NYMAC presents:

ARCHITECTURAL WORKSHOPS ON “GREEN” PRACTICES
and
NYS CODE COMPLIANCE FOR NON-PROFIT FACILITIES

NYMAC, New York Multi-Arts Center Consortium, a state-wide arts service organization, will present two workshops for adopting “green” building practices as well as information about New York State Building Code requirements for 2008. These presentations are sponsored by the Architecture Planning and Design Program and the State and Local Partnership Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with additional support from JP Morgan Chase Foundation.

The workshops are designed to provide information to state-wide facility based cultural non-profit organizations as well as government agencies that serve the public. Staff, board and volunteers of all non-profit organizations are encouraged to attend. Presentations will take place at two separate NYMAC member organization locations at either end of New York State.  

Dates and locations:

Thursday, April 24, from 9am-4pm
at the Saratoga County Arts Council: The Arts Center
320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY

Tuesday, April 29, from 9am-4pm
at the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center
1901 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 

The cost for attending each workshop is $20 for participants from NYMAC member organizations and $25 per participant for non-members.   

These workshops provide non-profit organization staff, board members, volunteers, and the general public, with an opportunity to learn how to make their buildings more energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and to learn about the newly revised New York State building and fire code regulations. Public organizations in historic and/or “adaptive reuse” buildings and those planning new construction will find the presentations particularly valuable.

Presenters include architects James Czajka, NYC; Hillary Brown, NYC; and Marilyn Kaplan, Albany.   Each of these professionals will address specific topics related to public facilities covering “green” building techniques, historic preservation and NYS code compliance.

James Czajka is the founding principal of James Vincent Czajka, Architect, in New York City. He acts as a “Circuit Rider” architect for NYMAC with funding support from the New York State Council on the Arts. He has consulted over the past three years with seventeen NYMAC member organizations and discovered that  “green” building issues and fire code compliance were topics that came up consistently with each of his consultancies. With the increased public awareness of environmental issues and with new state building and fire codes having just gone into effect in 2008, the topics are of current importance to those who manage public facilities.

Hillary Brown is founding principal of New Civic Works, which assists government agencies, universities, and institutional clients integrate healthy and high performance design practices into their building and infrastructure programs. Clients include SUNY/ Buffalo and the City of New Haven Public Schools. She is the former Assistant Commissioner at New York City’s Department of Design and Construction where she founded the city’s Office of Sustainable Design. She currently teaches at Princeton and Columbia University Schools of Architecture.

Marilyn Kaplan is the principal of Preservation Architecture, an architectural practice dedicated to historic preservation. Past clients include the FDR Library in Hyde Park; the Thomas Cole House in Catskill, NY; the New York, Illinois and New Jersey state capitol buildings; and the White House. From 1979-87 she was the Senior Historic Sites Restoration Coordinator at the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. 

Registration forms are available at the following websites: www.nymaconline.org; www.saratoga-arts.org; www.thenacc.org or download registration form here.

Send registrations and fees to one of the following:

SCAC: The Arts Center, 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120
For more information call 716.694.4400 x301.

Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, 1901 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301 For more information call 716.282.7530.  

For more information about NYMAC visit our website at www.nymaconline.org. 

Additional information on the NACC's role as a community center, its positive impact in terms of economic development, historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization may be inquired about . Call 282-7530