CONTINUING EDUCATION

The Conference is planned to provide more than 10 hours of continuing education units (CEU’s). Credits will be reported for AIA Members. They are also applicable for CSI Certification, State Licensing Requirements, P.E. Credits, and other requirements.

CSI is proud to support the Cascadia Chapter of USGBC in promoting the LEED and Green Building Workshop Scheduled for Thursday August 25 to be held at the Doubletree Hotel in conjunction with our Conference. Separate Registration is required for this Workshop. See the attached or visit www.usgbc.org
Download LEED and Green Building Workshop information here.

TOPIC: Bid Shopping
What is ethical vs. what is legal!? Is it okay for contractor’s to ask subs to re-evaluate their prices and find ways to lower them? This session will review state law on bid shopping for public works projects in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

TOPIC: Convention Center Expansion Building Tour
Here is your opportunity to tour through the Convention Center Expansion, one of the few projects in Eastern Washington to be a registered LEED project. This is a hard hat tour and will leave from the Doubletree Hotel.

TOPIC: Daylighting Schools
Washington Sustainable Schools Protocol requires a daylight factor (DF) of 2. Why? How? And by the way, what is a "DF"? This seminar presents a historical and contemporary view of daylighting in schools including recent research on "Best Practices" for the Inland Northwest.

TOPIC: MasterFormat 04 Work Session
We all know that MasterFormat has changed and are familiar with the changes. Now it’s time to take action. This is a work session, not a review of the changes. Bring your table of contents and let’s make the transition together. There will be plenty of help available, and it’s always easier when you have someone to use as a sounding board! Bring your questions and your MF04, too!

TOPIC: Label Reading For Green Materials.
PRESENTED BY: Chris Dixon
Material selection is a huge part of building design. But when we talk about green materials in construction, how does that change what we look for? And what exactly is it that we are looking for? What is the manufacturer trying to convey and how do we determine if it really is an environmentally responsible product?

TOPIC: Education Is Selling.
PRESENTED BY: John Lape
Four of your closest friends sell the same product you do. How do you become the "go-to" person for an Architect when it’s decision time? How do you best educate your client without giving the sales pitch? This session will help you develop strategies for focusing your presentation on education, based on the AIA learning unit guidelines, and still represent your product. We will also discuss box lunches, CEU providers, and fundamentals of educating our professionals.

TOPIC: Getting Your Product Specified on LEED Projects
PRESENTED BY: Chris Dixon
Getting Your Product Specified on LEED Projects: A key part to designing, specifying and building a LEED certified building is documenting compliance with LEED credits . As a manufacturer of products you can help the design team by providing guidance as to how your products contribute to various LEED credits . This session will help you understand the certification process and types of information the designer, specifier, and LEED consultant need to select and specify your products. We’ll look at actual products and how they apply to LEED credits.

TOPIC: Warranties
PRESENTED BY: Paul Simonsen
Are warranties as valuable as they seem, or just a sales tool? Learn about the different warranty types and the benefits, limitations, and misconceptions of warranties.

TOPIC: Marketing And Selling With Specs
PRESENTED BY: Paul Simonsen
Specifications truly are the necessary evil. But they can help you sell your product! Learn how to use specifications as an effective marketing tool. Understand the purpose of specifications and how they are organized. Learn how to provide properly formatted and useful specifications. Learn what the Design Professional views as your responsibilities and role when writing or reviewing a specification.

TOPIC: Green Paints and Sustainability
PRESENTED BY: Ed Stein of Sherwin Williams and Randy Tessman of Benjamin Moore Paints.
New and stricter clean air limits are on our horizon. VOC (volatile organic compound) restrictions will affect paint primers and topcoats, industrial and rust preventive coatings, sealers and varnishes. Will that have an adverse effect on the quality of the paints we see? Manufacturers are being asked to provide longer lasting paints and products with higher quality, lower-maintenance, and low VOC’s. This session will show us where we’ve come since oil-based coatings, and where sustainable products are heading. We’ll also look at LEED 2.2 and evaluate how the modifications affect your specifications.

SPEAKER PROFILES

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Raymond Reyes, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Diversity at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Dr. Reyes has conducted hundreds of training and technical assistance seminars throughout the U.S. and Canada. His areas of scholarship and expertise are diversity, optimizing performance through diversity as a creative resource, intercultural competency and multicultural literacy, human development and learning, leadership development and cultural pedagogy. Dr. Reyes has delivered workshops and seminars addressing multicultural education, emotional intelligence, diversity and organizational change, team building, and strategic planning.

Paul Simonsen, FCSI, RA, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP
Technical Resources Consultants, Inc. (TRC), Phoenix, Arizona
Paul Simonsen is the President of TRC, an architectural specifications consulting firm. Paul has been active on national and local levels for CSI. Paul has been on the faculty and a presenter at the Product Representative Academy and the Construction Contract Administrator Academy. In addition to over 30 years' experience devoted to architectural specifications, quality assurance and constructions contract administration, Paul is a registered architect, a fellow of CSI, a certified construction specifier, and a certified construction contract administrator, a member of Specification Consultants in Independent Practice, and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Chris Dixon, RA, CCS, Senior Associate
Director of Specifications, MITHUN, Seattle, Washington
Christopher Dixon has over 18 years experience in the design/construction industry. Chris has worked on a variety of commercial and institutional projects with a wide range of size and scope including multifamily residential, office buildings, schools, resorts, and high rises. For the past 8 years of his architectural career, Chris has focused on sustainable design and specifications writing.
Chris has authored several articles on sustainable materials and has given many presentations about sustainable design, the LEED rating system, green materials and green specifications.
Chris is an active member of the Construction Specifications Institute and has served as the Puget Sound Chapter Technical Committee Chair, a Board Member, and is currently the chapter's E-Communications Committee Chair. Chris also serves on the USGBC LEED Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group, LEED for New Construction Committee, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Judy Theodorson, M.Arch, NCARB
Judy Theodorson is an educator with a deep commitment to conserving and celebrating the environment. She has extensive experience teaching technology and design at Washington State University, University of Idaho, and Montana State University. Currently, she is the director of Daylighting Lab l Spokane, a BetterBricks Design Lab operated by WSU Interdisciplinary Design Institute. The lab provides education, research, and consultations around daylighting and integrated design.

Rodney W. Butler, AIA, NCARB, LEEDTM Accredited Professional.
President & Managing Partner of Zeck Butler Architects in Spokane, WA.
Over the past three years Rod has focused on incorporating sustainable design into projects and the corporate culture of Zeck Butler Architects. This approach requires the balance of a variety of building design considerations including siting, energy conservation, building materials, mechanical and electrical systems, and responsible use of natural resources, while respecting the Owner’s project budget and schedule. In addition to the hard performance criteria, the design process also integrates concerns on how the building will impact the performance, health and comfort of its users.

Michael Bissell, Dunn and Black, P.S.
Mike represents and advises prime contractors, subcontractors, materialmen and sureties in construction disputes. He also represents contractors in defending against OSHA/WISHA violations. He has extensive litigation and mediation experience in a variety of areas, including real estate, contract, insurance, landlord/tenant, personal injury and Indian law, as well as experience in dealing with federal, state, and tribal civil and criminal jurisdiction issues.