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The AIA Sustainability Task Group was established to recommend policies to the AIA Board in September 2006 on the overall direction of sustainability for the AIA.
The overall theme of the AIA 2007 National Convention in San Antonio will be sustainability.
The AIA is currently collaborating with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, American Society of Civil Engineers, the U.S. Green Building Council, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy, among others, in projects such as the publication of Advanced Energy Design Guides, the development of minimum standards for green buildings, the coordination of education in sustainability, and research into sustainable infrastructure.
Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT): The AIA Center for Communities by Design has selected New Orleans; Syracuse; Longview, Wash.; Guemes Island, Wash.; Lawrence, Kans.; Northeast, Mich.; Northern, Nev.; and Hagerstown, Md. as the eight communities to receive technical assistance under the SDAT program in 2006.
Integrated Practice plays an important role in attaining energy reduction in buildings.
“Show You’re Green”: The AIA Housing Knowledge Community selects eight award-winning projects.
The Affordable Housing Design Advisor contains Affordable Green Guidelines to help review green building practices for inclusion in your housing designs and a new Green Housing Projects Gallery, focusing on sustainable design principles to help demonstrate that green design in affordable housing can be achieved.
Green Housing Network addresses several specialties under the umbrella of green housing practices.
The AIA is involved in many sustainable events around the country, including
- The Green House exhibit at the National Building Museum
- Earth Day
- Solar Decathlon
- Livable Communities: Walking, Working, and Water, in Seattle, September 14-17, 2006 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo
For further information, please contact Jeff Levine at the AIA, 202-626-7489 or jlevine@aia.org.
AIA High Performance Building Position Statement
“Promote integrated/high performance design including resource conservation resulting in a minimum 50% or greater reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels used to construct and operate new and renovated buildings by the year 2010 and promote further reductions of 10% or more in each of the following 5 years.”
—High Performance Building Position Statements ©2005, The American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.
Architects need to lead the sustainability discussion rather than have the outcomes dictated by others. Consequently, the AIA put architects at the front of the conversation by establishing a goal of reducing by 50 percent the building and construction related fossil-fuel usage between now and 2010.
We are working closely with EPA, DOE, and the U.S. Green Building Council on the implementation of these energy reduction requirements and are also supporting U.S. Conference of Mayors in their adoption of policies for the greening of cites, in their Resolution #50.
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