Webinar: AIA Orange County Lunch Hour Program Sustainable Roofing Solutions
This presentation focuses on the roof’s role in overall building sustainability and provides an overview of numerous environmentally friendly materials, products, and systems.
The AIA Orange County Healthcare Committee Presents: Right-siting Mental Health on a Continuum of Care
As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, we welcome design leaders from across SoCal to share challenges and opportunities encountered in building along the Mental Health Continuum of Care.
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
ZNCD Webinar: 2022 Code Breaker - Embodied Carbon & CALGreen
July 2024 brings new CALGreen requirements for commercial buildings over 100,000 square feet and school buildings over 50,000 square feet to show embodied carbon savings. This short one-hour session will cover these new requirements, as well as explain the concepts, why embodied carbon matters, how to measure and reduce embodied carbon, and how to show compliance with the new CALGreen requirements via Prescriptive and Performance pathways.
ZNCD Webinar: How to Design Carbon Neutral Multifamily Buildings
As we approach 2030, it's time to question if net-zero is still the ideal goal or if a more nuanced approach is needed.
Emerging Professionals Barchitecture Event!
Emerging Professionals Barchitecture Event!
at the STOWAWAY Tiki Bar.
*This Event is For AIA Emerging Professionals only.
Design Awards Committee Town Hall
Do you have questions regarding design awards submission requirements?
Tour - Promenade Village at Irvine Spectrum
Join us for a tour of the Promenade Village at Irvine Spectrum.
Greening the Amenity Deck Presented By: Tournesol Siteworks, LLC
Over time, urban parks and other open landscaped areas are being lost to development. One solution to mitigate this issue is to reconsider undeveloped areas such as building roofs to create green amenity spaces. Amenity decks can provide some alleviation of lost green space, while affording developers the potential to monetize underutilized spaces in their buildings and provide an advantage over older buildings to attract tenants.
Webinar: AIA Orange County Lunch Hour Program Lessons in Socially Responsible Design, Paint Technology and LEED Requirements for a Sustainable Future
This course looks at the evolution of sustainable design, ways to measure the environmental impact of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), how paints and coatings can contribute toward satisfying LEED® credits, and how these products may play a role in designing for well-being.
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
Eichler Homes Tour
Join AIAOC for a walking tour of the Eichler homes in Orange, CA. (Wear comfortable shoes. You will be touring homes throughout the Fairhaven tract.)
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
Design Awards Committee Town Hall
Do you have questions regarding design awards submission requirements?
AIA Orange County Legal Webinar Assessing Risks Prior to Engagement – Ten Things to Consider Before Taking a Project
This program will focus on how to assess the risks associated with a project before diving in as well as how to mitigate those risks through contract negotiation and how to manage those risks once the project is moving forward.
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
Design Awards Committee Town Hall
Do you have questions regarding design awards submission requirements?
ZNCD: AIA Orange County Lunch Hour Webinar: Rethinking Net-Zero: Designing for Energy Balance in Architecture
As we approach 2030, it's time to question if net-zero is still the ideal goal or if a more nuanced approach is needed.
2024 Summer Mixer
August 15th – Summer Mixer
Happy 70th AIAOC!
5:00 – 7:00 PM
Details coming soon!
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
Save the Date for AIAOC's Design Awards + 70th Anniversary Celebration
AIA Orange County Design Awards + 70th Anniversary Celebration
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
Tour of Rivian, Laguna Beach – Transforming a Historic Theater into a Community and Experience Center
Join us for a tour of the new Rivian Community Center, an adaptive reuse of the historic Laguna Beach Theater.
ADA Lunch Hour Webinar: The AIA Orange County EDI Committee Presents: Sensory Inclusive Design – Designing for Sight, Hearing and Neurocognitive Difference
1.0 AIA HSW + one hour will count toward 2025 CAB License Renewal
AIAOC EDI+J Book Club
Come join the AIAOC’s EDI+ Committee Bookclub! We will come together (virtually) Thursday May 7, 2024 @ 12pm, to share our opinions on the quarterly book selection.
