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Call For Entries
In conjunction with the Green Building Conference in October, the AIA Austin Chapter is sponsoring a Low Income, Energy Efficient, Green Home Competition. $3000 in prize monies. Contact AIA Austin, 512-452-4332 for Call for Entries.
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Wanted: Six Architects
From Rand Silverman, Chair, Residential Architecture Committee: Wanted: Six architects interested in promoting their work in the Greater Houston area with a special focus on between 750 and 1000 individuals viewing samples of your work. Promotional materials will be paid for by others, with your work receiving the endorsement of the AIA. The cost for this service is nothing other than your time.
Seven local architects took advantage of this unique marketing opportunity on May 4 and 5 as part of the 1997 Home Tour. We are now accepting submittals of projects for the 1998 tour. Projects may be new homes, or renovations/additions to existing homes. The general area of the tour will be determined based on the homes submitted, with a general focus being on areas inside the loop. For further information, contact Peggy Fortner at the AIA at 713-520-0155 or fax, 713-520-5134.
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Construction Update
The F. W. Dodge Division of the McGraw-Hill companies reported on April contracts for future construction in the standard metropolitan area of Houston, consisting of Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller counties.
Nonresidential buildings include commercial, manufacturing, educational, religious, administrative, recreational, hotel, dormitory and other building. Residential buildings include one and two-family houses and apartments.
1997 1996 Percent Change Nonresidential $ 536,648,000 $352,982,000 +52% Residential $ 571,100,000 $612,029,000 -7% Total Building $1,107,748,000 $965,011,000 +15%
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Architects in Public Service
To celebrate the 19th anniversary of Ziegler Cooper Architects, Founding Principals Scott Ziegler and Michael Cooper, along with Principals Kurt Hull and Mark Nolen, founded Ziegler Cooper Initiatives.
As part of this initiative, Ziegler Cooper is presently working with the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast toward the compilation of a complete facilities evaluation of United Way's headquarters. According to Judith Craven, M.D., President of the United Way, "The Facilities Evaluation report is of incomparable value to the agency, in that it provides the basis for determining priority tasks to upgrade and dramatically improve the efficiency of the entire facility." A special committee is also reviewing the report to determine the best strategy for future capital expenditures, including the possibility of relocation.
Ziegler Cooper Initiatives' mission is to function as a catalyst to spearhead worthwhile public service programs within the community. The Initiative is charged with the mission of giving back to the Houston community.
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Members in the News
Watkins Carter Hamilton Architects, Inc. is pleased to announce that St. Michael Health Care Center in Texarkana, Texas received a Merit Award in the 1996 Texas Architecture for Health Design Awards program. The 280-bed hospital anchors a complete medical campus including professional buildings, a rehabilitation hospital, a nursing facility, and an outpatient network.
The C.F. Marschner Building was recently designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark by the Texas Historical Commission. William T. Cannady, FAIA, a Principal in the firm Willis, Bricker & Cannady, participated in the June dedication ceremony.
The Houston office of Gensler Architecture Design & Planning Worldwide was honored with three awards for design excellence at the International Interior Design Association's Annual Conference. The judges awarded Compaq Works the First Place Gold in the Retail Division and the Chapter's Best of Show award. The Houston law offices of Croley & Steinberg received the Third Place Bronze Award for Commercial Office Space.
Dennis W. Petersen has been promoted to President of Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, Inc. Peterson is a 16-year veteran of LAN. Mr. Peterson succeeds James R. Cole who has been named Chairman of the Board. LAN is a full service engineering and architectural firm with offices in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
Clark Condon Associates, Inc., is the recipient of a 1997 American Society of Landscape Architects' Merit Award for Wortham Linear Park at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. The firm also received a 1997 Texas Recreation and Park Society Excellence Award for the renovation of Moody Park.
Ligon/Hollenbeck Architects announces that construction has begun on a 15,000 sf residence in River Oaks. University Towne Properties was named contractor for the project.
The Broussard Group won the Merit Award in the Design: Constructed Projects category at the annual design competition of the American Society of Landscape Architects - Texas Chapter. The award was for the restoration of the historic south grounds at the Texas State Capital. The Broussard Group is one of the largest landscape architecture firms in the Central Texas region.
Cook Children's Medical Center, located in Fort Worth, has engaged The McCleary Partnership, Inc. to provide project definition and design services for the foodservice and dietary support area of the Center's expansion and renovation project. The McCleary Partnership recently completed dining facilities at the Union Pacific Headquarters (Omaha, NE), Union Pacific's Railroad Customer Service Center (St. Louis, MO), Samsung Austin Semiconductor's campus in Austin, and Vitol, S.A.'s new offices in Houston.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP announces the establishment of a regional business development office in Houston headed by Louis H. Skidmore, Jr., AIA.
Browne Penland McGregor Architects, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of services for The Capital Grille in Houston. The firm has been awarded contracts for the restaurant's locations in Minneapolis and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ziegler Cooper has designed a renovation program for 180,000 sf office building at 777 Post Oak. The renovation should be completed by year-end.
Archimage designed the recently-completed 5,600 sf sanctuary for the Mission Bend United Methodist Church. Alliance Constructors was the general contractor for the $2 million project. Recent commissions include the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame in Galveston and the Campus and Master plan for Time Warner.
RWS Architects has moved to 1177 West Loop South, Suite 810, Houston 77027-9007. Phone 713-621-1651.
Walter P. Moore and Associates is pleased to announce the opening of an Orlando office, David L. Moe, P.E., Director.
