National bodies and documents
AIA · IES · CSI
On national AIA bodies Stine has written, reviewed, and shaped documents the Institute issues to its whole membership: the playbooks, position statements, toolkits, and codes through which the profession teaches itself. A textbook reaches the students who buy it; these documents go to more than 100,000 AIA members.
AIA Artificial Intelligence Task Force
2025 – present
Member and co-author of the AIA AI Firm Toolkit, published April 2026: a maturity diagnostic, AI literacy, seven policy and ethics frameworks, and change management for firms of every size.
Technology in Architectural Practice
Leadership Group 2026 · Chair 2028
The AIA's largest knowledge community, 18,500 members. Helped develop and run the daylong AI-in-practice symposium at AIA26; author of the TAP Network Guide for local groups; co-chaired the COTE + TAP symposium at AIA25.
Committee on the Environment
Leadership Group 2023 – 2025
Climate Action and Climate Justice subcommittee, where he proposed building the Climate Justice in Architecture resource from stories of practice and recruited its author. Communications subcommittee. Reviewer of Code of Ethics Canon VI updates on behalf of COTE.
Climate Action Business Playbook
Co-author · 2022
Commissioned by the AIA from Lake Flato and Buro Happold with the Sustainable Performance Institute and unabridged Architecture. Stine organized the writing across four firms, then taught it to the membership as an AIA continuing-education session.
Position statements and toolkits
Contributor · Reviewer
One of a five-person task force that rewrote Architects Are Environmentally Responsible. Credited reviewer of the 2023 Resilience Design Toolkit and an early draft of the COTE Top Ten Toolkit that became the Framework for Design Excellence.
Illuminating Engineering Society
Past chair, BIM Standards Committee
Chaired the national committee that produced IES TM-32-24, the lighting industry's BIM standard, and presented it to the membership. Also: judge, 2017 AEC Excellence Awards; Autodesk Expert Elite; Design and Built Environment Institute member.
Whole-building LCA at the AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference, UMass Amherst, 2023.
Teaching the AIA's chapters
Since 2020, seventeen invited sessions at eleven AIA chapters and state components across seven states, from AIA Houston's full day of continuing education to AIA California's circular-construction webinar, AIA New York COTE, the Boston Society of Architects, AIA Philadelphia COTE, AIA New Orleans, AIA Los Angeles, AIA Minnesota COTE, AIA San Francisco, AIA Austin, and his own AIA San Antonio, where he presents on AI and early energy modeling and helps run the AI Knowledge Group.
“I have been impressed by his systems thinking, inclusive community-building, humble leadership, and tenacity. Dan always has the time to share what he knows and propel us all.”
Michelle Amt, FAIA · 2024 Chair, AIA Committee on the Environment
Chapter by chapter
Eleven components · seven states · 2020 – 2025
National conferences reach the architects who can travel to them. Chapter and state-component sessions reach the rest in their own cities, mostly at lunch hours and after work. Four of these committees have invited him back.
Texas
AIA Houston · a full day of design technology sessions · 2024AIA Austin · Design Excellence Conference, two sessions · 2023AIA Austin · Building Enclosure Council symposium · 2024AIA San Antonio COTE · committee workshop · 2021AIA San Antonio COTE · early energy modeling · 2024AIA San Antonio · AI in architecture · 2025
Northeast
Boston Society of Architects · daylighting, modeling and in real life · 2025AIA New York COTE · circular economy and embodied carbon · 2023
California
AIA California · circular construction · 2024AIA California · firm culture and design technology, statewide webinar · 2024AIA San Francisco · design technology and design performance · 2024AIA Los Angeles · the decarbonization toolbox · 2022
Mid-Atlantic and South
AIA Philadelphia COTE · 2030 Working Group · 2020AIA Philadelphia COTE · recorded sessions · 2020AIA New Orleans · Rising, a two-day program · 2020AIA East Tennessee COTE · Insight total carbon · 2025AIA Florida · annual convention · 2026
Midwest
AIA Minnesota COTE · early energy modeling · 2023AIA Minnesota · state conference · 2016 – 2019, 2022
IES and beyond
Lighting, specifications, wellness
Illuminating Engineering Society
Past chair, BIM Standards Committee
Chaired the national committee that produced IES TM-32-24, the lighting industry's BIM standard, and presented it to the membership. Lightfair International, 2018; IES Mexico, 2021; Lighting Innovation Symposium, Monterrey, 2023.
Construction Specifications Institute
CDT
Construction Document Technologist. Specifications and documentation QA/QC are among the first AI pilot tracks he chose at Lake Flato.
WELL and beyond
WELL AP · Design and Built Environment Institute
WELL Accredited Professional; member of the Design and Built Environment Institute; judge for the 2017 AEC Excellence Awards; Autodesk Expert Elite.