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Other up-coming courses under review. If you are interested in course information please contact. Adam Develter, CTR
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NECB 2017 Changes;
Speaker:Justin Pockar, BSc, MArch, SCO, LEED AP Before joining The City of Calgary Justin worked as a consultant, completing several projects certified to LEED Gold or better. As Coordinator – Plans Examination for Planning & Development at the City of Calgary, current responsibilities include administration and integration of sustainable design policies and technology into the approvals processes and built environment as well as overseeing the plans review portion of permitting for both residential and commercial projects. Outside of this role, he has authored several works, notably playing a role in the development of the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB), and contributing volumes for both ASHRAE and BIM Canada publications. In addition, he occupies positions on the Canada Green Building Council Alberta Board of Directors, the Standing Committee for Energy Efficiency at the National Research Council, and SAIT’s Green Building Technology Centre Board. Presentation: Do the changes in NECB 2017 point the way toward performance based code compliance? This presentation will cover the technical changes to NECB 2017, and point out the intrinsic inequalities in this code and how it makes performance compliance the most attractive compliance path. Further, we will look at other aspects of code and see if this is trend extending to other aspects of code compliance, and what this might mean for project delivery and design process
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
Ignite Student Design Competition
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September 11, 2018 Connections Cafe 2017 Annual Conference Award Longevity awards: 30 years – Manfred Grote 15 years – J.D. Eckmire, and Larry Shoesmith, CTR 10 years – Bretan Baumgardt, CCCA; Monica Guzman, Kris Norman, Paul Ledaire, and Paul Schmidtke, RSW
Chapter Awards of Merit Larry Shoesmith Tim Simpson Corinne Golding
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Industry News: What keeps owners and project teams up at night?Discover their greatest fears, along with best practices for managing those risks, in a new project planning guide from AIA and its industry partners.
Even the most experienced owners and project teams run into complications as they go through the design construction process. Some are easy to anticipate while others are unforeseeable, but all can be managed with the right strategies.To help highlight those strategies, AIA - along with the Large Firm Roundtable, Dodge Data & Analytics, and other industry partners - sponsored the research that led to this project planning guide. 4. Unknown site or building conditions: Rock or unstable soil during excavation, along with previously unidentified underground utilities or structural problems during a renovation, are just a few of the surprises that could pop up early in a project.
As for managing these challenges, the project planning guide comes with a list of detailed recommendations. They include: Guide based on Original Study.
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