Accessibility & Multi-Family Housing Facilities

This program will go over the requirements found in Chapter 11A for multi-family dwelling projects in California under the 2007 California Building Code (CBC). Included in this discussion will be how the CBC does not comply with the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and how this differs with compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Other related subjects will be accessible means of egress, common use facilities, townhouses and carriage houses. This will be a 2-hour program with time for questions and answers.

11/16/09

Accessibility and Multi-Family Housing Facilities

Led by Kerwin Lee, AIA, CASp Senior Consulting Architect at Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc.

Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

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

Contact: 510/464-3600

Cost: $15 for AIA East Bay Members; $25 for members; $40 for non-members

Registration Required. Click here to register.

2 CES/HSW/MCE/LU

For more information: 510/464-3600

Green Financing Options: The Value of Green Building

Please join the Green Affordable Housing Coalition on December 9th for a lender forum with representatives from Wells Fargo and CITI to explore both the underwriting and appraisal processes for high performance, multifamily buildings. Find out from the experts themselves what critical factors are considered for underwriting and get and insider view of the appraisal and valuation process of high performance elements. Let the professionals teach you the art of working the appraisal!

We will briefly talk about the role of intermediaries in leading the way in green underwriting, including local green loan funds from organizations like the Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC) and the Enterprise Foundation.

Guest Speakers include; Merle Malakoff (CITI) , James Finlay (VP, Appraisal Manager, Wells Fargo RETECHS - LA), and Peggy Jen (LISC/NEF).

12/9/08
Green Affordable Housing Coalition Presents - Green Financing Options: The Value of Being Green
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland
Contact: 510/464-3600
Cost: $15 for Build It Green Members, $25 for Non-Members. Lunch will be provided.
AIA East Bay Members Click Here For Registration, and select "Build It Green" to recieve the member rate.
1.5 CES/LU

For more information: 510/464-3600

Revit User Group: Revit Successes and Challenges for Multi-Family Residential Projects

The Harrison Street Senior Housing project, located on a corner lot in downtown Oakland, is a 73-unit affordable senior housing project. The project construction includes a ground-level concrete podium with five stories of wood frame construction above. Members of the Harrison Team from Pyatok Architects will discuss the approach, success, and challenges of using Revit to model this multi-family residential project.
Date: October 21, 2008
Time: 11:30am-1:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter Office, 1405 Clay Street, Oakland.
Cost: None; this program open to all. Lunch provided by Ideate, Inc.
1 CES/LU

For More Information: http://www.ideateinc.com/events/index.html

The City of Oakland needs your help!

Building on the success of their cripple wall retrofit program, and in an ongoing effort to make the Easy Bay a seismically safer place, the City of Oakland, assisted by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) is looking for volunteers to help them survey their multi-family residential buildings in order to identify potential soft-story hazards. Volunteers will be surveying residential neighborhoods and compiling basic information about pre-selected buildings onto provided forms. Several other Bay Area professional organizations such as SEAONC and the UC Berkeley student chapter of EERI have signed on to help with this important project, and your additional support would be welcome!

The survey will be conducted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 and Saturday, October 4th, 2008. Volunteers will meet and sign-in at a central location at the City offices for breakfast and a short training talk (at 7:30 a.m.) covering administrative, safety, and technical points. Around 9:00 am volunteers will disperse in teams of two to three people to designated neighborhoods, and conduct the surveys on foot or by car. Please bring a brown bag lunch and your car if possible!

As many volunteers as possible are needed for both Saturdays, so sign up for one day or both! It’s a great opportunity to get some fresh air, meet like-minded seismic activists, and contribute a valuable public service in increasing seismic safety for the City of Oakland.

for more information: please contact ABAG via Erika Amir at ErikaA@abag.ca.gov or Jeanne Perkins at JeanneP@abag.ca.gov.

East Bay Co-Housing Tour - on bicycle!

