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January 10, 2012
Happy New Year
Happy New Year!
Your AIA Kentucky leadership team
and staff have hit the ground running in 2012, with plans underway for a lot of
great continuing education opportunities this Spring, an exciting Annual
Convention in Lexington in the Fall, and a busy and productive government
affairs effort during the 2012 legislative session starting this week. We
continue our commitment to collaborating with key partners in the building and
construction industry to garner support and recognition of the important
contributions we make to Kentucky's economy.
We're also re-designing our web site to
incorporate more information and better features, and enhancing our
communications via the e-news and social media. Watch for the exciting
developments in the weeks ahead!
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Codes Update-New Edition of KBC Issued
The Kentucky Department of
Housing, Buildings and Construction has released the latest edition of the
2007 KBC with changes that became effective November 30, 2011. Mandatory
enforcement begins February 1, 2012. The changes will be found to
Sections 3001.2, 3002.9, 3002.9.1, 3006.4.1, 3009.2, 3009.2.1 and 3009.2.2.
There are also changes made to
the editions used for the NEC and NFPA 54. These changes will be found in
the updated pages of Chapter 35. The new NEC is the 2011 edition and the
new NFPA 54 is the 2009 edition.
Click here to view and
download the updated 2007 KBC.
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2012 Legislative Session Begins
The 2012 session of the
Kentucky General Assembly in Frankfort began last week, and AIA members have
already made their presence known in Frankfort. Click here to view the latest
Legislative Report.
Several members active in the
Committee on Architecture for Education joined Legislative Chairman Joe Jones
and Lobbyist Greg Brotzge at a Rally for Education on January 4, joining forces
with education groups advocating adequate funding for education needs of all
kinds.
AIA leaders met January
6 with counterparts at AGC of Kentucky to discuss mutual areas of interest and
identify and advocate for both public and private industry initiatives to
put architects and contractors back to work.
The Government Affairs Committee is
planning a "Day at the Capitol" for AIA members during the 2012
session - stay tuned for details. Anyone interested in participating more
actively in our government affairs program should contact Janet Pike.
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Military Contracting Presentations Available
A sold-out forum on
military contracting with the Department of Defense was held December 12, 2011
in Elizabethtown, and the slides of all the presentations
at this event have been made available online by the Kentucky Small Business
Development Center's Veterans Assistance Program. We understand a
follow-up session may be planned for some time early this year, and we will get
that information out our members as soon as we receive it.
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AIA Continuing Education News
Important Changes to
Health, Safety and Welfare CE Requirements
On December 9, 2011, the AIA Board of Directors
voted to modify the AIA's calendar year continuing education requirement. Per
year, AIA members will be required to complete 12 hours of health, safety, and
welfare (HSW) education, an increase from the previous requirement of 8 HSW.
The AIA Board will re-evaluate the sustainable design (SD) requirement in 2012.
The new HSW requirement goes into effect in January 2012, and AIA members
should fulfill their total 18 hours of continuing education during the calendar
year. Click HERE for additional information.
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Renew Your AIA Membership by January 15
It's time to renew your AIA
membership! AIA Kentucky members should have received an email notification
from the AIA national membership team in mid-October, with links to view
the renewal invoice and make an online payment, if desired. Hard copy invoices
have also been mailed. AIA has established an installment payment plan to help
those who need additional time to pay dues in full. Click here for information.
Note to Firm Principals: Please be sure to
complete the firm
supplemental dues section of the invoice (either on paper or
online) and add the correct amount to your individual dues. AIA Kentucky
bylaws require that one architect principal per firm (including sole
practitioners) must pay $70 per architect, intern architect or technical
employee in the firm, up to a maximum of $1,200. The firm supplemental
dues support our advocacy efforts on behalf of firms and triggers the
firm's inclusion in the AIA Architect Finder online searchable database as well
as the Firm Profile listing in the AIA Kentucky Directory.
We remain sensitive to the challenges many of
our members face in this difficult economy. We value your participation and
want your membership to remain active. Please consider using the new
installment payment plan if that makes renewal easier for you. We are also
happy to work with anyone who may need additional assistance due to medical,
family or financial circumstances. Inquiries should be made to Janet Pike,
859-223-8201.
