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Architecting the Future: Leveraging Accessible Innovation for Firm Success
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 | 3:00-4:00pm EST
Digital transformation is critical for businesses to thrive, and emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, show massive promise for organizational efficiencies and improvements. However, identifying, implementing, and adopting technology-based tools can often be intimidating and overwhelming. Companies frequently fail to realize that the ability to innovate is more accessible than ever. Taking small steps in using things like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies can set you up for bigger advancements. Attend this session to learn how to make innovation accessible and see some examples and use cases your firm might explore to help secure the future.
AIA 2030 Commitment By the Numbers (RY23): A Look into Firms’ Progress Towards Net Zero Emissions
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 3:00-4:00pm ET
What progress has more than 24,000 projects totaling 3.9 billion GSF designed last year made towards net-zero carbon? The AIA 2030 Commitment, a key climate action program, brings together a network of over 1,350 signatory architecture and design firms dedicated to tracking their projects’ energy data to reach carbon neutrality in the built environment. Upon this year’s release of the 2030 By the Numbers (RY23), join us for a conversation on the high-level findings from the report, including where we are succeeding as an industry and where we can still improve based on the reported data. We will discuss data trends on overall energy performance, the incorporation of energy modeling in projects, and the inclusion of renewable energy sources and embodied carbon data.
Technology Enablers for the New Age of Productivity
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 3:00-4:00pm EST
Architects can unburden themselves from tedious yet necessary tasks by harnessing technological innovation such as cloud licensing, AI-powered compliance checking, digital twin technology, and streamlined sustainability assessments. These innovations are here now and on the way. This session will highlight existing processes to minimize the mundane and inspire attendees to invest in innovation created for the future.
Define Your Project Delivery Strategy with Building Owner's Assessment Tool
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm EST
By helping owners understand the tensions and alignments between their organization’s decision-making profile and different types of project delivery methods, the Building Owner's Assessment Tool (BOAT) empowers project managers to understand their organization, to reflect on delivery methods, and to onboard project team members with an understanding of and create strategies to address roadblocks and pain points during project delivery.
Discover how you and your clients can leverage this new tool to foster productive collaborative conversations, identify organizational challenges, set shared expectations, and design specific processes to address challenges.
The Building Owner’s Assessment Tool was developed by the University of Washington with support from the Charles Pankow Foundation, AIA Project Delivery Knowledge Community, Integrated Project Delivery Alliance, P1 Consulting, and Chandos Construction.