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OCT. 29

OCTOBER
28–30
2014
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WELCOME
OCTOBER 28–30
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center | Exhibit Hall C
Welcome to ABX!
ABX is not only the leading building industry
event in the Northeast, it’s the place to find your
colleagues, inspiration, great new products, and a
passion for value of design. Each year I am amazed
by the depth of knowledge I encounter both on
the tradeshow floor and in workshops highlighting
the best of our industry. Where else can you gather
with 10,000 fellow architects, builders, and design
professionals so close to home?
The Boston Society of Architects is a
nonprofit organization committed to
professional development for its members,
advocacy on behalf of great design, and
sharing an appreciation for the built
environment with the public at large.
architects.org.
ArchitectureBoston, a quarterly
publication of the Boston Society of
Architects, explores the ways architecture
influences and is influenced by our
environment and our society. Advertising:
sales@architects.org.
The Boston Society of Architects plans and hosts ABX every year to
explore new ideas in design and construction, share current research
on building materials and technologies, and provide an opportunity
for A/E/C professionals to meet face-to-face. ABX 2014 will feature
400 exhibitors, as well as product demonstrations, design galleries,
Quad 2.0 by WHAT’S IN Boston, and AIA Vermont’s Archistream
traveling design center. Our thought-provoking conference sessions
are led by industry experts and include tracks on Climate Resilience,
Socially Sustainable Design, Building Performance, and a particular
focus of mine, The Future of Practice. Visit the BSA Central lounge
for networking, panels and parties, and don’t miss the biggest party,
the ABX Social.
I encourage you to be a part of ABX—the premier opportunity to join
with colleagues in expanding your industry knowledge and celebrating
the built environment and the power of great design. Each year,
ABX reminds me just how much architecture matters in Boston and
other great cities.
So come out to ABX this October! I look forward to seeing you.
BSA Space is Boston’s leading center
for architecture and design, and is home
to the Boston Society of Architects and
the Boston Foundation for Architecture.
bsaspace.org
Emily Grandstaff-Rice AIA
President
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WELCOME
ABX 2014 | BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS
ABX is the largest building industry event in
the Northeast and one of the largest in the
country. Its continued growth is proof of the
power of the original social media: face-to-face.
Long-term relationships formed around shared
industry experiences and challenges start
right on the show floor. ABX is your destination
to explore. What will you find? Colleagues,
products, social stimulation, all the education
credits you need for the year, and so much more.
Produced by the BSA for the entire building
industry, ABX is the place to be this October.
CONTENTS
HOW TO
REGISTER
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6 BSA CENTRAL
40 Design Thinking and New Directions
8 EXHIBIT-HALL HIGHLIGHTS
41 Existing and Historic Buildings
10 INTERACTIVE MARKETPLACE
44 For Emerging Professionals
12 LEARNING STAGE
45 Landscape
14 EXHIBITORS
47 Multifamily Housing
BY PHONE
49 Residential Focus
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Thursday, October 30
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50 Sketch-up
21 CONTINUING EDUCATION
50 Socially Sustainable Design
22 TOURS
52 Sound and Light
24 CONFERENCE TRACKS
54 Sustainable Energy Solutions
25 ArchitectureBoston
55 The Future of Practice
26 Building Enclosures
57 Urban Scale
27 Building Performance
59 Women in Design Symposium
30 Business Management and
Development
32 Case Studies and Project Types
35 Climate Resilience
37 Codes and Regulations
39 Construction
60 SPECIAL EVENTS
62 SPONSORS & PARTNERS
64 PRICING
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COME TO ABX
TO FIND NEW
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OF EXHIBITORS HAVE NEW
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- High performance-engineered appliances that raise standards
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- Shingles harvested from logs of Wallaba wood—the most
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- Energy-efficient solutions that change the way people light
their commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential worlds
- Home appliances, commercial hand dryers, and digital
motor technology
10%
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NEW COMPANIES WITH
RESIDENTIAL PRODUCTS
Ranging from high-end fireplace equipment and
shutter systems to fiberglass gutters, granite blends,
and plumbing products.
OF NEW EXHIBITORS ARE INTERNATIONAL,
BY LOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS
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New Brunswick consortium of six companies exhibiting at ABX on an architectural
building products mission
- Appliances, architectural hardware and fittings, furniture, and wood from Germany
NEW
ABX PASSPORT
How can you view it all? Save a block of time in your day to explore the
exhibit hall with the ABX Passport. Think bingo for a tradeshow. Mark
your passport with stamps from exhibitors and turn in the completed
card for prize drawings. It’s really that simple!
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BSA CENTRAL
BSA
CENTRAL
YOUR SOCIAL CENTER ON THE SHOW FLOOR!
What’s happening in BSA Central? Panel discussions, casual conversation,
happy hours, and more. BSA Central is the place to meet.
You can recharge physically and technologically
here. Grab a coffee during the day or a cocktail
after 4:00pm in this cozy yet bustling hub on
the show floor.
With seating by:
Charging stations by:
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BSA CENTRAL
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
These programs are free and open to the public,
but registration is required.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
Community Outreach in the
Time of Twitter
BSAC1 | 11:30am–1:00pm
Has new media changed the community
outreach approach? Share your own trials
and tribulations, with time allotted for
discussion.
Sponsored by:
properly maturing? Learn from seasoned
experts how to effectively differentiate your company in this competitive
environment.
Rachel Levitt Slade of Boston Magazine
Sponsored by:
Just My Type: Pencil to Pixel
BSAC4 | 3:00pm–4:30pm
The Architect Never Gets the
Girl (or Boy!)
Explore the departure from conventional
two-dimensional fonts by incorporating
the elements of time, movement, and the
third dimension.
BSAC2 | 3:00pm–4:30pm
Judith Hoos Fox, co-curator of the
Either an anti-hero or larger-than-life,
architects have been inaccurately portrayed in literature. Join a lively discussion
as we determine if words can ever really
describe what architects do.
StereoType exhibition opening at BSA Space
Jay Wickersham FAIA
Sponsored by:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
How to Renovate and Maintain
Your Brand
BSAC3 | 11:30am–1:00pm
Your brand goes beyond a logo or a
tagline, representing all the elements of
your company’s identity. Is your brand
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30
Reconnecting an Architectural
Heritage: Dorchester’s Urban Plan
BSAC5 | 11:30am–1:00pm
A master plan like that in Somerville
could help renew Dorchester, where
neighborhoods of Victorian houses seem
disconnected from a randomly developed
and sometimes unsightly Dorchester
Avenue. How can one of Boston’s largest
neighborhoods become its most vital?
Gail Ravgiala, Editor Design New England
Sponsored by:
GET
SOCIAL
Tweet Up
SA4 | Tuesday, 4:00pm–5:00pm
Meet your virtual network face-to-face and
share more than 140 characters! Register
in advance and you’ll receive one free
drink ticket. Learn twitter how-to’s from
colleagues and social media experts and
perhaps take home a door prize.
Connect with us now: #ABX2014
Facebook/BSAAIA Twitter @BSAAIA
LinkedIn Boston Society of
Architects group
GET
HAPPY!
WID Happy Hour
SB14 | Wednesday, 4:00pm–6:00pm
Come on and get Happy with Women
In Design.
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HIGHLIGHTS
EXHIBIT HALL HIGHLIGHTS
EXHIBIT HALL
HIGHLIGHTS
The show floor is an interactive marketplace for the building industry.
Among the products and services exhibited, you’ll find structures, projects
and designs that highlight talent and spark collaboration.
NEW
ARCHISTREAM
A retrofitted vintage 21'
Airstream Globetrotter Camper
Images: ©2014 CarolynBates.com
Now a rolling design center and gallery,
the Archistream encourages curiosity and
creativity around the thought processes
and various materials used in building
and architecture. More than 3,000
hours of work by 10 Norwich University
architecture students helped to create this
unique and airy space for exploration and
learning. The Archistream was refurbished
under the direction of AIA VT members,
with an Innovation Grant Fund from AIA.
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QUAD 2.0
From the team that brought
you the full-scale micro-unit in
2012 and inflatable cloud forest
in 2013, comes Quad 2.0—an
entirely new lounge space for
ABX 2014.
The space will serve as a social hot spot,
hosting various receptions and panel
discussions on emerging urban living. It
will also include a gallery featuring past
winners of the Federal Home Loan Bank’s
affordable housing competition.
Rendering by WHAT’S IN
Oasis images: John McCabe, xtravisionphotography.com
WHAT’S IN, a research group based at
ADD Inc, aims to find affordable urban
living solutions through design, policy
change, and community collaborations.
They have been exploring the idea of
“living small and sharing more” as a
concept for compact living, and are also
exploring livability aspects of various
Boston neighborhoods outside the
urban core.
WHAT’S
IN NOVATION
?
in emerging URBAN LIVING ENVIRONMENTS
NEW
THE
OASIS
Step outside everyday experience
and see your surroundings in a
different light.
The Oasis is a relaxing respite on the
show floor. In the midst of discovering
the myriad of cutting edge products on
display, take time to enjoy an installation
of sound, light, and video projection
produced by the BLiNK Project Group,
creators of SOUNDSCAPE at the
2010 BASH.
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INTERACTIVE
MARKETPLACE
SHOW HOURS
AND DAYS!
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
11:00am–6:00pm
11:00am–6:00pm
11:00am–4:00pm
PHOTO EXHIBIT
Browse images of architecture, landscape
architecture, and interior design in New
England as your walk down the main aisles
and major cross aisle of the show floor.
The Bookstore is stocked with a variety
of books dedicated to building industry
professionals. Browse titles authored and
recommended by conference presenters.
Innovation Deck
A venue for new and innovative products,
the Pavilion showcases more than 30
products that have been in the marketplace for less than three years. Designed
solely for these products, the space is
curated around the unique qualities of
each selection. The Pavilion is staffed by
representatives from Building & Design
Resources.
Vendors showcasing a product in the
Innovation Pavilion will have a chance to
pitch their product to a jury of industry
experts. Listen as they deliver their best
“Power Pitch” in 90 seconds or less, and
see if they get the buy-in they’re seeking.
See which products make the cut, and
which need to go back to the drawing
board.
Participating companies include:
- Airowood Woodgrain Finish by
The Airolite Company
- Ayrtaik by Artaic
- Blue Stain Pine by Torzo Surfaces
- Colormorph Material by Tesserae
Materials
- Duro-Last EV by Duro-Last Roofing, Inc
- ECOR FlatCOR by Noble Environmental
Technologies
– Infinite Glass by 3form
- Interwoven Eco-Panels by Architectural
Systems, Inc
- New World Stoneworks by Coldspring
- Shim-Pull by Spofford Building Products
- Trap-Loc by Aljoma Lumber
Hosted by:
NEW
NEW
Interactive Voting!
Decide which is the best new product
in the Pavilion by simply texting your
vote. The winner will be announced on
Thursday.
3D PRINTING
EXPLAINED
Get tips to better manage the design
process for 3D printed models from David
Munson of Munson3D. A 3D printing
expert, Dave will walk you through the
nature of the materials available and
answer the questions on local resources,
when and why to buy a machine, and how
to optimize software workflows.
BOOKSTORE
INNOVATION
PAVILION
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DESIGN GALLERY
A gallery of work from the BSA’s annual
design awards program honoring design
excellence and the outstanding achievements of our peers. The gallery and
program are a reminder that all building
industry professionals have the opportunity to positively affect their communities
and the way we live.
Programs on view this year:
- Harleston Parker Medal
- Honor Awards for Design Excellence
- Unbuilt Architecture and Design
- Housing Design Awards
- Small Firms Design Awards
- Healthcare Facilities Design Awards
DESIGN AWARDS
RECEPTION
SA3 | Tuesday, 4:00pm–6:00pm | Free
Celebrating projects recognized by the
BSA’s 2014 Design Awards program. Join
recognized firms and jurors for a sneak
peek at recognized projects prior to the
BSA’s Awards Gala. The final awards will
be revealed at the Design Awards Gala
on Thursday, January 29, 2015 at the
InterContinental Hotel. SAVE THE DATE!
DESIGN
CHARRETTE: LIVING
WITH WATER
SB2 | Wednesday, October 29,
1:00pm–4:00pm
It’s a familiar refrain: if Superstorm Sandy
had hit a few hours earlier (or later),
Boston too would have flooded. Scientists
know that seas are rising, storm severity
is increasing, and coastal cities need to
grapple with an increasingly wet world.
The Boston Harbor Association argues
that Living With Water is the way forward.
On Sandy’s second anniversary, join us for
a hands-on design workshop to imagine
what this might mean at a variety of
locations where the city meets the sea.
This charrette is one component of a
slate of ABX workshops on resiliency, and
complements a larger design competition
organized by the City of Boston, Boston
Redevelopment Authority, Coastal Zone
Management and The Boston Harbor
Association. Free and open to the public.
Self-report for CE credit.
Hosted by:
In partnership with:
ARCHITECTURE
FOR HUMANITY
BOSTON
A structure of small-dimension bamboo
canes that demonstrates the potential of
bamboo as a low-cost, easily-erected and
sustainable construction material will be
the centerpiece of the AfHB booth. The
space will also feature drawings, photographs and descriptions of other current
AfH projects, and completed projects.
Learn how projects in the developing
world make innovative use of recycled
and locally available no-cost or low-cost
materials.
All proceeds from presentations held at
the booth will support the construction
of a new building in central Haiti, the
Hinche Technology Institute, currently
being designed by AfH Boston for the
Boston-based Organization of Support to
the Development of the Plateau Central,
Inc. (OSDPC) and in collaboration with
architecture students from Keene State
College, in Keene, NH. Look for the AfHB
sessions on the show floor.
Design Like You Give a Damn!
AfHB1 | Tuesday, 2:00pm | LU
AfHB3 | Wednesday, 2:00pm | LU
AfHB5 | Thursday, 2:00pm | LU
An introduction to Architecture for
Humanity featuring local projects and
projects in the developing world designed
by the Boston Chapter.
Appropriate Construction
Technology
AfHB2 | Tuesday, 4:00pm | LU
AfHB4 | Wednesday, 4:00pm | LU
AfHB6 | Thursday, Noon | LU
Low cost, low impact construction
techniques for the developing world
situations.
WHAT IS YOUR ABX
PERSONALITY?
Discover your ABX personality by taking a
quick quiz when you register. By answering
four questions to find out which one of five
personalities you are.
Entrepreneurial collaborator
Your pioneering personality
brings the building industry
together.
Tech savvy with old school
passions
You are socially savvy, both faceto-face and digitally, but your
love lies with the traditional.
Green evangelist
ou are a civic-minded city
Y
dweller with a passion to
change the world.
Inquisitive and self-motivated
lifelong learner
The pursuit of knowledge is
your ultimate quest.
Creative pragmatist
our attention to both the
Y
macro and the micro shines
through in your design work
and project management.
The results of your quiz will be revealed
at the completion of registration. From
there, you can share your findings via
Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. We’ll also
help you identify like-minded attendees at
ABX—your personality icon will be printed
right on your badge!
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LEARNING STAGE
LEARNING STAGE
SPONSORED BY ARCHITECT MAGAZINE
Industry experts deliver informative 20-minute presentations
at no cost to attendees right on the show floor. Learning units
are not available (unless otherwise indicated).
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
Moderator: Laura Handler, Director of
Cyril Verley, RA, President, CDV Systems
communication takes place with all members of the construction team. Preview of
the latest technology being used to build
door schedules in Revit.
Matt Mason Director of Software Solutions,
T.J. Gottwalt, Strategic Architectural Account
IMAGINiT Technologies
Manager
Service Design and Strategy, Tocci Building
Mobile Facility Management
Solutions: Take Your Work to Where
the Work Takes Place
Companies
11:30am–Noon
Sponsored by AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions
Troy Mifsud, President, myCADD
Explore processing maintenance work
orders, bar-coding opportunities for managing assets, field space verification, and
collaboration with departments. You will
learn about the emerging use of mobile
technology in the facility management
workplace and better understand the
functional areas where mobile technology
can assist in planning and managing space
at a facility.
Randy Chou, CEO, Panzura
Dan Lorenz, Vice President
Liquid Resin Waterproofing
Membrane Applications:
Hands-On Demonstration
Noon–12:30pm
Sponsored by Kemper System America, Inc
Discuss the history, composition, and
applications of the liquid resin waterproofing membrane systems. This hands-on
demonstration will take you through the
application process, from cutting the
reinforcement to drain detail, and
identifying pitfalls to look for along the
way. It will commence with a brief Q&A.
Peter Costanzo, Director of Sales, Facilities
Management, Rand Worldwide
The Architect’s Nightmare “I
specified everything but it still
doesn’t work”
3:30pm–4:00pm
Sponsored by Securadyne Systems
How will it look? How will it function?
How will it work? Will it meet our needs?
Learn the most costly and time consuming
oversights with coordinating, security,
ADA, fire and life safety requirements of
doors and hardware selection so your next
project will look beautiful from the first
day of occupancy.
The NEW Age of Chemical Strippers
and Graffiti Control Products
4:00pm–4:30pm
Sponsored by Dumond Chemicals
Building a Better Door Schedule:
Establishing Industry Standards
Look at ways that you can use BIM,
geographic information, and other
interconnected technologies to provide
decision-making facts that support both
ends of the cradle-to-cradle built world.
Senior Lighting Specialist
Stretch Energy Code Update:
When is the New Version Coming?
What Will It Look Like? And How
Does It Fit in with the New Base
Energy Code?
5:30pm–6:00pm
4:30pm–5:00pm
Sponsored by Allegion, PLC
Knowing what information about a door
opening to include in a door schedule is
critical to ensuring that clear and concise
Sarah Lawson, Project Manager
Jamie Leef, Division Manager for Renewable
Energy and Green Building
Shades of Green in Flooring
11:30am–Noon
Sponsored by SelecTech, Inc.
Examples of “green” flooring will cover
the various attributes that make flooring
Image: Ben Gebo Photography
BIM Collaboration Expert Panel
2:30pm–3:30pm
Shelli Sedlak, LC, LEED AP®, MIES, SMIEEE,
Starting July 1, 2014, the Base energy
code—the minimum required by the State
of Massachusetts—has become more
demanding and now nearly matches
Stretch Code, leaving the state without
a more demanding energy code option.
Participants will receive a progress
update on the new Stretch Code, and the
particulars of the new Base Code, and also
receive an updated one-pager on Base
and Stretch energy code requirements.
Rick Grear, Vice President of Sales
12:30pm–1:00pm
Several case studies will provide overview
of solid state lighting (LED) technology,
including its value and reliability in lighting
system applications.
Sponsored by S + H Construction
Corbin Reinhart, Product Specialist
Reviving the Lost Art of Moldings
Sponsored by GE Lighting
Solutions
Sponsored by Windsor Mill
Specification Manager
5:00pm–5:30pm
Brendan Daley, FDAI, Director of Door
Learn the latest trends in chemical
strippers and graffiti control products.
Biodegradable, odorless, water-based
products currently available provide the
highest efficacy, without ghosting or
shadowing, and do not harm the substrate
or the environment.
Brian Kelly, National Project Design &
Trends in Solid State Lighting (SSL),
aka “LED’s”
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“green,” including recycled content,
recyclability, VOC emissions, raw material
make-up, and others. Learn the attributes
that contribute to LEED, as well as others
that are not considered under the LEED
rating system.
high-performance precast buildings
and key elements to their performance
including life-cycle assessment and
environmental product declarations.
Noon–12:30pm
See description for Tuesday noon session.
How to Specify Residential Door
Hardware
12:30pm–1:00pm
Sponsored by Baldwin Hardware
Learn how to write professional specifications for decorative and architectural
residential door hardware by understanding door and hardware nomenclatures, the
different functions of locks and the trims
that complement them, and the materials
and finishes that make up the hardware.
Participants will receive a Baldwin key
for the chance to win one of three Santa
Monica entrance sets at the Baldwin
booth. This presentation qualifies for one
LU credit.
James Dozois, Baldwin Representative
Executive Director
2:30pm–3:30pm
High Performance Buildings are energy
efficient, have limited environmental
impact. and operate with the lowest possible life-cycle costs. There are a number
of ways to achieve high-performance
buildings, such as the use of life-cycle
cost analysis, integrated design processes,
building information modeling (BIM),
integrated energy solutions for the building envelope and building commissioning.
5:30pm–6:00pm
Sponsored by Ultra-Aire
To reduce energy costs, homes are being
built tighter and insulated better than
ever. As a result, indoor air can become
much more polluted, creating unhealthy
indoor environments. Discuss the benefits
of ventilation and dehumidification to the
home and its occupants, why dedicated
dehumidification can be more cost effective than air conditioning, and how to talk
to homeowners, HVAC contractors and
builders about the need to bring in fresh
controlled air.
Nikki Krueger, Marketing Manager
Direct Embed Coating Systems,
Embedded Graphics in Powder
Coated Surfaces
11:30am–Noon
Sponsored by Direct Embed Coating
There are several steps that together create the unique process of Direct Embed
Coating Systems. Explore this process,
from fabrication, to powder coating, to the
permanent embedding of high-resolution
images (i.e. wood grain, stone, branding,
photographic images, and more) into the
powder coating.
Eric Koslow, Vice President of Business
Development
Construction Company
Hands-On Demonstration
Brian Haines, Director of Marketing,
Noon–12:30pm
FM:Systems, Inc.
See description for Tuesday noon session.
Anthony Paturzo, Northeast Regional
Manager, HDS, Leica Geosystems Inc.
Using Life Cycle Assessment
in Designing High-Performance
Buildings
Scan to BIM: How a Large Scanning
Project Was Completed for NASA in
Record Time
4:00pm–4:30pm
12:30pm–1:00pm
Sponsored by Precast/Prestressed Concrete
Sponsored by SANE Technology
Institute Northeast
Learn the firsthand experiences of a
two-person team that used targetless registration software to collect and register
1,800 color scans from a 250,000-squarefoot NASA wind tunnel facility in just
14 days (1/4 of the estimated time).
Chris Brinser, Chief Estimator, Turner
High performance structures go beyond
being built sustainably to include a full set
of environmental impacts during design
to improve resiliency and long-term
performance. Case studies will describe
Ron Hughes, Reality Capture Specialist
Multifamily Noise Control
1:00pm–1:30pm
The Need for Moisture Control and
Ventilation in Tight Homes
Systems LLC
High Performance Building Panel
Descriptions of tools used to complete
the project and an overview of the in-field
workflows will be discussed.
Rita L. Seraderian, PE, FPCI, LEED AP,
Tom Ricciardelli, President
Hands-On Demonstration LEARNING STAGE
Sponsored by Keene Building Products
Learn how to properly enhance the
acoustics of a multifamily dwelling, by
better understanding the basic principles
of noise control. Covered topics will
include distinguishing between airborne
and impact noises, the ATSM standards of
STC and IIC, as well as principles that can
help determine if the selected product is
correct for your specific application.
Daniel Gibson, Division Manager
Mineral Finishes: Longest Lasting
Protection and Preservation for
Concrete and Masonry
2:30pm–3:00pm
Sponsored by Keim Mineral Coatings, Inc.
Silicate finishes penetrate and chemically
bond with concrete and masonry surfaces
to provide decades of lasting protection
that will never peel, blister, or fade. This
longevity is demonstrated across the
globe in iconic projects from modern
construction to the most venerable
historic restorations. Silicate finishes are
extremely vapor permeable, contain 100%
natural ingredients and no-to-low VOC’s
to make them the “original” green and
sustainable coatings choice.
Tom Tipps, CSI, CDT, Technical and Key
Account Sales Manager
Make Mouldings Matter Inside & Out
3:00pm–3:30pm
Sponsored by Princeton Forest Products
Mouldings are more than a cover-up for
carpentry purposes; they add a level of
professional detail and customized design.
Learn how to select a group of profiles to
make a consistent design statement for
both interior and exterior use, and how
to combine them to create one-of-a-kind
built-up composition for windows, doors,
and wall treatments. Participants will
receive $200 worth of profile design
sample cases and illustrated books to
demonstrate profile options to clients.
Stephen L. Jones, President
Don’t miss these FREE and
useful sessions right in the
exhibit hall.
The schedule is subject to
change. Check abexpo.com
for updates and additions.
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EXHIBITORS
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2014 EXHIBITORS
i = RESIDENTIAL
1 = NEW / GREEN PRODUCT
BSA = BSA MEMBER
NEW = NEW EXHIBITOR
Listing as of August 4, 2014
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A. Jandris & Sons, Inc
Abatron, Inc i
Acorn Deck House Co
Acurlite Structural Skylights
Adirondack Natural Stone LLC NEW i
Advance 2000 BSA
Advanced Building Products NEW
Aerotek A/E/C BSA
AGC Glass Company 1
AIR TECH Equipment Ltd NEW
Allegion, PLC NEW
Allied Window Inc
Alpha Imaging Technologies
ALPHA Sales Company / Julien Home
Refinements i
Alpine Environmental, Inc i
Alucoil North America, LLC NEW
American Warming & Ventilating (AWV) NEW i
AMS CAD + CAFM Solutions NEW
Anchor Insulation Co NEW 1 i
Andersen Windows and Doors
Andover Retractable Screens LLC
Apex Urethane Millwork
Appleton Grp. LLC - Easy Heat, Inc NEW i
Aquapol New England NEW i
ARC, Inc
Architects for Humanity Boston
Architectural Elements i
Architectural Openings, Inc i
ASCENT - Center for Technical Knowledge
Ashfield Stone Mfg. LLC
Asite NEW
ASSA ABLOY
Atlas Roofing Corp
Atlas Watersystems, Inc
Aurora DeckLighting + High Point
DeckLighting NEW i
Autodesk, Inc
Avenere-Swirnow
B
B.L. Makepeace, Inc BSA
Baldwin Hardware NEW i
Barlo Signs International
Benjamin Moore Co i
Best Bath Systems i
Best Tile i
Big Ass Fans
Black Bear Coatings & Concrete i
Bluebeam Software, Inc
Bosch BSH Home Appliances Ltd NEW i
Bostik, Inc
Boston Architectural College BSA
Boston Preservation Alliance
Brassworks Fine Home Details NEW i
BROSCO i
BSA CENTRAL
BSA QUAD
Builder+Architect Magazine
Builders and Remodelers Association of
Greater Boston
C
California Closets i
Canam
Carolina Colortones i
Catamount Solid Surface
Cell-Tek Geosynthetics LLC NEW
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CertainTeed Ceilings Featuring Ecophon
CertainTeed Roofing Products Group
CertainTeed Siding Products Group i
Charles Leonard Steel Services, LLC
Cladding Corp
Clark Dietrich Building Systems NEW
Clarke Distribution BSA i
Coastal Industries Inc NEW i
Coldspring
Commercial Modular Construction Services, LLC
Commonwealth Quality Wood Floors i
Community Design Resource Center (CDRC) BSA
ConceptWall NEW i
Connor Homes
Conservation Services Group
Construction Journal
Construction Specification Institute, Boston
Chapter (CSI)
Cosella-Dörken Products, Inc
CPG Building Products - AZEK-Timberpeg
CR Laurence Co Inc i
Crestron Electronics NEW
Crown Point Cabinetry BSA i
Crystal Window & Door Systems, Ltd i
Custom Building Products
D
Flash Trac Systems, Inc NEW
Fletch’s Sandblasting & Painting Inc NEW
Flex Trim / Carter Millwork NEW 1 i
FM:Systems
Foard Panel, Inc
Focal Upright
Focused Sales Associates
Form Function Custom Counter Tops
FSB North America NEW i
FSR, Inc BSA
FW Web NEW i
G
G&E Steel Fabricators, Inc
GAF
Galaxy Glass + Stone
GE Lighting NEW i
Genest Concrete NEW i
Gensler
Georgia-Pacific Gypsum i
GKD-USA, Inc
Goldray Industries NEW
Grace Construction Products
Granites of America NEW
Graphisoft
Green Stamp Insulation
Grohe America NEW i
Guardian Industries
DACS, Inc NEW
Dakota DesignStaff, Inc BSA
Davenport Associates i
Dean Column Co, Inc i
Demilec
Design New England Magazine
Design Studio 180 BSA
Direct Embed Coating Systems LLC NEW
DOORBRIM™ Awnings 1
Dow Corning Corporation
Dricore Produsts NEW
Dryvit Systems, Inc i
Dumond Chemicals
Dupont Building Innovations NEW
Duradek-Railing Pro i
Dyson B2B, Inc NEW BSA i
E
East Coast Lightning Equipment i
EFCO a Pella Company/Pace Representatives
EFI/Energy Federation, Inc i
Electrolux NEW 1 i
Elite Sales & Marketing, Inc
eLumit
Endicott College Graduate School Interior Design
Programs
Epic Metals NEW
Equitone
Existing Conditions Surveys, Inc BSA
F
F.D. Sterritt Lumber Company NEW i
F.H. Perry Builder, Inc BSA
F.W. Webb Company
Fairfield Metal LLC NEW
Fallon Custom Homes & Renovations, Inc
Fantech i
Feldman Land Surveyors
Fin Pan, Inc 1
Firestone Building Products
Fit City Boston
H
Hafele America Co NEW BSA i
Hanley Wood
Hanover Architectural Products i
Hardwoods Specialty Products
Harring Doors NEW i
Harvey Building Products
Henry Company
High Profile Monthly
Hollaender Manufacturing NEW
Holt & Bugbee NEW
Horner Millwork BSA
HUB Technical Services, LLC NEW
Huber Engineered Woods, LLC.
