AIA Baltimore/Baltimore Architecture Foundation

Resilience & Adaptation - #2 AIA U Live Action for Climate Action Series (AIA Chesapeake Bay)
2021-07-22 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Do you want to integrate resilience into the design services your firm offers? This detailed and interactive course introduces resilience and adaptation foundations, including history and evolution, and offers key data points that will help you develop as a knowledgeable resource on the topic, support your efforts to integrate resilient design services into your firm and be equipped to participate in local and national resilience conversations and efforts.
This course is the first of the American Institute of Architects’ “Resilience and Adaptation” Online Series, a multi-course series that provides you with the tools and knowledge you need to design for resilience. Take all of the courses in this series to earn a certificate of completion.
Learning Objectives –

Describe shocks and stresses most critical to the built environment and the important role of architects in protecting people and property.
Explain the performance attributes of hazard mitigation, resilience, and adaptation as different approaches to address shocks and stresses in the built environment.
Discuss the qualities and characteristics of resilient and adaptable design strategies.
Describe different roles and responsibilities for architects forwarding resilience goals.

Course Facilitators –
Tom Liebel, Vice President Moseley Architects
Bryna Dunn, Director of Sustainability, Planning & Design Moseley Architects
1 LU pending AIA approval.
REGISTER HERE

Architectural & Design Workshop (Schluter Systems)
2021-07-21 08:30 - 17:00
This architectural and commercial workshop will discuss the challenges faced with traditional floor, wall, and shower applications. New technologies will be presented to address these issues and improve installations and specifications. Participants will also experience a live demonstration involving Schluter educators and managers along with local contractors/installers.
Agenda
Wednesday, July 21
8:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am – 12:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch
1:00pm – 5:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
Thursday, July 22
7:00am – 8:00am – Breakfast
8:00am – 12:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm – Presentation & Demonstratio
July 21 – 22, 2021
Raleigh, NC
Hilton Raleigh North Hills
3415 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609
REGISTER HERE

Project Pipeline Program 2021 (NOMA)
2021-07-19 - 2021-07-21
Project Pipeline is a National Initiative established in 2006 by The National Organization of Minority Architects.
Project Pipeline Program is hosted nation-wide, has taught thousands of students, over many hours through the endless efforts of volunteer mentors, and sponsors. Students are introduced to the people, professions, and ideas that make up the architecture and design profession. The five (5) day camp offers students with varied skills levels and interests to work both individually and collaboratively through a virtual environment to address community focused issues through creativity and design innovation. Pipeline students are asked to think creatively about the spaces around them and are given the opportunity to investigate how they can best influence those spaces. Each day consists of various hands-on activities and learning sessions designed to encourage students to synthesize and interpret new information as they design a new building for their city to engage with. By the end of camp, Pipeline students would have created the building that would fit within their city blocks for a better city and designed a community that reflects their academic, cultural, and design interests!
There is a pro-rated $25 registration fee to cover T-shirts, build kits, technology, and supplies.
Learn More & Register Here

Allied Committee Meeting
2021-07-15 12:00 - 13:00
As part of AIA Baltimore’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), this meeting will be held via tele-conference. Information will be sent to participant, or please contact Margaret Stella (Mstella@aiabalt.com) one hour before the meeting if you have not received this.

Architectural & Design Workshop (Schluter Systems)
2021-07-14 08:30 - 17:30
This architectural and commercial workshop will discuss the challenges faced with traditional floor, wall and shower applications. New technologies will be presented to address these issues and improve installations and specifications. Participants will also experience a live demonstration involving Schluter educators and managers along with local contractors/installers.
July 14 – 15, 2021
Charlotte, NC
Embassy Suites by Hilton Charlotte/Ayrsley
1917 Ayrsley Town Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28273
Agenda
Wednesday, July 14
8:00am – 9:00am – Breakfast
9:00am – 12:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch
1:00pm – 5:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
6:00pm – Dinner
Thursday, July 15
7:00am – 8:00am – Breakfast
8:00am – 12:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm – Presentation & Demonstration
REGISTER HERE

Designs on Victory: Olmsted-inspired Garden City Plans for Historic Dundalk
2021-07-09 13:00 - 13:30
Amy Menzer discusses the design and development of WWI Era Historic Dundalk

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is co-hosted by the Maryland Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks & Landscapes (FMOPL) as part of Olmsted 200 celebration of the Bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr’s birth.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
The Bethlehem Steel Mill at Sparrows Point launched an effort to create a Garden City-style town in 1917 just before the US entered WWI. At the same time, the Federal Government began housing production for war workers. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (FLO Jr.) headed the Town Planning division of the new United States Housing Corporation. Several colleagues in the nascent profession of city planning who had worked with FLO Jr. on Roland Park and Forest Hills Gardens were all directly involved in designing Dundalk, including Baltimore architect Edward Palmer, Roland Park Company leader Edward Bouton, and architects Grosvenor Atterbury and Charles Wellford Leavitt. Their plans were inspired by their designs for more affluent areas, including curvilinear streets, separation of uses, green spaces, and restrictive covenants. We will explore how these plans created a new community for workers and managers, but was segregated by race.
Presenters
Amy E. Menzer is executive director of Dundalk Renaissance, a 20 year-old non-profit community development organization, and is deeply interested in planning history and neighborhood change. She also serves as a Board member of the Friends of Maryland’s Olmsted Parks and Landscapes. She previously worked for Citizens Planning and Housing Association on housing and transportation advocacy, and has served as President of the Community Development Network of Maryland, NeighborSpace Baltimore County, the Patterson Park Neighborhood Association, and the Transit Riders League of Metropolitan Baltimore. She holds a Ph.D in Human Geography from Johns Hopkins University.
Joining this presentation is Meg Fairfax Fielding, past president of BAF, and member of BAF’s Dead Architects’ Society. By day, Meg is the head of the History of Maryland Medicine at MedChi, which was founded in 1799, but on weekends, loves to explore Baltimore and the surrounding areas and take deep dives into the historical contributing architects, such as Palmer & Lamdin. Follow her on Instagram at PigtownDesign.
Photo: Admiral Boulevard when first built.

