Architectural Institute of British Columbia
ZEIC - Decarb Lunch: The Business Case for Commercial Building Optimization This session will explore how optimizing existing commercial building systems can reduce energy use, operating costs, and emissions while helping owners make smarter capital investment decisions. Through real-world case studies and insights from the Decarb Accelerator, speakers Chris Kasianchuk of Warrington PCI and Ehsan… Read more
RAIC - Masonry, Embodied Carbon, and Building for the Long Term: Simple Decisions Today for Lower-Carbon, Longer-Lasting Buildings This session explores how architects and engineers can use carbon information more thoughtfully, looking at what environmental product declarations and life-cycle assessments can tell us, where their limitations lie, and why service life, durability, replacement cycles, and… Read more
RAIC - Financial Dashboards as Leadership Tools: Driving Firm Value and Succession Planning This session positions financial dashboards as leadership tools — enabling firm leaders to translate data into insight, align decisions with strategy, and build the financial capacity required for sustainable growth and succession planning. Date: October 21, 2026 Time: 10 - 11:30 a.m.… Read more
Professional Development Hub - The Future of Proposals in an AI-Enabled Marketplace This session is part of "The Future of Winning Work in AEC" webinar series. AI is about to change procurement more than any emerging technology in decades — not because a few organizations have access to it, but because everyone does. When AI‑generated… Read more
ZEIC - Decarb Lunch: Embodied Carbon Savings in Part 3 & Part 9 Buildings What does it take to move from embodied carbon targets to meaningful reductions in practice? This Decarb Lunch will explore two projects recognized in the 2026 CLF BC Embodied Carbon Awards: UBC’s Anthropology and Sociology Building, winner in the Large Buildings… Read more
RAIC - The New Standard of Care: Professionalizing the Digital Project Record In this webinar, The New Standard of Care: Professionalizing the Digital Project Record, veteran principal architect and CHOP rewrite committee member David Lopes shares how to bridge this operational divide. Attendees will explore how to establish an unbroken digital audit trail that captures… Read more
Engagement as a Design Practice: A Relational Approach to Listening, Shared Decision-Making and Design is part of AIBC’s 2026 Fall PD Series and is eligible towards AIBC’s Indigenous Peoples Learning requirement. This presentation invites architects to consider engagement by what carries forward into the built work. Drawing from experience with public, cultural, and community projects,… Read more
UNIQ Dimensions - Leveraging 3D LiDAR & Scan-to-BIM Workflows for Accurate As-Built Documentation This session explores the transformative role of 3D LiDAR and Scan-to-BIM workflows in creating high-precision as-built documentation. Participants will examine the technical science of laser scanning, comparing the applications of mobile, terrestrial, and drone-based systems to determine project suitability. We will analyze… Read more
Professional Development Hub - The Evaluator's Perspective: How Proposals Are Actually Assessed This session is part of "The Future of Winning Work in AEC" webinar series. AI‑assisted proposals are getting slicker, faster, and harder to tell apart — so how do evaluators separate genuine capability from submissions polished by increasingly sophisticated tools? In this session,… Read more
RAIC - Vancouver Island South Presents: Preserve (Protect) vs Progress (Manage Change): The Challenges in Urban Development Today Communities across Canada have experienced significant change over the past 15 years, accompanied by increasing public scrutiny of development processes and the criteria used to achieve acceptable outcomes. For applicants, navigating the Planning processes including the Design… Read more