmingham Special Edition Newsletter went out June 17th and had 2326 page views. You might see a television commercial on Fox 6 news soon about AIA and Design Awards…!
We promised you jury comments regarding the winning projects. Here they are:
Commercial award:
HKW Associates – Stewart Perry Corporate Headquarters
Merit Award
The jury appreciated this project's calm sense of place, a sort of rooted comfort: buildings that are traditional in form without being finicky, settled into the site and smart in their openness to the reclaimed environment -- a philosophy also reflected in the project's LEED Silver rating.
Renovation and adaptive reuse:
GA Studio – Greek Orthodox Church: Plaza
MERIT Award
RA002: What's striking is the success with which an entrance of an older church was reconceptualized to become a nook within the larger city. Enticing without being pompous, the redesigned plaza uses the landscape to signal the church is not a place apart, but part of daily life.
RA005: bDot Architecture – Studio 212
MERIT Award
Preservation as it should be -- a conversion of a brick structure into a studio and performance space where the new is defined by the old. The inserted metal forms, though modern, defer to the aged shell. As for the distinctive cut of the windows, they show passersby history has not stopped.
Residential
Adams Design Associates - Infill Houses at Fountain Heights Neighborhood
HONOR Award
006: Urbanistically, this is a great approach to community renewal, creating homes for 25 families while strengthening the fiber of an older neighborhood. What lifts it to award status is the stripped-down dignity of the homes -- architecture that relies on order rather than fuss to seem timeless.
Institutional
Krumdieck A+I Design - Sunshine Farms Chapel
MERIT Award
1031: This is architecture as sculpture, with stone-clad walls and flooring that seem to emerge from the earth, while the open wooden frame of the chapel connects to the surrounding forest and, yes, the heavens above. Strong and confident, as lasting architecture should be.
Cohen Carnaggio & Reynolds - McKenzie Court Community Center
MERIT Award
IO24: This shows the region that contemporary architecture can be colorful and fun: the shapes are energetic and the use of zinc is a refreshing contrast to the strong horizontal masonry. Other pluses are the smart layout, and the way the cistern doubles as a tower element.
Krumdieck A+I Design- Our Savior Lutheran Church
MERIT Award
1030: There's nothing unusual in the design, but that's not the point. What's impressive is the dignity and massing of the materials, with the one bit of expressive craftsmanship reserved for where it will leave the strongest mark: the gaunt but industrious trusswork in the nave.
HKW Associates- Hilltop Montessori School
MERIT Award
1034: What stood out here isn't the architecture as much as the sensibility, tying the complex into the environment with everything from the siting of the buildings to the generous clerestories, the permeable paving and, yes, the cheerful red birdhouse at the peak of the roof.
Design Awards on the Web
Look at the number of people who hit the AIA 2009 Design Awards Special Edition newsletter. On June 2, (the day AIA sent out the regular newsletter) we had 351 visits and 693 hits. That's pretty typical for the monthly newsletter. On June 17th, we had 399 visits and 2326 page views--more people looked and they looked at lots more pages. In all of May 2009, the AIA website was visited 1181 times and had 3100 page views. On June 8, 2009 (an average to above average day) there were 52 visits and 126 page views. An average of a little over a minute was spent on EACH page of the Design Awards section, so folks were certainly looking and looking carefully! All the more reason to enter the 2010 AIA Birmingham Design Awards! If you missed the 2009 Design Awards Special Edition Click here now – Don’t miss it!
The Smorgasbord by Danya Humaideh
Click here to register
By now, many of you are LEED certified or have taken interest in expanding your sustainable knowledge past LEED. However, the industry is constantly changing, with new technology and new methods of developing sustainable buildings for people and nature to thrive together. In an effort to meet the future demand of green initiatives, Green Building Focus has collected a range of speakers from various backgrounds to deliver an extensive 2-day educational experience. “Live Simply so Others Can Simply Live,” “The Green Building Underwriting Standard,” Beyond the Cutting Edge of Green Building,” and “Green Prototypes in a Large Scale Landscape & the Impact of the Stimulus Package” are just a few of the topics being presented during the expo. Click here to see a complete listing of speakers and topics during the 2009 Green Expo or the Register.
Aloft Tour
What a great tour and the blueberry martinis were not bad either at aloft Hotel!
AIA members now receive special rates at aloft Hotel, SOHO in Homewood.
Mention you are an AIA member and receive the discounted rate of $109 per night.
It pays to be an AIA MEMBER
AIA Emerging Professionals Update
It’s time for a summer break! We’re giving you a break from study sessions and site visits from now until September. If you have any suggestions for future study sessions or site visits, please e-mail us and let us know what You need to help you transition from intern to architect.
A special thanks goes to ThermaGreen Steel Structures for providing us a tour of its facility and for providing lunch.
Thank you to Greg Tucker and Brad Hutson at Tucker-Jones Engineering for providing interns studying for the Structures section of the ARE with a 2-day study session. Your time is much appreciated!
   
