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Chapter Webinar
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
12 noon – 1:00 pm Hawaii Time
A4LE Conference Highlights
Have you ever wondered what an A4LE conference is like? Heard about them, but would like to learn more? Chapter Governor, Mark Ayers, will share slides and experiences attending regional and national conferences with A4LE at this webinar.
Members: Free | Non-members: $15
Last day to register is July 17 at 3:00 pm Hawaii time. Link to join webinar will be sent out morning of July 18th.
Chapter Tour
May 6, 2023
9:00 – 11:00 am
AIA CES Credits
Noelani Idea Center
Noelani Elementary School, 2655 Woodlawn Drive
Park and meet at the IDEA center.
The I.D.E.A.(Innovate, Discover, Explore, and Achieve) Center was designed purposefully for elementary aged students to become problem solvers. The architects, landscape architect and end user will share their experiences from the project. Hear about the master planning and design challenges of siting the building on an existing campus, the sustainable features of the building and landscape design, and how a new building can positively impact an existing school. This award winning (AIA Honolulu 2022 Award of Excellence) project will inspire you to raise the bar on what is possible with institutional designs on a budget.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the master planning strategy behind the project.
- Understand the design concepts which lead to the final solution.
- Hear about the innovative water catchment system.
- Observe the unique stormwater retention solution.
- Hear from educators, architects, and design team about the project success stories and challenge.
Project Team:
Architect of Record: Lorrin Matsunaga, Urban Works
Landscape Architect: Ki Concepts
Structural Engineer: Nagamine Okawa Engineers, Inc.
Electrical & Mechanical Engineer: Interface Engineering, Inc.
Civil Engineer: Sam O. Hirota, Inc.
Contractor: Ralph S. Inouye Company
Owner: Hawaii Dept. of Education
Presenters:
- Lorrin Matsunaga, Urban Works
- Emily Gillmar, University of Hawaii School of Architecture
- Kyle Sasaki, Ki Concepts
This EVENT is FREE, but you must register!
Chapter Tour
Saturday, February 11, 2023
9:00 – 11:00 am
2 AIA LU
Meet up the ramp at the entrance, past the box office.
Moanalua High School Performing Arts Center
2825 Ala Ilima St., Honolulu, HI 96818
Come hear from the architect, acoustical designer, owner's representative, and user about what it took to design, and now maintain, a performing arts complex. The presentation will include a brief history of the master planning and design process. The acoustical engineer will discuss the challenges of providing a world class system for the various user needs and the owner's rep will discuss the limited funding and timeline. Join us for an educational tour through the Auditorium, Rehearsal Hall, Choral & Dance Rooms.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the design team coordination efforts during the design and construction administration phases of the project;
- Describe the importance of the configuration of an auditorium for the optimum visual and acoustic experience;
- Explain the various systems needed for music and drama performances and how to accommodate competing needs; and
- Identify building design strategies for a large assembly occupancy building on a tight site.
Presenters:
Todd Beiler, President CENSEO AV+Acoustics
Terry McFarland, AHL
Jensen Ball, Facility Manager, Moanalua High School
Project Team:
Architect of Record: AHL
Landscape Architect: Brownlie & Lee
Structural Engineer: SSFM International, Inc.
Electrical Engineer: ECS, Inc.
Civil Engineer: R.M. Towill Corporation
Mechanical Engineer: Mechanical Engineers of Hawaii Corporation
Contractor: Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company, Inc.
Specialized Consultants:
AV: CENSEO AV + Acoustics
Theater Consultant: The Ruzika Company
Owner: Hawaii Department of Education
Parking
Be sure to park in the school's upper parking lot – past the Fire Station at the end of Ala Ilima Street.
View parking map »
This EVENT is FREE, but you must register!
Pau Hana
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Encore Saloon Courtyard
10 N Hotel St, Honolulu, HI 96817
Join the A4LE Hawaii Chapter for a pau hana talk story with Keone Farias, Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority & Yuuko Arikawa-Cross, Executive Director of the Executive Office on Early Learning, to discuss expanding Pre-K learning and development in Hawaii.
Chapter president Mark Ayers will also talk about his experience with the Pacific Northwest Conference and upcoming events for ’22-’23 year. Our chapter is welcoming applicants for board seats. Food provided! Bring a friend or colleague.
Food provided – $15 to attend.
Pau Hana
Thursday, April 14, 2022
5:00 pm
Encore Saloon Courtyard
10 N Hotel St, Honolulu, HI 96817
Come meet members of the board and hear what we have in store for you this year! First drink is on us!
Capacity is 45 people, sign up now! Please RSVP for accurate head count.
This is a free event brought to you by your A4LE Hawaii Chapter.
