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AIA University presents Resilience Education Education Series

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| December 2018

Do you want to integrate resilience into the design services your firm offers? The Resilience and Adaptation series is your answer. This exclusive multi-course series covers mitigation, resilience and adaptation, technical design application, and design process application. Take all courses in the series to learn best practices for mitigating risk for hazards, shocks, and stresses and adapting to changing conditions. Perfect for midcareer architects. Anyone completing all courses in the AIA Resilience and Adaptation series will receive a certificate acknowledging their completion of all courses in the program, in addition to the individual course certificates available for each course. 

For a limited time, click the red button below to purchase all nine courses and get 25% off the series!

The AIA Resilience and Adaptation Online Series is developed by the AIA as part of the resilience and adaptation initiative.

https://aiau.aia.org/aia-resilience-and-adaptation-online-series

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Scyma Presenting at IBPSA-SF

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| May 2017

Scyma had the pleasure of presenting Building Systems for Resilience on Passive Survivability at the International Building Performance Simulation Association - San Francisco USA chapter's May meeting. We had a fantastic discussion about a topic that many building science firms are excited to implement. Read up on ScymaSpeaks about Passive Survivability and Thermal Autonomy. 

 

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Native American Storytelling and Building Design

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| May 2017

Zahraa Saiyed of Scyma and Paul Irwin of the North Folk Rancheria Indian Housing Authority have collaborated on a paper discussing the overlap of Native American storytelling with how we view sustainable design today. Published in the Energy Research and Social Science Journal, May 2017. 

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Rebuild x Design: It Takes a Town

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| February 2017

Scyma working with Rebuild x Design, Oakland on the third workshop for community engagement design processes intended for mitigating and preparing for Sea Level Rise in West Oakland. Summaries from the past two workshops can be found below: 

http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/news-and-events/events/resilient-oakland-workshop-iii

http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/news-and-events/updates/oakland-february-2017-update