AFTERNOON HSW SEMINARS  

Presenters:

Seminar #1 Code Jeopardy - 1 HSW

Glen Buckner, AIA, NCARB, CSI, LEED GA Architectural Consultant,

Allegion 

The CSI Louisville chapter program 

March 10th  at Builders Exchange - 2300 Meadow Dr., Louisville, KY

Co-Sponsored by AIA/Central Kentucky

Construction Specifications

The Industry, The Profession, The Art, The Future

Presented By: Ken Chappell, BSD, Inc.

Course Objectives: ( 1 hour - 1 LU)

Profession of Specifying: A rewarding career offering many paths and options.

(10 min) The combination of drawings, three dimensional modeling and project specifications represent all the decisions necessary to design and define a facility. The specifier usually has three possible approaches; lead, follow, or gets the heck out of the way. I'll take a few minutes and discuss these.

Industry: Master and Commercial Guide Specifications, and Available Productivity Tools.

(15 min) I share who supplies guide specifications and where to find them and the tools used to edit them. We will discuss how these tools are utilized for word based documents or database solutions and the pros and cons of either approach. I'll touch on who is winning the war between word documents and databases and why.

The Art: Current Best Approaches to Maintaining Office Masters and Delivering Project Specifications.

(10 min) We will present the importance of properly maintaining and utilizing an office master and the different methodologies of doing so. How to manage the task of editing office masters into project specific specifications effectively, and why not having an office master is inadvisable. There is no out of the box solution.

The Future: Capturing the Decision Making Process in Real Time and BIM (Building Information Management)

(25 min) The combination of drawings, three dimensional modeling and project specifications represent all the decisions necessary to design and define a facility. What if you could capture these decisions in real time while designing a facility? What if at any given time in the design process you knew not only how many decisions were left but what those decisions were? What if you had cost estimate data in real time that gets increasingly more and more accurate as decisions are made? If you captured those decisions in real time while designing a facility would the specifications become a byproduct of the design process? We'll discuss what's in place, what is being developed, what is left to be done and how to get everyone on the same page.

About the Presenter:

Kenneth Chappell, CDT, LEED AP

Director of Specifications / Product Development

Ken Chappell manages teams responsible for Spec Link-E, LinkMan, CostLink-AE and Revit object development. He has been actively involved in architectural and engineering construction specification writing for more than decade. He is a member of both ASHRAE and CSI, and has been a member of the CSI MasterFormat Task Team since 2012.

Prior to joining BSD, Ken was the Assistant Director of Engineering Specifications for MasterSpec at ARCOM.

Ken has over thirty-five years of diverse mechanical and electrical design engineering experience. His early career focused on research and development of high-speed production automation in the plastics and non-wovens industries. Ken also had several successful ventures into aerospace and product design. He is an expert at relational database application development and has written many customized task management applications for, engineering, architectural, manufacturing, and construction firms. He is well versed in several programming languages. Ken earned his mechanical and electrical engineering degrees at the University of Cincinnati Evening College.

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The AIA Central Kentucky Chapter is taking applications for AIA Associate Grants for the year 2016. The Board will also accept applications the Emerging Professionals Grants. This is a continuation of a successful program that gets Architectural Interns and Emerging Professionals active in the Central Kentucky Chapter. For those not familiar with the program, the AIA/CKC pays the costs for up to eight people to become Associate AIA members (three spots are taken). Continuing the invitation from last year, we will consider membership for one licensed architect who has been licensed under 5 years and has never been an AIA member. Grant recipients are expected to be active in the chapter for the year the chapter pays for their membership, and are invited to continue their service in future years becoming the next generation of chapter leaders.

AIA Associate grant recipients are asked to serve on one or more of the following committees: Bourbon Blast, Trade Fair, Programs, IDP, Website, Home Tour, Continuing Education, and Membership (Social).

ALL grant recipients will be expected to help on the day of the Trade Fair on March 1, 2017 and the day of the Home Tour in May, 2016.