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Architecture Firms See Even Stronger Conditions
in March
Despite improving business, compensation
increases expected to be modest this year
Business conditions at U.S. architecture firms continued to show
dramatic improvement in March, says AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker,
PhD, Hon. AIA. The March index for billings was 121, one of the
strongest readings in the history of the index. Over a third of
firms reported an increase in billings. Conditions were improving
for firms in all regions of the country, with particularly sharp
gains among firms in the South. Firms in the West and Northeast
indicated a stronger improvement in conditions than in any month
over the past several years.
Honors
and awards
2004 AIA San Francisco Design Awards Winners Announced
AIA San Francisco announced the 2004 AIA San Francisco Design
Awards winners April 9. This year, Bay Area firms were recognized
for their outstanding contributions to the built environment in
the categories of excellence in design (architecture and interiors),
green design, unbuilt design, and urban design. A multidisciplinary
jury also selected three special-achievement winners.
What’s
Going on With Steel Prices?
Architects also at risk with uncertain
steel market
Most architecture firms are not suffering from the fallout of rapidly
escalating steel prices to the same extent as steel fabricators
and nonresidential and heavy-construction contractors who work on
fixed-price projects. Still, more aspects of our daily activities
are intertwined with the steel situation than many would have thought.
Modernist, Educator Pierre
Koenig Dies
Renowned designer and educator Pierre Koenig, FAIA, perhaps best
known as one of California’s “Case Study Program”
architects, passed away April 4. He was 78.
Design
Matters in Health-care Facilities
And the Pebble Project has the stats to
prove it
Although it’s no surprise to the design community, good design
does matter—and one initiative is beginning to offer proof
that it matters in ways that significantly affect patient welfare.
A network of health-care providers has partnered with the Center
for Health Design (CHD) to provide measurable results of the impact
of architectural and interior design on patient health and recovery,
financial operations, and staff satisfaction and turnover.
PROJECT
WATCH
ACMP’s Cal-EPA Building Achieves
First Gold Rating in LEED-EB Existing Buildings Program
The Sacramento headquarters for the California Environmental Protection
Agency by AC Martin Partners (ACMP) recently became the first building
to receive a Gold rating under the U.S. Green Building Council’s
LEED™ for Existing Buildings Rating System (LEED-EB). The
25-story, 930,000-square-foot Cal-EPA building ranked highest among
87 participants currently in the LEED-EB program, which applies
the council’s rating system to buildings already built when
the standards were developed in 2000.
AIA Officer Nominations
Twelve architects already have declared
their candidacy for three national AIA offices.
Your Kiplinger Connection
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The economy: Conditions aren’t
bad but, through 2005 anyway, they aren’t getting better.
HR: Coping with an aging workforce:
disease prevention programs and alternative rewards for employees
at the top of their pay scale. World economy:
Asia continues to soar; EU lags.
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Nine Insights Into Designing for an Aging
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Everybody is aware that our faculties and abilities change with
advancing age. There is also evidence, though, that the outlook
of retirees and people approaching retirement age is changing as
well. People in the latter half of their lives are more active now
than in previous generations, and public-facility design needs to
acknowledge that, says Harry Wolfe in a paper on airport-terminal
design considerations. He offers nine specific examples.
Hooray!
You Can See My Architect
at the Convention
Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn, son of Louis,
to speak at event
A reception and private screening of the Academy Award®-nominated
film My Architect will be held
June 10, opening night of the AIA national convention, 7–10:30
p.m. at the beautifully renovated Auditorium Theatre in downtown
Chicago. Following the film, AIA members will be treated to a question-and-answer
session with the film’s director, Nathaniel Kahn.
California Approves IDP
Requirements for
Licensure Candidates
The California Architects Board unanimously approved implementation
of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards’
Intern Development Program (IDP) requirements for architecture licensure
candidates. After the expected approval by California’s legislature,
every state except Arizona will require completion of IDP as a condition
of licensure. The new IDP requirements are scheduled to go into
effect January 1, 2005. For more details about the California IDP
requirement, visit
the state board’s Web site. Click here
to read the latest edition of the AIA
Angle, the AIA members’ source for government news.
Reminder:
COD’s “The New Home on the Range,” an Ideas Competition,
Registration Due April 23
The single-family residence served as the test bed for architectural
theories in the 20th century. To challenge architects and students
of architecture to design the 21st century seminal house, the AIA
Committee on Design is conducting a competition for an unbuilt,
single-family house. The project must fully embody the principles
of sustainable design. Entrants must register by April
23. Entries due at AIA headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
no later than 5 p.m. EDT May 14. Visit the COD Web site for more
information.
Heads
Up: 2004 BW/AR Awards Submissions Due April 21
Do you have a project in which design excellence achieved important
objectives for your client? Did it grow out of collaboration between
architect and client? If so, enter it in the 2004 Business
Week/Architectural Record Awards competition. Submissions
are due April 16; late submissions are due April 21.
AIA CAREER CENTER
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Manager, Pasadena, CA • Director
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Consultant, Portland, OR • Healthcare
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Captain, Sonoma County, CA • Lead
Architect, Northern Virginia • Licensed
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