Changes to Title 24/California's Building Code

Steve Winkel, FAIA. PE, CASp will give an overview of the changes to the 2010 California Building Code from the previous 2007 edition. Steve will focus on the aspects of Title 24 related to commercial, and institutional buildings along with multifamily housing, rather than on the new Residential Code or CalGreen. He will be discussing basic accessibility requirements for “public accommodations” and multi-family housing as part to this course.

Steven R Winkel, FAIA. PE, CASp has forty years of experience as an architect, engineer, landscape architect and recently became certified as an access specialist in California. He manages Preview Group's San Francisco Area Office. Steve is currently serving his third 4-year term as the Architect member of the California Building Standards Commission. He is also on the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences and is chair of the FEMA/NIBS Code Resource Support Committee which reviews and comments on building code changes related to seismic safety. Steve has served as chair of the American Institute of Architects Codes and Standards Committee and was on the AIA National Board of Directors. He is the author, along with noted illustrator Frank Ching, of the well-received book Building Codes Illustrated for John Wiley & Sons, now in its third edition. Steve is both an architect and civil engineer with experience in project management, code analysis and quality assurance reviews.

2/17/11
Changes to Title 24/California's Building Code
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: $40 for AIA members; $60 for non-members. Registration required. Click here to register.
2 CES/HSW LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Emerging Professionals Forum: Finding the Right Fit

The Emerging Professionals Forum focuses on "Finding the Right Fit" this month. This roundtable discussion is free and all are welcome. You need not be an emerging professional (student, intern, or young architect) to attend--after all, many of us are looking for the right job, right now.

This roundtable discussion will address:

searching for any job vs. the right job for you;

unpaid internships and odd compensation packages;

the pros and cons of taking "just any job";

how to make a luke-warm job offer better;

non-compensation issues to consider when interviewing firms;

red flags and how to respond to them;

resources for the job seeker and where to find California employment law information.

We'll have some handouts with resources so please RSVP so we have copies for all.

Presented by the Emerging Professionals Forum

Emerging Professionals Forum: Finding the Right Fit
AIA East Bay
Monday, January 31
6pm
All are welcome, free

For more information: 510/464-3600

Traps for the Unwary: Contract Provisions to Watch Out For

Learn the most onerous clauses clients and their attorneys insert in owner/architect agreements: how to spot them, how to negotiate their removal and how to arrive a compromise you can live with.

In this current market, clients and their attorneys are demanding that architects agree to ever more onerous contract terms. Learn what are the most dangerous clauses clients and their attorneys insert in owner/architect agreements: how to spot them, how to negotiate their removal, and how to arrive at a compromise provision you can live with.

Rick Randel is an attorney at MBV Law LLP, where he specializes in business and design law, including review and negotiation f architecture and engineering contracts, general business counseling, and assisting A/E firms in complying with multistate licensing compliance. Rick has many years of experience in preparing and negotiating contracts for architects, including those between architects and their clients.

2/24/11
Traps for the Unwary: Contract Provisions to Watch Out For
Time: Noon - 1:30pm
Location: Dahlin Group, 5865 Owens Dr., Pleasanton
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: None; this program is open to all. Please RSVP.
1 CES LU

For more information: 510/464-3600

Professional Practice Forum: Contracts & Project Management

This round table discussion will cover best practices for taking meeting notes and composing emails. Learn what you should put in writing and what is best to discuss over the phone or in person. We will also go over retention policies as well as who should write your contracts.


2/17/11
Professional Practice Forum: Contracts & Project Management
Join this round table discussion to better learn how to handle contracts and project management for your firm.
Time: Noon - 1:30pm
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

Women In Architecture Forum: The History of Women Architects

As the designer of the tourist attraction "Hearst Castle" on the California coast, Julia Morgan is today widely known as an outstanding architect. Though women architects were unusual in the late 19th and early 20th century in California, she was not alone. Many other women practiced architecture, though their work often remained unnoticed. Inge Horton's book, Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area, presents the lives, careers and work of fifty largely unknown pioneers. It chronicles the triumphs and challenges these path-breaking women faced in their pursuit of entering and claiming space in the male-dominated field of architecture.

The book includes portraits of the architects discussed, photographs of their work, and some architectural drawings. Each biography includes vital data, a description of their career, a list of known buildings and work and a bibliography.

Inge Schaefer Horton is a retired city planner with a strong background in architecture who now devotes her time to the research of women architects and preservation issues in San Francisco. She is the author or several articles and two previous books on architecture in Berlin and Paris/Brussels. Inge is also the contributing author to a recent book celebrating the centennial of the Architecture Department at University of California, Berkeley.

