Events

April Membership Meeting


When: 4/26/2022 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: 
Triple C Barrel Room
2832 Griffith Street

AIA Charlotte: Climate Action Committee
AIA 2030 Challenge and City of Charlotte SEAP: how to use data for energy efficiency

Speaker:  Katie Riddle Rhodes | City of Charlotte
Energy and Sustainability Coordinator 
Strategic Energy Action Plan Project Mgr
Speaker: Jeff Austin | RExplore LLC
Senior Business Leader, Strategic Thinking & Innovation
Speaker: Vickie Breemes | Little
National Director of Advanced Building Technologies

Donald Green - Moderator | Progressive AE
AIA Charlotte Climate Action Cmte Co-Chair

We are facing an ever growing challenge with climate change, the negative impacts are upon us and increasing much faster than predicted. Every time we turn around we hear another story of the changes happening at an ever increasing rate than what was known 10 years, 5 years, even 1 year ago. The AIA 2030 Challenge along with many municipal, private and corporate organizational efforts are striving on local, regional and multinational levels to combat the impacts of climate change.
We invite you to attend the AIA CLT Climate Action Committee presentation on the efforts taking place right here in the queen city. Learn what drives these local efforts and how the Architectural Profession can get involved and create better buildings. The City of Charlotte's Strategic Energy Action Plan (SEAP) and the recently updated Sustainability Facilities Policy promote a public-private effort to reduce carbon emissions. Katie Riddle Rhodes with the City will present the recently released inaugural Benchmarking Report on City owned facilities. Jeff Austin with RExplore LLC, will provide insight into the private sector and how owners view benchmarking and the positive changes they undertake as a result of data collected from those efforts. The presentation will culminate with Vickie Breams with Little, laying out how Little's commitment to AIA 2030 affects their design process to help them produce projects that reduce carbon emissions.

Learning Objectives
  1. Gain understanding of the City of Charlotte's Strategic Energy Action Plan and the impact on overall health and welfare of the city, it's inhabitants and workers.
  2. Understand what the AIA 2030 Challenge is, define operational and embodied carbon and how we as architect's can aid the reduction of carbon in our atmosphere.
  3. Gain knowledge of data collection through benchmarking and how to use that data to create energy efficient projects.
  4. Understand the impacts of climate change on our professions and how the AIA 2030 Challenge and the City of Charlotte's SEAP can be used as tools to affect positive change.

 

List of Attendees

First Name Last Name Company Type Guest of
Niha Alahari Stewart AIA Charlotte Member
James Alsop HDR Architecture AIA Charlotte Member
russ angelo angelo architects, pllc AIA Charlotte Member
Rachel Baca Gresham Smith AIA Charlotte Member
Carol Bacon ADW Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Loren Bartlett Neighboring Concepts AIA Charlotte Member
Kelvin Benfield BHDP AIA Charlotte Member
Todd Berg Morris-Berg Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Paul Bielicki Terracon AIA Charlotte Member
Doug Broome Little AIA Charlotte Member
Nicole Brown Redline Design Group AIA Charlotte Member
Matt Butler K2M Design AIA Charlotte Member
Scott Campagna McVeigh & Mangum Engineering AIA Charlotte Member
Adam Caruthers Little Diversified Architectural Consulting AIA Charlotte Member
Courtney Christian Actalent AIA Charlotte Member
David Crawford AIA North Carolina AIA Charlotte Member
Marissa Date McVeigh & Mangum Engineering AIA Charlotte Member
Russell DeVita FMK Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Neil Dixon FMK Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Keith Dooley Visarch, PA AIA Charlotte Member
Tedd Duncan Stewart AIA Charlotte Member
Ronna Emerling Jenkins Peer Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Rebecca Fant Architecture Matters, PLLC AIA Charlotte Member
Mike Gardina Stewart Engineering AIA Charlotte Member
Kelly Gordon Little AIA Charlotte Member
Thomas Gragnano Morris Berg Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Tony Gray Graydesign Architecture, PA.. AIA Charlotte Member
JAMES GRAZIANO snapWerx LLC AIA Charlotte Member
Donald Green Progressive AE AIA Charlotte Member
Gaurav Gupte ODELL AIA Charlotte Member
Mark Hahn Mecklenburg County AIA Charlotte Member
Matthew Hart Morris Berg Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Jana Hartenstine MPS AIA Charlotte Member
Geoffrey Haskell Geoffrey Haskell, AIA AIA Charlotte Member
Joe Hiestand Oakline Studio AIA Charlotte Member
Amy Hockett National Gypsum AIA Charlotte Member
Kathryn Horne unc charlotte AIA Charlotte Member
Bob Howell JLL AIA Charlotte Member
Alan Hunter WHN Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Craig Isaac Craig W Isaac Architecture AIA Charlotte Member
Mary Isaacs Isaacs + Associates Architects, Inc. AIA Charlotte Member
Julie Jackson Gensler AIA Charlotte Member
Jitendra Jain Jain Design LLC AIA Charlotte Member
Rob Johnson Boomerang Design AIA Charlotte Member
Sue Kumar Mecklenburg County AIA Charlotte Member
Chip Leaf Watts Leaf Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Davis Liles Davis H Liles Architect PLLC AIA Charlotte Member
Jim Lynch Little AIA Charlotte Member
Matt Main McVeigh & Mangum Engineering AIA Charlotte Member
Elizabeth McCormick University of North Carolina at Charlotte AIA Charlotte Member
Georgia Metz Perkins+Will AIA Charlotte Member
Danielle Milesky Warco Construction Guest
Tyrell Miller Stewart AIA Charlotte Member
Catherine Monroe Housing Studio AIA Charlotte Member
Jeff Morgan Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement AIA Charlotte Member
Natalie Morgan Morgan Architecture + Consulting AIA Charlotte Member
Martrell Mosley Stewart AIA Charlotte Member
Julie Mullen Gresham smith AIA Charlotte Member
John Paquin ZAPATA AIA Charlotte Member
David Parke J. David Parke, AIA AIA Charlotte Member
Sanjay Parmar Perkins Eastman AIA Charlotte Member
Megan Pennline Thorburn Associates AIA Charlotte Member
Jessica Pericchi Morris-Berg Architects AIA Charlotte Member
Stefan Pienkny Stefan Pienkny, AIA, Architect AIA Charlotte Member
George Pond FWA Group AIA Charlotte Member
William Rakatansky R&M Group-NC, PLLC AIA Charlotte Member
Michael Rowell MEAA AIA Charlotte Member
Richard Shulby JMT AIA Charlotte Member
Charles Snow Mecklenburg County AIA Charlotte Member
Charles Snow Mecklenburg County AIA Charlotte Member
Matthew Sohner Team Lighting AIA Charlotte Member
Aubrey Springer ASA AIA Charlotte Member
Kevin Sutton US Courts AIA Charlotte Member
Steven Sweat Mecklenburg County - AFM AIA Charlotte Member
Kevin Utsey Clark Nexsen AIA Charlotte Member
Kristen Van Gilst STV AIA Charlotte Member
Grace Wallace RJ Leeper AIA Charlotte Member
Victoria Watlington Watlington Engineering, PLLC Guest Davis Liles
Charley Watts Watts Leaf Architects PA AIA Charlotte Member
Mary Catherine Wright Actalent Guest