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Member News
Congratulations to Timothy M. Barnett, AIA
of The Estopinal Group in Jeffersonville, IN, who recently passed the A.R.E.
and is now a Kentucky registered architect.
Matthew A. Sewell, AIAand Nicholas
B. Sewell, AIA have opened Sewell and Sewell Architects at 6233 Old
Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42103. Phone (270)904-3388; Fax
(270)904-3548.
The offices of allied
member BB&T Insurance Services and Jim Dingus, agent for AIA
Kentucky though the Kentucky Construction Industry Trust, have moved to 200 West
Vine Street, Suite 300 in Lexington. Phone and fax numbers remain the same:
(859) 224-8899 phone, (859) 422-3899 fax.
De Leon and Primmer
Architecture Workshop's Riverview Park project has been
selected my ARCHITECT magazine for its 2011 Annual Design Review - it received
the highest designation of 'Award'. Click here for article.
RossTarrant Architects has
announced that Gary A. Ransdell Hall at Western Kentucky University has been
awarded LEED Gold certification. It is only the third LEED Gold facility
to be built by a public university in Kentucky. The new building is home to
Western Kentucky University's College of Education and Behavioral Sciences.
Congratulations to Luckett & Farley
on the announcement of its transition to a one hundred percent
employee-owned ESOP company, effective January 1, 2012.
Welcome New Members (since December 2, 2011)
- Jonathan W.
Cheatham, AIA, Murphy+Graves Architects, Lexington
- C. Merrill
Moter, IV, AIA, Joseph & Joseph Architects, Louisville
- Shari L. Mullen,
Assoc. AIA,
Pohl Rosa Pohl, Lexington
- Chrystina D.
Shearer, AIA, Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville
- David R. Vaught,
Assoc. AIA,
GRW Engineers, Lexington
- Simon E Willett,
Assoc. AIA,
Willett Design, Georgetown
Member News for inclusion in future editions of the E-News
should be directed to info@aiaky.org.
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AIA/CKC News
Jan 24 - CE program, Noon to
1 p.m., Builder's Exchange, 2300 Meadow Drive. "An Introduction
to Food Service Consulting" will be presented by Scott Reitano, LEED GA.
This presentation is sponsored by the Food Service Consultant Society
International (FCSI) and is intended to give the architectural community a
clearer image of who a food service consultant is and what role they play in
the design process. Click here for details.
Feb. 21 - AIACKC/CSI Trade
Fair, Galt House East. Booths
available now; attendee registration available soon. Visit the Trade Show Website for
complete information.
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AIA/EKC News
Jan. 19 - Third Thursday
CE Program - Noon to 1:00 p.m., "Polished Concrete
Systems", presented by Ardex. - 1 HSW SD CEU. Click here for
more info and to RSVP.
For other regional
architecture-related activities, see the AIA East Kentucky homepage.
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AIA/NKC News
Feb.
6 - AIA/NKC Building Tour -
4:30 p.m. at Cathedral of Basilica, 12th & Madison, Covington. Click here for details.
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IDP News
Free AIA Transcripts for Interns
Interns in NCARB's Intern Development Program
can request a free AIA Transcript and AIA customer number to track Supplemental
Education activities, such as the Emerging Professionals Companion. One (1) AIA
Learning Unit is equal to one (1) IDP Training Hour. To receive a free AIA
transcript, please complete the web form at www.aia.org/FreeTranscriptsforInterns .
Also, please visit the FAQ page for more information on IDP
Supplemental Education.
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UK College of Design News
Aaron Betsky Lecture Series
This spring semester Aaron
Betsky, Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, will give a series of six public
lectures titled, "Where We Are Now," that will explore current issues
in contemporary architecture. Betsky describes the series: "The
diversity of what we call architecture today is astonishing. From barely
viable blobs to piles of sticks in the woods, and from instant cities to pop up
stores, architecture encompasses an amazing range of scales, techniques,
degrees of reality, and styles. These lectures will look at the immediate past
as well as the present to survey and make sense of Postmodernism and its
aftermath."
