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Announcing the 2013 CAE Design Excellence Award Recipients
The AIA Committee on Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 CAE Education Facility Design Awards!
The CAE Design Awards program offers architects, clients and the public examples of proven strategies and the latest trends in the planning, design and construction of educational environments of all types worldwide. With changes to teaching and learning, design of educational environments is rapidly changing responding to new understandings about ecology and new types of communication and collaboration contexts. The jury selected projects that demonstrate quality of form, functionality, and current architectural responses that promote learning for people of all age groups.
This year the award categories were modified to recognize the best in educational design through the CAE Design Excellence Award, and incorporate two prestigious American Association of School Administrators (AASA) awards, the Shirley Cooper and Walter Taylor Awards. The AASA Shirley Cooper Award is presented to the project that best meets the educational needs of its students while the Walter Taylor Award is presented to the project that best meets a difficult design challenge. Seven educational facilities were honored with awards this year; five received an Award of Excellence; one each received the AASA Shirley Cooper Award and AASA Walter Taylor Award.
All of the awards exhibited integration with the local environment as an integral part of the design and learning experience, function and aesthetics that respect the surrounding community and context, and an understanding of social and emotional needs of learners and the corresponding manifestation into physical spaces. Planning and design processes were shown to be educational, collaborative, and built the capacity of the facility and its community to support its users.
2013 Design Excellence Award
California State University, Northridge Student Recreation Center
Northridge, California
LPA, Incorporated
Sandy High School
Sandy, Oregon
Dull Olson Weekes – IBI Group Architects
Jobie L. Martin Classroom Building
Jackson, Mississippi
Duvall Decker Architects
Mesa Community College Health Wellness Building
Mesa, Arizona
SmithGroupJJR
Cranbrook Kingswood Girls' Middle School
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Lake|Flato Architects
2013 AASA Shirley Cooper Award
Trillium Creek Primary School
West Linn, Oregon
Dull Olson Weekes – IBI Group Architects
2013 AASA Walter Taylor Award
Ingraham High School Addition
Seattle, Washington
Integrus Architecture
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Autism and Design
May 6, 2013 | 12-1pm ET | 9-10am PT | Earn 1 AIA HSW LUs | Learn more »
During the past thirty years the incidence of autism has climbed from 1 in 10,000 children in the 1970s to the present rate of 1 in 88 (CDC). With the spike in numbers of children with autism, a spike in the number of adults with autism will follow causing parents, social workers, health care providers, service providers, and others to wrestle with how best to support this rapidly growing segment of our population. Recently, attention has begun to focus on developing supportive residential environments that address the specific needs of post-school-age autistic adults: during the past year a series of national town hall meetings conducted by a consortium of autism groups, housing agencies, developers, service providers, and parents of adults with autism have identified housing as a primary concern. This webinar provides instruction in evidence-based design for residential environments for adults with autism and other cognitive disabilities.
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Hybrid operating rooms are becoming standard issue at leading hospitals. We will review a case where Integrated Technology Planning was applied to a Hybrid OR and see how this approach proved critical to the project's successful delivery and its prospect for long-term viability.
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The purpose of this presentation is to provide a basic understanding of accounting principles used by the architecture and engineering industries. This is accomplished in webinar format utilizing definition or terms and examples of accounting documents and reports. In addition to Project Managers having this basic understanding, it is best that everyone in a firm understands key financial metrics and business indicators. This will provide a resource to help manage projects more successfully and connect project management with firm business management on a common platform.
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Project Work Planning - The Process Of Planning And Executing A Project
June 13, 2013 | 1-2:15pm ET | 10-11:15am PT | Earn 1.5 AIA LUs | Learn more »
The purpose of this presentation is to present the process of project work planning and the elements of a good plan. All projects, large or small should have a project work plan and certain characteristics will be common across project size and scope. The use of the appropriate level and number of tasks in a plan is discussed and this may be different between Project Managers and project types. The approach is to simplify and produce project work plans that serve the project team, not to produce plans that must be served.