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JAnuary/February 2010
Join us Tuesday, January 12, 2010
2010 McGraw-Hill Construction Outlook Speaker: Mr. Cliff Brewis, Hon. AIACC Tour the Lutron Experience Center
Join us Thursday, February 25
“GREENING THE GOLDEN STATE” LACSI NITE at the LA Marriott Downtown www.LACSI.org
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Letter FROM THE President
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An important Chapter goal last year was to start “walking the walk” of being Green. We hope you enjoy our first e-newsletter and share it with your colleagues.
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GALLERY : October meeting Meet the LACSI Board
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Here’s a quick introduction to the 2009-2010 LACSI Board of Directors.
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Golf Tournament Thanks
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West Region Corner
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Membership News
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Join us Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Curmudgeon’s Corner
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Program: Historic Preservation in California.
Joe Back invitational
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“Greening” the Golden State Thursday, February 25, 2010 Marriott, Los Angeles, 333 South Figueroa Street
EXHIBIT HOURS: 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ◾ Product Displays. Technical data, samples
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LACSI NITE Product Show and seminars:
Marriott, Los Angeles, 333 South Figueroa Street
◾ Free Seminars (see schedule below) ◾ Catered Hors D’Ouervres and desserts ◾ Door Prizes
Ventura Meeting
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L e tt e r f r o m t h e p r e si d e n t The LA Chapter is maintaining a steady membership of 300. A few members leave each year but are replaced with new members. I want you all to understand Kathy Greenway, President the value of CSI and what it can do for you. Our chapter has a wealth of experience in 2009 brought rough times, but, thru it all, its membership. Participation gives you our Chapter is in touch with members and access to accomplished professionals in supporting those in need. We will continue the construction industry. this effort in 2010. You pay dues, and as the An important Chapter Welcome to our first President I need to see that goal last year was to start the Board responds to your Electronic Newsletter “walking the walk” of questions and suggestions. being Green! We hope you We want and need your enjoy our first e-newsletter participation, no matter how much or newsletter and share it with your colleagues. how little. It will add the seeds necessary Our Newsletter Committee, Laura Sellmer for growth. and Steve Taylor, along with suggestions CSI is an organization for education. We all from the board, are rolling out the fruits of understand that. But, do you understand their labor. the importance of networking in this The Electronic Newsletter allows links to economic time, having contacts that can our website for event registration and gives write reference letters for you and give you you the ability to forward this information to the support you need to keep your heads your associates and future LACSI members. high and continue to pursue your dreams? We all have fallen on hard times, and having We want people to learn about the support from some friendship bonds you benefits of CSI, attend our meetings have made, may help you thru some sticky and join our Chapter! times. It is always nice to have someone Perhaps, sharing with your management, to bounce ideas and thoughts off of, and will allow them to see the value of your not worry what they will think. So, in short, involvement. We want you to “spread education is great, but so is the bonded the wealth” of CSI. I hope you find this friendship of people in your industry you Newsletter a tool to let non-members may become acquainted with by attending discover the riches of this organization. our meetings, and events.