Hi all! This is a bike tour, on Saturday, July 26th 9am-3:30pm. It might get full so you probably want to sign up soon. Here are the details:

Pump up your tires and get ready to bike to 5-6 East Bay cohousing communities. We'll be biking approximately 8-10 miles at a leisurely pace with frequent stops. We'll start at Berkeley Cohousing, ride on to Doyle Street in Emeryville, hopefully Mariposa Grove in North Oakland, Temescal Commons and Temescal Creek Cohousing in North Oakland and end at Swan's in downtown Oakland where you can jump on BART or pedal home. Karen Hester, founding member of Temescal Creek Cohousing, is your tour leader. Cost is $35 with cold drink provided, $45 with lunch and cold drink provided. Limited to 30 participants. Please mail checks made out to Karen Hester to 320 45th St, Oakland, CA 94609. Please include your name, email, phone number and whether you'd like lunch and drinks provided. Also indicate whether you prefer veggie sandwich.

For more information: Karen Hester
510-654-6346 Karen@hesternet.net www.hesternet.net

Green Rehabilitation of Multifamily Rental Properties

The Green Affordable Housing Coalition Presents “Green Rehabilitation of Multifamily Rental Properties”, a panel discussion on energy efficient rehabs for multifamily projects. Green building techniques have typically been applied to new construction projects. But the potential for creating green, healthy environments in existing low-income multifamily housing is significant. Whether it is an acquisition/rehab project or rehabbing an aging property in your existing portfolio, green rehabs present many challenges. For this reason, Bay Area LISC and Build It Green developed the Green Rehabilitation of Multifamily Rental Properties: A Resource Guide.

The Green Guide for Rehab is a new publication designed to help affordable housing owners and their consultants integrate green building and energy efficiency into the upgrades of their multifamily properties. The Green Guide for Rehab explains the technologies and shows the opportunities for existing properties to ‘go green.’ The guide is designed to be used in tandem with an energy audit, building walkthrough, or site assessment that occurs at the outset of any rehabilitation project.

The June Green Affordable Housing Coalition brown bag will feature an overview of the new Green Guide for Rehab tool as well as pre and post green rehab case studies including detailed information on energy efficiency upgrades. Come hear practical information on how to integrate green building and energy efficiency into the rehabilitation of existing multifamily properties.

Panelists:
Elizabeth McCollum, Associate Manager, Heschong Mahone Group (HMG)
Dori Kojima, Director of Housing Development, Satellite Housing
Jennifer Love, Program Manager, Build It Green
Jennifer Somers, Green Connection Program Officer, Bay Area LISC

Register For This Event

June 10th, 2008 11:30 AM -1:30 PM
Location AIA East Bay
1405 Clay Street
Oakland, CA 94612

Event Fee
$15.00
1.5 HSW CES/LU

For more information contact Build it Green at 510/845-0472 *101

Less Expensive Ways to Make Better Housing

From Berkeley Design Advocates:

Less Expensive Ways to Make Better Housing
SPUR’s Affordable by Design Proposals

Please join us for breakfast on Wednesday April 2 at 730 AM at The Vault to hear a presentation on the revolutionary idea that we can build middle income housing without public subsidy. The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association has recently issued its Affordable by Design proposal that advocates changes in both planning criteria and building codes that together can drastically reduce the cost to produce new multifamily housing. Perhaps Berkeley can consider these thoughtful recommendations; they certainly differ from the proposals advocated by the Density Bonus Joint Subcommittee.

Our presenters will be SPUR Task Force members George Williams, BDA member and Anne Torney, AIA of WRT Solomon ETC.

The SPUR report makes six key recommendation:
1. Regulate building density by height, bulk and setback requirements, not by limits on the number of units allowed.

2. Stop requiring new parking in new buildings.

3. Stop regulating bedroom counts.

4. Allow flexibility in the code to facilitate an additional story of housing in wood-frame buildings – suggesting five stories of wood frame above a concrete podium level with a 65-foot height limit – 15 feet on the ground floor, and five 10-foot high stories. SPUR notes that San Diego and Seattle have both adopted code standards to make such construction possible, and in Oakland the Forest City Uptown Development is building five stories of wood frame.

