CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 May 2005
Company News
Avatech Solutions Becomes a Member of the AIA/AAF Cornerstone Partners Program
Avatech Solutions, Inc. announced it has become a member of the Cornerstone Partners for the AIA/AAF Allied Organizational Membership. Through this designation, Avatech offers AIA/AAF members a broad range of credit-granting training programs in its 16 national training centers and online.
Cornerstone Partners is an alliance program between The American Institute of Architects, The American Architectural Foundation and corporations, building product manufacturers, service providers and trade associations in the design and construction community. This program promotes stronger communication and enhanced working relationships for the industry.
"This alliance underlines our commitment to providing quality services and professional continuing education for AIA members," said Scotty Walsh, CEO at Avatech Solutions. "Avatech's comprehensive, credit-granting courses support the mandate of the Cornerstone Partners to help their members stay current with the latest developments in digital design and related areas relevant to the industry."
"With their impressive array of clients, national network of offices, and collaborative opportunities through their calendar of special events, we feel that Avatech Solutions will make an excellent member of our Cornerstone Partners program. The AIA looks forward to sharing a mutually beneficial relationship with Avatech in the coming years, and welcomes them as a Cornerstone Partner," said Helene Combs Dreiling, FAIA, team vice president AIA Community.
The primary goal of the Cornerstone Partners program and the organizations' Continuing Education Systems (CES) is to provide the best available professional development opportunities to the membership and related industry professionals. The 73,000 members of the AIA are required to complete 18 Learning Unit hours of continuing education annually in order to remain in good standing. Avatech is a key partner providing training courses for design automation software such as AutoCAD, Autodesk Architectural Desktop and Autodesk Revit.
For a complete list of programs offered to the Allied Organizational Membership for credit please visit http://www.avat.com/training/classroom or call (800) 706-1000. For more information about Avatech's products and services, please visit http://www.avatechsolutions.com .
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