Hunter Panels
Hwam NEW
I
IAM Building Systems Inc NEW
Icynene Spray Foam Insulation
IMAGINiT Technologies BSA
Imtek Reprographics, Inc
Infinite Therapeutics
Innovation Pavilion
Institute for Human Centered Design BSA
InterAmerica Stage, Inc NEW 1
International Beams
International Masonry Institute BSA
Intus Windows NEW i
J
James Hardie Building Products
JC Stone, Inc
JE Berkowitz, L.P. NEW
JELD-WEN Windows and Doors i
Jenn-Air NEW i
ABEXPO.COM
K
K. Peterson Associates, Inc NEW BSA
Kalwall Corporation
Kaplan Architecture Education
KBS Building Systems
Keene Building Products NEW
KEIM Mineral Coatings NEW
Keiver-Willard Lumber NEW
Kemper System America, Inc
Kenneth Vona Construction, Inc BSA i
Knauf Insulation
L
Laboratory Solutions of New England LLC NEW
Lashway Lumber, Inc
Laticrete International, Inc
LEARNING STAGE
Lebcorp NEW
LEDGEROCK WELDING & FABRICATING NEW i
Leica Geosystems Inc NEW
Lerch Bates Inc NEW
Longfellow’s Cedar Shingles & Shakes i
LTI Smart Glass, Inc
M
Maibec
Maine Green Building Supply / Performance
MAPEI Corp NEW
Marathon Fluid Systems Limited NEW
Marketing & Sales Associates
Marvin Windows and Doors BSA i
Master Finishing & Restoration, Inc
dba Wayne Towle
MBCI
McNichols Co NEW BSA
Menck Windows BSA
Merz Construction, Inc
Metropolitan Cabinets & Countertops i
MicroCAD Training & Consulting BSA
Microsol Resources NEW
Mitsubishi Electric
Mullen Sales Inc
myCADD NEW
N
Nana Wall Systems, Inc i
Nantucket Sinks Seena Stone LLC NEW i
National Council of Architectural
Registration Boards
National Grid
National Gypsum
Needham Decorative Hardware
Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc NEW BSA
New England Architectural Finishing, LLC
New England Brickmaster NEW i
New England Carpenters Union BSA
New England Home Magazine
New England Real Estate Journal
New England Soundproofing
New England Wine Cellars NEW i
New York Times-on the avenue Marketing
Newton Distributing Company
NextDay Moulding NEW i
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
(NESEA)
Northeastern Lumber Mfg. Association
NuCedar Mills & EX-Cel by Jain NEW i
Nucor - Vulcraft - Ecospan NEW
Nuheat 1 i
O
Oasis Shower Door i
on the avenue Marketing
Openings Millwork, LLC i
Optiwin USA, LLC NEW i
ORTAL USA, Inc
Otto Trading Inc
P
P.C. Richard & Son NEW i
Panzura NEW
Parksite
Parrett Manufacturing, Inc
Pavers by Ideal NEW
Pella Windows and Doors of Boston,
NH & ME BSA i
Perennial Wood™
Phelan Construction NEW
Pierce Atwood LLP NEW
Plycem USA NEW
Polyguard Products, Inc
Ponders Hollow Custom Wood Flooring and
Millwork, Inc
Porcelanosa-USA i
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SoftPlan Architectural Design Software
Solar Seal Company
Solas, LLC NEW
Solatube NEW
Staples Architects Engineers, Inc
Steel Windows & Doors USA
Stoneyard.com
Supa Doors Inc NEW i
T
R
T.S. Mann Lumber Co, Inc
Takeform
Tamlyn
Tandus Centiva NEW
The Architects Newspaper
The Blue Book Building & Construction Network
The Fiberglass Gutter Company NEW i
The Oasis
The Pappas Company, Inc
The Sherwin Williams i
The Warren Group/Banker & Tradesman
3M
Thoughtforms Corporation i
Topaz Engineering Supply, Inc
TOTO USA NEW i
TRACC/ Moderne Slate NEW
Transformit
Tremco Barrier Solutions i
Tremco Commercial Sealants &
Waterproofing 1 i
Trending Accessibility i
Trespa North America
TrimBoard, Inc i
Turada Hardwood Shingles NEW 1
Turner Construction Company
RAB Lighting Inc
RavenBrick NEW
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Portland Stone Ware Company, Inc NEW
PPG Industries Inc i
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
Northeast NEW
Princeton Forest Products NEW
Progress Lighting
PunchPro, Link Systems Inc
Q
Quarrix Building Products
QuickDrain USA NEW
REACH Manufacturing Inc NEW 1
RedBuilt, LLC NEW
Renew Boston
Richelieu Hardware NEW
Robert Benson Photography
ROXUL, Inc
RPF Environmental Inc NEW
Rulon International NEW
Runtal North America BSA
S
S + H Construction
SAGE Electrochromics, Inc i
Samiotes Consultants, Inc NEW
SANE Technology NEW
Savant Systems, LLC NEW
Schluter Systems i
Scranton Products, Inc NEW
Seawall Architectural Products NEW
Securadyne Systems NEW
Sedia Systems NEW i
SeeSaw NEW BSA
SelecTech, Inc NEW 1
Shade & Shutter Systems NEW BSA i
Shakertown
Shiplights
SIGA NEW
SIGCO, Inc
Sika Corporation - Roofing
Simonton Windows i
Simpson Strong Tie Company, Inc
Sladen Feinstein Integrated Lighting NEW
SMART VENT Flood Vents i
SmartCI / Advanced Architectural Products
Smoot Associates, Inc NEW
Smooth-On NEW
Society for Marketing Professional Services
Boston (SMPS)
Ultra-Aire
Unity Surfacing Systems NEW
Universal Window and Door, LLC.
V
V+S Galvanizing, LLC 1
Valor Radiant Gas Fireplaces/Miles Industries i
Vantage Controls
Vantem Panels / SMART HOMZE
VaproShield LLC i
VELUX America Inc 1
Vermont Verde Antique, LLC
Vermont Wide Plank Flooring, LLC 1 i
Versatex Trimboard i
Ver-Tex C.S.I.
Vitrabond
W
Warmup, Inc NEW i
Waska/Clair Industrial Dev. Corp Ltd NEW
Weiss Sheet Metal NEW
West-Wood Industries Ltd NEW
Weyerhaeuser
WGM Fabricators, LLC NEW
White River NEW i
Willco Sales & Services Inc NEW
Winco Window Co - True Enterprises, Inc
Window Services, Inc
Windsor Mill NEW
Wolfers Lighting
Wood Pro, Inc NEW
Woodway - A Division of LWO i
WoodWorks NEW
Z
Zehnder America, Inc
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ABX SCHEDULE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
ABX SCHEDULE
Register by October 14 for the
best prices on workshops
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
LU = CONTINUING-EDUCATION CREDIT
TOURS
LU HSW = HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE CREDIT
SESSION CREDIT
9:30am–11:00am TA1
LU
9:00am–10:30am TA2
LU HSW What You Need to Know About Designing New Buildings in a
9:00am–10:30am TA3
Tour of the Christina and John Markey Memorial Pedestrian Bridge P.22
Historic District P.22
LU HSW Brigham Green: The Finished Project P.22
TRACK
TOUR
TOUR
TOUR
EARLY MORNING SESSIONS
8:00am–9:30am
A01
LU HSW Egress Requirements of the MA Building Code 8th ed., 8:00am–9:30am
A02
CODES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 10 P.37
LUThe Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) Expansion URBAN SCALE
as Catalyst for a New Urban District P.57
8:00am–9:30am
A03
LU HSW Concrete Specification and Environmental Considerations P.27
BUILDING PERFORMANCE
8:00am–9:30am
A04
LU HSW Reimagining Boston’s Historic Landscapes P.45
LANDSCAPE
8:00am–9:30am
A05
LU HSW What Goes Wrong with LED Lighting and Why P.52
SOUND AND LIGHT
8:00am–9:30am
A06
LU HSWShared Programmatic Spaces for Education and Healthcare: CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
Designs for Success P.32
8:00am–9:30am
A07
LU HSW Bundle Up! Design Strategy Game P.40
DESIGN THINKING AND NEW DIRECTIONS
8:00am–9:30am
A08
LUBetter Project Delivery Through Implementation of the National BIM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Standard-US P.30
8:00am–9:30am
A09
LU HSW Details for the Building Enclosure P.26
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
8:00am–9:30am
A10
LU HSW Multifamily Housing and Accessibility: Untangling the Confusion P.47
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
8:00am–9:30am
A11
LU
THE FUTURE OF PRACTICE
Social Media: The Secret Sauce P.55
LATE MORNING SESSIONS
10:00am–11:30am A21
LU
10:00am–11:30am A22
LU HSW ADA Updates 2014 P.37
Blueprint for Boston: A Design Identity for the Future P.25
10:00am–11:30am A23
LU
URBAN SCALE
10:00am–11:30am A24
LU HSWThe Passive House Standard in Large Commercial and Institutional Connecting It All Together: The Casey Arborway Project P.57
ARCHITECTUREBOSTON
Buildings: The Balance Between Super Insulation and Internal Gains P.27
10:00am–11:30am A25
LU
10:00am–11:30am A26
LU HSW Massachusetts Port Authority: A Resilient Transportation Network P.35
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
10:00am–11:30am A27
LU HSW Music Venues in Found Spaces: Acoustical Design for Adaptive SOUND AND LIGHT
Employment Law for the Non-Lawyer P.45
LANDSCAPE
Reuse P.52
10:00am–11:30am A28
LU HSWDematerializing Buildings: Building Better with Less P.54
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS
10:00am–11:30am A29
LU
CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
10:00am–11:30am A30
LUCognitive Architecture: Evolution and Human Subconscious CM at Risk for Public Work: Success Stories from Charter Schools P.32
Responses to the Built Environment P.40
10:00am–11:30am A31
LU
10:00am–11:30am A32
LU HSWTransformation of Existing Buildings for a High Performance Fiduciary Duty and Liability of Design Professionals P.30
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
EXISTING AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Future: Part 1 P.41
10:00am–11:30am A33
LU HSW High Performance Houses Don’t Need to Look Ugly or Weird P.49
RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
MID-DAY SESSIONS
1:00pm–2:30pm
A41
1:00pm–2:30pm
A42
Six Specs to Sunday P.44
LU HSW The ADA and the Regulations of the MA Architectural Access Board P.37
1:00pm–2:30pm
The Changing Face of the Seaport P.57
A43
LU
FOR EMERGING PROFESSIONALS
URBAN SCALE
ABEXPO.COM
1:00pm–2:30pm
A44
LU HSWPotential Value to Building Owners: Tracking Embedded Carbon ABX SCHEDULE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28
Turnover and Sequestration in PVC Membranes Over Seven Years P.28
1:00pm–2:30pm
A45
LU HSW Design for Disturbance: Anticipating the Post-construction 1:00pm–2:30pm
A46
LANDSCAPE
Landscape in Site-Specific Design P.46
LU HSWBeyond Code: How Program Administrators Support Energy CODES AND REGULATIONS
Savings for High Performance New Construction P.37
1:00pm–2:30pm
A47
LU HSW Acoustics in Commercial Architecture: A Survey of Best Practices, SOUND AND LIGHT
Pitfalls, and Snake Oil P.52
1:00pm–2:30pm
A48
LU HSWHeat Pumps, Heat Pumps and More Heat Pumps P.54
1:00pm–2:30pm
A49
LU
The Library of the Future P.32
1:00pm–2:30pm
A50
LU
The Business of Architecture: Emerging Models for Practice P.55
1:00pm–2:30pm
A51
LU
What Would You Say You Do Here? P.30
1:00pm–2:30pm
A52
LU HSW Learning from Our Legacy: Historical Federal Building 1:00pm–2:30pm
A53
Case Studies P.41
LU HSWApplying Passive House Principles to 160 Units of Affordable MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
Housing: Lessons Learned P.47
1:00pm–2:30pm
A54
LU HSWTransformation of Existing Buildings for a High Performance EXISTING AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Future: Part 2 P.41
2:00pm–3:00pm AFHB1 LU
Design Like You Give a Damn! P.11
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY BOSTON
LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
3:30pm–5:00pm A61
3:30pm–5:00pm A62
Photography From All Angles P.44
LU HSW Common Errors in Transient Lodging: Hotels, Motels, Extended Stay and Dorms P.37
3:30pm–5:00pm A63
LU
Sharing Space in a Regulated Place P.57
3:30pm–5:00pm A64
LU HSWRaising the BAR: Building Asset Ratings to Enhance Energy FOR EMERGING PROFESSIONALS
URBAN SCALE
Assessments and Increase Efficiency Investment P.28
3:30pm–5:00pm A65
LU HSW Green Infrastructure: Landscape Performance Research and 3:30pm–5:00pm A66
LANDSCAPE
Implementation Case Study P.46
LU HSWInside Baseball: A Review of the Waterproofing Project at Boston’s CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
Fenway Park P.33
3:30pm–5:00pm A67
LU
Color’s Solar Power P.52
3:30pm–5:00pm A68
LU HSWLearning from Innovative, Responsive, and Large Scale Energy SOUND AND LIGHT
Efficient Housing in Europe P.54
3:30pm–5:00pm A69
LU
A Lean Case Study: The Opening of a New Terminal for Operations P.33 CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
3:30pm–5:00pm A70
LU
Moving Beyond A/E to an Integrated Practice P.55
3:30pm–5:00pm A71
LU
Lean Architecture: Rethinking Your Firm P.30
3:30pm–5:00pm A73
LU HSWTransformation of Existing Buildings for a High Performance EXISTING AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Future: Part 3 P.42
4:00pm–5:00pm AFHB2 LU HSWAppropriate Construction Technology P.11
EVENING SESSIONS
6:00pm–7:30pm A81Design and Construct Your Perfect Design and Construction Career: FOR EMERGING PROFESSIONALS
Fantasies, Nightmares, Stories—and Maybe, Lessons Learned P.44
6:00pm–7:30pm A82
LU HSWMEP/FP: Understanding the Systems Basics and Designing for BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Success P.28
6:00pm–7:30pm A83
LU HSWLighting Control Systems: What Architects and Interior Designers SOUND AND LIGHT
Need to Know P.53
6:00pm–7:30pm A84
LU HSWGame On—New and Green versus Old and Stodgy P.54
6:00pm–7:30pm A85
LU
6:00pm–7:30pm A86
LU HSWNew Window, Old Masonry: Contemporary Window Performance Step Outside the Box: Reimagining Corporate Communications P.30
in a Traditional Masonry Wall Opening P.42
6:00pm–7:30pm A87
LU HSW 30 Years of Warranty Visits: What We’ve Learned P.49
RECEPTIONS, DINNERS AND MEETINGS
6:00pm–10:00pm SA1
ABX Social—An Opening Night Celebration P.60
4:00pm–6:00pm SA3
BSA Design Awards Reception P.10
RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
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ABX SCHEDULE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
TOURS
SESSION CREDIT
LU HSW = HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE CREDIT
TRACK
9:00am–10:30am TB1
LU HSW Restoring MIT’s Historic Main Group: Building 2 P.22
TOUR
9:00am–10:30am TB2
LU
TOUR
9:00am–10:30am TB3
LU HSW Tour of the Revitalized Alice K. Wolf Center in Cambridge, MA P.23
Lost Half Mile, Found! Reclaiming a Postindustrial Waterfront P.23
TOUR
8:00am–9:30am
SB12WID Keynote Breakfast—Creative Entrepreneurship: Breaking WOMEN IN DESIGN SYMPOSIUM
from Convention P.59
8:00am–9:30am
B02
LU HSW Commercial Fenestration Energy Ratings and Energy Codes P.37
8:00am–9:30am
B03
LU HSW The Power of Construction Cost Analysis with HERS Rating P.39
CONSTRUCTION
8:00am–9:30am
B04
LU HSWHigh Performance Schools: Seizing the Built Community’s BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Teachable Moment P.28
8:00am–9:30am
B05
LU HSWPark and Parcel: Boston’s First Universally Inclusive Public LANDSCAPE
Open Space P.46
8:00am–9:30am
B06
LU HSWSea Change: Long-Term Resiliency for Greater Boston CLIMATE RESILIENCE
and Beyond P.35
8:00am–9:30am
B08
LU HSW The Value In Building Enclosure Inspections P.26
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
8:00am–9:30am
B09
LUStudio-Based Learning Center at the University of CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
Connecticut Health Care Center P.33
8:00am–9:30am
B10
LU
So You Want to Change the World? P.55
8:00am–9:30am
B11
LUImproving Leadership In Design and Construction Organizations P.30
8:00am–9:30am
B12
LU HSW Improving Energy Performance in Existing Buildings P.42
8:00am–9:30am
B13
LU HSW Pushing Wood Framing to Higher Heights P.47
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
10:00am–11:30am B21
LU
SketchUp Advanced Skills P.50
SKETCH-UP
10:00am–11:30am B22
LU
Going Global: Culture Shock P.25
ARCHITECTUREBOSTON
10:00am–11:30am B23
LU HSWDesign to Your Advantage: Navigating the Complexities of CODES AND REGULATIONS
the MA Existing Building Code P.38
10:00am–11:30am B24
LU HSWComplete Neighborhoods: Boston’s Fairmount Indigo Rail Corridor P.57 URBAN SCALE
10:00am–11:30am B26
LU HSWPhytoforensics and Phytotechnologies: Using Plants to Track LANDSCAPE
and Clean-up Contaminants P.46
10:00am–11:30am B27
LU HSW Preparing for the Rising Tide II: Living With Water P.35
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
9:30am–11:30am B28
LUArchitecture that Improves People’s Lives P.50
SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
10:00am–11:30am B29
LU HSW Window Design for Blast Hazard and Forced Entry Mitigation P.26
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
10:00am–11:30am B30
LU HSW An Energy Responsible Living Experience P.33
10:00am–11:30am B31
LUPutting Design Research into Practice: Talking Shop with THE FUTURE OF PRACTICE
Today’s Innovation Leaders P.55
10:00am–11:30am B32
LU
Designing Profitablity P.31
10:00am–11:30am B33
LU
Renovation/Addition versus New Construction P.42
10:00am–11:30am B34
LU HSW Changing Tides P.49
RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
MID-DAY SESSIONS
1:00pm–2:30pm
SB13
1:00pm–2:30pm
B41
1:00pm–2:30pm
B43
1:00pm–2:30pm
B44
LU HSW The New MA Energy and Stretch Codes P.38
1:00pm–2:30pm
B45
LU HSWHybrid Vigor: The Key to Revitalizing the Midtown Cultural District P.57
URBAN SCALE
1:00pm–2:30pm
B46
LU HSW Will Your Building’s Performance Satisfy Your Owner? P.28
1:00pm–2:30pm
B47
LU
CONSTRUCTION
1:00pm–2:30pm
B48
LU HSWDesigning Multi-Unit Housing for the Real 21st-century World P.50
LU
WID Awards Ceremony & Luncheon P.59
WOMEN IN DESIGN SYMPOSIUM
SketchUp and CAD P.50
SKETCH-UP
The 90-Minute MBA for the Emerging Professional P.44
Prefabrication Pitfalls P.39
ABEXPO.COM
ABX SCHEDULE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29
1:00pm–2:30pm
B49
LU HSWAdding Air Barrier and Thermal Improvements to Existing Facilities P.26 BUILDING ENCLOSURES
1:00pm–2:30pm
B50
LU HSW A Living Building Challenge Hotspot in Western Massachusetts P.33
1:00pm–2:30pm
B51
LU HSW Optimizing the Terrain: More Program, Less Mass P.42
1:00pm–2:30pm
B52
LU
1:00pm–2:30pm
B53
LU HSWAffordable, Net Zero, Modular: Chasing The Golden Trifecta, A Design Professional’s Guide for Getting Paid P.31
RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
Scraping Knees Along the Way P.49
1:00pm–2:30pm
B54
LUPerspectives on Design and Mixed Income Housing (Chapter 40B) P.48
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
1:00pm–2:30pm
B55
LU HSW Cut Your Losses: Envelope Performance and Thermal Comfort P.28
1:00pm–4:00pm SB2 Design Charrette: Living with Water P.11
2:00pm–3:00pm AFHB3 LUDesign Like You Give a Damn! P.11 ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY BOSTON
3:30pm–5:00pm B61
LU
3:30pm–5:00pm B62
3:30pm–5:00pm B63
SketchUp and Shaderlight for Photorealistic Renderings P.50
SKETCH-UP
Evolutions in Adaptive Reuse P.44
LU HSWDirty Dirt? How New Environmental Rules Will Change CODES AND REGULATIONS
Design and Development P.38
3:30pm–5:00pm B64
LUVictims of Fashion: Architectural Styles that Shaped Boston’s URBAN SCALE
History and Future P.58
3:30pm–5:00pm B65
LU HSWOwning the Air: Controlling and Verifying Commercial BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Building Infiltration P.29
3:30pm–5:00pm B66
LU
3:30pm–5:00pm B67
LU HSW Climate Resilient Housing Prototypes P.36
Collaboration in Public Projects P.39
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
3:30pm–5:00pm B68
LU HSWDesigning Facilitating Environments in Higher Education P.51
3:30pm–5:00pm B69
LU HSWGod is in the DETAILS: A Case Study Review of Non-Traditional BUILDING ENCLOSURES
CONSTRUCTION
Facade Detailing P.26
3:30pm–5:00pm B70
LU HSWDesigning a “Net Zero Ready” Building on a Shoestring: CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
You Can Do It, Too P.34
3:30pm–5:00pm B71
LU
3:30pm–5:00pm B72
LUDesign, Impact and Meaning: Emerging Models of Socially
A Design Interrogation of Workplace Culture P.40
3:30pm–5:00pm B73
LU HSWLimitations and Opportunities of Adapting Historic Entrepreneurial Design P.56
Landmark Structures: Two Case Studies P.42
EVENING SESSIONS
6:00pm–7:30pm B81
LU HSWEnhancing Cultural Experience by Designing for Inclusion P.51
6:00pm–7:30pm B82
6:00pm–7:30pm B83
Pathways to Leadership: Small, Medium, Large P.44
LU HSWExemplar for Zero Net Energy Office Buildings: Massachusetts SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Field Headquarters P.34
6:00pm–7:30pm B84
LU
6:00pm–7:30pm B85
LU HSW Single-Glazed Curtain Walls: Repair, Re-Clad, Over-Clad? P.43
Documentary Video Making as a Tool for Design Research P.56
6:00pm–7:30pm B86
LU HSWGreen Multifamily Housing Update 2014: Programs, Technology, MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
and Results P.48
RECEPTIONS, DINNERS AND MEETINGS
6:00pm–8:00pm SB1
Wentworth Institute of Technology Alumni Reception P.61
5:30pm–8:30pm SB3
BIM and Omniclass - Project Management for the 21st Century P.61
LU
6:00pm–8:00pm SB4
Society of Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), Boston Chapter Reception P.61
5:00pm–8:00pm SB5
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Reception P.61
6:00pm–8:00pm SB6
Roger Williams University Alumni Reception P.61
6:00pm–10:00pm SB7
Syracuse University Alumni Reception P.61
6:00pm–9:00pm SB8
University of Cincinnati Alumni Reception P.61
6:00pm–8:00pm SB9
Boston Architectural College Alumni & Friends Reception P.61
6:00pm–9:00pm SB10 Autodesk Reception and Roundtable: New Models for Practice P.61
4:00pm–6:00pm SB14 WID Happy Hour P.59
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TOURS
SESSION CREDIT
9:30am–11:00am TC1
LUWhat is it about the Arts? Transforming Public Space Through LU HSW = HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE CREDIT
TRACK
TOUR
Building for the Studio Arts P.23
9:00am–10:30am TC2
LU
A Case Study of the Dudley Square Municipal Building P.23
TOUR
9:00am–10:30am TC3
LU HSW ConRAC—The Future of Airport Ground Transportation Arrives! P.23
TOUR
8:00am–9:30am
C01
LU HSW Most Common Code Mistakes P.38
8:00am–9:30am
C02
LU
URBAN SCALE
8:00am–9:30am
C03
LU HSW Commissioning for Success P.29
8:00am–9:30am
C04
LU HSWThe Boston Underground: A Cautionary Tale About the Mysteries CONSTRUCTION
Designing for Equity P.58
that Lurk Beneath the Surface P.39
8:00am–9:30am
C05
LU HSW Acoustic and Vibration Isolation in Multifamily Residences P.53
SOUND AND LIGHT
8:00am–9:30am
C06
LU HSW Avoiding Pitfalls With Spray Foam Insulation P.26
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
8:00am–9:30am
C07
LUThe Art of Textile Architecture: How to Design, Specify and CASE STUDIES AND PROJECT TYPES
Manage Sculptural Tension Fabric Projects P.34
8:00am–9:30am
C08
LU
The Who, What, Where, and Why of Effective User Meetings P.31
8:00am–9:30am
C09
LU
Stacking It Up: Modular Housing P.48
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
8:00am–9:30am
C10
LU HSW Confronting Boston’s Climate-related Challenges While CLIMATE RESILIENCE
Respecting Its History P.36
10:00am–11:0am SC1 LU ColorMix 2015 P.61
10:00am–11:30am C21
LU
The Body in Space: Wayfinding P.25
10:00am–11:30am C22
LU HSWHomes to Community Footprints: Tracking Energy Use and ARCHITECTUREBOSTON
RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
Targeting 2030 P.49
10:00am–11:30am C23
LU HSW MA Code Requirements for Existing Buildings P.38
10:00am–11:30am C24
LU
URBAN SCALE
10:00am–11:30am C25
LU HSWSeparation Anxiety (or How I Learned to Love EcoDistricts For Practitioners P.58
Compartmentalization) P.29
10:00am–11:30am C27
LU HSWInnovative Practices in Land Development and Climate Resilience: CLIMATE RESILIENCE
Lessons From Hamburg P.36
10:00am–11:30am C28
LU HSW Navigating the Fast-Changing World of LED Lighting P.53
SOUND AND LIGHT
10:00am–11:30am C29
LU HSW What the #@&% Happened? P.26
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
10:00am–11:30am C30
LU
A Fox, a Hen, and Some Corn Need to Cross Boston Harbor… P.34
10:00am–11:30am C31
LU
Little Tinkers: Integrating Maker Space into K-8 Education P.40
10:00am–11:30am C32
LU
Expand Revenue by Linking BIM to Facilities Management P.31
10:00am–11:30am C33
LU HSWRisks and Rewards of High Performance Strategies in Historic EXISTING AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Buildings P.43
10:00am–11:30am C34
LU HSWBreaking the Modular Roadblock: Modular Design/Build at MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
Olmsted Green P.48
MID-DAY SESSIONS
1:00pm–2:30pm
C41
1:00pm–2:30pm
C42
Construction Administration for Beginners P.45
LU HSWThe Science of Energy Codes, Part 1: 2012 IECC, the Enclosure and CODES AND REGULATIONS
Keeping it Fresh in a Cold and Hot World P.38
1:00pm–2:30pm
C43
LUPeacebuilding Through Design Thinking: Architecture and Design DESIGN THINKING AND NEW DIRECTIONS
as Tools for Problem Solving P.40
1:00pm–2:30pm
C44
LU HSW The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Building Science through Pictures P.29 BUILDING PERFORMANCE
1:00pm–2:30pm
C45
LU HSW Lean Construction 101 P.39
CONSTRUCTION
1:00pm–2:30pm
C46
LU HSW Connecting LEED to Our Commonwealth: LEED Regionalization P.36
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
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1:00pm–2:30pm
C47
LU HSW Made in Mass P.53
SOUND AND LIGHT
1:00pm–2:30pm
C48
LU HSW Building Enclosures: Science and Design for Energy Efficiency P.27
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
1:00pm–2:30pm
C49
LU HSW A Zero Net Energy Teaching Laboratory P.34
1:00pm–2:30pm
C50
LU
Designing Urban Technologies P.56
1:00pm–2:30pm
C51
LU
Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome P.31
1:00pm–2:30pm
C52
LU HSWEvaluation, Rehabilitation, and Design of Slate and
Clay Tile Roofing P.43
1:00pm–2:30pm
C53
LU HSWThe Vintage House: Ideas for Sensitive Additions and Successful RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
Upgrades P.49
2:00pm–3:00pm AFHB5 LUDesign Like You Give a Damn! P.11 ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY BOSTON
3:30pm–5:00pm C61
3:30pm–5:00pm C62
Real Estate Development 101 P.45
LU HSWThe Science of Energy Codes, Part 2: 2012 IECC, the Enclosure CODES AND REGULATIONS
and Keeping it Fresh in a Cold and Hot World P.38
3:30pm–5:00pm C63
LU HSW New Urban Agriculture Zoning in Boston: What’s Cropping Up? P.58
URBAN SCALE
3:30pm–5:00pm C64
LU HSWIntegrated Daylight and Thermal Analysis for Optimized Building BUILDING PERFORMANCE
Envelopes P.29
3:30pm–5:00pm C65
LU
3:30pm–5:00pm C66
LU HSWNFPA 285: Assembly Test of Exterior Walls with Combustible Lean Construction 201 P.39
CONSTRUCTION
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
Components P.27
3:30pm–5:00pm C67
LU
3:30pm–5:00pm C68
LU HSWMaking the Development of Historic Properties a Winning Phoenix from the Ashes: How Collaboration Overcomes P.34
Proposition P.43
3:30pm–5:00pm C69
LU
Lead Your Firm Using Scenario Planning P.31
CONTINUING
EDUCATION
Earn all the continuing-education credits
you need for the year at ABX.
