People/Firms: Associations

Big changes in store for LEED as USGBC convenes largest Greenbuild ever - 12/1/2007
A record 22,835 AEC professionals and environmental activists—up from 13,300 in 2006—attended the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference and Expo, at Chicago’s McCormick Place West November 7-9. The USGBC announced a complete overhaul of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system, with the goal of creating (with minor exce...

USGBC launches education program - 12/1/2007
The U.S. Green Building Council has launched an ambitious continuing education program to provide a clearinghouse for in-person and online learning programs related to green building. The USGBC Education Provider Program announced last month at Greenbuild will give USGBC members, chapters, and affiliates, as well as AEC professional firms, nonprofit entities, building product manufacturers, ser...

USGBC’s Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee Issues Final Report on PVC - 2/27/2007 9:36:00 AM
Report raises broader questions; LEED Steering Committee to decide next steps, policy agenda, and potential actions

A record 91,628 attend World of Concrete 2007 - 2/26/2007
With more than 900,000 net sq. ft. of exhibits occupied by 1,739 exhibitors, and professional registrants of 91,628, World of Concrete 2007 was the largest show in its 33-year history.

Walter T. Marlowe named new CEO of the Construction Specifications Institute - 12/20/2006 12:20:00 PM
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) has announced that Walter T. Marlowe, P.E., CAE, has been selected as the new Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of CSI. Marlowe has 16 years experience and demonstrated increasing responsibility in association management. He served in a variety of staff leadership roles at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) before being selected to lead CSI.

ANSI Approval for WDMA Flush Doors standard granted - 10/24/2006 3:32:00 PM
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) granted approval to the recently revised Window and Door Manufacturers Association (WDMA) standard I.S.1A-04 Industry Standard for Architectural Wood Flush Doors. WDMA holds and maintains ANSI-approved standards for both architectural wood flush doors (I.S.1A) and architectural stile and rail doors.

Metalcon 2006 goes into the books with 7,300 attendees - 10/17/2006 8:52:00 AM
Held October 3-5, 2006 at the Tampa Convention Center, Metalcon filled 80,000 sf of space and drew more than 7,300 design and construction professionals from 40 different countries.

WDMA Names Joel Hoiland President - 10/6/2006 1:46:00 PM
The Window and Door Manufacturers Association (WDMA), the 79-year-old trade organization of leading window, door and skylight manufacturers, has named Joel R. Hoiland CAE of Chicago (Park Ridge), IL as its new president, effective September 1, 2006.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize Adds Three New Jurors - 9/11/2006 3:26:00 PM
“Three architects from different countries and divergent backgrounds have been named as Pritzker Architecture Prize jurors,” it was announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation which established the prize in 1979.  “The three are Shigeru Ban of Tokyo and Paris, Toshiko Mori of New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Renzo Piano of Genoa, Italy and Paris.”

FEMA adopts AIA recommendations for New Orleans reconstruction - 8/29/2006 3:19:00 PM
To help residents who lost their homes entirely, the FEMA plan to create an alternative housing pilot program for the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast region is based on the requirements in H.R. 4939 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.