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Lecture, Reception will Celebrate 50 Years of Building Construction
Integrated facility engineering expert kicks off lecture series.
Atlanta (August 3, 2009) — Martin Fischer of Stanford’s Center for Integrated Facility Engineering kicks off the College of Architecture T. Gordon Little Lecture Series on August 31, 6PM, in the newly renovated Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium (formerly the College of Architecture Auditorium) in the East Architecture Building. A reception will follow to mark 50 years of Building Construction at Georgia Tech.
Fischer’s work seeks to enhance the sustainability of the built environment and to improve productivity of project teams involved in designing, building and operating facilities.
“Martin Fisher leads the world’s premier academic research center for virtual design and construction of architecture/engineering/construction industry projects,” said Roozbeh Kangari, director of graduate programs in Building Construction at Georgia Tech. “With his leadership, CIFE has had a major impact on the industry by developing innovative new ways to model, visualize, analyze and evaluate the multidisciplinary performance of design-construction projects. This work ha also increased awareness of the value and costs of virtual design and construction.”
Following the lecture will be an open reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the Building Construction Program at Georgia Tech. The program has leapt forward under the direction of Kangari—undergraduate enrollment has more than doubled and its nine-year-old graduate program has become the largest in the College of Architecture. The program has tripled its research proposal output in the last year alone.
The T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination was established in honor of celebrated Atlanta interior designer T. Gordon Little (1915-2004). The series will celebrate Little’s unwavering pursuit of imaginative design and his remarkable generosity of spirit. Free and open to public, thanks to a generous grant from the T. Gordon Little Foundation. AIA Continuing Education Credits available. Parking at Technology Square Parking Deck on Spring Street just south of Fifth Street. More information at www.coa.gatech.edu or 404-894-3880.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.