Chair/Founder | Spagnolo Gisness & Associates
Al founded SGA in 1991 and has influenced the firm's growth over the past three decades. With studios in New York City and Boston, SGA serves a broad spectrum of clientele. Key market sectors include life sciences, large scaled urban mixed-use, high ed, commercial, residential and corporate interiors. SGA is an award winning practice and is also recognized as one of the Nation's most technologically advanced architecture firms. Al Spagnolo is a trustee at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston and serves on the Academic Affairs Committee. In addition, Al is a faculty member at WIT and leads a course on Virtual Design and Construction and the Dashboard. The course focuses on new technologies and tools and emphasizes the importance of platforms such as VDC as means to elevate the role of the Architect in project delivery. Al volunteers at and supports numerous non-profits including MGH and St. Anthony's Shrine.
Courses
Introduction to the Architect Dashboard: Pathway to Efficiencies
Technology implementation is an important part of efficiency in practice for higher revenue and better project delivery. Project information is diffused across multiple tools and organizations. Dashboards are one solution to provide a common access point for every team member regardless of discipline or position to find and interact with relevant actionable information. This session will demonstrate how high performing teams use dashboards to accelerate project deliverables while keeping members accountable to each other.
Hosted by the Project Delivery AIA Knowledge Community
Course expires 3/23/2025
AI's Impact on Architecture
Advances in AI are contributing to an immersion of new technology and automation, which is just breaching the threshold of architecture. This discussion will explore the breadth of opportunities AI provides.
Our goal is to inform about AI trends, its current capabilities, where it’s going, new innovations, and what benefits we can gleam from using this technology.
Michael Schroeder, SGA Partner/leader of its VDC discipline, will be joined by AI experts to discuss a future where A&D teams collaborate with AI to construct the buildings of tomorrow. It will draw those interested in opportunities AI creates as it branches into the AEC world. Just as AI impacted research, machine learning & driverless-vehicles, new innovations like Open Source Neural Networks & next-generation inventions will be discussed.
Course expires 1/17/2026