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The Young Architects Forum (YAF), a program of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the College of Fellows (COF), is organized to address issues of particular importance to recently licensed architects.

FAQ: What is a young architect and what is an emerging professional? Young architects are architects licensed up to ten years of initial licensure, and the name does not have any relationship to age. Emerging professionals are professionals who have completed their academic studies up to the point of licensure or up to 10 years after completion of their academic studies. Although young architects are now defined as distinct from emerging professionals, many components refer to these groups similarly. For example, a local YAF group may include emerging professionals and a local Emerging Professionals Committee may include young architects.

  • 1.  A new approach to building code research/ coordination

    Posted 07-10-2017 10:08 PM
    I wanted to share with the group a new approach for building code research. Would also love to hear how your office currently manages a code library and the coordination within teams.

    UpCodes brings together building and construction codes with a friendly interface and AEC specific search engine. The service also provides mobile accessibility for meetings and on site code lookup. The codes have been organized around jurisdiction like the California codes, including the California building code,  or base codes like the IBC 2015.

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    Scott Reynolds AIA
    Brooklyn, NY
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  • 2.  RE: A new approach to building code research/ coordination

    Posted 07-12-2017 11:04 AM
    Hey Scott, thanks for sharing a great resource with us all!

    I like the interface and ease of searching and navigating the code manuals on UpCodes. The coordination tool looks like it could be really handy. I know there is a project that I am working on right now that we were determining whether or not we needed smoke/fire dampers in a mechanical chase, and we were collaborating with a team of mechanical engineers in one of our other offices across the country. Rather than typing things out in an email it would have been useful to use the coordination tool on UpCode I think, so that has great potential!

    The firm I work for has also moved to a digital library for codes and we use an online system similar to UpCodes called MADCAD. It is a paid subscription service but it offers a broader range of resources to use such as FGI, ASTM, BOMA, ASHRAE, and USGBC standards. It has a pretty good search interface and can organize codes based on state and even city and county levels. Not quite as clean and designer-friendly an interface as what UpCodes looks like it has but it works pretty well.

    Thanks again for sharing Scott!

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    Matthew Skarin Assoc. AIA
    BSA LifeStructures
    Austin TX
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