Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities

Location: RiverEast Center 1515 SE Water Avenue, Suite 100 This intensive hands-on workshop offers participants the opportunity to examine the energy performance of an occupied building through the use of instrumentation. Covered will be appropriate use of such instrumentation and methods to facilitate building performance investigations. This workshop is modeled after the Vital Signs and the Agents of Change projects and provides real experiences with building performance analyses dealing with topics such as occupant comfort and satisfaction, system effectiveness, daylighting, and system energy and resource use. This experience will enable participants to better understand building system and component performance. Lead Instructor : Alison Kwok is a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon and teaches design studios, seminars in climatic design, lighting, and building performance, as well as courses in environmental technology. Her current research includes adaptive and mitigation strategies for climate change, thermal comfort, natural ventilation, post-occupancy evaluation, and case studies of building performance. She is author, with Walter Grondzik of The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design. She and Grondzik revised the 10th edition of Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, with the 11th edition in press. Kwok has a long involvement with the Vital Signs Curriculum Materials Project, a national effort coordinated by the University of California, Berkeley (funded by the Energy Foundation, Pacific Gas & Electrical Utility, and NSF). She was principal investigator of the Agents of Change project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE). Kwok has served in several capacities and as a board member for the Architectural Research Centers Consortium and is a past-president of the Society of Building Science Educators. Earn 8 AIA SD / HSW Learning Units Assistive listening devices and large print materials available upon request. Payment is required at time of registration; cancellations/refunds accepted until 5 working days prior to seminar. Certificates of attendance may be purchased by non-AIA members at time of registration for $5. One scholarship is available to AIA Portland members. To apply for consideration, please complete a request form (download here) and return to aiapdx@aiaportland.org or fax to 503.220.0254.

Cost Member $95.00 Non Member $125.00

Location: Center for Architecture 403 NW Eleventh Avenue This intensive workshop offers participants the opportunity to compare projected and actual energy performance of an existing building through spreadsheet-based analyses. The workshop will introduce the analysis process and specific building-based and consumption metrics (electric, water, fan, ventilation, heating/cooling, etc.) to be calculated. The objectives of this workshop are: a) to give designers an easy-to-use method to evaluate energy consumption on past projects; b) to compare projected and actual energy consumption; and, c) to develop a better understanding of where potential savings can occur. Collaborative teams of design professionals and selected students will be given information on a Northwest building to evaluate and analyze. Materials are developed by the Society of Building Science Educators Carbon Neutral Curriculum Materials Project: http://www.sbse.org/resources/ Earn 4 AIA HSW / SD Learning Units Instructors: Alison Kwok, Ph.D., AIA is a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon and teaches design studios, seminars in climatic design, lighting, and building performance, as well as courses in environmental technology. Her current research includes adaptive and mitigation strategies for climate change, thermal comfort, natural ventilation, post-occupancy evaluation, and case studies of building performance. She is author, with Walter Grondzik of The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design. D. Michael Utzinger, engineer and architect, is a professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Dr. Utzinger is an architect and professional engineer with over 30 years experience in high performance building design and education. He has consulted on daylighting, natural ventilation, passive solar, photovoltaic and carbon neutral building design. His recent papers have focused on integrating natural ventilation into building design and HVAC systems. As an environmental consultant, he was responsible for the LEED Carbon Neutral Innovation Credit for the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center completed in 2007. Assistive listening devices and large print materials available upon request. Payment is required at time of registration; cancellations/refunds accepted until 5 working days prior to seminar. Certificates of attendance may be purchased by non-AIA members at time of registration for $5. One scholarship is available to AIA Portland members. To apply for consideration, please complete a request form (download here) and return to aiapdx@aiaportland.org or fax to 503.220.0254.

Cost Member $60.00 Non Member $75.00