AEI Conference

In light of the ongoing public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Governors of the ASCE Architectural Engineering .. Read more Institute (AEI) have announced that the AEI 2021 Conference Living Buildings: The New Frontier of Integrated Design will be held as a virtual conference during the original scheduled dates of April 7-9, 2021. The conference Program Committee looks forward to delivering to you bleeding-edge technical presentations focused on sustainable building design and construction!. This conference will explore challenges architectural engineers of tomorrow must face beyond energy efficiency—challenges related to carbon, materials, water, climate, and human health and wellbeing. The concept of living buildings has recently emerged as the new ideal for sustainable building design and construction. Defined as a building that generates all of its own energy with renewable, non-toxic resources, captures and treats all of its water, and operates efficiently with an uncompromising aesthetic, living buildings represent a new species of buildings that blends boundaries between the built environment and the natural world and necessitates creative, integrative engineering and architecture solutions to meet rigorous design challenges.