5. Allow developers to fulfill their on-site inclusionary housing requirements by providing more units at middle-income price points, rather than fewer units at moderate-income price points.

6. Modify requirements for courtyard widths and rear-yard setbacks to allow for greater design flexibility in locating common open space.

The full report is available on the SPUR website at:

http://www.spur.org/documents/2008.01Interiors_FINAL.pdf

This is sure to be an exciting topic for BDA members, and has great applicability to Berkeley’s current debates on downtown development (where the fringes of downtown are proposed for 65 foot heights), as well as the on-going density bonus discussions.

George Williams is the former deputy Director of the San Francisco Department of City Planning and a longtime SPUR and BDA member. Anne Torney AIA is Principal and Director of Housing at WRT/Solomon E.T.C., an architecture, urban design, planning and landscape architecture firm, and designers of both the Fine Arts building and the David Brower Center/Oxford Plaza, now under construction. Her 20 years' experience as an architect have focused on urban and mixed-use projects, and, in particular, affordable housing for non-profit clients and City agencies.

All breakfast presentations at The Vault, 3250 Adeline St, near Alcatraz.

For more information: berkeleydesignadvocates@yahoo.com

No More Tangles: Organizing data, communication, and entertainment into one neat system

Small Firm Forum: No More Tangles: organizing data, communication, and entertainment into one neat system
Thursday, November 1
Noon -1:30pm

Scott Finley from The Ascott Company will lead a discussion about data and communication installation in new and remodel construction. Discussion will touch on some of the following topics:

• Design and Installation
• Fiber Optics
• Voice and Data Cabling
• Data Systems Design
• Coaxial and Broadband Cabling
• Consulting Services
• Repair and Trouble Shooting
  

The Ascott Company specializes in the design and installation of complete data network systems, including fiber optic lines, data and voice cabling. We take great pride in providing excellent client service and delivering a quality product. Our workmanship is of the highest quality. Ascott certified staff are true professionals - well trained, courteous and at the job site ready to work. Our goal is for our client's projects to run as smoothly as possible and to meet their data, communication, and cable television objectives.

Time: Noon - 1:30pm
Location: AIA East Bay Chapter, 1405 Clay St., Oakland
Cost: Free to AIA members; $3 non-members
1 CES/LU

For more information: Kellie Hewlett at 510/464-3600 or Joe and Kaaren Spitzley

Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Overview for Multifamily New Construction

The Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Overview training is sponsored by Pacific Gas & Electric Company and American Institute of Architects East Bay and will be conducted by the Heschong Mahone Group, Inc. Participation qualifies for continuing education units from the American Institute of Architects.

Training Outline:The Comprehensive Energy Efficiency Overview session provides a thorough introduction on a variety of multifamily building issues. The training is Power Point slide show based, designed to be very interactive, and augmented by examples of equipment, materials, and building analyses. Training topics will include:

California Multifamily New Homes (CMFNH) program overview
2005 California Building Energy Standards (Title 24) overview
Multifamily energy efficiency design concepts
Overview of energy efficiency measures (Site, HVAC, envelope, water heating, verification/inspections, etc)
Case Studies
Cost/benefit analysis approaches
Financing for multifamily buildings: Utility, CEC , DOE, EPA, and other possible funding

Who Should Attend:Architects and designers; builders and developers; affordable housing developers and agencies; energy consultants; mechanical and plumbing engineers; HVAC contractors; building department inspectors and plan checkers.

Date and Location:Wednesday, November 14th, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.AIA East Bay Office1405 Clay StreetOakland, CA 94612-1401

Registration:Please visit our website to register online. For additional future training dates and locations:http://www.h-m-g.com/multifamily/Training/default.htm.

For more information:
Sophia Hartkopf
Phone: (916) 962-7001
Email: hartkopf@h-m-g.com

200 Second’s Architecture and Design Day

200 Second’s Architecture and Design Day
Co-Sponsored by AIA East Bay

2 CES/LUs

Saturday, September 29, from Noon to 4 p.m.

