Creating Livable Communities
2017-05-23 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, 26th Floor, Los Angeles, 90012, United States
What city features save Los Angeles $151 million in health care expenses and $8 million in water management costs annually?
Join Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, The Trust for Public Land, and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks as they share original research quantifying the economic benefits of the city’s parks. The morning will include a panel conversation about the role of parks in creating livable communities.
Featured panelists:
Dr. Hanaa Hamdi, Director Public Health, The Trust for Public Land
Cindy Montañez, Chief Executive Officer, TreePeople
Mary Lee, Deputy Director, PolicyLink
Refreshments provided.
RSVP by May 19 to Jannelle Gonzales at jannelle.gonzales@tpl.org or 323.223.0441, ext. 10.
With thanks to Wells Fargo for their generous support.

"Update to California's Title 24 2016"
2017-04-27 12:00 - 13:30 | VCA Green
Presented by Ying Want, AIA and LEED Fellow, President – Okapi Architecture
Complimentary refreshments will be provided.
Free to attend.
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SITES Accredited Professional (SITES AP) Exam
2017-03-31 08:00 - 17:00 | California
The SITES Accredited Professional (SITES AP) Exam has launched and is available at your nearest Prometric location! The chapter with the most people and the chapter with the greatest percentage of their membership that register and take the exam by March 31, 2017, will be awarded a half-day SITES® workshop in 2017! Those members that have already taken the exam since the launch of the exam (including those that took it at the 2016 ASLA Annual Meeting) can also be included in the contest.
Please note that all test takers in the beta period (first 200 test takers,) will be able to take the exam again one additional time if they do not pass! The exam is currently still in the beta period.
To participate in the AP Exam Chapter Contest, respond to this email with a tally of your members that have already taken the exam and who are registered and plan to take it by March 31. Chapters in the lead will be announced early February, so submit early and often!
Register for the exam here!
An ASLA prepared webinar series to help you study for the exam is available at a discounted rate to members. The SITES accredited professional exam provides landscape architects with the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, expertise and commitment to the profession. It also establishes a common framework to define the profession of sustainable landscape design and development.

Title 24 Training Program
2017-03-22 18:30 - 19:30 | the National Organization of Minority Architects, 3780 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800, Los Angeles, CA, 90010, United States
AIA Los Angeles & SoCalNOMA present
Continuing Education Unit Credit: 1.5 CEU to be offered through the training.
Okapi Architecture is offering a series of training events in southern California, funded by the Southern California Gas Company. The purpose of the training is to provide a 60-90 minute summary of the most recent changes to Title 24, discuss how to effectively utilize the Energy Code ACE website, and link architects to the statewide IOU Codes and Standards team who are charged with implementing the new standards.
Learning Objective
Attendees will leave the training with a basic working knowledge of the changes to Title 24. They will also have an initial orientation about the benefits of referring to and using the Energy Code ACE website that offers a wide variety of tools conducive to implementing the updated standards. Attendees will also view projects that have successfully implemented the changes in Title 24 as best practice examples. The presentations are interactive and designed to offer attendees the opportunity to ask key questions.
Presenters
Ying Wang, AIA, LEED AP BD+C and O+M and LEED Fellow, is a registered architect in California and other states. She earned master degree in architecture from Virginia Tech University. She has compiled an impressive thirty-plus years in architecture, program management and teaching.
As president of Okapi Architecture, she manages multiple multi-million dollar energy programs supported by the Los Angeles Department Water & Power, Southern Gas Company, and Southern California Edison. She provides technical assistance to the Statewide Savings By Design Energy Efficiency program, including Net Zero Energy and other sustainability measures.
Her architectural work while employed under Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Leo A Daly delivered high profile design and high performance energy efficiency. Those experiences transformed and spanned her interests into sustainability program practice and teaching profession.
She has been actively involved in the impressive market growth of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and CHPS (Collaborative for High Performance Schools) for many years. Believing energy efficiency is the solution to the energy crisis and climate change, she applies innovative solutions on the technical aspects of buildings.
She has managed the green schools program for Los Angeles Unified, San Bernardino City Unified and various southern California charter schools. Approximately 200 existing building renovations, and new schools have been built under her leadership. Those schools provide quality, energy efficient learning environments for students and teachers.
Stan Klemanowicz is licensed as an architect in California and seven other states and NCARB certified. His affiliations include the American Institute of Architects, Project Management Institute, Green Building Certification Institute, National Institute of Building Sciences and, is a Founding Member of Façade Tectonics. Several of his projects have been recognized by professional organizations for their design and technical achievements.
He has been associated with Okapi Architecture for over two years. He is the Okapi Principal for day-to-day management of the Savings By Design program and its technical administration, and is the primary contact for application to the program. His architectural experience of over thirty years includes managing the project delivery of hospitality, commercial, retail, mixed-use, industrial, and educational projects. His special emphasis has been technical development, construction documentation and administration.
He has been responsible for program and project management for over 300 projects for Los Angeles Unified School District, projects for the Port of Los Angeles including the over $1 billion Pier 400 development, Major Modernization Programs for the City of Santa Monica, and several facilities for the Los Angeles Community College District.
He has been team manager and leader for numerous major, iconic projects in New York, New Jersey, Texas, California and overseas. His participation in the development of an iconic high-rise bank building in Jedda, Saudi Arabia that, after thirty years of occupancy, remains a high standard for energy efficiency in the region was the foundation of his passive design philosophy. He has also been responsible for the largest LEED Silver project in the City of Los Angeles, and several LEED Gold and Platinum certified projects.
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