REGISTER HERE

The Making of The Center: Design Exhibition
2021-07-02 09:00 - 16:00
On view in the Center Gallery through September:
In August of 2019, four firms participated in a design competition to bring to life the vision for the Baltimore Center for Architecture and Design, located at One Charles Center. AIA Baltimore ultimately selected the Baltimore office of Quinn Evans Architects to design the Baltimore Center for Architecture and Design.
See how the Quinn Evans team made it to their final design with our latest exhibition “The Making of the Center”, offering insight in the design ideas, and innovative, flexible solutions to accommodate a variety of Center programs, and to complement original iconic modernist building design by Mies van der Rohe.
See our new exhibition by making an appointment here.
Also on view in the Plaza level Lobby: AIA Baltimore/BAF 2020 Design Excellence Awards, and ULI Baltimore Wavemaker Awards.

About The Center

Photograph Courtesy of Nate Smith Photography
The Center for Architecture and Design serves as a high-profile, visible space to showcase the important role of architectural practice and design, and as a dynamic hub to engage professionals, students, and the public. It is a place where local designers can gather and network, where students can engage in STEM workshops, and where all Baltimoreans can participate and learn. Shared exhibition and gallery spaces, studios, and event spaces will offer engaging new programming on architecture, urban design, neighborhood history, historic architecture and new design projects, and the role of design in shaping the city’s future.
Learn More Ways To Support The Center

The History and Award Winning Renovation of the Pratt Central Library
2021-06-25 13:00 - 13:30
Sandra Vicchio and Jillian Storms discuss the design of the Pratt Central Library, one of Baltimore’s most beloved buildings.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is hosted in partnership with the George Peabody Library.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
About this Presentation:
The Pratt Central Library achieved second place in BAF’s Architecture Madness tournament of Baltimore’s best buildings built between 1870 and today and hosted in celebration of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary. In today’s Virtual History, we’ll explore what makes this library so special and how it served as a national model for libraries that followed.
In 1882, Enoch Pratt gave a whopping $1 million gift to Baltimore City to launch the nation’s first free library system, proclaiming, “My library shall be for all, rich and poor without distinction of race or color…” This welcoming vision was echoed in the 1929 design of the system’s new central branch, starting with its street-level main entrance on Cathedral Street, going against the grain of architectural design for grand civic institutions at the time. Architect Clyde N. Friz hoped to give the library “a dignity characterized by friendliness rather than aloofness” avoiding the old-fashioned institutional character of past libraries. When Baltimore’s Central Library opened on Cathedral Street in 1933, it displayed its featured content in large bay windows along its street facade enticing all to enter, much like department stores on nearby Howard Street.
Today, the Central Library serves more than half a million people a year and recently received a $115 million, three-year renovation. Its exterior and interiors were gorgeously restored and fully transformed for the digital age with up-to-date systems and technology masterfully integrated into the historic fabric. Dropped ceilings were removed to reveal fabulous stenciling, decorative molding damaged in prior renovations was restored by artisans, and historically appropriate new lighting was installed to make the rooms feel light and airy. The results are stunning.
Come join us as we hear from our two presenters about this award-winning library, inviting and comfortable for all who enter, and one that will fill you with civic pride. Gordon Krabbe, Chief Operating Officer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, will be introducing our presenters.
About the Presenters:
Jillian Storms, AIA, has done extensive architectural research on numerous architects who practiced in Maryland, including Clyde N. Friz, AIA, who holds the first architectural licence issued by the State of Maryland. She is a former President of the BAF and now serves as co-chair of its research committee, the Dead Architects’ Society. She serves as a capital programs manager at the School Facilities Branch of the Maryland State Department of Education.
Sandra Parsons Vicchio, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, is founding principal of Sandra Vicchio & Associates, LLC, with more than 30 years of experience in programming, planning, architecture, and design. Her portfolio includes historic preservation, renovation, and new construction encompassing laboratory, office, academic, administrative, visitor center, library, and museum spaces. She co-authored the 2015 book The Living Library: An Intellectual Ecosystem and served as consulting architect on the Pratt Central Library renovation project team, along with lead architects, Beyer Blinder Belle, and managing architects, Ayers Saint Gross.
REGISTER HERE

Bromo Art Walk (Bromo Arts District/Downtown Partnership)
2021-06-24 17:00 - 20:00
Join us for an unguided tour of some of the best spots in Bromo!
About this event
Theaters, galleries, studios, and more open for an art-filled evening of performances and exhibitions in the Bromo Arts District. Create your own tour and visit the participating creative groups. A map and additional details coming soon. This event is free, but register for a ticket to get event updates.

Arena Players
Baltimore Jazz Alliance
Blakwater Production House
Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower
Current Space
E. Brady Robinson Photography
Eubie Blake Cultural Center
Fluid Movement
Four Ten Lofts Gallery
The Hippodrome Theatre
Kelly L. Walker Art
Keur Khaleyi African Dance Company
Le Mondo
Maryland Art Place
Sense of Press
This programming was made possible by the Maryland State Arts Council, the City of Baltimore, and Downtown Partnership of Baltimore.
Register Here

Hillandale Gateway Case Study: Large Mixed Use/Multi-Family Passive House
2021-06-22 17:00 - 18:00
Hillandale Gateway is a mixed-use project targeting ambitious sustainability goals including LEED, Passive House, EnergyStar, and NZE.

