Program descriptions are taken from the Conference Program Booklet. PDFs were generously provided by the presenters.
Special Guest, Keynote and REFP Session
Poet David Whyte was our Special Guest on Wednesday evening. On Thursday he served as our Keynote speaker and kicked off the morning REFP Session.
REFP: Plan for Change and Hold on to What is Timeless About Learning
How can you evoke and encourage an atmosphere of change in school planning to addresses changes in society and the “world of work”? What should not change? What is timeless about learning? How do we develop learning environments that provide for core aspects of human learning and easily adapt to the needs of the 21st century learners and beyond?
The REFP session will begin with a Keynote presentation by David Whyte, a renowned poet, to set the stage with a broad perspective and context for our discussion about timelessness and change. As we challenge ourselves to address societal and technological changes our school planning, how to we consider what is timeless about learning and shape our schools accordingly.
We will continue with a panel of school district representatives who have been creating change in their communities. They will present the issues they have been addressing through planning recent projects. What has been developed successfully, what still needs further exploration? How has the dynamic of community engagement influenced planning and design? What are the sets of issues we have yet to properly address?
School District Panelists:
Tamela VanWinkle, Bainbridge Island SD
Rod Leland, Federal Way SD
Steve Cole, Lake Washington SD
To “round out” the session, we will break into groups according to topics and challenge each group to develop three strategies for addressing their issue in the context of David’s keynote and the considerations raised by our panel. We hope to come away with a broad array of essential considerations in school planning that incorporate what is timeless about learning and accordingly the complimentary changes we should embrace in the years ahead.
David Whyte
You can learn more about David Whyte, poet, author, lecturer at this website. Here's an excerpt from his biography at davidwhyte.com:
"His life as a poet has created a readership and listener-ship in three normally mutually exclusive areas, the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry and the world of vocation, work and organizational leadership.
An Associate Fellow at Templeton College and Said Business School at the University of Oxford, he is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, where he works with many European, American and international companies.
In organizational settings, using poetry and thoughtful commentary, he illustrates how we can foster qualities of courage and engagement; qualities needed if we are to respond to today’s call for increased creativity and adaptability in the workplace."
All conference attendees received a copy of one of David's CDs, entitled "The Teacher's Vocation". You can find it at his store online. Learn much more at www.davidwhyte.com
Here are the presentations given at the 2009 Chapter Conference: (in alphabetical order)
AIA Committee for Architecture in Education
Last year’s “A Flat World“ Conference in Helsinki , Finland included presentations from educators, architects and academics from around the world, each providing valuable information on school planning and design from around the world. Butch Reifert, who is a member of the CAE leadership committee, will summarize information from several of the conference presentations, and will explain it’s relevance to the work we do regionally in the Pacific Northwest. Next, the seminar will review the 2009 CAE awards, discussing awarded projects along with national trends in school design. The seminar also will provide a brief description of the work of the AIA Committee for Architecture in Education, including it’s work with CEFPI, and it’s new structure and outreach programs.
Facilitator: Brian Carter, Integrus Architecture
Presenter: Gerald (Butch) Reifert FAIA, Mahlum
download the presentation PDF (83.8MB, very large)
It includes slides of award winning schools from the CAE Educational Facility Design Awards Program.
Bainbridge High School Post Occupancy Evaluation
It’s not often that we get to hear directly from the users themselves about their first days in a new school and learning environment. We welcome student and staff members to our panel to talk about their first impressions and first experiences with this facility. How closely do their observations match up with--or diverge from--the concepts and expectations of the design team? What sort of “construction criticism” might a student or teacher bring up? How might their responses, and the ways they use the facility, evolve during the school year and beyond?
Facilitator: Mitch Kent, Mahlum
download the presentation PDF (5.1MB)
BIM & Beyond
The seminar will focus on moving BIM beyond documentation. Where are we now, and where are we headed? The benefits and pitfalls to implementation of both BIM and a sustainable workflow will be discussed with real-world project examples. Discussion will include tools used in energy modeling and daylighting — and how to get results from each. While BIM is changing the way buildings are designed, documented, and constructed, it also can be a valuable tool for Facilities Management. Examples will be discussed on how this can be implemented and ultimately where the future of BIM for design through occupancy will be headed.