Spring ACE Networking Social
ACE Mentoring of AL Summer
ACE Mentoring of Alabama is looking for mentors for the 2009/2010 school year. We are having a Summer Social at Saw Works studio (ArchitectureWorks) August 6th, 2009 from 5:00 – 7:00. Come find out more about ACE and see if you could volunteer a few hours to make a difference. Beer & lite appetizers will be provided.
RSVP to aiabirm@aiabham.org by Aug.4th.
G.R.E.E.N ACT - Effects YOU!
Earlier this year, Congressman Ed Perlmutter (Colorado) introduced “The Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Act of 2009” (HR 2336) into the House of Representatives. The bill, known as “The GREEN Act of 2009” will encourage the development and implementation of energy efficient building technologies, the use of more durable materials, and the development of renewable energy sources. This bill’s incentives include loans, grants, mortgage guarantees, and other incentives for private homeowners, real estate developers, non-profit organizations, and other entities. The bill has been referred to the House Financial Services Committee, of which Congressman Spencer Bachus is the ranking Republican member. Hearings on the bill began the week of June 15th. The bill can be found at:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h2454eh.txt.pdf
This bill could affect the goals that our clients have in their real estate developments or capital improvements, and may open up opportunities for enhanced energy efficiency. AIA Birmingham encourages each of its members to review the bill and to contact your congressman with your comments. If you are interested in more information regarding this ACT, please email aiabirm@aiabham.org.
 
The 2009 Barkitecture Tour & Charity Auction is well on its way. The competition is on! This year’s participants are Birchfield Penuel & Associates, CMH Architects, Davis Architects, Formworks, Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio, Herrington Architects, HKW, Krumdieck A+I Design, Rick Webster, and TRO.
Save the Dates
August 6th Pick up date for doghouses
 Times for pick-up will be determined closer to date.
August 7th Due date for Display board,
digital images of project, and receipts (if you have any).
Please drop at AIA Office by 5:00.
August 7th – 21 Doghouses displayed at Brookwood Mall
August 22 Barkitecture Charity Auction at
Old Car Heaven Museum
115 35th St. South
Thank you to all the firms who are participating this year. Your efforts are all for those wonderful animals at the Greater Birmingham Humane Society. You’re doing a great thing for man’s best friend!
 
We would like to thank the Gimme Shelter Committee for giving the Barkitecture participants a fabulous Thank You Party at Cantina on Wednesday, June 24. Be sure to pick up the July issue of About Town Magazine to see photos from the evening.
Alabama Council State Convention – Reserve your room/spa NOW!
Plans are underway for the upcoming convention. We are very excited about returning to the Grove Park Inn. Asheville, NC, is such a beautiful area, with numerous events and wonderful arts and crafts. We hope you will make plans to attend. You can call the hotel at (800) 438-0050 to make your reservations now. Ask for the special group rate for AIA Alabama. We have a room block from July 9 - 12, so you can arrive a day early and enjoy the area. The convention will kick off around 1pm on Friday, July 10th and end around noon on Sunday, July 12th.
Make your spa reservations early! http://www.groveparkinn.com/Leisure/TheResort/
 AIA Contract Documents
The new AIA Contract Documents software release delivers greater ease-of-use, Microsoft Excel functionality, and enhanced document management tools in addition to nine revised Construction Manager documents.
New features include:
- Data Dialogue box that makes it easy to fill out documents quickly.
- Customizing function that lets you save your favorite drafts as your own document templates for repeat use
- Microsoft Excel helps you calculate with speed and accuracy
- Document update includes nine revised Construction Manager agreements
Upgrading to our new software version is free to all existing AIA Contract Documents customers. For new customers, simply download and purchase the software license that best fits your needs. If you need paper documents, AIA Birmingham is the only full service document distributor in the state. Please contact us to place your paper document order.
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