The Hillandale Gateway Project is a new multi-building, mixed use, mixed income development located in eastern Montgomery County, Maryland. The project is prominently located adjacent to the Capital Beltway (I-495) affording it excellent visibility. Such prominence offers an opportunity to set a highly visible example of exceptionally sustainable development within the region. This Project represents a partnership formed in 2015 between two long-term community stakeholders with deep roots in Montgomery County: The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County and The Duffie Companies as represented by sustainability focused partner PS Ventures, LLC.
As long-term holders of real estate, the ownership team has recognized the values of quality, durability, and resilience from the very beginning. Hillandale Gateway will seek achievement of a variety of third-party certifications demonstrating the team’s commitment to setting new standards in sustainability and resiliency. The Project is targeting certifications including LEED for Homes Platinum, Energy Star for Multi-Family, Passive House (via Passive House Institute US – PHIUS), and Net Zero Energy (on one of the two residential buildings). Each of these ‘above code minimum’ standards offers a different focus which will be briefly explored during the session.
Such ambitious goals require the coordinated efforts of many professionals all working together and pulling in the same direction. Early in the entitlement process the Hillandale team was assembled (from all over the Country) for a number of design charrettes where Project goals were outlined, significant obstacles were identified, and various design approaches were discussed and challenged. The importance of assembling the correct team and ensuring that efforts are coordinated early in the development process will be a focus of this session.
HIllandale Gateway will feature two separate residential structures connected by a common above ground parking structure. The design team worked together to identify products and systems which would allow for the achievement of our sustainability goals as close to cost parity with a code minimum approach as possible. The team’s methodology, which favors use and adaptation of reliable systems, iteration, and a focus on simplicity will be discussed. The major systems being employed in Hillandale will be outlined and discussed (i.e. structure, envelope, heating/cooling, ventilation, & water heating).
Finally, with a long-term perspective, the team has also demonstrated a “best value” vs purely “first cost” approach throughout the design and development process. The advantages of refocusing on the question of “Is it worth it?” compared to the far more common “How much does it cost?” will be explored.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what the Passive House Standard is (PHIUS) and how it differs from LEED.
2. Recognize the value of early design team coordination in the implementation of a large-scale multi-family passive house project.
3. Recognize the benefits of research, adaptation, iteration, and simplicity in the design of systems.
4. Understand the challenges and lessons already learned in the selection of products and systems utilized on the Hillandale Gateway Project.
5. Understand the benefits of a “Best Value” vs a pure “First Cost” approach to development.
Presenters:
Shane Pollin – Principal PS Ventures, LLC
Brandon Nicholson – Principal NK Passive

REGISTER HERE

Summer Design Soirée Post Solstice Emergence (T3xture Archizine/RM Sovich Architecture Studios)
2021-06-21 19:00 - 21:30
Event: Come for a Summer Design Soirée Post Solstice Emergence on Monday, June 21, 2021 @ 7:00-9:30pm. Bring creative works to share & discuss. Portable easel, screen, and projector provided. Contributions of festive food and drink always appreciated.
Our hosts for the evening are Randy Sovich, AIA and Craig Purcell, AIA – founding editors of T3xture Archizine. In addition to their work, Yuriy Zadorozhnyy’s mixed media and Janet Jeffers’ recent photography will be presented as well as any others who care to share.
Time to emerge from our cocoons and kickstart that collective creative spirit! Please let us know if you will be attending so we can have sufficient seating on hand.
Location: Under the Open Air Pavilion in Cross Keys Village Center‘s Courtyard at 5100 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21210 (See map below)
Rain location: RM Sovich Architecture Studios at 1 Village Square Suite 175 in the Village of Cross Keys.
Any questions: Email baltimoredesignsoiree@gmail.com or Contact Randy at 410.303.2080.
REGISTER HERE

BAF Dead Architects Society Meeting
2021-06-21 17:00 - 18:00

POSTPONED: The Underground Railroad in Baltimore County
2021-06-18 13:00 - 13:30
This week’s virtual history is canceled. We plan to reschedule with Mr. Louis Diggs later this year.
In the meantime, please join us next week for our Virtual History about the Enoch Pratt Central Library.
Thank you for understanding.

Historian Louis Diggs will discuss Underground Railroad sites in Baltimore County

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is hosted in partnership with the George Peabody Library.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
In observance of Juneteenth, historian and write Louis Diggs will tell the story of the journey to freedom through Baltimore County revealing sites in the area that were part of the Underground Railroad.
Louis Diggs is a chronicler of African American history specializing in Baltimore County. His work illuminates the historic past of its Black communities. He is the author of ten books focusing on African American history in the Baltimore region. Diggs was honored by the State of Maryland for his contributions in preserving the history of Maryland’s Black communities. Diggs led the effort to restore the Cherry Hill African Union Methodist Protestant Church in Granite, Maryland and convert it to the Diggs/Johnson Mini-Museum on African American History.
Photo: Emmarts United Methodist Church. Courtesy Emmarts United Methodist Church.
REGISTER HERE

Benefits: How to Help Your Bottom Line, Recruitment and Retention
2021-06-15 08:30 - 09:30
1.0 AIA/LU
For some employers’ the biggest pain points are rising healthcare costs and the recruiting and retaining of valuable employees.

About The Presenters

Debra D. Rock, Senior Client Executive of RCM&D
As a Senior Client Executive and Client Service Team Leader specializing in Health & Welfare Plans, Debi helps clients develop and implement benefits programs and strategies that meet both their financial and employee engagement objectives.
She works extensively with senior corporate decision-makers – in both Human Resources and Finance – to ensure their employee benefit offerings provide a holistic approach to meet her client’s strategy and budget to improve employee health, well-being and retention.
Debi currently serves on RCM&D’s Wellness Committee, focused on improving the health and well-being of RCM&D employees and families.

