Aging Buildings: Designing for Longevity
Date:December 9, 2009
Location: McGraw-Hill Auditorium, 1221 Ave of the Americas, NY 10020
Sponsored By: Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE and the Steel and Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York
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America’s buildings are aging, creating a dilemma in which the U.S. is not alone. Insufficient funding in addressing deficiencies has left many of its institutions—especially those providing critical services of government, health care, higher education, and public safety—with inadequate facilities and little option of relocating or building anew. The problem is particularly acute in large urban areas, where space is scarce and growing populations (the U.S. is expected to increase 50 percent over the next 40 years) stress city support systems. At the same time, threats of accidents, natural disasters, and terrorism are increasingly imposing new safety requirements, leaving these institutions, and their architects and engineers, to face the daunting challenge of modernizing facilities after years of “too little too late.”
Given this situation, despite most of the nation’s political and economic capital now focused on returning highways and bridges to sound condition, growing interest in sustainability should be raising awareness of the need not only to reduce overall energy and virgin material inputs, carbon emissions, and landfill waste, but also to design buildings in a way that increases their longevity.
In this symposium, twelve leading researchers and practitioners will in a series of presentations focus on issues that can impact longevity of the typical steel frame structure with glass curtain wall enclosure, using case studies to illustrate past performance and new practices that enhance it. The all-day program offers valuable education for architects and engineers, as well as building owners, developers and their risk management specialists. Each presentation will be by a recognized authority on their particular subject matter, organized to advance your thinking on designing for longevity and its economic considerations. Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks are included in the registration fee, and attendees will earn 6.5 AIA/CES LUs (HSW/SD) or 6.5 PDHs.
