2015 AIBC Holiday Open House

With the holidays around the corner, AIBC is gearing up for another AIBC Holiday Open House event!

Please join colleagues and friends in celebrating the very best of the season with local flavours and plenty of holiday cheer. We will be collecting food donations again this year to support the Strathcona Community Centre. Please give generously.

Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015
Time: 5:30–8:30 p.m.
Location: AIBC offices (#100 – 440 Cambie Street, Vancouver)
RSVP: http://2015aibcholidayopenhouse.splashthat.com/

Role Call: Consensual Resolution Review Panel

The AIBC is seeking one or two more architects for the Consensual Resolution Review Panel. The panel reviews and considers whether to approve agreements under the AIBC’s consensual resolution process as established under the Architects Act and AIBC Bylaws. Consensual resolution is an alternative approach to resolving disciplinary matters that would otherwise proceed to a formal disciplinary inquiry. The panel meets as is necessary for the performance of its functions, including meetings by teleconference, videoconference or otherwise electronically.

The general qualifications and experience criteria for ‘architect’ appointments to the panel are as follows:

• Member (Architect AIBC) in good standing (mandatory);
• Understanding and appreciation of AIBC’s core regulatory mandate, including disciplinary and consensual resolution provisions in the Architects Act and bylaws;
• Ability to review and consider proposed consensual resolution agreements in the context of confidentiality expectations; objective professionalism; and the public interest in the regulation of the profession of architecture; and
• AIBC or related experience (i.e., committee, board, panel, council) in the areas of investigations, discipline, consensual resolution or professional conduct/discipline generally.

Those interested are invited to forward a letter of interest, with a brief summary of professional background or c.v., to Human Resources & Administration Coordinator, Yana Vassilenko at volunteers@aibc.ca.

Disruptive Trends at the 2015 AIBC Conference

by JOC staff
Journal of Commerce, Oct 30, 2015

(Image: Charles Leman pictured onscreen during the Disruptive Trends plenary session October 29, 2015 at the AIBC Annual Conference. Photo by AIBC)

The panelists were Charles Leman, Steven Fleming, Kira Gerwing, Robert Brown and Newsha Gaeli.

Fleming began by explaining that he is an advocate of not only architecture, but cycling. He, in fact, wrote a book called “Cycle Space” which meshes the two disciplines. He said as a cyclist he spoke extensively in the Netherlands, but other cities have had a hard time adapting the Dutch model of cycling paths.

Fleming said transportation accounts for a third of our energy use and with increasingly efficient buildings will become half of our energy use. Cycling addresses this to a certain extent but we need to “bridge the fast zones,” he said.

Leman said “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value system.” Read more…

Architecture of Place at the 2015 AIBC Conference

by JOC staff
Journal of Commerce, Oct 29, 2015

(Image: Otto Condon presents during the Architecture of Place plenary session October 29, 2015 at the AIBC Annual Conference. Photo by AIBC)

The panelists were Kelly Edzera-Bapty, Don Lyumes, Otto Condon, Charles Kelley, and Kirsten Murray.

Lyumes, who is the manager of community planning for the City of Surrey, said the term “architecture of place” implies a relationship between a built form and the place surrounding it. He added that design consultancies and strategies are “fluid and borderless,” which means a tower block in any city looks and functions much the same no matter where it is located.

Edzera-Bapty, who is an intern architect with the AIBC, focused on indigenous space (she is Taltan First Nation, located in northern B.C.) to see how the indigenous sense of space intersects with architecture. Read more…

IIDEXCanada

IIDEXCanada is Canada’s National Design and Architecture Exposition & Conference bringing together the interior design, architecture and real estate communities for a sourcing, networking and educational event that celebrates creativity and best practices. The Show, presented by Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) and the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC), is held concurrently with Construct Canada, PM Expo, Homebuilder & Renovator Expo and World of Concrete Pavilion to create The Buildings Show, North America’s largest exposition, networking & educational event for design, construction & real estate industries.

For more information on IIDEXCanada, contact tmoreside@iidexcanada.com or visit www.iidexcanada.com.

Date: December 2-3, 2015
Location: 255 Front Street West, Toronto, ON
To register: https://www.microspec.com/reg/IIDEXCANADA2015/?_ga=1.65538986.584607762.1447189156

Bylaw Review: Investigations & Remedial Discipline

Since 2011, the AIBC has been engaged in a comprehensive bylaw review process to address both substantive bylaw subject matter areas and more routine amendments. The Bylaw Review Committee (BRC), supported by AIBC Council, is now consulting with members on the following bylaw initiative:

Bylaw Amendments: Investigations & Remedial Discipline

This initiative is a recommendation for a suite of substantive “investigations/discipline” bylaw amendments to more firmly establish the institute’s investigations and disciplinary processes in bylaw. The initiative includes a new ‘remedial discipline’ process intended to give the institute greater flexibility to meaningfully address professional conduct complaints than is currently available.

Read the bylaw amendments and supporting rationales.

An initial member consultation session on this bylaw proposal was held on October 30, 2015 at the AIBC Annual Conference. The session’s primary focus was on the remedial discipline process. The presentation from this session is available for viewing.

Member Feedback

This bylaw initiative is complicated and the background memorandum with draft bylaws are extensive. Members are encouraged to review the material and provide feedback and ask questions. Bylaw consultation sessions and other feedback opportunities will be announced. Member feedback greatly helps in improving the draft bylaws. Council will review feedback and revised bylaws in February or March 2016.

Member feedback can be provided to the Bylaw Review Committee at any time. Please email the Bylaw Review Committee at: bylawfeedback@aibc.ca or complete the Online Feedback Form.

To learn more about AIBC Bylaw Review, please visit www.aibc.ca.