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Networking reception followed by a group toast to Bruce Coldham, NESEA icon, lifetime NESEA member and active participant in the organization for most of its past 40 years. Bruce will retire in 2015 and together we will raise our glasses to his years of good work and to the continued excellence of Coldham & Hartman in the realm of sustainable design and high performance building. Light appetizers and cash bar.

Speakers: Tom Hartman, Coldham & Hartman, and others

6:30pm-8:00pm

Drink & Crit

The Crit is a staple of an architectural education. It's the final critique in an academic studio where you hang your designs on the wall, and stand and present your ideas in front a jury of your peers. It's a chance for public glory, and slings and arrows if the work doesn't measure up. In normal life, this experience is confined to the relatively safe cloisters of architecture school. But we're not just architects, we're members of the most cross-disciplinary, most cutting edge group of high performance building professionals around. So we thought, why not throw open the cloister doors and allow the best and brightest non-architects in on the action?

Join Emcee Jesse Thompson and watch as your favorite NESEA architects and designers bravely pin up and shut up before fellow architects, engineers, builders and energy professionals. Four projects, two cross-disciplinary juries and hours of talk provided by your friends and colleagues, over cocktails, which just makes the discussion more, well...vibrant. It'll be beautiful and geeky.

Do we have to choose between design and high performance? We'll leave that one up to the juries.

Speakers: Phil Kaplan, Kaplan and Thompson Architects, Chris Briley, and others