Time: 11 AM - 12:30 PM
Webinar Description
There are many factors associated with the selection of technology-based systems that support both practice operations and project management. Other elements to consider includes the stability and service requirements of Information Management Systems, client-server verses cloud-based systems, backup systems, as well as design and production tools.
Learning Objectives
- List choices of hardware and software systems;
- Develop an information gathering, organizing the distribution system for the practice.
- Establish an acquisition plan for essential technology systems needed by a start-up practice that aligns with a firm’s strategic plan.
Speaker(s):
Yew-Thong Leong, B.Tech.(Arch.), B.Arch., OAA, FRAIC
Yew-Thong Leong attended Ryerson University and the Pratt Institute, New York, where he studied architecture and urban design with New York Grey theorist Raimund Abraham and U.S. Main Streets guru Norman Mintz.
In practice since 1986, he has designed and managed over 150 projects personally, spanning North America to Asia and Central/South America. His past Canadian projects include the award-winning projects Sharp Center at OCAD, the Schulich School of Business at York University, the Aviva National Tennis Centre, and the Life Sciences Building at York University; he is completing a multi-phased expansion to a historically designated building.
A full-time professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, and the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University, Yew-Thong has been concurrently teaching since 1987.
Currently a managing director of SSG Architecture Inc. and SSG Beijing, Yew-Thong has also served on numerous boards and awards juries, including the Architizer A+ Awards 2016 + 2017 (New York), the 2017 WAN Awards (London), and the International Hi-Rise Awards 2014 (Germany). He is a professional member of the Ontario Association of Architects, a Scientific Member of the IAC (Belgium), a Fellow of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada and IIAS (Germany), and was the millennium chair of the Toronto Society of Architects.
Registration Fee
OAA Architect, LTOAA $39 + HST
OAA Interns $29 + HST
Non-Members: $59 + HST
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