Aho Architects sponsors first annual Alabama Facilities Directors & Constructors Conference

Photo by ABC of Alabama, Co-organizer of the Conference

Aho Architects was pleased to be a Platinum Sponsor of the first Alabama Facilities Directors & Constructors Conference which was held September 24 -25, 2014 at the Montgomery Marriott Prattville. Tim Aho and Edmond Miller were in attendance to listen and learn alongside the state’s Facilities Directors and to join the conversation about how to tackle the challenges facing Alabama’s college, university, and K-12 facilities.

Read more about the conference here on ABC Alabama's website

Agenda and Registration Information is here

Feedback on the conference was very positive, and we look forward to a bigger and even better event in 2015.

Resources for Designing Safe Schools

Here are some resources for designing safe schools compiled by the Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE), a practice area of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Aho Architects, LLC is a member of both the CAE and the AIA.

Now, more than ever, it is extremely important to integrate safety and security design thinking in educational environments.

U.S. Department of Education presentation William Lassiter, Dir. Of Communication, NC Dept. of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention and Steven McElroy, Director of Security Safety & Security, Columbus Ohio Public Schools http://rems.ed.gov/docs/Training_CHIL07_SafetyPhysicalDesign.pdf
Architecture, Design and School Crime Prevention, Ken Trump http://www.schoolsecurity.org/resources/school-design.html
Florida Safe Schools Design Guidelines http://www.fldoe.org/edfacil/pdf/fl_ssg.pdf
California Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/vp/safeschlplanning.asp
Singapore Guidelines http://www.ncpc.gov.sg/pdf/CPTED%20Guidebook.pdf
FEMA Primer to Design Safe School Projects in Case of Terrorist Attacks and School Shootings http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/st/bips07_428_schools.pdf
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design http://cptedsecurity.com/cpted_design_guidelines.htm
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Robert A. Gardner http://www.crimewise.com/library/cpted.html
Safety by Design, Don Hensely http://asumag.com/mag/university_safety_design
Designing Safe Schools, Gary C. Prager, AIA http://asumag.com/mag/university_designing_safe_schools
National Clearing House for Educational Facilities http://www.ncef.org/rl/safety_security.cfm

Univ. of Alabama Student Media Renovation Nears Completion

The renovation of the Alice Kidd Building for University of Alabama's Student Media organizations is nearing completion.

This renovation of one of the former nursing home buildings on the Bryce Hospital campus was on a particularly tight time frame and budget and will serve as the new home of various student media organizations such as the university's newspaper.