NCARB "6-month" rule

Hello Associates,

I’m sure all of you are aware that NCARB is planning to pass the “6-month rule” resolution. This is a recent regulation that requires interns to submit training units at 6-months increment. This means that any unit hours recorded that are before or after the 6-month window will not be admitted. This is an obvious problem for those who have not registered with NCARB for IDP. You will be face with the risk of losing training hours as well as the possibility of miscellaneous fees on the basis of late registration.

You should all know that you have full support from the Southwest Washington Chapter, the Washington council, and the Washington State Board for Architects. Even AIA National has taken a position of opposing the 6-month rule. There has been recent correspondence between AIA President Marshall Purnell, FAIA and NCARB on the issue (please see pdfs attached).

NCARB will be discussing this issue at their annual meeting coming up on June 25^th. As a stakeholder, you have a voice in the matter. You can make a difference by taking a stand on what you think should be the right direction. I am asking you to show your support simply by putting your names along with the other interns to show NCARB the number of people opposing this resolution. Please email to aiasww.elg@gmail.com with a simple statement that you opposed the resolution.

Regards,

Ha Pham, Assoc. AIA

AIA Southwest Washington Chapter

Emerging Leaders Lunch Gathering Tuesday June 17th

Hello to all Emerging Leaders!

June’s lunch gathering is tomorrow, Tuesday June 17^th at the Harmon Brewery, at noon.

Here are some planned discussion items:

§ Emerging Leaders activities to date

§ Blog site introduction/elimination of the Google Group

§ Introducing the Emerging Leaders Logo!

§ Announcements relating to IDF, NCARB, WA State, licensing, testing

§ A decision made at the Boston Conference affecting Interns

§ Architectural Tours

§ Habitat for Humanity

§ Summer Happy Hour(s)

§ Upcoming AIASWW events – volunteer opportunities (a good way to fill those IDP volunteer hours!)

§ Notes from the last AIASWW Executive Board Meeting

Please let me know if you have anything else you’d like covered or discussed.

If you haven’t attended a lunch in some time, tomorrow could be a good time to catch up on the happenings since we will be touching on many issues.

We are also transferring contact information from the Google Group website to the new blog site. Please make sure you information is correct, and let others know they should sign up if they haven’t already.

Thanks,

Kate Burnham

McGranahan Architects

Theatre Underground Tour Flyer

All,

See attached Flyer.

Remember to bring a flashlight!

JD

Continuing Education AIA Theate Undreground - Upload a Document to Scribd

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Next Tour

All,

A flyer is on its way for the next tour. For the meantime, please pencil in July 1 for "Theatre Undergrond" tour. This tour will be lead by Gene Grulich and will encompass parts of the Pantages, Rialto and Brodway center. This is a very special tour, so Please RSVP with Cheryl.

JD

June Lunch

Hi everybody,

Don't forget our monthly lunch for June. We'll meet at the Harmon this time. It's at noon on June 17th. Here's their website. http://harmonbrewingco.com/ If any of you has any other places you'd like to try, let me know.

We'll have some stuff to talk about like the Habitat for Humanity activity coming up or if there's any other architectural tours coming up.

So hope to see everyone there.