BRIAN BROADUS AIA LEED AP BD+C
Box 4864 Charlottesville Virginia 22905 434.882.0867 brian.broadus@broadusllc.com
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Relentlessly positive and proactive attitude and actions Master in Architecture; Master in Architectural History; Registered Architect in Commonwealth of Virginia [NCARB eligible]; LEED AP BD+C More that ten years Project Management service Thoughtfully, concisely communicates (writes, speaks, illustrates, listens) Controls professional services from Project inception through Close-out • Schedules, coordinates, Team, internal and sub-consultant; works with Client to ease unfavorable surprises Anticipates Clients needs and expectations; dedicated to professional ethics, public safety, Client and Firm success Publishes exemplary Construction Documents for private client or public agency • Master of Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite • Brian commands AutoCAD well enough to instruct others • Studying AutoDesk Revit by tutor Digitized formerly manual practice • Composed sheet numbering system; construction drawing templates; wrote file-naming standards; designed efficient, clear layer, layernaming system and library file-naming system • Administered LAN Personally authors, compiles Project Manual, including Division One sections, to confirm that materials are properly assembled and that Documents follow are consistent throughout • Composes LEED-compliant Manual Each of prior employers has depended on Brian to: • Confirm and illustrate that the Project conforms to standard building, accessibility, public procurement, and cultural resource conservation regulations • Critically review building joinery • Specification-writing duties inform review • Rehabilitation specialty shows him how buildings survive by good detailing, and fail by improper detailing Flawlessly administer construction • Unequalled manual sketching skills mean Brian can quickly solve difficult connections, Construction impediments
Principal, Project Director, Broadus LLC Architecture+Graphic Design Charlottesville 06/2009 Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline Historic Property Inventory Uses state-of-the-art Geographic Information System hardware, software. Efficiently directs survey of register-eligible properties, and assembly of associated written and imaged documents. Distributes findings to the State Historic Preservation Officers of Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia
Senior Project Manager, Commonwealth Architects, Richmond 12/2008-05/2009 Existing Building Assessments Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown, New Kent County (Preservation Virginia, Richmond, client); for All Buildings (Virginia Union University, Richmond, client); for All Parade Ground Buildings, Fort Belvoir (Department of Defense, Arlington, client)
Senior Associate, Preservation Studio Lead, Train & Partners Architects 10/1997-10/2008 Walter L. Rice Education Building, Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Sciences, Charles City County, VCU Donor requires fast-tracked building design, documentation. Brian negotiates Department of General Services standard for rainwater harvesting, a revision to state policy, for this Commonwealth-owned building. Equips with photovoltaic array, radiant-slab heating, absorptive-slab cooling, vegetative roof, building monitoring systems, porous ADAAG-compliant paving, innovative wastewater treatment. Writes LEED-compliant Project Manual. Rehabilitation of National Bank, Charlottesville Restores Classical appearance of 1916 skyscraper and grand banking hall while fitting building out with replacement HVAC and power, new sprinkler, data, emergency alarm systems, meeting modern customer-oriented banking program for Wachovia Bankshares, Inc.
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Rebuilding Lexington [Virginia] Presbyterian Church, Lexington. Congregation of fire-gutted 1844 Thomas Ustick Walter sanctuary calls Brian to document, restore integrity of water-soaked brick walls. Designs new rapidly-built protective roof. He precisely restores building from photographs, but steals signature details for new work from Walter’s standing Greek Revival buildings. Conceals replaced HVAC supply. Creates comfortable, convenient, acoustically reverberant worship space, deferring to Walter so well that few realize the church burned. [Honor Award, Virginia Society American Institute of Architects, Central Virginia Chapter American Institute of Architects; Founder’s Award, Historic Lexington Foundation] “Brian spoke to the Session. He brought periodic news of the work to our congregational dinners. He supplemented his scheduled Construction Site visits by promptly returning for unscheduled ones to address surprises. Our VSAIA award, of which we are proud, confirms that we did good by the congregation and town. The church is very pleased with Brian.” [William Klein, LLD, Pastor] Relocation and Rehabilitation of the Retreat for the Sick Students, University of Virginia (UVa). A university eyesore is scheduled for demolition so that the Commerce School might expand. Due diligence reveals it as ingenious student health facility specifically designed to support nascent (1858) nursing profession: it must be preserved. Architect of the University selects new Retreat site, charges Brian with move and rehabilitation. Brian sets First and Second Floors on top of authentically-replicated, safely-sited, pre-plumbed Basement. 1858 painted Italianate exterior and orientation clashes with Jefferson’s plan. Brian threads through tight construction inconspicuous HVAC, fire-suppression systems, and new power and data systems. Qualifies for Commonwealth Historic Preservation Tax Credits. [Honor Award, Virginia Society American Institute of Architects] “No one wanted an office in the Retreat before Brian’s work. Meeting Interior’s standards, the architect created a structure that the University Provost covets. As an employee of the Board of Visitors, that is my definition of success here.” [Brian Hogg, Senior Preservation Planner]
