Residential Provisions in New California Building Code

Date: Thursday, February 7
Time: Noon-1:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street , Oakland

This will be an informal session on the basics of the new 2007 CBC. Your involvement will steer the direction of the discussion, with particular emphasis on residential and light commercial uses and wood-frame buildings.
Presented by Kerwin Lee, AIA

Cost: Free to AIA members; $3 non-members. Drinks are provided
This Forum open to all.
1.5 HSW CES/LU

For more information: Kellie Hewlett, Program Coordinator, 510/464-3600

Factory Tour: Exotic Hardwoods+Veneers

Thursday, February 7
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Location: 4800 Coliseum Way , Oakland, CA 94601-5010
Cost: None. This tour is open to all members.

Demand for FSC wood products is on the rise, however, availability can remain a challenge. Join us for a factory tour of the Exotic Hardwoods + Veneers factory to see how pre-engineered wood products can provide a resource efficient alternative.

During the tour we will discuss the benefits and challenges of specifying FSC certified and pre-engineered wood, including: how to incorporate hard-to-find and exotic woods into a green project, preserving your design intent, and cost considerations in wood selection.

You will also see firsthand how veneers and wood panels are adhered together through the use of state-of-the-art equipment to create durable wood composites that provide long-term performance in a wide array of exotic and design-sensitive finishes.

Space limited, RSVP required.
Contact: AIA SFrsvp@aiasf.org

For more information: Kellie Hewlett, Program Coordinator, 510/464-3600

Monthly Program: Collaboration Between Architects, Artists and Patrons

Monthly Program: Collaboration Between Architects, Artists and Patrons at the Oliver Ranch, Alexander Valley, California

Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: AIA East Bay, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland

Steve Oliver, Jim Jennings and Mark Jensen will present and discuss their work at the Oliver Ranch. Come and listen to how they combine a team of artist, architect and patron. They will examine two studies of concrete construction using art as the inspiration.

Steve Oliver, President of the award winning construction and development firm, Oliver & Company, in Richmond, California, and a well-known contemporary arts supporter in the Bay Area –owner of the Oliver Ranch in Alexander Valley in the heart of Sonoma County will host and speak about the ranch and his relationships with the two architects also presenting.

The Ranch is a model for philanthropy and a way to nurture the growth and development of artists. The Olivers have engaged artists such as Andy Goldwworthy, Ann Hamilton, Jim Jennings, Richard Serra and many other artists of international reputation to come, live on the Ranch and design and install major works in the landscape.

Jim Jennings, award winning architect in San Francisco who designed one of the installations at the Oliver Ranch in Sonoma County will discuss his relationship to his client, Mr. Oliver as will Mark Jensen who was the architect of record on the most recent installation designed by Ann Hamilton, an 8 story concrete tower which is used as a performance space.

For more information click here

To register click here
contact Kellie Hewlett at 510/464-3600

Office Space for Rent

Office space for rent. Classic restored brick building approximately 2100SF, corner of 8th St. and Camelia in west Berkeley.

Good street parking and easy freeway access. Wood ceilings, seismically reinforced, efficiently set up for Architects or Engineers, with 8 cubicles, plus general work space, 2 private offices, reception/bookkeeping, conference rooms, kitchen/lunch room, toilets, janitorial space, handicapped accessible, air conditioned, modern lighting, move in condition including most furnishings and phone system $5,500.

Rent and terms negotiable.

For more information: Call Paul at 510-528-1044 or email epkaia@aol.com

WIA: Roundtable Discussion--Maintaining a Healthy Balance

The Women In Architecture Forum, meets Thursday, January 17 at 6:00 pm for a presentation titled Maintaining a Healthy Balance

Resolve to maintain a healthy balance in 2008: peers sharing the keys to balancing career aspirations, nurturing family relationships, and cultivating personal interests and achievement.

Please RSVP to events@aiaeb.org
WIA Roundtable Discussion—Maintaining a Healthy Balance
AIA East Bay
Thursday 1/17/08
6:00 pm
Cost: None; this program open to all. Cocktails provided.
Please RSVP.
1 CES/LU

For more information: Kellie Hewlett, Program Coordinator, 510/464-3600

Verifying Building Performance

The COTE Forum (aka the Green & Sustainable Forum), meets Wednesday, January 16 for a presentation titled "Verifying Building Performance."

