Happy New Year to all!
As your 2015 chair for the Public Architects Knowledge Community, I wish to welcome everyone to a new year and new actions to improve our community. Some quick bullets:
1. We re-aligned the 2014 Public Architects Workshop to two half-day sessions to open our world to the larger AIA community. Anecdotal comments as well as session ratings were extremely high and very positive.
2. With the lead of the DC Chapter, a measure was passed at the 2014 Business Meeting to investigate creating a Public Agency category of membership, allowing public agencies to purchase a number of AIA memberships for their professional staff.
3. The 2015 Public Architects Workshop, led by David Trevino, AIA, will feature session leads from the Corporate Architects and Facilities Management KC and the Academy of Architecture for Justice KC. Main focus of both sessions will be the use of technology in public sector practice.
4. Paula Loomis, FAIA, and I will be working with the 2015 AIA President, Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA, on several initiatives this coming year, including the current limitation on design fees for public work and design-build procurement.
I wish to invite all of you to participate in discussing these and other thoughts you have on the state of the profession of public architecture. I hope to use this and other forums to open the discussion.
Best wishes, Ed
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Edmond Gauvreau, AIA
2015 Chair, Public Architects Knowledge Community
Washington, DC
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