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invitationVolume 54 Issue 07 July 2013

President’s Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Program Prospectus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Call for Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5In the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Awards Committee Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Awards Banquet Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Technical Committee Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Twitter Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Gulf States Region Conference Hotel Registration

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president’s column

Skip Treme’ has passed the baton, and I am now the new Chapter President. First off, I congratulate Skip for a job well done. Second, I thank him for his guidance in what to expect as I take offi ce. As I enter the offi ce of President, I have good news for the Chapter, as we found out this last week that our Chapter will receive the Institute’s Outstanding Chapter Commendation Award, and our publisher of the Newsletter, Lynn Ostenson, has been recognized by the Institute, and will receive the Institute’s Commu-nications Award for our outstanding newsletter. These Awards will be presented at the Institute Conven-tion in Nashville, Tennessee, September 24-27, 2013. Our June Chapter Awards Banquet, saw Skip Treme’ win the Albert Bear Award, Chris Clement win the Jack Enyart Award, and the introduction of the Robert R. ‘Bob’ Kleinpeter Award going to its’ namesake as the fi rst recipient. Please read more on these Awards within the Newsletter.

As we enter our new Fiscal Year, I look for the Chapter to add to our membership. We have a solid core of members that have built this Chapter over the last 30 years, and we need to continue to build the Chapter for the next 30 years. The interesting thing about CSI is that it stays at the forefront of the ad-vancement of the Construction Industry. The phrase, ‘the only constant is change’ is reality. CSI offers a great network to keep up with change in our Industry. We will also look to continue the mission of educa-tion within the Chapter, and encourage our membership to study and take the CSI Certifi cation Exams. Please access the CSI website and see the different certifi cations that are available to be obtained. CSI also has excellent resources available to help individuals prepare for the Exams, including the new Prac-tice Guides. I encourage all those who may be interested in taking a certifi cation exam in the spring to purchase a Practice Guide, and make the commitment early. Our Chapter also puts on Study Sessions in March on Saturdays, leading up to the Exams that are administered in April. I have passed the CDT and CCCA exams, and found both to be valuable assets to what I do, day in and day out at work.

As for networking within the Industry, the Institute’s Convention, CONSTRUCT 2013, is in Nashville, Ten-nessee this year from September 24-27. Along with the many continuing education sessions and Product Show, you get a real sense for how many committed members the Institute has within the organization. It may act as a catalyst to get you more involved with CSI. If you can’t make it to Nashville, the New Or-leans Chapter will host the Gulf States Region Conference in April of 2014. If you attend the GSR Con-ference, you will meet a group of really good people, from Baton Rouge, Jackson, Shreveport, Lafayette, Birmingham, Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Little Rock, Knoxville, Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile, Pensacola, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast chapters. And you will gain from the experience.

Lastly, I look forward to continuing the strong, interesting educational programs at our monthly chapter meetings, the fourth Tuesday of each month. If you haven’t made it to a meeting lately, I encourage members to make an effort to come to 1 or 2 or more meetings a year. I believe there is great value in our approach, and I think the meetings are a good way to keep in touch with people you work with that you may not see very often. Who knows, you may even pass a good time!

Sincerely,Alex T. Sirko, AIA, CSI President, New Orleans Chapter CSI

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Title: Fire and Smoke Curtains: Meeting Atrium Smoke Requirements CEU Credit: 1 HSW Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss building code requirements for fi re and smoke protection for atrium designs, interior stairs and escalators.2. Describe the sustainable features of fi re- and smoke-rated curtains.3. Explain how fi re and smoke curtains can be used to supplement or replace smoke evacuation systems in ways that save energy and reduce mechanical systems costs.4. Summarize the ways fi re and smoke curtains may be specifi ed so they enhance day lighting by supporting atrium design. Personal Bio: Brian W. Shows, AIA, CSI I am a registered architect, licensed in the state of Louisiana, and member of the AIA and CSI Shreveport chapters. My education in design began with a degree in Architec-ture from Louisiana Tech University, spanned eleven years under two strong fi rms, The Estopinal Group and Alliance, Inc., and continues today as I help architects, in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, meet their design intent while complying with life safety code requirements. My design experience includes healthcare, business, multi-family and mili-tary. Since February, 2012, I have been representing Avallone Architectural Specialties, as their Architectural Relations Manager. Founded in 1976, Avallone has been a ‘One Source’ supplier of general contractors, focusing primarily on (but not exclusively) Section 8 and 10. Aside from giving CEU presentations, I enjoy assisting our architectural com-munity by offering product suggestions, budget pricing and specifi cation writing during the early phases of design.

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Six foot display table to be set up for the entire meeting. Product literature and samples are encouraged.

• Approximately 5-minute product presentation to the general membership.• One meal included in cost for night of presentation.

CSI Meetings are typically on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Call to discuss available time slots.Monthly time slots are generally assigned on a fi rst come, fi rst served basis.Cost: Members $75.00, Non-members $100.00. Check payable to CSI New Orleans’ Chapter.

