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LUNCHEON MEETINGTHE 2012 CANADIAN GREEN BUILDING AWARDS
Presented by Helen Goodland, RIBA MBA LEED AP, Brantwood Consultingand Jim Taggart, FRAIC, Consulting Editor, SAB Magazine
The Canadian Green Building Awards [SAB Awards] recognize excellence in the design and execution of Canadian residential and non-residential buildings of all types, including new construction, renovations and interior design projects.
Helen Goodland was a member of the 2012 SAB Awards jury. She will present a review of the winning projects from a juror’s perspective and discuss the evaluation process includ-ing the criteria for evaluating sustainable design, architectural
excellence and technical innovation. Finally she will provide insights into on trends in sustainable building design and what to look for in the future.
Jim Taggart will give an overview of SABMag, the awards program and the objectives of the or-ganization. He will also talk about the evolution in the awards program over the last five years and how it reflects the broadening definition of sustainability.
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Location: Sandman Hotel, 180 West Georgia Street, Vancouver Enter Moxie’s Classic Grill escalator entrance. The ballroom is located
straight through the restaurant at the back of Moxie’s.
Agenda: 11:30 am–12:30 pm Luncheon (full course self-serve buffet style) 12:15–12:30 pm Chapter Business 12:30–1:30 pm Guest Speaker Presentation
Cost: $32.00 + HST for pre-registered CSC members / Association Executive Directors /$48.00 + HST for non-members
Register On-Line or complete and return the attached Registration Form
Parking: Sandman Hotel Parking: Enter off Cambie Street, pass the Sandman Hotel Breezeway, underground parking to the left, press buzzer to access parkade and take elevator to restaurant level. Cost is $1.25 per 15 minutes.
Easy Park: Across the street on the corner of Georgia and Cambie Streets. Cost is $1.50 per 30 minutes.
SkyTrain: Exit at Stadium-Chinatown Station. Walk 2 minutes.
RCI has approved this meeting for 1 RCI Continuing Education Hour (CEH).
Members to request attendance certificate.
Register online at http://vancouver.csc-dcc.ca or fill out the form in this newsletter.
2012 CANADIAN GREEN BUILDING AWARDS
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CSC VancouverExecutive 2012 –13
CHAIR:Blair Bennett, CTR
604-576-3633
DIRECTOR:Melodie Schwartzman, CTR
778-840-1012
VICE CHAIRKim Tompkins, CTR
604-583-0944
PROGRAM OFFICER:George McCutcheon
604-736-8959
WEBSITE OFFICER:Brad Morris
TREASURER:Vince Smith
604-868-8406
SECRETARY:Moira Rowan604-298-3555
SPECIFICATIONS OFFICER(S):
Glenn Chatten778-838-1540
MEMBERSHIP & MARKETING OFFICER:
Mario Maggio604-857-7766 ×311
EDUCATION OFFICER:Spencer Todd604-696-8475
NEWSLETTER OFFICER/GOLF:
James Kelly604-369-2983
OFFICER AT LARGE:Nathan Thompson, CTR
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WORDS FROM THE CHAIR Well that was fast! Summer is over and the kids are going back to school! It seems like we were just in Ottawa at conference. The work starts now for our chapter and all of us are working hard to make this year a successful one and we need our membership to get behind us and support the chapter events.
To this end, I am encouraging all of the membership to make sure they support this year’s Spec Golf by registering a foursome. This is the first big event for the chapter and kicks off the 2012-2013 season and I don’t want to go so far as to guarantee sun on September 12 but I have a real good feeling about it. We would love to make it a success and beat our turnout from last year so if you have not registered, I encourage you to do so.
On to promoting this year’s events, we have a great line up of speakers for the fall and another No Frills tradeshow at a big-ger venue. We will be changing the breakfasts to lunches to see what kind of turnout we get for that as opposed to breakfast. Selfishly this will make me happy because I won’t have to get up at 5am on those rainy winter mornings and fight traffic to get downtown from Langely. We want to see everyone out to these lunches and bring an architect, spec writer, consultant or contrac-tor with you.