Architects, landscape architects, and
other industry professionals can earn
continuing-education credits by attending
ABX workshops.
Attendees earn one (1) AIA Learning Unit
for each workshop hour (e.g., 1.5 LUs for
a 90-minute workshop) with the exception
of tours, from which travel time may be
subtracted. In addition, to meet credit
requirements for Health, Safety and
Welfare (HSW) look for those workshops
with the HSW notation in the Attendee
Program. Please note that AIA/CES
no longer requires separate Sustainable
Design credits.
To track continuing-education credits, AIA
members must include their membership
number when registering. If you are
not an AIA member, please email your
request for a certificate of attendance to
ce@architects.org.
Note for Massachusetts architects:
Massachusetts registered architects
must earn a minimum of 12 credits
annually, including 8 credits on Health,
Safety and Welfare (HSW) topics.
AIA architects must earn a minimum
of 18 credits annually, including
12 HSW topics.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarships are available for conference
sessions. You can apply easily online
at www.abexpo.com/conference/
scholarships/. Applications are due by
Monday, September 29 and notifications
will be sent by Friday, October 10.
Kaplan Scholarship
The Kaplan Scholarship Fund aims to
make ABX workshops accessible to the
newest members of our professional
community. Eligibility is limited to New
England ARE candidates, AIAS members,
BSA student members and current
architecture (and other industry) students.
A total of 30 scholarships will be provided.
Each candidate may receive up to two
workshops under the scholarship.
Tony Platt Scholarships
BSA scholarships have been established
for industry professionals who, without
scholarship assistance, could not afford
to attend ABX. Established in memory of
Tony Platt FAIA, a Boston architect and
visionary who died in 1998, these scholarships cover up to two ABX workshops.
At the heart of Tony’s vision was a
commitment to broadening the intellectual and professional opportunities for
everyone in the industry. The scholarships
will be awarded to registered industry
professionals who are out of work and
wishing to reconnect with the building
industry.
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HIGHLIGHTS
ABX TOURS
ABX TOURS
Get an exclusive look at some of Greater Boston’s newest structures,
buildings, and recently completed projects. Tours are sold à la carte.
Register by October 14 for discounts—$85 early bird/$95 standard.
All published tour times include travel time. All tours are eligible
for 1.5 credits. Tour space is limited, so register early.
TUESDAY
OCT. 28
TA1
Tour of the Christina and John
Markey Memorial Pedestrian Bridge
Tuesday, 9:30am–11:00am | LU
An elegant and slender cable stayed
pedestrian bridge was recently completed
in the City of Revere, connecting the
Blue Line Wonderland Station to historic
Revere Beach. This tour will explain the
background, design objectives, and
structural/architectural detailing of this
iconic new bridge which is intended to
help revitalize the area and attract new
transit-oriented development. The bridge
was named in honor of the parents of
Senator Ed Markey.
and criteria can lead to a surprising
variety of successful examples of new
construction. Boston’s historic South End,
the country’s largest Victorian Rowhouse
District, was made a Landmark District in
1983, but contained scores of vacant lots
and surface parking lots where contributing buildings were demolished by intent or
neglect. Two long-time Boston Landmarks
Commissioners and a staff preservationist
will take you on a walking tour of the
South End Landmark District, using it as
a case study for new construction in a
historic district, explaining what makes
a building a “South End building” and
demonstrating through many examples—
some more successful than others—how
new construction can best express itself as
a “district” building.
John Amodeo ASLA, FCSI, LEED BD+C,
Miguel Rosales AIA, President, Rosales +
Principal, CRJA-IBI Group
Partners
John Freeman AIA, Principal, Platt Anderson
Freeman Architects
Meghan Hanrahan, Preservation Planner,
What You Need to Know About
Designing New Buildings in a
Historic District
South End Landmark District Commission
Tuesday, 9:00am–10:30am | LU HSW
Brigham Green: The Finished
Project
Sponsored by Boston Landmarks Commission
Designing new construction within a
historic district doesn’t have to be a
minefield of process. Understanding
the essence of a historic district and its
historic commission’s design standards
TA3
As a follow-up to the 2013 ABX presentation on Brigham Green, take an actual tour
of the built facility with a review of lessons
learned.
Michael Roughan AIA, LEED AP, VP, HDR
Architecture
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
TB1
Restoring MIT’s Historic Main
Group: Building 2
Wednesday, 9:00am–10:30am | LU HSW
This hard-hat tour will allow attendees to
experience the construction of the first
major renewal and expansion of MIT’s
historic Main Group. The renovation and
expansion of Building 2 is the first project
in a 1.1M gsf renewal campaign of MIT’s
100-year-old historic core, the result of a
10-year planning process. The 90,000 sf
project will accommodate MIT’s largest
Department, Mathematics. The tour will
will include discussions on landscape and
infrastructure upgrades interior renovation
and the new rooftop addition systems
and finish integration, including lecture
hall, classrooms, departmental common
spaces, faculty offices, and student
workspaces and historic façade masonry
restoration and window replacement.
Nick Anastasi, Project Superintendent,
Bond Brothers
Image: Neil Alexander
TA2
Joseph O’Farrell, Partners HealthCare
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Ric Panciera AIA, ABA, Senior Architect,
Ann Beha Architects
Jeremy Pinkham PE, LEED AP BD+C, Senior
Associate, WSP USA
Edward Rice AIA, LEED AP, RIBA, RRC,
Associate, Ann Beha Architects
Gary Tondorf Dick, Program Manager,
Capital Projects, MIT
TB2
Lost Half Mile, Found! Reclaiming
a Postindustrial Waterfront
Wednesday, 9:00am–10:30am | LU
The Charles River’s “Lost Half Mile”
was inaccessible for over a century
until mitigation for the Central Artery/
Tunnel (CA/T) project’s two Charles
River crossings set in motion plans to
reclaim the riverfront for the public.
Guided by a master plan by Carr, Lynch,
and Sandell, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
(DCR) built five major parks, and three
pedestrian bridges (with several more
in the planning), transforming the Lost
Half Mile from a bleak postindustrial
landscape dominated by transportation
infrastructure into the vibrant New Charles
River Basin (NCRB), fulfilling Frederick
Law Olmsted protege Charles Elliot’s
early 20th-c. vision of connecting the
Charles River to the Boston Harbor. This
walking tour will visit various parks and
pieces, including Portal Park, Light Portal
Boston, Lovejoy Wharf, South Bank Park,
Paul Revere Park and its extension, North
Bank underbridge plaza, the Littoral Way,
North Bank Bridge, North Point Park, and
Nashua Street Park, observing how each
overcame the challenges posed for public
space in a postindustrial 21st-c. transportation infrastructure context.
architectural firm Putnam and Cox,
the building is an unusual example of the
Art Deco style and is a contributor to
the Central Square Historic District.
The ultimate goal for the project after a
feasiblity study by Finegold Alexander
Associates was to completely modernize
the building, providing contemporary
working and teaching spaces for the
Cambridge Housing Authority and City of
Cambridge Human Services departments,
while preserving the building’s historic
façade. The successful adaptation of
5 Western Ave., now called the Alice K.
Wolf Center, achieved LEED Gold
certification, and restored the building
to an active municipal facility helping to
serve the needs of its community.
ABX TOURS
TC2
A Case Study of the Dudley Square
Municipal Building
Thursday, 9:00am–10:30am | LU
Michael Black, Construction Project
An international design team and highly
experienced construction and consulting
firms came together for the successful
creation of the 96 million Dudley Square
Municipal Building in Boston. Sasaki
Associates, in collaboration with the
Netherlands-based design firm Mecanoo,
worked with the City of Boston to design
this municipal office and retail building
located in the heart of Dudley Square. The
panel will discuss how this facility fulfilled
former Mayor Menino’s Dudley Square
Vision Project, and how the goal to revitalize a once-thriving urban neighborhood
and mass transit hub rich with culture
and history was realized. With a blend of
past and present, the facility preserves
and incorporates the iconic Ferdinand
Furniture Building, a symbol of the
Square’s historic commercial vitality.
Manager, City of Cambridge
Nick Brooks AIA, Senior Associate, Sasaki
Charles Sullivan, Executive Director,
Associates
Cambridge Historical Commission
Tim Hurdelbrink LEED AP, Project Executive,
Garrett Anderson, Cambridge Housing
Authority
Rebecca Berry AIA, LEED BD+C, Senior
Associate - Director of Sustainability,
Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc
Shawmut Design and Construction
THURSDAY
OCT. 30
TC1
What is it about the Arts?
Transforming Public Space Through
Building for the Studio Arts
Joseph Mulligan III, Deputy Director for
Capital Construction, City of Boston
TC3
ConRAC—The Future of Airport
Ground Transportation Arrives!
Thursday, 9:00am–10:30am | LU HSW
Wednesday, 9:00am–10:30am |
LU HSW
College of Art and Design
Built in 1933, 5 Western Avenue was
originally the main Cambridge Police
Headquarters and the V.F.W and American
Legion Hall. It was used for over 75 years
by the police department and various
municipal offices, but had stood empty
since 2008 when the police moved to
a new facility. Designed by Boston
Associates, Inc
This is a 45-minute presentation on the
ConRAC Design, Construction and
Operation, followed by a tour of the
facility. The Massachusetts Port Authority
is completing the new $310 million Rental
Car Center at Boston Logan International
Airport. The 120,000 sf customer service
center and four level garage will have
space for all nine rental car companies
that have operating agreements with
Logan to work in one common building.
The RCC includes a new unified shuttle
bus system operated by Massport.
The new facility features 616 solar panels
on the roof of the garage providing
150 kilo watts of power. The LEED rating
system offers certification levels for new
construction that correspond to green
design categories: sustainable sites,
water efficiency, energy and atmosphere,
materials and resources and indoor
environmental quality. The RCC also has
a community meeting room for East
Boston residents.
Phillip Russell AIA, Associate, Bruner/Cott &
Camille Bechara PE, Vice President, Parsons
Associates, Inc
Brinckerhoff, Inc
John Amodeo ASLA, FCSI, LEED BD+C,
Principal, CRJA-IBI Group
Stephen Carr, Principal, Carr, Lynch and
Sandell
Karl Haglund PhD, Project Manager,
Massachusetts Department of Conservation
and Recreation
Cathy Offenberg ASLA, Principal,
CRJA-IBI Group
TB3
Tour of the Revitalized Alice K.
Wolf Center in Cambridge, MA
Studio Arts Buildings for art-making and
art instruction historically have been
significant structures that anchor urban
centers. New investments by highereducation institutions in this building type
continue this trend. This hard-hat tour
will visit the nearly completed (December
2014) Lesley University College of Art and
Design Studio Art building in Cambridge,
providing insight into contemporary
architectural practice for this building
type. The team will identify common
threads that link public architecture and
site irrespective of particular program
opportunities. Attendees are required to
sign a waiver for this hard-hat tour.
Matthew Cherry, Senior Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs, Lesley University
Stephanie Power AIA, Bruner/Cott &
Bradley Dutton, Senior Project Manager,
Suffolk Construction
Michael Guilmet LEED AP, PE, Senior Project
Manager, Massport
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CONFERENCE TRACKS
CONFERENCE
TRACKS
Unless otherwise noted, all workshops are 90 minutes
and cost $85 early bird/$95 standard pricing.
Register by October 14 for FREE
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TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
OCT. 28
OCT. 29
OCT. 30
A21
B22
C21
Blueprint for Boston: A Design
Identity for the Future
Going Global: Culture Shock
The Body in Space: Wayfinding
It’s not just professional practice that
holds surprises for those working abroad,
but project delivery, business customs,
and the routines of daily life. Our panelists
share stories from the field—the good, the
bad, and the baffling—and highlight the
perils and attractions of working outside
your cultural comfort zone.
In 1960, urban planner Kevin Lynch
defined wayfinding as “a consistent use
and organization of definite sensory cues
from the external environment.” In the
modern era, that external environment is
most likely a constructed one. How does
wayfinding frame and enable our experience of moving through space, and how
is it evolving in the face of contemporary
tools and challenges?
The full span of Boston’s design history,
from its early settlement to the “New
Boston” of the 1960s, can still be seen in
the buildings and streets we know today.
But how is Boston evolving in the 21st century at its frontiers of development and
redevelopment? What are the hallmarks
of Boston’s design identity today? Join
our panel of noted Boston architects for a
thought-provoking dialogue on Boston’s
design future.
Moderator: Audrey O’Hagan AIA, Audrey
O’Hagan Architects, LLC
Image: Carlos Arzago
David Hacin FAIA, President, H+A/Hacin
Moderator: Mark Careaga AIA, Payette
Bob Daylor, TetraTech
Gerard Georges, Project Manager, Shepley
Bullfinch
Christian Lemon, Principal, Lemon|Brooke
Alan Mountjoy AIA, NBBJ
Moderator: Mark Minelli, President & CEO,
Minelli, Inc
Robert Lowe, Principal, Arrowstreet
Michele Phelan, Boston Chapter Chair,
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
Architects LLC
(SEGD)
David P. Manfredi FAIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Coco Raynes, President, Coco Raynes
Elkus Manfredi Architects
Associates
Tamara Roy AIA, Principal, ADD Inc
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BUILDING ENCLOSURES
BUILDING ENCLOSURES
TUESDAY
B29
OCT. 28
Window Design for Blast Hazard
and Forced Entry Mitigation
A09
Details for the Building Enclosure
In this workshop you’ll learn how to stay
out of trouble when detailing building
enclosures. A brief review of building
science—the management of heat, air
and moisture—is combined with a review
of contemporary details for commercial
construction and how the principles of
building science are applied to them.
The principles of rainscreen cladding are
integrated into the presentation. The presenter is nationally known for his expertise
in the design of building enclosures.
Richard Keleher AIA, LEED AP, Senior
Architect, Thompson & Lichtner
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B08
The Value In Building Enclosure
Inspections
Following several high-profile facade
component failures, many large cities have
enacted facade inspection ordinances
requiring regular inspections of taller
buildings. However, a regular building
enclosure inspection program can be more
than just a regulation-mandated checkbox activity. This presentation will review
the steps to implementing a successful
building enclosure inspection program.
Through case studies we will explore
what signs to look for when completing
an inspection; when it is appropriate to
complete a survey from grade versus a
hands-on survey; good record keeping
techniques and planning and budgeting
considerations for enclosure maintenance.
Annemarie Der Ananian, Senior Staff Building
Technology, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc
Nick Floyd PE, Senior Project Manager,
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc
Due to increasing terrorist threat and
forced-entry violent incidents, there
is growing demand for explosive blast
resistance and forced entry restrictions to
be incorporated into the design of building structures and envelope components.
The performance of these components
during an explosive blast is more geared
towards mitigating the hazards caused by
the blast, since most injuries and fatalities
result from flying glass and debris. This
presentation will examine various options
with respect to treatment of the glazing,
as well as important considerations for
access control at entrances. It will also
discuss recommended applications and
summarize applicable building code
criteria used in design.
Steven Marshall RRC, CDT, LEED AP, Senior
Project Manager, Gale Associates, Inc
apply when the geometry or the material
choice require more from the design. The
session will review atypical conditions and
the challenges that tend to occur away
from the idealized conditions. The course
is crucial to those designing building
enclosures that do not fit the mold of a
common box. The case studies will include
both transparent and opaque facade
systems. Most importantly, the discussion
will include the junction of the transparent
and the opaque assemblies, where most
facade failures occur.
Christopher O’Hara PE, Principal, Studio NYL
THURSDAY
OCT. 30
C06
Avoiding Pitfalls With Spray
Foam Insulation
Sponsored by CSI Boston Chapter
B49
Adding Air Barrier and Thermal
Improvements to Existing Facilities
Wednesday, 1:00pm–2:30pm | LU HSW
Many existing buildings were constructed
before current energy and building codes
required a continuous air and vapor
barrier, and exterior insulation.To improve
the thermal performance and interior air
quality of these facilities, many building
owners are looking to upgrade their existing infrastructure. The presenter recently
completed evaluations of several existing
higher education facilities with a focus on
improving the exterior building enclosures.
The presentation will provide an in-depth
examination of design considerations,
with a focus on addressing ongoing air
and moisture infiltration caused by the
lack of continuous air barriers and thermal
insulation. The presentation will discuss
unique solutions and steps to improve
overall building performances.
The use of spray polyurethane foam
insulation in building construction has
increased dramatically over the past
decade because of its superior insulating
qualities, performance, and ability to
provide all four barriers needed to
effectively separate the interior environment from the exterior environment.
As expected, problems have arisen due
to improper installation equipment and
techniques, a lack of understanding of
the properties of the material and
improper detailing. We will address these
issues as well as show how spray foam
provides the most effective means to
comply with the 2012 IECC insulation
requirements.
Leonard Anastasi CSI, President, EXO-TEC
Consulting, Inc
C29
What the #@&% Happened?
Brian Neely AIA, NCARB, CDT, Project
CSI Boston Chapter
Manager, Gale Associates, Inc
The presentation will look into three
buildings that experienced major building
enclosure assembly failures. The causes
of these failures will be identified and
discussed. No names will be named or
acknowledged during or after the presentation. The purpose of the presentation
is to help others in the industry avoid the
failures experienced on these projects.
B69
God is in the DETAILS: A Case Study
Review of Non-Traditional Facade
Detailing
The session is a case study-driven review
of facade details. A review of the basic
stock details may miss critical design
issues that occur under atypical conditions. The basic rules of thumb do not
Leonard Anastasi CSI, President, EXO-TEC
Consulting, Inc
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Building Enclosures: Science and
Design for Energy Efficiency
Thursday, 1:00pm–2:30pm | LU HSW
We will look first at the building science
of envelope durability. The science portion
will focus on the building enclosure’s
contribution to both energy efficiency and
durability, and the potential impact on
long term durability of new energy codes
addressing the building enclosure. Durability of the building enclosure is especially
critical because its expected service life is
longer than that of other building systems
(e.g. mechanical, lighting, and water-heating). Next, we’ll discuss how to achieve the
new LEED v4 Envelope Commissioning
(BECx) Credits, focusing on the value and
process of BECx and the requirements to
fulfill the new credits, as they apply to the
building’s thermal envelope. BECx ensures
that passive load-defining envelope
systems are identified, understood, and
verified using procedures to verify that the
project is achieving the OPR throughout
the delivery of the project.
Wei Lam PE, Associate Principal, Wiss,
Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc
Benjamin Meyer LEED AP, RA, Building
Science Architect, DuPont Building
Innovations
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NFPA 285: Assembly Test of
Exterior Walls with Combustible
Components
NFPA 285 is the Standard Fire Test
Method for Evaluation of Fire Propagation
Characteristics of Exterior Non-LoadBearing Wall Assemblies Containing
Combustible Components. NFPA 285
assembly tests are required when exterior
non-combustible walls contain combustible components. The scope of materials
classified by the International Building
Code (IBC) requiring NFPA 285 testing is
increasing. Combined with more stringent
energy code requirements, the use of
combustible materials is also growing in
exterior walls. This seminar will discuss the
impact of the NFPA 285 test on buildings
using IBC and ASHRAE 90.1 energy
code requirements, the parameters and
history of NFPA 285, and the definition of
what building envelope components are
combustible and require NFPA 285 testing
by IBC. All of these elements combine to
integrate NFPA 285 compliant assemblies
into building envelope systems.
Image: Warren Jagger
Benjamin Meyer LEED AP, RA, Building
TUESDAY
A24
OCT. 28
The Passive House Standard in
Large Commercial and Institutional
Buildings: The Balance Between
Super Insulation and Internal Gains
A03
Concrete Specification and
Environmental Considerations
Concrete is one of the most widely used
construction materials in the world, valued
for its strength, durability, aesthetic
appeal, and multiplicity of uses. In an era
where environmentalism has become a
foremost consideration for those who
design and construct buildings, there
exists a paradox surrounding the “green”
attributes of this material. This panel
explores alternatives that should be
considered, addressing their desirable
aspects as well as possible drawbacks.
Panelists represent industry leaders from
various disciplines speaking on behalf
of the “greening” potential for concrete
solutions now and into the future.
Christie Gamble AIA, Sustainability Manager,
CarbonCure Technologies, Inc
Blake Jackson Assoc. AIA, LEED BD+C,
Sustainability Practice Leader, Tsoi/Kobus &
Associates
Michael Kane PE, Kane Engineering
Science Architect, DuPont Building
Mark D. Webster, Simpson Gumpertz &
Innovations
Heger Inc
Keith Nelson AIA, CDT, NCARB, Senior
Alec S. Zimmer PE, LEED AP, Senior Project
Project Architect, ATI/Intertek
Manager, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc
The benefits of a highly-insulated building
shell in large commercial and institutional
projects have been realized in Europe for
many years, as architects and engineers
have become familiar with the art of
balancing building shell performance
with appropriate passive and mechanical
heating and cooling systems. While the
Passive House Standard is becoming a
more commonplace concept in residential
practice in the US, it has not yet been
tested on larger commercial and institutional building types. This presentation will
explore the theory behind implementing
a highly-insulated building shell approach
in new construction and renovations
of large commercial and institutional
projects, including the implications of
solar gain, internal loads and ventilation
rates as they determine the peak load
design criteria of the mechanical systems.
Matthew O’Malia AIA, RA, Architect/ Partner,
GO Logic LLC
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A82
B46
Potential Value to Building Owners:
Tracking Embedded Carbon
Turnover and Sequestration in PVC
Membranes Over Seven Years
MEP/FP: Understanding the Systems
Basics and Designing for Success
Will Your Building’s Performance
Satisfy Your Owner?
Tuesday, 6:00pm–7:30pm | LU HSW
This workshop contains everything
non-engineers—such as architects—need
to know about the basic function and
operation of HVAC, electrical, plumbing
and fire protection (MEP/FP) building
systems in an easy-to-understand way.
Included in the subject matter is the
difference between certain systems, what
they are, how they operate, and samples
of what buildings they are in. We will also
explain how to incorporate the systems
into the design of a building based on
function, performance and clearances,
and why certain systems are used within
different buildings. We will share examples
of building systems in actual buildings in
Boston. For each MEP/FP building system
covered, the instructors will include a list
of local buildings that currently have the
system in place.
Engineers
The definition of durability is the ability
to endure. Your buildings must withstand
both routine and raging environmental
events as well as other mechanisms of
deterioration. This exterior detailing workshop emphasizes both design and review
knowledge and skills. We will discuss
ways to reliably bring parity between the
owner’s service life expectations and your
built results by focusing on opportunities
offered during discrete phases of a project’s evolution: Conceptual Design, Design
Development, Pre-Construction, Construction, and Operations and Maintenance.
We will discuss simple modifications to
details and material choice which can
dramatically affect long term durability
how service life of materials is shortened
during the construction process and how
structured analysis and reviews can assist
in material selection in light of replacement and maintenance issues.
Gregory Titterington LEED AP, PE, Principal/
David de Sola AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB,
President, RDK Engineers
Founding Principal, 3iVE LLC
Sponsored by School for the Environment,
UMass Boston
Recent research suggests uncovered
white roofs provide more payback for
building owners than white roofs covered
with soils or soils and plants. We intend
to present data comparing exposed roofs
(without soil or plants) and covered roofs
(with soil and plants) to determine what
environmental value these may have for a
building owner from the point of view of
carbon sequestration. Few if any studies
in the US have attempted to capture both
kinds of data and then project benefits
according to rooftop area, soil depth up
to 30 cm and specie selection in terms
of recalcitrant carbon and consideration
of potential environmental impact.
Jeff Licht EdD, Adjunct Professor, Director,
Biochar Investigations Program, UMass
Boston
Paul Muller, Education & Waterproofing
Maria McDonnell, Senior Associate, RDK
Kevin Knight, President, Retro-Specs, Ltd.
