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AEI Conference 2023 | Climate Conscientiousness and Resilience: The Need for Integrated Building Solutions

The Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) is pleased to announce the 10th Biennial Professional Conference for 2023.

As our climate continues to change at a rapid pace, the need for our buildings and infrastructure to be resilient and adaptable is imminent. The AEC industry must reevaluate our current standards of practice for designing, constructing, and operating buildings to reduce building-related carbon emissions and minimize the negative impacts of climate-related hazards like hurricanes, floods, and heat waves. Strategies for reducing the drivers of climate change and improving the resilience of the built environment will require collaboration among academia, engineers, businesses, and technology innovators to implement integrated solutions into practice.

This conference will discuss the need for architects and engineers to plan for the expected and unexpected impacts of climate change while also collaboratively exploring the challenges, opportunities, solutions, and strategies of integrated design and construction to deliver low-carbon, hazard resilient, and adaptable buildings of the future.

Continuing education activities will be offered as PDH credits.

Planning Committee

Conference Co-Chairs

  • Travis St. J. Louis, P.E., Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
  • Kristen Parrish, Ph.D., Del E. Webb School of Construction,School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
  • Joanna Zhang, PM, SE, PE, LEED AP, Cushman & Wakefield

Technical Program Committee

  • Jay Arehart, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Stuart Baur, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Derek Clements, Kansas State
  • Amy Hackney, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
  • Mohammad Heidarinejad, Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Brian Lines, University of Kansas
  • Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University
  • Chris Raebel, Milwaukee School of Engineering
  • Allyson Smith, Andelman and Lelek Engineering, Inc
  • Ryan Solnosky, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Wil Srubar, University of Colorado  Boulder
  • Jon Gardzelewski, University of Wyoming
  • Teng Wu, University of Buffalo

About the Architectural Engineering Institute

The Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) was created by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1998 to be the professional home of architectural engineers and to address the needs of the architectural engineering profession. The mission of AEI is “to serve the building community by promoting an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to planning, design, construction, and operation of buildings and by encouraging excellence in practice, education, and research of architectural engineering.”

AEI is the home for all professionals in the building industry. AEI provides a multi-disciplinary national forum for members of, but not limited to, the architectural engineering, construction management, structural, mechanical, electrical, and architectural communities.

As students are expected to be the next generation of members, supporting student activities is of strategic importance for the future of AEI. AEI has supported existing student chapters and encouraged the creation of new ones at Institutions offering Architectural Engineering programs. Since ASCE Student membership is free, the AEI student membership represents the majority of the student population of the architectural engineering programs.

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