The No Frills tradeshow is moving to a bigger venue, the Van-couver Trade and Convention Centre, and we are making some changes by adding some speakers so stay tuned for the announce-ments and invitations. Mark November 21 down in your calendars and all you manufacturers make sure you book a table or two and we can make this event another success for the chapter.
I would like to put a plug in for our sister chapter, Vancouver Is-land, by letting everyone know that they put on lunches as well in beautiful Victoria and I am sure they would love to have visitors from the mainland. All the reps who look after the island should try to make a trip over to support their chapter. Maybe take in an afternoon debate in parliament as well?
As the kids head back to school, we can definitely start getting back into our regular habits and make sure you check out the chapter website for coming events and mark them down in your calendar for the next few months so that you can make it out for these great networking and learning opportunities.
Remember, WE ARE ALL CSC!
— Blair Bennett, CTR
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INDUSTRY
ORGANIzATIONS
DIVISION 01: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Construction Waste Management – BuildSmartwww.metrovancouver.org/buildsmart
DIVISION 02: EXISTING CONDITIONS
Demolition / Deconstruction – BuildSmartwww.metrovancouver.org/about/ publications/Publications/dlctoolkit08web1.pdf
DIVISION 03: CONCRETE
Cement Association of Canadawww.cement.ca/
Canadian Precast Concrete Institutewww.cpci.ca/
DIVISION 04: MASONRY
Masonry Institute of BCwww.masonrybc.org/
Masonry Institute (American)www.masonryinstitute.com
DIVISION 05: METALS
Canadian Institute of Steel Constructionwww.cisc-icca.ca/
DIVISION 06: WOOD, PLASTICS, & COMPOSITES
Architectural Woodwork Mfrs’ Assoc.www.awmac.com/bcchapters.php
Western Red Cedar Lumber Associationwww.wrcla.org
DIVISION 07: THERMAL & MOISTURE PROTECTION
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Roofing Contractors Association of BCwww.rcabc.org
BC Sheet Metal Workers Associationswww.smacna-bc.org
RCI Inc.www.rciwesterncanada.org
RCI Western Canada Chapterwww.rciwesterncanada.org
DIVISION 08: OPENINGS (DOORS, WINDOWS)
Steel Door Institutewww.steeldoor.org
Canadian Steel Door Manufacturers Assocwww.csdma.org
Door Hardware Institutewww.dhi.org
Glazing Contractors Association of BCwww.gca-bc.org
DIVISION 09: FINISHES
Association of Wall and Ceiling Contractors of BCwww.awccbc.org
Gypsum Associationwww.gypsum.org
Master Painters Institutewww.paintinfo.com
Carpet and Rug Institutewww.carpet-rug.org
National Flooring Covering Associationwww.nfcaonline.ca
National Wood Flooring Associationwww.nwfa.org/member/
Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Assoc. of Canadawww.ttmac.com
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EDUCATION — CSC COURSE
MAINTENANCEThomas Dunbar, FCSC, RSW
EMTT Chair
After years of considering how to maintain its educational cours-es and with this initiative as a catalyst, CSC is pleased to an-nounce that it has introduced a defined process for review and update of all educational course material. Recognizing the both the importance and the urgency, the CSC Board of Directors has established the Education Maintenance Task Team (EMTT). The in-augural volunteer members of the EMTT are Mitch Brooks, FCSC; Brian Colgan, FCSC, RSW; Tom Dunbar FCSC, RSW (Committee –Chair) and David Wilson FCSC, RSW. An ongoing committee; these members will serve a 3 year term (of which 2 in this group will serve up to 4 to prevent total committee replacement in the same year) providing both consistency as well as strong founda-tion of knowledge and experience for us to draw upon.
BACKGROUND
As many of us remember, at one time CSC offered only one course, which over the years has gone under various names and finally after several re-writes, reviews and updates became what is now called the Principles of Construction Documenta-tion (PCD) course. This has been the “legacy” course from which has grown our current multi disciplined offering. From the origi-nal course, we developed our first educational stream with the RSW-1, RSW-2 and RSW-3 courses. With it came some concerns about the amount of repetition in these courses, and the depth of the repetition was very dependent on the abilities of the course instructors.
