Continuing Education
For Design Professionals
The BAC offers opportunities for you to expand your credentials as a professional. Courses in Sustainable Design, Historic Preservation, Design Computing, Planting Design, and Advanced Rendering provide valuable skills that can enhance your current career. For licensed architects, the BAC offers the annual CEU Weekends where architects can earn 12 HSW credits in one weekend.
The BAC is a registered AIA (American Institute of Architects) provider for Continuing Education, and architects can earn Continuing Education credits through nearly all BAC courses. If you are a member of the AIA, the BAC will report your credits directly to the AIA continuing education system, upon successful completion of a BAC course or workshop. To take advantage of this service, AIA members should include their AIA membership number on their registration form.
All active AIA members must successfully complete 18 LU's (learning units) each year, ensuring that at least 8 of the 18 are health, safety, and welfare (HSW) related. As of September 2003, the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Architects requires mandatory continuing education for registration renewal in the Commonwealth. All architects registered in the Commonwealth must complete 12 continuing education units each year, ensuring that 8 of the 12 are HSW related. These units must be completed by August 31st of each year, and are self-reported on the license renewal form.
2009 CEU Weekends
April 25th & 26th
Saturday 8:30am to 5:30pm; Sunday 10:00am to 2:00pm
June 13th & 14th
Saturday 8:30am to 5:30pm; Sunday 10:00am to 2:00pm
Fulfill your professional development requirements in just two days at the Boston Architectural College's annual CEU Weekends. This convenient weekend program allows you to earn 12 CEU's required by August 31st for Massachusetts state license renewal. BAC Faculty and Guest Speakers will address critical topics that affect the work of today's design professionals. All sessions qualify as Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) credit.
Space is limited so please register early.
The CEU Weekend is divided into three sessions; Saturday morning (8:30am-12:30pm), Saturday afternoon (1:30pm-5:30pm), and Sunday (10:00am-2:00pm - please note this is a time change from previous years). Each session provides 4 HSW AIA credit. Registration for the entire weekend is $525. Lunch is provided for Saturday, full-day registrants.
Participant comments:
"The CEU weekend was a very informative experience, and a pleasurable way to comply with obtaining the required number of learning units."
"Thank you for hosting the CEU weekend...it's the most convenient way I've found to meet CEU requirements in one moderately intensive weekend."
CEU Weekends 2009
April 25th, Saturday Morning Session $189
TMC101P - 4 AIA Hrs/LUs
8:30 - 10:30 Massachusetts State Building Code 7th Edition: The Big Change
A.Vernon Woodworth, AIA LEED AP
Associate Principal, Sullivan Code Group
Chair - BSA Codes Committee Member
AIA COTE Advisory Group 2009
Description: Massachusetts has just adopted a new statewide building code for multifamily and commercial structures. The new code is based on the International Building Code (BC 2003). This seminar will describe major differences between the 7th and the 6th editions in areas including: use groups, construction types, height and area limitations, fire protection, egress and existing buildings.
Bio: A. Vernon Woodworth AIA is an instructor in codes in both the Interiors and the Architecture programs at the Boston Architectural College. Vernon is Chair of the Boston Society of Architects Codes Committee and a member of the 2009 AIA Committee on the Environment Advisory Group. He served as a member of the Advisory Committees for Chapter 1, Administration, and Chapter 34, Existing Buildings, during the preparation of the Seventh Edition of the Massachusetts State Building Code. Vernon is an Associate Principal at Robert W. Sullivan Engineering, Inc. and has been a member of the Sullivan Code Group since 1999.
10:30 - 12:30 Getting the Details Right in Historic Restoration: The Basics
Sheldon Richard Kostelecky, AIA
Principal, Sheldon Richard Kostelecky Architect
Description: This session describes the common errors committed in historic renovation projects, and will outline how the various traditional elements can be selected, sized, and combined appropriately to create a beautiful, authentic design. This is achieved by following basic classical principles (canons), common to all traditional period styles. The classical vocabulary (components such as windows, doors, etc.) and grammar (the rules to properly combine these elements) will be covered. Sources for designing and selecting the orders, molding profiles, and other authentic traditional details will be addressed.
