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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.

Mon, Nov 30 from 4:00 - 5:30pm MST MIT Architecture | Fall 2020 Lecture SeriesA panel discussion featuring: Bill Baker, SOM; Christine Theodoropoulos, Dean CalPoly; Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor, MIT; John Ochsendorf, Professor, MIT; and Mohamed Ismail, PhD Candidate, MIT.

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada -Canadian Council of University Schools of Architecture (RAIC_CCUSA) 2021 Academic Summit: Call for Abstracts. DUE November 24th, 2020 BTES_2021 RAIC-CCUSA Academic SummitDownload

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: https://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.