Tour one of the first public healthcare facilities to comply with the Green Building Council’s LEED® standards for environmental sustainability.
Stantec Architecture, in association with Anshen + Allen, was commissioned to design this historic complex as a national model for long-term public healthcare. The project encompasses a comprehensive program of housing and a continuum of long-term health care services including 30 beds of acute care units, acute general medical facilities, and rehabilitation. The 1,170 beds of skilled nursing facilities include units for chronic care, dementia, psycho-social, AIDS/HIV, rehabilitation, total care, hospice, and restorative care. The scope of services includes master planning, programming, and design of state-of-the-art facilities totaling 751,000 sf, with 607,000 sf in new construction and a 144,000-sf remodel of the original landmark hospital building. Work on this complex entailed an outreach program to build support within a politically sensitive, diverse, and active community.
As this is a construction site, pants and close toed, flat shoes are required. Please bring a hardhat if you have one, though some will be provided. There will be no elevator, and the tour includes 4 flights of stairs and lots of walking, so please consider this when registering. We will meet in the main lobby of the old building adjacent to the Forest Hill muni station at 2:45, and the tour will start promptly at 3:00 pm.
9/18/09 Laguna Honda Tour Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Laguna Honda, 375 Laguna Honda Blvd., San Francisco Contact: 510/464-3600 Cost: None; this program open to all. Registration Required. Click here to register.
Leslie Pancoast will be discussing issues related to risk management. Some of the topics to be discussed include ownership of drawings, contract language to include/avoid and issues associated with the distribution of electronic documents.
Leslie Pancoast is Vice President of IOA Insurance Services, and is the Branch Representative of the Bay Area office in Pleasanton, which she opened in 2005. Leslie focuses on placing professional liability and other commercial insurance coverages for architects, engineers, attorneys and other professional consultants.
With over two decades of insurance experience and having placed insurance coverage for hundreds of professionals, Leslie's broker skills are geared toward finding the right programs for her clients and negotiating highly competitive premium terms. She also provides contract review and risk management seminars for her clients.
9/15/09
Young Architects Forum: Risk Management
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland.
Contact: 510/464-3600 or Norman Sanchez, AIA
Cost: None; this program open to all. Please RSVP.
Attendees have three registration options. They can attend (1) the full day of classes (2) only the morning classes or (3) only the afternoon classes. Each one hour of teaching is the equivalent of one Continuing Education Learning Unit (CES LU).
Full Day ( 8:30am - 5:30pm ) Attendees will earn 8 CES LUs. Of these 8 units they will earn 1 ADA Mandatory Continuing Education (MCE) LU, 6 Health Safety and Welfare (HSW) LUs and 4 Sustainable Design (SD) LUs.
Half Day/Morning ( 8:30am - 11:40am ) Attendees will earn 3 CES LUs. Of these 3 units, they will earn 1 ADA Mandatory Continuing Education (MCE) LU and 1 Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) LU.
Half Day/Afternoon ( 12:10pm - 5:30pm ) Attendees will earn 5 CES LUs. All 5 of these units will qualify for Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) LUs, and 4 of these units will qualify for Sustainable Design (SD) LUs.
Schedule
AIAEastBay Procrastinators’ Series Schedule
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
8:00 – 8:30
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30
Inclined and Vertical Wheelchair Lifts
1. Review the standards used in the design, manufacturing and installation of wheelchair lifts and limited use elevators
2. Discuss the accessibility requirements outlined in:
3. American Disability Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)
4. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
a. Section 1: Compliance with Codes & Standards
b. Section 2: ADA Accessibility Guidelines
c. Section 3: Wheelchair Lifts
d. Section 4: LU/LA Elevators
Speaker: Neil Chaitin, McKinley Elevator Corporation
1 ADA LU
9:35 – 10:35
Urethane Grout Technology
Learn the ANSI standard requirements for the various grout types and characteristics. Look at the good and the bad of each grout type & how they are each maintained. Know what to look out for to avoid problems. Know what items are important when selecting the proper type for your product.
Speaker: Woody Barker, Bostik
1 LU
10:40 – 11:40
Understanding Quartz Surfacing Material
1. Understanding of what Quartz surfacing material is and:
2. What is Quartz?
3. The role Quartz has played in history
4. Where can Quartz be found?
5. The physical properties of Quartz
6. What is the Breton manufacturing process?
7. Differences between acrylic solid surfaces, stone, and Quartz surfaces
8. What you get when you combine Quartz surfacing material, and Microban antimicrobial material
Speaker: Dennis Rickman, Cosentino USA
1 HSW LU
Lunch
11:40 – 12:10
12:10 – 1:10
The Beauty, Longevity and Earth Friendly Benefits of Clay
Due to the increased focus on designing structures that lessen the impact on the environment, now more than ever building materials are scrutinized along these guidelines. This course will educate the architect on the “cool roof impact” on the building industry, the “green” benefits of using clay tile, and the differences between clay and other roofing materials.
