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If you have problems viewing this e-mail visit www.aiane.org AIA Nebraska's office will be closed September 6 in honor of Labor day.
We hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe holiday weekend!
2010 AIA NE Fall Conference
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Registration now available! 
AIA Nebraska will be supporting the Omaha World-Herald's Architecture Supplement by committing to an advertisement highlighting the advantages of hiring an AIA architect. Highlighting this year's design program, the supplement will be published following our fall conference, Connection | Conversation | Creation, on Sunday, October 17, 2010. Circulation for Architecture is 300,000 households in Nebraska and Southwest Iowa. 
This year Omaha will host the State AIA fall conference appropriately titled “Connection/Conversation/Creation” which I think begins to describe what we need to do as a community of architects as we begin to recuperate from the last two years. Now is the time to bond with your colleagues, discuss what we are learning and implement our innovation. So I am marking my calendar and plan on being at the Qwest Center October 14-15. Immediately following, on the 16th, AIA Omaha has partnered with TEDx Omaha  |
| James S. Polshek, FAIA was a lead designer for the Newseum Building Complex in Washington, D.C. |
We are also excited to announce that James Polshek, FAIA with Ennead Architects (recent name change) will be speaking at our annual meeting on November 16th at the Holland Performing Arts Center. Polshek has been described as “one of those great architects without a great ego”, and without having been to one of his talks, it seems fitting that he would be willing to remove his name for the sake of his partners.
To stay up to date with the latest information, I encourage you to visit our website at www.aiaomaha.org. There you can find a lot of useful information with what AIA Omaha is doing and has planned for the months ahead.
Michael P. Hamilton, AIA
AIA Omaha President
AIA Lincoln Summer Continuing Education Building Tour
Brad Muehling AIA, Lead Project Manager - UNL Facilities Management & Planning, conducted a tour of Jorgenson Hall, the new Physical Science Building at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Campus on Thursday afternoon July 22, 2010. The 124,000 square foot building, designed by Perkins & Will of Chicago in association with Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects of Lincoln, contains classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, office, and workshops and qualifies for LEED Silver rating.
The twenty AIA Lincoln architects attending the Tour received 1 hour of HSW/SD credit from AIA/CES. AIA Lincoln will have provided the opportunity for its members who attend the monthly "Lunch & Learn" membership meetings, the Summer Building Tour, and the AIA Lincoln Architect's Home Tour during 2010 to earn ten AIA/CES credit hours.
The Architectural Foundation of Nebraska and AIA Lincoln present: 2010 Architects' Home Tour
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 1:00 - 4:30pm
Show up, sign up, cruise, and earn with AIA Lincoln. Join your
architectural contemporaries and associates Sunday afternoon,
September 12, 2010 for this tour of five architect designed homes
currently lived in and cared for by AIA Lincoln architects.
The AFN 2010 AIA Lincoln Architect's Home Tour is registered with AIA/ CES for three (3) hours of Learning Units. Can you think of an easier way to earn learning units? Remember to sign in for credit at each home you visit! Bring your family and friends along to enjoy the creativity of architects.
Don’t miss this opportunity to help promote awareness of architecture and the architectural profession right here at home! Volunteer to help with this exciting Home Tour for a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon September 12, 2010 by sending contact info (phone, email, etc) to Lucas Kielion at LKielion@Studio951.net.
Click here for more information and to see photos of the homes.
Sara Kay awarded Presidential Citation at CACE Annual Meeting
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| Amy Blagriff, CACE President and Sara Kay, AIA Nebraska Executive Director |
At the annual meeting of CACE, (The AIA Council of Architectural Component Executives), Sara Kay, received a Presidential Citation for her work on the CACE Execom serving as the liaison for the new CES Discovery System. The citation reads: "The American Institute of Architects Council of Architectural Component Executives presents the Presidential Citation to Sara Kay, Executive Director, AIA Nebraska in recognition of her dedication of significant time and talents to help shape the planning and implementation of the new CES Discovery System. Working with AIA National staff on behalf of her CACE Colleagues, she has coordinated the ongoing efforts of two CES Discovery System Implementation teams, and in doing so she has served as a positive influence for all. Her leadership and commitment to deliver the best possible outcomes to a diverse user group (including components, allied CES (providers, and members) sets a model for future collaborative efforts across the AIA. Thank you for your “Can-Do” / “”How Can I Help” attitude and for your ongoing commitment to CACE, Our Members and the AIA. July 2010, Amy Blagriff, CACE President."
