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Virtual Lunch and Learn | How Architects Influence Policy, Codes, and Advocacy
June 24, 2026
12pm – 1pm

What if your biggest design challenge was’t a constraint, but an opportunity to create change?

Join us for a dynamic Virtual Lunch & Learn exploring how architects can actively shape th policies, building codes, and advocacy efforts that impact our daily work.  If you have ever felt frustrated by a regulation that limited your design or wondered how those decisions are made this session will help you understand how and where you can have an influence.

Leave this discussion with the following:

• Understand the different levels that Policy and Codes are developed and where architects fit in
• Understand the practical pathways to get involved on a local or state level
• Explore real examples of how architects have successfully influenced change
• Insite into how AIA Pennsylvania advocates on behalf of the profession

Register today and join the discussion on how to best be part of creating an AEC environment that is changing to meet todays needs and future needs of our communities and our environment.

Who Should Attend:  Emerging Professionals, Mentors, Young Architects and Firm Principals, Construction Managers, anyone in the design and AEC process.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS AND IT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU THINK!

REGISTER TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION