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Title 24, Building Energy Compliance

Title 24, Building Energy Compliance

As energy codes are constantly changing and being updated every 3 years, it’s important to understand how to build to achieve compliance. So, how do you talk to your energy consultant to meet code requirements while minimizing cost? What are the best methods to approach compliance?

On February 24, AWA+D was joined by Chad Campbell, energy consultant at Newton Energy with over 27 years of experience, to learn more about balancing code compliance, construction cost, and client satisfaction.

Getting to know Shimahara Visual

Getting to know Shimahara Visual

Imagine the working woman in the 1960s. Mad Men is one of the first television shows to come to mind that gave us a dramatized glimpse into what work culture was like for women in the 60s to how we’ve progressed today. Spoiler alert: we saw Peggy Olson start from a secretarial position to ultimately leading presentations for a top client - a job reserved for the head honcho.

How are you managing during the pandemic?

How are you managing during the pandemic?

We’ve using a lot of new technology. After many months, the work from home routine is familiar, alternate days at the dining room table and office desk in my case. We’re learning to interface with little images of colleagues, co-workers, friends, and associates on the computer screen and I’m trying not to overthink how my face looks on the monitor. We’re figuring out how to separate work life from home life since everything happens in same place, all day, every day. We seem to be managing.

But, how are you managing during the pandemic?

Urban Draw: Beverly Hills

Break out your pencils and pens and come sketch with us! We will meet at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and North Crescent Drive at 9am. We will relax and sketch the Beverly Hills City Hall and the Wallis Annenberg Center. If there is time or interest, we can walk over to the Beverly Hills Cactus Garden.
Coffee and snacks will be provided.

Making a Difference, Close to Home

Every day it seems we're inundated with news that makes us question what's happening, what it all means, and how we can help. It doesn’t seem hard to know how to react, but it is difficult to imagine how you can make a difference. If you're part of the design and construction industry in Southern California, we have a few ideas for making a difference, right here at home.

Member Spotlight: Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir

Being born and raised in Iceland, I derive inspiration from the unassuming, almost austere beauty and natural features of my native country, the land of fire and ice…

Member Spotlight: Carole Aizenstark

Art and design were an intrinsic part of my youth on Paris’ Left Bank, where I was born and raised. My father was an important antique dealer and some of my earliest memories are of afternoons trailing him, observing craftsmen restore gilded bronzes or rare wood inlays on cabinets…