Kay was also elected to another one-year term (2011-2012) on the CACE Execom as Vice President.
Member News
Membership Updates
Sheila Elijah-Barnwell, AIA has been appointed to the newly-created position of director, health care research and education for HDR.
The Schemmer Associates, Inc. recently named, Pat Birch, AIA, as an associate of the firm.
Leo A Daly announces the following appointments: Senior Associate, Gunner Riggert, AIA; Associates: William R. Bingham, AIA and Shelia Ireland, AIA.
DLR Group has been named an intern-friendship firm by the American Institute of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
New AIA Members
Sarah M. Janiak, AIA
New Associate AIA Members
John M. Dodson, Assoc. AIA
Dale J. Luebbert, Assoc. AIA
Brian Thomas Nelsen, Assoc. AIA
New AIA Nebraska Affiliate Members
George Morrissey- Morrissey Engineering
Nick Limpach- Morrissey Engineering
Sara Gudeman- Morrissey Engineering
Lisa Willhoite- Morrissey Engineering
Teresa Nelson- Roof Top Sedums
Members in the News | Awards | Recognition
Been in the news recently? Receive an award or special recognition? We'd love to hear about it! Please email your updates to Emily (Jennings) Wilcox, ejennings3@unl.edu.
PBS to Air Burnham Film Nationwide on September 6
Make No Little Plans; Daniel Burnham & The American City," Chicago film maker Judith Paine McBrien's hour-long documentary about the great Chicago architect and planner, will air on PBS stations around the country on Monday, Sept. 6 (Labor Day) at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. (As they say in TV world, check your local listings.)
The Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips, gave it two and a half stars, and another from About.com Washington, D.C., which calls the film "engaging and a fun way to learn about the history of architecture and urban planning." View the trailer here. For more information and to purchase a DVD, click here.
Plan to Honor University Hall Takes Place
With the completed demolition of Ferguson Hall, university officials are moving forward with a plan to honor University Hall, the first building on campus. Ferguson Hall was demolished this summer after physics and astronomy faculty and staff moved into the newly constructed Jorgensen Hall. Click here to read more about Jorgensen Hall. Click here for a video tour of Jorgensen is available. The Ferguson Hall site - positioned between Brace Labs, Woods, Richards and Manter halls - will be converted into a green space with a seating area.
Click here to view entire story.
NCARB | IDP 2.0: Phase Three - Now Fall 2011
The third and final phase of IDP 2.0, which was originally scheduled for January 2011, will now be implemented in fall 2011. Interns will be notified of the implementation date at least six months in advance of the launch date.
The electronic Experience Verification Reporting (e-EVR) system was launched in 2008 to create a more efficient and user-friendly process for reporting IDP experience. As we look to the long-term improvement of the program, we also needed to look at the long-term expandability of our computer systems.
"In order to build a foundation for the next several years, we needed to adjust the implementation of the final phase of IDP 2.0 to accommodate the time it takes to create systems that can handle the current improvements to the program as well as future improvements," said Mary S. de Sousa, Vice President, Operations at NCARB.
For more information about the changes related to the final phase of IDP 2.0, download our guide IDP 2.0: Experience Areas and Categories, which includes definitions, explanations of the experiences areas that are combined or split, training hour rollover examples, and frequently asked questions.
Nebraska Ranked No. 6 Pro-Business State
Nebraska is the nation’s No. 6 pro-business state, according to the 2010 Pollina Corporate Real Estate survey unveiled earlier this week. The Pollina survey is one of the nation’s most respected studies of job retention and creation by the 50 states. This is Nebraska’s strongest showing yet in the annual survey. Brent Pollina, author of the study, names Virginia as “America’s most pro-business state” followed closely by Utah, Wyoming, South Carolina, and North Carolina. For the seventh consecutive year, California ranked dead last. The Pollina study evaluates and ranks states based on 31 factors including taxes, human resources, right-to-work legislation, energy costs, infrastructure spending, workers compensation laws, economic incentive programs and state economic development efforts.
Click here for the study.
Frank Lloyd Wright Seth Peterson Cottage for Rent
The Seth Peterson Cottage in the Wisconsin Dells (Wisconsin’s Mirror Lake State Park) area was one on Frank Lloyd Wright’s last commission and one of the few FLW homes available for rent by the general public. We have been informed the house is booked for the next year and a half. The house sleeps four and rents for approximately $300 per night. The home is owned by a nonprofit organization; the home just underwent a three-year, $300,000.00 restoration project. Click here for more information.
AIA Nebraska Job Board
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