Specialists, Sika Sarnafil
A64
Raising the BAR: Building Asset
Ratings to Enhance Energy
Assessments and Increase Efficiency
Investment
The Massachusetts Building Asset Rating
(BAR) pilot is the culmination of five years
of research seeking to provide investmentgrade information about energy efficiency
opportunities in commercial buildings in
less time and with less cost than conventional methods. It has recently produced
an assessment methodology for office
buildings that leverages utility consumption data and real estate asset information
to provide calibrated but durable energy
usage metrics. This presentation will
introduce and explain the BAR analysis
method, share summary results of 35
buildings in phase two of the pilot, and
discuss potential policy and market
applications. The speakers will address
the advantages and challenges associated
with “operational” and “asset” ratings, and
contextualize the BAR pilot with respect
to a federal asset rating pilot and local
energy disclosure ordinances, such as
Boston’s BERDO initiative.
Martine Dion AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Principal &
Director of Sustainable Design, SMMA
Ian Finlayson, Deputy Director, Energy
Efficiency Division, Massachusetts Dept. of
Energy Resource
Carolyn Sarno, Senior Program Manager, High
Performance Buildings, NEEP
WEDNESDAY
B55
OCT. 29
Cut Your Losses: Envelope
Performance and Thermal Comfort
B04
High Performance Schools:
Seizing the Built Community’s
Teachable Moment
The building community is in the midst
of a unique opportunity. School districts
across the country are confronted by
aging facilities in dire need of renovation
or new construction. Inside these schools,
many of our children spend their days
in dimly lit and noisy rooms, surrounded
by environmental contaminants and
antiquated HVAC systems. This presentation will explore the benefits of high
performance schools from the perspective
of a nonprofit advocate, architect and
commissioning agent. Using two Rhode
Island case studies, presenters will demonstrate specific design and commissioning
principles associated with healthier, more
efficient, and higher-performing schools.
Christopher Armstrong, Lead Commissioning
Agent, Stephen Turner Inc
Brian Buckley, High Performance Buildings
Associate, Northeast Energy Efficiency
Partnerships
Matt LaRue AIA, Associate, HMFH
Architects Inc
Wednesday, 1:00pm-2:30pm | LU HSW
In the US, thermal comfort is primarily
controlled by mechanical means, allowing
these systems to compensate for shortcomings in envelope performance. With
rising energy costs and increased focus
on creating healthy environments, this
model is due for reconsideration. Thermal
comfort for building occupants around
glazed openings is an important design
consideration, as the amount of glazing
and the performance criteria (U-factor)
can drive the need for perimeter heating.
This session will link information gathered
from post-occupancy studies, field measurements and modeling to understand
how the radiant temperature of walls
inside a space can be predicted and used
to ensure comfortable environments.
Andrea Love AIA, LEED AP, Director of
Building Science, Payette
Lynn Petermann AIA, Architect, Payette
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C25
Owning the Air: Controlling and
Verifying Commercial Building
Infiltration
Separation Anxiety (or
How I Learned to Love
Compartmentalization)
Controlling air movement is an important
design and construction issue for all
building types. Reducing air leakage can
have a significant impact on durability,
comfort, and energy efficiency. Increasingly, organizations such as the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers and building codes,
including the 2012 International Energy
Conservation Code (IECC), are mandating
building enclosure airtightness performance metrics. This session will examine
how to ensure that the appropriate air
barrier details are included in building
plans and specifications to achieve air
barrier continuity.
Now that the design and building industry
has responded to the demands of building
a rigorous enclosure, there is a new danger on the horizon: units leaking into other
units. Driven by incentives, LEED, and the
threat of liability, projects are looking for
greater degrees of separation between
spaces in buildings. Where does the air
come from and where does it go? This
presentation explores why buildings leak
into themselves five times as much as they
leak to the outside. It shows the range and
the severity of inter-unit leakage. A lesson
from the residential building industry with
impact on many more sectors including
office, education and health structures,
compartmentalization addresses energy
use, occupant comfort, contamination,
sharing tobacco smoke and much more.
Matt Root LEED AP, Senior Project Manager,
Joe Standley ASCE, Associate III, Wiss,
Janney, Elstner Associates
David Ruggiero LEED AP, CEA, Technical
Specialist, ICF International
THURSDAY
Michael Schofield LEED AP, Senior Project
OCT. 30
Manager, Conservation Services Group
C03
Commissioning for Success
Commissioning is more than another
series of tests and verifications toward
the end of the construction process. It
is a living and adapting process that
can be implemented throughout the
entire lifespan of a building. This session
examines the average payback of nine
commissioning efforts as well as the
Energy Use Intensity (EUI) of twenty-three
federal hospital facilities, some with and
some without commissioning. This analysis
reveals that not only is it cost effective to
implement commissioning and the minor
repairs, deferred maintenance and utility
monitoring the process recommends, but
that the savings from carrying out minor
ECMs will generate enough savings to
fund more major energy-saving capital
improvements.
Wes Stanhope, Senior Field Project Manager,
C44
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
Building Science through Pictures
The best way to fully understand the principles of building science is to see them
in action. What happens when the laws of
nature play out in our buildings? Experience the good, the bad, and the ugly in
this session comprised almost exclusively
of photos. We will cover a range of topics,
but focus primarily on heat, air pressure
and moisture, all of which move from high
to low concentrations. Although this session will discuss theoretical concepts, it is
driven by real-world issues. It will be lead
by experienced field staff and is designed
to be highly interactive. Participants are
invited to bring their own interesting
pictures to share.
Caitriona Cooke, Director, Consulting
Services, Conservation Services Group
Matt Root LEED AP, Senior Project Manager,
C64
Integrated Daylight and Thermal
Analysis for Optimized Building
Envelopes
A building’s energy use and user comfort
are directly linked to two critical parameters of its envelope design: enhanced
thermal performance and daylight
harvesting capability. A good foundation
for optimum envelope design requires
integrated daylight and thermal analysis,
so that the many diverse building design
components efficiently function together.
In this session we will use case study
examples to examine how daylighting
performance can be integrated with thermal performance to achieve an optimized
and balanced building design. Several
simulation tools (DesignBuilder, Ecotect/
Radiance, DIVA-for-Rhino) and sample
projects will be presented to demonstrate
a holistic design process that can be used
to achieve this goal.
Chris Schaffner LEED BD+C, PE, Principal,
The Green Engineer Inc
Neetu Siddarth LEED AP, BD+C, Building
Performance Analyst, The Green Engineer, Inc
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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
AND DEVELOPMENT
TUESDAY
A51
A85
OCT. 28
What Would You Say You Do Here?
Tuesday, 1:00pm–2:30pm | LU
Step Outside the Box: Reimagining
Corporate Communications
Sponsored by IFMA Boston
As firms rebound from the great
recession, they do so leaner and with a
different approach to work acquisition.
Are business development professionals
and a robust marketing staff necessary,
or a necessary evil? Hear from veterans
of marketing and business development
alongside the technical principals they
partner with. This interactive panel
discussion will provide an in-depth look
at the analytical tools and approaches
that lead to winning work and what the
future holds for these roles in professional
services firms.
Sponsored by SMPS Boston
A08
Better Project Delivery Through
Implementation of the National
BIM Standard-US
Sponsored by buildingSMART alliance & The
National Insitute of Building Sciences
Much like the United States National
CAD Standard (NCS), the National BIM
Standard—United States (NBIMS-US)
is an effort by members of the National
Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) to
create consensus-based, open standards
for the delivery of information important
throughout the lifecycle of a building. The
newest version, V3, released this summer,
provides design professionals, contractors, facility managers, and owners with
technology, process, and best practice
standards to facilitate data for the design,
procurement, construction, and operation
of a building. Presented by the Vice-Chair
of the project committee responsible for
its creation, this session gives an insider’s
look at all the parts of the standard, what
they mean to the design professional,
project partners, and clients, and how
they can be successfully applied to the
execution of a particular project, or the
every day practices of a design firm.
Jeffrey Ouellette, Vice Chair, National BIM
Standard—US Version 3 Project Committee
A31
Fiduciary Duty and Liability of
Design Professionals
The professional design community has
been shaken by the multimillion dollar City
of Victorville v. Carter Burgess lawsuit with
fiduciary duty as a key issue in this case.
This presentation explores the difference
between fiduciary duty and standard of
care how to avoid, manage, and separate
fiduciary duty and standard of care risks.
David Hatem Esquire, Partner, Donovan
Hatem LLP
Sue Yoakum AIA, Esq, Donovan Hatem LLP
Moderator: Susan Gray, Director of Strategic
Marketing, Shawmut Design and Construction
James Koloski, Director, Shawmut Design and
Construction
Kathy McMahon, Vice President of Marketing
and Communications, National Development
Ron Simoneau LEED AP, DBIA, Vice
President, Shawmut Design and Construction
Ted Tye, Managing Partner, National
Development
A71
Lean Architecture: Rethinking
Your Firm
Today’s architectural practice demands
innovative methods for project delivery.
Many firms increasingly share work across
the country and globe, and technologies
such as BIM are changing the fundamental
workings of the profession. The adoption
of “Lean” principles as a basis for increasing firm-wide delivery efficiencies can help
in meeting today’s challenges. Significant
attention has been paid to how architects,
contractors, and clients can better work
together yet, less attention has been
given to how firms work internally and the
significant gains that can be achieved if
we step back and rethink our processes.
Explore the difficulties hear about the
successes and failures and learn proven
strategies from two specialists representing different firms who are approaching
these issues in a similar manner.
Greg Buchanan AIA, CSI, LEED BD+C,
NCARB, Director of Architecture,
SmithGroupJJR
Michael Czap, Principal, NCBD Architects
You’re an A/E/C firm looking to take
charge of your communications. In an
increasingly “noisy” world, how can you
stand out? For this session, we’ve gone
directly to the source to find unique
approaches for engaging the media and
bloggers creating compelling content
—written, graphical and video—aimed
at both internal and external audiences
and driving adoption of social media
among staff. Through detailed real-world
examples, we’ll walk you step-by-step
through the process these firms engaged
to leverage existing in-house staff, both
marketing and technical, to step outside
the box and differentiate themselves
from their competition. Each panelist will
offer lessons learned as well as advice on
incorporating these types of marketing
activities at firms of all sizes.
Barbara Hicks, Director of Marketing & Media,
Margulies Perruzzi Architects
Vanessa Ryder, Communications Manager,
VHB
Susan Shelby, President & CEO, Rhino PR
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B11
Improving Leadership In Design
and Construction Organizations
What do the most effective leaders in
design firms and construction companies
do? How has the nature of effective
leadership changed? Is it possible to
learn leadership? We often hear about a
leadership gap in our industry. We know
our organizations lag far behind other
industries in improving productivity and
performance and implementing needed
innovation. This workshop enables
participants to better understand what
effective leadership is now, chart their
organization’s needs and improve the
leadership they themselves provide.
Drawing on panelists’ extensive real-world
experience with leadership performance
and development, participants learn to
identify key competencies to develop,
pitfalls to avoid, and best practices to
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apply. Participants leave the workshop
with specific concepts and foundations to
improve leadership performance.
Jeffrey Alitz, Shareholder, LeClair Ryan
C51
Jay Gregory AIA, Attorney, LeClairRyan
Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome
Thursday, 1:00pm–2:30pm | LU
Janet Chrisos, Massachusetts State College
Building Authority
THURSDAY
Steve Eustis, SVP, Skanska USA Building Inc
OCT. 30
Chris Leary AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Jacobs
William Ronco PhD, President, Gathering
C08
Pace Consulting
The Who, What, Where, and Why of
Effective User Meetings
B32
Designing Profitablity
Sponsored by Women in Design
Successful firms do more than design
beautiful projects, they make money doing
it! This panel will discuss the operational
decisions that promote the fiscal stability
and professional longevity of a design
practice. Each panelist has played a
pivotal role in defining the business
practice of their award-winning firm and
will share their perspective on how to
maintain the health of an office. Attendees
will hear how firms ranging in size create
value for the office through both income
and expenditures. Critical aspects of
profitability will be covered including
internal budgeting, fee negotiation and
efficient production.
Effective engagement with user groups
is a key to a successful design process. In
the initial stages of design, it is critical to
identify the key decision makers, establish
collective expectations, and develop a
clear presentation method to achieve
design buy-in. Dominant personality
types and personal interests can shape
a user group dynamic and lead to missed
opportunities. A lack of understanding
of architectural plans and elevations can
create obstacles to users feeling fully
invested in the design process. Using real
examples primarily from healthcare and
science research projects, the panelists
will discuss strategies that can be applied
at different stages of the project and
across program types.
Susan Blomquist AIA, LEED AP, Associate,
Lisa Brothers, President and CEO, Nitsch
Payette
Engineering
Mollica Manandhar AIA, LEED AP, Associate,
Katy Flammia AIA, Lead Interior Architect,
Payette
NBBJ
Diana Tsang AIA, LEED AP, LEED BD+C,
Lisa Hynes Assoc. AIA, Intern Architect,
Associate, Payette
Goody Clancy
Shelley Simon AIA, NCARB, LEED AP,
C32
Architect/Principal, Beardsley Design
Associates
Expand Revenue by Linking BIM
to Facilities Management
Winnie Stopps AIA, LEED AP, Associate
Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Sponsored by IMAGINiT Technologies
B52
A Design Professional’s Guide
for Getting Paid
Wednesday, 1:00pm–2:30pm | LU
Sponsored by LeClairRyan
All too often design professionals provide
good services on a project but—for a
variety of reasons—do not get paid in full
for those services. The purpose of this
seminar is to provide design professionals
with the tools and knowledge they need
to receive appropriate compensation
for services rendered. In this seminar
attendees will learn what important
contract provisions to include in their
contracts (and which to avoid), how to
create and preserve leverage, how to
detect warning signs, what not to do, how
to obtain security, how lien laws work, the
pros and cons of filing suit, and insurance
implications.
Building owners continue to look for ways
to lower the cost of facility operations
given that upwards of 70% of the building
cost is incurred during occupancy. This
presentation will provide a deep understanding of what owners need in terms of
facilities management and BIM. We will
further discuss what services A/E/C firms
can offer in this area, from providing the
right modeling and database information
to suggesting the right technologies or
even managing facilities data directly.
This session will include examples of how
information is exchanged between familiar
2D/3D design and BIM management tools
and a facilities management system.
Peter Costanzo, Director of Sales,
Facilities Management RAND Worldwide
Chris D’Souza, Product Manager,
ARCHIBUS, Inc
It’s clear that BIM has now significantly
changed how buildings are designed
and built. Over the years we’ve shifted
from ‘Lonely BIM’ to ‘Collaborative BIM’
with building systems design modeling
software becoming more robust. With
industry goals of integrating facilities
management to complete the entire
project lifecycle and the emergence of
fully integrated 6D models, there couldn’t
be a better time for the onset of cloud
computing. This session will introduce
cloud computing, highlighting the concepts of infinite computing, connectivity,
and software as a service. We will describe
some uses on our projects using BIM360
Glue and Newforma project information
management.
Michael Kyes AIA, LEED AP, Architect /
Digital Design Coordinator, Jacobs
Chitwan Saluja, Director of Technology,
Lead PM/CM, Jacobs
C69
Lead Your Firm Using Scenario
Planning
This program will present the objectives
and importance of strategic planning, and
the concept and process of considering
alternative futures. It will demonstrate
to the leaders of innovation-minded firms
how to proactively choose a direction
that is appropriate for themselves and
their firms, yet remain flexible to change.
Participants will gain a clear sense of the
whats and whys of strategic planning
and its component parts, the importance
and sources of front-end research, the
process of developing and evaluating
alternative scenarios, and the method of
choosing the one that is best for them.
Participants will be able to apply the
techniques in a case study exercise and,
through small group work with others,
report and discuss current and future
applications in their own firms.
Peter Piven FAIA, Principal Consultant, Peter
Piven Management Consultants
Clive Landa MBE, Principal, Landa Associates
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Tim Hurdelbrink LEED AP, Project Executive,
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OCT. 28
Shawmut Design and Construction
The Library of the Future
W. Eric Kluz AIA, LEED AP, MCPPO, NCARB,
Principal, HKT Architects
Libraries have never been more important
or useful that they are today. In this era of
ever-expanding information, libraries must
place themselves at the forefront of this
change and redefine the way people read,
think, learn, and teach. In 2012, the Boston
Public Library (BPL) created the Compass:
Strategic Plan Principles as a vision for
the library of the 21st century. The library
of the future will be a user-centered
institution and a center of knowledge,
serving communities throughout the City.
It will focus on access and innovation,
special collections, children and teens, and
sustainability. These principles are now
being implemented into the BPL’s new
and existing building facilities. With the
completion of the new East Boston Library
and the studies for the renovation of the
Central Library and the Roslindale and
Dudley Branches, this vision is becoming
a reality. Learn how the implementation
of the Boston Public Library’s Compass
Principles are transforming and redefining
the 21st century library.
A06
Shared Programmatic Spaces for
Education and Healthcare: Designs
for Success
The William J. Walczak Health and
Education Center is a unique collaboration
between two organizations, Codman
Square Health Center and Codman
Academy. The community-elevating
objectives of these two entities resulted
in this innovative partnership and facility.
Central to its design and planning is
the recognition that availability of great
healthcare and superior education
revitalizes and sustains communities. In
addition to delivering the basics of health
and education, the space was designed to
orchestrate interactions between teachers,
students and healthcare providers.
The discussion will focus on how the
planning, design, and construction of
shared educational and healthcare spaces
encourages frequent and meaningful
interactions between students, faculty,
and healthcare providers, and supports
the highest level objectives for community
wellness, education, and prosperity.
William Walczak, Vice President, Shawmut
Design and Construction
A29
CM at Risk for Public Work: Success
Stories from Charter Schools
Hear from a charter school client, owner’s
project manager, architect, and construction manager about their experience using
the Ch 149A CM-at-Risk delivery method
on charter school projects. The project
team will share best practices and lessons
learned during the course of several
projects. The presentation will review
some of the innovative tools used by the
team during the design and construction
processes including: a full discipline
design BIM, coordination modeling by
subcontractors, and passive sustainable
technologies. The particular benefits the
CM-at-Risk delivery method can afford
will also be discussed.
John Kalafatas, COO, KIPP Massachusetts
Janine Murdock, Assistant Project Manager,
Consigli Construction
Matthew Rice AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior
Meg Campbell, Executive Director, Codman
Associate, Arrowstreet
Academy Charter School
Mary Ann Williams LEED AP, AVS, MCPPO,
Sandra Cotterell, Chief Executive Officer,
Project Executive, Skanska USA Building
Codman Square Health Center
Moderator: Natasha Espada AIA, Principal,
Studio Enée
Clifford Gayley AIA, William Rawn Associates
Michael LeBlanc AIA, Principal, Utile, Inc
Architecture+Planning
Alistair Lucks, Staff Architect, City of Boston
Property & Construction Management
Image: Kemper System America, Inc.
TUESDAY
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Christine Schonhart, Director of Library
WEDNESDAY
Yanel de Angel AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, RA,
Services, Branches, Boston Public Library
OCT. 29
RIBA, Architect, Perkins+Will
Eamon Shelton, Major Projects Program
Manager, Boston Public Library
A66
Inside Baseball: A Review of the
Waterproofing Project at Boston’s
Fenway Park
Faced with extensive deterioration the
concrete bowl of Fenway Park was in
danger of needing to be replaced. Talks
included the demolition and replacement
of this Shrine to America’s Past Time.
Thankfully a project was funded to
repair and waterproof the stadium which
culminated in the Red Sox first homefield
World Series Victory in almost a century.
This presentation is designed to review
the project including first hand accounts
solving the problems associated with a
winter waterproofing application.
Specification Manager, Kemper System
America, Inc
A69
A Lean Case Study: The Opening
of a New Terminal for Operations
Application of Lean Construction for all
phases of project delivery is increasing as
owners, designers, construction managers,
and trade contractors embrace these
new practices. We will present a case
study of how Lean pull planning was used
to foster collaboration among diverse
stakeholders increase communication and
coordination among stakeholders and
improve the planning and efficiency in
completion of the many elements of work
that were required to “go operational.”
The presenters will describe the benefits
and challenges of coordinating a diverse
group of stakeholders in large and diverse
organization subject to public sector
project delivery constraints. They will
also address lessons learned that will be
applied to future Massport projects.
Luciana Burdi Int’l Assoc. AIA, Deputy
Director, Massport
Kurt Dettman, Strategic Enterprise
Technology
S. Peter Cordner, Project Management &
Controls, AECOM- US Transportation
Rohn MacNulty LEED AP, CCM, Terminal B
Project Manager, Capital Programs, Massport
Gregory Sawin LEED AP, Superintendent,
B09
Studio-Based Learning Center at
the University of Connecticut Health
Care Center
The panel will present the 252-seat
studio-based learning (SBL) space at the
University of Connecticut Health Care
Center from their unique perspectives
as owner, architect, and technology
designer. The new facility will be used to
support the degree programs in medicine,
dentistry, and biomedical science. The
70’ diameter circular SBL space with
a 20’ high finished ceiling will be the
focus of the panel discussion. The highly
flexible space can be easily configured to
support student collaboration, lectures,
multiple meetings, and secure testing. The
technology systems that include wireless
access points, wired connections, three
concave 12’x20’ projection screens located
on the perimeter walls, digital steerable
arrays (loudspeakers), and cameras used
for lecture capture and streaming blend
into the architecture of the space. The
panelists will discuss the design process
of the SBL space from concept to completion of the contract document.
Jeffrey Gotta AIA, Associate, Centerbrook
Architects + Planners
William Hengstenberg, Director, Video
Communications, University of Connecticut
Health Center
Corey Salvatore, Senior Consultant, Acentech
B30
An Energy Responsible Living
Experience
Residence Halls are a living laboratory
where students can learn and experience
a lifestyle that embodies sustainable
practices. The Massachusetts State
College Building Authority (MSCBA) and
Bridgewater State University initiated a
zero net energy building pilot study to
research strategies that will advance the
planning and design of this and future
residence halls. This study translated into
the exploration and implementation of
major energy reduction ideas for Weygand
Hall through design and operations. In the
process, it engaged students and transformed campus policy. We will discuss the
role of Facilities Management in shaping
sustainable ideas and in overseeing the
success of energy conservation measures.
Edward H. Adelman AIA, Executive Director,
Massachusetts State College Building
Authority (MSCBA)
Amanda Forde LEED AP BD+C, Director of
Capital Renewal, Massachusetts State College
Building Authority (MSCBA)
Karen W. Jason, Associate Vice President,
Bridgewater State University
Chris Shumway, Mechanical Engineer and
President, Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
B50
A Living Building Challenge Hotspot
in Western Massachusetts
The Living Building Challenge is the built
environment’s most rigorous performance
standard. It calls for “the creation of
building projects that operate as cleanly,
beautifully and efficiently as nature’s
architecture.” To be certified under the
Challenge, projects must meet a series
of ambitious performance requirements,
including the Red List for materials, net
zero energy and net zero waste and water.
In Western Massachusetts, four institutions have elected to engage the Living
Building Challenge, representing one of
the densest and deepest commitments to
the LBC anywhere. Design and sustainability professionals from each team will
share their experiences and discuss the
approaches, obstacles, and solutions
associated with their pursuit of the LBC’s
demanding performance standard for site,
water, energy, health, materials, equity,
and beauty.
Sam Batchelor AIA, LEED AP, Partner,
designLAB Architects
Bruce Coldham FAIA, Principal,
Coldham&Hartman Architects
Jason Forney AIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc
Charley Stevenson LEED AP BD+C, Principal/
Owner, Integrated Eco Strategies
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B70
THURSDAY
C49
Designing a “Net Zero Ready”
Building on a Shoestring: You Can
Do It, Too
OCT. 30
A Zero Net Energy Teaching
Laboratory
When Rhode Island’s Newport School
District initiated a planning process to
build a new 105,000 sf PK-4 school, one
of the goals was to design an efficient
facility with low operating costs and
easily-maintained systems within a modest
construction budget. The design team set
out to lower the school’s energy costs by
selecting easily available, proven technologies and mainstream MEP systems, and
applied an integrated holistic design
approach to every design decision. The
result is the new Pell Elementary School,
which provides an engaging, hands-on,
child-friendly learning environment that
fosters collaboration while achieving
superior energy performance, projected at
35 Kbtu/sf/year—within the range of Net
Zero Ready, all for $237/sf.
C07
The Art of Textile Architecture:
How to Design, Specify, and Manage
Sculptural Tension Fabric Projects
Transformit and Duvall Design
The 2030 challenge sets the trajectory
for a carbon-neutral future in the building
industry. This goal may seem out of
reach for laboratory buildings with high
plug-loads and strict HVAC requirements.
But we are turning these hurdles into
opportunities. Construction will start in
2014 for Bristol Community College’s
50,000sf Zero Net Energy (ZNE) chemistry, biology, and medical/dental education
building, one of the few ZNE buildings of
its kind in the world. In this session, we will
describe our game-changing approach to
make this possible. This session includes
information on precedent ZNE projects to
put our project in context and is designed
to show the attendees the details of how
zero net energy can he achieved.
Galuska, DeSousa, Inc
Our goal is to help you initiate and
complete projects that 1) exploit the
sculptural design potential of tension
fabric, 2) are safe and meet structural
and fire codes, 3) are affordable and stay
on schedule and on budget, 4) beautify
their surroundings for a long time and 5)
simultaneously serve other purposes (such
as shade, environmental graphics, acoustic
remediation, daylighting, projection and
illumination) when desired. We will use
a combination of project case studies,
hands-on demonstrations, and both
computer and physical models to greatly
increase your understanding and appreciation of architectural tension fabric.
Matt LaRue AIA, Associate, HMFH
Charles Duvall, President, Duvall Design
Associates
Architects Inc
Cynthia Thompson, President and Founder,
Tony Petone PE, LEED AP, Associate
Chin Lin AIA, LEED BD+C, Senior Associate,
Transformit
Principal, Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting
Carlos DeSousa PE, Principal, Garcia,
Jacob Knowles LEED AP, Director of
Sustainable Design, BR+A Consulting
Engineers
Jim Moses AIA, LEED AP, Director, Sasaki
Engineering, LLC
HMFH Architects, Inc
C30
B83
Exemplar for Zero Net Energy Office
Buildings: Massachusetts Division
of Fisheries and Wildlife Field
Headquarters
Bringing public leadership to high-performance design, the new Massachusetts
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Field
Headquarters is one of three projects
selected to become the first public sector
zero net energy buildings in the Commonwealth, as envisioned by the Governor’s
Zero Net Energy Task Force. As an
exemplar, it will help the Commonwealth
develop standard practices and specifications for achieving high performance
building. Multiple state agencies worked
together to develop the vision for this
project, setting the bar for this ambitious
design. With the building now completed,
achieving the goal of zero net energy will
rely largely on how the facility is used and
operated. DCAMM is undertaking a maintenance role with a close eye on energy
consumption in relation to production.
Dan Arons AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Architerra
Eric Friedman, Director, Leading By Example
Program
Stephen O’Connor, Deputy Director, DCAMM
John Selle AIA, LEED BD+C, RA, Associate
Principal, Architerra
A Fox, a Hen, and Some Corn Need
to Cross Boston Harbor…
Everyone is talking about creating
more art on public and private sites and
buildings. But what does it take to really
get it done? It requires designers, artists,
planners, public agencies, and property
owners to get in the same boat together,
and to have everyone still on board—and
alive!—when they arrive at opening
day. Hear from those who are creating
temporary, and permanent public art what
it takes to anchor art: literally, figuratively,
and financially. We will show examples
from financial pro formas to built projects,
and discuss site requirements, the permitting process and relationship-building.