The program will inform architects of the consulting and contracting services available to verify Building Performance. Designing an energy efficient building is not enough, it is more important to make sure that the building performs as designed.

The discussion will focus on how architects can improve the performance of their buildings beginning with the design and specification stages, and concluding with appropriate testing which will verify that targets were met.

Presented by Ori Adam Skloot of Advanced Home Energy, George Nesbitt of Environmental Design/Build and Robert Mitchell of Renu
1.5 HSW/CES Lus
Presented by the Committee on the
Environment
(COTE)

Please RSVP to events@aiaeb.org
Verifying Building Performance
AIA East Bay
Wednesday 11/21/07
Noon-1:30pm
Brown bag lunch, drinks will be available

For more information: Kellie Hewlett, Program Coordinator, 510/464-3600

OFFICE UNIT FOR RENT

Located on 2nd Floor with window view,
Approximately 700 square feet with parking.

9th & Jackson Street, Oakland Chinatown,
Close to Lake Merritt BART Station and 880 Freeway. Ideal for Service-Oriented Company.

Excellent Rent Rate $1,100/month including parking

For more information: Please call S&B Partners at 510/844-0552 or 510/864-9524

Call for proposals: Sustainable Design Experts

Call for proposals: Sustainable Design Experts
Live Green, Live Well

As the demand for eco-friendly goods and design services continues to increase, more home furnishings manufacturers are responding with "greener" products. The San Francisco Mart is providing a venue for those products in one of the United States' most environmentally-conscious geographical areas during Live Green, Live Well, a sustainable design and home furnishings show on May 8 & 9, 2008.

Live Green, Live Well is the only trade show dedicated to green residential furnishings and design. Now in its second year, the show will offer a full range of home furnishings products from established and emerging manufacturers that are using greener raw materials and/or manufacturing methods.

Educational seminars are an important part of this show. Interior design professionals and home furnishings retailers need to educate themselves on the subject. Thus, you have the opportunity to participate in this unique event, giving you (and your message) exposure to a highly influential audience - hundreds of eco-conscious West Coast interior design professionals, architects, home furnishings retailers, builders and related trade professionals.

Click here for the application: http://www.sfmart.com/livegreen/green_pdf/GreenShowRFP08.pdf . Please complete and return to me by Friday, February 1.

For more information: ehall@sfmart.com or 513-932-7304.

Brown Bag: Code Compliance Sheets

BROWN BAG LUNCHEON ON
CODE COMPLIANCE SHEETS
Noon to 1:30PM, Thursday, January 31st

AIA East Bay, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland


The Codes Committee invites you to a Brown Bag Luncheon (BYOL) to share your office’s Code Compliance Sheets – and to propose new ones. Please don’t be shy! Trim off your title block if you wish. It is our intent to look at different approaches to demonstrating to reviewing officials what steps we have taken to assure that our projects meet the requirements of structural, access and fire and life safety codes.

Do you have any template sheets, forms or checklists that you use to assist you in determining and demonstrating your allowable building areas and heights, occupancy classifications, construction type, height and setbacks? How about exit widths and maximum travel distances? Accessible parking counts and paths of travel? And others.

What do you submit to the State (DSA) that is different than other AHJ’s (Agencies Having Jurisdiction – i.e. cites, counties, joint powers boards, etc.)?

How do you show AMMR’s (Alternate Materials and Methods Requests)? How about Deferred Approval (design/build) items? Local fire department approvals for fire hydrants and fire equipment access?

It is the intent of the Committee to eventually put together a set of guidelines, or a list of references to such guidelines, that we can place on the website to assist our members in preparing thorough and accurate code reviews, as well as preparing the documents that demonstrate to our plan reviewers what steps we have taken to assure that our projects meet the code.

For more information: Kellie Hewlett, Program Coordinator. 510/464-3600

RFQ: UCSD Medical Centers Automated Laboratories Renovation

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will select an Executive Architect for the programming, design, construction drawings, bid and construction phase services for the Automated Laboratories renovations located at our two Medical Centers (Hillcrest and Thornton). The total construction cost is estimated to be $1,100,000 to 1,500,000 (excluding equipment) at CCCI 4978. The Executive Architect will also be responsible for the preparation of a Master Plan for the UCSD Medical Center Laboratory Services to the year 2017. In addition, the Executive Architect may also be involved in subsequent follow-on projects to implement the Master Plan.