Project Architect, VMDO Architects, Charlottesville 10/1987-10/1997 Rehabilitation of Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington Converted closed-stack library into digital information center. Creates climate-controlled rooms for storage and high-style reading areas for Institute Archives. Designed student carrels, installed all new systems. Rehabilitation of Minor Hall, UVa Converted 1908 Classical landmark into modern higher-education teaching and office building
Education Master of Architectural History, University of Virginia Master of Architecture, University of Virginia • Lori Ann Pristo Award for Academic Excellence • Winner, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Design Competition Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Clemson University • Rudolph E. Lee Scholarship Award as Outstand Architectural Undergraduate • Art and Architectural History Excellence Award
Public Service and Advocacy Member Emeritus, Commonwealth of Virginia Board of Historic Resources (active term 2007-20011) • Gubernatorial commission with statutory power to declare Virginia Landmarks, oversee Work Plan of Department of Historic Resources; requires mastery of National Register Designation Criteria, procedures, and Virginia preservation and property rights law. American Institute of Architects US Green Building Council Director, former President, Preservation Piedmont • Secured 501(c)3 status for Virginia’s model rural-urban preservation advocacy group • Facilitated designation of Charlottesville’s “Fifeville and Vicinity National Register and Virginia Landmark Historic District”
Director, Thomas Jefferson Chapter, Preservation Virginia •
Organized “Sustainable Preservation” lecture track, Preservation Virginia, statewide conference of officials, volunteers
Rebuilding Lexington [Virginia] Presbyterian Church
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homas U. Walter, 1844 master of the Greek Revival sanctuary, adapts church window, door design to suggest a vast Hellenic kella (votive hall). His Lexington work, Classically remodeled in 1898, burns spectacularly in 2000, after a painter tries to heat-strip old coatings. Greatest challenge: no drawings of the pre-fire church. Brian extrapolates dimensions of every destroyed element from old photos, archived Walter drawings of similar churches, or relics. Brian notes a char pattern that betrays steeple base size. He inspects Walter landmarks for model Hellenic details. Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Honor Award
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Rebuilding Lexington [Virginia] Presbyterian Church
The 1898 ringed pews were ergonomically perfect. America’s sole maker of ringed pews retooled for their replacement.
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Session, Lexington (Virginia) Presbyterian Church Budget: 4,955,000 [2012 dollars] Contractor: J.M. Turner Company, Roanoke Structure: Nolen Frisa Associates, Incorporated Acoustics: Kirkegaard Associates, Chicago Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Honor Award
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Walter L. Rice Education Building
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alter and Inger Rice back environmental education and Virginia Commonwealth University. The Rice couple mandates that VCU, in return for the gift of a former YMCA camp in bucolic Charles City County, twenty minutes drive from the main campus and on the left bank of the James River, to research man’s environmental impact and to persuade Virginians to safeguard clean air and water, and use land wisely. The Education Building sets the Rice Center standard: the donors and Owner hunger for the first LEED© Platinum plaque awarded in Virginia. Vegetation covers one roof. Another collects rainwater [for water closets. [‘state officials and Brian revised the blanket domestic water standard.] Brian chooses a geothermal-heat pump hydronic slab heating system, but innovates: chilled water circulates in the piping in summer, when small forced-air cooling units control humidity. And, he did not forget to show off the spectacular James River view.
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Walter L. Rice Education Building
Owner: Site: Budget: Contractor: Structure:
Virginia Commonwealth University Rice Environmental Sciences Campus, Charles City County, [Virginia] 3,859,000 [2012 dollars] KBS Incorporated, Richmond Nolen Frisa Associates, Lynchburg
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The Retreat for the Sick Students
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors installed a bronze plaque--a rare distinction at a National Historic Monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site—on the Retreat to recognize its unique standing in the history of medicine.
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.A. Poe, Richmond, well-known author, enriched his friend photographer William Pratt by posing for candid portrait, then obligingly dying two weeks later. The Pratt photo, Poe’s last, is now valued at $150,000.00. Pratt had designed his own Gothic revival studio. UVa’s made him superintendent in 1858. His Retreat was to cure typhoid by means exposing patients to warm, fresh air. Innovations: convective circulation, unique foursash windows, and a draft-stop North entry. Brian surveyed it, abetted its move, replicated Galleries [steel-reinforced], and got down to the original colors. He interpreted the public health features. He even discovered a former Lawn Room door. From Brian Hogg, Senior Preservation Planner, University Architect: “No one wanted an office in the Retreat before Brian’s work. Meeting Interior’s standards, the architect created a structure that the University Provost covets. As an employee of the Board of Visitors, that is my definition of success here.”
Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Honor Award
British and American Civil Affairs Staff began shaping post-World War Two Europe in Varsity Hall’s unused conference rooms.
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The Retreat for the Sick Students
North entry, showing airlock and rebuilt stair.
McKim Mead and White demanded construction photographs of their 1906 South Lawn work. This one is the only photo to capture the south galleries of the Retreat Move did not change character-defining therapeutic orientation.
Later images of the Retreat show a portico, plumbing vents, and a bathhouse, now demolished.
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University of Virginia 6, 125, 000 [2012 dollars, includes move, qualifies for state rehabilitation tax credits] Martin Horn, Charlottesville International Chimney, Buffalo
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Brian’s proprietary Autodesk AutoCAD layer naming and sheet layout system at work.
Codes Compliance Sheet illustrating building-code- and ADAAG-required exit capacities; wall, floor, and ceiling fireresistance ratings; allowable number of room occupants; floor area allowed by construction type; wheelchair clearances, etc. Each restraint refers to relevant code paragraph. Brian takes personal responsibility for this sheet. 434 882 0867 brian.broadus@broadusllc.com
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Manually-drawn ink-on-polyester six-panel national competition [honorable mention].
Each of the 29 sheet modules, except the title block module, is given an address that is consistent from sheet to sheet. Combined with a flexible sheet naming code, the system permits even last-minute insertions of drawings or rearrangement of sheets
Sheet layout of addressed drawing, i.e., Drawing 17 occupies a consistent location on each sheet. A reader of Drawing 17, Sheet A001 [Basement Plan Sheet ] knows where to find location of Drawing 17, Sheet A402 [Wall Sections,]
Contract and Competition-Presentation Drawing Sheets
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Repetitive direction whether in the salvage and removals phase, or in new construction, is common. One keynote iterated a dozen times will do. The system accommodates as well, however unite direction.
BIM is the default choice for most firms now, and two-dimensional CAD continues to have a poace in the Contact Document sphere. But, computing excels at editing, whil technical detailing still begins most efficienciently on the drafting table. Robbing a project manger of this tool would slow design work with the client and delay rapid solution delivery of Construction Administration clarifications.
Contract Drawing Method and Manual Sketching
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A Charlottesville architect tracks the growth of Egypt’s largest city through the economics and politics of conserving a fragile architectural legacy. By Brian Broadus, AIA
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ustaining Cairo’s architectural heritage is an exemplary challenge given Egypt’s developing nation status. Vestiges of military, monarchal, and colonial rule, as well as historicallyprivatized community services, combine with a rapidly-increasing population to tax the city’s fabric. Cairo’s fate rests on the same crude politics as that of other old-world cities in industrializing countries and conserving it begins with two related questions. Can the Arab Republic of Egypt preserve a fragile Arab-Islamic and early modern architectural legacy? Can it do so while raising the standard of living for its people and surviving as a stable state? The famous Great Pyramid and Sphinx sit almost eight miles from Downtown Cairo and present their own, checkered case study in conservation, but for Egypt to tell the whole story of its role as a center of world civilization it must protect its lesser-known patrimony, too. Cairo proper boasts of at least two concentrations of high-style architecture: one medieval and the other a nineteenth-century “Paris-on-the-Nile.” The latter, a European Cairo, is ripe for American-style reha-
Photos: Courtesy Brian Broadus
Traditional Islamic architecture like the Funerary Complex Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun (above left) contrasts with an undulating façade in Cairo’s European quarter (left).