J a n / FE B 2 0 1 0 We start out with a busy year in January, having our Joint Meeting with Orange County January 12th, at the Lutron Facility. Immediately following will be the first official meeting for our newest CSI Chapter, The Inland Empire Chapter!! Their meeting will be held at the Mission Inn in Riverside on January 14th. Dignitaries from Institute will be attending, table tops will be available and a wonderful opportunity to help jump start another chapter off the starting line. Contact Janet Piccola at jpiccola@frazee.com for more information. January– Eric Loyd is leading up our certification programs. If you are interested, please sign up on our website: www.lacsi. org, or contact Eric for information at yoj@ pacbell.net. February 25th is our CSI Night which Patrick Comerford and Buzz Harwood have been working hard to present a trade show rich with vendor products and educational seminars. We hope you can attend and bring an associate to walk the trade show. Take advantage of the great education sessions offered and an opportunity to SHARE the CSI benefits to a non-member! It’s a start of a great year. I am blessed to have made wonderful friends within CSI and look forward sharing CSI with new people, participating in our education events, and meeting all of you at the chapter meetings in 2010. — Kathy Greenway, CSI, CFM 3
Meet the LACSI Board
D A President Kathy Greenway, CSI, CFM Draper Shade & Screen Company 151 N. Kraemer Blvd., #101 Placentia, CA 92870 Phone: (714) 396-9732 kgreenway@draperinc.com B President-Elect Patrick Comerford, CSI Service Oriented Sales (SOS) 1339 Lawrence Dr. Newbury Park, CA 91320 Phone: (877) 767-4636 sos002@earthlink.net
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D Vice President - 2 Mike Pitcher, CSI Crossfield Products Corp. 3000 E. Harcourt St. Rancho Dominguez, CA 90221 Phone: (310) 886-9100 x302 mikep@cpcmail.net
F Treasurer Frank Bostrom, CSI, CDT, AIA Frank Bostrom AIA - APA 205 Avenue I, #6 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 Phone: (310) 540-2066 fbostrom@verizon.net
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E Secretary Valarie Harris, FCSI, CCPR Stanley Security Solutions, Inc. 1533 Sierra Bonita Dr. Placentia, CA 92870 Phone: (714) 993-2532 valarieh@pacbell.net
G Controller Janet Piccola, FCSI Frazee Paint Company 1515 Shadow Ln. Fullerton, CA 92831 Phone: (714) 936-2890 jpiccola@Frazee.com
H Director #1 - Professional Kathryn Marek, CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA, LEED AP, RA AECOM Design 515 S. Flower St., 8th Flr. Los Angeles, CA 90071 Phone: (213) 593-8496 kathryn.marek@aecom.com 4
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I Director #2 - Professional Teena Santiago, CSI, CDT, LEED AP Leo A. Daly Company 550 S. Hope St., 27th Flr. Los Angeles, CA 90071 Phone: (213) 316-4432 tsantiago@leodaly.com
M Director #1 - Industry William Love, CSI, CDT Arto Brick 15209 S. Broadway St. Gardena, CA 90248-1823 Phone: (310) 768-8500 wlove@artobrick.com
Not Shown: Sue Brown 2003-2005 Steve Izuhara 2000-2001 Joe Back 1998-2000
N Director #2 - Industry Steve Taylor, CSI Woodwork Institute 734 W. 23rd St. San Pedro, CA 90731 Phone: (310) 833-0571 steve@woodinst.org
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LACSI Presidents Left to Right: Ed Buch ...................... 2001-2003 Jan Piccola ................. 2000-2002 Kathy Greenway . ........ 2008-2010 Craig Mount ............... 2005-2007 Patrick Comerford ....... 2010-2011 Mike Fuller .................. 2007-2008
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Sommer Lira, Les Long and Mike Fuller.
Judy Holleran and Melisa Sharpe.
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Patrick Bandy, Judy Holleran and Vince Overmyer.
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Karen Zaterman and Stuart Fricke.
A great LACSI buffet dinner. www.henry.com
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Orange County CSI & Los Angeles CSI Annual Joint Meeting Program
2010 McGraw-Hill Construction Outlook Is the construction economy in Southern California finally starting to turn around? Join us to hear McGraw-Hill Construction’s thoughts for the economy and construction this year in Southern California. Speaker Mr. Cliff Brewis, Hon. AIACC, Senior Director of Editorial Operations for McGrawHill Construction Information Group. Cliff is a nationally recognized speaker on construction economics and a past speaker at CSI events. Before Dinner Tour the Lutron Experience Center for a hands-on demonstration of the very best in Lutron electric lighting and electronic shading systems. Lutron systems enable you to control lighting, shades and draperies, security, entertainment, everything –at the touch of a button.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:00 to 6:30 pm, Tour Lutron Showroom 5:00 to 6:30 pm, Social 6:30 pm, Dinner & Program Reservations Required by Friday, Jan. 8th, 4:00 pm. Cost Free to LACSI members with reservations. $40 to Non Members with Reservations. $10 For LACSI members without reservations. $45 for Non Members without reservations.