Susan Israel AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Energy
Necklace Project
Karin Goodfellow, Director, Boston Art
Commission
Jim Grace, Executive Director, Arts &
Business Council
Mark Matel, Project Manager, Nuestra
Comunidad
Dan Sternof Beyer, New American Public Art
C67
Phoenix from the Ashes: How
Collaboration Overcomes
The Blackstone Gateway Visitor Center
truly showcases how successful multiplayer partnerships can be created. It is
the result of collaboration among many
stakeholders including Congressman Jim
McGovern, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation, MA Department
of Transportation, Federal Highway
Administration, City of Worcester, College
of the Holy Cross, and Blackstone River
Valley National Heritage Corridor. The
workshop will cover the project’s long
journey, including the destruction of plans
by fire, and will showcase the relationship structure enabling each player to
overcome and contribute to the successful
advancement of the vision. As a case
study, discussion will cover specific roles,
challenges, and process for developing
design across varied interests.
Sam Batchelor AIA, LEED AP, Partner,
designLAB Architects
Mary Ann Upton AIA, NCARB, Project
Architect, designLAB architects
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE
Image: Sasaki Associates
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Kobi Ruthenberg, Design Associate,
OCT. 28
OCT. 29
MIT- Center for Advanced Urbanism
A26
B06
Massachusetts Port Authority: A
Resilient Transportation Network
Sea Change: Long-Term Resiliency
for Greater Boston and Beyond
Preparing for the Rising Tide II:
Living With Water
The Massachusetts Port Authority
(Massport) connects New England to
the world and promotes the regional
economy through its operations. It owns
and operates a world-class transportation
network including three airports and
significant maritime property in the port
of Boston, and leases more than 500 acres
in abutting neighborhoods. Massport’s
forward-thinking leadership has also made
resiliency planning a priority, ensuring
that its investments in infrastructure
and operations are better prepared for
natural and man-made threats. Working
with a variety of stakeholders, Massport’s
Resiliency Program has charted a five-year
strategic course focusing, initially, on an
action-oriented study for Logan International Airport and Maritime Facilities.
Sponsored by The Boston Harbor Association
Sponsored by The Boston Harbor Associa-
Russ Ames, Program Manager, Massport
It is projected that sea levels will rise
two feet by mid-century and six feet by
2100. The new tide line will transform the
coastal landscape of Greater Boston, and
increase the probability of a major storm
devastating the metropolitan region. With
the goal of advocating for a long-term
resiliency strategy for the Greater Boston
area, Sasaki launched a research initiative
on sea level rise called Sea Change that
culminated in an exhibition of the same
name at Boston’s District Hall in spring
2014. The key findings and recommendations of this 18-month initiative will be
presented as an introduction and a
catalyst for a broader discussion of the
role design can play in Boston’s dynamic
future. Brief case studies will follow, focusing on various scales of response.
Lisa Dickson, President of Sustainability,
Moderator: Nina Chase, Landscape Architect,
Kleinfelder
Sasaki Associates, Inc
Carol Lurie AICP, LEED AP, Principal, VHB
Allison Anderson AIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Recently, at least four coastal storm
surges have come within hours of striking
Boston at high tide and bringing floodwaters 5-6 ft above high tide. While this
level of flooding hasn’t been seen since
the Blizzard of 1978, climate change and
sea level rise are increasing the frequency
and intensity of storm events. Historically,
cities seeking to prevent coastal flooding
have used seawalls and hard engineering
to keep water out. Due to repeated
flooding and levee failures like those
seen during Katrina, The Netherlands and
other regions with a high flood risk are
transitioning to what they have dubbed a
“living with water” approach. Learn how
strategies focusing on resilience rather
than resistance efforts can reduce risk
of catastrophic damage while providing
other social benefits.
Robbin Peach, Program Manager of
Unabridged Architecture
Crystal Aiken, Climate Fellow, The Boston
Resiliency, Massport
Gina Ford ASLA, NCARB, Principal, Sasaki
Harbor Association
Associates, Inc
Jason Hellendrung, Principal, Sasaki
Chris Merritt ASLA, Landscape Architect,
Associates
Sasaki Associates, Inc
Julie Wormser, Executive Director, The
Carey Walker AIA, Designer, Sasaki
Associates, Inc
B27
tion, Sasaki Associates
Boston Harbor Association
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HIGHLIGHTS
CLIMATE RESILIENCE
C27
Innovative Practices in Land
Development and Climate
Resilience: Lessons From Hamburg
In 2013, a delegation from New England
Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE) visited
Hamburg, Germany to explore the
HafenCity project and the International
Building Expo (IBA) development model
that created it. In this session, panelists
from that delegation will discuss lessons
learned and the feasibility of implementing similar projects in the Northeast.
Attendees will have the opportunity to
discuss how the Hamburg models might
be adapted to the Northeast, including
the possibility of creating an International
Building Expo here in Massachusetts.
Lauren Armstrong AIA, Director, Rackemann.
Sawyer and Brewster
Marty Jones, President & CEO, Mass
Development
C46
Connecting LEED to Our
Commonwealth: LEED
Regionalization
Sponsored by USGBC Massachusetts Chapter
B67
Climate Resilient Housing
Prototypes
Post-Hurricane Sandy, New England’s
shoreline has become a different place.
Rising tides have resulted in a new set
of FEMA guidelines and maps that now
place many developed urban areas within
flood zones. FEMA and building code
standards for flood-resistant construction
require new or substantially improved
buildings in flood zones to be elevated
or flood-proofed above projected flood
levels. This session will explore emerging
urban design principles and design trends
to guide the design of flood-resilient
multifamily structures. HafenCity in
Hamburg, Germany, a new district
designed according to resiliency principles, will be examined as a typology
for this type of construction. Specific
recommendations from the New York City
Planning Department’s “Designing for
Flood Risk” in urban areas will be outlined.
We will also review a series of multifamily
projects that have begun to incorporate
flood resilience into their design.
Jamie Fay AICP, CEP, President, Fort Point
Associates, Inc
architecture
Arlen Stawasz Assoc. AIA, Bruner/Cott &
Associates, Inc
Kim Vermeer, Urban Habitat Initiatives
OCT. 30
C10
Confronting Boston’s
Climate-related Challenges
While Respecting Its History
Existing historic buildings are inherently
resilient, be it through beauty and design,
functionality, or their ability to withstand
the test of time. This panel discussion
will explore Boston’s unique challenges
as a coastal city built predominantly
on fill, and its invaluable historic fabric,
which is increasingly under threat by New
England’s changing climate and transgression of the oceans. Lessons from the past,
as well as paths currently being taken, will
be highlighted at both the building and
city scale.
Matthew Bronski PE, Assoc. Principal,
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Susan Hollister, Historic Architect, National
Park Services
Lara Pfadt AIA, LEED AP, Architect, Goody
LEED Regional Priority credits allow
Massachusetts prioritize the environmental issues most critical to our region. What
are the biggest priorities for the region?
How different are the environmental issues
for the Cape and Worcester? These are
the sorts of questions that the USGBC MA
Chapter team wrestled with to determine
the Regional Priority Credits for the LEED
V4 rating systems. The process entailed
looking deeply at GIS and other available
data for the special environmental and
economic qualities of the cities and towns
of Massachusetts to help define key issues.
This presentation takes attendees through
the process, starting with environmental
mapping, leading to the definition of
regional priorities, and ending in a list of
credits and areas to emphasize.
Patricia Cornelison AIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Arrowstreet, Inc
Andrea Love AIA, LEED AP, Director of
Building Science, Payette
Jim Newman LEED AP, Director of Metrics,
Linnean Solutions
Greg Sampson J.D., LEED AP ND, Attorney,
Robinson & Cole LLP
Clancy
Amanda Sanders AIA, Goody Clancy
Dr. Sarah Slaughter, The Built Environment
Coalition
Image: Massport
Kendra Halliwell AIA, Associate, ICON
THURSDAY
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TUESDAY
OCT. 28
A01
Egress Requirements of the MA
Building Code 8th ed., Chapter 10
Refresh your knowledge of the MA
Building Code 8th ed. requirements for
egress. Presentation will cover the requirements for exit access, exits including the
provisions allowing open egress stairs and
single exits, exit discharge, remoteness,
accessible means of egress, calculating
occupant load, required exit width,
assembly aisle egress, special locking
arrangements, horizontal exits, guards,
handrails, and fire escapes. Major egress
code differences between past editions of
the code and 8th edition IBC-based code
will be highlighted, as well as some of the
variations in egress code requirements in
the other New England states.
Walter Adams AIA, Principal, WBA
Associates, Codes & Permits
A22
of accessible entrances and accessible
routes when vertical access is required
in alterations when alterations catapult
a project into full compliance with accessibility regulations and state and federal
design differences for ramps, toilet rooms
and hotel bathrooms. We will review
access standards for recreation areas
such as accessible routes to all ball fields
and courts and accessible player seating
and provide an analysis of each of
these areas, as well as major differences
between the ADA Standards and Mass
AAB regulations
Kathy Gips, Director of Training, New England
ADA Center
Rex Pace, Technical Assistance, US Access
Board
Deborah Ryan, Owner, Deborah Ryan &
Associates
A46
Beyond Code: How Program
Administrators Support Energy
Savings for High Performance
New Construction
ADA Updates 2014
Sponsored by National Grid
The Program Administrators (utilities) of
Massachusetts provide technical support
and financial incentives for high performance new construction projects. New
construction solutions support design
teams (architects/engineers), property
owners and developers in their pursuit
of energy savings and high performing
buildings. Come learn in this session how
financial incentives can lower the initial
investment for higher-efficiency systems,
and get an introduction to the resources
and guidance designed to help lower
building operating costs while ensuring
occupant comfort. A new incentive
structure for both the owner and the
design teams will be discussed, along with
the process to achieve these supports and
a review of relevant case studies of recent
high performing buildings.
Sponsored by Institute for Human
Centered Design
This year in addition to our annual update
on proposed new design standards, we
will use case studies to address some of
the more commonly confusing aspects
of the ADA Standards. This will be a
hands-on workshop where participants
will review plans and locate areas that are
not in compliance—or note that the plan is
fully compliant. Bring your pencil and your
brain, because this year we will be asking
the questions as well as answering your
questions.
ADA Center
Rex Pace, Technical Assistance, US Access
Board
A42
The ADA and the Regulations of the
MA Architectural Access Board
Institute for Human Centered Design
Confused about the differences between
the ADA Standards and the regulations
of the Massachusetts Architectural
Access Board? You are not alone. One of
these years the federal and state access
requirements will harmonize, but until that
happens we’ll be offering this workshop.
Critical issues include the required number
Tracey Beckstrom, Lead Commercial Sales
Representative, National Grid
Roshan Bhakta CEM, Program Manager Energy Efficiency Services, NSTAR Electric &
Gas Corporation
Kim Cullinane LEED AP, Program Manager Energy Efficiency Services, NSTAR Electric &
Gas Corporation
Mark Stafford Assoc. AIA, USGBC MA/
RI, Lead Account Executive, Architect and
Engineer Program, National Grid
A62
Common Errors in Transient
Lodging: Hotels, Motels, Extended
Stay, and Dorms
Accessibility for transient lodging
recognizes that customers with varying
needs must be successfully accommodated in their facility, with little or
no need for modification. People who
benefit from the architectural features of
accessibility may have different strengths
and weaknesses and possibly overlapping
needs. This session will discuss the most
common accessibility errors in transient
lodging, from a user perspective and from
a compliance perspective. Hear from two
accessibility consultants who are out in
the field, observing the variety of conditions faced by the hospitality and housing
market. They will use photographs to
illustrate the myriad conditions they’ve
seen. They will review the requirements for
sleeping rooms/toilet rooms, public areas,
recreation and dining areas and other
spaces open to the public.
Karen Braitmayer FAIA, Owner, Karen
Braitmayer FAIA
Associates
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B02
Commercial Fenestration Energy
Ratings and Energy Codes
This course covers the 2009 International
Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and
ASHRAE 90.1-2007 door, window and
skylight requirements, and the basics
of how code-compliant fenestration is
used in the energy envelope and how
the manufacturer shows compliance via
NFRC 100, 200 and the NFRC certification
program. We discuss the methods for
meeting certification and labeling requirements for site-built and factory-supplied
fenestration, and provide an overview
of third-party performance-simulation
information, plans submittal process, and
Label Certificate validation by an NFRC
accredited inspection and certification
agency. The course content is relevant to
architects, glazing subcontractors, design
professionals, jurisdictional building plans
examiners and field inspectors.
Ray McGowan, Senior Program Manager,
National Fenestration Rating Council
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HIGHLIGHTS
B23
B63
C42
Design to Your Advantage:
Navigating the Complexities of the
MA Existing Building Code
Dirty Dirt? How New Environmental
Rules Will Change Design and
Development
The Science of Energy Codes,
Part 1: 2012 IECC, the Enclosure
and Keeping it Fresh in a Cold
and Hot World
Close collaboration among the architectural, structural, and code disciplines is
crucial very early in the design process
of any proposed renovation. These teams
must be able to not only quantify building
deficiencies per the 780 CMR Chapter
34, but must also be able to adeptly
use this information to make informed
decisions regarding the most appropriate
code method to adopt: the Prescriptive
Method, the Work Area Method, or the
Performance Method. This presentation
will describe the three methods of evaluation allowed, identifying the pros and
cons of each with respect to the structural
engineering and code implications. A clear
and simple decision matrix diagram will
be presented to help participants navigate
an otherwise complicated and convoluted
path through the Existing Building Code
of Massachusetts 780 CMR.
The Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection (MADEP) has
announced sweeping amendments to the
Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP),
the regulations that prescribe standards
and procedures for cleaning up contaminated sites. The DEP’s amendments are
comprehensive. Many reflect advances
in scientific knowledge, including new
toxicity data and better understanding
of contaminant behavior. Others reflect
changes in MADEP’s priorities, particularly
its heightened concern about vapor
intrusion, and its overall goal of increasing
regulatory efficiency. Many of the changes
may provide greater flexibility for reaching
regulatory closure, particularly on urban
fill sites. Others will make reaching closure
more cumbersome and costly. Find out
how these changes will affect design and
construction on a “dirty” site.
Patrick McCafferty LEED AP, PE, Associate
Ned Abelson, Director, Goulston & Storrs
Group
Principal, ARUP
Ileen Gladstone LEED AP, PE, Senior
Jimmy Su PE, LEED AP, Senior Engineer,
Principal, GEI Consultants
C01
C62
Sponsored by MA Utilities’ Code Compliance
Enhancement Initiative, Board of Building
Regulations and Standard, Department of
Energy Resources
The goal of this two part workshop is to
provide participants with robust design
and construction practices and knowledge
of the building science that underpins the
2012 International Energy Conservation
Code. The first section will focus on the
enclosure in remodel/renovation and new
construction projects. This workshop will
not simply be a recitation of the mandatory requirements. We will focus on issues
in the code that are open to interpretation
or that are difficult to understand and
use building science to clarify what is
important and why.
Caitriona Cooke, Director, Retrofit & New Con
Consulting Services, Conservation Services
ARUP
Jeff Tubbs, Principal, ARUP
Most Common Code Mistakes
B44
The New MA Energy and Stretch
Codes
This seminar reviews the most common
building code mistakes we have encountered in our work. Issues include mistaken
interpretations, common oversights, and
common variances which are assumed
to be allowed as-of-right. We will review
example cases for many of the issues to
demonstrate the impact these mistakes
can have on a project. Code provisions
for new and existing buildings will be
addressed.
Sponsored by BSA Committee for the
Advancement of Sustainability
Per the Green Communities Act, the 2012
IECC is now in full force and effect in
Massachusetts. Because this code tracks
closely with the stretch code, a new
stretch energy code has been proposed.
This presentation will bring you up to
speed on the status and contents of these
regulations.
The Science of Energy Codes,
Part 2: 2012 IECC, the Enclosure
and Keeping it Fresh in a Cold
and Hot World
MA Code Requirements for Existing
Buildings
After the first session’s focus on the enclosure and minimizing loads, the second
portion of this workshop will concentrate
on HVAC and indoor air quality in the
context of the 2012 IECC. We will start
with an assessment of what is traditionally
done in cold climate regions and which
current practices do not comply with the
code. However, the bulk of this workshop
will be centered on the opportunities for
improvement and to inform architects of
what they need to know about HVAC and
the energy code. The content is grounded
in the reality of what is occurring in
the field and will be filled with project
photographs that provide context.
Caitriona Cooke, Director, Retrofit & New Con
Massachusetts adopts and amends the
2009 International Existing Building Code,
offering several compliance options and
unique requirements for fire protection
and structural, specifically seismic,
improvements. This presentation will
provide an overview of these requirements
with examples.
Consulting Services, Conservation Services
Don Contois P.E., Associate, R.W. Sullivan
Engineering
Vernon Woodworth FAIA, Consultant, AKF
Kevin Hastings PE, Principal, R.W. Sullivan
Group
Engineering
C23
Vernon Woodworth FAIA, Consultant,
AKF Group
Group
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CONSTRUCTION
CONSTRUCTION
WEDNESDAY
B66
C45
OCT. 29
Collaboration in Public Projects
Lean Construction 101
While the public sector has been slow
to adopt the more collaborative delivery
systems such as CM-At Risk and Design
Build, legislative changes now allow many
New England states and municipalities
to use these systems. This presentation
offers real-life discussions of collaborative
projects involving public owners. The
panelists will discuss the challenges and
advantages that these projects faced,
and the strategies they employed to
address these issues.
Lean production management caused a
revolution in the manufacturing world.
Lean theory challenged the traditional
notions about how to plan and manage
work and achieved new levels of performance in return. This discussion overviews
the philosophy, principles and techniques
of Lean Project Delivery and distinguishes
Lean Construction from current project
delivery practices. Integrated Project
Delivery principles, value definition,
Target Value Design, Last Planner in
design and construction, Lean supply
chain, pull methods, project production
system design, continuous improvement
in practice, and Lean culture will all be
discussed.
B03
The Power of Construction Cost
Analysis with HERS Rating
HERS Rating is now used more and more
for residential energy code compliance,
rebates and marketing, but standard
HERS Rating is just a projection of
energy performance that doesn’t include
construction costs. Without accurate
modeling of construction costs versus
performance, any investment in the
multitude of energy-related features of a
home will rarely be optimal. Learn about
our experience as HERS raters, optimizing
energy performance versus construction
costs. Find out how optimization of
performance versus cost can work for
your projects!
Edward Everitt, Associate General Counsel,
CB&I
Ryan Hutchins, Sr. Vice President, Gilbane
Building Company
Jack McCarthy, Executive Director,
Massachusetts School Building Authority
Kenneth Rubinstein, Attorney / Co-Chair
Michael Browne, Principal, Advanced Building
of Construction Practice Group, Preti Flaherty
Analysis, LLC
Beliveau & Pachios
Brooke Trivas Assoc. AIA, K-12 Education
B47
Market Leader, Boston, Perkins + Will
Prefabrication Pitfalls
THURSDAY
OCT. 30
C04
The Boston Underground: A
Cautionary tale About the Mysteries
That Lurk Beneath the Surface
Ryan Salvas, Director, Island International
Significant parts of Massachusetts, including much of Boston and Cambridge, are
built on filled land. How and where Boston
was filled affects both the design and construction of your project. Building on filled
land increases risks and uncertainty, since
what is underground is never really known
until you dig it up. The characteristics of
this fill can affect your programing choices
and foundation selection. Obstructions,
contaminated soils, and groundwater can
significantly affect construction costs.
This workshop will delve into the various
issues associated with filled land and how
the design team can evaluate and mitigate
potential challenges.
Exterior Fabricators
Ileen Gladstone LEED AP, PE, Senior
Dana Anderson AIA, Managing Principal,
Perkins & Will
John Erb, Vice President, Deluxe Building
Systems
Laura Handler LEED AP, Director of Service
Design + Strategy, Tocci Building Company
Kenneth Rubinstein, Attorney / Co-Chair of
Construction Practice Group, Preti Flaherty
Beliveau & Pachios
Porter Design
Colin Milberg PhD, Principal, ASKM &
Associates
C65
Lean Construction 201
Prefabrication promises incredible
advances in efficiency and precision.
Prefabrication of major components
can produce shorter schedules, and
lower construction costs, as work can be
assembled offsite in more accommodating
environments. But prefabrication also
comes with certain hidden risks that
can derail a schedule, increase costs, or
cause discord amongst the labor force.
This program discusses the potential
perils that present the greatest risk, and
offers practical suggestions to avoid
these problems.
Brian Anderson AIA, Principal, Anderson
Principal, GEI Consultants
Michael Yako PE, Vice President, GEI
Consultants
Application of Lean Construction for all
phases of project delivery is increasing as
owners, designers, construction managers,
and trade contractors embrace these
new practices. Demand for companies
and practitioners with knowledge and
experience in Lean Project Delivery
will continue to grow. In response to
this demand, new chapters of the Lean
Construction Institute have been sprouting
all over the country and AGC of America
has developed a Lean Construction
Education Program. In this session,
members of the Lean Construction
Institute NE will conduct a simulation and
debrief with participants that illustrate
the concept and benefits of production
systems design and pull. The simulation
will be followed by a discussion of how
pull is used in the Last Planner System
to support planning and management of
design and construction. The session will
provide a hands-on illustration of basic
Lean Construction concepts to expand
participants understanding of its benefits
and how it is applied.
Brian Anderson AIA, Principal, Anderson
Porter Design
Colin Milberg PhD, Principal, ASKM &
Associates
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HIGHLIGHTS
TUESDAY
Justin Hollander PhD, AICP, Associate
OCT. 28
Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
A07
Bundle Up! Design Strategy Game
and Planning, Tufts University
Ann Sussman AIA, Author + Architect,
Ann Sussman
Architects, urban designers, and planners
know that the initial program directions
which they set have the most far-reaching
impacts on the ultimate outcome of any
design. This is particularly true when
developing strategies for highly-efficient
energy design, where the the characteristics of climate (sun, wind, and light)
can help or hinder. The purpose of the
Bundle Up! Design Strategy Game is to
make learning climatic design strategies
and their complex interrelationships fun
and easy. The workshop will engage the
ingenuity of participants in collaboration
as each team endeavors to develop the
optimal design for a highly efficient
building in different climate zones and
geographic areas where sun, wind and
light play different roles and have different
impacts on the building’s design.
Susanne Bennett BA Columbia University
NYC, Workshop Leader, University of
Tennessee
Mark DeKay, University of Tennessee
Peter Papesch AIA, Architect - Developer and
Educator, Papesch Associates
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B71
A Design Interrogation of
Workplace Culture
Sponsored by NBBJ
Competition has always motivated
academic and medical institutions to live
in the future and strive to be the best,
so why are their workplaces living in the
past? Challenges and opportunities exist
culturally and financially, leaving the
leaders of these institutions asking what
tomorrow’s workplace will look like, and
how they will get there. One size does
not fit all, and a well-conceived workplace
must not only support but influence
culture, leaving designers to walk the line
between inspired strategies and ones that
cause culture shock. With panelists from
medical and academic institutions, we’ll
confront the problems and discover how
these workplaces may move into
the future.
A30
Kerianne Graham AIA, Architect, NBBJ
Cognitive Architecture: Evolution
and Human Subconscious
Responses to the Built Environment
Sarah Markovitz, Principal/Healthcare
Estate, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Sponsored by USGBC
Julia Sinclair MHA, MBA, Senior Vice
How should we think about something as
complex as ‘human nature’ or establish
guidelines for designing places for people
we will never meet? How can we observe
our own evolution at work right now as
we scan the environment? This session
looks at how evolution and recent findings
in cognitive science provide a foundation
for architecture and urban planning. It
discusses two key subconscious tendencies recent research has revealed to
be at work when we navigate the built
environment Edges Matter ‘thigmotaxis’
and Patterns Matter. Here we also address
the fact our brain focuses on processing
faces over other objects, and explore how
facial patterns are found in craft as well
as buildings, sometimes intentionally and
sometimes quite inadvertently.
President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Designer, NBBJ
Vincent McDermott, VP of Finance & Real
THURSDAY
OCT. 30
C31
Little Tinkers: Integrating Maker
Space into K-8 Education
How do we introduce children to design
thinking? Unlock the tinker inside you
and join our panel as we look at how
educational programming is taking
project-based learning to the next
level. See how educators are unlocking
creativity and developing confidence in
their youth around science, technology,
engineering, math and the arts through
introducing the children to tools such as
3-D printers, robotics, and animation. How
as architects can we create environments
that help foster this design thinking?
Explore models for maker spaces and
the development of a maker space at
Cambridge Friends School, and hear a
student’s educational experience from
maintenance closet to incubator.
Brian Gravel, Lecturer, Tufts University
Aaron Falk, President, DGF Technologies
Riley Jack Meehan, Research Assistant,
Tufts University
Peter Sommer, Head of School, Cambridge
Friends School
Chris Vance AIA, LEED AP, Architect, HMFH
Architects, Inc
C43
Peacebuilding Through Design
Thinking: Architecture and Design
as Tools for Problem Solving
This workshop will give participants
an opportunity to explore the diverse
approaches of aesthetics and design
work in contributing to inclusion in
sacred spaces. We will examine historical
precedents from the Abrahamic faiths that
have created various pluralistic sacred
spaces and communities. We will then
address the issue of gender and space,
examining successful case studies and
demonstrating various design solutions
through the means of art and architecture.
Participants, in groups, will be “architectfor-a-day” and through the hands-on
approach of design, will explore the
commonalities of the art and architectural
vocabulary of Empathy, Organization,
Creativity, Design, and Solution. The
main objective of this workshop is for
participants to understand and explore
the commonalities of all the faiths and
through the avenue of design, create
pluralistic solutions for our present needs.
Maryam Eskandari Assoc. AIA, NCARB,
CEO + Founder, MIIM Designs LLC
Bryan Mock Assoc. AIA, Intern Designer,
MIIM Designs LLC
Wajida Syed, Marketing & Creative Designer,
MIIM Designs LLC
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TUESDAY
A52
A54
OCT. 28
Learning from Our Legacy:
Historical Federal Building
Case Studies
Transformation of Existing
Buildings for a High Performance
Future: Part 2
Sponsored by General Services Administration
Sponsored by AIA Historic Resource
Committee
All federal agencies are required to meet
the requirements of EPACT and EISA,
including the retrofit of existing building
stock to meet energy performance levels
required by law. Many other institutions
also desire to upgrade existing building stock to high performance levels.
Accomplishing this goal is an opportunity
for the design community in giving a new
lease on life for existing buildings and raising them to a high level of performance
while protecting their historic fabric. Part
1 makes the case for transforming existing
buildings to high performance, and covers
roofing retrofit strategies for existing
buildings.
As custodian for federally owned
buildings, the General Services Administration is responsible for protecting
and preserving some of the nation’s
most significant historic buildings. Hear
about recent projects, including technical
problems, analysis, and solutions for water
infiltration, window replacement, energy
efficiency, and damaged plaster and other
historic materials. The panel will discuss
financial and design challenges of the continuing use of historic structures, including
appropriate restoration of historic fabric,
identification of appropriate uses,
accessibility and community engagement,
and the challenges of working in occupied
buildings. While each of these buildings
posed unique challenges, the combined
presentation will cover a broad range of
issues that should be addressed in the
restoration of historic structures
Wagdy Anis FAIA, Principal, Wiss, Janney,
Judith Bowen AIA, Architect, General
Elstner Associates, Inc
Services Administration
Richard Koziol AIA, NCARB, Principal, Wiss,
Gianne Conard AIA, Regional Chief Architect,
Janney Elstner Associates
General Services Administration
A32
Future: Part 1
Committee
Image: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Elizabeth Mees AIA, Architect, General
Services Administration
Sean Orgel, Architect, General Services
Administration
Paul Rojko, Branch Chief, Technical Services
Branch, General Services Administration
Part 2 of this workshop covers retrofit
of masonry and other opaque walls.