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NEWSLETTER BUSINESS CARD ADVERTISEMENTS

We are taking advertisements again for the New Orleans Chapter Newsletter the “Invitation,” the fi rst time since

before Hurricane Katrina, when we forced to go to a fully electronic version of our Chapter Newsletter. The following is a listing of the types, sizes, and costs of advertisements, that we will insert into our Newsletter: Business Card Ads: CSI Members $100.00 for 12 months/11 Issues. Nonmembers $125.00 for 12 Months/11 Issues. Double Size Business Card Ads: CSI Members $225.00 for 12 months/11Issues. Nonmembers $250.00 for 12 Months/11 Issues. Half Page Ads: CSI Members $500.00 for 12 months/11 Issues. Nonmembers $750.00 for 12months/11 Issues. Full Page Ads: CSI Members $750.00 for 12 months/11 Issues. Nonmembers $1,000.00 for 12 months/11 Issues One Time Full Page Ads: CSI Members $100.00 Double Sided Ads $125.00 Nonmembers $150.00 Double Sided Ads $175.00.

To have Ads added to the Newsletter contact Lynn Ostenson, CSI Chapter Publications Chair at 504- 561-8686.

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In the NewsWhy One World Trade Center is the World’s Most Expensive ProjectMike Freiberg, Guest Author for constructionlawnc.com, posted 6.26.13

It isn’t the biggest, or the fl ashiest—but it’s defi nitely the priciestThe new One World Trade Center (or Freedom Tower) has been a diffi cult project to get moving since it was announced nearly twelve years ago. Numerous architects and dozens of possible designs were considered, and ultimately scrapped, as the project underwent one reinvention after another. The project was fi nally completed May 10th of this year, rising to a sym-bolic 1,776 feet, and running up a bill of just under $4 billion—making it (by far) the most expensive skyscraper ever built.

For comparison, the Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest building in the world, dwarfs One WTC by over 1,000 feet, and is much more lavishly appointed—but was built for less than half the price ($1.5 billion). So where did One World Trade Center’s nearly $4 billion price tag come from?

The world’s fi rst fortress skyscraperThe Freedom Tower designers had to juggle several competing priorities. The tower shouldered a heavy rhetorical burden, as a symbol of fortitude and resilience—but it also had to meet the pragmatic needs of a global fi nancial hub on an extremely valuable piece of real estate. It was a tall order; but by far the most expensive and challenging aspect of Freedom Tower’s design was security—demonstrating that the lessons of the 9/11 attacks would be taken seriously.

From the exterior, One World Trade Center looks like any other skyscraper. Inside, though, it’s built like a tank—and incorpo-rating (and concealing) these features was the greatest source of cost overruns during the tower’s seven-year build. Here are a few of the most impressive innovations.

A towering concrete baseUnlike most skyscrapers, One World Trade Center is set on a 20-story, windowless podium of highly reinforced concrete, built to withstand a 1,500 lb. truck bomb of the type used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. When completed, the podium will be sheathed in prismatic glass to conceal the blast walls. The podium uses 720,000 cubic feet of “iCrete”, an expensive designer concrete mixture capable of withstanding 14,000 pounds per square inch of pressure—nearly three times the com-pressive strength of normal high-rise concrete.

A colossal air-quality apparatusWhile the exterior is fortifi ed against explosions and impact, designers also considered the threat of biological and chemical attacks, as well as fi re, sparing no expense for One World Trade Center’s internal air system. Each stairwell is composed of reinforced concrete, with a separate, pressurized air supply to keep them operational in the event of an emergency.

The building is also dotted with biological and chemical fi lters and detectors, as well as ventilation shafts that can quickly expel contaminants as soon as they are detected.

Fortifi ed, secure elevator shaftsOne World Trade Center’s elevators are encased in three feet of concrete, and serve as an internal “spine” for the building, to prevent collapse in the event that the steel exoskeleton gives way (as it did in the September 11th attacks). The tower contains 71 elevators, none of which have buttons—instead, the car identifi es each passenger, and will only bring them to the fl oor for which they are authorized, at an impressive 23 miles per hour. It remains to be seen how smoothly this system will operate—the building will open late this year.

An integrated security and safety networkPerhaps unsurprisingly, Freedom Tower will feature over 400 closed-circuit surveillance cameras, networked security doors, temperature and air quality monitors, and automated elevators connected via a huge web of shielded communications cables. Security teams will have a constant stream of richly-detailed status reports from across the building, so that even minor prob-lems like electrical failures or a buzzing smoke detector reach security instantaneously. Early on, this security grid will also incorporate airport-style checkpoints and electrifi ed fencing on the tower grounds, but those measures will be phased out after several months of normal operation.

Of course, these mammoth security expenses have been highly controversial—what seems like an appropriate symbol of vigi-lance to some, manifests paranoia to others—but however you interpret them, it’s not all that surprising that One World Trade Center is now the world’s most expensive skyscraper.

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Awards Committee CornerCHAPTER AWARDS THE BIG THREE

The New Orleans Chapter CSI meet on June 25, 2013 at the Southern Yacht Club to acknowledge the time and work given by it’s members for the improvement of the construction industry. This article summa-rizes the named awards that acknowledge superior achievements and service.

