September 11, 2009
  Perkins and Will, HDR, Goody Clancy to Consolidate Homeland Security HQ at St. Elizabeths Campus
The federal government has hired the Washington office of Perkins and Will, as well as Omaha-based HDR and Boston-based Goody Clancy in a joint venture to design the new $450 million Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters campus on the 300-acre site of St. Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia. This new federal agency headquarters is one of the largest single design and construction projects being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) economic stimulus package signed into law last winter and is not only the single largest project in the General Service Administration (GSA) $5.5 billion portfolio of ARRA-funded work but GSA’s largest building project ever.

AIA to Host Public Infrastructure Forums Beginning in DC in September
The first of a series of AIA-hosted forums open to the public on transportation and infrastructure needs will take place September 21 at AIA national component headquarters in Washington, D.C.

National Building Museum Calling for All Neighborhoods Great and Green
The science and theory of energy-efficient green building as an ecological imperative are well established, but is it also possible that a sustainable neighborhood is an inherently successful, well-loved neighborhood? The National Building Museum (NBM), thinks there’s a connection here, and they’re asking architects across the nation to answer this question as well, with their “Great Green Places” video competition.

Try CES Videos on Demand for Learning Units in a Hurry
 To support member’s needs to fulfill annual CES credit requirements, and especially the new requirement that members must attain four credits of sustainable design experience, the AIA is offering free online videos to make continuing one’s professional education even easier. These easily accessible videos are ideal for members needing to gain learning units quickly before the 2008 AIA/CES Audit List deadline on Sept. 30, 2009.

 

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