Masonry walls can be sensitive to proper
assessment and testing of condition prior
to developing an insulation strategy.
Masonry can be retrofit from inside or
outside. Thermal bridges and deterioration of embedded components will be
discussed. Retrofit of fenestration or other
cladding strategies for high performance
are reviewed. Code requirements and
beyond code requirements are discussed.
Case studies of projects will be presented
with examples of high performance
fenestration.
Anthony Cinnamon AIA, Associate Principal,
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc
Wei Lam PE, Associate Principal, Wiss,
Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc
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A73
WEDNESDAY
B51
Future: Part 3
OCT. 29
Optimizing the Terrain: More
Program, Less Mass
Committee
Part 3 of this workshop continues with
double facades as a retrofit strategy
and will review the pros and cons of this
approach to retrofitting existing buildings with new facades, including blast
resistance hardening of the structure.
The second apart of this presentation
will review approaches for achieving
air-tightness both in exterior cladding, gut,
and partial renovations.
Wagdy Anis FAIA, Principal, Wiss, Janney,
Elstner Associates, Inc
Anthony Cinnamon AIA, Associate Principal,
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc
A86
New Window, Old Masonry:
Contemporary Window
Performance in a Traditional
Masonry Wall Opening
New England’s extensive stock of existing
masonry buildings are prime candidates
for re-use or rehabilitation in today’s
green-minded society. While the masonry
material and configuration of these
buildings often varies, their fenestration
regularly consisted of punched openings
with wood windows. Through examples
and analysis, this presentation will focus
on: the importance of integrating wall
thermal, air, and vapor barriers with the
window opening, and the potential energy,
performance, and durability drawbacks if
these systems are not properly integrated;
when and where to provide flashing in
window openings, and potential risks
of water infiltrating into the masonry at
improperly flashed openings; factors in
window and glazing selection, including
design considerations for retrofitting
existing windows; and the role thermal
modeling and air and water infiltration
testing play in properly integrating a new
window system into an existing masonry
opening.
B12
Improving Energy Performance in
Existing Buildings
While much focus has been placed on
building codes for new construction
projects, the majority of building projects
focus on the renovation and repair of
existing buildings and structures. This
presentation reviews the basics of energy
efficiency in both new and existing buildings and discusses the relative magnitude
of changes such as enclosure, lighting,
and mechanical system upgrades. Energy
code requirements for existing buildings
will be reviewed, including compliance
paths and alternate ways to meet these
requirements. Lastly, procedures and for
evaluating the energy performance of
existing buildings will be discussed, as well
as programs for financing and implementing repairs to improve efficiency and
reduce energy costs.
Sean O’Brien LEED AP, PE, Principal, Simpson
Gumpertz & Heger, Inc
B33
Renovation/Addition vs.
New Construction
When to renovate vs. build new has been
a long-standing important question at
many institutions with an inventory of
aging buildings and a long-term capital
projects plan. This panel presentation and
discussion will explore many factors that
contribute to this decision. By bringing
together the architect and the client along
with key cost estimating and construction
management consultants, the issues of
design, cost, constructability and schedule
are examined. Through a case study of
two recent projects with very similar
parameters—a renovation and addition
(under construction) and a new freestanding building (in late design phase), we
compare the same key issues that led to
different results in each of these projects.
Tom S. Chung AIA, LEED BD+C, Principal,
Leers Weinzapfel Associates
Nick Floyd PE, Senior Project Manager,
Ann Schiro, Deputy Director for Design &
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc
Construction, Massachusetts Division of
Matthew Monaghan, Simpson, Gumpertz &
Capital Asset Management (DCAMM)
Heger
Josiah Stevenson FAIA, Principal, Leers
Weinzapfel Associates
Dennis Swinford, Director Of Campus
Planning, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Planning and designing for growth in
constrained settings while preserving
greenspace is a challenge for many institutions. This panel discussion will highlight
two academic case studies where
combining strategies for existing building
reuse and below-grade construction
accommodated institutional programming
goals. These interventions added new
infrastructure to create “found” space in
unconventional ways and maintained or
expanded campus greenspace to better
connect academic programs to the larger
institutional campus. Cornell University
Law School’s new Academic Center added
significant program and maintained iconic
landscapes and vistas without expanding
the visible building footprint. At the
University of Chicago, a new Academic
Precinct was planned and designed in
conjunction with the University’s Strategic
Sustainability Plan.
Jason Bowers AIA, LEED AP, Associate, Ann
Beha Architects
Kathleen Gerner AIA, Architect, Ann Beha
Architects
Ken R Maschke SE, PE, LEED AP, Associate,
Thornton Tomasetti
David J. Odeh PE, SECB, Principal, Odeh
Engineers
B73
Limitations and Opportunities
of Adapting Historic Landmark
Structures: Two Case Studies
Navigating the challenges of working
with a landmarked historic building can
leave project teams frustrated to identify
creative opportunities. Using two case
studies of historic landmarked institutional
buildings: Lesley University College of
Art and Design Lunder Arts Center in
Cambridge, MA, and Vanderbilt University
Alumni Hall in Nashville, TN, we will show
how establishing preservation goals at the
outset of a project can guide designers
and owners to balanced, sensitive, and
detailed preservation with innovative
and unexpected interventions. We will
demonstrate through these case studies
how thoughtful use of contemporary
craftsmanship and expertise—in timber
framing, stained glass, stone and brick
masonry, and millwork—in combination
with available new technologies, allows
designers to respond to the critical needs
of delicate restoration while also affording
creative freedom.
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Nat Crosby, Senior Project Manager,
THURSDAY
C52
OCT. 30
Evaluation, Rehabilitation, and
Design of Slate and Clay Tile
Roofing
Robert Simmons AIA, LEED AP, Principle,
Nurit Zuker AIA, Senior Project Manager,
B85
Single-Glazed Curtain Walls: Repair,
Re-Clad, Over-Clad?
Sponsored by Vidaris, Inc
Single-glazed curtain walls are currently
at the forefront of debate about the
future of this once-pioneering technology
in the metropolitan marketplace for
high-performance office buildings.
To date, the debates have focused on
aesthetics, energy-consumption and the
redevelopment potential of the land
where most stand. However, there have
been few discussions about the full range
of options available to enhance the appeal
of single-glazed curtain walls, improve
their low environmental performance and
address safety concerns regarding this
Modern facade technology. Using case
studies, the presentation will explore
the options available for intervening
on this facade technology, as well as
assessment tools to evaluate the proposed
interventions regarding environmental
performance, energy code compliance,
safety, aesthetics, cost, and historic
appropriateness.
C33
Risks and Rewards of High
Performance Strategies in Historic
Buildings
Sponsored by Boston Landmarks Commission
New technologies and materials present
opportunities to adapt existing historic
buildings to meet challenges of climate
change, rising fuel costs, and changing
comfort standards. However, experience
has shown that new strategies often do
more harm than good when the existing
building dynamics are not considered.
This seminar will discuss the risks and
opportunities of upgrades, present
examples of various adaptations, and
offer protocols for understanding existing
building performance and the impact of
changes with a focus on responses to the
impacts of climate change and energy
use. We’ll look at changing standards in
thermal comfort; the impact of air barriers,
insulation and mechanical systems on
historic materials; pros and cons of new
building materials in historic renovations;
and also consider future trends and
challenges.
Angel Ayon AIA, LEED AP, Consultant,
Vidaris, Inc
Andrea Gilmore, Director, BCA New England
Angel Ayon AIA, LEED AP, Consultant,
John Hannum PE, LEEP AP, VP of Energy
Vidaris, Inc
Services, Vidaris, Inc
John Hannum PE, LEEP AP, VP of Energy
Susan Pranger AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, RA,
Services, Vidaris, Inc
Senior Architect, Vidaris, Inc
Traditional slate or clay tile roofing
systems have been used for thousands of
years, and are character-defining features
of many historic buildings and districts
both in the US and abroad. When properly
designed and installed, these roofing systems can remain durable and watertight
for more than a century. Nevertheless,
these roofing systems eventually require
evaluation and rehabilitation or even
replacement. This presentation provides
critical information for the assessment,
rehabilitation and design of clay tile and
slate roofing systems.
Matthew Bronski PE, Assoc. Principal,
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
C68
Making the Development of Historic
Properties a Winning Proposition
Sponsored by Boston Landsmarks
Commission
Determining whether historic structures
can be repurposed into environmentally
and economically viable structures that
aesthetically complement developer/
architect/community goals can be a
challenge. The importance of preserving
the past while embracing the future
influences the design process, from
massing, structure and construction type
to design typologies, systems integration
and code compliance. It is also a key
consideration when attempting to turn a
perceived impediment into an opportunity.
So how do you make the numbers work?
What goes into the final determination to
convert, renovate or reuse the site? Join
us in a developer-led, architect-moderated
discussion on the myriad considerations
that factor into historic preservation
projects and how design and economics
influence the outcome.
Felicia Jacques, Vice President Development,
Maloney Properties, Inc
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HIGHLIGHTS
Workshops in this track are $30 through October 14.
TUESDAY
OCT. 28
A41
Six Specs to Sunday
Tuesday, 1:00pm–2:30pm
Sponsored by CSI Boston Chapter
What spec is right for your project?
Sheetspecs—Preliminary Project
Description—Outline Spec—Short-Form
Spec—Full Project Manual Specs in BIM?
In specifications, one size doesn’t fit all!
This session presents a concise summary
of each of the predominant specification
types so you can make effective choices
for your firm. We look ahead to trends in
specs, specifiers’ property sets (SPie) and
specs in BIM.
Mark Kalin FAIA, FCSI, LEED AP, President,
Kalin Associates Inc
A61
Photography From All Angles
Sponsored by Design New England magazine
A picture is worth a thousand words—and
might cost you thousands of dollars! But
not all pictures tell the story in the same
way. A photo for your portfolio might
not work for an ad campaign or get you
into an editorial publication or win a
competition. We look at photography
from all angles and help you get the most
for your money.
Gail Ravgiala, Editor, Design New England
A81
Design and Construct Your Perfect
Design and Construction Career:
Fantasies, Nightmares, Stories—and
Maybe, Lessons Learned
Design and construction careers have
strong potential to do much more than
provide income. At their best, they can
also simulate your intellect, provide
opportunities for creative expression,
offer channels for engagement with
interesting peers and open doors to
improve humankind. It’s also possible
you may encounter some problems.
Drawing on panelists’ extensive experience, this workshop enables participants
to identify and avoid predictable
problems, understand and use career
design tools, and plan their own career
more effectively. Participants leave the
workshop with an overall understanding
of what’s possible in architectural careers
and specific tools to help achieve it.
Christopher Dyke, Assistant Project Manager,
Skanska USA Building
Michael Maloof AIA, LEED AP BD+C,
Architect, Wilson Architects Inc
Jason Nicastro, Project Manager,
Isgenuity LLC
Cristianne Peschard, Boston, Wilson
Architects
William Ronco PhD, President, Gathering
Pace Consulting
Brian Spangler Assoc. AIA, Payette
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B43
The 90-Minute MBA for the
Emerging Professional
Wednesday, 1:00pm–2:30pm
This workshop will introduce basic business principles for the design profession.
To succeed in today’s volatile marketplace,
emerging professionals must have a
strong business foundation to survive
and thrive. This seminar will empower
the emerging professional to chart their
career path to success by offering insights
into how a firm is created, managed and
sustained, as well as what role they can
play in their firm’s success. Attendees will
be introduced to a number of business
and management topics including:
creating a design firm; marketing and
business development; social media and
networking; branding; financial management; understanding the importance
of multipliers; project management;
responding to an RFP; developing fees;
contracts; risk management; ethics and
personal branding.
James Kimball AIA, Principal, Phase Zero
Design
B62
Evolutions in Adaptive Reuse
As more buildings reach the end of their
useful lives, architects have gained a
deeper and more complex understanding
of how to transform them creatively.
In this session, presenters will review the
history of adaptive reuse, discuss a variety
of ways to design transformations of
old buildings, and provide insight on
how the changing faces of preservation,
sustainability, and building technology
have affected the practice of adaptive
reuse. The discussion will use several
case studies to identify common threads
that apply to old buildings regardless
of cultural value— whether working with
a historic resource, an iconic mid-century
modern building, or a forgotten shell.
Jason Forney AIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Bruner/Cott & Associates Inc
Henry Moss AIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Aoife Morris, Sr Project Manager,
B82
Pathways to Leadership: Small,
Medium, Large
What are the expectations, commitments,
and deliverables from those seeking
leadership roles? A panel discussion of
principals from firms of various sizes
and business models reveals different
pathways to leadership through design,
project management, building science,
sustainability, and business development.
We will also consider opportunities to
enrich one’s professional development
outside practice, through participation
in professional organizations, academia,
community outreach, or other venues.
Panelists will address the challenges,
opportunities and means to achieve
the appropriate equilibrium between
competing expectations for success.
Carol Burns FAIA, Principal, Taylor & Burns
Architects
Jean Carroon FAIA, LEED, Principal - Design,
Sustainability, Preservation, Goody Clancy
Sho-Ping Chin FAIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Payette
Lynne Deninger AIA, LEED, Principal,
Cannon Design
Heather Taylor AIA, Associate Principal,
Payette
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THURSDAY
OCT. 30
C41
Construction Administration
for Beginners
Thursday, 1:00pm–2:30pm
Architects must make an important shift
when their work moves into construction
administration (CA). During preconstruction we advocate for our clients and
the design, while during CA we need to
be impartial judges, administering the
contract and making judgments that may
not favor the owner. This seminar will
explore in depth the basic tools employed
during the CA process. The panel includes
practicing architects whose experience
ranges from fax machines to BIM models,
collectively responsible for over $1B
of construction in place. They will be
joined by a builder and an engineer.
The presenters will approach the topic
with humor and at least three real-world
examples in a hands-on format so you
can get your hands dirty within the safe
confines of ABX.
LANDSCAPE
Tony Fagundes, Superintendent, Turner
Construction
Michael Noll RA, Senior Associate, NBBJ
Jason Seaburg, Senior Project Manager,
TUESDAY
A25
OCT. 28
Employment Law for the
Non-Lawyer
Tom Sieniewicz AIA, AICP, LEED AP, Partner,
NBBJ
Jennifer Sutherby, Designer, NBBJ
A04
Reimagining Boston’s Historic
Landscapes
Image: Stephen Stimson Associates, BSLA 2014 Honor Award, Flume Fountain Photo by Charles Mayer Photography
C61
Sponsored by BSLA
Real Estate Development 101
Focusing on metropolitan Boston historic
landscapes and the designated landmark
districts of Fort Point Channel and the
South End, this workshop explores the
design of new landscapes, including
streetscapes, public parkland open space
and historic townhouse gardens, and
looks at ways of successfully achieving an
appropriate balance between preservation
of the historic, character-defining features
and incorporation of changes necessary to
reflect contemporary use. We will focus on
preservation of historic features, materials,
urban design patterns, and plant material.
Recognition of significant 20th-century
landscapes, currently landmarked or under
threat will also be part of the discussion.
Thursday, 3:30pm–5:00pm
Sponsored by EPNet
This is a 90-minute crash course in real
estate development. Understand what
really goes on pre- and post-architectural
involvement.
Jess Garnitz Assoc. AIA, LEED BD+C,
Designer, ADD Inc
David Berarducci, Principal, David Berarducci
Landscape Architecture
Clarissa Rowe, Principal, Brown, Richardson &
Rowe, Landscape Architects
Liz Vizza, Executive Director, Friends of
The Public Garden
Sponsored by BSLA
This workshop is designed for anyone
who needs an understanding of employment law basics. The intended audience
is professionals and business owners,
who wants to be able to identify
employment law issues before they
become employment law problems.
The workshop will provide an overview
of relevant federal and state employment
laws by highlighting the application of
those laws for the participants through
the life cycle of the employment
relationship—from hiring, to managing
the employment relationship, and finally to
terminating the employment relationship,
and post-employment considerations—so
both employer and employee understand
their rights and obligations in the
employment relationship.
Justine Brousseau, Kimball Brousseau LLP
Laurence Richmond, Esq, Richmonds & Co,
LLC
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LANDSCAPE
A45
WEDNESDAY
Design for Disturbance: Anticipating
the Post-construction Landscape in
Site-Specific Design
OCT. 29
Sponsored by BSLA
Designers often refer to their work as a
“site-specific” response to the unique
existing conditions of a preconstruction
project landscape. But construction,
whether of building or landscape alters
the dynamics of the site’s ecology and
in doing so, permanently alters the site.
Current sustainable landscape design
standards correctly call for limiting and
mitigating the impacts of developmentrelated disturbance, but proposals seeking
to restore a landscape to its preconstruction conditions run the risk of recreating
a visual aesthetic that is unsupported
by altered site conditions. Ecological
disturbance is part of the continuous
cycle of change in every landscape and,
in moderation, is an essential driver of
a balanced ecosystem. The panelists
will present case studies and discuss
techniques for incorporating planned
disturbance into the design process.
Ann Kearsley RLA, MLAUD, Landscape
A65
Green Infrastructure: Landscape
Performance Research and
Implementation Case Study
Sponsored by BSLA
This workshop will present studies of the
benefits of bioretention and constructed
wetlands. Many green infrastructure
strategies rely on the natural capacities
of soil to absorb and cleanse stormwater.
Despite soils’ critical role in managing
water quality, many design questions
persist regarding appropriate soil
composition, depths and configuration.
The bioretention segment presents the
results of a laboratory study (Stantec/
University of New Hampshire Stormwater
Center collaboration) and field study
(Stantec/Boston Parks and Recreation
Department) examining the ability of a
variety of soil mixes to remove nitrogen
and phosphorus from stormwater. We will
examine a highly functional stormwater
wetland in Cambridge MA to identify how
“green infrastructure” principles were used
to attenuate flows and improve water
quality while replacing conventional “grey”
infrastructure.
Kevin Beuttell LEED AP, RLA, Associate,
Stantec
Duke Bitsko RLA, Director,
InterdiscplinaryDesign, Bioengineering Group
Park and Parcel: Boston’s First
Universally Inclusive Public Open
Space
The challenge: create an inclusive,
compelling public open space for all in a
complex public/private framework. The
designers of the new Thomas M. Menino
Playground share stories of 1. The site
(former Dry Dock #5 used in World War II
for ship repair), the neighborhood (historic
Charlestown Navy Yard), the contaminants
(lead and arsenic), the neighbor (newly
opened Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital),
the politics (outgoing Mayor Thomas M.
Menino requires park to be designed and
built in 7 months!). 2. Design strategies
and public engagement techniques that
led to a strong design concept that will
resonate with visitors for decades to
come. 3. Spaulding Rehab facilitating
the collaboration of landscape architects
and occupational therapists to develop a
multi-generational open space that will
serve every single visitor. The example of
this project calls us to increase our rigor
in making public spaces truly inclusive so
that able-bodied brothers and mobilityassisted sisters can swing and play side
by side and dads in wheelchairs can take
Gene Bolinger, Vice President, Weston &
Sampson
Lauren Bryant, Project Manager, Parks and
Recreation, City of Boston
Chris Cook, Interim Parks Commissioner,
City of Boston
Rebecca Kaiser, Chief of Staff, Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital
Cheri Ruane ASLA, RLA, Practice Leader,
Weston & Sampson
B26
Phytoforensics and
Phytotechnologies: Using Plants to
Track and Clean-up Contaminants
Plants are masters of mass transfer,
harvesting water, carbon, and nutrients
to be the world’s dominant biomass
without ever moving. Plants also remove
contaminants from surrounding soil, water
and air. Pollutants are also stored, making
plants biosentinels in their surroundings.
This session will explore these tracking
and removal mechanisms and phytotechnology applications for designers.
Kate Kennen ASLA, RLA, Owner,
Offshoots, Inc
Niall Kirkwood, Professor of Landscape
Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of
Design
Image: Alex McLean
Architect/Principal, Ann Kearsley Design
B05
their kids to a park that is challenging and
fun yet integrated for full access.
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MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
TUESDAY
A53
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 28
Applying Passive House Principles
to 160 Units of Affordable Housing:
Lessons Learned
OCT. 29
A10
Multifamily Housing and
Accessibility: Untangling the
Confusion
Sponsored by Institute for Human
Centered Design
Image: Courtesy of Jaime Jones, CEO/Principal, J&C Consulting Service
Does this alphabet soup make sense
to you: FHA, MAAB, ADA, UFAS, ABA,
Section 504, IBC, Type A, Type B, Type C,
Group 1, Group 2A, Group 2B. It’s taken us
a few years to figure out the accessibility
requirements under the federal Fair
Housing Act, the ADA, the Massachusetts
AAB regulations, the International Building
Code (adopted by RI, NH and CT) and, for
federally funded projects, Section 504 of
the Rehabilitation Act. We’d like to share
that knowledge with you. Some of our
time will be spent figuring out which laws
apply to various projects and how many
units need to be accessible—or somewhat
accessible. We will also review design
differences between the accessible and
somewhat accessible units. At the end of
the workshop you will leave with a chart
that lays it all out.
Fairfax Gardens was a 150-unit dilapidated
public housing development in Taunton,
MA. The THA selected Trinity Financial
to be the developer, owner, and operator
of a 160-unit replacement program on
two sites. The Hope VI Program requires
a very competitive funding application
that includes strong sustainability
incentives measured using LEED and/
or Enterprise Green community checklist
criteria. The Fairfax Gardens funding
application was successful in part because
it committed to very aggressive energy
conservation measures. To meet these
commitments, the development team,
including the THA, EJP Associates, Trinity
Financial, New Ecology, the Architectural
Team, Petersen Engineering and CWC
Builders, had to work collaboratively
through the design process from the
“green charrette” on, to develop systems
and details that would produce one of the
most energy efficient affordable housing
developments in the country.
Lauren Baumann, Vice President, New
Ecology, Inc
Henry Keating AIA, Vice President, Design &
ADA Center
Construction, Trinity Financial, Inc
James Petersen PE, LEED AP, President,
Associates
Petersen Engineering, Inc
B13
Pushing Wood Framing to
Higher Heights
Changes in the International Building
Code (IBC) have significantly altered the
ability to build taller housing structures
in wood framing. The changes are allowing
height, area and construction type options
for mixed-use structures previously not
possible. The lower construction cost
of these tall wood framed structures
makes them an attractive option in the
urban core. In this session, we will explore
the design and technical challenges of
building to 70 feet and higher with wood
framing.
Moderator: Nancy Ludwig FAIA, LEED AP,
President, ICON Architecture Inc
Jay Ierardi, Partner, AKF Group LLC
Rimas Veitas, President, Veitas & Veit
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Brian Patrick O’Connor AIA, Partner,
THURSDAY
Perspectives on Design and Mixed
Income Housing (Chapter 40B)
Cube 3 Studio
OCT. 30
& Knight
This session will focus on design practices
that lead to appropriate solutions for
mixed income housing developments in
sensitive physical and political contexts.
To ensure the distribution of affordable
housing, Massachusetts statute Chapter
40B enables mixed income housing
development that varies from local zoning
and design standards in many circumstances. In a state where development
approvals can be difficult to achieve for
multifamily projects, a substantial portion
of the new multifamily housing in the
state is developed using the Chapter 40B
mechanism. This workshop will explore
the different perspectives of developers,
architects, site designers, state agencies,
and local communities as they seek
successful, well-designed outcomes. The
presentation will include the Commonwealth’s handbook and design guidelines
for Chapter 40B projects and consider
several case studies of successful design
approaches that balance increased density
with the character of their sites and the
communities that surround them.
Robert Ruzzo, Senior Counsel, Holland
B86
Green Multifamily Housing
Update 2014: Programs,
Technology and Results
Multifamily housing is the largest segment
of the green residential market, despite
the fact that most green programs initially
targeted single family homebuilders. This
session will provide a comprehensive
update to the status and trends in green
multifamily housing. The Program update
covers the most popular green building
programs for multifamily housing and
describes when each might be most
advantageous. Programs include LEED
for New Construction, LEED for Homes
and the Multifamily Mid-Rise adaptation,
ENERGY STAR Homes and the Multifamily
High Rise adaptation, the National Green
Building Standard, the Living Buildings
Challenge, Passive House and the
Enterprise Green Communities Criteria.
The session will also include Q&A.
C09
Stacking it Up: Modular Housing
Modular housing is making a mark in
urban environments. From New York to
San Francisco, modular housing is being
built in downtown neighborhoods. What
are
the challenges and benefits that architects
and developers must understand as
modular building becomes a realistic
option for the housing market? How do
costs compare to more typical wood
framing? This panel, composed of leaders
in design, development, fabrication,
and construction of modular housing,
will explore the fundamentals of design,
delivery and installation.
Moderator: Nancy Ludwig FAIA, LEED AP,
President, ICON Architecture Inc
Josef Rettman, Vice President, Northeast
Interiors, Inc
Jim Schutt, Sales Manager, KBS Building
Systems
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Director of Sustainable Housing Services,
Katharine Lacy AICP, Permitting Specialist,
Breaking the Modular
Roadblock: Modular Design/Build
at Olmsted Green
Mass Housing
Peter Mahoney, Development Associate,
Creating affordable workforce housing in
Boston has long been an issue. The use of
modular construction systems to create
such housing has been hampered by a
lack of regional producers and concerns
about impacts on the local labor market.
This roadblock is about to be broken.
California’s ZETA DesignBuild, a leader
in the development of sustainable and
net-zero modular housing, plans to bring
its technology and design approach to
Olmsted Green, the ongoing redevelopment of the former Boston State Hospital
site in Mattapan. In partnership with
Olmsted Green’s developers, New Boston
Fund, and architects and planners ICON
architecture, inc., ZETA is adapting its
net-zero and near-zero modular units
to build out the approved plans, and is
in the process of identifying a suitable
location to establish a Boston-area union
ZETA manufacturing facility to implement
this effort. Hear representatives from the
developer, modular builder, and architect
to learn how this is being carried out.
The Cecil Group
John M Corcoran & Company
Steven Winter Associates, Inc
Howard Koenig, CEO, ZETA Design + Build
Steve Heikin FAIA, Senior Principal, ICON
Architecture, Inc
Kirk Sykes, Senior Vice President, New
Boston Fund
Taeko Takagi, VP Products, ZETA Design +
Build
Image: Courtesy of Panoramic Interest
Maureen Mahle LEED AP, LEED BD+C,
Steven Cecil AIA, ASLA, Principal,
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changes in our typical details that these
homes have required, share critical
demographics insights, speed bumps in
the process and tradeoffs required to
produce high-performance homes with
predictable results despite a myriad of
new variables.
Phil Kaplan AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, Principal,
Kaplan Thompson Architects
Parlin Meyer, Development Director,
BrightBuilt Home
THURSDAY
RESIDENTIAL FOCUS
OCT. 30
C22
TUESDAY
Matthew Jancek CRPM, Warranty Manager,
OCT. 28
Byggmeister, Inc
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WEDNESDAY
High Performance Houses Don’t
Need to Look Ugly or Weird
OCT. 29
Sponsored by Maine Indoor Air
B34
Quality Council
Changing Tides
Building very energy-efficient and
healthy homes is not a new concept,
and such homes need not look unusual.
