WMAIA Spring BCT Programs

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Monday, April 11 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom LUs TBD Miami Florida International University (FIU) Pedestrian Bridge Collapse Investigation National Transportation Safety Board Staff: Robert Accetta, Steve Prouty, Dan Walsh, Jesús Cudemus The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) presentation will focus on the investigation into an incident that occurred on March 15, 2018, when a [...]

WMAIA Spring BCT Programs

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Monday, March 28 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom 1 HSW Resilient Design: The New Paradigm in an Age of Climate Change Alex Wilson, Resilient Design Institute Alex Wilson will address climate change impacts and how those will be influencing building design over the coming years. Examples of resilient design strategies will be presented as responses [...]

WMAIA Spring BCT Programs

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Monday, February 28 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom 1 HSW Acoustics and Vibration in Mass Timber Rose Mary Su, ACENTECH Acoustics is the key to success for many buildings and building spaces. Most of us have dined in a noisy restaurant unable to hear our friend sitting across the table or tried to study in [...]

WMAIA Committee on the Environment

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Register Now! WMAIA COTE – COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT – register now for February 24 Thursday, February | 4:30 PM | Zoom  1 HSW (no fee) Why Trees Are Stronger Than Wood – a presentation by Greg Cabral, Original Mass Timber Maine In this program, rescheduled from last fall, Greg Cabral will discuss the [...]

WMAIA Annual Meeting – Members Only

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WMAIA Annual Meeting Thursday, December 16th | 4:30-6:00 | Zoom Sponsors:  Pella, Keiter Builders Grab a glass of wine and join us for our Annual Meeting on Thursday, December 16th. This members-only event will feature: Architecture Quiz A favorite from last year’s annual meeting was THE QUIZ where we showed series of architecture photographs [...]

UMASS Building & Construction Technology Lecture Series

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UMASS BCT SERIES BEGINS SEPTEMBER 20TH – REGISTER NOW! WMAIA members will attend remotely; please register for credit here Monday, September 20 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom 1 HSW Advancing Healthy, Energy Efficient, Climate-Friendly Housing to Achieve Health and Racial Equity Monday, October 18 | 4:00-5:15 | Zoom 1 HSW Climate Smart Forests and Green [...]

Book Launch – Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience

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UMass Renaissance Center presents a Book Launch for David Karmon Friday, September 10 | 4:00 PM | Zoom Book launch for David Karmon's Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience, the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence [...]

WMAIA Film Series – Spring 2021

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WMAIA/5-COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE FILM SERIES Tuesday March 23| 6:30 PM | Zoom 1.5LUs KISS THE GROUND To significantly mitigate the climate crisis, there are a lot of problems humans need to solve — and as the new Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground suggests, one of the biggest problems is right under your feet: the soil. [...]