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LUTRON Experience Center 2458 DuPont Drive Irvine, CA 92612
Free on-site parking. Reservations Call 213-243-6658 Please leave your name, company name and phone number or reserve at www.lacsi.org Program Chairman Ed Buch, CSI, CCS, AIA
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LACSI Product Show & Seminars Thursday, February 25, 2010 Marriott, Los Angeles, 333 South Figueroa Street EXHIBIT HOURS: 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ◾ Product Displays. Technical data, samples ◾ Free Seminars (see schedule below) ◾ Catered Hors D’ouevres and desserts ◾ Door Prizes
“GreenING” the Golden State SEMINAR SCHEDULE 2:00 – 4:00 pm Tabletop Setup 3:00 – 4:00 pm LEED 3.0 Credential Maintenance Program Requirements. Speaker: Nellie Reid, LEED AP, Gensler & Associates 3:00 – 4:00 pm SPEKT™, Substitution Abuse™ Sounding the Alarm about Substitutions Speakers: Michael & Aaron Chusid, Chusid Associates 4:00 – 5:00 pm High Performance Exterior Building Envelopes Building Enclosure Commissioning. Speakers: Judson Taylor, AIA, CSI, LEED AP, Senior Principal, and Octavian Vlagea, Senior Project Engineer at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. 4:30 – 7:00 pm Product Show 6:30 – 8:30 pm California Green Building Code Speaker: Steven R. Winkel, AIA, Preview Group, Inc. Exhibit Questions? Patrick Comerford, CSI
Office Phone: (805) 375-6599
Cell Phone: (805) 402-2167
FAX Number: (805) 375-6599
e mail: sos002@earthlink.net
Special metro rail/bus service will be provided for new Inland Empire Chapter members who would like to attend this event. Details to follow.
LACSI NIGHT 2010- “GREENING” THE GOLDEN STATE Product Show and Seminars
Thursday, February 25, 2010, Exhibits 4:30 – 7:00 pm Marriott Hotel, 333 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles
EXHIBITOR Registration Form Tables will be assigned in the order that written registration is received. No-Shows will be billed. Please print EXHIBITOR COMPANY NAME_ __________________________________________________ CONTACT NAME________________________________PHONE_______________________
You are cordially invited to exhibit at our annual “Table Top” Show at the beautiful Marriott Hotel. Our show will feature EDUCATION SEMINARS before and after the Product Show, with AIA CES Learning Units, and CSI-CEN Learning Units available on all education seminars presented.
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FREE ADMISSION, FREE CONVENIENT PARKING, FREE FOOD AND A NO-HOST BAR
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EXHIBITOR SET UP TIME: 2:00 – 4:00 pm SHOW TIME: 4:30 – 7:00 pm
SHOW BADGE ORDER
Seminar A1 3:00 – 4:00 pm LEED 3.0 Credential Maintenance Program Nellie Reid, LEED AP, Director of Sustainable Design, Gensler
Two exhibitors for each exhibit space. There will be a $35 charge for each additional exhibitor attendee.
Seminar A2 3:00 – 4:00 pm SPEKT™ Substitution Abuse™ Sounding The Alarm About Substitutions Michael Chusid, RA, FCSI, CCS, SCIP and Aaron Chusid, CSI Seminars B
4:00 – 5:00 pm High Performance Exterior Building Envelopes Jud Taylor, RA, Associate Principal, Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
Product Show 4:30 – 7:00 pm Table Top Displays, Technical Info, Hors D’oeuvres and Desserts
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Mail check and form to: Los Angeles CSI, 1145 Oban Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90065, or register by CREDIT CARD ON-LINE at the LACSI website: www.lacsi.org
Seminars C 6:30 – 8:30 pm California Green Building Code Steven Winkel, FAIA Exhibit Table Top Registration Costs Before January 15, 2010
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Gold Event Sponsorship Add $300.00 to your exhibit table top fee and include your company logo in a 3-5 minute continuous stream promo (presentation material provided by sponsor) to be displayed at the Registration Table, on the courtesy transportation bus, on large projection screen at the event, and on signage recognizing our Gold Sponsors. A maximum of 10 Gold sponsors will be accepted. Gold Sponsors will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Questions ?