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In the early to mid 1990s, CSC recognized that to better serve the needs of its diversified membership; there needed to be three separate streams of education. The RSW stream already served the specifier community, but CSC needed to added educational streams for contract administrators and technical representa-tives. Therefore it was decided to add the Certified Construc-tion Contract Administrator (CCCA) and the Certified Techni-cal Representative (CTR) educational stream to accompany the existing RSW stream.
However, before they could do that, it was determined that the RSW-1 course would be turned into a basic course to serve all three streams of education. The PCD course was developed and shortly after, the Construction Contract Administration (CCA) and Technical Representative (TR) courses were developed. Most recently from the original RSW-2 and RSW-3 offerings, two new courses titled Specifier-1 (SP-1) and Specifier-2 (SP-2) have evolved. This is a very brief summary of how we have evolved to offer five courses.
In an effort to better the offering, CSC has concerns about the amount of “repetition” in the courses. Some of this can be attrib-uted to the original “legacy” document which was intended to tell people in the industry everything that they ever needed to know about specification writing. The other contributing factor is that until recently anyone could take any course at any time in any order, simply for educational purposes. By default this meant that much of the basic information about the construction industry which was contained in the PCD course had to be repeated at the beginning of the other courses.
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However, all of that changed when CSC decided that the PCD should be a prerequisite to all of the other courses. By doing so, it now gives us the opportunity to edit the courses so that there is a lot less repetition.
Most people who participate in CSC education only get exposed to a single course at any given time. However, if one steps back and looks at all of the courses together, both inconsistencies and repetition are evident. While the most recent courses developed, Specifier-1 and Specifier-2 are very similar in style to each other, they are completely different from the earlier developed other three courses. Although we understand an argument can be made for whether the “Specifier” courses are the right way or the wrong way to go, what we can agree upon is that at a minimum all CSC courses should have the same “look and feel” regardless of when they were introduced.
When we say “look and feel” what we are really saying is that we want to establish the CSC brand, and we want the courses to identify that brand. Currently some of the courses have Student Manuals, while others have Learning Manuals. Some have Instruc-tor’s Manuals, others do not. Some have supplementary informa-tion, others do not. Regardless of the “content”, the supporting slide presentations differ substantially in both visual appearance and format for each of the courses. Furthermore we will review, identify and correct the technical content of the courses as we also acknowledge that it too contains inconsistencies which are unacceptable and do not meet the standards we have estab-lished.
With the continued popularity of CSC online versions of courses a gradual evolution of difference has also grown which in itself has been different from what we have seen happen in the classroom
versions. Regardless of delivery medium, the level and content of education delivered by CSC should be consistent for us to be satisfied with the quality of offering.
EMTT MANDATE
The five courses that CSC now uses for both education and as part of the certification process have basically not been well main-tained since their inception. Although over the years there have been a few reviews and updates of some of the courses, most of those have been limited to grammatical and spelling updates, not a concerted effort and a continuous maintenance plan.
The EMTT has been tasked with making the material more con-sistent from course to course, bringing all of the courses up to the same standard, ensuring consistency of language and termi-nology and establishing a regular review, update and maintenance regime.
EMTT ACTION PLAN
At this time EMTT has had several working sessions and plans to continue to meeting every 3 – 4 months until the initial tasks are complete. The Task Team has developed a course content matrix; comparing all of the education programs and have ana-lyzed that matrix for inconsistencies between the courses and have compared the content of each course to the content of the PCD course. From this comparison the Task Team developed a basic action plan and is now in the process of developing a list of planned changes, additions and deletions for each course.
It was originally anticipated that they would work on the courses in a specific order and release each of them as they were re-viewed corrected and completed. However it was soon realized that to do so would cause more problems than it solved since all
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of the courses are so interdependent of each other and, in par-ticular, interdependent on the content of the PCD course.
