The Reveal // Issue 2 // Volume 2019 by Aia Lubbock

News & Information from AIA Lubbock Chapter

ISSUE 2 • VOLUME 2019 www.aia.org/lubbock

President's Message Happy 2019 AIA Lubbock! The beginning of 2019 has already been an exciting year. We’ve finalized and submitted our Core Member Service playbook for a preaccreditation review. Results for the review have yet to be determined.

As you know, Architects Day was February 12th. On Lincoln’s birthday, we visited Austin to share our story with legislators and staff to help them better appreciate the value of what we do and the importance of architecture and good design. While contingency lawsuits were our major focus of conversations taking place during Architects Day, we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to showcase architects’ role in two of the big conversations happening this Legislative Session – Resiliency and Safety. Resiliency Hurricane Harvey and its historic flooding highlighted the need for the best possible community design and planning to ensure resiliency and public safety. This type of community planning is what architects bring to virtually every design project. In designing for Health-Safety-Welfare (HSW), architects must specify products and materials to make structures capable of withstanding weather’s worst and guarding against man’s cruelest intrusions—while looking beautiful and lasting long enough to become landmarks in the process.

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About Us

AIA Lubbock is a non-profit professional organization representing the interests of and providing services to the Lubbock Area Architects, Architectural Interns, affiliated design professionals and Allied Members. AIA Lubbock's programs and activities have a worked to develop a primary focus on our community and the built environment.

Mission

A regional Texas voice of the architecture profession, and a resource for its membership supporting a safe, beautiful, and sustainable environment.

Vision

Advancing the power of design and planning to improve the quality of life for the citizens of our region.

History

Founded in 1959, AIA Lubbock has worked hard to organize and unite in fellowship the members of the architectural profession; to promote the aesthetic, scientific and practical efficiency of the profession; to advance the science and art of planning and building by advancing the standards of architectural education; training and practice; to coordinate the building industry and the profession of architecture to insure the advancement of the living standards of people through their improved environment, and to make the profession of ever-increasing service to society.

2019 Board of Directors President Stephen E. Drewell, AIA President-Elect Gabriel E. Salazar, AIA Vice President Vacant Secretary Robert M. Morris II, AIA Treasurer Theresa Bartos Drewell, AIA TSA Chapter Director Mary K. Crites, AIA Communications Director Amanda J. King, Assoc. AIA Development Director Ashlee G. Horsley, AIA Membership Directors Frank Flores-Villarruel, Assoc. AIA Emerging Professionals Director Yvonne N. Strain, Assoc. AIA 3

President's Message, Continued School Safety Last year’s tragedy at Santa Fe High School brought an intense focus on the safety of Texas students and how design can improve their survival chances. Texas architects are committed to working with state and local officials and other community leaders to maximize safety and security at all educational levels. In conjunction with the Texas School Safety Center, the Texas Society of Architects is at work on a strategic policy initiative to provide designdriven recommendations to mitigate school violence, both for existing facilities and future campuses. Design can make a difference in keeping Texas students, faculty and school personnel safe and secure.

Contingency Lawsuits The design and construction industry has seen a trend of overly broad lawsuits being filed by attorneys working on a contingency fee on behalf of school districts and other political subdivisions alleging nonspecific or potential construction defects.

The reality is construction and design defect lawsuits are being filed without the client ever previously identifying a problem with the design, construction or operation of the building. Design professionals and their public entity clients are being hurt by rising insurance premiums, higher deductibles and legal fees. Ultimately, these lawsuits reduce competition, increasing costs to the taxpayer while simultaneously reducing the quality of what is built. The Texas Society of Architects supports establishing a “Right to Repair” for design and construction of public facilities and requiring any money awarded in contingency suits to be used to fix the problem for which the suit was brought. We are anticipating bills will be introduced between now and February 12th that require our advocacy attention. This will likely include bills to support as well as bills to oppose. As these issues arise, we will share more information.

In a few weeks, myself and a few members from the board will be in Washington, DC for the Grassroots Leadership Event on March 6-8. The Grassroots experience provides training that develops and builds the leadership foundation for our component network. True to this conference's roots, we head to Capitol Hill on Day 1 to bring our message to members of Congress in an effort to build new and long-term partnerships that result in muchneeded change. This is one of the most important things we can do to achieve measurable results for the profession and the cities and communities we serve. As always, I welcome any comments and suggestions. You can email me at sdrewell@mwm-arch.com or contact me directly at 806-745-7707.

