2024 AIA Nebraska Mid-Year Symposium

Thursday, April 18, 2024

8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Younes Conference Center North | 707 Talmadge St, Kearney, NE 68845

The AIA Nebraska Mid-Year Symposium provides education, training, and assistance for the betterment of architecture and planning across the State of Nebraska.

Registration: Deadline for registration is April 11, 2024. Registration fees are non-refundable after April 11, 2024. Attendee Registration below | Exhibitor Registration

Prize Giveaway: Exhibitors will be collecting business cards from attendees for visiting their booths. Make sure you bring enough to share and register to win various prizes.

Questions: Contact Tyler Patterson, Marketing & Programming Coordinator at [email protected] or (402) 858-1929.

(Tentative schedule, subject to change. Continuing education credits pending.)

Thursday, April 18, 2024

7:00 am - 8:00 am | Exhibitor Setup

8:00 am - 9:00 am | Registration / Exhibitor Interaction / Breakfast

9:00 am | Welcome - Mayor Stan Clouse, Kearney

9:15 am - 10:30 am | 1.25 HSW | The PLAIN Design-Build Design Research Studio, Jason Griffiths - BA Hons. Dip. Arch. UK, Associate Professor, The College of Architecture, UNL, W. Cecil Steward Professor, 2015 Hyde Chair for Excellence

The PLAIN Design-Build Design Research Studio is a graduate course within the College of Architecture that builds buildings for nonprofit organizations within the state of Nebraska.

PLAIN Design-Build is an architectural collective that creates buildings from renewable resources of wood. PLAIN promotes all types of timber construction, ranging from advanced forms of engineered lumber to small-scale forestry and local fabrication. Renewable resources include undesirable trees discarded by insect borer infestations or the by-product of forest fire fuel mitigation. Our projects support material flows that sequester carbon and reduce the embodied energy of construction. Our buildings establish circular economies by learning from vernacular forms of architecture and regional forestry ecosystems. We empower students through a co-creative educational model of experienced-based learning and hands-on construction.

10:30 am - 11:00 am | Exhibitor Interaction

11:00 am - 12:00 pm | 1.0 Ethics | It’s an Ethics Question, Dave Jesse, Chief Commercial Officer, FNIC Group

This interactive online workshop offers a discussion of the current state of ethics using issues taken from today’s headlines. Participants will review the professional code of ethics with attention to the recent changes to the code. Next, attendees will be presented with sample contractual provisions that may or may not directly challenge the design professionals’ professional code of ethics. After a review of the provision, the participants will determine if a conflict to their code exists. If the provision is problematic, the issue(s) will be highlighted along with the rule or standard of the code that is implicated. In a final step, the participants will discuss how to make these contractual provisions consistent with their code of professional ethics.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch + Prize Drawing | Update: Kearney Sportsplex  

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1 HSW | Timberlyne, with emphasis on the Museum of Nebraska Art + other Nebraska project, Jack Dickinson  

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm 1 HSW | Tour: MONA: Museum of Nebraska Art | 2401 Central Ave

Tour the reconstituted Museum of Nebraska Art. The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is home to a vast collection of art inspired by Nebraska. MONA endeavors to become the cultural center of Nebraska art by expanding its collection, providing quality exhibitions, and preserving its historic building.

PPE Requirements: Hard Hat, Safety Glasses, Safety Vest, Pants, and no open-toed shoes

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm 1 HSW | Tour: University of Nebraska, Kearney Regional Engagement Center at University Village, Jeff Chadwick, AIA, Clark & Enersen; Michael Christen, UNK | 1013 West 27th Street

This tour will take you through the new UNK Regional Engagement Center at University Village. This project aims to connect people across the state while serving as a hub for business, education, and community development in Central Nebraska.

PPE Requirements: Hard Hat, Safety Glasses, Safety Vest, Pants, and no open toed shoes.

4:30 pm | Social (not hosted)
Cunningham's Journal on the Lake | 610 Talmadge Street, Suite A