115 Girard Avenue, Newport RI 02840 {{met-center{{This project tour will showcase examples of passive and active systems that were implemented for the East Bay MET Center, a net-zero ready project. The East Bay Met Center is approximately 20,400 square feet of new construction with a high performance building enclosure resulting in a predicted site Energy […]

Rhode Island College, 600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Providence, RI 02908 The theme this year is CULTIVATING PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUCCESS, and the Summit will include inspiring speakers, 16 workshops across two sessions, and an afternoon of Action Groups - small gatherings for participants to expand discussions, hatch new plans, collaborate, network and strategize. The day concludes […]

Jane Pickens Theater 49 Touro Street, Newport, RI 02840 {{museum{{If you've visited Amsterdam, you've probably been to the Rijksmuseum, one of the world's preeminent art museums - home to masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer - itself a vast, magnificent structure, built in 1895 by architect Pierre Cuypers. The renovation of the museum (it reopened this […]

Bravo Brasserie, 123 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903   This event will feature Richard Sedano, Director of the Regulatory Assistance Project’s (RAP) U.S. programs.  A former utility commissioner in Vermont, he advises state commissions and other decision-makers on energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy, pricing, smart grid, transmission, and wholesale electric market issues.  Mr. Sedano is […]

{{horner}} Join Horner Millwork to learn about the design and construction of stairs and see the production of millwork products at their state-of-the art manufacturing facility. 7:45 AM - 8:00 AM  -  Breakfast 8:00 AM - 9:30AM   -  Safety, Design, and Construction of Preassembled Stairs (Learning Units: 1.5 | LU | HSW)This course explores the […]

The registration fee and entry deadline for the 2014 Design Awards & ArchiStar Award submissions is Friday, November 14, 2014, at 5:00pm. Click here  to upload your submission.    

This course presents basic building science principles, including the forces that affect the movement of air and moisture through building assemblies and materials. Forensic building investigation results are utilized to illustrate the structural and energy performance degradation that occurs when building science principles are not followed. The current commercial RI Energy Code provisions for envelope […]

This is the overview session for a series of trainings that are aimed at educating participants on the state energy code and better building practices in order to achieve higher performance in the field. We will focus on issues in the code that are open to interpretation or that may appear difficult to implement and use […]

Florian Idenburg (1975, the Netherlands) is Founding Partner of SO–IL and Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is the 2010 laureate of the Charlotte Köhler Prize. Prior to founding SO–IL, Idenburg worked at SANAA between 2000 and 2008. Idenburg holds a MSc. in Architecture from Delft University of […]

Theo Jansen is a Dutch polymath who began an investigation in 1990 building large wind-powered mechanisms out of electrical conduit pipe that are able to traverse beaches. These creatures, called strandbeest are a fusion of art and engineering. He once said in a BMW advertisement, “the walls between art and engineering exist only in our […]