Contact Sidney Sweeney if you would like the Request for Qualification document, University Form Attachment B, and Standard Form 330 for your use if you choose to submit a proposal. Proposals are due no later than 4:00 p.m., Monday, January 28, 2008.

For more information: please contact Barbara Anderson, Principal Architect/Project Manager, at 858-534-4907.

Celebrating Dick Osborn, AIA

Dick Osborn, AIA a respected and dear colleague in AIA Redwood Empire chapter, passed away last weekend. Dick was the President of the AIARE in 1991, an avid designer, and a good steward in the community. He will be greatly missed.

The following is a write up from the Osborn Design Group website:

Dick Osborn September 22, 1937 to January 6, 2008

While snorkeling on vacation with his family at Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii, Dick Osborn died of a heart attack. He will be missed by all of us who knew and loved him. We will miss his sincere kindness, dedication to the things he believed in, positive words, and wonderful sense of humor.
He lived a long and rich life and seemed to enjoy every minute of it. He died doing what he loved, in a place that was special to him, with the people he loved.

Dick grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He got his MA in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He loved architecture and was an accomplished pianist. He lived and worked as an architect in Berkeley, California, moving to San Francisco in 1982, and on to Santa Rosa, California in 1987.

There will be a Memorial Service for Dick in Santa Rosa, California on January 19, 2008. The time and place will be posted at www.osborndesigngroup.com when it is determined.

For more information: www.osborndesigngroup.com

Student Competition of Measured Drawings

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) of the National Park Service, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announce the 2008 Charles E. Peterson Prize, which annually recognizes the best set of measured drawings prepared to HABS standards and donated to HABS by students.
The prize honors Charles E. Peterson, FAIA, founder of the HABS program, and is intended to increase awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of historic buildings throughout the United States while adding to the permanent HABS collection of measured drawings at the Library of Congress. To date, more than 2,000 students from 68 colleges and universities have participated by completing more than 500 entries and almost 5,000 sheets of measured drawings. The students have worked alone and in groups, in required courses, electives, independent study and summer institutes. They have been, for the most part, architecture students in addition to architectural history, interior design, and American studies majors.

AWARD AMOUNTS
First Place: $3,000 and Certificate
Second Place: $2,500 and Certificate
Third Place: $2,000 and Certificate
Fourth Place: $1,500 and Certificate
Honorable Mention Certificate
(All prizes are awarded at the discretion of the jury)

For more information:
Peterson Prize Coordinator
Historic American Buildings Survey National Park Service
1201 Eye Street, NW (2270)
Washington, DC 20005
telephone: (202) 354-2166
fax: (202) 371-6473
email: nps_HABS@nps.gov
website: www.nps.gov/history/hdp/jobs/peterson.htm

2008 AIA Photography Competition

January 4, 2008:

AIA St. Louis announces that the 2008 AIA Photography Competition has gone digital. All entries for the competition must be submitted on a CD ROM for the March 1, 2008 deadline.

Eligibility
The competition is open to any and all architects actively registered in the United States. The contest is also open to Associate members of the AIA, and student members of AIAS in good standing. Professional Affiliate or Allied members are not eligible. Slides submitted by ineligible individuals will not be processed and will not be returned. Entry fee for AIA members (AIA & Assoc. AIA) is $30; AIAS members is $15. Entry fee for non-member registered architects is $50.)

The top 14 entries will be exhibited at the 2008 AIA National Convention in Boston, MA. Images for the 2010 Architectural Engagement Calendar (approximately 52 images) will be selected from all submitted entries and will include the 14 award winners. All images must be submitted on CD ROM.

A complimentary 2010 Architectural Engagement Calendar will be provided to each entrant whose image(s) are selected.

Entry deadline is March 1, 2008.

For more information: To download the rules and regulations as well as an entry form, visit www.aia-stlouis.org; click on Features.

Celebrating Eric Elsesser

Eric Elsesser 1933 - 2007

Please join Eric Elsesser's colleagues, friends, and family in celebrating his life.
When: January 16th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Program begins at 4:30
Where: San Francisco City Hall,South Light Court
RSVP: Please RSVP to rsvp@forell.com by Friday, January 11th

Eric Elsesser's distinguished structural engineering career was marked by a passion for innovation and creativity. His professional world focused on excellence and artistry. He loved engineering, architecture and the collaborative design process. Eric was a skilled and creative designer, and he enjoyed the challenge of achieving optimized design solutions. He possessed an entrepreneur's innovative instincts and was constantly intrigued with pushing the envelope of high-performance structural engineering systems.