Please contact Patrick Comerford at 877-767-4636 or email him at: sos002@earthlink.net
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Historic Preservation in California Our after dinner presentation will be by Mr. Charles Kibby of Preservation Arts, a Los Angeles based historic restoration & conservation firm. Over the course of its 25 years in the historic restoration and consulting business, Preservation Arts has worked on many landmark structures in California. These include the Los Angeles Central Library, the Huntington Library & Museum, Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA, Oakland City Hall, San Francisco City Hall, the Million Dollar Building, the Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, the Hollyhock House, and numerous others. Using his signature projects, Mr. Kibby’s presentation will illustrate restoration techniques used on various historic architectural materials including terra cotta, masonry, mosaic tile, stone, and other decorative materials. Technical Workshop
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:00 to 6:00 pm, Technical Workshop 6:30 pm, Dinner 7:00 – 8:00 pm, Program Please reserve before 4:00 pm, Friday, January 29, 2010 Cost $40.00 for non-LACSI members. LACSI Members: Free with advance reservations. No show reservations will be billed.
High Performance Coatings that Work! Corrosion protection, abrasion resistance and ultra-violet resistance add up to coating performance beyond traditional architectural paint. The workshop will discuss high performance attributes of acrylic emulsions, alkyds, performance epoxy primers, industrial urethane finishes, polysiloxanes and field applied fluorinated-polymer systems. Our presenter, Mr. Nye Miller, is a principal of Pacific Southwest Coatings, a representative for several coatings companies including PPG Protective and Marine Coatings (Amercoat and Sigma Coatings), Precision Coatings, and Prime Coatings. Location Four-Points Sheraton Hotel
Parking Self parking is free. Reservations Call 213-243-6658
Please leave your name, company name and phone number or reserve at www.lacsi.org Program Chairman Ed Buch, CSI, CCS, AIA
1050 Schooner Drive Ventura, California 93001
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J a n / FE B 2 0 1 0 I purchased a copy of Phillip Ball’s book,
Universe of Stone, A Biography of Chartres Cathedral, hoping it would provide insight
Romanesque church. It proceeded in phases, apparently without a clear idea of what the final design would be. The author deduces this because of the many asymmetries and discontinuities that exist in the finished cathedral. They must have planned it as they went.
into design and construction in the medieval era. While the book did not disappoint in this, it also made clear that to write a history The master masons who lead the design of anything, you need and construction, (and historical records. In the who also had to deal case of Chartres, as well as with donors, the clerics, Imagine building other buildings of the time, finding suitable stone, something as large and very few written records finding and keeping stone complex as a gothic or drawings exist. There’s cutters, stone carvers, cathedral without also a good probability carpenters, metal smiths, drawings. that they may never have and laborers), probably been created in the first had at most a rudimentary place. Imagine, building knowledge of geometry something as large and complex as a gothic and mathematical proportion. These cathedral without drawings. The history were their only design and layout tools. of Chartres as presented in the book is A unit of measure had to be established based mostly on what’s observable in the for the project. They probably had only a physical presence of the cathedral today very sketchy idea about the design of the plus additional indirect references to the finished cathedral. Drawings were rarely era written by historians describing work on used due to the lack of drawings tools and other cathedrals. The names of the builders paper. Parchment was available but it was of Chartres are not known nor is there any expensive and often had to be scraped first hand written record of how it was built. clean and reused. More commonly, crude It took 66 years to build Chartres, 1194 to 1260. This was during a 300 year period when over 80 cathedrals and 500 large churches were built in France alone. Construction of the cathedral began on top of the 11th century crypt of an earlier
models were built to show the design, but it’s difficult to imagine these had sufficient detail for use in construction. The author’s principal objective in the book was to explain the intellectual basis for the design of Chartres, not so much the nitty-
