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Specifics
MONTHLY MEETING
RSVP:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Marriott Union Square, 30th Floor
480 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Format: Buffet of Hors D’oeuvres
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Please make your reservations no later than Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
Go to http://www.cvent.com/d/grq16r
Cost is $45 for members of the San Francisco Chapter, $55 for all others.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRE PRE-PAYMENT.
Place:
Marriott Union Square, 30th Floor
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Social Hour with 480 Sutter St, San Francisco
Buffet of Hors d’Oeuvres
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Program
The Marriott Union Square is in the heart of San Francisco’s commercial district, easily accessible
by BART and Muni. Parking is available at the Sutter Stockton Garage. Page 1
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
APRIL 2015
President John Sellen
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
April 16-18
CSI Academies in San Francisco
May 5 (Tuesday) Transbay Terminal Tour
May 13-17
Tri-Region Conference,
San Diego, CA
June 10 SF Chapter 60th Anniversary and Awards Banquet
July 8
Monthly Meeting
July 12
Bandini Golf Tournament
August 12
Monthly Meeting
September 9
Monthly Meeting
October 14
Monthly Meeting
November 11
Monthly Meeting
December,
date TBA
Holiday Party
Pro-Fair 2015 is in the books, and by all accounts, it was a great
success! First and foremost, a hearty thank you and well done
to Dave Ingram for chairing this year’s event. The exhibit floor
was abuzz with product reps and architects and spec writers
soaking up the good info. I heard more than one comment that
we could have gone on for another hour. But our dinner and guest
speaker were calling, as the attentive Delancey Street Foundation
staff guided us upstairs to the dining room. Once everyone had
been served, our guest speaker, Rick Diamond, led us in a lively
discussion about why buildings don’t work the way we plan them.
The ensuing conversation could have gone on for much longer
had time permitted. Rick did a terrific job of engaging the audience,
eliciting input, and getting us out of there at a reasonable hour.
Special kudo’s to Merideth Marschak and Linda Stansen for some
impressive administrative gymnastics in getting everyone to their
assigned tables with minimal problems. Kudo’s also to the ProFair committee, including Katia Griggs, Stacey Ver, and Edwin
Essary. All worked very hard to make this a successful event. The
Delancey Street Foundation facilities proved to be an attractive
and convenient location. All in all, everything came off as well as
could be expected. There’s already some discussion about ProFair 2016. Keep checking www.pro-fair.net for opportunities to
provide feedback and suggestions for next year.
Thanks to membership for responding to two separate surveys
sent out from Cvent. The first, with regard to our dinner meetings
and venue, drew responses from about 25% of membership. The
second was for feedback from those who attended the February
meeting at the Marriott. The results of both of these surveys has
been very helpful in aiding the Board to make decisions about our
monthly meetings. See a recap of the membership survey in this
edition of SPECIFICS.
With those results in hand, we have decided to return to the
Marriott Union Square once again for our April meeting. The
snafus from February have been duly noted and adjustments
made. On April 8, we will be on the 30th Floor, in a space previously
used by SF CSI for monthly meetings. There will be ample room
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The City and County of SF
Department of Building Inspection
Presents a series of free
BROWN BAG LUNCH TALKS
3rd Thursdays, Noon to 1:30 PM
at 1660 Mission Street, Room 2001
(Second Floor)
Contact Laurence Kornfield
415-558-6205
The Department welcomes you to
attend a series of informal, general
information talks presented at no
charge to the public and City staff.
Bring your lunch. Coffee and other
drinks will be provided.
PUBLISHED BY THE
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
EDITOR
Elizabeth Porter, AIA, CSI, CCS
betsyhartporter@yahoo.com
Photographer
Elizabeth Porter, AIA, CSI, CCS
Paulette Salisbury, Guest
Photographer
EDITORIAL POLICY
1. To inform members of the Chapter
and Institute goals and activities
directed toward these goals;
2. To inform members of the Chapter
and Regional activities, Board
actions; and
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for networking and socializing, and high-boys for setting down
drinks and appetizers. The Chapter will sell drink tickets to allow
the use of credit cards for your drinks. Unfortunately, there’s
not much we can do about the cost of drinks. The fare will be
substantial appetizers.
The Marriott location on Sutter Street allows for better access
from public transportation and economical parking. Apologies for
not including information in February about parking at the SutterStockton Garage, which charges only $3.00 per hour before 6:00
and $1.00 per hour after 6:00. It’s a short walk to the Marriott.