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bilitation as Gulf investors continue to buy entire al-Islma’iliyya District blocks. Today, low-rent warehouses and factories occupy former grand apartments there, and future housing subsidies will make these refurbished flats attractive and profitable. Even if the storefronts below are garish and worn-down, the sidewalks, cafes, ice cream parlors, shops, and restaurants remain busy late into the night. European Cairo is only one slice of the city, and the weight of Cairo’s medieval heritage seems to count little against that of the reckless development that tries to answer the needs of the poor and to close the dangerously-wide gap between the rich and them. Even as its ancient quarters decayed over the last century, Cairo grew. Public health measures improved, international corporations arrived, and overstressed farmland drove Egyptians to the city. Cairo’s population multiplied twelve-fold over the last 100 years to its current number of about 18 million, which accounts for 20 percent of Egypt’s total population. It’s now the largest city in Africa and in the Arab world and, in 1973, the Egyptian government created the General Organization for Physical Planning to pursue a low-density Greater Cairo. Like many regional planning bodies, GOPP sought to connect satellite cities with highways—almost always disrupting the historic fabric in the process. Increased population burdened Cairo’s early neighborhoods with more residents than they could carry. The al-Utaf quarter, for one, grew to three times the density of metropolitan Paris. Living in, or even walking the streets of, these districts became dangerous as landlords, with officials looking the other way, topped shaky structures with new floors. Eighty percent
Cairo holds a millennium’s worth of Islamic architecture. In this view, the 1291 Mamluk domed sabil in the foreground, the 876 Samara-style Classical Arab masjid just beyond, and in the distance, the 1848 Ottoman masjid within Salah id-Diin’s Citadel.
Two cenotaphs stand before a rare wooden masqura in the Qarafa district (above), which shields two Cairenes from the afternoon sun. For generations, gravesites have served as informal places for family gatherings in Cairo. The limestone foundations (below) of the 1288 Tomb Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil have been degraded by illegally-drained water from the adjacent Hawaii Ice Cream Factory.
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of Cairene dwellings built since 1980 are illegal. At the same time, even unaltered vernacular buildings collapsed because rent control discouraged maintenance. Egypt installed water and sewer pipes in Islamic Cairo only after a 1992 earthquake attracted international funding. The systems leak and undermine ancient foundations. A partial survey, begun in 1881, cataloged a thousand “Arab” monuments. As a result of the city’s infrastructure and law enforcement failures, fewer than 500 of these remain. Today, Suez Canal revenue, remittances from overseas Egyptians, and tourism support the economy, with significant American help. But, private tourism investment goes to seaside resorts—not Cairo—even as Egyptian officials promote their Bronze Age architectural legacy with intrusive visitor’s facilities on the Giza Plateau. The Grand Egyptian Museum will open there in 2013 alongside the Great Sphinx, which blankly and pitilessly gazes at a Pizza Hut. Old Cairo’s relative obscurity has not spared it from “improvement.” In 2009, the Ministry of Culture spruced up Shaarih al-Mu’izz, one of the original streets (dating to 969) by adding Parisian-style pay toilets, public maps, and a ban on motor vehicles. The Ministry of Culture simultaneously restored the adjacent 1284 Funerary Complex Sultan al-Mansour Qalawun. What’s missing? The old garlic and onion souq as well as Cairene families who called the neighborhood home for generations. It’s a neighborhood without neighbors now and the process is repeating in a traditional metal-craft district just to the east. A similar scheme by the Cairo Governate for the vast desert burial ground east of Cairo’s Ayyubid walls will remove thousands of common cenotaphs and attendant remains in a play to create an urban garden populated by restored royal mausoleums. The Greater Cairo Cemetery Plan will steal shelter from 20,000 residents squatting in courtyard-house-type tombs. Moreover, it will end the tradition, dating to pharaonic times, of Egyptian families socializing at family graves. Landmark designation and technical preservation criteria formalize a state’s choice of a past. But, international politicking also signals a new governmental awareness of Cairo’s troubled historic quarters. Secular, Arab Egypt embraced “Islamic Cairo” in its nomination to the World Heritage List. President Barack Obama’s and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2009’s tour of the 1356 Masjid Jumm’ah and Madrasa Sultan al-Nasir Hasan further validated the internationalist policy shift. Nongovernmental organizations now work directly with local groups to restore Cairo’s al-Darb al-Ahmar quarter and a truly representative Arab Republic will revive a mostly Muslim city as a multicultural and interfaith capital while treating Cairenes from heritage areas with respect. Keeping Cairo intact depends now more than ever on Egypt’s sponsorship of ethical architectural and cultural conservation practices: each quarter according to its own, special history and customs. Other industrializing countries would benefit from accepting their history wholesale (not selectively) by admitting the cultural contributions and interests of foreigners. Cairo teaches industrializing countries, sometimes by error, how to safeguard patrimony. The city has an unrivaled architecture, but craft is just one part of culture. If Egypt can strengthen continuing local customs, faith-based initiatives, and free enterprise, then the political and economic mechanics of heritage conservation will become easier. inform 2010: number six
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The 1356 Masjid Jumm’ah and Madrasa Sultan al-Nasir Hasan (above) is often cited as one of the finest examples of mosque architecture. Around the base of the mosque’s dome (at right), the refurbished mosaic frieze calls out the Qur’an’s “Throne Verse.” Aga Kahn’s al-Azhar Park, in the distance, sits on the site of a former trash dump.