Past Events
Fall Tour
Wake County Public School System’s “Southeast Raleigh Elementary” and the YMCA
Monday, September 30, 2019
10:30 am | Presentation begins @ 11:00
1436 Rock Quarry Road, Raleigh, NC
CEU's Available
The Southeast Raleigh YMCA and Southeast Raleigh Elementary School is a unique partnership between The YMCA of the Triangle, the Wake County Public School System, and the Southeast Raleigh Promise with a shared mission to provide wellness and education opportunities to the underserved community of Southeast Raleigh. This is a community developed from the Purpose-Built Communities model, with the larger goal of ending the cycle of intergenerational poverty. The project is part of a larger mixed-use “Beacon Site” that will include affordable housing, a credit union, a grocery store, an urgent care, and incubator commercial office space to serve as a catalyst to bring about meaningful change.
The project takes advantage of the many synergies available between the YMCA and the elementary school and the community initiatives of the Southeast Raleigh Promise. Outdoor playfields, play structures, parking, drives, and other infrastructure are shared. The school cafeteria will serve as a community multi-purpose room after hours. The school gym can be used by YMCA patrons as a third gymnasium after hours. The YMCA has a heated outdoor pool where students will take swimming lessons as part of their physical education curriculum. The 5th grade learning commons includes a community kitchen that will be programmed by the Southeast Raleigh Promise after hours for healthy cooking and eating education for the community. The school’s Pre-K facilities are licensed by Headstart and include four classrooms and a commons.
The school uses some Paideia style teaching strategies in a couple upper grade classes, but it’s not its instructional focus. It has a soft roll out of an Institute for Learning approach. Basically, there are several new teaching practices involved in it. The primary focus this year is teaching through equity lenses to build authentic and positive relationships with the students.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand economic mobility challenges of the Southeast Raleigh Community
- Examine the impact of access to quality social infrastructure components
- Learn how public private partnerships (PPP) plays a key role in this development project
- Learn about the synergies available in a unique collaboration that pairs multiple community organizations and facilities
Free Parking (be here at 10:30 AM):
At Mount Peace Baptist Church, 1601 Martin Luther King Blvd. Raleigh, NC
Free shuttle service will be provided to take participants from the parking lot to the school at 10:30 am, and back from the school to the parking lot at 1:00 pm.
Registration is FREE, but you must register!
Lunch Provided by:
Fall Tour
Brooks Elementary School
Friday, October 5, 2018
11:00 am – 1:30 pm
700 Northbrook Dr., Raleigh, NC 27609
Conference Registration:
Members and non-members: FREE
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Brooks Museums Magnet Elementary School is the first Museums Magnet Elementary School in North
Carolina. Each grade level uses local museums as resources and for field trip opportunities. The school teaches using the Paideia educational theory which falls into three categories: first, reading, research, and lecturing takes place to begin each project; second, in school teacher coached and student led projects are developed; and third, the teacher facilitates group discussion to unveil the projects findings. Student project work is exhibited in the building, creating a museum atmosphere while museums are utilized as places of learning and extensions of the classroom. Because of their unique program, the school’s current leadership expressed the desire to create gallery and exhibition spaces, as well as permanent display areas. Group learning spaces to help facilitate hands on projects, class collaboration, and interactive teaching have also been incorporated into the design to align with their current teaching philosophies. The design for Brooks Elementary School complies with the school district’s Energy Guidelines for new school facilities, which establish a very rigorous energy conservation target that must be documented and verified at each design phase. To meet this goal, the design includes a high performance building envelope, energy-efficient 4-pipe VAV mechanical system, air-cooled chiller, gas-fired condensing boilers, LED interior lighting. These improvements led to the achievement of Wake County’s energy conservation target as well as the EPA’s “Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR” program. The anticipated operational savings represents a 28% reduction vs. the EPA average.
2.5 LU|HSW
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the effects of a high performance building envelope on the comfort of the occupants and energy savings
- Learn about improved comfort for the occupants through the use of LED lighting and daylighting
- Observe how excellent IAQ affects the health of the students with resulting improvements in student attendance
- Observe how the entire facility is fully used for a variety of different activities by all occupants
Lunch provided by:
Fall Tour
Isaac Dickson Elementary School
North Carolina Chapter
in collaboration with
USGBC North Carolina Chapter
October 6, 2017
10:00am – 1:00pm
125 Hill St, Asheville, NC 28801
Students at Isaac Dickson Elementary School are welcomed by a 65-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton that is mounted on the school's main lobby wall and stands 28 feet long and 10 feet high! The dinosaur was donated to the school to demonstrate the impact that rapid changes in the earth's atmospheric conditions can have on its inhabitants.
