Women In Architecture Forum: Social Architecture

Architecture and social responsibility not only applies to how sustainably a building is constructed, but for whom the space is made. Ann Panopio, Assoc. AIA Project Manager at Asian Neighborhood Design will discuss projects where this has been a goal in architecture and community design. She will also discuss where architects have been advocates and educators for low income communities.

8/12/10
Women In Architecture Forum: Social Architecture
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: None; this forum is open to all. Please RSVP.
1.5 CES LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Post-Disaster Safety-Assessment Program (SAP) Evaluator Training & Certification

Become a registered Safety Assessment Evaluator and be prepared to help local governments perform accurate facility-safety assessments in the aftermath of a disaster.

Upon completion of this full-day training you will:

• Become proficient in California's Office of Emergency Services (OES) Safety Assessment Program (SAP)
• Become registered to assist in jurisdictions across California and the nation with accurate evaluation of facilities, buildings, and infrastructures in the aftermath of a disastrous event
• Qualified individuals will earn a State-issued OES badge
  

8/24/10

Post-Disaster Safety-Assessment Program (SAP) Evaluator Training & Certification

Become a registered Safety Assessment Evaluator and be prepared to help local governments perform accurate facility-safety assessments in the aftermath of a disaster. This program is available to licensed architects, registered engineers and certified building officials and inspectors. Click here to view the event flyer.

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600

Cost: $31 for AIA East Bay Members; $46 for non-members. Breakfast and lunch is provided. Registration required. Click here to register.

6 CES/HSW LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Monthly Program: New and Old - Architecture Fusion

The quest for sustainability will increasingly concentrate development in cities, generating a greater fusion of old and new styles of architecture, especially as policy incentives are implemented that encourage major additions to existing buildings. This panelists are Charles Bloszies, AIA, architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer, and real estate broker, Mary Smitheram-Sheldon. The moderator is Tim Culvahouse, FAIA.

A wine and cheese networking reception follows the program.

Charles F. (Chuck) Bloszies, AIA is an architect and structural engineer with masters degrees in both disciplines from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught design studios, theory seminars and technology courses at U. Penn, UC San Diego and California College of Arts. Chuck is the 2010 recipient of the Kirby Ward Fitzpatrick Prize from the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco for his 1 Kearny Street project. The project image is above left.

Mitchell Schwarzer is an architectural historian who writes on the urban and suburban built environment with attention to issues of mobility, perception, media, consumerism and memory. His current project involve Jewish architecture/space, and American real estate. Mitchell's books include Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area: History and Guide, (William Stout Publishers, 2007), Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), Architecture + Design: SF (Understanding the Business, 1998) and German Architectural Theory and the Search for Modern Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Mary Smitheram-Sheldon, a Senior Managing Director with CBRE Consulting, has been providing real estate consulting services to corporations, financial institutions, developers, pension funds, law firms, property owners, and governmental entities for nearly 20 years. Her industry experience includes investment analysis, development feasibility, highest and best use analysis, litigation support, partnership valuation, and appraisal review. Ms. Smitheram-Sheldon has particular expertise in real estate valuation, market analysis, and strategy.

8/18/10

Monthly Program: New and Old - Architecture Fusion

Time: 5:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600

Cost: $15.75 for AIA Members; $21 for non-members. Registration required. Click here to register.

1.5 CES LU

For more information: 510/464-3600

Office space to share

From Bonnie Blake-Drucker, FAIA:

I am looking for someone who might want either 135 SF or 250 SF office in terrific Old Oakland Office. We are looking at a space too big for us.

For more information: Email Bonnie at info [at] bdarch.com

Extensive & Intensive Green Roof Design

Cynthia Tanyan, owner and principal designer of Mozaic Landscapes and Cathy Garrett, principal at PGAdesign will provide an overview of green roof design. Cynthia will mainly discuss intensive green roofs, roofs and an outdoor space for humans. She will also present an overview of historic precedents of green roofs, trends, benefits and life cycle costs. She will go over design considerations such as an analysis of how climate, site characteristics and building orientation effect design and the details of structural, waterproofing, drainage, site furnishing footings, pavements, soils, plants, irrigation and maintenance. These concepts will be illustrated in local case studies.

For the last 18 years Cynthia Tanyan has been principal at Mozaic Landscapes and has designed over 350 varied residential gardens throughout the SF Bay Area, including a master plan for a Stanford Lands horse park, a Native American sculpture garden and an extensive modern green roof. She holds an MA in Sustainable Design from CSLD, Massachusetts and has her Green Roof Professional Certification. Cynthia's designs have been featured in Sunset and People magazines.

Cathy Garrett is a principal of PGAdesign, a firm of landscape architects based in Oakland, California. For 24 years she has worked on designing landscapes for public agencies, developers and private clients. Cathy has a range of on-structure experience having integrated roof gardens into urban housing, civic plazas and historic sites. She has a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University and is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Cathy is a Past President of the California Preservation Foundation and recently won a Green Roofs for Healthy Cities award for her work on North Beach Housing in San Francisco.

8/5/10

Small Firm Forum: Extensive & Intensive Green Roof Design

Cynthia Tanyan, owner and principal designer of Mozaic Landscapes and Cathy Garrett, principal at PGAdesign will provide an overview of green roof design.

Time: Noon - 1:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600 or Doug Coe

Cost: Free for AIA members; $3 for non-members. Please RSVP.

1.5 CES/HSW/SD LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Monthly Program: Vision California

Joe DiStefano, principal of Calthorpe Associates will give an overview of Vision California. Vision California is an unprecedented effort to explore the critical role of land use and transportation investments in meeting the environmental and fiscal challenges facing the Golden State over the coming decades. It will produce a series of alternative physical visions for how California can accommodate expected growth, and clearly express the consequences of these options so that we can make informed decisions about the investments and policies that will drive the state's growth. For more information on Vision California click here.

7/28/10 Canceled

Monthly Program: Vision California

Due to low registration this program was canceled.

For more information: 510/464-3600

Society for Industrlal Archeology Event

Evening speaker: Richard Anderson

Topic: Applications of Digital Images to CAD in Industrial Archeology

Location: Historic Central Building, downtown Oakland

In some cases sets of historic photographs of IA sites can be “mined” for dimensional data for use in 2D and 3D CAD modeling, an application of digital techniques to old images that can be very productive. The site plan for the Irondale Furnace complex in Birmingham, Alabama was recovered this way, for purposes of archeological site management, protection and interpretation to the public. This presentation will focus on how the CAD modeling, historic photographs and basic site dimensions taken in the field were used to arrive at a fairly accurate digital recreation of the principal furnace structures.

Often dimensional information about an industrial archeology site is as significant to document as the site’s visual appearance or business and technical history. Properly taken, photographs can yield dimensional data for reports and drawings or kept in archival storage for later information retrieval. Digital imaging presents many more opportunities than film for taking and adjusting images for extracting dimensions, particularly in drawings, whether the drawings are done by hand or in a CAD system. Some steps can apply to scans of film or photographic prints as well. A few basic post-processing steps produce images that can be traced or used to supplement or substitute for drawings. There are basic techniques for setting up camera equipment for rectified photographs that aren’t difficult or expensive. If you are aware of the kinds of distortions produced by photography then you can compensate for them.

Richard is in town helping to document the Wapama steam schooner and will talk a bit about the work he’s doing on that project.

About our speaker: Educated as an architect, Richard Anderson took a job with HAER in 1978 as a temporary career hoping to buy a little time while he refined his goals. HAER suited Richard well so he stayed till 1989. In addition to conducting numerous field projects for HAER and occasional private clients and museums, he rewrote the HAER field manual and wrote the HAER Guidelines for Recording Historic Ships, both still in use. Since beginning work as a private consultant he has finished projects for numerous museums and government agencies, ranging from traditional HAER documentation to mapping projects, digitizing historic drawings and writing occasional site histories. He served as SIA’s national secretary from 1995 to 2010. Richard can be reached via e-mail at or at 803-983-5088. His web site is .

For More information: RSVP to Tony Meadow ameadow@gmail.com or call him at 510-334-8161 (cell).

Fire-Rated Cementitious Coated OSB in Wall and Roof Sheathing Applications

Woodworks had the opportunity to host a lunch time presentation in Oakland on Tuesday, July 27th and San Francisco on Wednesday, July 28th and thought you’d be interested in attending. As always, there is no cost to attend, this presentation is AIA approved and lunch is on us! All pertinent information is given below. Please register by July 20^th; space is limited. Click on the links provided to register.