If you parked in the garage at the hotel, it was beaucoup more
expensive. We should have let you know that in advance.
However, all this goodness is not without its costs. For quite some
time we have been losing money at every meeting. Last year we
raised the fee to $20 for members, but that only put a small dent in
our costs for each meeting. The Board voted to increase the costs
for the meeting to $45 for members and $55 for non-members.
We are hopeful that we can keep these fees for the foreseeable
future, but may need to adjust once more as we consider the
annual dues. In the end, it all has to make economic sense, and
I’m not convinced that we are quite there yet.
For May, there will be a tour of the new Transbay Terminal Building
under construction in downtown San Francisco. Our Bryan Varner
is organizing this event, which is limited to 30 participants, so sign
up early! Registration will be available through Brownpapertickets.
Then in June, SF CSI will celebrate its 60th Anniversary at the
annual Awards Banquet. We have a committee at work planning
an extra special event, to include Chapter Awards and installation
of the new Board.
Keep reading SPECIFICS and tell your friends and colleagues
about CSI.
John Sellen
President of San Francisco CSI
3. To provide a forum for all
members.
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CSI BOARD OF DIRECTORS USING BASECAMP
By John Sellen
Since the beginning of this fiscal year, your SF CSI Board of
Directors has been using a communications tool called Basecamp.
For those of you who are not familiar with Basecamp, it is a website
that allows us to communicate with each other, post documents, and
share ideas without an endless string of emails. For a few dollars
each month, we are allowed 10 separate projects and an unlimited
number of discussions within each project.
Pro-Fair Speaker Rick Diamond
Mike Lopez
We would like to create a members only project on Basecamp
and make it accessible to all chapter members. We have found
Basecamp to be an effective tool to efficiently communicate with
each other. If you are interested in having access to a project on
Basecamp, please contact a Board member.
Our Pro-Fair Exhibitors
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MEMBERSHIP SURVEY RESULTS
Thanks again to all members who took a few minutes to reply to
the survey that was sent out about our monthly dinner meetings
and venue. We thought you might be interested to know something
about the results. We had a total of 41 responses which is about
25% of the surveys that were sent out. Here is a quick summary of
the results:
1. Responses to the question of how many CSI meetings are
attended each year were pretty well-balanced between (1 to 3), (4
to 6), (7 to 10), and (11 to 12).
2. 50% of those who responded attend between four and six
monthly meetings for other organizations. 27% responded that
they attend 11 or more other meetings per year.
3. 40% of the respondents indicated they would be more likely
to attend a shorter meeting with appetizers versus a full sit down
dinner. Half of the respondents said it would not change their
decision one way or the other.
John Raeber and Paulette Salisbury
4. Members’ employers pay all costs associated with CSI
membership for 50% of those responding. 20% got no
reimbursement at all.
5. With regard to annual chapter dues subsidizing dinner cost,
50% said it did not matter. 25% favored lower annual fees and
higher dinner costs, and 25% favored higher annual fees and lower
dinner costs.
6. 70% of responses indicated that they would pay up to $45 for a
chapter meeting.
7. 20% said they would be more likely to sponsor a table top at a
more convenient venue. 80% said it would make no difference.
8. Better access to the meeting venue via public transportation
makes it likely that 30% would attend meetings more regularly. For
65% there was no difference.
The San Francisco Specifics
is your award winning
Chapter newsletter!
Kim Schneider
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TRI-REGION CONFERENCE MAY 13-16, 2015
MISSION BAY HILTON in SAN DIEGO, CA
By Eric Camin
SOUTHWEST, NORTHWEST, AND WEST REGIONS
COMING TOGETHER TO BUILD BETTER
Guy Murnig, John Raeber, Jeffery Glick
and his son
3 Regions, 20 Chapters, 2700 Members,
one great conference!
Conference registration and sponsorships are now open
at the San Diego Chapter website
http://www.sandiegocsi.org/tri-region-conference.html
We are looking forward to joining with our CSI colleagues throughout the
western U.S. for a great time of leadership training, professional education,
team building, and just plain fun! Major activities include:
• Region board and annual meetings
• Product Show with up to 70 booths
• CSI leadership training, including a Tri-Region challenge
• Education tracks on energy conservation, accessibility, and more
• Welcome Reception
• Local tours including the San Diego Zoo
• AIA-CSI Golf tournament
Tim Maliepaard and Brent Fisher
Chapters: Plan for your leaders to be there! Diverse leadership training
session for up and coming and current leaders. Opportunities to meet leaders
from other chapters with similar challenges and great ideas. Leadership is
in your future - join us!