Cheryl Abrams, Sales Executive of RCM&D
Cheryl Abrams is a Sales Executive for the RCM&D Employee Benefits Division. With 25 years of experience in
this type of position, she brings a passion for helping clients and building lasting partnerships.
In this role, Cheryl is responsible for generating, qualifying and nurturing new sales leads. Additionally, Cheryl
actively maintains her client relationships, working on client’s renewal strategies, regularly analyzing additional
risk, coverage amounts and increased exposures. She has extensive experience providing and implementing
service solutions related to her client’s technology and Human Capital Management needs and processes. Cheryl
continues to focus on building and strengthening partnerships through community and business involvement.
Register Here

Dead Architects Society Meeting
2021-06-14 17:00 - 18:00
The Dead Architects Society is the research committee of BAF, originally formed to uncover the lives of Baltimore’s first architects. It is responsible for many of its publications including our collection of Architect Biographies. Architectural history buffs welcome!
To join this committee, please contact co-chairs:
Jillian Storms, AIA, Maryland State Department of Education
Charlie Duff, Jubilee Baltimore

Camden Yards: Greatest Ballpark in America
2021-06-11 13:00 - 13:30
Janet Marie Smith will discuss the design of Camden Yards and how this influential ballpark came to be.

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is hosted in partnership with the George Peabody Library.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
Camden Yards made it to the semifinals of BAF’s Architecture Madness tournament, which included 64 exceptional Baltimore buildings built between 1870 and today, hosted in celebration of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary. We’ll explore what makes Camden Yards one of the top ballparks in the world.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards consistently ranks among the top ballparks in the world, and has had a profound influence on ballpark design since it opened in 1992. The design broke away from the idea that stadiums should be on the outskirts of cities surrounded by massive parking lots. Instead, Camden Yards was placed near the heart of Downtown and designed to complement its historic surroundings and incorporates the site of Camden Station with the 1905 B&O Warehouse. Camden Yards ushered in the trend for retro ballpark design and demonstrated that the best stadiums are those that are integrated into the urban fabric of the city.
Janet Marie Smith is best known in baseball for her work on Oriole Park at Camden Yards, which set the standard for a new wave of ballparks after its opening in 1992. Smith worked for the Orioles from 1989-94 as vice president of planning and development during the design and construction of the park. She later re-joined the club from 2009-12 to direct renovations and expansion of the Orioles’ spring training facility in Sarasota, FL., and upgrades to Camden Yards.From 2002-2009, Smith served as senior vice president of planning and development for the Boston Red Sox, overseeing the preservation and expansion of Fenway Park. Smith was president of Turner Sports and Entertainment Development and vice president of planning and development for the Atlanta Braves from 1994-2000, when she helped transform the 1996 Olympic Stadium into Turner Field and she oversaw the development of the Philips Arena, then home to the NBA Hawks and NHL Thrashers.
Outside of baseball, Smith has worked on development projects including Battery Park City in New York, unfulfilled plans for Pershing Square in LA, redevelopment of former industrial buildings on Baltimore’s waterfront as well as renovation plans for the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, CA.
Smith holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Mississippi State University and a masters’ in urban planning from City College of New York. In 2017, Smith was the Edward P. Bass Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Architecture. A native of Jackson, Miss., Smith resides in Baltimore with her husband, Bart Harvey, and has three children. Smith is currently the Executive Vice President Planning and Development for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Register Here

Equity in Public Schools: Supporting our Communities through School Design
2021-06-02 12:00 - 13:30
Join the AIA Baltimore CAE, AIA DC, and AIA North Virginia for a webinar exploring the equity in education systems and communities…

1.5 AIA LUs/HSW Available
This event is in partnership with AIA Baltimore, AIA DC, and AIA Northern Virginia.
This virtual event will explore equity in the education systems, communities, and school facilities of three local public school districts – Alexandria City Public Schools, Baltimore City Public Schools, and Prince George’s County Public Schools – each with distinctive challenges, demographics, populations, and settings. We will hear presentations from school system leaders facing challenges of inequity and resource disparity in their communities and schools, and the unique strategies established by each for the planning, design, and procurement of school facilities, followed by a facilitated discussion.
This event will focus on:
• The specific equity goals of each local school system
• Considerations and strategies for the allocation of resources to optimize educational equity and support surrounding communities
• Approaches to community engagement and distinct impacts of improved neighborhood connections
• Strategies to overcome diversity and inclusion obstacles in our education systems
For special accommodations to this event, please contact Olivia Miles, AIA Baltimore Communications at omiles@aiabalt.com

About Our Presenters:

Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., Superintendent, Alexandria City Public Schools
As an experienced educator and administrator, Dr. Hutchings served as a teacher and in leadership roles at the middle and high school levels as well as in central office administrative positions. He began his teaching career in Manassas at Prince William County Public Schools and then served as an assistant middle school principal with Chesterfield County Public Schools, near Richmond. In Nashville, Tennessee, he was promoted from an assistant high school principal to middle school principal. He was named Tennessee Middle School Principal of the Year by the Tennessee Association of Middle Schools for his role in increasing student achievement and becoming thenumber one middle school in metropolitan Nashville based on value-added.
Dr. Hutchings holds a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Old Dominion University and a master’s in educational leadership from George Mason University. He earned a doctorate in educational policy, planning and leadership in 2010 from the College of William and Mary.

Cyndi Smith, Director of Facilities Design and Construction, Baltimore City Public Schools
Cyndi Smith is the Director of Facilities Design and Construction at Baltimore City Public Schools in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to this, she was the Senior Educational Facilities Planner for City Schools. In her Director role, she oversees the design and construction of all of the City Schools Capital projects across the portfolio of 156 buildings, which is approximately 20-30 projects and about $35 – $45M per year of work. In addition, she is involved in the 21st Century Schools initiative which City Schools is currently undertaking.
Cyndi received her Bachelor’s degrees in Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering with a Structural Concentration from Drexel University. She also holds a Master’s degree in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University as well as an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Educational Facilities Planning from San Diego State University’s National Center for the 21st Century Schoolhouse. Cyndi is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in Maryland, a Project Management Professional (PMP), and an Accredited Learning Environments Professional (ALEP).
Cyndi is active in the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE), the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and she has been recognized as a Fellow in both SEI and ASCE for her contributions (F.SEI, F.ASCE). Cyndi has served on both the Northeast Region Board of A4LE as well as the Chesapeake Bay Delaware Valley Chapter Board.

