Date/Time
Date(s) - March 14, 2024
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Categories

• HSW
• International

Dear Members

The AIA International Spring Conference 2024 (AIAISC’24) is a 3-day virtual conference that will take place from March 14 to 16 when we will explore the theme of Decarbonizing Construction: From Material Production to Preservative Adaptive Reuse.

Join us in person for the AIA Hong Kong Chapter session on the first day of the conference, with Dr. Christine Bruckner, FAIA, Scott Brooks, Affiliate Member, AIA HK, and Yimei Chan, AIA, for a focused exploration of sustainable design excellence.

The session will focus on the verification metrics used for meaningful, holistic architectural design. Our speakers will outline how the Institute and AIA Hong Kong define and recognize excellence in design. They will also provide participants with a high level overview of the Framework for Design Excellence.

Alignment with Carbon Champion, the high performance metrics of the AIA International – Dow Sustainable Future Award and the UN Sustainable and Resilient Development Goals (SFA / RDG) will be shared. Architectural case studies that have received Honor Awards from AIA International and AIA Hong Kong will help illustrate fully integrated, sustainable design solutions.

This event will start with a welcome address by AIA International leadership. In addition to our Chapter’s in-person session, hybrid sessions will be hosted with:

• AIA Japan – Global Leadership in Materials Transparency by James Scott Brew
• AIA Middle East – Sustainability and AIA Global Practice by Li Ren and Michelle Montgomery

Details

To join us, please sign up HERE on or before March 13, 2024, at 6:00 PM.

Event Rundown

Speakers

Dr. Christine Bruckner, FAIA, HKIA, R.A., LEED AP, BEAM PRO, BREEAM AP, Well AP Faculty, Reset Fellow. Past President, AIA International and AIA Hong Kong
Director, M Moser Associates

Christine is actively implementing best practice, sustainability, and wellness in design. As a Director at M Moser Associates, she brings her experience with urban integration, revitalisation, and design excellence to the development of our built environment at all scales. Her focus is working with client and community stakeholders to encourage deep dive investigations, coordination and holistic life-cycle considerations. Christine leads M Moser’s global sustainability and wellness design initiatives and is committed to achieving architectural solutions that:

• Heal, inspire and empower
• Engage all stakeholders and are life-affirming, creativity-provoking, healthy places for people
• Touch lightly on our shared planet and are both equitable and vibrant

Scott Brooks, Affiliate Member, AIA HK
Director, Imagennix

Scott Brooks is a distinguished development strategist who bridges creative industries and real estate finance. As Director of Imagennix and co-Founder of TransAct Asia, a specialist real estate advisory practice, Scott combines creative visions with business strategies to support the AEC industry’s pursuit of financially viable and sustainable developments.

His career spans a wide geographic and project scope, with 460 completed engagements in 142 markets and 32 countries across Asia and the Middle East. His work is exemplified by diverse projects such as the city center redevelopment of Aqaba, Jordan, and concept development supporting the successful tender of the two hotels at Ocean Park Hong Kong.

Scott is deeply committed to sustainability and design excellence. As an active AIA Hong Kong member, he led the development of the Chapter’s 2021-2025 Strategic Plan and, as co-Chair of the Honors & Awards Committee, is integrating the AIA’s 10-point Framework for Design Excellence into the Chapter’s Honors & Awards Program.

Moderator

Yimei Chan, AIA, NCARB, RIBA, RAIC, LEED AP
Founder & Design Director, LOD

Yimei Chan has more than twenty years of professional experience in the United States, Canada, Europe and China. She is a Founder and Design Director of LOD, an architecture studio with offices in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and Barcelona. The firm was created as an experimental laboratory and an open platform for the development of new ideas and designs through innovation and collaboration across different disciplines.

Yimei is a registered architect in New York State, an NCARB certificate holder and a LEED AP. She is also the Founder and Vice Chairman of the Small World Foundation, and currently serves as Immediate Past President of AIA Hong Kong. She has previously collaborated with various design organizations on a series of lectures and recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition (2021) and Beyond Territories – Made, Make, Making (2022).