Carrie Glassman Shoemake and Ernesto Maldonado are joining their practices to establish Glassman Shoemake Maldonado Architects, Inc. Projects by the firm were featured in the Rice Design exhibit at Lawndale Art Center, the Rice Design Alliance Tour, and the AIA Houston chapter home tour. Shoemake received the AIA Houston chapter's 1994 Design Award and the Architecture Honor Award (1990 Design Award).
HOK/Houston announced the promotion of Paul Kiel, AIA, to Vice President. HOK is a global design and service firm with more than 1800 employees in 22 offices worldwide.
SJKB has moved to larger offices. They are now located at 2900 Weslayan, Suite 220 (77098).
Browne Penland McGregor Architects, Inc., has been awarded a contract with CenterAmerica Property Trust to provide architectural services for the redevelopment of Hearthstone Corners Shopping Center. The redevelopment includes the renovation of 140,000 sf of existing multi-tenant retails buildings.
Reagan Miller Architects announces the opening of the firm located at 2626 Westheimer, Suite 205, Houston (77098). The firm specializes in residential architecture.
The new name of Irvine Associates Architects, Inc. is Irvine. The firm is located at Three Riverway, Suite 1110.
Hermes Reed Architects is proud to announce several staff additions: Jeanne Gilbert, Director of Marketing, Monty Lovell and Erick Galicia in the production department, and Robert Kane as a Project Manager.
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Nominating Committee at Work
Hard to believe that it’s time to start thinking about 1998. Ken Ross, AIA, chair of the Nominating Committee, invites Chapter members to submit suggestions for Chapster officers and directors. Positions to be filled include President Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, TSA Director (2 year term), Director for Communications, Director for Design, Director for Practice, Director for Urban Issues, and one At Large Director (3 year term). Call Ken with nominations at 713-665-5665.
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Continuing Education Requirement: Yes, It's Real
Don't forget to record your Learning Units. By year end (a mere six months away) you will need to have logged in 36 units including 8 hours in Health, Safety and Welfare. Many of you have enough to carry over to your 1998 requirement; others are looking for ways to acquire them. Number of learning units earned and reported by Chapter members ranges from 0 - 693! Emeritus, Associate, and Affiliate members are not required to engage in continuing education but are welcome and encouraged to keep up with the ever changing profession. Interns, of course, are involved in the IDP program of planned learning.
You will receive a transcript of your credits this fall. To find out now how many you have recorded, get on line. Go to the Chapter's Web Page (aiahoutx.org) and click on Links. Then click on AIA OnLine; then Continuing Education. By entering your AIA member number you can access your record. The Chapter makes it easy for you to earn those lu's. Already most committees schedule educational portions of their monthly meetings. These are announced in Perspective flagged by the CES logo, which also appears on this page. In addition, the CES Scorecard in Perspective lets you know how many learning units are described in each issue.
But what if you can't make those meetings? Check the Table of Contents in Architectural Record. Each issue there is at least one continuing education opportunity (by correspondence). Look for the CES logo. AIArchitect does the same thing. NCARB has some self study materials. Use your self-report forms to record lectures you attend, books you read, research that you do, tapes you watch or listen to. Where are you going on vacation? Surely you will tour a building or two. Think about what you might learn from such a tour and record it. To be eligible for credit the activity must be planned, educational (rather than operational), and new knowledge for you. Then, just fax or mail your self-report form to the AIA/CES office at the University of Oklahoma.
AIA and McGraw Hill Construction Information Group have cooperated in providing a wide variety of materials useful to you in your practice. From newsletters with questions/answers, workshops-in-a-box, books, CD-ROMs, the information includes Construction Administration, Wind Design Basics, How to Develop the Strategic Plan, and Performance-Based Compensation—Getting Paid for Good Design and more. Some of those materials will be available in the library or you may call for an index of products.
Don't fall behind. Opportunities abound. Need a self report form? Call us (520-0155) and we will fax you one.
Now that we have a seminar room in our lovely new office, we plan to keep it busy. Watch for a full schedule of seminars—especially those with Health, Safety, Welfare content, since those credits must be earned in structured programs. We will have a reprise of the Code Seminar reviewing the amendments to Houston's Building Code; we will explore the new B141 when it's released. We also have a number of video and audio tapes in the library. You may come by to check them out, or watch and listen here. Watch your fax machine for announcements and look for a fall calendar of events in September.
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1997 Celebrate Architecture Steering Committee
Frank Douglas, FAIA
Chair and President of the Houston Architecture Foundation
Kathy Heard, AIA
Silent Auction
Suzanne Labarthe, AIA
1996 AIA/Houston President
David Watkins, FAIA
Underwriting
Peggy Bailey
Underwriters' Reception
Jay Baker, AIA
Art Direction
Rob Civitello, AIA
Exhibition
Darcey
Graphics, Douglas/Gallagher
Merry Schooley
Environment
Palmer Schooley, AIA
Entertainment
Martha Murphree, Hon. AIA
Executive Director
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AIA Works for You
One of the services already touted in this space is TSALink. Last time we talked about the usefulness of the information in setting bid dates, in getting a feel for trends in the industry, in tracking your own projects, in Internet access.
One thing we didn’t talk about is money. Link comes at no cost to you in dollars—just a little bit of your time to post information. The return to TSA from CMD, the financial backer of TSALink, is significant dollars. It is the largest source of non-dues revenue for TSA, yielding enough for TSA to offer a reduction in supplemental dues to firms that regularly enter and update construction information. That’s a good return on investment.
It may end, however. CMD has said that they plan to exercise their option to terminate the contract unless Texas architects dramatically increase their reports of early lead construction information. Business is really good in Texas. There should be lots of information on TSALink. But only you can provide it. If you are already linked, please start entering your information. If you have not yet established a link, call Andrew Hamlin at TSA for the software and some instructions about how to use it.
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