All CSI members: Meet people with the same concerns and issues. Enlarge
your base of experts.
Continuing Education: 8.5 hours of quality construction industry education
with continuing education credits.
Sponsor: Get your products seen at dedicated sponsor oriented activities.
Some sponsor opportunities include presenting an education session of
your choice. Some also include conference registrations, so you can spend
time with key technically oriented architects and engineers during the entire
event. There are so many ways to make connections and contacts with the
people making product decisions every day.
http://www.sandiegocsi.org/tri-region-conference.html
Reserve your hotel room and sign up today.
Jack Klemeyer and Rose Garrison
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PRO-FAIR 2015
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PRO-FAIR’S DR. RICHARD DIAMOND
AND HIS AND RECOMMENDED READING LIST
By Merideth Marschak
Our presenter at Pro-Fair was Dr. Richard Diamond of Lawrence
Berkeley National Labs. Rick’s interest in the human side of
energy management made for a lively discussion with Pro-Fair
attendees.
Michael Chambers and Anne Whitacre
Betsy Porter and Julie Barrett
First, he asked us to consider our individual behavior and our
perception of how our decisions affect our carbon footprint.
What questions might we ask to determine our own profile of
energy consumption? The responses from the group varied
widely and launched Rick on an exploration of the ways in which
building owners and occupants affect the actual performance
of buildings. He noted that the measured energy consumption
of many buildings far exceeds the predictions of our energy
models. He asked us to consider why that might be. The ensuing
discussion of the role of personal and cultural preferences in
building performance kept the group involved and sharing ideas
well after the event came to an end.
Rick’s final question to us: Should training for building occupants
become a part of our specifications? This would take us a step
beyond operations manuals and into the realm of teaching
everyone about building performance.
References on Behavior Change & Energy & Behavior
1. Ariely, Dan. 2008. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our
Decisions. New York, N.Y. Harper Collins.
2. Gardner, Gerald and Paul C. Stern. 2008. “The Short List: the Most Effective
Actions U.S. Households Can Take to Curb Climate Change.” Environment
50(5):12-24.
3. Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan, 2010. “Switch: How to change things when
change is hard.” http://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/
4. Kerr, Philip. 1997. The Grid. Warner Books.
5. Lawrence, Paul, 2011 (draft). Being Human: A Darwinian Theory of Human
Behavior. http://www.prlawrence.com/
6. Lutzenhiser, Loren. 1993. “Social and Behavioral Aspects of Energy Use.”
Annual Review Energy and Environment 18: 247-89.
7. Thaler, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein. 2008. Nudge: Improving Decisions
about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven and London: Yale
University Press.
Taiger Murphy and Peg Collins
8. Weiner, Jonathan, 1999. “Time, Love, and Memory.” Vintage Books
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Who’s Who in SF CSI History?
by Paulette Salisbury
Can you name the people in this photo of the 1994 Convention
Host Committee? Give it a try and send your list of names to
Paulette Salisbury, pksalisbury@yahoo.com, by April 7, 2015 to be
eligible to win a fun prize. Winner will be announced at the next
regular chapter meeting. In case of a tie or multiple correct entrees,
a drawing will be held to select the winner. Spelling doesn’t count
but you have to get close to the name, so initials don’t count.
Ron Ronconi
Jim Ayala, Bryan Jones and Colter Jones
The Santa Clara CSI Valley Chapter is calling for
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
By Sheldon Wolfe
Minneapolis - St. Paul Chapter
Vivian Volz and Taiger Murphy
A couple of months ago, in “Your slip is showing!”, I mentioned
that I had been specifying slip resistance for a very long time, but
only recently became aware of a serious problem: Even though
codes and other regulations require a “slip-resistant” finish,
there is no definition of what that means. I encountered a similar
situation recently while reviewing the titles of the many standards
cited in our specifications: I discovered that ANSI (the American
National Standards Institute) produces no standards!
While looking up hardware standards, I saw reference standards
with the number 115 in virtually every hardware and hollow metal
specification I found. Sometimes the 115 was preceded with an
A, other times not. But it’s only one letter; what’s the big deal if it
has an A or not?
Jim Bluse, Jerry Pozo and Scott Tyson
The reference numbers I found were inconsistent, so I set out
to discover exactly which standard or standards were intended.
As we so often find in the world of construction, there is a lack
of consistency. I saw titles of some standards appear both with
and without ANSI, titles that appear with only ANSI, and titles that
have only a number, with no indication of the issuing organization.
