The Institute on October 8 issued an RFQ to all AIA members, inviting them to submit their qualifications to assemble an Integrated Project Delivery design and construction team to re-create the AIA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., as a model 21st century workplace. The Architects Collaborative-designed structure, ahead of its time when opened in 1973, now needs a makeover: Its building systems are drawing close to the end of their useful lives, the envelope doesn’t meet current energy performance standards, and its space distribution/layout doesn’t foster a collaborative working style. The initial assessment and schematic design study, by architect Quinn|Evans, identified options to achieve the AIA’s 50-percent energy reduction goal by 2010, considered steps to enable future energy reductions to meet the Institute’s goal of being carbon-neutral by 2030, and laid out space planning alternatives to make the building a model workplace. The RFQ is open to all AIA architects; the Institute will use a.Qualifications Based Selection process conducted by a jury of peers and independent of the AIA Board of Directors. The jury will make a recommendation to the Board for approval at the December 2007 meeting. Qualifications Statements are due November 6. For more information, visit the AIA Web site Members Page. (Member sign-in is required.)