Continuing Education Program

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Headquarters Tour

June 5, 2002

This past fall’s AIABaltimore bus tour to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) new Phillip Merrill Environmental Center was so successful that we’re doing it again, in the spring, in the daylight. If you were booked out of last fall’s tour or want to go again, please send payment as soon as possible for the tour on Wednesday, June 5.

The CBF headquarters, designed by the SmithGroup of Washington, D.C., with Janet Harrison, AIA as consultant on “green features,” has received the first LEED platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, as a global model of energy conservation and sustainable building techniques. Features such as rooftop cisterns that capture rainwater for hand-washing and fire suppression, and active solar components that produce a portion of electricity demonstrate this building’s integrated, holistic approach to environmentally-responsible architecture.

AIABaltimore will charter a bus, leaving Baltimore promptly at 5 pm and arriving in Annapolis for the 1-hour tour. You may meet the bus at 4:30 pm at the rear of the Safeway grocery store in Canton (on Boston Street.) We have made arrangements to leave cars parked there without incident. Departure time will be 5 pm sharp and we will return around 8:30 pm. Due to the limited parking space at CBF (and the environmental value of mass transit), only those who purchase tickets and arrive by bus will be admitted.

Seating is limited, so RSVP early for this exciting program. Cost is $15/members, $10/associates and students, and $25/non-members. Send checks, made payable to AIABaltimore, for reservations. 1.5 AIA/CES(HSW) credits with registration.

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