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2026 BTES Board of Directors Call for Nominations Deadline: November 14, 2025 We invite you to nominate yourself or a colleague for the following positions:President-Elect | 2-year voting position, 3-year term. Serves from January 1, 2026, as president-elect; January 1, 2027, as president; and January 1, 2028, as an advising past-president.Two Board Members | 2-year voting position. Serves from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026Secretary | 2-year voting position. Serves from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026The BTES is an active group with several nascent initiatives. We are seeking people who are enthusiastic about building technology and education and dedicated to supporting the BTES community through creating opportunities for professional development, mentorship and networking, acknowledging exemplary teaching and research, and stewarding the organizations’ existing activities. Membership on the BTES Board is…

The BTES Board is seeking expressions of interest in hosting our 11th biennial conference in the summer of 2027. Please see the full RFP for details. We have a two stage process. The first step is a (max) two-page initial proposal due to the Board by November 7, 2025.If you are interested in hosting the 2027 conference—or a future BTES conference—or have thoughts on potential locations or formats, please reach out. We’d love to hear from you even before a formal proposal.  We strongly encourage any inquiries and will be happy to answer any questions at secretary@BTES.org

The BTES 2025 Conference Proceedings have been published! Individual articles and posters are being parsed from the whole document, so please be patient as these will be made into individual doi links for each article as soon as possible.Some quick statistics from the conference too: 93 full papers were submitted | 45 were accepted and presented  15 posters were submitted | 11 were accepted and presented

Congratulations to 2025 Edward Allen Student Award Recipients! https://btes.org/2025-edward-allen-student-award/

Congratulations to 2024 Edward Allen Student Award Recipients! 2024 Edward Allen Student Award

2023 BTES Conference Proceedings Published The 2023 Conference Proceedings have been published - please find the individual papers here: https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/btes/ 

Abstracts for the 2023 BTES Conference are due on October 31, 2022. Don't miss this special chance to reconnect with colleagues old and new! https://www.eventcreate.com/e/btes

Congratulations to outstanding BTES Members who are recipients of 2021 Architectural Education Awards: Collaborative Practice: Cultivating the Future: Enabling, Designing, Constructing & Managing a Didactic Garden - Hans Herrmann (in joint partnership) | Mississippi State University;   The Field of Dreams Ecocommunity in Utah - Jörg Rügemer | University of Utah; Diversity Achievement: Women’s Reunion + Symposium - Marci Uihlein (in joint partnership) | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Distinguished Professor: Alison Kwok | University of Oregon;  ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching: Omar Al-Hassawi | Washington State University.

2021 ACSA Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society Congratulations to BTES Board Member Liz McCormick, University North Carolina at Charlotte, for her High Performance, Low Tech winning course! Congratulation to BTES Member Mahsan Mohsenin and her colleagues Reginald Ellis and Andrew Chin, Florida A&M University, for their Hazard Mitigation + Race + Architecture winning course!

BTES Board Member Shannon Bassett, MRAIC, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Laurentian University, will be speaking at this evening's Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition community engagement session. The event takes place November 24th, 2020 from 5pm - 8pm EST on a live webinar stream.  International Jurors have selected 8 shortlisted schemes for the open/professional category and 5 shortlisted schemes for the student category. Entries are from all over the world. World-renowned jurors include Bruce Mau and Jason McLennan (architect for the Living Building Challenge) who are both originally from Sudbury.