Save September 27–29 for London!
An international conference of design excellence/design-build
The AIA’s UK Chapter, Design-Build Knowledge Community, and International Committee invite you to join them and cosponsor the Design-Build Institute of America for the Design Excellence/Design-Build conference to be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects Headquarters in London, September 27– 29. Learn from leaders in the industry through educational sessions and project tours about design excellence through design-build in the international marketplace. For more information, visit the AIA Design-Build Committee’s Web site.

CAE Fall Conference: Redefining Sustainability: New Directions for Designing Our Future
Join the Committee on Architecture for Education for their fall meeting September 16 –18, in Seattle as the group explores modernization of schools built in the ‘50s and ‘60s as well as new school construction—all in the light of sustainable design. Experts will present current practices and projects demonstrating leading-edge design of sustainable learning environments. Seattle is the only area in the U.S. where five projects have received an AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Green Projects Award, and the group will tour four of these as well as three other LEED-certified projects. Visit the CAE Web site for more information or to sign up.
(Pictured is Seattle’s Benjamin Franklin Elementary School by Mahlum Associates, a 2006 COTE Top Ten Green Projects recipient and one of the conference’s tour sites.)