As a result it has been decided to hold off on any single publica-tion update until all of the courses have been raised to the same standard and all of the courses are consistent with each other. The plan does however include the publication of “errata” which will assist instructors on giving the most up-to-date information as courses are changed, and before the final publication of the updated course materials.
After the courses are updated and published, the EMTT will set up a regular maintenance schedule for all courses meeting on an annual or semi-annual meeting basis as required to maintain the courses at the new established.
CONCLUSION
As you can appreciate, this is a massive task, and given its enor-mity will not happen overnight. As the process progresses, the EMTT will also be involving other CSC members and industry professionals to advise the Task Team as ad hoc members to assist in fulfilling the mandate. The EMTT is also seeking support from CSC Chapter instructors and Education Officers and would be pleased to receive any suggestions or concerns related to main-tenance, corrections, additions or deletions required for any of the courses.
You can send information or queries directly to the EMTT at [email protected], or contact the EMTT Chair or any of the EMTT members noted above directly. The EMTT is grateful for your support and will attempt to address all comments or concerns.
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EDUCATION REPORTWe will be reviewing the past years education courses and creating an education plan for the fall of 2012 and spring of 2013. If you are interested in taking any of the CSC courses please let us know so we can more accurately gauge which courses are in demand. A reminder if you are interested in taking a course this fall the PCD and Specifier 1 are available on-line starting September 17.
CSC Vancouver Chapter’s proposed education schedule for 2012 is as follows:
January 2013 – Specifier 2
If you or your colleagues have any interest in taking these courses with us, please let us know by contacting our Education Officer, Spencer Todd at [email protected]
ANNOUNCEMENTSNo Frills Trade Show
The CSC No Frills Trade Show will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre on Nov. 21st. Regis-ter early to secure your spot!
See the exhibitor space application form at the end of this newsletter.
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MEMBERSHIP REPORTAs we continue to promote CSC, the need for value in the construction industry is greater than ever. As of the end of August, the Vancouver Chapter membership sits at 154.
ADVERTISING:
NEWSLETTER & WEBAdvertising with us will provide you with the opportunity to reach readers within the industry through the newsletter and on the CSC Vancouver website.
Size Members Non-Members1/4 page $45 $601/2 page $80 $100Full page $140 $175
You will receive advertising space on the second page of the Specifier and on the CSC chapter website. The ad will be placed in one issue of the Specifier and reside on the website for one month. Ads must fit on one page only and are not limited to copy content or visual features.
If you are not sure whether the Specifier would be an appropriate tool for you, please email me with your questions. If you would like to advertise, or have any questions, please let me know. All advertising content is subject to pre-approval by the responsible CSC Committee.
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Luncheon Meeting Notice Vancouver Chapter Thursday, October 18, 2012
THE 2012 CANADIAN GREEN BUILDING AWARDS
Presented by Helen Goodland, RIBA MBA LEED AP, Brantwood Consulting and
Jim Taggart, FRAIC, Consulting Editor, SAB Magazine
The Canadian Green Building Awards [SAB Awards] recognize excellence in the design and execution of Canadian residential and non-residential buildings of all types, including new construction, renovations and interior design projects.
Helen Goodland was a member of the 2012 SAB Awards jury. She will present a review of the winning projects from a juror’s perspective and discuss the evaluation process including the criteria for evaluating sustainable design, architectural excellence and technical innovation. Finally she will provide insights into on trends in sustainable building design and what to look for in the future.
Jim Taggart will give an overview of SABMag, the awards program and the objectives of the organization. He will also talk about the evolution in the awards program over the last five years and how it reflects the broadening definition of sustainability. LOCATION: Sandman Hotel, 180 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
Enter Moxie’s Classic Grill escalator entrance. The ballroom is located straight through the restaurant at the back of Moxie’s.
