FY 2019- 2020 Events

September 2019

Chapter Event

  • Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019
  • Time: 6:00-9pm
  • Location: The Cloverleaf Tavern, 395 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ 07006
  • Sponsor: Rulon

 

We’re already back to work after summer. Couldn’t you use a break? How ‘bout a night out with the NJ Chapter of CSI?

Our sponsor will be making an AIA Continuing Ed presentation during the meal and our new Chapter President will be laying out what’s ahead for us.

It is the Chapter’s goal to increase membership and encourage greater participation. That is how the industry thrives. We would love to see members that do not come too often and for more local design professionals join the Chapter.

October 2019

Lighting in Architecture: Understanding Light, Color, and Emerging Metrics

  • Date: Thursday, October 24, 2019
  • Time: 6:00-8:30pm
  • Location: Liberty Lighting Group, Inc., 100 Passaic Avenue, Chatham, NJ 07928
  • Speakers: J. Taylor Rightmire
  • Sponsor: Finelite


An overview and update regarding how tunable white LED technology has revolutionized lighting. Attendees will learn emerging concepts on how lighting impacts our perception of our surroundings, how it affects our level of alertness, and circadian entrainment.

February 2020

Scan2BIM / Laser Scanning / Digital Twin

  • Date: Thursday, February 27, 2020
  • Time: 6:00-8:30pm
  • Location: Gensler, 10 N Park Place #400, Morristown, NJ 07960
  • Speakers: Aaron Gonzalexz, PhD, MBA, LEED AP+ 


After work on a Thursday night event in central Morristown. Come on out to learn about some cool architecture technology and meet and see industry colleagues. Digital Twin is a revolutionary way of doing business that can be used throughout the “Life Cycle of the Building.”

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Learn about “Reality Capture:” 90% of the Built Environment already exists. Producing “AS FOUND” intelligent data for the initiation of a Renovation/Retrofit project or Facilities Management Analysis

  • Learn how to approach the Inter-connected Design/Build world? Are we there yet? BIM and IPD are now fully embedded in the vocabulary of every Architectural, Engineering and Construction Firm. How this is changing the collaborative workflow.

  • Learn about, Autodesk BIM360DOCS. A cloud-based approach on simple, sensible access to project data, ie. drawings, models, AutoCAD, Revit, Naivsworks files.

  • Learn the benefits of Drone Surveying.

April 2020

Virtual Happy Hour

  • Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
  • Speakers: Thomas Huff


Take this opportunity to see industry professionals, discuss what’s going on in our worlds and lives, take a break from the status quo, and learn something new all from the comfort of your own home. We look forward to seeing you.

May 2020

Virtual Happy Hour - Basic Builders Door Hardware

  • Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020
  • Time: 5:30-7:00pm
  • Sponsor: Dormakaba


Take this opportunity to see industry professionals, discuss what’s going on in our worlds and lives, take a break from the status quo, and learn something new all from the comfort of your own home. We look forward to seeing you.

The fundamentals of Builder’s Hardware products, their characteristics, proper uses, and applications to create an opening that meets applicable Codes, Standards and Accessibility.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand the fundamentals of door hardware.

  2. Understand the common types of hardware available.

  3. Identify what hardware components are required to complete an opening.

  4. Select appropriate hardware to provide desired function

Virtual Happy Hour - A Design Professional's Guide to Sound Isolation

  • Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020
  • Time: 5:30-7:30pm
  • Speakers: Anthony Stazzon


Take this opportunity to see industry professionals, discuss what’s going on in our worlds and lives, take a break from the status quo, and learn something new all from the comfort of your own home. We look forward to seeing you.

Learning Objectives:

  1. What is Noise?

  2. What are STC Ratings

  3. Inform and identify Products for Sound isolation

  4. Provide basic design guidelines for what needs to appear on your construction documents.

  5. Provide resources you can use to help your design effort for Sound Isolation

  6. Answer your questions.

June 2020

Virtual Happy Hour - Architechural Timber Curtain Walls


This is our last scheduled Virtual Event of the Season. We are planning more for the fall! Stay tuned to our website & LinkedIn Page. Take this opportunity to see industry professionals, discuss what’s going on in our worlds and lives, take a break from the status quo, and learn something new all from the comfort of your own home. We look forward to seeing you.

 An investigation of residential glass wall systems with emphasis on larger glass assemblies, contemporary features and minimal profiles. Highlighting the ideal environmental applications, structural requirements and performance benchmarks when selecting any glass facade.

Virtual Happy Hour - Acoustic Ceilings in the Health Care Segment

  • Date: Thursday, June 11, 2020
  • Time: 5:30-7:00pm
  • Sponsor: CertainTeed


This course discusses a process for creating sound reduction in healthcare buildings. Keeping informed of the best available evidence, with the goal of improving outcomes, you will be introduced to basic design concepts for improving acoustical performance within a facility.

Attendees gain a better understanding of how the suspended ceiling can positively affect healthcare space design.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Evidence based design;

  2. Basic acoustics as it applies to healthcare design;

  3. Acoustic performance in LEED for Healthcare;

  4. Ceilings in LEED/2009 for Healthcare;

  5. Ceilings in LEED/v4 for Healthcare;

  6. Sound attenuation in healthcare environments; FGI Guidelines as they apply to ceilings

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