RSVP closes April 10, 2022
Virtual Tour of Searider Productions
Thursday, October 21, 2021
4:30 – 5:30 pm Hawaii Time
Wai‘anae High School
Wai‘anae High School is home to the Searider
Productions. Established in 1993, it is a
collective of teachers, students and programs
dedicated to helping students succeed in
graphics, photography, and videography. This
virtual tour will visit a new facility created for
this program in 2019.
Members: Free | Non-members: $20 | Sponsorship: $100
AIA CES Credit Available
Registration closes on October 20. Link to join will be sent out on October 21 in the morning.
Membership Meeting & Social
August 5, 2021
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Encore Saloon (Outdoor Courtyard)
10 N Hotel Street, Honolulu, HI 96817
- Come and hang out!
- Meet our current and future chapter officers
- Hear about our exciting upcoming events
- First round of pupu's will be purchased by A4LE
- Street and municipal parking in the area
- Registration is limited to the first 30 members
Cost: Free for A4LE Members
RSVP by July 31, 2021.
Virtual Tour
April 28, 2021
4:00 – 5:30 pm HST (7:00 – 8:30 pm PST)
'Iolani School
K-1 Community
Members: Free | Non-members: $20
Sponsorship $100
Must register by 10 am Hawaii time. Link will be sent after registration closes.
Virtual School Tour
November 18, 2020
4:00 pm Hawai'i Time
Honouliuli Middle School
East Kapolei, Hawaii
Click here to view 360 degree photos of the tour.
- HI-CHPS Certified
- AIA CES Credits (in process)
- Cost: free for members, $10 for non-members
Abstract:
The State’s new public Honouliuli Middle School is located on an 18 acre parcel, formerly cultivated with sugar cane, within the 1,300 acre East Kapolei Master Plan Development Project area. The first phase of the school’s construction is complete and occupied. Two additional construction phases are planned to complete the campus. Planning for the school involved a strong community based design and charrette process. The school includes 126,000 SF of educational program area made up of a collection of separate buildings organized around a central outdoor commons area. This organizational strategy recognizes that middle schooler’s network of influence shifts from family to friends and the importance of having space that they can treat as their own in this important stage of development.
The school is the first whole public school project in Hawaii to achieve Hawaii-Collaborative for High Performance Schools (HI-CHPS) Verified certification. Schools which meet HI-CHPS criteria are defined as high performance learning environments that are healthy, comfortable, conserve energy, water and resources, safe, adaptable and easy to operate and maintain.
The tour will walk through the physical campus and discuss the visioning, programming, and function of the campus with input and observations from the school principal and students.
Learning Objectives:
- Project Programming: A year of studying paradigm-shifting schools, and charrettes with stakeholders, students and educators revealed an organic design process and resulted in changes of thought about what a new school could look like, serve, and function for Hawaii’s children.
- Project Planning & Design: Instead of a singular or hierarchical school construct, The collective Honouliuli Middle School campus is designed around a campus commons and flanked by administrative, social (cafeteria), educational (classrooms), creative (Music) and investigative (Learning Commons) to visually and physically connect students to each other, and to the school who are there to serve their needs. Scalable exterior spaces are located throughout the campus to provide group and individual learning environments. The goal is to create opportunities for cross collaboration and interactions that don’t otherwise occur in multi-building schools.
- Project Development: The Cafeteria and Classrooms are designed for “Mixed Mode” ventilation. Using CFD modeling and optimizing insulation, materials, operable windows and shading allow for comfortable indoor spaces which are not dependent on mechanical HVAC systems. Now more than ever, this opportunity is crucial to optimizing clean, outdoor air for the physical safety of students and staff.
- Building Materials: The design material palette is the result of an assessment of locally available materials and labor skillsets. Utilizing CIP and pre-cast concrete optimizes controlled, on-site construction without depending on mainland fabricators. Colors and textures respond to the raw vernacular environment of the Ewa Plain.
Link will be sent to all RSVPs on November 18
Webinar via Zoom
July 14, 2020
2:00 pm HST
Impact of COVID-19 on Schools
Join the A4LE Hawaii Chapter for a discussion of the challenges and issues facing schools due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Clearly, COVID-19 will have a global impact on all facets of life and the what the return from stay-at-home will look like is anyone’s guess at this point.
This webinar will examine the issues surrounding the coronavirus impact on how schools operate and their facilities.
We will present a brief presentation from our distinguished panelists followed by a Q & A session with attendees.
FREE Webinar!
