COVID-19 RESOURCE ROUND-UP

​A Message from AIA Delaware President,
​Scott Ed​monston, AIA​

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From AIA National

• ​A Message from Robert Ivy, CEO of the AIA
• ​Updates from AIA's Disaster Assistance Program
• Small Firm Exchange​ Community thread
• AIA Foresight Report and navigating through a recession with new business models ​
• ​Navigating the Economy: Architects Weather Ebb and Flow of Projects, information from the last economic downturn is applicable today
• COVID-19 Resources for Architects
• AIA Launches Tool to Help in the Search for COVID-198 Alternative Care Sites

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Practice Management

• ​Practice considerations: Manage your architecture firm’s risk in response to COVID-19 courtesy of AIA National​

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• Architect standard of care relative to site visits during the COVID-19 pandemic courtesy of AIA Risk Management
• ​Visit the AIA website for more COVID-19 resources for architects.​

Real-Time Construction updates

Information on how each state is handling construction practices during the COVID-19 outbreak, courtesy of ARCHITECT Magazine. View updates

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Firm Management & Foresight

• ​​How Architecture Firms Are Responding to COVID-19 courtesy of Architect: The Journal of the AIA
• Three firm leaders offer advice on surviving an economic downturn courtesty of the AIA
• ​​Straightforward Advice on Preserving Cash Flow courtesy of the AIA Trust​​

• How the coronavirus is impacting the AEC industry courtesy of BD+C
• Firm Best Practices Guide  COVID 19 courtesy of Boston Society of Architects
  
• ​Success and Survival as a Small Firm (in this time of COVID-19) courtesy of EntreArchitect (note: you must be a member or request membership to the Facebook Group – “The EntreArchitect Community” – to view)
• Coronavirus Be Prepared Contractual Impacts and How To Address Them courtesy of JD Supra
• Look to your contracts and OSHA during the pandemic courtesy of Victor​
• Coronavirus can put every firm at risk courtesy of Victor​
• Avoid contract default when COVID-19 strikes courtesy of Victor​​​​

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Member Services

AIA Delaware encourages you to contact us to let us know how we might support you virtually.

• The Chapter remains open and operations continue.
• All in‐person programs and events through at least April 30 have been or will be rescheduled as virtual meetings or postponed to a later date. 
• We plan to resume live, in‐person Continuing Education programs when we can and may begin to offer online programs.  In the meantime, take advantage of the online education programs offered by AIAU, Hanley Wood University and others.
• All board, committee and individual meetings will take place as virtual meetings until the current health crisis subsides.

Thank you for your patience.  Please take good care of yourselves and your community.

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Free AIAU courses for AIA Members

Working 100% from home is new territory for many of us, as is the rapidly changing business environment that’s impacting our jobs, our firms, and our work. To help navigate these uncertain times, we’re offering valuable learning resources—some of AIAU’s best business and tech courses—to AIA members for free.
 
Learn about:

• virtual practice,
• successful business strategies,
• risk management, and
• more from some of the most innovative architects, firms, and design professionals.