Speaker: Courtney Fischbeck , US Tile
I HSW/SD LU
1:15 – 2:15
Glass Floor Walkways and Stair Treads
Upon completion of this course you will have a better understanding of designing Glass into Walkways and Stair Treads and how the following are taken into
consideration during the design process:
• Support Methods & Installation
• Safety and Modesty
• Slip Resistance
• LEED™
Speaker: Steve Weddle, Innovative Building Products, Inc,
I HSW/SD LU
2:20 – 3:20
Designing with Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF)
This program introduced Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) as a construction technology as well as highlights the benefits of ICF construction for builders and occupants. By the end of the program, participants will have the information and knowledge required to design with ICFs.
Speaker: Gary Brown, Amvic Building Systems
1 HSW/SD LU
3:25 – 4:25
Decorative Surfacing Treatments to Existing Asphalt ( HMA ) Surfaces
At the conclusion of this course you will have a better understanding of the following:
- Hot Mix Asphalt ( HMA )
- Benefits of HMA
- Available Systems
- Important System Characteristics
- Creative Potential
Speaker: Gavin Lee, Integrated Paving Concepts
1 HSW LU
4:30 – 5:30
The Evolution of Roofing to Sustainable Cool Roof Systems
•Describe the evolution of modern roofing.
•Understand the difference between roof coatings and fluid applied roof systems.
Tea House & Orr House Saturday, 9/19/2009 10:00am Saratoga, CA Free and open to all
1.5 CES/LU Tea House, Saratoga
Nestled among a grove of mature native trees, high above the main house, lies a cluster of three diminutive, single room teahouses. All are dimensionally generous with floor to ceiling walls of glass that openly engage their surroundings. Each structure is distilled to a well judged simple order that achieves a balanced blend of sight, sound and space, perfect for a shared moment with tea.
Orr House, Saratoga Sited on a steep semi-rural lot, the Orr House is an addition and remodel to an existing two story 1970s style home. The homes interior is made bright and airy with a new skylit atrium, entry, stair and bridge. The kitchen / dining area and living area all share a beautiful new outdoor stone terrace edged with a cantilevered reflecting pool that extends the vista to the hills beyond while minimizing views to the driveway below. Old and new alike are seamlessly woven together to create a new design with a unique sense of place married to artfully balanced forms and materials.
Come hear about programs and resources to green multifamily properties.The confluence of the new Title 24 Code, emerging technical programs and resources, and utility rebate programs provides a pathway to design and retrofit multifamily properties to more efficient and durable standards.
This brownbag will focus on upcoming programs and resources to green multifamily properties, both new and existing. Come hear about Build It Green's new GreenPoint Rated Multifamily Existing Home, including preliminary results of pilot projects. LISC will outline how physical needs assessments (PNAs) to multifamily housing stock can help provide a pathway towards greener operations. Since the new 2008 Title 24 will be released in a few short months, get a sneak preview of the changes for new multifamily properties, and the actions that can be taken to bring new multifamily properties above code under the new Title 24. Lastly, we will hear program updates from PG&E's Multifamily Energy Efficiency Rebate Program and the California Multifamily New Homes Program, through Heschong-Mahone Group.
Speakers:
1) Heather Larson, Program Manager, GreenBuilding in AlamedaCounty
2) Mike Gabel, Gabel Associates
3) Erin Camarena, Bay Area LISC
4) Charlie Middleton, PG&E
5) Ryan Schmidt,, Heschong- Mahone Group
9/14/09
Build It Green: Programs & Resources for Greening Multifamily Properties
Emily Marthinsen, AIA will present an orientation to the Berkeley campus and its planning process for historic and cultural resources. She will discuss examples of campus projects and describe how decisions were made regarding preservation and/or demolition of existing structures.
Speaker: Emily Marthinsen, AIA - Assistant Vice Chancellor, Physical & Environmental Planning Capital Projects/Facilities Services at UC Berkeley.
Emily Marthinsen, UC Berkeley's Campus Planner, heads the office of Physical and Environmental Planning (PEP). PEP provides comprehensive physical and environmental planning services for the Berkeley campus. Marthinsen works closely with campus clients through early planning phases of projects emphasizing program and project definition, alternative space development and alignment with overall campus process, coordination with the City of Berkeley related to planning issues and the implementation of the 2020 Long Range Development Plan.
