Hard Hat Tour: Virginia Beach Municipal Center Building #2

The renovations to Building 2 are a part of the reprogramming of several buildings in the Virginia Beach municipal center to coordinate with the addition of the new City Hall building. Building 2 will now be the home of the VB Police and the City’s new, state-of-the-art data canter. The renovation includes a complete gutting of the building, new windows, and new MEP systems. The data center will be moved from its current location on the basement floor to a more resilient location on the 3rd floor.

Building features include new high performance windows, restoring the north and south entrances to their original form, new east and west entrances (including a monumental east entrance) and a covered detainee entrance on the west side of the building. Inside, the elevators are being updated and a glass elevator will be added to the new atrium space. The atrium space has a monumental stair and full skylight.

Join a hard hat tour at 2405 Courthouse Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23456.

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HARDHATS, CLOSED-TOED SHOES, PROTECTIVE EYE-WEAR, AND SAFETY VESTS ARE REQUIRED.

Opening Doors to Design Opportunities with the Model Building Codes

Presented by: AIA Hampton Roads and McKeon Rolling Steel Door Company

This course has been designed to acquaint the viewer with the many aspects of Fire and Life Safety Code Requirements and how those Code Requirements affect egress and building design.

Objectives:
1) Will allow the participants to be able to differentiate between fire walls, fire barriers and fire partitions.
2) Learners will understand the regulatory standards governing the use and application of opening protectives.
3) By examining case studies, attendees will learn the fundamental code requirements that drive the placement of fire walls and fire barriers, their openings and opening protectives.
4) By using slides, discussion and case studies, participants will learn the correlation between Life Safety, product application and open design.

Earn 1 AIA LU|HSW

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Hard Hat Tour: CHKD Medical Tower

Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters engaged Array Architects & PF&A Design to create a new patient tower to deliver both inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services. The Medical Tower II story is not simply about how CHKD is constructing a building to address an immediate community need, but how through integrated innovation, collaboration, and leadership, their goal will be realized in a way which will set new standards for how healthcare providers respond to today’s needs and anticipate the undefined challenges of the future. The Day Hospital and outpatient clinics will offer a complement of step-down services to provide a continuum of care for behavioral health patients of this crucial and under-served service line. The Outpatient Specialty Clinics will provide services such as General Academic Pediatrics, Sports Medicine, Radiology, and other general ambulatory services.

Hardhats, closed-toed shoes, protective eyewear, and safety vests are REQUIRED.

Park in the onsite parking garage and/or follow directional signs.

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Long Bridge Aquatics Center Virtual Hard Hat Tour

Join the AIA Hampton Roads and AIA Northern Virginia for a jointly held virtual event on the newly completed Long Bridge Aquatics Center in Northern Virginia. You will hear directly from the project team, Page/ Architects, Coakley Williams Construction, and Arlington Parks & Recreation, about the story of how this project was conceived, developed, and realized. The new aquatics center occupies a prominent, but tightly constrained site at the gateway between Arlington and Washington, and is an iconic origami-inspired form developed through economical means and a simple material palette.

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Submitted for AIA CES approval.

This is a free, 1-hour, virtual webinar.

Harbor’s Edge River Tower Hard Hat Tour

Merging residential living with the ease of a professionally maintained community, Harbor’s Edge partnered with Clark Nexsen and W.M. Jordan to design a sleek, 24-story high-rise tower of retirement housing. The new facility will enable residents to access different levels of care based on their progressing needs, with on-site assisted living, memory care services, a wellness program, and skilled nursing and rehabilitation services. Situated on the riverfront in Norfolk, River Tower at Harbor’s Edge will be a sophisticated, resort-style retirement community offering a wealth of amenities and continuing care accommodations.

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Mid-Century Mayhem Scavenger Hunt

Take a virtual trek across Virginia and try to locate as many Mid-Century Modern buildings as you can. Pull out (or pull up!) your map, follow the clues and discover some of the most unique historic places in the Commonwealth!

Learn more and register online.