Join AIA New Hampshire for Education Day and the Member Annual Meeting, our last event of the year that brings members together for a full day of learning, celebration and fellowship.
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024
McLane Audubon Center
84 Silk Farm Rd. Concord, NH 03301
8:30 - 9:00am Continental breakfast, social
9:00 - 12:00pm Morning Sessions
12:30 - 1:30pm Annual Meeting and lunch
1:30 - 4:00pm Afternoon Sessions
6 AIA HSWs offered over the full fay
Registration for this event is now closed.
COURSES
Design for Resilience
Presenter
Kira Gould, Hon. AIA, Kira Gould CONNECT
speaker bio
Kira Gould is a communications professional with 35 years of experience in the industry. In this session, she will address the health, safety, and welfare aspects of design practice. She will address how design professionals and firms refine and raise their voices, making advocacy a part of practice. She will discuss how firms can define value frameworks with their clients as part of the move toward fully integrating sustainability and resilience and social response into both design process and outcomes. She will explore nascent concepts, including sufficiency, as inherent to design thinking in an era of stewardship and climate response. She will also talk about the growth in the reuse market and how practitioners can lean in to this arena -- and find ways to quantify its benefits to clients and communities.
Water: Resilience through Design
Presenters
Diantha S. Korzun, AIA, LEED AP, gbA Architecture and Planning
Jean Caroon, FAIA , LEED Fellow, Goody Clancy
Alyssa M. Murphy, AIA, LEED AP, LFA, Placework
speaker bios
Freshwater, critical to life and wellbeing, is a finite resource in growing demand. As the global population increases and resource-intensive economic development continues, water scarcity is accelerating. As climate change puts more stress on water resources and we increasingly feel the effects of sea level rise, storms and flooding, design must respond. Case studies will be presented that highlight the role of water in regional design for resilience. The goal of the session is to inform and inspire, while daylighting hidden and far-reaching consequences of our current practices.
The power’s out: energy resilience and thermal autonomy frameworks for more resilient buildings
Presenter
Nick Swedberg, AIA, WELL, LEED AP, BECxP, ARUP
speaker bio
At its core, resilience is the ability of a system to reduce the impact of shocks and stresses and the system’s companion capacity to anticipate, absorb, and recover from these adverse events. In the context of buildings, a loss of power, especially during an extreme weather event, represents a significant system shock that can put the health, safety, and well-being of occupants at risk.
In this session, attendees will be introduced to an energy resilience framework in order to identify actions at the building scale that can help promote safer and more secure energy access. Attendees will also learn about the concept of thermal autonomy and how architectural design can support the provisioning of thermal autonomy to enhance the passive survivability of assets when secure power is unavailable.
AIA Resilience Design Toolkit
Presenter
Sammy Shams, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, HKS
speaker bio
Resilience design strategies play a crucial role in establishing secure, adaptable, healthy, and sustainable communities. The AIA Resilience Design Toolkit, developed with assistance by HKS, assists architects in integrating resilience studies into their projects. This course will provide an overview on how to use the toolkit’s five-step process including financial evaluation of resilience design strategies, followed by recent case studies. By quantifying the costs and benefits, architects can make a compelling case for resilience design, ensuring alignment of client expectations and design intentions. The toolkit’s approach fosters high-performance buildings that can withstand future challenges. In the ever-evolving landscape of architectural practice, understanding and incorporating resilience design principles have become imperative. Participants will learn how to identify hazards, develop resilience strategies, and integrate them seamlessly into their architectural projects, fostering a holistic approach to design.
Reporting and Optimizing Embodied Carbon
Presenter:
Doug Shilo, AIA, LEED AP BD + C, Lavallee Brensinger Architects
speaker bio
Demand is mounting to reduce our carbon emissions. The majority of this demand has focused on operational carbon, as we continue to push for ever-higher performance in our buildings. However, the impact of embodied carbon is coming into focus, and we must also push for lower impact during construction. This course uses case studies to show how we get the full picture.
Kira Gould, Hon. AIA
Kira Gould is a writer, strategist, and convener focused on advancing design leadership and climate action. Kira is the co-host of the Design the Future podcast with Lindsay Baker. Through Kira Gould CONNECT, she consults on strategy and communications to organizations working toward a regenerative future. She is a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030 and is a volunteer with the American Institute of Architects national Committee on the Environment. She co-authored Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (Ecotone, 2007) with the late architect and author Lance Hosey.
Diantha S. Korzun, AIA, LEED AP
Diantha S. Korzun is a partner at gbA Architecture and Planning, based in Burlington, VT. For over thirty years Diantha has lived and worked all over the world which has fueled her a passion for discovering the unique qualities of people and place in order to design spaces that fit the environment but are of the time. Diantha has extensive design and project leadership experience, and specializes in working with schools and communities. She is currently the Vermont representative to the AIA Strategic Council and has been president of both AIA Vermont as well as president of AIA New England.
Jean Caroon, FAIA , LEED Fellow
Jean Caroon is a Principal at Goody Clancy based in Boston, MA. Jean is an industry leader in sustainable preservation and building reuse. Her influential book, titled Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2010. She has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Lawrence Medal from the University of Oregon's College of Design and the Harley J. McKee Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association for Preservation Technology International. She has served as the President of the Boston Society for Architects (BSA) and is currently the Massachusetts representative to the AIA Strategic Council.
Alyssa M. Murphy, AIA, LEED AP, LFA
Alyssa M. Murphy is a founding partner at Placework, based in Portsmouth, NH. Alyssa leads projects for higher education, municipal and non-profit clients. As the founding editor of Forum, the quarterly magazine of AIA New Hampshire, Alyssa aspires to educate and engage the public about current issues in design and elevate the conversation around ethics, resiliency, and equity within the profession. She served as the President of AIANH in 2018 and is completing her three-year term as New Hampshire representative to the AIA Strategic Council.
Nick Swedberg, AIA, WELL, LEED AP, BECxP
Nick Swedberg is a sustainability consultant, researcher, and educator working to develop holistic environmental building design outcomes.. His role at Arup focuses on the design and delivery of a built environment that achieves high levels of environmental performance while carefully considering the design’s effects on occupant health and well-being. Prior to joining Arup, Nick was part of the sustainable design team at Henning Larsen Architects, working with microclimate design and carbon analysis. Nick lectures on sustainable development at the BAC, and has published research on overheating risk mitigation and urban heat island mitigation strategies.
Sammy Shams, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
Shames Shams is a healthcare architect and Sustainable Design Leader, Health at HKS. He recently co-authored the Resilience Design Toolkit that was published with the AIA to help designers incorporate resilience design into projects. At HKS he helps project teams develop design thinking and strategies around sustainability, healthy buildings, building performance, embodied carbon & resilience. He coordinates with project teams to achieve LEED, WELL, Fitwel and similar green building certifications in various project types including healthcare, commercial-mixed-use, hospitality, senior living, multi-family, aviation, education & mission critical.
Doug Shilo,
AIA, LEED AP BD + C
A sustainability leader Lavallee Brensinger Architects, Doug uses the latest research and technologies to deliver creative, sustainable solutions on every project. He guides his firm in the design of high-performance, low-impact projects and specializes in envelope detailing. A champion of the the AIA 2030 Commitment, Doug’s recently completed Oyster River Middle School project achieved LEED Gold Net Zero Ready certification. Doug earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Rice University.
Education Day is made possible by the AIANH Chapter Partners who support the chapter’s programs throughout the year.
Event graphic: Warming stripes indicating temperature change in Boston from 1850. Source: https://showyourstripes.info/