11:30AM - 12:30 PM | Breakout Sessions
+ Engineered Building Solutions for Continuous Surface and Air Disinfection
Speaker: Andrew Miller
Explore how natural catalytic conversion (NCC), as an indoor air and surface quality technology, improves the safety, health, and wellness of the building occupants through no-operator, no-touch, continuous pathogen reduction.
NCC technology creates disinfecting oxidizing molecules (primarily vaporous hydrogen peroxide) that supplement standard episodic cleaning procedures. This process continuously neutralizes viruses (including virus that causes SARS COVID 19), bacteria, other pathogens including hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), mold spores, allergens, and odors, thus creating safer, healthier, more pleasant indoor building environments while also providing significant energy savings.
This session is approved for: 1 CSI LU and 1 AIA/HSW LU
Learning Objectives:
- Contrast how NCC technology compares to passive air filtering and other episodic surface cleaning systems or procedures.
- Properly position the NCC product specification within a project manual division and integrate the key elements of NCC products for a proper pathogen reduction construction product 3-part specification.
- Understand the sustainability benefit of significant reduced energy consumption to achieve high levels of indoor air quality vs. guidelines from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
- Learn how sanitization has evolved over the past 120 years from when hand-washing became an accepted pathogen reduction strategy to current autonomous building air purification and surface sanitization technology.
+ Cultivating Collaboration In a Changing Industry
Speakers: Julie Foley, Caitlin Morgan, Hana Nguyenky
Virtual networking platform, Emerge AEC, will guide a series of conversations about change in professional practice through encouragement, engagement, and experience. During this interactive session, participants will connect with industry peers of all experience levels, share practice methodologies, and learn how to build their own pathway in an ever-changing industry.
Each one of us has a story to tell, whether a seasoned professional, recent graduate, or anywhere in between. Those shared perspectives help us elevate the industry together.
www.emergeaec.com
This session is approved for: 1 CSI LU and 1 AIA/HSW LU
Learning Objectives:
- Encourage: Recognize the inherent traditions of life-long learning in the AECO industry and how knowledge informs development.
- Engage: Identify "outside-the-box" methods for networking with professionals across the AECO industry.
- Experience: Apply lessons learned from other industry professionals who have modified their own behaviors for better collaborations to deliver a successful project.
- Emerge: Implement new ways to successfully navigate AECO industry changes.
+ Evolving Project Delivery: Mastering Change with AIA Contract Documents
Speaker: Ronald L Geren, Tom Hysell, Patrick O'Connor
The AIA has provided contract documents to the design and construction industry for over 130 years. During that time, project delivery has evolved into many forms beyond the basic design-bid-build, and the corresponding contract documents have evolved along with them. The entity responsible for the oversight and development of AIA’s contract documents is the AIA Documents Committee. This session will give you insight on how the Documents Committee performs its responsibilities, plus give you a sneak peek into AIA's latest series of documents on “collaborative project delivery.” The session will conclude with an introduction to AIA's new editing platform powered by Catina.
This session is approved for: 1 CSI LU and 1 AIA LU
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the document structure used to organize AIA's contract documents.
- Describe the committee process used by AIA to develop and revise its families of contract documents.
- Describe the available contract documents for use in a modern collaborative project delivery method.
- Discuss upcoming changes to the editing platform used to generate contract documents for project use.
+ Mastering Solar/Roof Integration
Speakers: Shelly Higgins, Mark Gies
Rooftop solar installations are flourishing thanks to the increasing desire to maximize energy output and reduce long-term maintenance costs. As a result, the federal government as well as more and more states and local jurisdictions are enacting regulations and building codes for solar PV or solar-ready design on new building construction. The key to complying with solar mandates is to master solar and building integration. This means considering the roof and solar as a single system and helping ensure non-traditional design elements can accommodate rooftop solar installations. In this session we’ll discuss how structural analysis must include all the system elements and full load path, including solar mounting systems and roof structures. We’ll also review case studies, examine the effects of weather conditions, and discuss solar/roof integration testing.
This session is approved for: 1 CSI LU and 1 AIA/HSW LU
Learning Objectives:
- Identify building codes and regulations that mandate solar PV in design and/or new building construction.
- Illustrate the benefits of solar, roof, and building integration to minimize cost, meet new code changes, and increase safety during installation.
- Understand how pre-engineering properly transfers the load path to optimize the structure to meet ASCE 7 requirements.
- Examine testing methods, case studies, weather-related system failures, and the recommendations to create better integrated solar systems.