gritty of how the design and construction were implemented. He describes the Gothic era as the “first renaissance”, hundreds of years before Leonardo de Vinci or Michelangelo, a time when thought from the Greek and Classical eras was resurrected. The aesthetic foundation expressed in the Gothic churches was order and geometry based on Plato’s philosophy of “abstract over material”. This was a major change in western thought and religion, from the literal interpretation of the Scriptures, toward a logical and rational world and was the start of society based on scientific thought. The book contains chapters describing the work of medieval stone masons, a good description of Gothic construction principles vs. those used in Romanesque period, and a long chapter on the stained glass windows at Chartres. The windows are probably the most stunning feature of the church, certainly for worshipers in the 13th Century, and even for a visitor to the church today. The book has 322 pages including photographs, some useful drawings, and a lengthy bibliography. It was published in 2008 by HarperCollins. 11
CSI足足FALL ClASSIC Annual Golf Tournament
T hank YouTo Our Sponsors Tournament Sponsors Angelus Block Closest to the Pin
BSD Spec Link LONGEST DRIVE
Floorseal Technology PUTTING CONTEST
Frazee Paint & Zinsser BEVERAGE CART
Craig Mount, LACSI Golf Tournament Committee Chairman
Golf Sponsors Angelus Block Contrarian Metal Resources Draper (multiple teams) General Polymers Ingersoll Rand Integrated Marketing Concepts
Omega Products Sherwin Williams SOS Specified Design Systems Stonhard Vista Paint W.H. Steele Woodwork Institute
Golf Hole Sponsors Allana Buick & Bers Inc. Armstrong Ceilings ASSA ABLOY DSS Contrarian Metal Resources Crossfield Products Draper Inc. Dunn Edwards Paints Hager Companies Integrated Marketing Concepts ISEC (Also Golf Ball Sponsors)
Jo Drummond Natural Stone Veneers International Omega Products Partition Specialties Safety Step TD.com Siplast Roofing Trespa / W.H. Steele VaproShield / W.H. Steele W.R. Grace Xypex
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W e st R e gi o n C o r n e r I can’t believe I am writing an article for January 2010. David A Willis, West Region Vice President
J a n / FE B 2 0 1 0 quality hotdogs at the best price. People came from far distances just to have a great tube steak. One day a man came in to find out if all the rumors were true. After inhaling two or three great hot dogs he called the proprietor over to ask a few questions. “How in the world can
you serve such high quality hot dog at such What a year we have had in the West reasonable prices?” he asked the proprietor. Region. A new Virtual Chapter was started “Don’t you know there is a recession going in Redwood Empire in 2009, and the on? How can you afford to do Inland Empire Chapter will be this”? inaugurated on Jan. 14, 2010. After the man left, the hotdog We have a great West Region Sometimes we need conference to look forward stand owner started to think to think critically to this fall and the programs about what he had said. almost in place. For all you about what we hear Maybe this guy was right. Industry members, be on the Maybe he should raise the and how it affects look out for Fresno Product prices, and maybe he should us. Do we believe show discounts when signing buy lesser quality hotdogs to everything we hear? up for both the annual spring cut expenses. So, he made the product show and conference changes with the idea that he product show later in the Fall. could probably keep the stand in business and
I have searched my mind for what to say for my New Years article. Duane always seems to have plenty to say and I wish I had his gift of gab, (sorry Duane). Anyway I have decided to tell a story about the economy. Here goes. Once upon a time...there was a hotdog was known around the country for having best
Let’s remember that we are the ones that will bring back the business. Those who can, need to take the steps to keep things moving along. We need to believe in our future and keep our friends in business by continuing to buy the things we need and want. So, let’s get out there and keep the world turning. I wish you all a Happy and Safe New Year, and I look forward to serving you all in the year ahead.
weather the economic storm. He reasoned that he could always go back to the old ways when
Jerry L. Pozo, BS ,CSI, CDT
the economy improves.
Architectural/Technical Consultant
As days went on, business started to fall off.
Cell: 408.595.2031 Phone/Fax: 530.885.6828 E: jpozo@bmi-products.com www.bmi-products.com
At first slowly, and then gradually picking up to where now it became hard to pay the bills. He had to layoff his help and do all the work
stand on a busy highway. This hot dog stand
Sometimes we need to think critically about what we hear and how affects us. Do we believe everything we hear? I recognize that the global economy is in a real economic down turn today, but maybe the economic concern should compel us to question what we hear and reach higher for solutions. The story reminds me of an old saying, “Get told enough times something is happening, and sure enough it will happen”.
