AIA Power Moves - Starts October 6, 2020
New virtual series to help women architects overcome the challenges they're facing right now. Based on AIA's Women's Leadership Summit - the largest leadership event for women in architecture - Power Moves is three powerful professional development sessions designed to help women architects build virtual networks with other women in the profession, get tips and successful tactics for overcoming professional and personal challenges, and learn key strategies to succeed in end-of-the-year negotiations.
AIA Honors & Awards
Each year, AIA celebrates the best buildings and spaces-and the people behind them-with some of the most prestigious awards in the built environment. Currently open for submission:
Graduate Student Opportunity
The Innovation in Buildings (IBUILD) Graduate Research Fellowship is a new program managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. IBUILD Fellows will receive research and educational support to conduct innovative research at their home institution in an area with demonstrated relevance to building energy efficiency. In addition to funding high-quality research, the fellowship will provide professional development, mentoring, networking, and support for internship opportunities.
The IBUILD Graduate Research Fellowship is now accepting applications through December 1, 2020 (5:00 PM EST). The IBUILD Graduate Research Fellowship program invites applications from students who are enrolled or intend to be enrolled in a research-focused master's or PhD program. Students can apply here.
IBUILD Fellows will receive a competitive stipend of $35,000, an allowance to offset the costs of health insurance up to $16,000, research travel and materials up to $12,000, and limited tuition allowance up to $25,000.
For more information and details on program eligibility, please visit: https://ibuildfellowship.org/
DOE Announces $80 Million 2020 BENEFIT Funding Opportunity
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) 2020 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). This funding opportunity will provide up to $80 million for projects that enhance energy demand flexibility across buildings and the grid, enabling greater affordability, increased energy productivity, and improved occupant comfort.
The FOA includes topic areas on advanced building construction, workforce development, and a variety of building technologies, including advanced lighting, HVAC, and thermal energy storage, among others.
More information, submittal requirements, and instructions for applying to this FOA (DE-FOA-0002196) can be found on the EERE Exchange. To be eligible for consideration, a concept paper must be submitted no later than November 5, 2020 by 5:00 p.m. ET.
Series of DOE Building Technology Office webinars that explore the frameworks and techniques researchers use to evaluate the energy use of buildings over their entire lifespans, from construction to operation to eventual destruction.
- Overview of life cycle impacts of buildings | October 16, 2020 at 12:00 PM ET | Register Now!
This webinar will provide an overview of the present work on life cycle assessment in buildings and why it matters, including both global and US perspectives.
- Challenges of assessing life cycle impacts of buildings | October 29, 2020 at 12:00 PM ET | Register Now!
This webinar will discuss the importance of data and measuring life cycle impacts of buildings, as well as what analytical tools are available today, their merits and limitations, and who uses them.
- Innovative building materials | November 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM ET | Register Now!
This webinar will examine innovative building materials (both structural and non-structural) from a variety of perspectives and stages of development.
- "Real Life" buildings striving to minimize life cycle impacts | December 3, 2020 at 12:00 PM ET | Register Now!
This webinar will discuss how the building sector is already incorporating life-cycle impacts of buildings internationally and domestically in commercial building portfolios.
- Intersection of life cycle impacts & circular economy potential for the building sector | December 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM ET | Register Now!
This webinar will discuss the current impacts of construction and demolition waste and present means of addressing this challenge, such as recovering materials from waste and designing building materials for recovery and reuse.
Students & Faculty - Solar Decathlon 2021 Design Challenge -Deadline October 20, 2020
Ready to push your limits and feed your passion for designing highly efficient buildings? The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2021 Design Challenge provides an unparalleled platform to showcase your creativity and ingenuity. Teams must apply by 5:00 p.m. ET on October 20, 2020.
Interested collegiate institutions can find detailed information on how to apply for the 2021 Design Challenge in the Solar Decathlon 2021 Design Challenge Rules. Design Challenge teams that are selected as Finalist Teams will present their projects at an expert-juried event, April 16–18, 2021. The Solar Decathlon is an opportunity for students to stay engaged and connected in an increasingly virtual and remote learning environment.
Students: JUMP into STEM building energy efficiency challenges!
The JUMP into STEM competition, hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is accepting submissions from students currently enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities until November 13, 2020 for three new challenges: Advanced Building Construction Methods, Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB), and Building Energy Audit for Residential or Commercial Buildings.
- The Advanced Building Construction Methods challenge encourages substantial changes in building materials or construction methods, leading to benefits such as increased productivity and worker safety through reduced construction time, reduced cost and waste, improvements to occupant comfort and health, and reduced energy use.
- The Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) challenge encourages conceptual designs that support the U.S. Department of Energy Building Technologies Office's overall GEB strategy in the areas of intelligent algorithms that optimize a building's active and passive systems to maximize energy efficiency and whole-building-level interoperable and low-cost automation systems that enable communication with building equipment and appliances.
- The Building Energy Audit for Residential or Commercial Buildings challenge is intended for solutions that expedite energy audits or develop a new energy audit methodology that reduces time and cost compared to current audit practices. In addition to proposing solutions, this challenge also asks teams to demonstrate the proposed energy audit solution on an existing building.
Students who are interested in competing have until November 13, 2020 to submit their idea. Teams of judges, carefully selected to represent a mixture of industry, academia, DOE, and the national laboratories, will select the winners for each challenge. Challenge winners will receive recognition and be matched with a professional for an hour-long mentoring session. Challenge winners and additional finalists will be announced on December 7, 2020 and invited to the final competition. The final competition will be hosted by NREL on January 28-29, 2021. Eligible winners from the final competition will be awarded paid internships at either ORNL or NREL during Summer 2021.
The JUMP into STEM competition encourages teams of two to four students to provide novel solutions to real challenges within the building industry, including a tech-to-market plan. JUMP into STEM not only aims to increase the number of students involved in building science, but also increase the diversity of students involved in building science. Teams are highly encouraged to include members from different majors and from underrepresented groups in the building industry including but not limited to those based on race, gender, and ethnicity. For a list of winners from the FY19-20 JUMP into STEM program, please visit the web site at https://jumpintostem.org/past-winners/.
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