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FROM
THE RISK MANAGMENT COMMITTEE
2003 Professional Liability
Insurance Premiums: How Big a Bite?
Sticker shockalmost all of us who have purchased professional
liability insurance this year have experienced itand the future
is not bright for 2003, reports 2002 AIA Risk Management Committee
Vice Chair Benjamin P. Fisher, FAIA. With rates up typically 15
to 25 percent in 2002, premium payments were up dramatically. Full
Story
FROM
OUR FRIENDS AT AIA KANSAS
Chapter Awards Five Architecture
Firms, Six Students for Excellence in Architecture
AIA Kansas bestowed seven awards to five architecture firms and
recognized six architecture students at their annual Honors Program
October 11 in Kansas City in tandem with the AIA Central States
Region Conference. AIA Colorado architects Chair Harry Teague, AIA,
Harry Teague Architects, Aspen; Glenn Rappaport, AIA, Black Shack
Architects, Basalt; and Brad Zeigel, AIA, A4 Architects, Carbondale,
served as jurors. Full
Story
New
York Architects, Commentators Discuss Plans for WTC Site
Panel illuminates current
status of design and politics
New York architects/urban planners Craig Whitaker and Rafael Viñoly,
FAIA, and New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Hon. AIA,
joined Architectural Record
Editor in Chief Robert A. Ivy, FAIA, to discuss the ongoing development
of the World Trade Center site November 1 at the Library of Congress
in the nation's capital. Sponsored by the library's newly created
Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering, in association
with Architectural Record
and the American Architectural Foundation, the panelists spoke in
the relaxed forum about what Ivy called the "extreme volume
of design intent that has been unleashed since September 11."
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Story
BEST
PRACTICES
Questions to Ask Your Job
Interviewer
You're on a job interview and things are feeling pretty good. Then
the HR director looks you in the eye and asks, "So, do you
have any questions you'd like to ask?" Don't get caught off
guard, here are some pointers out of a new book from AECWorkForce.
Full
Story
16-Division
MasterFormat on Road to Change
MasterFormat, the 16-division construction products
and services organizing structure for 39 years, is on schedule to
change in one of two proposed ways by July 2004, according to the
Construction Specifications Institute. Full
Story
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Some
Happy Returns for AIA Members
AIA architects in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio won
their elections November 5, while a candidate in Maryland lost a
repeated bid to win elected office. Charles Clary, FAIA, (R) who
ran unopposed, will return to the Florida Senate to represent the
people of Destin; Eric Johnson, FAIA, (R) who also ran unopposed,
remains in the Georgia Senate; AIA Ohio President Chris Widener,
FAIA, (R) sailed to reclaim his Ohio House of Representatives seat,
with more than 60 percent of the vote from the three counties he
represents; and Joe Sam Queen, AIA, (D) captured a Senate seat in
North Carolina. Maryland architect and President-elect of AIA Maryland
Robert Smith, AIA, (R) did not fare as well, losing his bid for
the Maryland House of Delegates.
PROJECT
WATCH
Preschool Earns Honor Award
on Staten Island
The old gymnasium of the Church of St. Clare on Staten Island received
a total makeovercourtesy of local architects David L. Businelli,
AIA, Salvadeo Associates Architects, and Steven Perrella, AIAthat
evolved into two large spaces for a preschool that can be divided
into two classrooms each, a fifth classroom that doubles as a community
room, art room, office, and lobby. The architects turned the interior
walls into "hyper-surfaces" that offer built-in functions
of shelving, storage, and display and designed the spaces with two
horizons: one at 3'-6" for the kids, and one at regular head
height for adults. On the exterior, color bands that stretch inside
offer all colors, in keeping with the Catholic teaching that "God
promised the children a rainbow." The project earned Salvadeo
Associates and Perrella an Honor Award for Interiors from AIA Staten
Island.
Check
Out AIA eClassroom's New Look
In addition to sharp new graphics, eClassroom, the AIA's distance
learning site, offers easy instructions for first-time users and
descriptions on how to choose a course. It has links that allow
you to view your CES credits transcript and demos to show you exactly
how a course will appear on the screen. You can choose from hundreds
of courses drawn from the best programs presented at recent AIA
conventions, such as:
TH08, The Hyatt Skywalk Collapse: 20 Years Later
TH26, Killer Molds and Other Visitations from the Future
TH29, Removing the Barriers to High-Performance Design
SA25, Architect Liability under ADA and Other Federal and
State Laws for Accessibility.
Get courses where you want them, when you want them. Check
it out today.
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