himself. As he was sitting one evening after closing time, he thought to himself. “You know, that fellow was sure right about the recession.” THE END
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NEW MEMBERS ÐÐ David Stokes, CSI, Quatro Design Group ÐÐ Megan Koons, CSI ÐÐ Ken Dandrea, CSI, Frazee Paint ÐÐ Michael French, CSI, SunBrook Partners ÐÐ Nick Campbell, CSI, Green & Campbell, LLP ÐÐ Scott Anton, CSI, Door Components Inc. ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ
From left to right: ÐÐ Matthew McCuffee CSI; Acentech Inc. ÐÐ Nick Campbell CSI; Green & Campbell ÐÐ Jeannie Alderson-Parkman CSI, CDT
Welcome to all these new members! We look forward to meeting you at chapter activities Member Recognition Congratulations to all these members who joined in January and February and have maintained continuous membership.
More than 40 Years Ago: ÐÐ Albert Grossman, CSI, Member Emeritus ÐÐ Jerry Orland, FCSI, Orland Consulting Group ÐÐ Ali Alimento, CSI, Member Emeritus, Alimento Consulting Associates ÐÐ Morely Simon, CSI, Member Emeritus, Consulting Archtiect ÐÐ Eugene Trotter, CSI, Member Emeritus, Building & Construction Specifications (Continued on page 17)
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RETIREMENT NEWS EVERETT NELMS, Woodwork Institute, Director Of Architectural Services Southeastern California, Southern Nevada, & Arizona
December 31, 2009 - After nine years with the Woodwork Institute (WI), Everett Nelms has retired from his position as the Director of Architectural Services for the Southeastern California, Southern Nevada, and Arizona. Since joining WI in 2000, Everett was responsible for the inspection of millwork using WI standards for certification. He worked closely with Architects and many LACSI members knew him personally. With 40 years experience in architectural millwork, Everett brought his knowledge of design, specifications, estimating, manufacturing and installation of cabinetry and millwork. Everett was active in many chapters of the Construction Specification Institute including Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. LACSI wishes Everett the very best for a great retirement.
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5 Years Ago: ÐÐ Frank Bostrom, CSI, CDT, Frank Bostrom AIA-APA ÐÐ Jerry Pozo, CSI, CDT, BMI Products of Northern California ÐÐ Ardie Tavangarian, CSI, Arya
will be the person who brought in the most new members between November 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Joe will personally select a bottle of wine to be presented at the July dinner meeting. He says Craig set the bar really high, so it should be a good one. Both Craig and Joe would be glad to share some of their membership recruitment ideas with you– just ask.
Need a membership badge?
New Member Orientation
Many thanks to Vince Overmyer and Melissa Higgins of Merlex who have taken on the challenge of ordering badges. A message went out to the email list based on the information in the Institute Member Directory. If you don’t remember getting an email, please check your membership listing at www.csinet. org or call Member Services at 800689-2900. If you need a badge contact valarieh@pacbell.net.
Wednesday, March 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM prior to the monthly meeting. Learn how to get the most from your membership, get your questions answered and hear about all the things that CSI is involved in at the Chapter, Region and institute. Not only for new members, everyone is welcome.
Announcing “The Joe Back Invitational” Membership Contest As winner of last year’s Craig Mount Invitational, Joe Back has graciously offered to continue the tradition. The winner
Ideas! Do you have an idea for something that the chapter could do to make membership even more valuable? We’d love to hear about it. valarieh@pacbell.net We can always use more help, our chapter is all volunteer. To help or share your ideas, just contact our President, Kathy Greenway, CSI, CFM or Membership Chairs, Valarie Harris, FCSI, CCPR and Teena Santiago, CSI, CDT. See pages 4-5 for contact information. 17
Curmugeon’s corner The First Spirit “Wake up, Scrooge!” “Who is that?”
by Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA
“It is I, the Spirit of the Past. Come, let us revisit those wonderful days!” As the words were spoken, they were transported to a city long ago. They stood in the midst of a group of young men busily engaged in excited discussion.