This workshop will cover the anatomy
and key factors for readily designing
high-performance healthy homes which
are attractive, extremely energy-efficient,
and incorporate future-proof resilient
design principles. Basic building science
and cost-effective construction details
regarding basements, walls, roofs, attics,
HVAC systems, and indoor air quality will
be presented, as well as performance
results for new construction and renovated homes.
New flood mapping legislation that was
introduced in October 2013 and recent
weather erosion has changed floodplains.
Architects need to understand where
these floodplains are and how to position
or properly elevate a house in these newly
mapped terrains. By working through
these issues, an architect can in turn save
their clients thousands of dollars in home
insurance. Experts will expound on what
architects can do to alleviate some of
these issues before they become problems
and what to do with existing structures to
accommodate the changes.
David Johnston, President, David Johnston &
John Kruse LEED AP, Vice President/
Company
Principal, Sea-Dar Construction
William Turner LEED AP, PE, President/CEO,
Susan Ogrodnik-Smith, Chief Sales Officer,
Turner Building Science & Design, LLC
Hub International New England, LLC
Mary Ellen McIver, Account Executive, Hub
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International New England, LLC
30 Years of Warranty Visits:
What We’ve Learned
Sean Riley, Project Manager, Coastal
Engineering Company
Image: Courtesy of David Johnston & Company
Byggmeister has been remodeling homes
in the Boston area for over 30 years. For
most of that time we’ve had a policy of
periodically returning to past projects to
see how they’ve held up. In this workshop
we’ll freely share what we’ve learned
about what sorts of products, construction
techniques, and designs wear well with
time and—more importantly—which ones
don’t. If you’re at all concerned with the
durability and longevity of your work, this
will be an extremely informative session.
Paul Eldrenkamp, President, Byggmeister, Inc
Homes to Community Footprints:
Tracking Energy Use and
Targeting 2030
B53
Affordable, Net Zero, Modular:
Chasing The Golden Trifecta,
Scraping Knees Along the Way
Kaplan Thompson Architects’ first net
zero project, BrightBuilt Barn, evolved
into BrightBuilt Home, a line of modular
Net Zero homes. The goal was to make
a series of high-performance houses
available to a wider market interested in
affordability, accessibility, construction
speed and design. We will discuss the
Building professionals trained in green
design are uniquely qualified to provide
needed leadership and vision to assist
their communities in tracking the energy
use of individual homes and buildings.
The presenters will share results from
three distinct projects: the ICLEI greenhouse gas protocol, step #1 of a Climate
Action Plan for a Massachusetts town of
20,000; a new service offering an open
source, online database of energy ratings
linked to Google maps and HERS ratings
for homes; and a review of national
energy use data published by the Energy
Information Administration (EIA) linked to
ongoing studies for benchmarking homes.
J.B. Clancy AIA, Architect, Albert, Righter and
Tittmann
Keith Burrows LEED AP, Founder, Resynergy
Systems
Brian Butler, Founder, Boston Green Building
Henry MacLean AIA, LEED AP, Principal,
Timeless Architecture
C53
The Vintage House: Ideas for
Sensitive Additions and Successful
Upgrades
Houses inevitably face the need for
changes, most often by adapting to the
needs of new lifestyles and services or
including additional space. This presentation explores ideas for creating historically
sympathetic—and practical—additions by
looking to traditional addition patterns
as a guide, as well as solving some of the
common renovation conundrums creating
by adding modern mechanical systems.
Gordon Bock Assoc. AIA, Principal, National
Archives Associates
Mark Alan Hewitt FAIA, Principal, Mark Alan
Hewitt Architects
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SKETCH-UP
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B21
SketchUp Advanced Skills
SketchUp is a powerful tool for communicating 3D design concepts in professional
workflows. The advanced topics course is
designed for experienced SketchUp users
who want to investigate advanced topic
areas including creating curved surfaces,
making complex components, managing
large files, tackling intricate workflows and
using time-saving extensions. SketchUp’s
strength is its ability to integrate with
other systems. Participants will be given
a thorough review of the entire design
environment. Prior Skills: Pre-requisite
of SketchUp Essentials 1 and SketchUp
Essentials 2, or similar.
B41
SketchUp and CAD
Presented by IHCD
Nearly every design professional will need
to wrestle with importing or exporting
CAD to and from SketchUp. In this class,
we teach you how to do both, as well as
provide you several tips and tricks that are
guaranteed to speed-up your SketchUp
& CAD workflow. Prior skills: Pre-requisite
of SketchUp Essentials 1 and SketchUp
Essentials 2, or similar.
Alex Oliver, igloo Studios
B61
SketchUp and Shaderlight for
Photorealistic Renderings
As an interactive, photorealistic renderer
for Google SketchUp, Shaderlight lets
you render great images quickly and
simply. Fully integrated in to SketchUp
and SketchUp Pro, Shaderlight provides
the tools every SketchUp user needs to
achieve their vision with minimum fuss.
Prior skills: Pre-requisite of SketchUp
Essentials 1 and SketchUp Essentials 2,
or similar.
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B28
Architecture That Improves
People’s Lives
This presentation by John McAslan will
illuminate the socially sustainable design
ethos of his internationally recognized
architectural practice, John McAslan and
Partners. “We create architecture that
improves people’s lives. We aim for an
architecture which is rational and poetic,
robust and delightful; we tread carefully
and build with conviction; we tackle
problems head on and think laterally;
we deconstruct a brief and let a design
emerge from close examination of the
pieces; we don’t necessarily take ‘no’
for an answer; we believe the power of
architecture extends much further than
the dimensions of individual buildings; we
believe architecture is about making life
better. We believe that buildings should be
underpinned by a powerful idea; that the
idea should be an intelligent and logical
response to functionality and a sense of
place; and the power of that idea should
be embedded in the built form. That way,
clients get the buildings they need and
society gets the architecture it deserves.”
Following his talk, Metropolis magazine’s
editor-in-chief, Susan Szenasy, will
conduct a live interview with Mr. McAslan.
Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institute
for Human Centered Design
John McAslan, Executive Chairman &
Founder, McAslan & Partners
Susan Szenasy, Publisher/Editor in Chief,
Metropolis Magazine
B48
Designing Multi-Unit Housing for the
Real 21st-Century World
This workshop will look at unlocking the
asset of inclusive design in multi-unit
housing, building upon baseline accessibility with design features that minimize
limitations and facilitate independence,
and forming alliances with the real estate,
development and construction industries
to serve an increasingly diverse and aging
market. Changing demographics provide
a market potential and incentive to further
inclusive design. There is an opportunity
to improve the current baseline of design
for accessibility, identify and recognize
the qualities that make a home suitable
for all ages, and connect to current trends.
We’ll also discuss strategies to increase
transparency and build consumer awareness, and collaboration with stakeholders
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outside the building industry, such as
healthcare, who have an economic interest
to provide housing that is adaptable for
people of all ages. This will benefit us all
personally, professionally and economically, and increase the appeal as well as
the actual and experiential quality of
multi-unit housing. Presenters will share
global and US model projects and explore
the impediments to moving forward.
Josh Safdie, Asssociate AIA, Director,
IHCDStudio, Institute for Human Centered
Design
Susanne Stadler, Principal, Stadler
Architecture
B68
Architect: John McAslan + Partners, London
Designing Facilitating Environments
in Higher Education
Image: Hufton+Crow
Higher education in the US is no longer
about a predictable group of young
people progressing in a straight line from
high school to college to work. Today
85% of students in higher education are
non-traditional in every possible way. They
may be older, from communities of color,
immigrants, first-generation-to-college,
veterans, and people with disabilities.
Students with disabilities in higher
education are characterized by a more
diverse range of functional limitations
than ever before. Given the prevalence
of non-apparent conditions, they may
not self-identify to Disability Services.
Individual accommodation will inevitably
fall short of the vision of inclusive
education. Design for equal opportunity
and participation demands a more
engaged process of understanding needs
and opportunities in environments that
facilitate the performance of all students.
“Just tell me what I have to do” to comply
with the federal civil rights laws and the
state accessibility code is a floor, but it’s
inadequate to achieve the supportive
environments we need today. A more
dynamic appreciation of the ordinariness
of difference and the power of design to
facilitate experience will help redesign
higher education to align with today’s
students.
Emmanuel Andrade Assoc. AIA, LEED AP,
Architectural Designer, Institute for Human
Centered Design
Zuzana Ceresnova PhD, Assistant Professor at
the Faculty of Architecture, Slovak University
of Technology
Polly Welch, Senior Project Manager, Division
of Capital Asset Management
B81
Enhancing Cultural Experience by
Designing for Inclusion
When considering what matters most
to the extraordinarily varied cultural
community today and looking ahead,
two priorities are guaranteed to be on
every organization’s short list: building
a bigger audience and offering the best
possible experience for everyone. How can
architecture and design help? This session
suggests a focus on the phenomenon of
21st century human diversity as a means
toward achieving more welcoming but
also richer and more satisfying cultural
experiences. It is our collective good
fortune that we survive more and live
longer than ever before, but it’s time to
get beyond mere accommodation. The
numbers are too large and needs too
varied. Population demographics demand
fresh strategies for meeting substantive
differences in physical, sensory and
brain-based functions among audiences.
This session includes pioneers who are
flipping old habits of ‘just tell me what I
have to do’ to accommodate people with
differences to designing environments
that offer everyone more choices, more
ways to deepen the cultural experience.
Topics will include new, existing, and
historic settings, and considerations of
physical space, interactive media and
multi-sensory programming.
Janice Majewski, Advisor, Inclusive Culture
and Development, Institute for Human
Centered Design
Margaret Matz AIA, LEED AP, President,
Milestone Architecture, PLLC
Kulapat Yantrasast PhD, Founder & Creative
Director, wHY
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SOUND AND LIGHT
SOUND AND LIGHT
A27
OCT. 28
Music Venues in Found Spaces:
Acoustical Design for Adaptive
Reuse
warrant conservative acoustical design,
and we will dispel some of the misunderstandings and marketing mystique that
lead to overly expensive constructions.
Thomas McGraw, Senior Consultant,
In older cities like Boston, new performance venues are often retrofits of
existing buildings. Such buildings’ proportions and construction materials, standard
for their own times and appropriate for
their originally intended uses, may be both
limitations and features of interest for
contemporary performance facilities. This
presentation will discuss the particular
acoustical design challenges and considerations when adapting existing spaces for
music performance or rehearsal.
Acentech
A05
What Goes Wrong with LED
Lighting and Why
Sponsored by US Department of Energy
Solid-state lighting technology offers
architects new and exciting opportunities
to provide lighting effects impossible
with traditional sources. It also offers the
potential for significant project failure. This
presentation will examine where things
go wrong when the characteristics of
LED lighting are not fully considered. For
example, legacy wiring and equipment can
create unexpected performance problems
with certain LED luminaires. Forgotten
bits of old control software can also
cause havoc. New features often provide
unexpected consequences when creating
some lighting effects. Numerous field
examples will be discussed, showing what
can go wrong and how to avoid many of
the problems, most often in the case of
retrofit projects. The rapid expansion of
lighting controls in combination with LED
technology will be covered. The instructor
will also provide an update on how LED
technology has changed over the past
year. Concepts are explained in a simple
and clear manner accessible to both
technical and non-technical attendees.
John Curran PhD, President, LED
Transformations LLC
Matthew Azevedo, Consultant, Architectural
Acoustics & Mechanical Systems, Acentech
Jonah Sacks, Senior Consultant and Group
Director of Studio A, Acentech
A47
Acoustics in Commercial
Architecture: A Survey of Best
Practices, Pitfalls, and Snake Oil
Are you concerned that you may be
under-designing or over-designing your
project’s acoustics? Do you wonder if
certain “acoustical” products are a good
value? Please join us for an accessible
and candid discussion of fundamental
acoustical design strategies for several
of the most common building types. We
will highlight architectural elements that
A67
Color’s Solar Power
Those serious about green design know
that small gains in energy reduction really
add up. Color selections in material use
may seem like the icing on the cake, but
strategic planning from the start of a
design enhances natural light, perceptions
of space and perceived temperature.
No longer simply a tool for style and
decor, color has shown itself to be a force
for sustainable architectural solutions. This
workshop begins where Josef Albers left
off in “Interaction of Color,” the ground
breaking 20th-century color theory text.
If you’ve found yourself wondering how
you can make use of the illusions that you
learned in design school, be prepare to be
amazed by what can be done with color
in 3D. Taking our cues from the human
response to sunlight, we will examine the
principles of color perspective in current
architectural designs.
Kimberly Collins Jermain, Architectural Color
Designer
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THURSDAY
C28
Lighting Control Systems: What
Architects and Interior Designers
Need to Know
OCT. 30
Navigating the Fast-Changing
World of LED Lighting
Architectural lighting and the control of
architectural lighting are progressing at a
dizzying pace and have never been more
important. Some drivers of this trend
are the rapid ascent of LEDs for architectural lighting, more stringent energy
requirements for lighting, increasing
code requirements for lighting controls,
including occupancy and daylight sensing,
developments in digital addressing,
progress in wireless networking for lighting control, and he often rapid payback
for investments made in lighting controls.
Research that shows lighting directly
affects worker productivity and user
satisfaction. This session, presented by a
father-son team, will give architects and
interior designers foundation knowledge
of current lighting control systems, both
wired and wireless, enabling them to
provide preliminary design direction
and specifications and intelligently and
creatively collaborate with lighting designers, electrical engineers, lighting control
and fixture representatives, and lighting
integrators.
Adam Urban, Applications Engineering
Manager for Design and Development, Philips
Color Kinetics
Ray Urban AIA, LEED BD+C, RA, Project
Manager, Goody Clancy
C05
Acoustic and Vibration Isolation in
Multifamily Residences
Can you hear the stereo in the next
apartment over, or the footsteps of your
neighbors from the condo above yours?
Are you bothered by the subway every
time it rumbles by? According to the
International Building Code, partitions
and constructions between residences
should have a minimum Sound Transmission Class (STC) of 50 and a minimum
Impact Insulation Class (IIC) of 50 (45
if field is measured). This language has
been adopted by many state building
codes, including Massachusetts. Vibration
from underground rail lines can be an
important source of environmental sound
and vibration in residential buildings. The
characteristic low-frequency rumble from
passing subway trains can be a source
of annoyance. Methods exist to predict
the levels of noise and vibration from rail
operations in new buildings, and the probability that a resident would be annoyed
by that vibration/noise.
The LED revolution is approaching like
a tidal wave. What do architects need
to know to stay on top of the surge of
information? A panel of experts representing different sectors of the lighting
industry will cover a range of topics, from
basic terminology to the latest research in
LED lighting. This workshop is designed
to provide a broad understanding of LED
lights and the important issues architects
must understand to take full advantage of
the technology. How does LED compare
to other systems in cost, life, and life-cycle
cost? Is LED the light source for all
applications? Topics to be covered include
lamp life, energy performance, color,
maintenance, cost as well as forecasted
developments in the industry.
Jeffrey Landes, Principal, Omnilite
Chin Lin AIA, LEED BD+C, Senior Associate,
HMFH Architects, Inc
Rich Rattray LC, Osram Sylvania
Chris Ripman LEED AP, President, Ripman
Lighting Consultants
Tom Ward LC, MEIES, LEED AP: ID+C, AVP
Training & Developement, Finelite, Inc
Alicia Larsen, Acoustical Consultant,
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Acentech
C47
Benjamin Markham LEED AP, Acoustics
Made in Mass
Consultant, Acentech
Jeffrey Zapfe PhD, President, Vibrations,
Massachusetts leads the country in energy
efficiency and utility programs geared
toward incentivizing the selection and
application of efficient lighting. Too often
the decision to pursue a utility incentive
is made late in the project cycle, causing a
lot of re-design that could be avoided
if the conversation had occurred early in
the planning process. The panel will
discuss the various programs that are
available (prescriptive vs. performance),
and clarify the prerequisites such as
minimum fixture efficiency, Energy Star
Qualification, and DLC.
Acentech
Gabe Arnold PE, LC, CEM, Market Strategies
Program Manager, Northeast Energy
Efficiency Partnership
Edward Bartholomew LC, LEED AP, IES,
Commercial Lighting Program Manager,
National Grid
Jeffrey Landes, Principal, Omnilite
Irina Rasputnis, Commercial Programs
Manager, Northeast Energy Efficiency
Partnership (NEEP)
Jeff Schoepf, Vice President, Product
Development, LITECONTROL
Sara Schonour Assoc. IALD, LC, LEED
AP BD+C, CDT, Associate Vice President,
CannonDesign
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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
SOLUTIONS
Presented by NESEA
TUESDAY
OCT. 28
A28
Dematerializing Buildings: Building
Better with Less
The session will explore the cutting edge
of material science for the built environment and the challenge of putting these
advances into actual practice. The speakers will show a profusion of radical new
innovations for dematerialization, drawing
from fields such as nanotechnology and
biomimicry. They will engage participants
in identifying risks and dealing with
challenges to using these lightweighting
techniques and technologies to improve
building performance, durability, and
resilience.
Howard Brown, Co-founder, dMass, Inc
Mark Loeffler IALD, LEED AP BD+C, Director,
New Haven, Atelier Ten
A48
In the interest of supporting zero net
energy building efforts, this session will
look at applications of air source heat
pumps for space heating and cooling,
Gregory La Vardera, Gregory La Vardera
Marc Rosenbaum, Director of Engineering,
Practice of Architecture, Massachusetts
South Mountain Company
Institute of Technology; Director of Design
Architect
Sheila Kennedy, AIA, Professor of the
& Applied Research, MATx; and Principal,
A68
Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.
Learning from Innovative,
Responsive, and Large Scale Energy
Efficient Housing in Europe
A84
Sweden’s housing market is dominated by
industrial production of energy efficient
houses. In this mature market, fabrication
techniques, products, and components
have all been optimized for efficient
factory building, and the off-site process
has been leveraged to make energy
efficient construction affordable and
universal. In Germany, design, innovation
and low carbon construction are changing
the future of sustainable urban living. The
Soft House, a set row houses built for the
International Building Exhibition (IBA)
in Hamburg, demonstrates an ‘active’
architecture that responds to environmental conditions and homeowners’ changing
needs over time while also exceeding
passive-house energy requirements. This
presentation will discuss how these design
and production concepts can be easily
adopted here in the United States, and
transform the North American Housing
Industry.
Game On: New and Green Versus
Old and Stodgy
Recently, the NYT reported that new,
highly regarded sustainable apartment
buildings are being graded very poorly in
the NYC’s benchmarking grading system
(recently adopted by Boston) some
are even doing poorly in comparison to
pre-war walkup buildings elsewhere in
the NYC. The reasons are not entirely
clear, the report said, but some building
efficiency experts said older buildings
were more likely to have thicker walls
and fewer windows and glass. As we all
know, the reasons are significantly more
substantial than this. This session will
document apartment building energy
and water usage, and we will see the
critical errors that are present that cause
catastrophic usage.
F.L. Andrew Padian, Vice President for Energy
Initiatives, The Community Preservation
Corporation
Image: Michael Moser
Heat Pumps, Heat Pumps and
More Heat Pumps
domestic hot water, and pool heating. Real
projects and data will be presented, along
with lessons learned.
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A70
Mark Klopfer ASLA, AIA, Partner/Owner,
OCT. 28
Moving Beyond A/E to an
Integrated Practice
Klopfer Martin Design Group
Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, Bruner
A truly integrated practice is interdisciplinary versus multidisciplinary—anyone at
the table can emerge as a leader vs. each
discipline owning a distinct scope of
work without intentional collaboration.
This approach has both benefits and
challenges most importantly, how can
our clients benefit? We will discuss how
different marketplace perceptions inform
project delivery, and examine differing
regional office experiences within a
company. We’ll explore the shifting role
of “prime” within an integrated company,
as well as branding of a design practice
within the larger company. We’ll consider
the designation of P&L centers throughout
the company: sector based vs. practice
based vs. location based, etc. What will
foster the most successful culture? We’ll
also discuss the view from the corner
office: what do owners perceive as the
most successful model?
Foundation
A11
Social Media: The Secret Sauce
Sponsored by Payette
Design professionals love new visual
media, want the best technological tools
and are social creatures by nature. Why
aren’t we all over social media marketing?
As social media has begun to penetrate
the architecture and design community,
individuals and firms face choices about
how to engage with a variety of platforms.
From determining content to tone of voice
to frequency of posting to value, there
are a lot of decisions to be made when
it comes to embracing social media. In
this interactive workshop, we emphasize
staff education and on-boarding, building
community, setting clear and achievable
goals as well as content curation and
platform selection. We’ll use an individual
practitioner’s blog and social media presence alongside an example of firm-wide
engagement to demonstrate the value of
social media for raising a firm’s profile and
creating serendipitous connections.
Michael Davis FAIA, FCSI, LEED AP, Principal,
Bergmeyer Associates, Inc
Karen Robichaud, Graphic Designer, Payette
A50
The Business of Architecture:
Emerging Models for Practice
Sponsored by Payette
Technology, globalization, and demographics are among the forces reshaping
the building industry, along with every
sector of the economy. Traditional
models of architectural practice must be
questioned as today’s practitioners look to
the future. What can we learn from other
industries about business transformation
and strategic reinvention? Our panelists
will explore potential alternative futures
for the business of architecture.
Katherine Darnstadt AIA, Principal, Latent
Design
Jared Della Valle AIA, President, Alloy
Emily Grandstaff-Rice AIA, Associate,
Cambridge Seven Associate
Brian Kenet, Environmental Financial
Consulting Group
Lynne Deninger AIA, LEED, Principal,
Cannon Design
Joe Geller RLA, Vice President/Regional
Leader New England, Stantec
D. Michael Hicks AIA, Director of Architecture
and Facilities, Weston & Sampson
Cheri Ruane ASLA, RLA, Practice Leader,
Weston & Sampson
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B10
So You Want to Change the World?
Sponsored by CDRC Boston
Many of us enter the architecture profession believing that good design can shape
a better world, only to crash into the harsh
and often all-too-elite reality of traditional
fee-for-service. Yet in our post-9/11,
post-Katrina, post-Occupy world, interest
in public interest design continues to rise.
Firm principals who have embraced public
interest design for decades will be joined
by leaders from small and large firms. We
will also hear from Anne Marie Lubeneau,
director of the Rudy Bruner Award,
which, for the past 25 years, has been
comprehensively studying and recognizing innovative projects that create urban
excellence.
Anne-Marie Lubenau AIA, Director, Rudy
Gretchen Rabinkin AIA, RA, Executive
Director, Community Design Resource Center
of Boston
Sara Schonour Assoc. IALD, LC, LEED
AP BD+C, CDT, Associate Vice President,
CannonDesign
Gail Sullivan, Founder and Managing
Principal, Studio G Architects
B31
Putting Design Research into
Practice: Talking Shop with Today’s
Innovation Leaders
Sponsored by NBBJ
Design research is the product of the kind
of passion that powers initiative, sustained
rigor, and that magical intuitive leap at the
heart of innovation, often producing great
architecture and industry advancement.
However, in today’s compressed delivery
climate, research can seem elusive, expensive, and utterly academic. How do fiscally
successful firms balance these pressures
with the need for research within their
practices? This panel assembles diverse
perspectives on how to develop collective
intelligence and leverage research into
marketable value to clients. We will compare organizational models and symbiotic
partnerships that support research. Invited
panelists will unpack meaningful affinities
and contrasts between the means and
methods of design research most relevant
to today’s architectural office. Audience
members will gain insight into how they
implement research in their own practice.
Gina Ford ASLA, NCARB, Principal, Sasaki
Sarah Markovitz, Principal/Healthcare
Designer, NBBJ
Steve Sanderson, Partner, Case Inc
Lauren Shirley LEED AP, Designer, NBBJ
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B84
THURSDAY
Design, Impact, and Meaning:
Emerging Models of Socially
Entrepreneurial Design
Documentary Video Making as a
Tool for Design Research
OCT. 30
We live in an age of ubiquitous computing
and shortening attention spans, TED talks,
YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, and immersive
computer environments. Architects,
planners and urban designers need to
be conversant in the language of the
moving image as a tool for research, and
to better represent ideas to our clients
and future end-users. As video-making is
becoming a more established part of our
skillset and offering, we need to generate
and disseminate our own messages with
clarity and intelligence, as well as critically
engage with others’ work. Presenter Nick
Hornig believes this medium is at its most
potent when it provides the opportunity
to give voice to people who are not
normally heard and to expose environments that are often ignored, furthering
the social responsibility of our profession.
This session will outline the methods used
as he has embraced video as part of his
own practice over the last 14 years.
Gilad Meron, Design Researcher & Strategist,
Enterprise Community Partners & The
Autodesk Foundation
Nick McClintock, University of Pennsylvania
Mia Scharphie, Landscape Designer,
GroundView LLC
Nicholas Hornig RIBA, Urban Designer, NBBJ
C50
Designing Urban Technologies
The ubiquity of mobile devices, sensors,
fiber-optic and wireless connectivity is
allowing for new opportunities in the
sphere of urban design. These emerging
technologies have built the nervous
system of the metropolis, facilitating new
infrastructures that micro-intervene, and
scale to the city—allowing us to sense,
analyze, and respond to invisible urban
patterns and phenomena. This session
gives voice to emerging practitioners who
are harnessing the digitally-sensitized city,
realizing these projects through physical
prototypes, interventions, installations and
built structures, and entering into dialogue
for visions of new urban futures.
Chris Green, Research Fellow, MIT Senseable
City Lab
Alicia Rouault, CEO & Founder, LocalData
Miriam Roure, Research Fellow, MIT
Senseable City Lab
Anthony Vanky, Researcher and Partner
Strategist, MIT Senseable City Lab
The past two decades have seen the
boundaries between for-profit and
nonprofit increasingly blurred, in both
design and the wider market. Design
practitioners are experimenting with and
producing new models that hybridize
social impact and financial sustainability
in creative ways. This session presents
business models and shares the strategies
and tactics that some of these emerging
practices use to make impact and achieve
financial stability. These insights, based
on interviews with more than fifteen
practices, including for-profits such as
Utile and Interboro Partners ands nonprofits such as MASS Design and Ideo.org,
illustrate the widening array of choices
available to design practitioners interested
in social impact. The goal of the session
is to share and disseminate strategies
that practitioners can use to ‘remix’ and
alter their practices—reshaping them to
leverage design to achieve social good.
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URBAN SCALE
TUESDAY
Louis Free, Assistant Vice President, Facilities
Mike Lydon CNU-A, Principal, The Streets
OCT. 28
Architecture, URS Corporation
Plan Collaborative
Ruth Helfeld, Landscape Architecture
Corey Zehngebot AIA, AICP, NCARB, Senior
Section Head, Massachusetts Department of
Urban Designer and Architect, Boston
Conservation & Recreation
Redevelopment Authority
A02
The Boston Convention and
Exhibition Center (BCEC) Expansion
as Catalyst for a New Urban District
Boston’s industrial waterfront is rapidly
shifting from low-density and maritime
uses to a vibrant mixed-use urban district
with the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) as an anchor. Learn
about the new urban design framework
developed for the Massachusetts
Convention Center Authority to address
the D Street corridor adjacent to the
BCEC, where underutilized properties
provide a “tabula rasa” urban design and
development opportunity. The framework
organizes five complementary master
plan elements: the “big idea” for D Street
public realm schematic design for the
six-block corridor street activation plan for
event programming, technology, lighting
and public art retail tenanting strategy
and district identity strategy.