Isaac Dickson Elementary School's magnet theme is experiential education, and the building reflects that focus. Through project based learning, students tackle a challenging academic curriculum in ways that are fun, engaging, meaningful and adaptable to a variety of learning styles. The school also provides after-school clubs on topics such as karate, cooking, chess, science, swimming, mosaics, coding, and more.
The new building features a media center, amphitheater, outdoor learning spaces, community gardens and more. Designed to be as green as possible, the building features geothermal heating and cooling, daylighting, constructed wetland and rainwater collection. Isaac Dickson has been submitted for Platinum LEED certification.
Please join us for this exciting tour and program.
Conference Registration:
Members and non-members: FREE
Lunch graciously provided by:
AIA/CEU credits available
Carolinas AGC Foundation 2016 Scholarships
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The CAGC Foundation goal is to award $12,000 EVERY YEAR to qualified applicants.
*Applicants do
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Fall Tour
Friday, October 21, 2016
9:30am – 12:30pm
James B. Hunt Jr Library
Centennial Campus
North Carolina State University
1070 Partners Way,
Raleigh, NC 27606
Please join us for an exciting tour and program at The Hunt Library – the proud face of NC State University in the 21st century. Named the nation's top research park in 2007, NC State's Centennial Campus is a nexus of collaboration among students, faculty, researchers, and corporate, governmental, and institutional partners. In the past 25 years, it has grown into a powerful engine of growth for the state and the nation – and is now the fastest growing part of the NC State campus. The James B. Hunt Jr. Library builds on all we have learned to create an iconic building that captures the spirit of NC State University's strengths in science, engineering, technology, and textiles.
Designed to be a major competitive advantage for the university, the Hunt Library is a signature building that both enables and reflects NC State's vision as a preeminent technological research university recognized for its innovative education and research addressing the grand challenges of society. The Hunt Library stands as its intellectual and social center. Its bold design is a visual statement of its bold purpose: to be a place not of the past but of the future, a place where our students, faculty, and partners can gather to research, learn, experiment, collaborate, and strengthen NC State's long tradition of leading transformative change.
In the digital age, libraries have become the creative space where students spend enormous amounts of their time – working, creating, studying, and interacting with peers. These spaces need to be comfortable; they need to make it easy to collaborate; they need to be inspiring. The Hunt Library is an international destination for those who seek to explore how collaborative spaces and innovative applications of technology can inspire the next generation of engineers, designers, scientists, researchers, and humanists.
Conference Registration
| Member |
FREE |
| Non-Member |
FREE |
| Lunch on your own |
| AIA CEU's available |
Program
| 9:30 am |
Registration and Networking |
| 10:00 am |
Tours of the library in groups of up to 20. Each tour, led by a Hunt Library staff member, will begin in a different location |
| 11:30 am |
21st Century Design and Systems – NCSU's Hunt Library
Donna Francis, AIA, ALEP, Clark Nexsen; Shann Rushing, Clark Nexsen
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| 12:15 pm |
Blue Ribbon State Commission on Facility Needs to 2025
Paul Boney, FAIA, LS3P Associates; Representative Dean Arp
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| 12:30 pm |
Lunch Optional – Food Court Oval |
Fall Tour
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
10:00am – 2:00pm
John F. Kennedy High School
890 E. 11th Street,
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
If your district has funding for one space or a lot of spaces, this is an opportunity to see phased master planning in John F Kennedy High School (CTE) and its shared spaces with the Career Center High School (for career technical studies and advanced placement) and Carter Special Needs High School where all three schools share specialized educational areas and a cafeteria to minimize school district costs on the Kennedy Campus.
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Registration |
| Member |
Free |
| Non-member |
$20.00 |
Lunch sponsored by:
Chapter Meeting
Thursday, August 13, 2015
12:30pm – 2:00pm ET
Blankenship Associates
980 Trinity Road,
Raleigh, NC 27607
Phone: 919.787.1346