AIA New Jersey2014 – Call for Entries
The 9th Annual AIA West Jersey Photography Competition has opened for entries. Submit your interesting images of everything architectural – from the buildings around the corner, to a current project to an interesting place you visited.
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By Jason Peist, Assoc. AIA
The following article is a personal piece written by Jason to help understand the benefits of ‘diversity’ when building teams.
Diversity is a state of being that describes the similarities and variations people have— in essence, it is a contextual characteristic that does not define you! Think about each attribute as just one tool in in a larger tool bag. Tools are catalysts for change; however, if you swing around the same tool for every job, you will most likely never achieve your goals.
Diversity is both having the right set of tools for the job and being able to borrow the tools you don’t have from your neighbors. If you want to make a difference, you and your neighbors need to work together. Continue reading
Newark AIA/USGBC CONTINUING EDUCATION SEMINAR
Hilton Newark Penn Station
1048 Raymond, Blvd Newark, NJ 07102
(973)622-5000
Date: Tuesday, June 17th, 2013 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Hilton Newark Penn Station Gateway Center – Raymond blvd, Newark, NJ, 07102-5107, USA
Credits: 7 AIA HSW + 7 USGBC/GBCI
Cost: AIA & USGBC members: $65 Non-members: $90 Breakfast & lunch Included.
Topics: Geothermal Heating & Cooling • Skylights & Rooftop Support • Stone Wool Insulation • Advance Solar Facade Design • Sound Attenuation • Quartersawn Hardwood • Non-wood Guardrail
Registration: http://americatradesolutions.com/export-consultant-trade-calendar/view_event.php?cmd=view&id=125
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Jerome Leslie Eben, AIA
June 10, 2014
To My Fellow Delegates to the AIA Convention
Re: Jerome Leslie Eben, AIA
Dear Delegates:
As President of AIA New Jersey, I am honored to write this support letter for a colleague and friend who as dedicated more than three decades to OUR profession and to the Institute that supports the architects and architecture across the country. Jerome Leslie Eben, AIA is second to none in the efforts he has delivered to the nearly two thousand members in this Chapter and Region.
I have served on the AIA-NJ Board with Jerry for the past five years, where he has served over twenty years. I continue to look to him for guidance based on his experience and historical knowledge of our diverse chapter. Over his career, he has served and continues to serve as a mentor to chapter leaders and to countless AIA emerging professionals. His work with advocacy here in New Jersey, where the entire congressional delegation knows his name, makes him most valuable to us and the legislation we support that helps us in our practices.
There is no doubt that he has strong leadership skills, as evidenced by his selection to testify in front of a Congressional Committee in regard to cleaning up and returning urban brownfields back on the tax rolls where they belong. Lastly his effort in raising funds for ArchiPAC and then for his 2013 Class project of bringing emerging professionals to the AIA Convention are well known.
Please see the attached flyer for more information about Jerry and please join us in supporting him for the prestigious position on the new AIA Board as Secretary of the Institute.
Most sincerely,
Kurt Kalafsky, AIA President, AIA New JerseyTo see a PDF of this letter Click Here
USGBC NJ Chapter Central Branch
at the LEED Platinum Duke Farms “Farm Barn”
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS, NETWORKING DINNER & TOUR
NEXT Wednesday, June 11, 2014
“Commercial Scale Solar/Battery Hybrids:
Implications for Community Resiliency”
By Lyle Rawlings, President & CEO of Advanced Solar Products
“Smart Micro Grid Technology: Why it’s important to YOU & your LEED project”
By Rey Montalvo, President & CEO of Consolidated Energy Design and Principal of FADRS
Meeting is from 5:30-8:30 pm
(Walking tour available for registered meeting attendees 4-5 pm)
center image courtesy of VITETTA
With significant impacts resulting from recent major storms (and other causes of electrical grid outages) sustained in this region of the US, especially New Jersey, it is important for all sectors of business and government to learn about recent advances and trends in technologies geared toward greater resiliency and storm preparedness. This event’s presentations will highlight such technologies, and how they can be employed to provide a far greater degree of preparedness & resiliency than currently exists.
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AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker and AIA-NJ member William Martin, AIA, featured on CNBC On The Money in a segment called Aging in Place
AIA Kermit Baker on CNBC On The Money
To see the On The Money segements for the week:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838272
Jerome (Jerry) Eben has spent his career championing the cause of architecture. In his continued devotion to the profession, to architects and the AIA, in March he announced his candidacy for the office of AIA Secretary of the national board.
Many of us know Jerry, a number of AIA member’s credit Jerry for bringing them to their first AIA meetings and introducing them to the organization. If you have not met Jerry, next time you are at an AIA event, seek him out, there is a good chance you will see him.
For a snapshot of Jerry’s involvement in ‘Our AIA’ click here.
Join ASID-NJ for our Summer Meet & Greet — A Networking Night for all NJ’s finest design professionals.
June 25, 2014
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Stone House at Stirling Ridge
Register and RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-meet-greet-registration-11839186325
Preservation New Jersey’s top 10 most endangered historic sites in the state for 2014 includes at Mercer County diner, a Sandy-damaged lighthouse, and a post office in Maplewood.
The 20th annual edition of Preservation New Jersey’s list cites historic locations that are in “imminent danger of being lost” often due to neglect or planned redevelopment, though Superstorm Sandy damage landed a lighthouse on the list.
“Our goal is to bring awareness to cherished sites that have been a vital part of a community that, without intervention, would fade from existence,” said Michael Hanrahan, president of Preservation New Jersey.
At least one of the sites in this year’s list was being offered for free in December to anyone willing to cart it away. The Giordano Diner on Route 1 in Lawrence, which has also operated under the names Calhoun, Cass, and Ben’s over the last 50 years, is one of five surviving diners built by the Mountain View Diner Co., a Little Falls company. It’s been vacant for decades.
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