2019 DESIGN AWARDS CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN! The Texas Society of Architects Design Awards program recognizes outstanding built architectural and urban design projects by architects practicing in Texas to promote public interest in design excellence. The competition focuses statewide attention on the quality of our built environment while highlighting the important role architects play in every community. The Texas Society of Architects is now accepting entries for their 2019 Design Awards competition. The scope of projects TxA encourage encompasses new construction, adaptive reuse, pure restoration, the renovation of historically significant building, and urban design projects. For a project to be eligible, construction must have been completed after January 1, 2014, and the design architects must have been registered with the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners at the time the project was executed. Visit https://texasarchitects.org/design-awards/ to download the complete eligibility guidelines, presentation criteria, and entry requirements.

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LUBBOCK'S CITY IMAGE A CITY DESIGNED FOR BEAUTY

Joe D. McKay, CSI, AIA

n 2010, City of Lubbock Planning Director, Jim Bertram, wrote a summary of the history of Lubbock's sign ordinance that was originally written in the 1970's. Although Bertram's summary is nearly a decade old, the ordinance continues to serve the business community and the City of Lubbock in a positive way by not cluttering up our visual environment with multiple business signage and billboards. Lubbock's sign ordinance continues to be a model that other communities are trying to emulate. As architects and planners, it is our responsibility to be vigilant and speak up against any and all attempts to weaken or change the ordinance, polluting our environment with visual clutter. We need to make ourselves available to serve on City boards and commissions whose primary objective is to oversee Lubbock's codes and ordinances. We need to review the City Council's agendas each month to see if there are any issues which might have a negative effect on the overall beauty of our built environment and show up at City Hall to voice our opinion. The new overall Comprehensive Plan lays out how our City needs to evolve over the next forty years . . . go online and make yourself aware of the new guidelines for the growth of Lubbock.

See Bertram's 2010 Billboard and City Image history on pages 8-9.

LUBBOCK CHAPTER WELL REPRESENTED AT TxA ARCHITECTS DAY AT THE CAPITAL

Mary Crites, AIA

The Lubbock Chapter had five architects attend the TxA Architects Day at the Capital on February 12th. We were part of the almost 150 architects that came to Austin to visit all 179 sitting legislators. The whirlwind day began with an overview of the current 86th legislative session, the Governor’s emergency items and understanding the policy priorities for our profession. The Governor’s emergency items which take precedent for the first 60 days are: •

Property Tax reform

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Public Education Finance Reform

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Teacher Pay Raises

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School Safety

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Disaster Recovery

TxA priorities for this session are: 1. Growing menace of “contingency lawsuits” have created a need for prior notice to the architect and the “right to repair” prior to a lawsuit. 2. Texans want more resilient buildings, and structures that provide greater school safety. Architects are the ones to design for these issues. 3. Provide continued funding for the County Courthouse Preservation Funding.

Perennial issues to remain diligent to protect are: 1. Protect Qualification Based Selection for public

projects 2. Guard against possibility of a professional

services sales tax

We were reminded that lobbying is intended to generate or maintain goodwill for the purpose of influencing potential future legislation or administrative action. Our goal for the day in visiting our legislators was to: • Leave a good impression • Convey a sense of the profession and its policy

priorities • Develop and enhance relationships with our

legislators and their staff

Our group visited Senator Charles Perry, Representatives John Frullo, Dustin Burrows and Brooks Landgraf. We achieved our goals, educating our legislators on our policy priorities and reminded them that we are a great resource for them to use if they have questions on these or other policy issues during the session. Our team from Lubbock was: •

Stephen Drewell, AIA

Chapter President •

Gabriel Salazar, AIA

Chapter President-Elect •

Theresa Drewell AIA

Chapter Treasurer •

Mary Crites, AIA

Chapter Director •

Gary Moss, AIA

Please thank them for volunteering to represent the chapter in Austin. 11

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2019 FOCUS: Diversity within the profession.

2019 FOCUS: Promote the value of architectural services.

2019 FOCUS: Be a catalyst and increase collaboration with elected/public officials.

2019 FOCUS: Improve collaboration between state and local chapters on efforts related to the Strategic Plan.

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