2/10/11
Women In Architecture Forum: The History of Women Architects
Inge Horton will present her book "Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area" .
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: 510/464-3600 or Laura de la Torre, Assoc. AIA
Cost: None; this forum is open to all.
1.5 CES LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Professional Practice Forum: Business Development

Join the Professional Practice Forum for a discussion on the following business development processes and issues:

• The importance of appropriate responses to RFQs and RFPs
• Developing go/no-go processes to maintain profitability
• The importance responding to RFPs and RFQs quickly and with in depth material
• How to use response templates to highlight what you really want shown
• Creating a process of finding partners and consultants appropriate to each RFQ in order to ensure success
• How to prepare for RFQs before they are released by building business relationships so that can collect information and brainstorm prior to RFQs being made public
• The keys to knowing when it makes sense to respond to an RFQ and when it doesn’t
• How to know if it’s worth the money in labor to respond to RFQs/RFPs when 0% - 5% of getting the job. Looking to the future instead of the immediate work, is it worth it to get your foot in the door?
• What to do if you get a project that you don’t want
• How to handle RFQ results that come from your consultants

1/20/11

Professional Practice Forum: Business Development

At this roundtable discussion of the Professional Practice Forum, we'll cover RFP's, RFQ's, finding partners and consultants, approaching the new project type and most importantly, when to say "No."

Time: Noon - 1:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600 or Mark Steppan, AIA

Cost: None; this forum is open to all. Please RSVP.

1.5 CES LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Learning Lunch: Wide Span Opening Protectives

This presentation is an overview of IBC 2009 and CBC 2010 chpaters 7 & 10. The five types of interior walls, their applications and code requirements for opening and protecting openings will be discussed. Attendees will see examples of accordion fire doors used in the means of egrees and examples of U.L. listed 20, 60, 90 and 180 minute accordion style horizontal fire doors and 1 and 2 hour movable fire walls in use around the globe in high profile projects to meeting code and design challenges. A review of Won-Door's ICC ES report will be included.

Catherine Tubbs joined the Won-Door Corporation as District Manager in 2005. She has been recognized by Won-Door as the Rookie of the Year, President's Club, Million Dollar Club, and the Bronze Service Awards. Catherine has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola Marymount University.

Catherine is a member of the Construction Specifications Institute and is a certified Construction Document Technologist. Since 2005 she has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of General Contractors, Los Angeles District.


2/22/11
Learning Lunch: Wide Span Opening Protectives
Learn about the five types of interior walls, their applications and code requirements for opening and protecting openings.
Time: Noon - 1:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: Free for AIA members; $3.50 for non-members. Lunch is provided. Registration required. Click here to register.
1.5 CES LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Integrated Wood Design: Advanced Techniques in Wood Frame Structural Design

New trends in wood building design - notably Building Information Modeling, Integrated Project Delivery and Sustainable Building Design - are motivating building designers to rethink their processes and technology. An Integrated Structural Design process that breaks away from the practice of component by component framing design to whole building modeling and design can empower structural designers to work more effectively in a fast paced, multi-objective design environment.

Participants will learn new techniques in integrated structural design of wood framed buildings using state-of-the-art software tools in order to:

• Achieve a more efficient and higher integrity structural design
• Improve collaboration within the members of the project design team
• Control project costs through earlier quantitative structural analysis and design
• Reduce construction waste through efficient use of traditional and alternative building materials

2/9/11
Integrated Wood Design: Advanced Techniques in Wood Frame Structural Design
Participants will learn new techniques in integrated structural design (lateral & gravity systems) of wood framed buildings using state-of-the-art software tools to create more efficient designs in significantly less time, while reducing waste.
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. Lunch is provided. Registration required.
Click here to register.
1.5 CES LUs

For more information: 510/464-3600

Ownership Transition for the Design Professional Seminar

Ownership Transition for the Design Professional Seminar from Dannible/McKee & Associates, LTD.

Our seminars provide objective guidance for the design professional in connection with structuring the most effective plan for ownership transition.

The Program

•Understanding Your Firm's Financial Statements

•Methods of Valuing Your Firm

•Income and Estate Tax Laws

•Ownership Succession and the Transfer of Power

•Techniques for Transferring Ownership

•Funding the Purchase Price

•Choosing the Proper Buy/Sell Agreement

•Mergers and Acquisitions

•Actual Case Studies

Location/Registration

Full day seminar located at the Best Western Grosvenor Hotel

We offer a 20% discount for each additional registrant from the same design firm.

Seminar is worth 7 AIA Learning Unit Hours!

For more information: To register, please visit www.dmconsulting.com/seminars or email cburch@dmconsulting.com