High-Profile: Up-Front
July 2020
High-Profile Welcomes Summer Interns Boston – High-Profile has added five new summer semester interns to its digital marketing team. Precious Figueroa-Szostek is a New Haven, Conn. native studying business administration and chemistry at Simmons University in Boston. At High-Profile, she works primarily on the HPConnects weekly webinars highlighting AEC industry professionals. While at HP, she strives to build upon her intellectual palette and learn more about the AEC industry. Alisar Awwad is a 2020 MBA graduate in media management and entertainment from Ithaca College. She recently interned with DSP Shows in Ithaca, N.Y. as a social media and booking intern. When she is not working in the world of social media, she is volunteering and finding ways to better her community. In her spare time, she loves to read, meditate and connect with nature. Grace Beinlich is a rising junior at Boston College studying marketing and international studies. At High-Profile, she hopes to gain more professional experience within the marketing and social media sector. In her free time, she enjoys going for long runs and walking around the many beautiful lakes in Minnesota. Shrutilekha Patankar is an MBA student at Clark University. As an adept graduate student, she has a well-rounded
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Washington – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently released 3D design models and strategies that can assist officials in education, retail stores, and office spaces with reopening during the pandemic. The team, as part of the AIA’s initiative, “Reopening America: Strategies for Safer Buildings,” is comprised of architects, public health experts, engineers, and facility managers. Design strategies provide a holistic approach to modifying stores, offices, and schools using a 17-point architectural, engineering, and administrative framework based upon recent COVID-19 public health information. In addition to the 3D design models detailing strategies for classrooms and corridors, produced by VMDO Architects, the team is releasing a report that provides additional considerations for entrances, gymnasiums, assembly spaces, cafeterias, and other spaces. Other strategies are also available for restrooms and staff spaces such as offices. The report also elaborates on the many factors that need to be taken into
consideration when reopening schools and provides basic building blocks that can be adjusted on a case-by-case basis when working with design teams to ensure the needs of individual education facilities are met when adapting buildings for COVID-19. Resources were developed from a wide range of expertise using a virtual charrette workshop: a method used to study specific issues in a limited time frame using an intense brainstorming session. It also provides cost-effective options that can be implemented immediately and suggests design alternatives for creating more flexible spaces, enhancing social connectedness, and reinforcing healthy behaviors. Common hazards and considerations for employers are also provided. To view AIA’s strategies for safer buildings, visit https://www.aia.org/ resources/6299247-reopening-americastrategies-for-safer-bui.
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