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
Tour of the Orange County Great Park – Rise Park, an AIAOC Framework for Design Excellence Award Winner
A 2022 AIAOC Framework for Design Excellence winner, this course will explore how this series of parks as part of a larger trail ecosystem responded to the following principals: Design for Integration, Design for Well-Being, and Design for Ecosystems, while also reducing embodied carbon, reduced construction costs and construction activities.
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
ZNCD Webinar: Innovations and Operations: Developments in Sustainable Precast Concrete Lunch Hour Program
This presentation will discuss technical innovations to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete and examine current process improvements that are pushing the industry forward to a more sustainable future.
AIA Orange County Legal Webinar: IP for A/Es
This webinar will provide guidance on how a design professional can navigate the confusion of intellectual property laws, including especially, how to use IP rights, and how to avoid IP liability.
In Person Happy Hour + Program: Multi-Family Condominiums / Apartments Coatings
Multi-Family Projects. Discover different types of coatings and their features and benefits along with life cycle considerations as they pertain to dry film attributes.
3rd Annual Photography Competition - Last call for entries - April 5th!
Last Call for Entries! Friday, April 5th is the last day to enter!
Emerging Professionals Event
This Event is For AIA Emerging Professionals. Sponsoredy by PENTA.
AIA Orange County ADA Webinar: Introduction to Universal Design
The building code lags behind worldwide best practices for meeting the needs of our neurodiverse and physically disabled community members. This presentation will introduce these diverse communities, and specific strategies to accommodate the four most common areas of complaint. Practical and cost-conscious methods will be discussed, as well as the importance of engaging with those underserved communities to create recommendations for design teams.
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
2024 AIAOC March Madness Mixer
Register today for AIA Orange County's Annual March Madness Mixer!
Webinar: 2022 Code Breaker — Outdoor Lighting
The 2022 Energy Code requirements for outdoor lighting wattage allowances and controls depends not only on building type, but also scope of work (such as new construction versus alterations). Join us for this one-hour presentation where we review outdoor lighting requirements for single-family, multifamily, nonresidential, hotel and motel building types of all applicable scopes of work and what compliance documentation is required for each project type.
AIAOC Sustainability Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org
The AIA Orange County Women In Architecture Committee Presents: College Students and the Affordable Housing Crisis
This panel of local Community College, State College, and University representatives will discuss how local schools are responding to student homelessness and housing insecurity, the need for affordable housing, and plans for the future.
Webinar: AIA Orange County Lunch Hour Program Engineered Wood Products: A Carbon Solution
Our built environment has an enormous impact on the natural environment. The materials we choose to build with will determine if this impact is positive or negative. This course will cover how engineered wood can be instrumental in driving down embodied carbon reducing the global warming potential for new construction.
The AIAOC Sustainability Committee Presents: A Tour of the Environmental Nature Center and Environmental Nature Center Preschool
This course will explore how to design LEED Platinum; Living Building Challenge Petal Certified; Zero Net Carbon Design (ZNCD) buildings including the use of natural and carbon positive materials, methods for reducing energy and water consumption, and creating inspiring spaces for its inhabitants. The ENC Preschool was the recipient of the AIA C.O.T.E. Award, AIA OC Citation Award, USGBC Project of the Year Award, and the ASLA Award of Honor. The Environmental Nature Center also received the AIAOC Honor Award, the ASLASC Quality of Life Award, and the USGBC Most Sustainable NGO Award
AIA Orange County Lunchtime Webinar Transformation of Steel: A Primer in Sustainability
For today's design leaders, choosing the right structural system doesn't just include efficiency and cost, but also must consider an understanding and analysis of sustainability goals.
The AIA Orange County EDI Committee Presents: Equity in Technology Design
Attendees will learn about technologies to consider when designing Educational and Healthcare spaces that support diversity, equity, and inclusion. They will have the opportunity to discover approaches to design with EDI in mind and dive into different options that are being implemented in projects today
TGIF Live
This is an opportunity for you to ask anything ‘AIA’, and to help guide us in providing you with a value-added member experience.
AIAOC EDI+J Committee Meeting
If you are interested in joining this committee, please email Jeff Gill at jgill@aiaoc.org