NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS to a number of BTES members who were acknowledged as faculty sponsors of winning projects and jury participants in the 2020 AISC/ACSA Student Steel Design Competition !! SECOND Terri Boake, University of Waterloo  Vincent Hui, Ryerson University    THIRD Kristopher Palagi, Louisiana State University  Liz McCormick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte   HONORABLE MENTION Dustin Albright, Clemson University  Thomas Fowler, California Polytechnic State University  Kevin Dong, California Polytechnic State University    JURORS Ming Hu, University of Maryland Kristina Yu, University of New Mexico   

BTES will host a series of Webinar Conversations in July around Virtual Teaching in the Technologies. Visit the following page for more information: http://btes.org/BTES/events-programs/2020-reflect-connect-project

As we seek to celebrate your students’ accomplishments and also learn from each other’s pin-up techniques, we invite BTES members to share with us online content from end-of-term student work. This may take the form of online galleries and exhibits, or invitations to view online reviews. We will be sharing this content through the BTES social media platforms. As we approach the end of this interesting Spring 2020 term, follow BTES on social media to watch for innovative forms of online teaching / learning / production happening in building technology and design in our schools. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BTEScontact/ Twitter: @btes_contact Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btes_contact/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/btes-organization/

Congratulations to outstanding BTES Members who are recipients of 2020 Architectural Education Awards: Karen Kensek, Distinguished Professor Award, (University of Southern California). Shelby Doyle, Creative Achievement Award, (Iowa State University Computation + Construction Lab). Federico Garcia Lammers, AIA/ACSA Practice + Leadership Award, (Forensics Studio, South Dakota State University). Kathrina Simonen (with Barbara X. Rodriguez Droguett, & Catherine De Wolf), TAD Research Contribution Award, Benchmarking the Embodied Carbon of Buildings, Volume 1, (University of Washington).

The BTES Board is seeking expressions of interest in hosting our 8th biennial conference in the summer of 2021. Please see the full RFP for details. We have a two stage process. The first step is a two page initial proposal due to the Board by November 15, 2019. We strongly encourage any inquiries and will be happy to answer any questions at secretary@BTES.org

We are pleased to announce the calls for the BTES Emerging Faculty Award, Book Award, and Student Scholarship that will be presented at the 2019 BTES conference at U Mass Amherst this June. We hope you will consider applying for these awards and that you will encourage eligible colleagues and students to do so as well. See the Awards section of the website for eligibility and submission requirements for each award. Please email contact.BTES@gmail.com with any questions.

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The call for papers for BTES 2019: Integration and Innovation is now available! Please see the conference details and the Call for Papers which contains the full conference brief and submission deadlines. BTES 2019: INTEGRATION AND INNOVATION 2019 BTES: Call for Papers PDF 

Please read about this year's candidates for BTES president elect, board members, and secretary. 2018 Nomination Packet Voting is taking place now through Election-Buddy. This service allows us to tabulate votes with ensured anonymity to all of our voting members. Please note only BTES members can vote. To verify your membership, please follow this link:   https://btes.wildapricot.org/directory.

2017 Emerging Faculty Award Winners: Congratulations Chandler Ahrens, Washington University in St. Louis, and Lisa Huang, University of Florida on winning the 2017 BTES Emerging Faculty Award. Huang and Ahrens demonstrate excellence and innovation in teaching and inspiring student engagement in building technology.   2017 Book Award Winners: Congratulations to the following authors for demonstrating professional expertise, insight, and innovation in their building technology scholarship: First Prize: Caryn Brause, The Designer's Field Guide to Collaboration Second Prize: Victoria Ballard Bell and Patrick Rand, Material for Design, Volume 2 Honorable Mention: Chad Schwartz, Introducing Architectural Tectonics: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Construction The BTES Student Scholarship: Congratulations to Zachary Henry of Mississippi State University for recognition of his research paper, "Ecological Functionalism in the Work of Glenn Murcutt: A Case…