Bio: Sheldon Richard Kostelecky, AIA NCARB, BA and BArch, North Dakota State University; MAUD, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; MADU, University of Notre Dame ; Sheldon has over twenty-five years experience in traditional/classical architecture in both new construction and historic restoration. He is Founder, past president and a current board member of the New England Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America (ICA&CA and an adjunct faculty member at the Boston Architectural College since 1999, He is a Fellow and faculty member at the Tuscan Classical Academy, Villa Capitignano, Tuscany and is Principal of Sheldon Richard Kostelecky Architect, Lexington, MA
April 25th, Saturday Afternoon Session $189
TMC101Q - 4 AIA Hrs/LUs
1:30 - 3:30 How Experts Survive Tough Times
Kathleen Soldati
Co-author, "Business Comes to the Experts" - A Proactive Marketing
Plan for Professional Practice Firms
Description: In tough economic times, it’s more important than ever to position your firm on the basis of a clear understanding of prospect/client needs matched with the expertise you’ve proven with previous projects so that you can say with credibility and confidence – “I know what you want and I’ve got it.” How best to do that? Conducting the research on prospect/client needs and assessing and disseminating your knowledge into the marketplace in vehicles your audience pays attention to. This builds awareness of your firm and designers as the go-to experts – thus driving business to your door.
Bio: Kathleen Soldati, the co-author of the book, Business Comes to the Expert, is an innovative corporate/non-profit executive with significant marketing and public relations expertise. She has assisted corporations and non-profits, ad agencies, public television and radio, and political campaigns meet the challenges of delivering the right message to the right audience at the right price. A dynamic teacher, she has taught marketing for the Boston Society of Architects, the Society for Marketing Professional Services (Boston and Maine chapters), and Boston Architectural College. She has led seminars on architectural marketing at BuildBoston, the Residential Design Show, and Women in Design Conference. An architectural marketing consultant, she provides short term marketing consultation to members of the Boston Society of Architects. She understands the issues facing architectural firms today. Her focus is on assisting organizations with reaching their full potential, increasing their profitability, and putting them on the map. She is currently engaged as the Director of Marketing for The Music Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
3:30 - 5:30 High Efficiency Plumbing
Gunnar Baldwin
Water Efficiency Specialist, TOTO
Description: The modern evolution of toilets is explained starting with the first efforts to reduce potable water consumption in the late 1960's. National standards have played a large role in guiding the development of modern Low Consumption (LC) toilets. The failure of these voluntary, industry written standards in the US and Canada to protect consumers from purchasing products that really don't perform their intended purpose has led to the development of a consumer based performance standard. The result is a much more effective tool to be used in determining if these products really work. A discussion of the current technologies available in toilets is followed by a look at the meaning of Green. The application of High Efficiency Toilets (HETs) and other LC plumbing fittings and fixtures in Green Plumbing Design is discussed in relation to the earning two of the water efficiency credits, WE 3.1&2, in the US Green Building Council's LEED evaluation system. In conclusion, the presenter will make some predictions about the future of water use and wastewater treatment in an attempt to guide the designer toward creating more sustainable buildings.
Bio: Gunnar Baldwin was educated at Yale and Brown Universities and taught mathematics for 16 years. He left teaching to pursue his interest in water conservation and wastewater reduction in 1976. He joined TOTO in 1990, when they first opened a subsidiary in the USA, after working for their importer for several years and lobbying for legislation and incentives for water efficient plumbing fixtures. Gunnar served on the ANSI Vitreous China standard committee until TOTO USA was formed and has served in numerous roles at TOTO during its nineteen year history of growth and industry leadership. He is now TOTO’s Water Efficiency Specialist. Gunnar represents the company on several green building committees including the USGBC's WETAG, and is a charter director of the Alliance for Water Efficiency. His lifelong interest in rowing has him rowing up the East Coast about one month of the year publicizing TOTO's donations to Habitat for Humanity and getting an up close and personal view of the effects of water pollution along the Atlantic Intra Coastal Waterway.