Robert R. Kleinpeter AwardThe Robert R. Kleinpeter Award was created this year and presented to Robert R. “Bob” Kleinpeter, CSI, CCS, RA. The Award states the meaning of the honor “For commitment to the principles of the Construction Specifi cations Institute, to the activities of the New Orleans Chapter, and to the advancement of construction technology, for a period of ten or more years”. The award recipients(s) and the Chapter Board will select future honorees. The Chapter Awards Committee with the backing of the Chapter Board thought that Mr. Kleinpeter has given much to the Chapter and this plaque is to remain as a reminder of Bob’s superior services since he joined CSI and the Chapter in 1995. This award will be given on approval of the Awards Committee with input from the prior recipient(s). This award may be given only once a year and only to a single person.

Jack L. Enyart AwardA triangular shaped pin represents the Jack L. Enyart Award. The New Orleans Chapter Board established this award in the 1980s shortly after his death, to honor the achievements, strength, and growth of the Chapter by the efforts of it’s “Industry” members. Jack L. Enyart was a Charter Member of the New Orleans Chapter and extraordinarily committed to the Chapter. As a Manufacturer’s Representative, his job prohibited him from serving as president of the Chapter. The Construction Specifi cations Institute and the New Orleans Chapter by-law revisions corrected the prohibition of “Industry” members serving as president soon after this award was established.

The previous award winners determine the Jack L. Enyart Award recipient and may or may be given in any year and only a single person per year may receive this award. Chris Clement, CSI now joins Cathie Joffary, CSI and Robert Concesu, CSI as currently active recipients of this award.

Albert Bear AwardThe Albert G. Bear Award is named for one of the Charter Members of CSI in 1946 and the New Orleans Chapter in 1959 and is the highest honor that the Chapter offers. The Bear can be awarded once a year and to a single person. The Bear is not required to given in any year. The previous winners determine the Bear recipient; with the most cur-rent recipient being the chair of the committee that determines the service of a nominee to the Chapter, Gulf States Region and the Institute. This year Wallace “Skip” Treme, Jr., CSI is the thirteenth recipient of this medallion. Previous honorees are:

Jack L. Enyart, CSI – 1977* Jerome Alciatore, FCSI, CCS – 1978* Owen Alexander, CSI – 1979*Lawrence D. Sloop, CSI – 1981*Knox H. Tumlin, FCSI, CDT – 1983Edward R. Wedge, CSI – 1985*Eugene B. Wetzel, Jr., CSI – 1988*Charles Woessner, CSI – 1995Connie Bandera, CSI – 1998Robert B. Swan, CSI, CCCA – 2000Robert R. Kleinpeter, CSI, CCS, RA – 2002

* = Deceased

Submitted byRobert Swan, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP, AIARobert Concesu, CSI, CDT

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Technical Committee Corner

In the spring of 1983 I had just come on board at Perez Associates, a licensed architect with 8 years’ experience, and thought I knew quite a lot about how to put a set of documents together.

Then I met Bob Kleinpeter. My fi rst encounter with Bob was when this extremely nice, tall, thin gentle-man came over and handed me a massive red three-ring binder and explained that this was the guide to construction documents that everyone at Perez was expected to follow. The binder contained page after page of standards for different types of drawings, scaling, dimensioning, materials and reference symbols…just about anything you could think of as the answer to the question “How do we draw ____?” And I found out that you could still go to Bob and ask “How do I draw ___?” But the answer was usually in the book. Bob was always patient and kind and gentle as he explained something you didn’t know but probably should.

Later, when I left Perez, I brought the binder to Bob and said “I assume you want this back.” I was fl ab-bergasted when he said “No, that one’s yours to keep.” Wow! I went back to my desk and, before I put it in my box, I took a Sharpie and labeled the spine “KLEINPETER’S BIBLE.” I brought it with me to my next job, and I still have it to this day.

About 15 years later, I bumped into Bob for the fi rst time since leaving Perez, and said “Hello.” I was amazed that he remembered me by name, and I was sure it meant that I was somebody in the New Orleans architectural community.

Now I fi nd myself following him as Technical Chair for the Chapter. There’s no way anyone could replace Bob, so I will just have to do the best I can and hope it measures up favorably. After all, I had a great mentor.

Thanks for everything you’ve done for all of us, Mr. Kleinpeter!

Chris Young

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THE MISSIONThe mission of CSI is to advance building information management and education of project teams to improve facility performance.

THE VALUES OF CSICSI is an association dedicated to improving organization, management, and communication of building information through:

A diversifi ed membership base of allied professionals involved in the creation and management of the built environment. Continuous development and transformation of standards and formats. Education and certifi cation of professionals to improve project delivery processes Creation of practice tools to assist users throughout the facility life-cycle

OBJECTIVESSupport and strengthen chapters and regions and develop synergy among all levels to harness the energy and innovation within CSI.Align CSI’s resources to key strategic priorities Develop technological competencies and infrastructure to fuel effective member communications and growth

To read more of the Strategic Plan of CSI visit http://csinet.org

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