When: October 7–10, 2008 Where: Right here in Honolulu
Rate: Early bird rate ends on Aug. 31 RSVP:Register Online Today
What is the AIA Northwest & Pacific Region? The AIA Northwest and Pacific Region (NW&PR) represents regional interests and encourages and helps to coordinate communication and collaboration within the Region and link them to the National AIA. Our region is a very unusual and diverse group of people with members from Alaska, Guam/Micronesia, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington!
What is the 2008 AIA NW&P Regional Conference? This Conference is hosted each year by one Chapter of the region, and every ~10th year it is your very own, AIA Honolulu's turn. The conference ranks up there as one of the Chapter's most significant efforts, and there is a significant amount of time and volunteer resources that are being expended to offer you a fabulous 3-day conference experience. Hawaii 2008: Crossroads of Design & Diversity offers a great opportunity for all our local members to network, attend educational sessions, awards program and more with this interesting group of people flying in from the mainland to experience our Hawaii aloha.
What can the conference offer YOU? In addition to endless networking opportunities, AIA Honolulu has invested a great deal of resources and time in providing you excellent keynote speakers to come to our island just for this one event. This gives YOU an amazing opportunity to earn most, if not all, of the AIA/CES LU's (HSW) that is needed for the entire year - from the very best - right here in your very own backyard. This will go a long way to helping you meet your biannual requirements for license renewal, and your AIA CES requirements. Read more about continuing education opportunities and keynote session speakers below.
The 3rd Annual AIA Honolulu Canstruction® competition is happening TOMORROW Saturday, August 23 from 8:00am - 2:00pm at the Pearlridge Center Uptown.
Make sure You bring your family and friends over to the Pearlridge Mall Uptown on August 23 to support and cheer on all 13 teams that signed up this year. From 8:00am - 2:00pm they are going to work very hard to "canstruct" amazing structures that will be on display at the mall for two weeks.
Voting & Donations: You have from tomorrow after 2:00pm until Saturday, September 6 when the mall closes to come down to Pearlridge and vote for your favorite structure as many times as you like. One can is one vote. The structure with the most cans will be announced the winner of the distinguished People's Choice Award in an awards ceremony on Sunday, September 7th.
Remember, One CAN equals One Vote! Make sure that you do what you CAN to help extinguish hunger in Hawai'i since the Foodbank is running low - Every CAN helps!
CANSTRUCTION IN THE NEWS!
Canstruction has been getting some great media exposure this year (again) and for that we would like to thank Deb Sharkey, Makana Communications. We would also like to thank all the teams that volunteered to be on TV and getting up very early in the morning. Thanks for your amazing commitment!
Pictured to the left is US CAD and Next Design during the KGMB Morning Show when they did a live build in the studio this past Monday, August 15 from 5 am - 8 am.
Did you miss this TV appearance? No need to worry, just click here and watch them do their live build on the KGMB website.
Pictured here to the left is Belt Collins during the KITV Morning Show on Thursday, August 21 from 5 am-7 am.
They used over 800 cans to build this boat and thought it was a good practice run before Canstruction day.
After this we can't wait to see all the amazing structures that will be built on Canstruction day, Saturday, August 23!
STILL TO COME IN THE NEWS!
KHON Morning Show: Monday, August 25 from 6 am-8am. The four winning teams (Jurors’ Favorite, Structural Integrity, Best Use of Labels and Best Meal) will be featured live from the Pearlridge mall.
Thanks again to Joy Davidson, AIA and John Black, AIA plus all the 13 hard working Teams: Actus Lend Lease/Hickam Community Housing, Allana Buick Bers, Belt Collins, Design Partners/Castle & Cooke, Durrant Media Five, Ferraro Choi & Associates, Fung Associates, Group 70 International, Kiewit Building Group, Parsons Brinkerhoff, U.S. CAD Hawaii/Next Design, Urban Works and WATG.
On Monday, August 25 the AIA Honolulu office will begin final edits of the new 2008/2009 AIA Hawaii Directory of Members and Firms that will be published in late September 2008. Due to the enormous amount of work and attention to detail this kind of work demands we might not be able to get to all the phone calls and emails that normally come to our office until later on that day or even until the next day. Please have patience with us as we try to work through this in a timely manner to provide you and outstanding and accurate print directory. Mahalo for your understanding and support - AIA Honolulu.
AIA/CES LUs (HSW) opportunities for local AIA members
As stated above the 2008 AIA Northwest & Pacific Regional Conference will offer local AIA members an amazing opportunity to fulfill continuing education requirements for the Annual AIA membership: 18 AIA/CES Learning Units per year, of which 8 LUs must be health, safety and welfare (HSW). They can also apply these learning units to fulfill mandatory State Licensing Requirements. AIA Honolulu is currently in the process of registering all conference educational sessions and in the middle of next week we should have the educational sessions featured on our website. View the entire program at a glance
Below is a list of our keynote sessions that will be featured:
The 2030 Challenge, by Ed Mazria
The Nature of Circumstance, by Peter Bohlin, FAIA
An Algorithm for Excellence, by Hugh Hochberg
Design with Native Cultures, by John Paul Jones, FAIA
Click here for more information on each keynote speaker and session.
On Saturday, August 23 from 8:00am-2:00pm at the Pearl Ridge Center Uptown several AIA Firms will again compete in this Third Annual Honolulu design competition using canned food as the building material. Come watch this exciting seven-hour competition with juried award winners announced at the end
On Thursday, September 4, from 11:30am-1:00pm at the AIA Honolulu Office. This is a FREE brown bag luncheon meeting for AIA Honolulu and GCA members titled OCIP Insurance in the Construction Industry. Non-members are subjected to a fee. This program can be self reported for AIA/CES LUs. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
On Sunday, September 7 at Pearlridge Center Uptown Canstruction teams will participate in De-canstruction of food for delivery to Hawaii Foodbank. The People's Choice Award will also be announced.
On Wednesday, September 17 there will be 3 FREE “IBC Seismic Code and Ceiling Installation Requirements” seminars. Each seminar qualifies for 1 AIA/CES LU (HSW). Armstrong is a registered provider. Complimentary breakfasts and lunches. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
On Friday, September 19 there will be 3 Free “IBC Seismic Code and Ceiling Installation Requirements” seminars. Each seminar qualifies for 1 AIA/CES LU (HSW). Armstrong is a registered provider. Complimentary breakfasts and lunches. Click here for more information and to RSVP.
NEW! 8 Job Listings. Job Seekers and Employers looking to post jobs, click here to view our online job board. Click here to visit the national AIA Career Center.
NEW! 2008 AIA Contract Documents now available! In 2008 the AIA is pleased to provide four new Integrated Project Delivery documents. The updated revisions include AIA Documents A195–2008, A295–2008, B195–2008 and C195–2008. In 2007 AIA also launched update AIA Contract Documents which included revisions to A201-1997 and nearly 50 owner/architect, architect/consultant, and contractor/subcontractor agreements.
Click here for information on how to purchase paper copies of AIA Documents. AIA Honolulu is a full service distributor of AIA Contract Documents. Learn more.
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Pictured to the left is US CAD and Next Design during the KGMB Morning Show when they did a live build in the studio this past Monday, August 15 from 5 am - 8 am.
Pictured here to the left is Belt Collins during the KITV Morning Show on Thursday, August 21 from 5 am-7 am.