2025 ALA Design Award · SilverLOT Polish Airlines Lounge, Chicago · KOO · Photo: Angie McMonigal Photography A moderated panel on designing for extreme wind, followed by an afternoon of hands-on masonry and envelope stations at the IMI Training Center. Half a day, six full-scale mock-ups, and the people who build this work standing next to it.
The educational session, 12:30 to 1:45
- Insurance: Melissa S. Roberts, AAI, USI Insurance Services. The standard of care, whether you met it, and how that changes your risk
- Legal: Joshua B. Levy, Husch Blackwell. What surfaces in a dispute after a wind event and how design decisions get read afterward
- Code: Christopher E. Chwedyk, AIA, CSI, NCARB, Burnham Nationwide. What the code requires for wind and safe room design and where practitioners get tripped up
- Architect: Rob Wroble, AIA, LEED AP, Legat Architects. What you detail, what you document, and what you would do differently
- Moderator: Kelly P. Harris, NCARB, ALA, Harris Architects
Six hands-on stations, 2:00 to 5:15
- Masonry assembly mock-ups
- Flashing demonstration
- Structural masonry mock-up and demo
- Back-ventilated rainscreen assemblies
- Insulated concrete form mock-up and demo
- Sealants and pull testing
Who should attend
- Architects and building enclosure consultants
- Engineers and contractors
- AEC professionals involved in design and construction