“Good Heaven!” cried Scrooge, looking Scrooge was an old man, set in his ways. about. “I know these people! They are And why not? He had been doing things the specifiers, one and all! Oh, what a marvelous same way for many years, and the resulting time that was, with the success was sufficient construction industry evidence of the wisdom expanding, and so much of continuing in that path. “Once you started work to do.” Whenever it was suggested growing, what did that change might be a you do to address the “Yes, it was. Do you recall good thing, “Bah, humbug!” issues that brought you why these people met, was his response. “I like what they planned to do?” together?” things the way they are! I started this business, I’ve “It comes back to me been doing things the same now! We were a group way for fifty years, and I don’t see any reason of specifiers who were unhappy with the to change!” haphazard way specifications were done. Not surprising, considering we worked One evening, a strange series of events for the government! We met and decided befell our dear Mister Scrooge. Having had specifications could be improved, and we a particularly trying day, he tried to enjoy formed an organization to work toward a rich repast and a few glasses of wine in that end. We thought that, by working an effort to forget his problems. As he fell together, we could improve the practice of asleep, he was thinking of how much fun he writing specifications, make them simpler had in his youth. and easier to understand, standardize
J a n / FE B 2 0 1 0 government agencies’ documents, standardize building codes, and bring greater efficiency to the industry as a whole. Ah, those were exciting days!” “You certainly were enthusiastic, and set some lofty goals. And in the early days, you made significant progress.” Although it seemed to Scrooge that he and the Spirit remained stationary, the scene around them shifted and changed; different locations came into focus, and vivid images of people and documents materialized, then faded away. “There is Carl Ebert!” Scrooge exclaimed. “He was there from the beginning - Institute President, first editor of the Construction Specifier, charter member of the DC Chapter. I see Ben John Small, a founder of the New York Metropolitan Chapter, and author of a column in Pencil Points. He was a great promoter of the value of good specification writing. And J. Norman Hunter! When he was president, we added twenty-two new chapters!” “Once you started growing, what did you do to address the issues that brought you together?” asked the Spirit. “Why, isn’t it obvious? Look there - it’s the CSI Format for Construction Specifications. The industry needed organization, and building designers quickly began using it (Continued on page 19)
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to bring order to their specifications. It was so useful, it was also used for filing information about products, and it became the industry standard MasterFormat. And see there? It’s SectionFormat. We didn’t stop with an overall grouping of information, we also established an order for the information for a specific product! Or “work result” as today’s young whippersnappers say! There again, we saw the need for better communication through standardization, and we responded. And what about PageFormat? Once more, we created a standard for the industry!” “Yes, you did all of that - and you created a forum where design professionals, product manufacturers and installers, and contractors could meet and discuss problems and solutions. CSI grew from a handful of people to a nationwide organization of nearly twenty thousand. Indeed, those were the good old days!” Suddenly, the Spirit disappeared, and Scrooge found himself wondering if he had seen the Spirit, or if it was just something he ate for dinner. He took a couple of antacid pills and went back to sleep, remembering the way things were, so many years ago.
The Second Spirit “Wake up, Scrooge!”
“What is it this time? Are you real, or am I having indigestion?” “I am the Spirit of the Present. It isn’t your dinner, though you really should watch what you eat. You seemed to enjoy your visit with the first Spirit, so let’s take another journey.” “If it’s like the last one, it will be fun. Let’s go!” Once again, Scrooge and the Spirit were surrounded by changing scenes of places and faces. But it wasn’t quite the same. The construction industry was even stronger than before. Despite a few economic setbacks along the way, there were many more design professionals, contractors, and building product manufacturers than ever before. The industry appeared to be moving ahead at a frantic pace, with plentiful new construction and renovation of existing buildings, seemingly without limits. Projections of future work indicated more work would be done in the next several years than ever before. The results of Scrooge’s earlier work were evident. That part of the construction industry involved with buildings was making good use of CSI’s Formats: manufacturers included MasterFormat numbers on their literature; design professionals and contractors alike knew where to look for whatever information they needed; and,
even though specifications often ignored the rules established in CSI’s venerable Manual of Practice, communication was much improved over that which existed before CSI’s standards existed. And, where before specifiers were forced to create their own documents, there were now several commercial master guide specification systems, some of them automated to the point that the user no longer had to worry about section numbers or titles, cross references, or all of the other nagging minutiae that consumed so much of a specifier’s time in the past. Scrooge was delighted, thinking he would continue on and become even more successful. Still filled with such thoughts, he was taken aback when the Spirit showed him a smaller part of the industry - his own business. “Whatever is happening?” asked Scrooge. “The industry is growing by leaps and bounds, yet my own part of it is not keeping pace! There are so many fewer members, and the chapters that once were thriving and growing have lost their vigor! Is it possible I am mistaken? How could I have missed such ominous portents?” Sadly shaking his head, the Spirit replied, “What you see is what now is. From the time of your visit with the first Spirit, your membership has decreased by a quarter. Many of your chapters seem to have trouble understanding what they are to do. And, (Continued on page 20) 19
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in the comfort of your middle age - I’m trying to be kind - you lack the energy and purpose of your youth. You have become complacent, satisfied with your great accomplishments of days gone by.” “You have been, perhaps, too successful, and, pleased with that success, failed to see the opportunities to further improve communication in your industry. You have continued to concentrate on paper documents, even though the problems of the past have been solved, and little remains to be done with them. It is in electronic communication that today’s challenges lie.”