200 Second @ Jackson, Jack London Square, Oakland

This free public event will explore principles of design, color, craft, and composition, showing participants new and novel ways to incorporate these ideas into their everyday lives and enhance their experience of urban living.

Throughout the event visitors can enjoy live music, fine wines, and gourmet snacks and a series of presentations on the practical aspects of urban living. Professional organizer Bethany Saint Clair will introduce the feng shui philosophy behind her practice and offer tips for creating spatial harmony in the home. Using one of the residences at 200 Second Street as a case study, consultant Suzanne Kozel will outline the principles of color selection and explain how to work with existing furnishings and art. After a discussion of how dense neighborhoods actually improve quality of life, 200 Second Street architect David Baker, FAIA will lead a guided tour of the building. And David Pierce, ReadyMade magazine contributor and principal of Ohio, the San Francisco based modern furniture producer, will explore the link between the dwellings of primitive man and the modern aesthetic and what the cave can teach us about minimalist living.

Tours of 200 Second’s model homes will be available throughout the afternoon.

Architecture + Design Day Schedule:

12:30-1:00 p.m. The Feng Shui of Organizing with Bethany Saint Clair
Learn the principles of feng shui and how to apply them in your home. Bethany Saint Clair specializes in creating spatial harmony with clarity and purpose through her practice as a professional organizer with an emphasis on feng shui.

1:30–2:00 p.m. A Case Study in Color with Suzanne Kozel
Suzanne Kozel is a trained color consultant and interior re-designer — a designer dedicated to creating a fresh new look using existing furnishings, artwork, and space. Her presentation will introduce the idea of redesign and explain how to select colors, perfect your palette, and incorporate existing elements.

2:20–3:00 p.m. Better Living Through Density with David Baker, FAIA
200 Second Street architect David Baker, FAIA, believes that denser neighborhoods are more active, interesting, and safe places to live. Using some of his own work as examples, he'll describe the components of good design that make higher density better for all. After the discussion, David will lead a guided tour of the building, highlighting many of the architectural design moves that have helped make 200 Second Street so popular with other architects and designers.

3:30–4:00 p.m. The Quiet Cave: Modernism and the Primitive Impulse with David Pierce
Designer and founder of Ohio Design, David Pierce, explores the link between the dwellings of ancient man and the modern aesthetic, and how nature plays a pivotal role both inside the home and out. How do our most primal instincts influence today’s modernist revival? What does the cave have to teach us about the joys of minimalism?

For more information: please contact the 200 Second Sales Office at 510-465-7263.

Multifamily Energy Efficiency and Green Building in the Bay Area

ADPSR Building Ecology Forum
June 13th 2007
6:00pm reception, lecture 6:30 - 8:30pm

Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard Street, San Francisco, between 4th and 5th Streets, Powell Street BART $5-10 sliding scale donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Reservations are not needed nor accepted

Multifamily Energy Efficiency and Green Building in the Bay Area
California's T-24 2005 building code presents new challenges for multifamily projects! Come see what some Bay Area Multifamily Housing projects are pursing in order to exceed the current energy code by at least 15%.

Heather Larson, Assoc. AIA, project manager of the California Multifamily New Homes (CMFNH) program sponsored by PG&E, will present case studies and analysis of qualifying highrise and lowrise projects, in Climate Zone 3, with and without Air Conditioning. The California Multifamily New Homes Program offers cash incentives and technical design assistance towards exceeding the code by at least 15%. Achieving this threshold opens the door to additional opportunities including ENERGY STAR® marketing benefits, the New Solar Homes Partnership and Green building certification.

Tenaya Asan of Build it Green will cover the GreenPoint Rated program, a third-party rating system providing an evaluation of green practices within the multifamily project. She will discuss what it is, how it works and the benefit to the builder and community. She will give some case studies of GreenPoint Rated projects.

For more information: 510 845-1000