2016-01 January Specifics Newsletter

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San Francisco Chapter
Specifics
VOL. LII NO. 1 | JANUARY 2016 | NEWSLETTER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER | CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE
RSVP:
MONTHLY MEETING
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13
6:00 – 8:00 PM
SPECIAL LOCATION!
Vivace Restaurant
1910 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA
Dinner and Program
www.boiledarchitecture.com
LEED V.4 & HPD (Health
Product Declaration™)
Are you up to speed with the current version of LEED? Leed v.4 has been out for a while
now and its predecessors have been phased out, but many don’t fully understand the new
version. LEED V.4 includes requirements for increased transparency including Health
Product Declarations or HPDs. This presentation will explore the Health Product Declarations
used in LEED v4 and how LEED v4 rewards product transparency and the Health Product
Declarations (HPD). Understanding the differences among a range of product disclosure
types will help building teams avoid confusion.
Heather Gadonniex, LEED AP BD&C is the Director of Building and Construction for
thinkstep. She is a seasoned strategist with over a decade of experience developing and
leading international product marketing, business development, and product development
initiatives focused on product sustainability
and transparency
for start-ups
and large
The Owners’
Guide to Starting
Integrated
multinational
organizations.
The Owners’ Guide to Starting Integrated
IPD: An Updated Working Definition
Learn how HPDs can help manufacturers get their products specified and how the design
community can use them to better specify the products we use in our projects.
That’s what SFCSI programs are all about --Professional development for design and construction professionals.©
Please make your reservations no later than Sunday, January 10, 2016.
Go to http://csiscvjan2016.brownpapertickets.com
Cost is $40 for CSI SCV & SF Chapter Members, $50 for all others.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRE PRE-PAYMENT.
Place:
Vivace RestaurantTime: 6:00 PM Social Hour
1910 Ralston Ave, Belmont, CA6:30 Dinner
(650) 637-06117:30 PM Program
Link to Vivace website & map: http://www.vivacerestaurant.com/contact2.htm
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
JANUARY 2016
Happy New Year everyone! Time to kick start our CSI engines
after a holiday break.
Our regular monthly meeting for January will be on our normal
day, the second Wednesday, this month January 13, but at a
different location! It is a joint meeting with the Santa Clara Valley
Chapter and will be held at Vivace Ristorante, 1910 Ralston Ave.,
in Belmont. Social hour begins at 6:00 with a three course dinner
starting at 6:30. Special thanks to the SCV Chapter for taking on
the lion’s share of the planning for this event. Register at http://
csiscvjan2016.brownpapertickets.com/
President John Sellen
Our speaker is Heather Gadonniex, Director of Building and
Construction for thinkstep, https://www.thinkstep.com/ a global firm
providing clients with strategies and operations for sustainability
success through software and consulting services. Heather will
be discussing LEED v. 4 including requirements for increased
transparency including Health Product Declarations, of HPDs.
In February we will be back at the Marriott Union Square on
02/10/2016 for a joint meeting with NAWIC for a discussion about
why 32 percent of women graduates from design programs are
not staying in the industry.
Thanks goes out to Anne Whitacre, Programs Committee Chair,
and Merideth Marschak, President Elect, for their planning efforts
to schedule our programs well in advance.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
February 10
Monthly Meeting
March 9Pro-Fair
April 13
Monthly Meeting
May 11
Monthly Meeting
May 18-22
Bi-Region Conference, Lake Tahoe
June 8
Awards Banquet
Pro-Fair 2016 will be on March 9. This year’s event will be held at
The Lodge of the Regency Center at Sutter and Van Ness in San
Francisco. Our guest speaker will be the renown visual futurist
and designer Syd Mead, the creative force behind so many of the
futuristic images we’ve seen in movies and in architecture over
the past 45 years. Visit his website at http://sydmead.com/v/12/
for a glimpse at the impressive resume and past projects of this
visionary. Committee Chair and Board Director Edwin Essary is
doing a terrific job with planning a memorable evening. Pro-Fair
2016 is sure to be an event not to be missed.
Time to start planning to attend the 2016 West Region Conference,
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to be held May 18-22, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe
Resort at Incline Village, NV. This year’s conference will be a biregion conference with the Northwest Region. The Sacramento
Chapter CSI will host, and they are planning some amazing events
and attractions. Go to http://csiwestregion.org/2016_Region_
Conference.html for sponsorship, registration, scheduling, and
resort information.
Silent auction items at the Holiday party
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PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
EDITOR
Elizabeth Porter, AIA, CSI, CCS
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PHOTOGRAPHER
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EDITORIAL POLICY
In December we once again had a successful Holiday Party with our
friends from the SCV and EBO CSI Chapters. Over 80 members
and guests were in attendance. After last year’s rain storm on
the night of the party, I specifically ordered a clear dry night, and
presto! we got it! Thanks to the tri-chapter committee for putting
this all together and to the SF CSI Foundation for sponsoring and
organizing the Silent Auction to raise scholarship funds.
So what do you think of our efforts for FY 2016 so far? Have you
enjoyed the programs? What do you think of our venue? Does
the new format tickle your fancy? Your Board of Directors has the
difficult task of trying to please all of the people all of the time, in
the tough San Francisco market; a feat not yet accomplished. Help
us to keep SF CSI a meaningful and productive organization by
putting your talents and skills to work for the benefit of the whole
organization. Now is the time to start thinking about elections and
the new Board for FY 2017.