His engineering acumen was enhanced by a deep appreciation of the arts. Eric was an accomplished photographer and skilled sketcher, and he enjoyed searching for and collecting art, sculpture and crafts. He had a keen graphic eye and sense of scale, and he had the uncanny ability to free-hand a detail or section to almost perfect scale and proportion.

Eric was a student of architectural and engineering history and had a remarkable knowledge of buildings in San Francisco and around the world. He enjoyed lecturing around the country, particularly at his alma mater, Stanford University. Using history as a backdrop, he inspired himself and others to go beyond self-imposed boundaries.

The family requests tributes be sent to the "Sylvia and Eric Elsesser Fellowship" Stanford University - Structural Engineering Program c/o Kim Vonner, CEE Department 4020, Stanford, CA 94305.

Please feel free to share your reminiscences electronically at the following link: http://www.legacy.com/SFGate/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=99154540

RFP: Fillmore Jazz Preservation District

As part of the Western Addition Area A-2 Redevelopment program, the commercial revitalization of Lower Fillmore Street (from Geary to Turk) will generate job opportunities for neighborhood residents, increase the market for neighborhood businesses and increase tax revenues (property, sales, and business) to the City. The project will establish Lower Fillmore as a destination retail-entertainment area organized around the theme of a Jazz Preservation District.

To date, the Agency has identified the revitalization strategy and theme; master-leased available commercial space in the project area's gateway block (Fillmore from Geary to O'Farrell); assessed the Project's economic feasibility and verified community support and tenant interest in the theme.

Proposals due by Feb. 1, 2008 for the Muni Substation Building Adaptive Restoration and Reuse
(1198 Fillmore St, Located on the southeast corner of Turk & Fillmore Streets)

Preview this Request for Proposals at www.sfgov.org/sfra (see Contracts & Purchasing)

For more information: contact Michele Davis at 415-749-2581 or michele.davis@sfgov.org

Design for Living Bathroom Contest

Bathroom Beauty Contest
Is your bathroom a beauty?

Enter to win and your bathroom could be featured in the next issue of Design for Living magazine, published by Diablo Publications. Log on to http://www.designforlivingmag.com/ for official contest rules and entry procedures. Entries must be e-mailed or mailed by January 15, 2008.

For more information: www.designforlivingmag.com

RFQ: Selection of Architect - UCSD CIRM Renovations to CMM East and EBUI

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), will be selecting an Executive Architect to perform design, construction drawings, bid, and construction phase services for an approximate 5,038 GSF renovation of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) program space, located on the 2nd floor of the Center for Molecular Medicine East (CMM East), and the 5th floor of the Engineering Building Unit I (EBU1) at UCSD. The approximate total construction cost is estimated at $800,000 at CCCI 4890. This project is subject to the campus/University academic and administrative approval process.

Contact Sidney Sweeney for copies of the Request for Qualification document, University Form Attachment B, and Standard Form 330. Proposals are due no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 14, 2008.

For more information: Holli Nicewander Administrative Services Manager UCSD Facilities Design & Construction 10280 N. Torrey Pines Road, Suite 470 La Jolla, CA 92037-0916 (858) 534-7484 (858) 534-8579 fax www.fdc.ucsd.edu

RFQ: Special Inspection and Materials Testing Services

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), will be selecting a Special Inspection and Materials Testing firm for the North Campus Housing project. This includes approximately 315,105 GSF of space, including approximately apartment space, common spaces such as vending, laundry, mail areas and administrative offices, and retail space. The retail space includes a cafe’ and a satellite bookstore to serve the North Campus neighborhood.

Proposals are due no later than 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 17, 2008.

Technical questions or questions regarding the scope of the work should be directed to: Al Alarcon, Principal Construction Inspector, Housing & Dining Services, at (858) 534-8268 or email
aalarcon@ucsd.edu. UCSD requests that interested firms refrain from contacting any other party regarding the work for this project.

For more information: Holli Nicewander Administrative Services Manager UCSD Facilities Design & Construction 10280 N. Torrey Pines Road, Suite 470 La Jolla, CA 92037-0916 (858) 534-7484 (858) 534-8579 fax www.fdc.ucsd.edu