best practices (members only)
BEES Software Assesses Performance of Green Building Materials
BEES 3.0 (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software helps design and construction professionals select energy- and cost-saving components meeting sustainable criteria. BEES works in concert with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED™ (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) criteria for building materials, and includes evaluations for more than 200 products ranging from interior/exterior wall finishes to beams, floor coverings, roof tiles, electrical wiring, and landscaping components.

Latest Innovations? McGraw-Hill Construction, AIA Invite You to Explore
Join this year’s conference November 16 in New York City
McGraw-Hill Construction, in association with the AIA, invites you to attend the 2004 Architectural Record Innovation Conference. Designed to increase understanding of the latest technologies, processes, and materials that are changing other industries and can be applied to the architecture/construction field, this event will bring leaders of architecture and construction together with materials scientists, experts from aerospace and automobile manufacturing, inventors, venture capitalists, and economists. This year’s conference centers on tall buildings.

Diversity Conference Extends “2020 Vision” November 18
AIA Diversity Committee, BSA sponsor event in conjunction with Build Boston
The AIA Diversity Committee and the Boston Society of Architects/AIA are proud to present “2020 Vision—Perspectives on Diversity and Design” workshops November 18, in conjunction with BSA’s annual Build Boston conference. The workshops extend the national dialogue initiated at last year’s conference that resulted in publication of 20/20 Vision: Perspectives on Diversity and Design, and a significant resolution on diversity passed by the AIA. You may register for one or more of these diversity workshops—Diversity Networking Breakfast (C04), Firm Culture and Diversity: Best Practices (C21), Next Generation (C42), and Education and Internship: Case Studies (C65)—or for the full-day-long series (DIV). For more information or to register, call 800-544-1898 or visit the Build Boston Web site.

Request for proposal
Southold to Build New Animal Shelter
The town of Southold, Long Island, N.Y., requests proposals to provide architecture and engineering services in connection with the programming, design, and development of working drawings, construction specifications, bid documents, and construction administration for the construction of a new, 8,000+-square-foot animal shelter. Proposals are due by 10 a.m., November 18. Visit the town’s Web site.

AIA CAREER CENTER
Here Are This Week’s Featured Opportunities

HRC Presents “A Dialogue”
The AIA Historic Resources Committee presents the “Historic Preservation Architecture Education: A Dialogue” conference November 19-21 in Washington, D.C., to address current issues in architecture and preservation education. Conference sessions will highlight best practices among degree programs for historic preservation architects. For details, visit the HRC Web site.

Special Price for AIA Members: Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site (2004, Architectural Record/Rizzoli) by architecture critic Suzanne Stephens, PhD, with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst, and a foreword by Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor-in-chief, Architectural Record, offers an illustrated look at the architectural events that have unfolded over the past three years at the World Trade Center. Special price for AIA members until October 30: $39.95/ $60 retail. Visit the AIA Store site or call 800-242-3837, option #4.
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Check Out These New Programs: AIA eClassroom now has available 23 programs from this year’s national convention. Pick one from the list today.

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An AIA-Member Benefit: Join the list to receive a biweekly e-mail offering the latest developments in local, state, and national government-affairs news. New this week: Questions and answers about the JOBS Tax Bill.

Free Continuing Education: After reading the standards and other information on environmental issues and products, references, and more in each MASTERSPEC topic, licensed users can access online tests to earn AIA/CES learning-unit hours.

Save Time! AIA.org now features a trouble-shooting Knowledge Base to address your AIA Contract Documents software questions quickly and efficiently.

Cover Personal and Business Expenses if Disability Strikes: The AIA Trust Personal and Business Overhead Disability Plans will cover all your expenses while you recuperate. Find out more about this program. For more information about all AIA Trust programs, go to their site.