ARE Structures Seminar

Professor David Thaddeus is back!

November 12th to the 14th, 2010
Friday: 9am - 7pm, Saturday: 8am - 8pm, Sunday: 8am - 7pm
At the AIBC office boardroom

Registration is now open! During this intense three day class, Prof. Thaddeus will be presenting his Structures Seminar at the AIBC offices. This lecture offers three full days of workshops, mock exams and questions & answers that focus on preparing Intern Architects for the Structural Systems division of the ARE 4.0. These workshops present the technique, strategy and skills invaluable to all interns preparing for their exams. If you have any questions, please contact the AIBC Registration & Licensing Administration Assistant Emily Tyler.

Registration is limited and closes November 5th!

Structures Seminar 2009

The AIBC will once again be hosting Prof. David Thaddeus, AIA, NCARB in November 2009. Prof. Thaddeus will be presenting his Structures Seminar at the AIBC offices on November 6 - 8, 2009. This seminar offers three full days of workshops, mock exams and questions & answers that focus on preparing Intern Architects for the Structural Systems division of the ARE 4.0. These workshops present the technique, strategy and skills invaluable to all interns preparing for their exams. The registration form is now available on the AIBC website. The registration deadline is October 28th. Please contact AIBC Registration Coordinator, Roisin O'Neill, at roneill@aibc.ca if you have any questions.

LAST CALL - Registration for David Thaddeus’ Structures Seminar

On Friday November 7th, David Thaddeus will begin his 3-day (Friday – Sunday) intensive Structures workshop to help prepare interns for the ARE Structures exam. There are still spaces available for this seminar and, in fact, David Thaddeus would like to see more registrants come forward. This course is great for people who want to absorb structures concepts in a hands on format prior to taking the ARE Structures exam. If you are interested please click here for the registration form. The deadline for registration has been extended to Thursday, October 30th at 5:00 pm. If you have any questions you can email the AIBC’s Registration Coordinator, Róisín O’Neill at roneill@aibc.ca. For a full description of the course please see last month’s blog.

David Thaddeus ARE Structures Workshop

The AIBC Intern Architect Committee is bringing David Thaddeus, AIA, NCARB to Vancouver in November to present his hugely popular ARE Structures Seminar. David Thaddeus is Associate Professor of Structures and Architectural Design at the College of Architecture, in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Before that, he was at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston. While teaching at the University of Houston, he developed a review course for the General Structures and Lateral Forces Divisions of the Architect Registration Exam (ARE) and first offered the course to interns in 1989. Professor Thaddeus continues to teach his ARE Review course across North America.

This Structures (ARE) Exam workshop is three full days of workshops, mock exams and questions and answers that focus on preparing Intern Architects for the two structural exams required for licensure: General Structures and Lateral Forces. These workshops present the technique, strategy and skills invaluable to all Intern Architects preparing for their exams. Professor Thaddeus recommends that interns be familiar with the materials for the Materials & Methods Exam before attending the seminar.

Following is a testimonial from a BC Intern who attended one of professor Thaddeus' recent workshops:

He explains basic concepts in a very user friendly way - after the lecture it all started to fall into the right spot. We were shown some tricks - how to tackle some seemingly hard/sneaky questions. I'd call those three days a great primer of basic knowledge we should have in order to make the rest of the material more understandable. It would take me at least two or three times longer to digest the material he covers just studying it on my own. His lecture is worth every penny, also he should come before the ARE’s are updated again next year. With every change the passing rate drops a lot. It's about 67 percent right now and used to be well over 80 percent if I remember correctly.

To see a review by Sean Ruthen, IA who attended the seminar in Vancouver last year, click here: http://aibc.ca/member_resources/intern_resources/pdf/intern_update_november07.pdf.

The workshop will be held at the AIBC offices in downtown Vancouver. Click here to download the registration form. Once registered you will be emailed information about what to bring with you to the workshop. This seminar is not limited to AIBC Interns.

If you have any questions about this seminar you may contact Róisín O’Neill, AIBC Registration Coordinator at roneill@aibc.ca.