April 26th, Sunday Session $189
TMC101R - 4 AIA Hrs/LUs
10:00-12:00 IPD "Integrated Project Delivery":
The next step in a model based project delivery environment?
A Panel Discussion led by Jeff Millet, AIA, Practech Solutions
Presenters: Sarah Vekasy, Project Architect, KlingStubbins
Andy Deschanes, Regional Director for Virtual Design and Construction, Skanska
Description: We will discuss how and why BIM effects: roles, responsibilities, staffing, scheduling, communications and more. What makes BIM different? What is the difference between BIM in a traditional project delivery process and BIM with Integrated Project Delivery? BIM seems to be changing everything but will it end up changing anything (of importance)?
Bio: For the past six years Jeff Millet has been championing the architecture, engineering and construction industry’s transition to building information modeling. In addition to leading the BIM implementation efforts at numerous major design firms during this time, Jeff has been a vocal proponent of BIM-enabled Integrated Design and Integrated Project Delivery. Jeff is a registered Architect with 15 years of design and project management experience. His educational background includes architecture, business management, and computer science. In 2008 Jeff founded Practech Solutions Group to provide practice, technology, and management consulting services to organizations and project teams in the AEC industry.
Bio: Sarah Vekasy joined KlingStubbins six years ago and serves as a technology leader within the office working with team members to develop standards and procedures for BIM projects. As a Project Architect, she has used BIM through all phases of the design process and into construction on several large and small scale projects. In addition to her previous technology speaking engagements, she is Co-chair for the Emerging Leaders Subforum, part of the AGC BIM Forum.
Bio: Andy Deschanes has been with Skanska for over six years and is presently the Regional Director for Virtual Design and Construction. He oversees the implementation of VDC tools and resources on projects across New England and is actively involved in several construction projects in the Boston area. Currently he is working with the Harvard Law project team - A/E, subcontractors and field construction staff to model, coordinate and to build a 250,000 square foot project along Mass Ave. in Cambridge. He spent the first 19 years of his career in architecture focusing on CAD and Project Management and later Construction Administration.
12:00-2:00 Landscape Lighting: Eliminating the Black Mirror
Nancy Goldstein
Principal Designer, Nancy Goldstein Design, LLC
Description: Residential landscape architects create environments that extend their clients' living spaces beyond the walls of their homes. During the day, these living compositions can also be enjoyed through the home's windows, but what happens at sundown? These very same windows often become "black mirrors", reflecting the interior, rather than exterior environment, and depriving the homeowner of the sense of expanded living space so enjoyed during the day. How can the combination of good landscape lighting and control of interior lighting eliminate the black mirror?
Bio: Nancy Goldstein has been lighting dance, theatre, architecture and events for thirty years. She has been on the faculty of Brandeis University, Emerson College, Endicott College, Suffolk University/New England School of Art and Design, and is the Past President of the Designers Lighting Forum New England. Nancy’s professional practice includes a focus on dramatic lighting for residential and public gardens and interiors.
June 13th, Saturday Morning Session $189
TMC102P - 4 AIA Hrs/LUs
8:30 - 10:30 Massachusetts State Building Code 7th Edition: The Big Change
A.Vernon Woodworth, AIA LEED AP
Associate Principal, Sullivan Code Group
Chair, BSA Codes Committee
Member, AIA COTE Advisory Group 2009
Description: Massachusetts has just adopted a new statewide building code for multifamily and commercial structures. The new code is based on the International Building Code (BC 2003). This seminar will describe major differences between the 7th and the 6th editions in areas such as use groups, construction types, height and area limitations, fire protection, egress and existing buildings.
