Registration is now open for the 2024 Design & Honor Awards! Award winners will be recognized at the Design & Honor Awards Reception on September 12.

Last day to register is May 10, 2024.

All submissions/nominations are due May 17, 2024.

There will be no extensions to these deadlines.

Design Awards:

The entry fee for each submittal is $75, and there is no limit on the number of entries you may submit. 

Honor Awards:

There is no fee to make an honor award nomination. Nominations are due by May 10, 2024, with submissions due May 17, 2024.

Click HERE for more Design & Honor Awards information.

Click HERE for Awards FAQs.

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AIA Florida Northwest is happy to host this volunteer opportunity in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity of Bay County. Details will be coming soon, but go ahead and sign up today!

Saturday, May 4

9 AM - 2 PM

Bay County Location TBA

RSVP today!

Useful info from Habitat for Humanity of Bay County:

Volunteer Details:

• Habitat will provide water and lunch. If anyone would prefer additional snacks or have food allergies, we would ask that they bring their own.
• We will have fully stocked first aid kits on site.
• Please wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing that’s easy to move around in and bend. Closed-toe shoes. Hats are welcome but will need to be taken off if we are wearing hard hats. Sunblock is advised.
• If anyone on your team has their own gloves, safety eyewear or tool belt that they would like to bring, please feel free. However, we will have all the necessary tools and safety equipment on site.
• All volunteers must be 16 years of age and will need a parent or legal guardian to accompany them (if 18 or under).
• We will have volunteer release waivers on site that morning and provide a safety briefing before beginning.

• Volunteer Manual: https://habitatbay.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/volunteer-manual-legal-size.pdf
• Waiver: https://habitatbay.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Volunteer-Agreement-Release-and-Waiver-92022.pdf

Join us for CE lunches in May!

Tuesday, May 7

12 - 1 pm

Bowden Building, Room 1

120 Church St

Pensacola

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Wednesday, May 8

12 - 1 pm

Bay County Chamber of Commerce

Boardroom, 235 W 5th St

Panama City

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Thursday, May 9

12 - 1 pm

DAG Architects

1223 Airport Rd

Destin

REGISTER FOR DESTIN

CEU Lunch Meetings are a benefit of membership in AIA Florida Northwest

Any non-member attending will be charged $20 for cost of lunch.

Registration for the event is required, any member who wishes to attend and did not register for the event will be charged $10 for lunch.

Please register by May 5 to reserve your lunch.

Tips for Designing Agile Commercial Interior Spaces

in a World of Fixed Assets

Today’s office environment requires more agility and adaptability than in any previous decade. The list of changes occurring are constantly evolving, but they all require being free and untethered from the building. This course will examine how a designer accounts for the technological needs of power/data for these areas when the fixed assets, of the older building and power infrastructure, were built to handle a historically attached world. The new technological requirements will be measured, and a variety of solutions will be examined to assist designers with these modern challenges.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the limitations of current infrastructure and how it impacts design.
• Describe available power and data solutions that can work within a fixed building structure.
• Evaluate solutions based on non-disruption of current infrastructure.
• Determine how to provide power and data for both individualism and collaboration in the same space.

1 HSW/LU - AIA

.1 CEU - IDCEC (CEU-109428)

The course provides a detailed overview of what and how an architect should understand design considerations when taking on a renovation, remodel, addition, relocation, or change of occupancy to any building or historic building. The course will instruct the attendee on the proper use of the prescriptive, performance or work area compliance methods and the required level of the alterations to the building.

May 1 at 1 p.m. Central

2 LU/HSW/FBC

$99 Members

$120 Non-Members

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NCARB Live: Licensure 101

Click HERE to watch a video that is a great introduction for anyone starting the ARE process.

Visit the EP section on our Events page to keep to up date on ARE/EP events.

For more EP & ARE news and information, including ARE test prep materials, contact AIA Florida Northwest's Associate Directors, Ashley Dehne, Assoc. AIA or Mike Noell, Assoc. AIA. 

Did you know that AIA Florida Northwest has funds available for scholarships to augment the participation costs in community leadership development programs that exist within our chapter region? Our intent is:  1) to increase the numbers of our members engaged in these programs, 2) to obtain tools, insights and relationships that will benefit our profession as a whole, and 3) to then create connections within our chapter communities demonstrating the value of architects in leadership roles. 

Download the AIA Florida Northwest Leadership Scholarship application HERE. 

Below are local leadership programs and their approximate application opening dates (please check the respective site for their dates & deadlines):

Leadership Pensacola - February 

Destin Forward - July

Young Professionals of Walton County - July/August

Leadership Okaloosa - August

Leadership Bay - August

Leadership Santa Rosa - September

Leadership Walton - September