Architect As A Builder
By Esin Pektas
Date: Thursday, June 24, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
AIA: 1.0 HSW
Description
An iron fist in a velvet glove! Dual-licensed New York engineer and architect Esin Pektas will share her hands-on experience as a builder on construction sites. Esin’s company is a certified WBE (Woman-Owned Business Enterprise) that welcomes all, including LGBTQ+ and women construction workers and designers. Esin will tell her story using examples from her projects, with the hope of inspiring architect colleagues contemplating a similar path or considering alternative paths.
Speaker:
Esin Pektas is a dual licensed New York State Professional Engineer and Registered Architect, and an immigrant from Eastern Turkey. Her parents are from Malatya, the apricot capital of the world. She studied both architecture and engineering, and worked on projects in North America, Europe, and Asia. Esin has recently held the positions of Principal at EPA, Director at Vidaris, Vice President at The Falcon Group, Director of New Construction at RAND Engineering and Architecture, and Project Manager at Douglas Lister, Architect. Her practice focuses on skyscrapers and adaptive renovations specific to New York City's unique historical and environmental context including commercial, residential, and institutional properties.
Esin has volunteered for the Architecture for Humanity projects over a decade, worked as a site director and advisor registered architect for post-Sandy recovery projects in Rockaway, New York. She is also involved in teaching LEED programs to fellow architects and engineers. Esin’s projects and articles are published in Architectural Record, Habitat, BetonArt and New York Real Estate Journal.
Outside of her spiderwoman work on scaffolds, Esin is a sailor, racing at The Nyack Boat Club that was informally started in the late 1890's to insure the continuation of recreational sailing on the majestic Hudson River. She also flies a Cessna 172.
Learning Objective 1
Learn about the cons and pros about construction management from an architect’s perspective.
Learning Objective 2
Learn how to develop successful integration and documentation of building systems, material selection, and material assemblies into skyscrapers projects.
Learning Objective 3
Explore different ways of managing an architectural practice and the details of running a business as a women owned business
Learning Objective 4
Discover how the architect’s duties during both design and construction differ from the traditional design-bid-build project.
Cost:
AIA LI Member Free
AIA Member $10
Non AIA Member $20