Topic: Fire-Rated Cementitious Coated OSB in Wall and Roof Sheathing Applications

This course covers the basics of how Fire-Rated Cementitious Coated OSB (FRCC OSB) sheathing can be used in wall and roof sheathing applications. Topics to be covered include:

1. The components of FRCC OSB.
2. How FRCC OSB meets building codes.
3. The impact of FRCC OSB (the use of it) on the environment.
4. Testing standards relevant to FRCC OSB.
5. Sustainability benefits of FRCC OSB.

Speaker: James R. Dukart, National Sales Manager, International Barrier Technology Corporation

James joined Barrier Technology in 2007 as National Sales Manager for Blazeguard Fire-Rated Sheathing. Prior to Barrier, Mr. Dukart was a national sales manager for a marine products company, and prior to that, for 15 years he was a national trade magazine editor and writer focusing on the a variety of topics including building materials. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA) and is a member of the Associates Committee of the Builders’ Association of the Twin Cities in Minneapolis.

Time:

11:45 pm – 12:15 pm – Check in, lunch serving, seating

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm - Presentation

Oakland: Tuesday, July 27^th

Location:

AIA East Bay Office

1405 Clay St

Oakland, CA 94612

510-464-3600

Parking:

There is a parking garage directly across the street from their office at the corners of 14^th and Clay, there are other parking garages in the area but this is the cheapest. The 12^th Street Civic Center BART exit is also a few blocks away and a great option for getting to the office.

Registration:

Please register online at www.woodworkslunchandlearn.eventbrite.com

San Francisco: Wednesday, July 28th

Location:

AIA San Francisco Office

130 Sutter Street, Ste 600 (6^th floor)

San Francisco, CA 94104

415-362-7397

Parking:

Stockton/Sutter garage - 444 Stockton St. (at Bush St.)

Registration:

Please register online at www.woodworkslunchandlearn1.eventbrite.com

For more information: please contact Phil, northern California Technical Director at phil@woodworks.org.

RFQ Consulting/Advisory Architect Services

ASUC students seek Statements of Qualifications to perform architectural consulting/advisory

services for the Lower Sproul Plaza Revitalization project; a multi‐building project with an estimated budget of $223 million. The project and consulting services will continue for four or more years.

Project details and submittal requirements are posted at the following website: http://lowersproul.berkeley.edu/

Deadline for responses is 4:00 p.m. Monday, July 26, 2010.

 

Link to RFQ: http://www.aiaeb.org/documents/RFQLowerSproul.pdf

For more information:  http://www.aiaeb.org/documents/RFQLowerSproul.pdf

Concrete Floors & Moisture Testing

This introduction to concrete floor slabs will cover the causes of moisture related floor covering failures and the latest industry standard test methods. Learn where it all starts and why moisture related floor covering failures occur, new up to date ways to tackle moisture in new testing practices and the importance of including Concrete Slab Moisture and pH testing in project specifications.

Lee Eliseian is the President and Principal Consultant of Independent Floor Testing and Inspection, Inc. (IFTI). Lee has over 30 years of experience in the floor covering industry, specializing in national independent third-party concrete slab moisture and pH testing, floor covering failure analysis and moisture mitigation systems. Lee is a member in good standing with WESTCON Consultants Association, the International Concrete Repair Institute, the American Concrete Institute, the World Floor Covering Association, the Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association and the ASTM International Member F06 Committee on Resilient Floor Coverings.

8/9/10
Learning Lunch: Concrete Floors & Moisture Testing
Time: Noon - 1:00pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: Free for AIA members; $3.50 for non-members. Registration required. Click here to register.
1 CES LU

For more information: 510/464-3600

Citywide Zoning Update Public meeting

A public meeting of the Zoning Update Committee of the Oakland Planning Commission, to review the proposed zoning text and maps, as part of the Citywide Zoning Update. The agenda includes consideration of changing the zoning to the commercial and residential areas of the neighborhoods in West Oakland, North Oakland, and the North Hills. To read the staff report and to see the maps of the proposed zoning, please visit our website, and look at the “Schedule and Upcoming Meetings” table for the cancelled June 23rd meeting of the Zoning Update Committee:

http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CEDA/o/PlanningZoning/s/GeneralPlan/DOWD009036

July 14, 2010

4:30 p.m.

Hearing Room 1, City Hall

1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza

Before the Planning Commission holds its public hearings on the Citywide Zoning Update, the Zoning Update Committee expects to have two further public meetings considering proposed changes to zoning in central Oakland and in east Oakland and South Hills areas. A similar email announcement will be send to recipients of these emails, for meetings tentatively scheduled for:

• August 4, 2010, 4:00 p.m. (note new date and different time)
• September 1, 2010, 4:00 p.m.

