Make your room reservations now by calling the Salishan Spa & Golf Resort Reservation Department at 1-800-452-2300, and mention the “AIA Design Conference” to receive special rates starting at $149 a night.

Don’t miss out: The AIA+2030 Professional Series in 2012 starts next Friday, February 10!

Course helps prepare architecture and engineering professionals for the new energy frontier

What: The AIA + 2030 Professional Series helps design professionals create buildings that meet the ambitious energy efficiency goals of the 2030 Challenge. Ten 4-hour sessions offer strategies to reach 60% reduction in fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions, giving design professionals the knowledge and leverage to create next-generation, super-efficient buildings – and provide firms with the skills that will set them apart in the marketplace.

This 10-course series will provide you with 40 HSW/SD Credits (4 HSW/SD Credits per session).

Full schedule and more information available here:

http://www.aiaportland.org/fred/aia2030-professional-series-2012

Who: AIA Portland, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, with Founding Partners BetterBricks, AIA Seattle, and Architecture 2030. Generously sponsored by BetterBricks, Glumac, Energy Trust, P&C Construction, PAE Consulting Engineers, and Interface Engineering. Moderated by Craig Briscoe, Director of Integrated Design at Glumac.

See the complete list of 2012 Presenters here! (A PDF will download).

When: The 10-class series will begin on February 10, 2012, and meet on the second Friday of each month through December 2012 (with the exception of August). All sessions held from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Location: All courses will take place at the Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR.

Register here today!

Last chance to register! Sign up by Friday, February 3, for this in-depth training series. NOTE: Registration is for the entire series only. While firms may purchase packages to use for 1-2 alternating staff members, this course is designed as a contiguous journey, and we strongly encourage individuals to commit to the entire series for the greatest educational value.

Questions? Call AIA Portland at 503-223-8757.

806-010-0045 – Stamps and Signatures
(1) Every registered architect must have a stamp bearing the name of the registrant, only, together with the city and state in which the architect’s principal office is located. The stamp may, but need not, include the architect’s license number issued by the Oregon Board. A facsimile of the design and the lettering of the stamp appears herewith: [Image not included.]
(2) The stamp authorized by the Board must be one of crimp type, rubber stamp type, or computer generated type.
(a) Computer generated type allows for the arrangement, organization, configuration, structure, style or method of delivery of the information contained in the stamp, but does not mean altering the substance of information or the addition, omission or misuse of information.
(3) The stamp with the registrant’s manual or digital signature must appear on the original title page of specifications and on every sheet of the drawings intended for permit and construction, whether or not the project is exempt under ORS 671.030, and must be the stamp of a registered, legally responsible member or employee of the firm. The originals may be reproduced for permit and construction purposes.
(a) A manual signature is the handwritten name of the registrant applied to a document that identifies the person, serves as a means of authentication of the contents of the document, provides responsibility for the creation of the document, and provides for accountability for the contents of the document.
(b) A digital signature is an electronic document with a digital authentication process attached. Such a digital signature will carry the same weight, authority, and effects as a manual signature. The digital signature, which can be generated by using either a public key infrastructure or signature dynamics technology, must include the phrase “digital signature” in place of the handwritten signature or in conjunction with a graphic reproduction of the signature and be as follows:
(i) unique to the person using it; and
(ii) capable of verification; and
(iii) under the sole control of the person using it; and
(iv) linked to a document in such a manner that provides significant security, authentication, and/or encryption; such as when the electronic signature is invalidated if any data in the document is changed.
(4) An architect may not stamp and sign, or countersign, or allow his or her stamp to be affixed to any architectural plans, drawings, documents, specifications or reports not prepared by him or her or under his or her direct control and supervision.
(5) “Direct control and supervision” as used in ORS 671.020(5) and 671.090(6) shall be considered to mean that the documents bearing the architect’s stamp and signature were prepared under the responsible direction of the architect, that the architect has exercised directing, guiding and restraining power over the preparation of the documents and that the architect has exercised his or her professional judgment in all architectural matters embodied within the documents. This rule is not intended to preclude the use of
1current technology or the use of standard details and product specifications in accomplishing the above objectives.
(a) Reviewing, or reviewing and editing, specifications and documents intended for permit and construction after they have been prepared by others does not constitute the exercise of responsible control and supervision because the reviewer has neither control over nor detailed knowledge of the content of such submissions throughout their preparation.
(b) Any architect signing or sealing technical submissions not prepared by that architect, but prepared under the architect’s responsible control by persons not regularly employed in the office where the architect is resident, will maintain and make available to the Board, upon request, adequate records to demonstrate the nature and extent of the architect’s control over, and detailed knowledge of, such technical submissions throughout their preparation.
(6) Notwithstanding other sections of this rule, a successor registered architect may complete a deceased or disabled architect’s drawings and specifications intended for permitting and construction as though they were the successor’s original, but must perform a thorough review and will become fully responsible for the content. The successor registered successor architect must use his or her own title block, stamp, and signature, and must remove the title block, stamp, and signature of the deceased or disabled architect.