Bio: A. Vernon Woodworth AIA is an instructor in codes in both the Interiors and the Architecture programs at the BAC. Mr. Woodworth is Chair of the Boston Society of Architects Codes Committee and a member of the 2009 AIA Committee on the Environment Advisory Group. He served as a member of the Advisory Committees for Chapter 1, Administration, and Chapter 34, Existing Buildings, during the preparation of the Seventh Edition of the Massachusetts State Building Code. Vernon is an Associate Principal at Robert W. Sullivan Engineering, Inc. and has been a member of the Sullivan Code Group since 1999.
10:30 - 12:30 A Blueprint for Successful Project Management
Eva E. Hamori
Senior Project Planner, Diversified Project Management, Inc.
Description: Designing and building projects is inherently complex and requires superb technical skills as well as broad and adaptable management habits. Successful project managers are attuned to client culture, concise communication and a focus on the fundamentals of project management in order to insure a productive process and a beneficial outcome for all parties. This session will introduce the basic elements of project management including understanding expectations, defining roles and responsibilities, communication tools and the systematized approach to project documentation. Client interaction enhanced through the use of project tools such as budgets, schedules and checklists will also be discussed.
Bio: Eva Hamori has spent over twenty years working in the real estate and facilities field and has worked in project management for the last six years. She is currently a Senior Project Planner with Diversified Project Management, a firm with offices in Massachusetts and Connecticut, where she specializes in programming and move coordination for complex client assignments. Prior to joining DPM, Eva served as principal of a relocation consulting firm. She is a graduate of Bates College.
June 13th, Saturday Afternoon Session $189
TMC102Q - 4 AIA Hrs/LUs
1:30 - 3:30 How Experts Survive Tough Times
Kathleen Soldati
Co-author, "Business Comes to the Experts" - A Proactive Marketing
Plan for Professional Practice Firms
Description: In tough economic times, it’s more important than ever to position your firm on the basis of a clear understanding of prospect/client needs matched with the expertise you’ve proven with previous projects, so that you can say with credibility and confidence – “I know what you want and I’ve got it.” How best to do that? This seminar will show how to conduct the research on prospect/client needs, and how to assess and disseminate your knowledge into the marketplace in vehicles that your audience will pay attention to, while building awareness of your firm and designers as the go-to experts, driving business to your door.
Bio: Kathleen Soldati, the co-author of the book, Business Comes to the Expert, is an innovative corporate/non-profit executive with significant marketing and public relations expertise. She has assisted corporations and non-profits, ad agencies, public television and radio, and political campaigns to meet the challenges of delivering the right message to the right audience at the right price. A dynamic teacher, she has taught marketing for the Boston Society of Architects, the Society for Marketing Professional Services, Boston and Maine chapters, and at the Boston Architectural College. She has led seminars on architectural marketing at BuildBoston, the Residential Design, and the Women in Design Conference. Kathleen understands the issues facing architectural firms today. Her focus is on assisting organizations in reaching full potential, increasing profitability, and "putting them on the map."
3:30 - 5:30 Implementing LEED in Practice
Michelle Lambert, LEED AP
ADD Inc., Chair of Sustainable Design Initiatives
Description: This session will give a general overview of the LEED Rating System and discuss how it can be used in practice for both large and small projects. You will hear about how LEED has evolved over time and what sustainable design principles it has been based on. The session will present several case studies of LEED projects and discuss the benefits and costs involved with different project types. This session will not cover the entire LEED Rating System in detail and is not intended to be a prep course for the LEED exam, but will give an understanding of how to get started with LEED and begin to use it in your practice.
Bio: Michelle Lambert is an architect and a planner, and has many years of experience with sustainable design and the LEED Rating System in both practice and teaching. She received her Masters in Urban Planning and Environmental Policy from Tufts University and her Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently works for ADD Inc, an architecture and design firm in Boston, where she chairs the internal Environmental Task Force. Michelle has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2002 and taught one of the first university classes offered on the subject of LEED at Carnegie Mellon. Her professional experience includes work in architecture, urban planning, green building consulting and building science research. Michelle has worked on numerous LEED projects ranging from corporate offices to residential buildings to educational facilities. Working with the Green Roundtable, she acted as a consultant to the City of Boston Mayor’s Green Building Task Force and contributed to the development and publication of the City of Boston’s Green Building Guidelines.