Facilitator: Dennis Erwood, Studio Meng Strazzara
Presenter: Eddy Krygiel, HNTB Architects
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Energy Savings: Designing it, Measuring it, Achieving it
School design is a complex and multifaceted endeavor that requires experts from many This seminar will compare how we design for energy savings, how these efforts are measured by common protocols and how the buildings perform after they are built. Looking at energy savings from a design perspective, from a regulatory perspective and from a user perspective, we will explore the driving forces and results of energy conservation.
Facilitator: Philip Riedel, NAC Architecture
Presenters:
Patricia Jatczak, OSPI High Performance School Building Program Coordinator
Brian Haugk, Principal, Hargis Engineers
Chuck Collins, President and CEO, Cascade Power Resource Conservation Manager, Lake Washington SD
Stuart Simpson: ELCCA Reviewer, Department of General Administration
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Kingston High School Post Occupancy Evaluation
It’s not often that we get to hear directly from the users themselves about their first days in a new school and learning environment. We welcome student and staff members to our panel to talk about their first impressions and first experiences with this facility. How closely do their observations match up with--or diverge from--the concepts and expectations of the design team? What sort of “construction criticism” might a student or teacher bring up? How might their responses, and the ways they use the facility, evolve during the school year and beyond?
Facilitator: Greg Hepp, Bassetti Architects
download the presentation PDF (3.3MB)
Low Impact Development: Raingardens, Porous Pavement and Green Roofs – are they
really working?
We have been hearing about LID, green infrastructure, Bioretention, raingardens, greenroofs and the like for a few years now, and many of us have been exposed to projects that have included these systems. Are they living up to their promises? Are they really working? Are they really the right thing for schools? Our speaker is widely respected as an expert in the area, and has been monitoring a number of early installations with surprising results. He is involved with on-going research programs and education across the nation and so brings a broad perspective to what the future holds and lessons learned.
Facilitator: Kas Kinkead, Cascade Design Collaborative
Presenter: Curtis Hinman, Associate Adjunct Professor, Washington State University
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The State of School Funding in Washington State
School funding in Washington State is a complex matter and not fully understood by everyone. The current economic situation has brought new challenges and new ideas into the dialog about the future of school funding. CEFPI is a unique organization in Washington State that includes design professionals, providers of school products and school district and State professionals overseeing the development and operations of schools in Washington. How do we improve stakeholders’ understanding of the current funding for school facilities? How do we work as a community of school facility professionals to improve funding opportunities for school facility projects? Are there issues that we can define as a CEFPI community that we want to actively support?
Facilitator: Kelley Tanner, DLR Group
Presenters:
State of the State
Gordon Beck, OSPI
Nina Oman, PhD, JLARC (Joint Legislative Audit & Review Committee)
State of the Nation
Natasha Fedo, Berk & Associates
Allegra Calder, Berk & Associates
Exploration of Ideas
Gordon Beck, OSPI
Greg Brown, Spokane School District
Don Gillmore, Seattle Public Schools
Bill Chaput, Hutteball & Oremus
Pete Wall, Tacoma School District
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Working with Your Local Health Department on Approval of School Projects
School design is a complex and multifaceted endeavor that requires experts from many disciplines working together to create beautiful, functional, and safe school facilities. Safety and health professionals offer a unique perspective on school design that focuses on the potential for design to minimize communicable disease outbreaks, injury, environmental hazards, air quality concerns, laboratory/shop/art hazards, and a variety of other issues. The Washington State Board of Health K-12 School Environmental Health and Safety rule (Chapter 246-366, WAC) requires local health jurisdictions to review and approve plans and specifications for school construction projects and to conduct preoccupancy inspections.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has worked hard to develop cooperative relationships with school districts and local architectural firms so that health officials may be invited “on-board” early in the design development process to discuss health and safety in relation to the specific design elements of the project. This session will answer questions about the benefits of health department plan review to school safety and health and how a mutually cooperative relationship can be maintained.
Facilitator: Nancy Bernard, Washington State Department of Health
Presenter: David DeLong, RS, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
Presenter: Jim Hansen, Director of Construction and Planning, Bethel School District
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