EP/YAF Hard Hat Tour – Bandwidth Headquarters

This on-site course focuses on Bandwidth HQ’s characteristics as a campus built for its staff to thrive holistically. It will cover the planning and design of indoor and outdoor spaces as a primary spatial organizer for the campus and how the plan supports employee health and wellness. Through careful development and documentation, the design team ensured the client’s objectives for employee health and wellness were achieved with both high-quality and economy. Through experiencing the construction on-site, participants will understand the design excellence is achieved by designing for integration and flexibility.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Participants will describe effective site planning strategies that elevating the human experience and overall wellbeing through the integration of landscape and architecture using the Bandwidth HQ campus as a built example
• Participants will recall design strategies used in the Bandwidth HQ which promote employee physical and mental health in response to client objectives established at the beginning of the project
• Participants will discuss how the design embraces integration through a campus concept, creating spaces for connection and delight, designing landscape which is full of native plantings and supports the ecology of the place, providing indoor-outdoor relationships and by designing to satisfy multiple stakeholders for maximum benefit
• Participants will identify multiple methods that the Bandwidth HQ models flexibility at multiple scales, from campus planning to individual space flexibility

PRESENTED BY

Brad Burns, Senior Associate, Design Director, Gensler

A design director in the Raleigh office, Brad is interested in how architecture can improve the quality of our cities and lift the human spirit. His primary responsibilities include design leadership, client relationships and Culture & Museums Practice Area leadership in the southeast region. His current work includes the Bandwidth Headquarters in Raleigh, NC, Kaleideum in Winston-Salem, NC and Bloc83 Tower 3 in Raleigh, NC. In 20 years of practice, Brad has provided leadership for academic, cultural, government, commercial office, and residential clients with a focus on design excellence and technical rigor. His work has been featured in numerous publications, and he has won multiple awards including an AIA New York Chapter Award of Merit. Brad is a frequent guest critic at schools of architecture, including NYIT, Auburn University, Roger Williams University, Norwich University and NC State University, where he has served as a juror for NC State’s Shawcroft Drawing Prize every year since 2017. Brad is currently chair of the AIA Triangle Design Awards Committee where he has served since 2016. Brad holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee where he was awarded the Faculty Design Award for most outstanding 5th year project.

REGISTRATION 

• Registration required
• Deadline for registration is Tuesday, September 6th at 5:00 PM
• AIA Member/AIAT Annual Partner/Students: $0 | Non-members: $35
• Please arrive early to allow time to sign-in for CE credit and tour
• Hard-hat tour and will require closed toed shoes, neon vests, and hard hats by everyone in attendance