May 16th Spring Mixer

5:00 – 7:00 PM

Sponsored by Willis

Join us for a tour of the new Rivian Community Center, an adaptive reuse of the historic Laguna Beach Theater.

1.0 AIA HSW + one hour will count toward 2025 CAB License Renewal

Come join the AIAOC’s EDI+ Committee Bookclub! We will come together (virtually) Thursday May 7, 2024 @ 12pm, to share our opinions on the quarterly book selection.

May 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

BARchitecture: Ballast Point

A 2022 AIAOC Framework for Design Excellence winner, this course will explore how this series of parks as part of a larger trail ecosystem responded to the following principals: Design for Integration, Design for Well-Being, and Design for Ecosystems, while also reducing embodied carbon, reduced construction costs and construction activities.

This presentation will discuss technical innovations to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete and examine current process improvements that are pushing the industry forward to a more sustainable future.

This webinar will provide guidance on how a design professional can navigate the confusion of intellectual property laws, including especially, how to use IP rights, and how to avoid IP liability.

Multi-Family Projects. Discover different types of coatings and their features and benefits along with life cycle considerations as they pertain to dry film attributes.

Last Call for Entries! Friday, April 5th is the last day to enter!

This Event is For AIA Emerging Professionals. Sponsoredy by PENTA.

The building code lags behind worldwide best practices for meeting the needs of our neurodiverse and physically disabled community members. This presentation will introduce these diverse communities, and specific strategies to accommodate the four most common areas of complaint. Practical and cost-conscious methods will be discussed, as well as the importance of engaging with those underserved communities to create recommendations for design teams.

Register today for AIA Orange County's Annual March Madness Mixer!

The 2022 Energy Code requirements for outdoor lighting wattage allowances and controls depends not only on building type, but also scope of work (such as new construction versus alterations). Join us for this one-hour presentation where we review outdoor lighting requirements for single-family, multifamily, nonresidential, hotel and motel building types of all applicable scopes of work and what compliance documentation is required for each project type.

This panel of local Community College, State College, and University representatives will discuss how local schools are responding to student homelessness and housing insecurity, the need for affordable housing, and plans for the future.

Our built environment has an enormous impact on the natural environment. The materials we choose to build with will determine if this impact is positive or negative. This course will cover how engineered wood can be instrumental in driving down embodied carbon reducing the global warming potential for new construction.

This course will explore how to design LEED Platinum; Living Building Challenge Petal Certified; Zero Net Carbon Design (ZNCD) buildings including the use of natural and carbon positive materials, methods for reducing energy and water consumption, and creating inspiring spaces for its inhabitants. The ENC Preschool was the recipient of the AIA C.O.T.E. Award, AIA OC Citation Award, USGBC Project of the Year Award, and the ASLA Award of Honor. The Environmental Nature Center also received the AIAOC Honor Award, the ASLASC Quality of Life Award, and the USGBC Most Sustainable NGO Award

For today's design leaders, choosing the right structural system doesn't just include efficiency and cost, but also must consider an understanding and analysis of sustainability goals.

Attendees will learn about technologies to consider when designing Educational and Healthcare spaces that support diversity, equity, and inclusion. They will have the opportunity to discover approaches to design with EDI in mind and dive into different options that are being implemented in projects today

This is an opportunity for you to ask anything ‘AIA’, and to help guide us in providing you with a value-added member experience.

The AIAOC Healthcare Committee Presents – Panel Discussion: Current Trends of Outpatient Care + Tour of the Kaiser Design Center