Marthinsen joined Capital Projects in 2000 as Principal Planner responsible for surge (relocation) planning. She worked previously on campus in the Department of Architecture and in the Office of the Dean, College of Environmental Design. She taught undergraduate and graduate studios, worked on departmental accreditation and guided programming and planning for Wurster Hall's seismic retrofit. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Chicago and Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley. Marthinsen in a licensed Architect in California and has over twenty-four years of relevant work experience at UC Berkeley and with design and planning firms in San Francisco, Washington DC., Alexandria, Virginia and Berkeley.
9/10/09
Historic Preservation Forum: Historic Resources & the UC Berkeley Campus
Time: Noon - 1:00pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland.
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: None; this program open to all. Please RSVP.
We will review the new BIM Model Server technology in ArchiCAD 13 that redefines Teamwork and how a BIM project is shared within an office as well as externally through the internet. We will also review additional new features in ArchiCAD 13.
After this program you will know how to work collaboratively on a BIM project, work with consultants using Teamwork and be able to better share a BIM project within an office and as well as remotely.
9/2/09
ArchiCAD: BIM Collaboration with ArchiCAD 13
Presented by ArchVista.
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland.
While there is no doubt that wind, solar and geothermal have ample energy to power the planet--the sunlight that hits Earth in a single hour contains enough energy to fuel the human population for a year--they will need years to mature before they reach anything approaching their potential. Oil has had more than a century to mature, and its shortcomings remain painfully obvious even now.
The U.S. spends roughly $1 trillion each year--approximately 10% of gross domestic product--on the fuel needed to power 114 million households, 82 billion square feet of commercial building space, 130 million cars, 95 million trucks and the countless computers, ovens and alarm clocks that drive the metabolism of the modern economy. If there is a cheap and clean energy source out there, odds are someone--looking in the right place--will find it.
The "cubic mile of oil"--a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year--is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power.
So what would it take to replace the amount of energy in a cubic mile of oil? Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, 3 million wind turbines, 2,500 nuclear power plants or 200 Three Gorges Dams, according to Menlo Park, Calif., nonprofit research institute SRI International.
Till that time we can use the renewable energy as effectively and responsibly as possible. One of the most effective and Highly Efficient is Solar Thermal.
9/25/09 Committee on the Environment Forum: Enlightened Spaces: Solar Thermal Presentation Location: AIAEastBay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland.
Contact: 510/464-3600 or Shinya Yamada, AIA Cost: None; this program open to all. Please RSVP.
1 CES LU
Wooden Window, Inc. President Bill Essert and his team will lead a tour of the shop, demonstrate how robots have innovated the craft of making custom wooden doors and windows, discuss how Wooden Window is the fenestration rehabilitation leader in the state, and review the myriad of options related to performance glass -- topics that are common with remodeling projects of older homes.
Repair or replace? What's the best way to go with older doors and windows?
How is it possible to replace a window in an older home, use dual-pane glass, and have it match the existing single-pane windows?
These questions and more will be considered on the upcoming tour at Wooden Window. There, you will have fun watching Betsy, one of 3 company robots, and other company craftsmen make absolutely beautiful doors and windows. So don't miss this meeting -- not to mention the smell of clear grain lumber.
The workshop of Wooden Window is located at 849 29th Street (between San Pablo Avenue and West Ave.). Thursday is a street cleaning day, so beware of street parking. There are ample spaces for your car in the church parking lot next door. Even so, carpooling is always encouraged.
P.S. Wooden Window produces beautiful sawdust and scrap. If you want some for whatever reason, please bring your own box or bag. It's Free! 9/10/09 Small Firm Forum: Window-Making Robots & Performance Glass Wooden Window,Inc. President, Bill Essert and his team will lead a tour of the shop and demonstrate how robots have innovated the craft of making wooden doors and windows. Time: Noon - 1:30pm Location: Wooden Window, Inc., 849 29th Street, Oakland. Contact: 510/464-3600 or Catherine Roha, AIA Cost: Free for AIA Members; $3 for non-members 1.5 CES/LU
AIA Santa Clara Valley is sponsoring a full day Seismic Event: Designing for Earthquakes on October 2, 2009 at Stanford University. AIA SCV is partnering with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). The program, including experts in architecture, geotechnical and structural engineering, and design, qualifies for 7.5 CES/HSW units.
For more information: Program details, speakers' bios, sponsorship and registration at: www.aiascv.org. Early-bird registration ends August 28, 2009.