Dr. Alicia J. Hart, Executive Director of Facilities and Operations, Alexandria City Public Schools
Dr. Hart has been with ACPS since December 2019. She joined the organization in the role of Director of Educational Facilities where she was responsible for the management and execution of non-capacity Capital Improvement projects. In December 2020, she was promoted to Executive Director of Facilities and Operations. In her role as Executive Director, she oversees multiple support operations for the division, to include Transportation, School Nutrition, Safety and Security, Maintenance and Custodial Services, and Capital Projects.Prior to joining ACPS, she held the post of Assistant Director of Public Works, Maintenance and Operations with Prince William County. Within this role, she handled the planning, operation and execution of the Buildings and Grounds Division administering a divisional budget in excess of $14 million dollars annually and managing a staff of 82 employees. Before her time in Prince William County, she held the capacity of Administrative Budget Manager for Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission where she developed, managed and administered an annual operating budget of $250M for the Department of Parks and Recreation. Some of her early career positions included Facilities Coordinator with Portsmouth Public Schools and Assistant Director of General Services with the City of Portsmouth.Dr. Hart holds a doctorate in Business Administration from Walden University, a masters in Business Administration from Strayer University and a bachelors in Business Management from Hampton University.

Erika Gulick, Director of Capital Programs, Planning, and Design, Alexandria City Public Schools
Erika Gulick is the Director of Capital Programs, Planning and Design for Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS), and has been working as part of the ACPS Facilities and Operations team since 2015. Some of her main responsibilities with ACPS include developing the Capital Improvement Program with a team annually, acting as a liaison to City departments, planning for and leading major new facilities projects through design and construction, facilitating enrollment projections and conducting capacity and utilization analyses. Prior to coming to ACPS, Erika worked as an environmental scientist on redevelopment sites for an engineering and planning consultant firm in her home-state of New Jersey. She also has her Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP) license from GISCI and her American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certificate from American Planning Association.

Jason Washington, Director of Public-Private Partnerships Program, Prince George’s County Public Schools
Since beginning his career as a teacher, Jason has always sought out opportunities that can have a direct impact on the lives of others. From practicing law to working in community development and in his current position, leading the development and implementation of the Nation’s first K-12 bundled schools concessionaire model, he has sought positions that allow him to serve and create dynamic programs.
Prior to leading this effort, he was executive director of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships, vice president of Business and Economic Development at Corvias and he led the Metropolitan Washington Community Wealth Building Initiative at City First Enterprises as senior vice president. Jason has also served as a White House fellow, assigned to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he supported the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Previously, he was senior policy advisor to the mayor of Baltimore, and served as chair of the Mayor’s School Construction Task Force. Prior to joining city government, Jason practiced law as a corporate associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Register Here

Learn More About The Committee on Architecture in Education
The CAE is a forum for the exploration, discussion, and dissemination of ideas on educational facilities. CAE strives to bring together diverse stakeholders interested in creating, building and implementing great learning environments.
Learn more about CAE and its mission here.

Morgan State University: National Treasure and Model for Preservation
2021-05-28 13:00 - 13:30
On its five-year anniversary as a designated National Treasure, we will hear about the University’s stewardship of its historic buildings.

In this Virtual Histories Series, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage host weekly 30-minute lunchtime live presentations on Zoom focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation, and history. Upon registering, you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com at least 1-hour prior to the start of the program or cannot guarantee admittance.
Reservations are donation-based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this. This presentation is also co-hosted by Morgan State University and the Baltimore Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects.
About this Presentation:
In May 2016, the nation’s leading preservation organization, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, designated Morgan State University a National Treasure. The designation served to recognize the University’s significance as an HBCU (Historically Black College and University) and as a compelling example of the challenges that colleges across the country face in stewarding their historic buildings while redeveloping their historic campuses.
Founded in 1867 as one of the nation’s earliest institutions to offer post-secondary education for African Americans and the largest in the state of Maryland, Morgan State University’s urban campus has an impressive collection of historic buildings. The University’s varied built landscape features 20 contributing structures—ranging from Classical and Italianate to Modern and Brutalist—eligible for listing on the National Register. Buildings on the campus were designed by pioneering and celebrated black architects such as Albert Cassell, Hilyard Robinson, Louis Fry, and Leon Bridges. In addition, the University is home to one of six HBCU accredited architecture programs and the only one accredited in historic preservation.
In its effort towards preserving the rich cultural legacy of HBCUs, the National Trust joined forces with the University to envision a forward-thinking stewardship strategy for preserving HBCU campuses. The partnership aimed at developing a campus heritage preservation plan for Morgan State University – a critical tool to inform campus master planning – that could be applied at other HBCUs across the country.
On its five-year anniversary as a designated National Treasure, we will hear about the University’s progress to create a preservation roadmap that stewards the many historic buildings on campus, while planning wisely for the university’s long-term, sustainable future.
About the Presenter:
Dale Glenwood Green is a descendant of Reverend Samuel Green, Sr. (a Visionary Founder of Morgan State University), Morgan Alumnus (a inaugural student of the Morgan undergraduate architecture program), and Professor of Architecture and Lead Faculty for Historic Preservation at Morgan State University School of Architecture and Planning. He has been teaching and leading research on Morgan’s campus heritage since he joined the faculty in 2008. He along with his faculty colleagues and students have collaborated with the University and the National Trust for Historic Preservation on preserving the campus and individually listing the University Memorial Chapel on the National Register of Historic Places. He has been leading the Preservation in Practice summer program with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, National Parks Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Register Here

Designing the Future (Baltimore Design School)
2021-05-26 08:30 - 09:30
We look forward to seeing you for a morning of connection, powerful stories, and even more information about BDS’s programs, services, and initiatives that are touching and transforming lives every day. The event’s proceeds will benefit our efforts to develop the whole child, expand the diversity of the design professions, and foster creativity, critical thinking, and design skills.
If you have questions, contact Dr. Marsha Koger at drkoger@baltimoredesignschool.com
Learn more