For more information: Zoning Update Message Line (510) 238-7299

www.oaklandnet.com/zoningupdate

prequalification of design-build teams

SIO Elliot Field Support Building

Project No.: P4L-135/W30096122

Project Type: Pre-Engineered Building

Project Budget: $500,000 to $700,000

Project Completion: December 6, 2010 (Substantial Completion)

For more information: Prequalification Questionnaires are available on our website, www.fdc.ucsd.edu, select the Projects tab and then select Work Available for Bid.

Barry Elbasani, FAIA 1941-201

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of ELS founder Barry Elbasani, FAIA. Please read the complete obituary in this month's issue of ArchNews. A memorial service will be held at 1:30pm, Sunday, July 18th at the Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater.

 Photo by ELS

Photo by Nathaniel  Lieberman

Photo by Greg Hursley

Photo by Timothy Hursley

Photo by Eric Oxendorf

Photo by Timothy Hursley

Photo by Timothy Hursley

Courtesy of ELS

 

Zero Energy Homes

David Edwards, PhD founder and owner of Earth Bound Homes and Randy Potter, Vice President of Earth Bound Homes will discuss Zero Energy/Zero Carbon Homes, a case study of two LEED Platinum Bay Area Projects. Earth Bound Homes is a Silicon Valley based custom home builder specializing in zero energy homes that are the highest LEED and Green Point Rated homes ever built. Click here for to view the Earth Bound Homes Kaneda Residence.

In addition to holding a Master and PhD in biochemistry from UCSD, David Edwards is a LEED -AP , Certified Green Builing Professional (CGBP), member of the USGBC, a Green Point Rater (GPR) and a HERS rater (Home Energy Rating Services). David is widely recognized as the local authority on green building and presents regularly for the AIA, USGBC and many other Bay Area based non-profits and environmental organizations.

Randy Potter is Vice President of Earth Bound Homes. Randy holds an MBA in Finance, a BS in Marketing and has over 10 years of experience in the Real Estate and Real Estate Development Industries. He is a member of the US Green Building Council, Build it Green and is a Certified Green Building Professional.

8/27/10

Committee on the Environment Forum: Zero Energy Homes

Time: Noon - 1:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600 or Andrea Powell, Intl. Assoc. AIA

Cost: None; this program open to all. Please RSVP.

1.5 CES/HSW/SD LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Lunch & Learn: Stationary Fuel Cell Systems

Fuel cells are one of the cleanest energy-generation sources available in the world today, and meet the strictest US emission standards. UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. company is a world leader in developing and producing fuel cells that generate energy for buildings, transportation, and space and defense applications.

Please join us to learn how fuel cells work and their applicability to various building applications. Stationary fuel cell systems are especially well-suited for large energy intensive operations such as data centers, hospitals, hotels, educational institutions, industrial facilities and supermarkets. In these facilities, fuel cells have been able to provide significant energy savings, reduced carbon footprint and assure business continuity with an attractive financial return. This presentation will show real world examples of how fuel cells produce power and thermal energy on-site achieving overall system efficiencies up to 90% lowering energy costs, reducing emissions and reducing facilities reliance on the utility grid.

Erik Robie is the Western US Sales Manager for UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. He is responsible for project development of stationary fuel cell applications throughout California. At UTC Power, Erik has also managed business development for other distributed generation systems such as micro-turbine, IC engineers and organic rankine cycle systems. Erik has 11 years of sales and business development experience within the alternative energy, fossil and nuclear industries. He holds a BS in Economics from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Hartford.

8/11/10

Lunch & Learn: Stationary Fuel Cell Systems

Learn how fuel cells can produce power and thermal energy on-site achieving overall system efficiencies up to 90%, lowering energy costs and reducing emissions. Presented by Erik Robie, Western US Sales Manager for UTC Power.

Time: Noon - 1:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600

Cost: Free for AIA East Bay Members; $3.50 for non-members. Registration is required. Click here to register.

1.5 CES LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Concord Professional Office Building for Lease

Prestigious Trembath/McCabe professional building containing multiple offices, two with brick fireplaces. Elegant Tudor style with fire resistant vault document storage, copy room, plenty of parking, and ADA access. Be the firm that occupies this distinctive landmark building.

For more information: details or to arrange to see, call Paul Sinz at Contra Costa Properties, Inc. (925) 687-0111 or email paul@contracostaproperties.com