Kate Coburn, Partner, HR & A Advisors;
Howard Davis, Director of Capital Projects,
Massachusetts Convention Center Authority
Tim Love AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Utile
Frederick Merrill AICP, CAPS, Principal, Sasaki
Associates, Inc
A23
Connecting It All Together:
The Casey Arborway Project
In the 1950s the car was king and Boston,
like many cities, constructed elevated
roadways to improve traffic flow. However,
that legacy also created barriers between
communities and, frequently, unattractive
under-viaduct environments. Explore
with us how the replacement of the
Casey Overpass in Forest Hills with an
at-grade parkway will reconnect a Boston
neighborhood, provide stronger and more
attractive pedestrian and bicycle facilities,
and re-establish Boston’s Emerald
Necklace between the Arnold Arboretum
and Franklin Park.
George Batchelor, Supervisor of Landscape
Design, Massachusetts Department of
Transportation
Robbin Bergfors, Landscape Architect,
MassDOT—Highway Division
Deneen Crosby, Principal, Crosby
Schlessinger Smallridge
Kevin Horgan LEED AP, Senior Landscape
Architect, HNTB
Don Kindsvatter AIA, AICP, LEED AP, Senior
Urban Designer, Kleinfelder
A43
The Changing Face of the Seaport
South Boston’s Seaport District has
experienced an incredible transformation
over the past 15 years. The construction
of the Silver Line, the Federal Courthouse,
and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center helped to make the Seaport
one of the hottest neighborhoods in the
city. Meet four of the largest developers
in the Seaport District and learn about
their vision. What brought them to the
Seaport? What were the challenges? What
were the rewards? What is driving capital
to the Seaport? The panel will discuss
how they got here, what to expect over
the next decade, and their vision for the
Seaport once construction is complete.
WEDNESDAY
OCT. 29
B24
Complete Neighborhoods: Boston’s
Fairmount Indigo Rail Corridor
The Fallon Company
For the past two years, the City of Boston
has worked with the communities of the
Fairmount Indigo Corridor as part of the
Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative to
direct investment and improvements to
this area. The 9.2 mile Fairmount Indigo
MBTA Rail Corridor runs from South
Station to Readville and passes through
many of the City’s most underserved
neighborhoods, suffering from high
unemployment rates, foreclosures,
predatory lending, violence, and income
and health disparities. Residents,
businesses and community partners have
advocated for transformational change in
the Corridor for decades. To address the
multiple issues, the Corridor Plan provides
a Complete Neighborhoods approach
to community building by establishing
improvement strategies.
Charles Reid RA, Executive Vice President,
Josh Fiala AIA, AICP, LEED AP, NCARB,
Boston Global Investors
Associate, The Cecil Group
John Schmid PE LEED AP BD+C, Executive
Geeta Pradhan, Associate Vice President for
Project Manager, Nitsch Engineering
Programs, The Boston Foundation
Mark Barer, Vice President, Berkeley
Investments
Richard Galvin, President, CV Properties
Richard Martini, Executive Vice President,
Jeremy Rosenberger, Senior Planner,
A63
Boston Redevelopment Authority
Sharing Space in a Regulated Place
B45
This panel will address how publiclyowned space can be better utilized,
either directly, as with the Public Space
Invitational sponsored by the City of
Boston, or indirectly, through tactical
urbanism. In addition to specific projects,
we will discuss the physical space implications and regulatory issues surrounding
businesses that actively or passively
associate with the “sharing economy” (e.g.
Airbnb, Uber). Shifting urban demographics in Boston demand an investigation into
how space, both public and private, might
address the needs of cities going forward.
Hybrid Vigor: The Key to
Revitalizing the Midtown Cultural
District
Kristopher Carter, Mayor’s Office of New
Urban Mechanics
Forty years after initial attempts to
revitalize the commercial and entertainment heart of Boston, Lower Washington
Street has finally become the vital,
mixed-use 24-hour neighborhood that
planners first envisioned. After a series of
urban design initiatives partly succeeded
in transforming the Combat Zone, it was
only when a major investment at
Millennium Place was completed that the
transformation finally began to materialize. This presentation will examine the
history of urban design tactics employed
by both the City and private developers
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URBAN SCALE
to re-energize the Midtown Cultural
District, including the renovation and
repurposing of historic theaters and commercial buildings. This panel presentation
will provide both historical perspective
on this compelling story and evaluate the
merits of this building type in both the
context of the re-urbanization of Boston,
and in other US cities as well.
Robert Campbell FAIA, Critic, The Boston
Globe
David Carlson AIA, Exec. Director,
Boston Civic Design Commission, Boston
Alex Krieger, Professor in Practice of Urban
Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Blake Middleton FAIA, Partner, Handel
Architects
Kairos Shen, Director of Planning, Boston
George Thrush FAIA, Director, Northeastern
University School of Architecture
B64
Victims of Fashion: Architectural
Styles that Shaped Boston’s History
and Future
Boston has been shaped by distinctive
architectural styles and values established
by many eras of our long history. From the
standpoint of materials, the city’s early
wooden structures were supplanted by
brick and granite, then steel, glass, and
concrete. Over the same historical arc,
many urban strategies have been applied,
from the English streets and squares of
Charles Bulfinch’s time to the French
influence of Haussmann to diverse
modernist visions for renewal. Some
styles remain controversial, while others
are beloved, yet few observers pause to
examine how these differing reactions
evolve from generation to generation.
This session collects a diverse group of
historians, architects and preservationists
to react to Boston’s stylistic flux. By
examining how style and value systems
have shaped Boston, this panel will foster
a discussion on how our history might
foreshadow the ways our hometown will
evolve in the future.
C02
C63
Designing for Equity
New Urban Agriculture Zoning in
Boston: What’s Cropping Up?
Sponsored by Bruner Foundation
Boston, like many American cities, is
experiencing a renaissance as residents
and businesses return to the urban
core, spurring new investment and
development. However, there are growing
concerns about increasing economic and
social disparity as the cost of living rises,
with negative impacts for middle- and
working-class individuals and families.
Mayor Walsh has made the issue of equity
central to his agenda. Join the Bruner
Foundation, sponsor of the Rudy Bruner
Award for Urban Excellence, for a moderated panel discussion. We will hear from
people working in communities, nonprofits
and the public sector, and learn about
the challenges and opportunities they
encounter. We will highlight examples of
initiatives that are addressing urban equity
via the built environment, and consider the
role of the design profession in developing
new ideas and approaches.
In December 2013, the City of Boston
and the Boston Redevelopment
Authority (BRA) ushered into law Article
89, comprehensive new zoning to enable
a diverse range of agricultural enterprises
that had long been banished from the city.
Motivated by concerns for public health,
environmental justice, neighborhoodbuilding and placemaking, the City’s
goal in amending the Zoning Code was
straightforward: remove barriers and pave
the way for 21st-century food production.
What agricultural landscapes does Article
89 envision, and what enterprises are
taking shape in the wake of the new
zoning? Hear from the BRA about the
making and substance of the new zoning.
Representatives of Boston’s Department
of Neighborhood Development and
the Trust for Public Land describe their
partnership in using public land to lead
innovation in sustainable, land-based
urban farming and community building
and representatives of Arrowstreet
Architects and Montreal-based Lufa Farms
explain how high-tech rooftop greenhouse
farms would work in cities like Boston.
Gail Latimore, Executive Director, Codman
Square Neighborhood Development Corp
Anne-Marie Lubenau AIA, Director, Rudy
Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, Bruner
Foundation
Marc Norman, Director, UPSTATE - a Center
for Design Research and Real Estate at
Syracuse University School or Architecture
OCT. 30
Development Manager and Marketing
C24
EcoDistricts For Practitioners
Adrianne Schaefer Borrego, Project Manager,
Keith Morgan PhD, Professor, Boston
Programs, EcoDistricts
Peter Vanderwarker, President, Vanderwarker
Photography
Meejin Yoon AIA, Höweler and Yoon
Architecture, LLP
Christopher LaPointe, Senior Project
James Rathmell, Chief of Staff - Corporate
Robert Miklos FAIA, Principal, designLAB
Mark Pasnik AIA, Principal, over,under
Development
Manager, The Trust for Public Land
& Storrs
University
City of Boston Department of Neighborhood
THURSDAY
The urban marketplace is rapidly growing
with opportunity to change the way
we revitalize our cities. In this engaging
90-minute exploration, you’ll get a guided
tour of the EcoDistricts Framework,
our research-driven tool for cultivating
public-private-civic partnerships and
creating innovative district-scale projects,
and learn firsthand how to fit all of the
pieces together and accelerate sustainable
development in your community, from the
neighborhood up.
Moderator: Matt Kiefer, Director, Goulston
William Epperson, Senior Project Mananger,
Coordinator, Lufa Farms
John Read AICP, Senior Planner III,
Boston Redevelopment Authority
Larry Spang AIA, Architect and Principal,
Arrowstreet Inc
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WOMEN IN
DESIGN
SYMPOSIUM
CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The evolution of the architectural profession
continues to blur the lines between inspired
designers and driven entrepreneurs.
Architects are challenged to develop and
market ideas, collaborate with investors at
numerous scales, and span disciplines to
define creative initiatives. Merging the role
of designer and entrepreneur offers the
ability to leverage talent with profitability, redefining pathways to success in
leadership and business practices. How
do designers begin to explore the role of
“Creative Entrepreneur” as the facilitator
of business initiative, communication, and
professional navigation within the greater
design community?
See workshops B32 Designing Profitability
in the Business Management/Business
Development track and B72 Design,
Impact, and Meaning: Emerging Models
of Socially Entrepreneurial Design in
The Future of Practice track.
Platinum sponsor:
Gold sponsor:
KEYNOTE BREAKFAST
CREATIVE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
BREAKING FROM
CONVENTION
SB12 | Wednesday, 8:00am–9:30am
Entrepreneurship is an oft-heard
buzzword across business
sectors. What does it mean for
Creatives in today’s economic
landscape?
This year, Women in Design have invited
five practitioners from various business
and design backgrounds to hold a
spirited discussion about the impact of
entrepreneurial thinking. From innovative
practice models to protecting creative
property and stimulating economic
growth, the panel will provide a range of
insights into the many opportunities for
the creative professional. Enjoy breakfast
with colleagues and hear the panel tackle
this timely topic.
Stefane Barbeau, Acting Director, DIGMA
Janet Echelman, Artist, Studio Echelman
Silver Sponsors:
GOOdy
Clancy
ARCHITECTURE
PLANNING
P R E S E R VAT I O N
Robert Miklos, Founding Principal, designLAB
Margaret Minister O’Keefe, Intellectual
Property Attorney, Partner, Pierce
Atwood, LLC
Rashmi Ramaswamy, Co-founder,
SHED Studio
WID AWARDS
CEREMONY &
LUNCHEON
The WID Awards Ceremony & Luncheon
serves as the primary public presentation
for this year’s Women in Design Award
of Excellence. The annual award now in
its 15th year, honors individuals who have
exhibited exceptional achievement in
person, process, product and position.
Past winners will present the awards to
this year’s honorees. Join WID and our
growing outstanding cohort of Women
in Design for a truly inspiring anniversary
celebration.
WID HAPPY HOUR
Come and get Happy and support Rosie’s
Place. Rosie’s Place provides a safe and
nurturing environment to help poor and
homeless women maintain their dignity,
seek opportunity and find security in
their lives. Rosie’s Place has evolved from
providing meals and shelter to creating
permanent solutions through advocacy
and education. Network with your
colleagues, enjoy a cocktail, and support
a worthy cause.
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ABX SOCIAL
ABX
SOCIAL
AN OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION
Tuesday, October 28
6:00pm–9:00pm
A festive and fabulous way to kick off ABX,
the Social is one of the must-do networking
events of your year. Connect with industry
colleagues, exhibitors, and attendees as well
as BSA members. Social attendees will receive
a one-year digital subscription to AZURE,
the award-winning magazine with a focus on
contemporary architecture and design.
SA1 | Tickets $75 | $30 under 30 (includes one drink ticket)
Sponsored by
Media sponsor
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Society for Marketing Professional
Services Boston Chapter Reception
SB4 | 5:00pm–7:00pm | Free/includes
one drink ticket
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Alumni Reception
SB1 | 6:00pm–8:00pm | Free
Join us for this Wentworth tradition by
the waterfront. Wentworth alumni, friends,
and parents are welcome to attend our
ABX alumni reception following a day at
the BCEC. Networking, an Institute update
and an exchange of ideas are all part of
this alumni program.
BIM and Omniclass: Project
Management for the 21st Century
SB3 | 5:30pm–8:30pm | LU |
$30 CSI members/$50 non-members
SPECIAL EVENTS
Join the Boston Chapter of the Society
for Marketing Professional Services for
informal networking, lively conversation,
and fantastic raffle prizes.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alumni Reception
SB5 | Wednesday, 5:00pm–8:00pm |
Free/includes one drink ticket
Dean Evan Douglis, School of Architecture,
and the Office of Alumni Relations invite
you to join us for a complimentary reception. This is a great opportunity to gather,
network, and exchange ideas with other
Rensselaer alumni. Anyone in the building
trades industry is welcome.
CSI Northeast
Images: Meg Elkinton Photography
Omniclass is a system for managing
project information throughout the
project lifecycle. Regardless of whether
your office uses BIM, CAD or draws
by hand, Omniclass contains benefits
for any existing workflow. While some
may only implement one or two tables,
others find benefit in leveraging the
entire structure. Just as migrating to six
digit MasterFormat, and transitioning
to BIM took effort, adopting Omniclass
requires a similar level of understanding.
This session intends to bring Omniclass
to the forefront of the attendees mind,
show them where and how Omniclass can
further their organization, and how much
effort it will take to see the benefit.
Robert Weygant CSI, CDT, SCIP, President,
Sumex Design, Inc
Roger Williams University
Alumni Reception
SB6 | 6:00pm–8:00pm | Free/Cash bar
Join fellow alumni, faculty, staff and
students from the School of Architecture,
Art & Historic Preservation for an evening
of engaging conversation, networking, and
updates about the University.
Syracuse University Alumni
Reception
SB7 | 6:00pm–10:00pm |
Free/Cash bar
Last year’s inaugural event was a great
success; let’s keep that momentum going
again this year. All Syracuse University
Alumni and spouses/significant others are
welcome. We will again be taking submissions for current work, built or un-built,
at any stage, to present at the reception.
For questions, or to submit work, please
contact Scott Mandeville at the following
address, sbmandeville@gmail.com. Hope to
see you all there.
Boston Architectural College Alumni
and Friends Reception
Join the Boston Architectural College for
our annual Alumni and Friends reception
at ABX!
Autodesk Reception and
Roundtable: New Models for
Practice
SB10 | 6:00pm–9:00pm | Free
This event combines a networking happy
hour with industry and Autodesk experts
followed by interactive roundtable
discussions on business and technology.
Local firm leaders will discuss ideas and
innovations from the BSA’s March Business
Model symposium. A panel of Autodesk
experts will be on hand to respond to
questions and discuss New Technology
Models for Practice.
University of Cincinnati Reception
Join fellow alumni from the College of
Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
for a lively evening of conversation,
connection and, of course, our annual
Skyline Chili raffle.
COLORMIX 2015
SC1 | 10:00am–11:00am | LU | Free
Participants go on a visual journey with
stimulating imagery, factual statistics and
perceptive research that supports the
2015 forecast for color and design trends.
We will explore the drivers influencing
future color and design trends that include
global, technological, historic, psychological, and economic factors with specific
information on the four dominant color
stories for Chrysalis, Beyond, Buoyant, and
Unrestrained. With Jackie Jordan, Director
of Marketing, The Sherwin Williams
Company.
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SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
PLATINUM SPONSORS
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Fine Quality Custom Cabinetry
Handcrafted For Your Entire Home
BRONZE SPONSORS
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ASSOCIATE SPONSORS
ABEXPO.COM
ASSOCIATION PARTNERS
MEDIA PARTNERS
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HIGHLIGHTS
REGISTRATION AND HOTEL
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Pricing and Packages
Register by October 14 to enjoy significant discounts.
UNTIL OCTOBER 14
AFTER OCTOBER 14
12 workshop package $780 ($65 per workshop)
$900 ($75 per workshop)
Individual workshops $85
$95
Exhibit hall Free $15
BSA members receive 15% off workshops, tours, and special events. All workshops in any of the packages must be attended by the
same individual; registrations cannot be shared. Tours are sold à la carte and cannot be included as a workshop in a discount package.
Other Pricing
Architecture for Humanity Boston See page 11 for details
$40
$40
The Emerging Professionals track See page 44 for details
$30
$35
Women In Design Symposium See page 59 for details
$285
$320
Group Registration and Discounts
General Questions
BSA Member Firms registering five or
more employees for ABX workshops
are eligible for group service and a
15% discount. For more information, call
617.391.4008 or email rreid@architects.org.
If you have questions about registering
for workshops please call 877.779.3215.
For questions about exhibiting, sponsorship or advertising opportunities, please
call 800.996.3863.
Volunteer
Hotel Accommodations
Volunteer at ABX and earn free admission
to workshops. Details are online at abexpo.
com or email volunteer@architects.org or
call 617.951.1433 x239 to inquire.
Special rates have been arranged for
you at some of the area’s finest hotels
with convenient location to the BCEC.
Mention your group affiliation with
ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX) to
receive the discount by the specific
date assigned by each hotel.
Confirmations
Badges will not be mailed prior to
the event. When you register, you will
receive an email confirmation with a bar
code. Please bring a print-out of your
confirmation onsite and you will receive
your badge and schedule at that time.
For faster check-in at ABX, you can scan
the barcode on your confirmation and
save it to the Passbook app on your
mobile device.
Refund Policy
A full refund or one-to-one credit will
be provided for all events canceled by
ABX. Full refunds or credit (less a 10%
processing fee) also will be provided if
your refund request is received in writing
by ABX on or prior to October 14, 2014.
It is not possible to honor refund requests
received after October 14, 2014.
Westin Boston Waterfront
425 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
888.627.7115
Rates: Single or Double $269.00
Reserve by 5:00 pm on Wednesday,
September 24, 2014
Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
606 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210
877.513.6305
Reserve by Monday, October 14, 2014
Hampton Inn & Suites—Crosstown Center
811 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
617.445.6400
Reserve by Wednesday, September 24,
2014
HOW TO
REGISTER
ONLINE
abexpo.com/register
BY PHONE
877.779.3215
ONSITE REGISTRATION
Tuesday, October 28
7:00am–6:30pm
Wednesday, October 29
7:00am–6:30pm
Thursday, October 30
7:00am–4:00pm
BY MAIL
Complete the order form
in the back and mail, email
or fax to:
Convention Data Services®
107 Waterhouse Road
Bourne, MA 02532
Fax: 508.743.3616
ABEXPO.COM
REGISTRATION
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Please print clearly. Forms must be complete and submitted by Tuesday, October 21, 2014
by fax at 508.743.3616 or email at abx@xpressreg.net. Submit a separate form for each person
registering. You may also register online at abexpo.com.
First name
Last Name
Title
Firm/Affiliation
Street
City
Daytime phone
Email
AIA, IIDA, P.E., etc.
State
Zip
AIA membership number if applicable (Required to automatically receive AIA LUs)
1. Your title/function:
1A President/CEO/Principal/Owner
1B Associate/Director/VP
1C Project Manager
1D Marketing Manager
1E Business Manager/Controller
1F Designer
1G Student
1Q Other
2.
2A
2B
2C
2D
2E
2F
2G
2H
2I
2J
2K
2L
2M
2N
2O
2P
Firm Type:
Academia/Educational Institution
Architecture
Engineering
A/E or E/A
Builder/Contractor/CM
Building Products
Building Services
Facility Management
Government
Interior Design/Space Planning
Landscape Architecture
Marketing/PR
Planning/Urban Design
Real Estate Development
Specifying/Cost Estimation
Other
5B
5C
5D
5F
6.Did you attend ABX
last year?
6A Yes
6B No
3.Number of employees,
all types:
3A 1–10
3B 11–25
3C 26–50
3D More than 51
4.
4A
4B
4C
7.Does your employer
reimburse you for professional
development?
7A Yes
7B No
Your specifying role:
Make final decision
Recommend
No role
8.How many workshops does
your company approve for
professional development
reimbursement?
5. Your firm’s work
5A Residential
1. ADMISSION TO EXHIBIT HALL
F
9.
9A
9B
9C
9D
9E
9F
Commercial
Institutional
Government
Other
Please select your age range:
Under 25
25–34
35–44
45–54
55–64
over 65
10. Please select your gender:
10A Male
10B Female
11.
11A
11B
11C
11D
11E
11F 11G
11H
How did you hear about ABX?
ABX Attendee Program
BSA Currents Email
Another Association
Postcard
ABX Email
Ad in Publication
Colleague
Other
TOTAL PRICE $
If this form is received by October 14, 2014
Free
NF If this form is received after October 14, 2014 $15
Exhibit Hall admission included in all other packages and registration options.
2. DISCOUNT PACKAGES (includes exhibit hall)
12 workshop package
$780 UNTIL 10.14.14
$900 AFTER 10.14.14
List the code for each below.
TOTAL PRICE $
8 workshop package
$560 UNTIL 10.14.14
$640 AFTER 10.14.14
5 workshop package
$375 UNTIL 10.14.14
$425 AFTER 10.14.14
3 workshop package
$240 UNTIL 10.14.14
$270 AFTER 10.14.14
1
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
5
6
7
8
5
6
7
8
4
5
9
10
11
12
3. À LA CARTE WORKSHOPS (includes exhibit hall)
3
x$85 ea. UNTIL 10.14.14
x$95 ea. AFTER 10.14.14
2
3
TOTAL PRICE $
Circle your individual workshop selections below.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
EARLY MORNING A01
A02 A03
A08 A09 A10
A04
A11
A05
A06
A07
EARLY MORNING
B02 B03 B04
B10
B11
B12
B05
B13
B06
B08
B09
EARLY MORNING C01
C02 C03
C08 C09 C10
LATE MORNING
A21
A22 A23
A28 A29 A30
A24
A31
A25
A32
A26
A33
A27
LATE MORNING
B21
B22 B23
B29 B30 B31
B24
B32
B26
B33
B27
B34
B28**
MID-DAY
A41* A42
A48 A49
A43
A50
A44
A51
A45
A52
A46
A53
A47
A54
LATE AFTERNOON
A61* A62 A63
A68 A69 A70
A64
A71
A65
A73
A66
A67
EVENING
A81* A82
A84
A85
A86
A87
A83
THURSDAY
MID-DAY
B41
B43* B44
B49 B50 B51
B45
B52
B46
B53
B47
B54
B48
B55
LATE AFTERNOON
B61
B62* B63
B68 B69 B70
B64
B71
B65
B72
B66
B73
B67
EVENING
B81
B82* B83
B84
B85
B86 C04
C05
C06
C07 LATE MORNING C21
C22 C23
C28 C29 C30
C24
C31
C25
C32
C27 C33
C34
MID-DAY
C41* C42
C48 C49
C43
C50
C44
C51
C45
C52
C46
C53
C47
LATE AFTERNOON
C61* C62 C63
C68 C69
C64
C65
C66
C67 * $30/$35 (no LU) ** 2hr workshop
HIGHLIGHTS
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4. WID SYMPOSIUM $250 UNTIL 10.14.14 / $275 AFTER 10.14.14
Package includes: SB12, SB13, SB14, B32, B72
Indiviual: SB12 $50.00
5. FOR EMERGING PROFESSIONALS WORKSHOPS SB13 $50.00
SB14 $0.00
B32 $85/95
TOTAL PRICE $
B72 $85/95
x$30 UNTIL 10.14.14 / x$35 AFTER 10.14.14
TOTAL PRICE $
Circle your individual workshop selections: A41, A61, A81, B43, B62, B82, C41, C61
6. ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY BOSTON WORKSHOPS
Circle your individual workshop selections:
Tuesday: AfHB1, AfHB2
x$40 UNTIL 10.14.14 / x$40 AFTER 10.14.14
Wednesday: AfHB3, AfHB4
TOTAL PRICE $
Thursday: AfHB5, AfHB6
All proceeds will go to support construction of an AfHB-designed project, the Hinche Technical Institute, a proposed trade school
focusing on the construction and automotive trades, now underway in the Plateau Central region of Haiti.
7. BSA CENTRAL PANEL DISCUSSIONS Free UNTIL 10.14.14 / Free AFTER 10.14.14
TOTAL PRICE $
Circle your individual workshop selections: BSAC1, BSAC2, BSAC3, BSAC4, BSAC5
8. TOURS (includes exhibit hall)
x$85 UNTIL 10.14.14 / x$95 AFTER 10.14.14
TOTAL PRICE $
Circle your individual tour selections below
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY (cont’d)
TA1Tour of the Christina and John Markey Memorial Pedestrian
Bridge
TB2 Lost Half Mile, Found! Reclaiming a Postindustrial Waterfront
TA2 What You Need to Know About Designing New Buildings in
a Historic District
TA3 Brigham Green: The Finished Project
TB3 Tour of the Revitalized Alice K. Wolf Center in Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY
TC1What is it about the Arts? Transforming Public Space Through
Building for the Studio Arts
WEDNESDAY
TC2 A Case Study of the Dudley Square Municipal Building
TB1 Restoring MIT’s Historic Main Group: Building 2
TC3 ConRAC—The Future of Airport Ground Transportation Arrives!
9. RECEPTIONS, SPECIAL EVENTS (includes exhibit hall)
UNTIL 10.14.14 AFTER
10.14.14 PRICE
SB6 Roger Williams University Alumni Reception
Free
Free
$
SB7Syracuse Alumni Reception
Free Free
$
SB8University of Cinncinnati Alumni Reception
Free Free
$
$
SB9 Boston Architectural College Alumni and Friends Reception
Free
Free
$
UNTIL 10.14.14 SA1 ABX Social
$75/$30 under 30
SA3 Design Awards Reception
Free
Free
$
SB1Wentworth Institute of Technology Alumni Reception
Free
Free
$
SB2Design Charrette: Living With Water Free
SB3BIM and Omniclass—Project Management for the 21st Century
AFTER
10.14.14 PRICE
Free
$30/$50
TOTAL PRICE $
$
SB4Society of Marketing Professionals Free
Boston Chapter Reception
Free
$
SB10Autodesk Reception and Roundtable
Free
Free
$
SB5 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alumni Reception
Free
$
SC1ColorMix 2015 The Sherwin Williams Company
Free
Free
$
SB14WID Happy Hour Free
Free
$
Free
Total cost (sum of sections 1 through 9) TOTAL PRICE $
PAYMENT
ABX reserves the right to adjust any total charges due to form errors.
Check or money-order enclosed, payable to ABX
Credit card number
Charge my credit card (select type of card):
Expiration date
Visa
MC
Amex
Discover
Name exactly as it appears on the card
Billing address
City
State Zip
If more than one person is registering, copy both pages of this form and submit a separate completed form for each registration.
Fax to 508.743.3616 (please do not mail a duplicate
registration), OR mail, including payment to:
Convention Data Services
107 Waterhouse Road
Bourne, MA 02532
Phone: 508.743.8564
Fax: 508.743.3616
You may also register online:
abexpo.com/register
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Crown Point crafts 1” thick doors and drawer
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Produced by the BSA, founder and
long-time co-producer of Build
Boston and Residential Design and
Construction, ABX debuted in 2012.
ABX is the place to be in October. Don’t miss the October 14
early bird deadline. Register today at abexpo.com.
10,000 of your building industry colleagues await.
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