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Maker Space Symposium
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Saturday, November 2, 2019
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Check-in 8:30 am
Punahou School, Kosasa Design Lab
- Keynote: Miki Tomita, Education Incubator
- Tours of Punahou Maker Space
- Exhibits by Educators
- AIA CES Credits (3 Expected)
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The maker movement is a powerful and transformative evolution in education, but what defines it, and how are other school putting concepts to use?
There’s no lack of science to the understanding that hands-on learning-by-doing and social team dynamics increases cognition, attention, and ultimately a student’s own learning outcomes. But implementation of design thinking can shift an entire curriculum from more to less predictable, as any teacher knows. So then, how are school leaders developing spaces for student invention, and what do they look like? Beyond understanding the needs for space and equipment, the maker movement also taps into incredible momentum accelerating student growth is schools everywhere. Collaborative team projects are more commonly setting sights on real-world issues facing our cities and communities today, and helping to solve them.
There is no one definition of a maker space, and no two schools will do it the same way, even if given the same facilities, because the maker movement is at least as dependent upon culture as tools.
One might think
“If you build it, they will come” but also consider the task of designing a glove without knowing the hand. Your space will accommodate the equipment and teams, but your classroom’s approach to problem finding, ideating, prototyping, problem solving, and ultimately presenting or publishing to the community-at-large will be widely unique. Peek into many science classes or an undergraduate architecture school – you’ll see this culture alive and well as a normalized part of the education process, and a variety of creative methods to demonstrate student achievement.
Our Maker Space Symposium, Saturday November 2 at the Punahou School Minnie Kosasa Fabrication Lab, will explore these questions throughout a half-day, interdisciplinary summit of educators and leadership, school planners and architects, as well as industry experts, innovative products and student presentations. We will host a tour of the newly completed Minnie Kosasa Fabrication Lab and Learning Commons at Punahou School for a glimpse of one school’s creative answer to the call for creativity.
SCHEDULE |
8:30 AM – 8:55 AM |
Check in begins at Breezeway, First Floor
Sponsorship Tables and Light Refreshments
(There will be 4-5 sponsors set up at tables as well as a serving table for the
refreshments)
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9:00 AM – 10:00 AM |
Speaker: Taryn Loveman, Director of Design Technology and Engineering, Punahou School
Design Lab L1
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10:00 AM – 10:30 AM |
Guided Tour of Kosasa Buildings L&M
(4 DPI Guides will lead tours)
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM |
Student Project Presentations and Sponsor Stations
Breezeway, Inspiration Café and Makery Hallway areas
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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
Speaker: Miki Tomita, Education Incubator
Design Lab 1
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Registration
Commercial Sector / Professional Member: $30
Commercial Sector / Professional Non-Member: $40
School District / Government Agency / Educator Member: $10
School District / Government Agency / Educator Non-Member: $15
Sponsorship: $200
Free Parking
Thank you to our sponsors!
Membership Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
5:30-8:00pm
AHL Ohana Room
Pacific Guardian Center, Makai Tower
733 Bishop Street, 29th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96813
Join us for a 2019 Hawaii Chapter kick off event.
Featuring a panel discussion on acoustic solutions in
school environments. Come listen to local experts in a
facilitated panel discussion and see acoustic solution
products by a variety of manufacturers.
Course Description
Classroom acoustics are directly correlated to student learning and comprehension. Communication and comprehension is critical for the cognitive process, and studies consistently reveal that student learning retention and performance rank higher in an academic setting that minimizes background noise and reverberation. High performance programs including LEED for Schools and Hawaii Collaborative for High Performance Schools (HiCHPS) recognize classroom acoustics as a design "must".
While classroom performance places great emphasis on teacher to student communication/collaboration, there is often a failure to incorporate acoustical considerations to reduce background noise and make the environment more appropriate for learning. The 21st Century educational pedagogy towards collaboration and more openness require sound acoustical designs. School and classroom space planning presents a myriad of challenges for designing a highly functional environment for teaching and learning.
Education specialists now embrace the need for different learning styles to allow each and every student to thrive in the 21st Century. Designers need to recognize that the classroom is full of students with a range of aptitudes and learning styles, as well as educators with different delivery styles. Everyone’s mind works in a different way to isolate sound they want to hear and block out unwanted background noise, and students at every age group are still developing this ability. This makes acoustics a stronger consideration during childhood years and minimizing noise at all grade levels is important to prevent students from losing concentration and to maximize their retainage.
Course Format: We will have 4 acoustical engineers weigh in on the past and present experiences and share their expertise on the subject matter as a panel discussion.
Light refreshments will be served.
Cost:
Members $10 | Non-Members $20 |
or at the door
Sponsorships $100
Please RSVP by May 10th
Parking: You can park in the PGC parking structure for $4.00 after 4 pm. Entry is on Alakea St.
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