AGENDA: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Luncheon (full course self-serve buffet style) 12:15 - 12:30 pm Chapter Business 12:30 - 1:30 pm Guest Speaker Presentation COST: $32.00 + HST for pre-registered CSC members / Association Executive Directors $48.00 + HST for non-members Register On-Line or complete and return the attached Registration Form PARKING: Sandman Hotel Parking: Enter off Cambie Street, pass the Sandman Hotel Breezeway,
underground parking to the left, press buzzer to access parkade and take elevator to restaurant level. Cost is $1.25 per 15 minutes.
Easy Park: Across the street on the corner of Georgia and Cambie Streets. Cost is
$1.50 per 30 minutes. SKYTRAIN: Exit at Stadium-Chinatown Station. Walk 2 minutes.
RCI has approved this meeting for 1 RCI Continuing Education Hour (CEH). Members to request attendance certificate.
Luncheon Meeting Notice Vancouver Chapter Thursday, October 18, 2012
REGISTER ON-LINE through Karelo. Go to http://vancouver.csc-dcc.ca MasterCard, VISA and Interac are accepted.
Name: Firm: CSC Non-Member RCI (Name & Firm as you wish them to appear on your name badge) Name: Firm: CSC Non-Member RCI (Name & Firm as you wish them to appear on your name badge) Name: Firm: CSC Non-Member RCI (Name & Firm as you wish them to appear on your name badge) COST: CSC members @ $32.00 + HST ea = $ non-members @ $48.00 + HST ea. = $
Total Amount: $
PAYMENT: At the door by cash, cheque or by VISA credit card only
Cheque (payable to CSC Vancouver) Cash VISA (complete the information below)
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Complete and Fax this form to 604-291-9482.
Pre-Registration ends at 5:00 PM on Monday before the meeting. Walk-ins welcome provided there is room.
Missed the deadline? Did not pre-register? You may still attend at $48 per person, space permitting, BUT please call 604-291-1458 beforehand. If you pre-register and do not attend, we may invoice you for the cost of the meeting.
If you have special dietary (meal) requirements, please notify us at least 24 hours before the event.
Questions? Contact Vancouver Chapter Program Officer, George McCutcheon at [email protected]
EXHIBITOR SPACE APPLICATION
November 21st 2012 - 10am to 6pm @ The Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Place. Vancouver. BC
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# Table HST @12% Total
Select one Max 3 tables
Early Bird $ 250 $ 360 X + = $
Regular Price (Effective Oct. 1 2012)
$ 350 $ 460 X + = $
Associations $ 180 X + = $ Table Choice:
Upon receipt of payment we will send you our latest floor plan for you to select your preferred location(s). Location(s) will be determined on a first-come; first-served basis.
Sponsorship: If you would like to be a sponsor:
$500.00 - for a 1/2 page advertisement in the Exhibitor’s magazine (only 6 available). Please call Todd @ 604-345-4436 for more information.
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Alternate Payment. NOTE: Only Visa cards are accepted! Visa Card # Expiry Date: Card Holder Name: Signature: FAX this Form Attn: Kim (604)583-0945 Notes for Exhibitors Exhibitors, please follow these simple rules:
This is a table-top display show only. You are allowed to place anything on the table that will not obstruct the overall room view provided that it is not higher than 30 inches above the table.
Every exhibitor should be visible from across the room @ normal line-of-sight.
All tables are 72” x 30” with skirts.
Roller screens, signs or banners cannot be higher than 60” in height and no more than 36”wide. Limit of one screen, sign or banner per table. If you want to bring more screens, signs or banners, please purchase additional tables.
There is no electricity at the tables. Bring small, quiet alternate power sources if necessary. We recommend that you consider powering down laptops during quieter times to save energy.
All displays, products, and other materials must come through the loading dock & NOT through the Convention Lobby doors! This will be strictly enforced and anyone violating this rule may be disqualified from attending this show in future years.
Arrival time: 9:00am. Doors will open @ 10 am.
Coffee and Lunch – Refreshments and lunch will be available for purchase on-site from 11:30am-3:30pm.
Closing time: 6:30pm. The event will wind down @ 6:00pm. Exhibitors are requested to remove all display materials and any garbage from around their tables when they leave.