Regenerative Design and Development
2021-05-25 17:00 - 18:00
Join the AIA Baltimore Committee on the Environment + Resiliency for a webinar on regenerative design and development…

Rendering Courtesy of Onion Flats Architects
1.0 AIA LUs/HSW Available
Our regenerative design team is comprised of a mission-driven developer, a community partnership facilitator, a regenerative-minded architect, and a sustainability and energy consultant. Together we will define regenerative community development and its process for design and implementation. We will open up our regenerative toolbox to share tips for successful, community-integrated, and radical neighborhood development. Then we will shift from theory to practice to discuss our current multi-family development project on West North Avenue.
Learning Objectives:
1. Have an understanding of Regenerative Community Development (RCD)
2. Learn about the Regenerative Development Process
3. Have 4 tools/tips to implement from our Regenerative Toolbox
4. Be able to see RCD in action

About Our Presenters

Brendan Schreiber, LEED AP BD +C
Brendan Schreiber is an expert in residential construction management and sustainable development, with over a decade of experience in the field. In 2015 he founded Schreiber Brothers Development, an affordable housing and community development company focused on achieving social and environmental justice. As local leaders in the environmental justice movement, in 2020 Schreiber Brothers committed to making all future residential projects zero-energy to advance affordability, public health and climate change.

Candace Chance
Candace is a Baltimore City native and founded The V.P.I. Firm (Vision, Performance, & Impact): a process and strategy design firm for community development. She also co-founded Momo|Wucha (an equity real estate development firm), and is launching, Build Beyond the Hustle (bringing strategy, structure and systems to support BIPOC and women founders). Over the past decade, she has been developing strategies to serve the development of regenerative and self-determined communities.

Carri Beer, AIA, PDC
Carri Beer, AIA is owner of CommONEcology Regenerative Design Studio in Baltimore, Maryland. Carri became one of Maryland’s first LEED Accredited Professionals in 2001 and consulted on several of the region’s early LEED projects. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate from Charm City Farms in 2017 and an Advanced Permaculture Social Systems Design from the Permaculture Women’s Guild in 2020. She is Project Architect and Manager on new high performance, healthy homes and small community buildings, permaculture-based landscape design, and regenerative neighborhood planning. Carri focuses on creating architecture and places that are whole restorative systems and address high energy performance, building science, healthy indoor air quality, natural materials, resiliency, site and water restoration and social equity.

Michael Hindle, MFA, CPHC
Michael Hindle is founder and principal of Passive to POSITIVE, a Building Enclosure and Energy Efficiency consulting firm specializing in PASSIVE HOUSE, Zero Energy, Low Carbon and Resilient Design. He is also co-founder and principal of Common Ecology, a regenerative and permaculture-based design company, focused on regenerative community redevelopment projects. Michael became one of the nation’s first Certified Passive House Consultants (CPHC) in late 2009. He has consulted on Passive House, zero-energy, and Living Building Challenge projects that include single-family and multi-family residential, mixed-use, and small commercial projects from Washington DC to New Hampshire. He has experience in both new construction and retrofits, and is committed to low toxicity, low Global Warming Potential, and carbon sequestering building methods.

Register Here

Architectural Workshop (Schluter Systems)
2021-05-25 - 2021-05-28
Architectural Workshop
– Next Generation and Curbless Shower applications – Includes 4 AIA/IDCEC approved presentations (total of 6 LU’s)
– Overview of specification tools for Schluter®-Systems products
This architectural & commercial workshop will discuss the challenges faced with traditional floor, wall and shower
applications. New technologies will be presented to address these issues and improve installation & specifications.
Schluter Systems Dallas-Fort Worth
17505 Interstate Hwy 35 W, Northlake, TX 76262
Hotel Accommodations:
Hotel Vin, Autograph Collection
215 East Dallas Road, Grapevine, TX 76051
INCLUDES
• 2 days of training, seminars, and demos
• Activity Pending
• Hotel
• Meals
• Great
Networking
Opportunities
*All accommodations are compliments of Schluter Systems*
Itinerary
• May 25: Arrival Night & Dinner
• May 26 & 27: Seminars & Demos, Dinner
• May 28: Departure Day
Register at SchluterEvents.com using invite code: 21DTXMAY25
RSVP by Friday May 7, 202
1
**Space is Limited**
This workshop will be held in accordance with all applicable COVID-19 health and safety standards. Schluter staff and
event attendees must comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, and rules in place at the time of the event

Architecture Sketching in Mount Vernon Place
2021-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Hotel Revival (Outside on Monument St), 101 W Monument St, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States
Spend the day sketching architecture with Morgan State University architecture professor Gabriel Kroiz, AIA…

Join architect and Morgan State University architecture professor, Gabriel Kroiz, AIA, for a beginner sketch class, while learning about the rich architectural history of Mount Vernon Place.
This one-hour class is geared to beginners, and to learning an “elevation”: an easy entry point to architectural drawings. We will focus on 8 West Mount Vernon Place, pointing out the organizing grid and proportions and introducing architectural terms such as balustrade, piano nobile, etc. Please note: this tour will be limited to twelve participants in light of COVID-19 restrictions. Facemasks required.
8 West Mount Vernon Place (now the Mt Vernon Club) was built around 1842, and is one of the oldest homes on Mount Vernon Place.
Previously known as the Blanchard Randall House and the Tiffany-Fisher House, the home was built by William Tiffany, a wealthy Baltimore commission merchant. The building is a fine example of the Greek Revival architectural style and set a high standard for the new homes being built around the Washington Monument. In 1941, The Mount Vernon Club purchased the building, which has housed the Club since then.
For more info on the history of Mount Vernon Place, see the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy’s website.
Instructor
Gabriel Kroiz, AIA founder and principle of Kroiz Architecture has over 25 years of experience as an architect, builder, and educator. As an architect, Kroiz’s experience includes award-winning projects in the US and Asia. As a builder, he has focused on small, detail intensive projects which allow for a high level of research and experimentation with materials and their application. In 2008 Kroiz joined the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University as its first Program Director working to achieve the school’s missions of providing access to the design professions for underrepresented minorities and performing research focused on the redevelopment of Baltimore and the surrounding region. Kroiz is also a member of the board of directors of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Baltimore).
Please bring:
A sketchbook of any size (if you have one), and assorted pens and pencils. There may be limited seating available in the park. You may also wish to bring a folding chair, and bottled water.
All participants are encouraged to submit sketches to BAF’s Building Love Instagram exhibit in honor of the 150th anniversary of AIA Baltimore. See details here.
Register Here
Don’t forget to stop by the Charles Street Promenade that will be happening all day from 9:00 am to 9:00pm on North Charles street. Find out more information here.

