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Carl,
The AIA Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE)
participates in and/or sponsors conferences which qualify for AIA continuing
education credits. You don't have to be a member to attend, though that might
mean they cost a bit more.
Check the calendar in EBN or on their website (www.buildinggreen.com) for all sorts of
conferences in the US and abroad related to green design.
You might try contacting your NJ chapter of the AIA to see if
there is a NJ COTE (in Maine we don't have one, but I belong to the ones at
AIANH, open to non-members, and the Boston Society of Architects, also open to
non-members). The local-regional COTE's also offer workshops, etc in many areas.
I don't know how close you are to NYC, but the New York AIA has a very active
COTE.
Regular, recurring conferences like Environ Design (should be
able to find them on the web) offer sessions which should qualify for continuing
ed.
Check also the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the creators
of LEED, for possible educational offerings. You can get to their website -among
others- at EBN's site (see above).
The National Association of Homebuilders also has an annual
green building conference.
The advantage of most of these offerings is that they are
geared specifically to building industry professionals, which means that the
level of discussion/presentation is more useful to you as an architect than some
of the (still worthwhile) offerings made to the general public through broader
based environmental organizations.
Good luck.
Lance Fletcher, AIA
14 South Freeport Road
Freeport, ME 04032
207.865.3611
Architects in various states
(including mine, NJ) must accumulate "continuing education"
credits to remain licensed. Does anyone know if any environmentally oriented
groups are organized to provide such credits, whether through publications,
seminars, conferences...or other means?
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