Come and participate in a discussion of the adaptive re-use of the Historic St. Joseph's complex located on International Boulevard in Oakland. The project includes affordable senior housing, offices, affordable family rentals and first time home buyer housing. The St. Joseph's redevelopment includes the adaptive re-use of the historic St. Joseph's building built in 1912 by the Little Sister of the Poor as home for the indigent. The 3.3 acre complex includes six existing buildings and significant landscape most of which will be incorporated into the redevelopment. The project will include 84 units of affordable senior housing, office space and senior gardens. A new 58 unit affordable family apartment building and associated open space is also planned. The remaining buildings are anticipated to include 16 first time home buyer units. Financing is anticipated to include tax credits, historic tax credits, proposition 1-C infrastructure funds and local City of Oakland Subsidies.
The speaker, Fred Pollack, AIA is a partner at Van Meter Williams Pollack. Fred has worked at the forefront of mixed-use, transit-oriented planning and urban design. His focus as a leader in green and sustainable architecture includes designs ranging from individual buildings, to mixed-use communities, adaptive re-use, and multifamily affordable housing. Fred has led many of VMWP's larger and award-winning projects. A LEED-Accredited Professional, Fred has worked with municipal and nonprofit organizations to implement sustainable building practices. He is an advisor for Global Green USA, and serves on several technical advisory committees for developing green and sustainable architecture, including the Multi-Family Green Building Guidelines published by the Alameda County Waste Management Authority, the Green Affordable Housing Coalition and the Zero Net Energy Housing Project. Fred is a licensed architect in California and Hawaii.
8/13/09
Historic Preservation Forum: St. Joseph's Adaptive Reuse
Come and participate in a discussion led by Fred Pollock, AIA, LEED AP on the adaptive re-use of the Historic St. Joseph's complex located on International Boulevard in Oakland.
Time: Noon - 1:00pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland.
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: None; this program open to all. Please RSVP.
AIAEastBay is pleased to announce the launch of an online webinar on the graphics portion of the ARE.
This 60+ minute program provides ARE candidates with an introduction to the graphic vignettes as a part of the ARE 4.0. The webinar covers general testing information, including the NCARB software, as well as test taking strategies. In addition, the webinar summarizes each vignette, illustrating tips and tricks for success. After completion of this course, candidates have the tools to help them succeed on the vignette portions of the ARE.
"I am looking for additional help for the Structural Division of the ARE. If you come across anybody that is offering something like this, I would really like to be in contact with them."
If you are interested in providing tutoring services to a chapter member studying for the ARE, please contact the chapter office at sidney@aiaeb.org or 510/464-3600.
For more information: contact the chapter office at sidney@aiaeb.org or 510/464-3600.
AIA East Bay proudly announces its Call for Entries for Above & Beyond: 2009 Unbuilt Design Awards.
This program encourages submittals by students, recent graduates, and artists--in addition to architects and design professionals. It was developed in response to the 2009 economic climate to recognize work that is "on the boards" and highlight design excellence. In the spirit of the program's intent, registration fees are kept low.
The jury is impressive:
Richard W. Thompson, FAIA, AICP, Los Angeles
Richard Thompson, FAIA is principal in charge of the Urban Design and Planning Studio at AC Martin Partners. Under his leadership, the studio has produced an award-winning portfolio in campus master planning, new community planning, urban mixed-use development and urban revitalization here and in Asia . As evidence of their success, all of AC Martin's master plans have been approved by their respective communities and institutions and guide the architectural design that follows. Richard has also directed the preparation of 16 college and university master plans, each defining a vision for growth and enhancement.
Anne Fougeron, AIA, San Francisco
Anne Fougeron, AIA founded the nationally-recognized design firm Fougeron Architecture more than 20 years ago on the premise that designing great buildings and providing more personal service were not mutually exclusive goals. The firm's projects exhibit a strong commitment to clarity of thought, design integrity and quality of architectural detail, receiving awards from all levels of the AIA and other organizations. Ranging in scale from residential and mixed-use housing to commercial, civic and health care, Anne's work has been widely featured in publications such as Architectural Record and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Jeffrey L. Day, AIA Omaha
Jeffrey Day, AIA is the Omaha-based principal of Min | Day, an architectural partnership spanning locations in San Francisco and Omaha , Nebraska . The practice draws on the principals' backgrounds in art, landscape and building design to provide informed and flexible design that serves individuals to institutions, urban to rural sites, and projects ranging from furniture to large buildings. Jeffrey's widely-published work has won recognition and numerous awards, including the 2007 AIA California Council Emerging Talent award and the 2009 New Practices San Francisco award.
AIA East Bay is a Bay Area local chapter of The American Institute of Architects that serves architects and the public in the four northern California counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa and Solano. The chapter has been in existence since 1947 and has grown from a group of 30 Charter Members to a current membership of more than 900. Visit our website for more services and information.
Richard W. Thompson, FAIA, AICP, Los Angeles 
Anne Fougeron, AIA, San Francisco 
Jeffrey L. Day, AIA Omaha 