Station North Architecture Walking Tour
2021-05-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Penn Station-Baltimore, 1500 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States
Join Charlie Duff on a special tour of Baltimore’s Station North Arts District…

Photograph Courtesy of Vivian Doering
Join us for our first in-person tour since February, 2020! On May 22, much of Charles Street will be closed to vehicular traffic, so we’re taking advantage of it with a tour of Station North led by Charlie Duff. Located in the heart of Baltimore, Station North was the first area in Baltimore to receive the State designation as an Arts & Entertainment District in 2002.
Spanning the neighborhoods of Charles North, Greenmount West, and Barclay, Station North is a diverse collection of artist live-work spaces, galleries, rowhomes, and businesses, all just steps away from Penn Station, Mount Vernon, Charles Village, the Maryland Institute College of Art, the University of Baltimore, and Johns Hopkins University. Please note: this tour will be limited to fifteen participants in light of COVID-19 restrictions. Facemasks required. Meet at the Male/Female Statue in front of Penn Station. It’s impossible to miss!
About the Presenter
Charles Duff is a planner, teacher, developer, and historian. Since 1987, Mr. Duff has been President of Jubilee Baltimore, a non-profit group that has built or rebuilt more than 300 buildings in historic Baltimore neighborhoods and is leading the development of the Station North Arts District. He has been President of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the Patterson Park Community Development Corporation. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University, he lectures widely and has taught at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State. He co-wrote Then and Now: Baltimore Architecture in 2005 and contributed to The Architecture of Baltimore. His book The North Atlantic Cities has just been published.

Register Here
Don’t forget to stop by the Charles Street Promenade that will be happening all day from 9:00 am to 9:00pm on North Charles street. Find out more information here.

Designing the AVAM – Winner of Baltimore Architecture Madness
2021-05-21 13:00 - 13:30
AVAM Founder and Director Rebecca Hoffberger, and architects Rebecca Swanston and Diane Cho celebrate the design of this Baltimore treasure

This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST. This special program is hosted in partnership with the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). Follow them on Facebook and Twitter: @theavam and Instagram: @the_avam.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) was crowned winner of BAF’s Architecture Madness Tournament, which included 64 exceptional Baltimore buildings built between 1870 and today, hosted in celebration of AIA Baltimore’s 150th anniversary.
We’ll be joined by AVAM founder and director Rebecca Hoffberger and architects Diane Cho and Rebecca Swanston to celebrate and reflect upon the design of Baltimore’s most beloved building of the past 150 years.
Completed in 1995, AVAM is a brilliant example of sculptural expression. Architect Rebecca Swanston, FAIA and designer Alex Castro incorporated the curving Trolley Works building and enlarged it with an addition that echoes its curves and creates a strong sense of motion. Its playful, eye-catching facade, created by youth in the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services as a way to provide them with tangible skills and personal development, was an echoing sentiment from Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Founder/Director and Primary Curator of AVAM that “social justice is life’s highest performance art”. The shimmering and whimsy exterior mirrors the artworks found inside by self-taught individuals that make AVAM one of the city’s most beloved institutions. Architect Diane Cho, AIA of Cho Benn Holback + Associates (today Quinn Evans) led the 2004 expansion of the museum transforming an old whiskey barrel warehouse into AVAM’s Jim Rouse Visionary Center. Both projects are stellar examples of adaptive use – the creative repurposing of historic buildings.
When asked to describe why they voted the way they did, Architecture Madness voters emphasized how AVAM’s architecture embodies the museum’s spirit. As one voter put it, “It feels alive. It feels like a building that embraces all people and inspires creativity and a sense of wonder.”
Register Here

Virtual Tour of The Tremco Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility
2021-05-18 12:00 - 13:00
Join BEC Baltimore & AIA Baltimore for an inside look at Tremco’s state-of-the-art sustainable building solutions test facility…

Tremco’s Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility offers a unique educational opportunity — In addition to mitigating risk for your clients by testing systems for performance and compatibility, Tremco’s facility has helped third party labs and consultants understand the limitations of various systems, and learn proper application techniques to ensure optimal performance in adverse environmental conditions.
The Tour Will Include:
• A personalized tour of the Sustainable Building Solutions Test Facility, including our brand new Thermal Environmental Chamber
• 1.0 LU/HSW on restoration, stop water intrusion in your building enclosure
• An inside view of what’s new with Tremco CPG, which has brought together Tremco Incorporated’s Commercial Sealants & Waterproofing and Roofing & Building Maintenance operating divisions; Dryvit Systems, Inc.; Nudura Inc.; Willseal; Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. and Weatherproofing Technologies Canada, Inc.
• Q&A with subject matter experts
Tours are presented by Marcy Tyler, Director of Building Science for Tremco Incorporated. Marcy and her team lead system design, compatibility testing and training for the whole family of Tremco Construction Products Group (CPG) companies.
REGISTER HERE

The Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train: The People’s View from Baltimore
2021-05-07 13:00 - 13:30
This program is hosted on Zoom. Upon registering you will receive an email confirmation and a Zoom link. If you do not receive a link, please contact ndennies@aiabalt.com. If you do not contact us at least 1 hour prior to the start of the program, we cannot guarantee admittance.
The Baltimore Architecture Foundation (BAF) and Baltimore Heritage present the Virtual Histories Series: 30 minute live virtual tours and presentations focusing on Baltimore architecture, preservation and history. Hosted every Friday at 1:00 pm EST.
Tickets are donation based. We encourage you to give what you can to support BAF and Baltimore Heritage. Your support helps us make up for lost tour and program revenue from COVID-19 and create more virtual programs like this.
On June 8 1968, the Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train rode through Baltimore, on its way to Washington D.C., carrying the body of Senator Robert F Kennedy. On board the train was photographer Paul Fusco, who during the journey photographed the many bewildered mourners paying their final respects. A cross-section of American society—Black and White, city-dwellers and country folk—all stared at the slowly passing train.
We hope you’ll join us to hear photographer Rein Jelle Terpstra talk about his project to search for the reverse photographic perspective: pictures and films made by the bystanders that stood along the railroad that day. Here, the mourners do not merely play a role in someone else’s pictures, but are the photographers and filmmakers themselves. With their cameras, they gazed back at the train and recorded it in their own fashion. On his research trips, Terpstra visited almost all of the places that the funeral train passed through in an effort to track down people who took photographs of the train passing. This project is entirely based on memories, snapshots, home movies, and sound, recorded by bystanders standing along the tracks that day.
The project was on show at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, in Les Rencontres D’Arles (France 2018), the International Center of Photography (New York City 2018) and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2019).

About the Speaker:
Rein Jelle Terpstra teaches fine arts and photography at Minerva Art Academy, Groningen (NL). After a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam), he began investigating the relationships between perception, memory and history by making slideshow installations and books. His work is held in various collections, including the collection of the SFMOMA (San Francisco), MoMA Library (New York), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam), Nederlands Fotomuseum (Rotterdam), The Royal Museum of Arts (Brussels), Yale University Library (New Haven), and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). During the spring of 2017, Terpstra undertook a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in Washington, D.C. to work on the subject of this lecture.

Baltimore Architectural Research/Dead Architects Society Meeting
2021-05-05 08:00 - 17:00
As part of AIA Baltimore’s and BAF’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), this committee meeting is only accessible via tele-conference. The call-in information is only sent out via email. If you are not on the list-serve for this committee reach out to BAF staff, Margaret Stella Mstella@aiabalt.com or Eric Lowe at elowe@designcollective.com for call-in information.

Business of Architecture (PMC)
2021-05-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Webinar
Legal Considerations for the Evolving Workplace – post-COVID. Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP.

Legal Considerations for the Evolving Workplace – COVID, Social Issues and the Biden Administration are bringing about seismic changes in the workplace. This presentation will address how to navigate the legal implications of those changes. Topics addressed will include: FLSA, EEO and practical implications of a “post-COVID” workplace; Changes at the Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board and EEOC that will affect the workplace, expansion of LGBTQ protections, and immigration law changes.
Register Here

2021 Virtual Montgomery County Energy Summit [Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection & USGBC National Capital Region]
2021-05-04
Join us for the 8th Annual Montgomery County Energy Summit!
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Energy Summit will take place virtually over 3 days, May 4-6. For the past seven years and counting, the Summit has annually offered cutting-edge education focused on the latest trends in green building, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and related topics pertinent to commercial, multifamily, and residential projects in Montgomery County. Our target audience includes building owners, property managers, developers, energy contractors, and other sustainability professionals working in Montgomery County and the larger DMV area. The Summit will include breakout education sessions, a keynote address, topical networking salons, and interactive brown bag lunches. All education sessions will be approved for GBCI and AIA continuing education credits.
The theme for 2021 is “Resiliency, from Building to Community.” We will explore strategies, technologies, and case studies focused on enhancing the resiliency of the commercial, multifamily, and residential built environment. Not only must we adapt to changing climate hazards in our buildings, but our economy and public health must become more resilient as well. Together, our community can adapt and become more resilient against changes to our regional and global climate, while striving to reach the County’s ambitious goal of zero carbon emissions by 2035.
When:
Tuesday, May 4 – 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Wednesday, May 5 – 9:30 am to 4:00 pm
Thursday, May 6 – 9:30 am to 2:45 pm

Where: Online
Hosts: Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection and US Green Building Council National Capital Region
Registration:
Early Bird Full Summit Pass (before 4/9) – $70
Full Summit Pass (after 4/9) – $85
Membership Special: Full Summit Pass + USGBC-NCR individual annual membership – $175
Day 1 Pass – $45
Day 2 Pass – $30
Day 3 Pass – $30
Register at: http://mcenergysummit.org

Equity in Policy and Practice: Addressing Past Inequities in Planning for the Future (SmartGrowth)
2021-04-30 13:00 - 14:00
Equity in Policy and Practice: Addressing Past Inequities in Planning for the Future
Friday, April 30 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Participants of the live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM credits.
Planning efforts are increasingly focused on the need to consider the impacts of plans on all community members, and to plan for the future by using tools and practices that consciously avoid intentional or unintentional inequities.
In 2019, the American Planning Association adopted a policy guide exclusively addressing planning for equity. The Planning for Equity Policy Guide offers a broad look at policies and approaches needed for planners, policymakers and associated professionals to advance social equity and justice across all planning efforts.
The guide offers direction in key equity planning areas, including gentrification, community engagement, and environmental justice.
Join the Maryland Department of Planning and the American Planning Association at 1 p.m. Eastern, Friday, April 30, as Susan Wood, FAICP, Jay Renkens, AICP, and Leigh Anne King, AICP discuss how APA’s equity policy guide can be used and then look at how the Charlotte (NC) Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan, scheduled for adoption this summer, is using an equitable growth framework to shape the city’s future.
Click here for More Information and to Register