“Well, yeah, but there was this organization with the same name, that had a huge impact back in the latter part of the twentieth century. They did some really cool stuff, like organizing construction information - back when it was all on paper. You wouldn’t believe how crazy construction documents were before they came along.” “So what happened to them? If they had so much going, how did they let it slip away?”
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“I don’t understand it. What they did for paper later needed to be done with electronic documents. Maybe it was just a case of turning into a bunch of old farts, who didn’t understand computers and couldn’t see the new problems.”
The second Spirit vanished, only to be replaced by yet a third Spirit.
“Didn’t they do a lot with education and certification?”
“Judging by what has gone before, am I correct in assuming you are the Spirit of Yet to Come? If so, I fear what you may have to say. And yet, I sense that the visits by you and your kin are meant to help, and I am ready to listen.”
“They did, but they were so busy telling each other how important they were that they forgot to tell anyone else. Here’s a funny thing: After all the good things they did, and not telling others how important those things were, other groups came along, and in just a few years each convinced government agencies across the country that what they did was the most important thing. First it was energy-efficient buildings, then accessible design, commissioning, design-build, construction management, “sustainable design”, and somewhere in there was “partnering”. All of which should
Scrooge and the third Spirit were transported to an indefinite, yet not distant, future. Around them appeared a group of young people, engaged in serious conversation. “I thought CSI was a TV show way back when!” exclaimed one.
have been done by design professionals all along. In the end, the things CSI did were absorbed by other organizations, and they didn’t have anything to do anymore.” “I bet it was pretty sad in the end, when it was just a bunch of the same old people getting together, reliving the good old days, waiting for each other to die.” Scrooge cried out in agony, “Spirit, please tell me that what you have revealed is only what might be, rather than what is destined!” After a pause, the Spirit replied. “It’s not that you no longer do useful things. Your work with interoperability and global standardization are truly worthy efforts, and will one day make the industry better - but those things are of no immediate concern to your existing members, and they won’t bring in new members. You have not accepted the possibilities of the near future, when the value of information itself will far outweigh the value of explaining it in words - a process that continues to demand less and less expertise.” “Some have said that all professional organizations have suffered loss of members and inability to connect with younger people. That may be true in most cases, but it is not an excuse to relax. Those organizations that survive will have found something of value that will attract (Continued on page 21) 20
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new members. You claim to represent all those involved in construction, yet you have done little to attract most of them. They represent an untapped resource of knowledge and challenges that can carry you into the future.” “You do have much to fear, and much to do if you are to avoid the future we have seen this evening. That is but one possible path, though it is one that becomes more likely with each day you do nothing to avoid it. It is possible to regain your former stature, but only if you look to the future. What was it that made you great? It was your ability to see the needs of communication in the construction industry and to provide solutions for those problems. Yes, certification has become more important in the construction industry, but if that certification is not required, it has minimal value. And yes, education is important, but there are many wellestablished sources of education, and you have little chance of displacing them.”
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The End? We leave Scrooge on the verge of waking. What will he do when he wakes? Will he regain the intensity of his youth, or will he be content to rest on his laurels, meeting old friends until they are no more? Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA
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