Seminars
CAl -
AlA SEMINARS
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. All courses are held
at Abigail Kirsch located in Tarrytown and include a continental
breakfast, sit-down lunch and field trip by bus which is all included
in the registration fee.
CAI's First CE Course For Engineers
May 6, 2010
- Incorporating Tomorrow's Solutions
Into Today's Construction Engineering Designs.The topics of this
course included Self-Consolidating
Concrete, Piling, Foundations, Engineering for the Unexpected, BIM, 3-D
Modeling & Interoperability and Reducing Liabilities in Your
Sonsulting Engineering Practices and then on to a guided tour of
the $1.4billion, 160,000 sq. ft. Cat-Del Ultraviolet Light Water
Disinfection Plant located in Valhalla, New York that is presently
under construction.
September 22. 2009
– Utilizing
Cutting Edge Technologies in Your Designs. The topics of this
course included Concrete, Hollow Structural Steel Sections
(HSS), Creative Solutions to Interior Construction
Challenges of the Future, Roofs: Construction's Most
Nagging Source of Problems Can Be Solved, Architectural
Cast
Stone
Work:
Recapturing History At Half The Price Using CADD
Systems then on to the field trip to Manhattanville College's
Purchase, NY campus. Where Ann Gold will guide us through the Platinum
LEED certified by internationally acclaimed architect, Maya Lin, the
Lady Chapel restoration segment alone incorporates three new and old
passive solar strategies. Michael Tribe, Partner in the firm of Peter
Gisolfi Associates Architects, will discuss the new Student Center
Building now being evaluated for Gold LEED certification.
 May 13,
2009 – The CAl recently added a new session to its curriculum
entitled Building Exciting Structures Using Hollow Structural
Section. Once again, the classroom was filled to its capacity.
Attending architects toured the Platinum LEED building designed by
international acclaimed architect Maya Lin, as well as the pending Gold
LEED Student Center structure designed by Peter Gisolfi Associates.
October 30, 2008 -
The CAl once again filled this program to its fullest capacity.
Some of the subjects discussed were Tomorrow's Concrete:
Stronger, Lighter
and More Flexible than Ever, Fireproofing: Today's
Option, Tomorrow's Mandate, Creative Solutions to
Interior Construction Challenges of the Future, Roofs:
Construction's
Most
Nagging
Source of Problems Can Be Solved,
Luncheon presentation on Cast Stone Work: Recapturing History
At Half The Price Using CADD Systems. Then after a lunch break
took a guided tour of the Environmental Learning Laboratory and
Sanctuary at Manhattanville College's Purchase, NY campus, lead by J.
Gregory Palmer, Michael Tribe, R.A. and Anne Gold, Vice President of
Operations, Manhattanville College.
May 6, 2008 – The
CAl held its second session of the group's continuing education course
for architects. The program was held at the Abigail Kirsch Catering
Center earned attendees six credits approved by the American Institute
of Architects. The course has been so successful that the CAl plans to
hold two course a year and in the future the CAl is working on plans to
launch a similar course for engineers. Part of the learning process was
a tour of the Bronxville Village Hall to review the building's state of
the art geothermal heating and air conditioning systems.
A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR
SPEAKERS
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