Small Firm Forum: Use of PreFab Panels in Custom Designed Homes

From the Small Firm Forum: Use of PreFab Panels in Custom Designed Homes on Thursday, August 2.

Michael Murray, CEO and principal founder of Forma Home Systems, will talk to us about the use of Prefabricated panels and trusses to build custom designed homes. He says, "A delivered package includes under-floor framing materials, builder's hardware, floor panels, wall panels, roof trusses and roof sheeting. Our goal is to add as much value to those components as we can".
[Cover story, Builder/Architect Magazine, May 2007].

Go to http://www.builderarchitectbayarea.com/cover_stories/2007/05/for the article and photographs of the plant. Questions?

Call Joe Spitzley at (510)220-5766
See you at the meeting!

Thursday, August 2, 2007
12 Noon to 1:30 P.M.
AIA East Bay Chapter
1405 Clay Street, Oakland at 14th St.
Bring Your lunch
Non-AIA members: $3.00 per person (or $36 for a one-year SFF membership)

For more information: Call Joe Spitzley at (510)220-5766

Women in Architecture: 7 Tenets of Building in Concrete with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

8/09/07

East Asian Library design team consisted mostly of young, not highly experienced, yet highly dedicated designers committed to successfully executing the work that is concerned mostly with smaller scale articulation and quality of craft. We will discuss design and construction issues and share our personal experiences in developing the design through construction details that address fundamental design ideas in addition to simple problem solving. We will cover topics such as concrete placement, finishing, quality control, construction tolerances and this particular team’s approach to inter-team collaboration in all stages of project delivery, which insured a positive experience for everyone.

Presenters are:
Lara Kaufman
Ellen Nystrom
Alyosha Verzhbinsky, AIA

Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: Kellie Hewlett to RSVP
This meeting open to all! Click here to RSVP
Cost: None

1.5 CES/LU

For more information: 510/464-3600

MTC Public Information Forum

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) are reviewing the Bay Area's transportation planning process carried out by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC).
As a reminder, the two federal agencies are sponsoring a public
meeting:

Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Dahms Auditorium, 101 8th Street, Oakland (across from the Lake Merritt BART station)

Oral and written comments may be presented at the meeting. If you can't attend the meeting, written comments may also be sent through Friday, August 17, 2007 via e-mail to cert.review@fhwa.dot.gov or by regular mail to:

Jean Mazur
FHWA California Division
650 Capitol, Suite 4-100
Sacramento, CA 95814
or
Ted Matley
FTA Region IX
201 Mission Street, Suite 1650
San Francisco, CA 94105

For more information:
To request translation assistance at the meeting, or for other accessibility needs, please contact MTC Public Information at (510)817-5757 by July 19.

Thank you,
MTC Public Information

Survey on Contract Documents Software

The AIA invites you to participate in a short contract documents software satisfaction survey.

Your comments are invaluable to our ongoing efforts to improve the usability and power of AIA Contract Documents software. Please take a moment to share your experience by completing a short survey. The survey should take only a few minutes to complete; all responses are confidential.

Click here to take the survey.

2008 California Building Code, Part 2

7/17/07

The New California Building Code, Part Two, presented by Kerwin Lee, AIA

Presented by the Young Architects Forum

Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm

Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland

Contact: Kellie Hewlett or Gerard Lee, AIA

Cost: $20 members; $35 non-members. Did you attend Steve Winkel's Class through AIA East Bay? Call us for a discount code! 510/464-3600.

Click here for registration

For more information: 510/464-3600

Climate Change Planning Project

7/11/07

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission: Climate Change Planning Project

In 1965 the Bay Conservation and Development Commission was established to keep the Bay from getting smaller. It has done that, but now global warming has created a new challenge: sea level rise is making the Bay bigger. Will Travis, the executive director of BCDC, will explain how the agency works and how climate change will affect the Bay Area and will discuss the critical role the architectural profession plays in addressing global warming.

Time: 12 noon

Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay St, Oakland

This program open to all.

For more information: Kellie Hewlett at 510/464-3600

Small Firm Forum Garden Tour

From the Small Firm Forum:

The Feyerabend and Madden Landscape Architecture and Garden Design gardens tour 
is this coming Thursday, July 12.

We will begin the tour at the Berres Garden, 130 Somerset Road,
Piedmont at 12 Noon (the cross street is Estates Drive,
 which is entered from Park Boulevard),
then take a 10 minute drive to the Martinez and Sloan Garden,
915 Sunnyhills Road,Oakland (nearTrestle Glenn Rd.
in the upper Lakeshore Avenue district).

Driving:  
Begin the tour at the Berres Garden, 130 Somerset Road, Piedmont.
Enter Estates Drive from Park Avenue; turn right onto Estates Dr.
and continue to Somerset; turn left onto Somerset Road.
The house has a red "Spanish tile" roof, and is
on the left side of the road, very near the intersection.

After viewing the Berres Garden, drive to the Martinez and
Sloan residence: because Somerset is very narrow, uphill
and winding, it is difficult to turn around, so
we suggest that you continue on Somerset, northwest
to Crest Road; turn left on Crest. Follow Crest
to Hampton Road (Crest is perpedicular to Hampton)
then turn left onto Hampton Road (you are now traveling
southeast).  Follow Hampton Road to Inverleith Terrance;
here you may either turn right onto Inverleith and
follow it southwest to Estates Drive, OR you may
continue on Hampton Road until you reach Estates Drive.
Turn right on Estates Drive and continue to Park Blvd.
You will drive a short distance west on Park Blvd.:
turn right onto Park, cross St. James Drive/Leimert Blvd.,
then turn right onto Trestle Glenn.  Follow Trestle Glenn
to Sunnyhills Road and make a right on Sunnyhills.
Look for a grey stucco house just a short distance up
Sunnyhills, on the corner of Hillcroft Circle. 
10-15" drive.

I suggest that you trace the directions on a map
before making the trip.

Bring a bag lunch and a drink: we will eat in the
Berres Garden between Noon
and 12:30.

*Also bring $3.00 please, if you are not an AIA member.
*Please be prepared to stay until 2 p.m. this time,
if you can.
*Car pooling is a good idea, as Sommerset Road is very narrow,
and parking is
limited, and it may be necessary to park some distance up
the hill and walk
down; parking is also limited on Sunnyhills Road.
*Lost?  Call Joe' s cell phone: 510-220-5766.

We'll see you Thursday. 

For more information:
Kaaren Spitzley (kaaren@spitzley.com)...Joe Spitzley (joe@spitzley.com)
Spitzley Construction, Inc., Berkeley, California
Phone: 510/841-2185; Joe's cell 510/220-5766

Urban Living Tour

AIA East Bay, Holliday Development, and the San Francisco and East Bay Bicycle Coalitions invite you to join us for the Urban Living Tour, benefiting REBUILDING TOGETHER OAKLAND and their mission of creating safe and comfortable housing for those in need.

Taking place on Sunday, September 16th, the Urban Living Tour will be Holliday Development's third housing tour since 1992, offering you an exclusive glimpse into some of the unique spaces of the East Bay. The tour will commence at Oakland's Historic Train Station, where ticket holders will receive a tour map providing a route for driving or cycling to each private entry on the tour.

For more information: http://www.urbanlivingtour.org