All lectures will take place in Pence 209 starting at 7pm. One AIA LU credit is
available for each lecture. The schedule:
- January 11
- Introduction: Modernism, Postmodernism, Blobism, Reuse: How Did We
Get Here and Where Are We Going
- February 1
- Postmodernism: A Closer look; from Complexity & Contradiction
to Classicism
- February 29 - The Netherlands:
Project Based Working
- March 28 - Rise of the
Machine: Computer and Communication Technologies
- April 11 - The Global
Networks: Building in Sprawl
- April 25 - Hunting
And Gathering: Reuse and Collage
Aaron Betsky is an architect, critic, curator,
educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who since August
2006 has been the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. From 2001 to 2006
Betsky served as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in
Rotterdam, Netherlands. Although Betsky was born in Missoula, Montana, USA, he
grew up in The Netherlands. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in
History, the Arts and Letters (1979) and a M.Arch. (1983). He then taught at
the University of Cincinnati from 1983 to 1985 and worked as a designer for
Frank Gehry and Hodgetts & Fung. From 1995-2001 Betsky was Curator of
Architecture, Design and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art before moving back to The Netherlands.
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Calendar of Events
Visit the AIA Kentucky Web Calendar,
where we post information about conferences, chapter events and other
"happenings" of interest to the architectural community. A sampling
of upcoming items to check out on the calendar:
- Jan 10 - KY Board of
Architects Meeting, Lexington
- Jan. 19 - AIA/EKC Third
Thursday CE, Lexington
- Jan. 24 - AIA/CKC
Program, Louisville
- Jan. 24 - AIA KY
Board Meeting, Midway
- Feb. 21 - AIA/CSI Trade
Fair, Louisville
- Mar. 14-15 - High
Performance School Buildings Workshop, Louisville
- Apr. 18 - AIA KY CE
Program, Lexington
- Nov. 1-3 - AIA KY/IN Convention, Lexington
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AIA National News
Additional Documents
Uploaded to the DoD Website
Seven additional documents are
newly available via the AIA's Documents on Demand online
service. This completes the migration of Interiors and International documents
to DOD. Note: B161 includes 7 exhibits.
- A151-2007, Standard Form of
Agreement Between Owner and Vendor for Furniture, Furnishings and
Equipment where the basis of payment is a Stipulated Sum
- A251-2007, General
Conditions of the Contract for Furniture, Furnishings and Equipment
- A751-2007, Invitation and
Instructions for Quotation for Furniture, Furnishings and Equipment
- B152-2007, Standard Form
of Agreement Between Owner and Architect for Architectural Interior Design
Services
- B153-2007, Standard Form
of Agreement Between Owner and Architect for Furniture, Furnishings and
Equipment Design Services
- B161-2002, Standard Form
of Agreement Between Client and Consultant for use where the Project is
located outside the United States
- B162-2002, Abbreviated Form of Agreement Between Client and Consultant for use
where the Project is located outside the United States.
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Competitions, Grants, Etc.
AIA Center for Emerging
Professionals Exhibition
Deadline: January 13, 2012
The Center for Emerging Professionals Third Annual
Exhibition is accepting applications for the 2012 exhibit which will be on
display at AIA National Headquarters in Washington DC from February through the
2012 Grassroots Leadership Conference. Submissions can be the result of work in
a firm, class, design studio, design competition, or personal investigation.
2012 AIA National
Photography Competition
Entry Deadline: March 1,
2012.
AIA St. Louis presents the 2012
AIA Photography Competition for actively registered architects, AIA members and
AIAS members. Click here for the
rules and regulations and entry form.
The top fourteen (14) entries
will be exhibited at the 2012 AIA National Convention in Washington, D.
C. and be included, along with 38 other entries in the 2014 Engagement
Calendar published by Universe. The entry fee for AIA members (AIA & Assoc.
AIA) is $30.00; AIAS member entry fee is $15.00. The entry fee for
non-member registered architects is $60.00. Cash prizes will be awarded.
Copper Development
Association Awards
Submission Deadline:
January 31, 2012
Worked on a construction project in the United
States or Canada recently using architectural copper? If so, your firm
may be eligible for a 2012 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) award.
The Copper Development Association (CDA), in collaboration with the Canadian
Copper & Brass Development Association (CCBDA), is seeking nominations for
the 2012 awards program. An entry form and guidelines can be found on the Call for Entries Page.
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