I found titles with different combinations of ANSI with another
organization, and I found references to standards that have been
withdrawn or replaced.
Many of these specifications referred to ANSI A115, but others,
including manufacturers’ guide specifications, refer simply to
“ANSI 115”, for what appeared to be the same standard. My first
step was to visit the ANSI website, which allows a search of their
records. I found no standard titled ANSI 115, but as I expanded
my search I found references to several standards related to
doors that include A115 in their titles.
• ANSI A115 Hardware Preparation in Steel Doors and Steel
Frames
• ANSI/BHMA A156.115 Hardware Preparation in Steel Doors
or Steel Frames
Past President Raul Yanez and Anne
Whitacre
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• ANSI/DASMA 115 Standard Method for Testing Garage
Doors
• ANSI/DHI A115 Specifications for Hardware Preparations in
Standard Steel Doors and Frames.
• ANSI/DHI A115.IG Installation Guide for Doors and Hardware
• ANSI/SDI A115.1 (no title specified)
• BHMA A115 Specifications for Steel Door and Frame
Preparation for Hardware
• BHMA A115 Steel Door Preparation Standards
Joe Hutka
With the exception of the ANSI/DASMA standard, it appears all of
these may be the same. Is it possible that they’re all correct? The
most interesting thing I learned was that ANSI does not produce
standards. Rather, it accredits the procedures of organizations
that develop standards, verifying that they meet certain
requirements. During more than thirty years as an architect,
I have seen countless standards with designations such as
ANSI/ACI, ANSI/BHMA, ANSI/DASMA, and so on. I also have
seen many standards that did not include ANSI in the title. My
perception was that those standards with ANSI in the title were
jointly issued by ANSI and the other organization, while those
that did not include ANSI were issued solely by the indicated
organization. And, because I saw many standards that included
only ANSI, I assumed those standards were issued by ANSI.
My investigation revealed that references to standards are far
too casual, and too often incorrect. However, despite the many
incorrect titles used, it seems there have been few problems,
probably because the people who write and use these sections
are familiar with what’s in the standards. Even so, manufacturers
should cite only active standards, and use the proper titles and
revision dates in their guide specifications and other publications.
One letter can make the difference between being Ernest, and
merely being earnest.
© 2014, Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CSC
Paula Grider
Agree? Disagree? Leave your comments at
http://swconstructivethoughts.blogspot.com/
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Construction Specifications Institute
PO Box 2356
San Francisco, CA 94126-2356
415-294-3800
mail@csisf.org
http://sanfrancisco.csinet.org
CSI membership is composed of a cross-section of the construction industry - architect, engineers, contractors,
developers, manufacturers, suppliers and representatives from allied industries. Chapter activities reflect the
unbiased concerns of the entire industry - not one section of it. Members through the Chapter, Region and
Institute have the opportunity to contribute their views and experience to the improvement of specifications and
other contract documents.
Board Members 2014-2015
President
John Sellen
415-430-8027
johnesellen@gmail.com
President-Elect
Merideth Marschak
510-649-8295
merideth.marschak@nollandtam.com
Immediate Past President Tim Maliepaard
916-847-8447
tmaliepaard@oldcastlebe.com
Secretary
Jerry Pozo
408-595-2031
jpozo@bmi-products.com
Treasurer
Ben Miller
619-248-1576
bmiller@gaf.com
Vice President
Stacey Ver
415-515-4849
sver1250@gmail.com
Vice President
Julie Barrett 650-464-2550
jbare_1999@yahoo.com
Director
Peg Collins
909-509-1402
peg.collins@ppg.com
Director
Tim Cox
865-484-6269
tim@oregondoor.com
Director
Bryan Jones
415-883-8221
bryan@xypexcal.com
Region Director
Linda M. Stansen
650-570-6411
stanspecs@comcast.net
Awards
Tim Maliepaard
916-847-8447
tmaliepaard@oldcastlebe.com
Certification
Lester Meu
510-434-9888
lmeu@geomeu.com
Hospitality
Eric Patricio
650-610-4211
epatricio@kellymoore.com
Membership
John Sellen
415-430-8027
johnesellen@gmail.com
Programs
Linda M. Stansen
650-570-6411
stanspecs@comcast.net
Publications
Elizabeth Porter
510-517-5360
betsyhartporter@yahoo.com
Website
Vivian Volz
415-244-6756
vivian@vvarchspecs.com
Nominations
Merideth Marschak
510-649-8295
merideth.marschak@nollandtam.com
Directors
Committee Chairs
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