June 14th, Sunday Session $189
TMC102R - 4 AIA Hrs/LUs
10:00-12:00 High Efficiency Plumbing
Jeremy Cressman
Director of Sales North East, TOTO
Description: The modern evolution of toilets is explained starting with the first efforts to reduce potable water consumption in the late 1960's. National standards have played a large role in guiding the development of modern Low Consumption (LCD) toilets. The failure of these voluntary, industry written standards in the US and Canada to protect consumers from purchasing products that really don't perform their intended purpose has led to the development of a consumer based performance standard. The result is a much more effective tool to be used in determining if these products really work. A discussion of the current technologies available in toilets is followed by a look at the meaning of Green. The application of High Efficiency Toilets (Heats) and other LCD plumbing fittings and fixtures in Green Plumbing Design is discussed in relation to the earning two of the water efficiency credits, WE 3.1&2, in the US Green Building Council's LEED evaluation system. In conclusion, the author makes some predictions about the future of water use and wastewater treatment in an attempt to guide the designer toward creating more sustainable buildings.
Bio: Jeremy Cressman was educated at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he earned a B.A. in English. He began his career as a sales trainee at Ferguson, the nation’s largest distributor of plumbing and piping materials. Since 2002, Jeremy has worked in sales and senior management at TOTO USA in New York City, Philadelphia, New England, Washington, D.C. and Eastern Canada helping to specify water efficiency products in commercial and residential application. He represents TOTO as a member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI), and Association of Specifying Plumbing Engineers (ASPE). Jeremy is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional in New Construction (LEED NC) and a chapter sponsor of the New York, New Jersey, and Delaware Valley Green Building Councils. Jeremy and his family reside in Upper Makefield Twp, PA Presenter, AIA Continuing Education, Water Efficient Plumbing 2009
12:00-2:00 IPD "Integrated Project Delivery":
The next step in a model based project delivery environment?
A Panel Discussion led by Jeff Millet, AIA, Practech Solutions
Presenters: Sarah Vekasy, Project Architect, KlingStubbins
Andy Deschanes, Regional Director for Virtual Design and Construction, Skanska
Description: We will discuss how and why BIM effects: roles, responsibilities, staffing, scheduling, communications and more. What makes BIM different. What is the difference between BIM in a traditional project delivery process and BIM with Integrated Project Delivery? BIM seems to be changing everything but will it end up changing anything (of importance)?
Bio: For the past six years Jeff Millet has been championing the architecture, engineering and construction industry’s transition to building information modeling. In addition to leading the BIM implementation efforts at numerous major design firms during this time, Jeff has been a vocal proponent of BIM-enabled Integrated Design and Integrated Project Delivery. Jeff is a registered Architect with 15 years of design and project management experience. His educational background includes architecture, business management, and computer science. In 2008 Jeff founded Practech Solutions Group to provide practice, technology, and management consulting services to organizations and project teams in the AEC industry.
Bio: Sarah Vekasy joined KlingStubbins six years ago and serves as a technology leader within the office, working with team members to develop standards and procedures for BIM projects. As a Project Architect, she has used BIM through all phases of the design process and into construction on several large and small scale projects. In addition to her previous technology speaking engagements, she is Co-chair for the Emerging Leaders Subforum, part of the AGC BIMForum.
Bio: Andy Deschanes has been with Skanska for over six years and is presently the Regional Director for Virtual Design and Construction. He oversees the implementation of VDC tools and resources on projects across New England and is actively involved in several construction projects in the Boston area. Currently he is working with the Harvard Law project team - A/E, subcontractors and field construction staff - to model, coordinate and build a 250,000 s.f. project along Mass Ave. in Cambridge. He spent the first 19 years of his career in architecture, focusing on CAD and Project Management and later Construction Administration.
