Hello Green Gurus,
Here is the information for December's Peer Networks Webinar, Architects in the Blue Zone: The AIA at COP26. We hope you will join us!
Architects in the Blue Zone: The AIA at COP26
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
4pm - 5pm ET (1pm - 2pm PT)
Description
The American Institute of Architects, recently granted Non-Government Organization status, attended COP26 for the first time as Observers. Mike Davis, FAIA, was one of the AIA’s delegates to Glasgow. He will report on the AIA’s mission in attending, what they observed and learned, and how the Institute plans to leverage this experience.
About the presenter
Mike Davis, FAIA, LEED AP
Michael R. Davis, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal and President at Bergmeyer Associates, Inc., is a practicing architect and an advocate for sustainable public policy. He was 2013 President of the Boston Society of Architects and 2015-2016 Chair of the Board of Trustees of the BSA Foundation. For the American Institute of Architects, Mike serves Chair of the AIA Board Government Advocacy Committee. He participated on a national AIA Materials Knowledge and Transparency working group and was a contributing author for an April 2016 AIA sustainability white paper, “Materials Transparency and Risk for Architects”. Mike has participated on or led numerous AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) and Sustainable Design for Resilience Team (DART) charrettes including the AIA’s first International R/UDAT charrette in Dublin, Ireland. Mike’s recent professional projects include a modular student residence hall at Endicott College, a LEED Certified facility for Hostelling International Boston in an adaptively-reused historic building, and a deep-energy retrofit of public housing units for the Boston Housing Authority at the Cathedral Family Development. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.
