AIA Kansas City: The American Institute of Architects

21st Century Infrastructure: Enhancing Livability through Urban Design

Keith will draw from his experiences working on the design of the High Line Project, the East River Waterfront Esplanade, the Financial District Streetscape and Security projects to discuss the role of urban infrastructure in the 21st Century. Keith will highlight how landscape architecture and urban design is enhancing the livability of dense urban environments through innovative projects that are both open space design, as well as infrastructure projects.

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Join Custom Building products for our 5th Annual Beer n Learn!

Learn the differences between methods and materials for thin veneer and other masonry materials, how to specify materials and the methods for the installation of thin veneer, the “Green Value” of thin veneer and see an installation from surface preparation to finish.

Beer and appetizers will be provided and the program is worth 1 HSW.

You are invited to the Spring 2010 Charles N. Kimball Lecture, a series established by the Western Historical Manuscript Collection – Kansas City to honor our late friend and civic leader.

Among the most thoughtful and thought provoking people in Kansas City is our speaker, Bob Berkebile For the past 30 years he has committed his life to restoring social, economic, and environmental vitality to our communities through sustainable design. Bob was the founding Chairman of the AIA Committee on the Environment and served on the board of the US Green Building Council. Highly regarded by fellow professionals and recipient of numerous awards he has contributed both through the integrity and spirit of BNIM’s work and with an engaging discussion of concern for future generations.

Infrastructure 2010: Investment Imperative challenges the United States and other countries to start treating infrastructure like the investment that it is. With future economic prosperity on the line, strategic, long-term, and integrated investments in transportation, water, and energy infrastructure are imperative.

Water is the hidden infrastructure conundrum, with aging pipes and inadequate systems running headlong into rapid population growth in America’s most water-constrained regions. Infrastructure 2010 probes water challenges in the United States and abroad, including the overlapping challenges of aging infrastructure and the need to conserve, and the difficult issue of effective water management.

Building on extensive research, interviews, and data collection, Infrastructure 2010 reviews the specific water issues and concerns confronting 14 metropolitan areas throughout the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, St.
Paul/Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C.

Guest speaker Ed McMahon holds the Charles E. Fraser Chair on Sustainable Development at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC where he is nationally known as an inspiring and thought provoking speaker and leading authority on topics related to sustainable development, land conservation, smart growth, and historic preservation.

As the Senior Fellow for Sustainable Development McMahon leads ULI’s worldwide efforts to conduct research and educational activities related to environmentally sensitive development policies and practices.

The program will be rounded out with a responder panel discussion by leading local experts who will comment on the big picture, as well as discuss local trends. Local panelists include:

Mike Lally, Manager, Business Development, Olsson Associates

Les Lampe, PE, Vice-President Water Resources, Global Practice and Technology Leader, Black and Veatch

Ron Freyermuth, PE, Public Works Director, Shawnee, Kansas

For more information, call (800) 321-5011 and mention 8114-1006. The fourth in an annual series produced by the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young, Infrastructure 2010 examines global infrastructure trends and, for the first time, addresses water issues in depth.

Registration includes breakfast
plus one complimentary copy
of Infrastructure 2010:
Investment Imperative
(retail value $15)