Please take a few minutes of your valuable time to read about
everything that’s going on with SF CSI, right here in this month’s
SPECIFICS! I look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event…
and bring a friend.
John Sellen
President of San Francisco CSI
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
3. To provide a forum for all members.
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PRO-FAIR IS COMING MARCH 9!
By Edwin Essary
Regency Center, venue for Pro-Fair
Regency Center dining room
The annual PRO-FAIR event embodies a San Francisco CSI
Chapter tradition of facilitating the development of relationships
that make buildings better. This tradition continues on March 9,
2016, at the historic Regency Center in San Francisco. Our PROFAIR 2015, with the highest professional attendance in several
years, sold out quickly, encouraging us to enlarge the venue and
streamline the experience for sponsors and their guests! While
housed in one of the city’s landmark structures, this year’s format
has also been re-oriented to focus on our vendor members,
building personal relationships and forward thinking.
Each sponsorship includes a small host station in a luxurious,
relaxed setting; two hours of direct personal contact, in a targetrich environment of prominent members of the Bay Area’s design
and construction community, with three hosted bars and a taste
of the city’s most delicious hor douvres; and your choice of three
masterfully prepared dinners in the breathtaking Lodge.
Following dinner, our guest speaker, Mr. Syd Mead, will present
some of his most famous works and share his thoughts on
incorporating the design of structures in a broader and futuristic
view of technological advances, societal change and sustainable
urban lifestyles. It is certain to be an evening to remember for
you and your guests!
Aspiring guests who have not already been invited by a sponsor
may register their interest and contact information on the website.
Regency Center primary reception area
For more detailed information:
Speaker: https://vimeo.com/17376932
Venue: http://www.regencycentersf.com/the-lodge/
Other event questions: Edwin Essary [email protected]
Secondary reception area
The San Francisco Specifics
is your award winning
Chapter newsletter!
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FROM THE SPECIFIER’S DESK
By Anne Whitacre
Holiday party salad course
I’m working over the holidays because it provides me with the
thing that “captured” specifiers seldom have – quiet. The office
(no matter what office I work for) is typically about 50% strength;
we never have deadlines, and those weeks usually consist of
thoughtful contemplation of my specifier’s task, a sorting out of
reference materials, and maybe a long lunch or two thrown into
the mix.
I’m looking back at what may have been the most demanding
year of my career with the largest project of my career. That
alone is satisfying but after the New Year, I’m looking at a string
of 60 hour weeks in our planning calendar until the large project
finally is sent to the contractor.
So after this year, what industry changes am I seeing?
1) Delegated design: I’m starting to see a contractor backlash
against this concept – which in some ways brings documentation
to a full circle in my career lifetime. When I first started working, we
designed everything (curtainwalls included) because everything
was custom designed. As we started using more off-the-shelf
systems, we started pitching delegated design because we had
little control over who the contractor selected as a subcontractor.
Now, contractors have caught on that all that engineering will
Craig Mount with Jim and Jaymi Hill and cost them money, and I’m seeing some contractors refuse to
Michael Chambers
accept delegated design for systems on their projects. I think
this is still to be resolved, but it’s an indication that costs are
being tightened even more than before.
2) More exterior wall – not glazed; the energy code is not going
to permit fully glass walls any longer – unless they are double
skinned walls with a high insulating value. One project on my
desk is precast concrete and double glazed windows – I did
dozens of those 30 years ago.
3) Amenities, everywhere. Every health care organization is
inviting the public in – for community meetings, farmer’s markets,
and exercise classes. Every multi-building office complex has
more sports courts than a junior college (bocce, basketball,
Chris Rowe, Terri Sudbrook, and Tony
Camp with Jerry and Diane Pozo
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parkour, yoga). It’s all about attracting people these days, and
the current thinking is that amenities will do that, either as
employees or clients.
Silent auction items beckon
4) Sustainability labels: We’re all familiar with LEED (in various
incantations) and CalGreen. Hold on, because we’re also getting
WELL, DECLARE, JUST, Living Building “Petal” credits, Cradle
to Cradle…. We’re getting tentative inquiries from clients about
all of them. I personally hope that some of this sifts out in the
next few years. Let’s just say that there is a learning curve and
implementation cost to all of them.
5) Design-Build. I find this one rather amusing as an “innovation”
because Washington State has used design-build as the primary
method for procuring new State buildings for the past 25 years.
I’m also seeing more instances of what we used to call “DesignAssist”, where the contractor team in on board at the very
beginning of the project. In Washington State, we went through a
period where every project was reduced in cost to the minimum;
eventually, the Design-Build process started to spend more time
on the actual “design” part with early contractor involvement. I
will admit that I don’t like having a contractor tell me what sort of
roofing and waterproofing we’re using on an institutional project.
Let me just say that “assist” should actually mean “assist” and
not “dictate”.
Craig Mount and Paulette Salisbury
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Linda Stansen, Craig Mount and Paulette Salisbury
The Piedmont Singers entertained us at the holiday
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TELL ME AGAIN – AND SHOW ME THE MONEY!
By Sheldon Wolfe
Minneapolis - St. Paul Chapter
In the last few articles we looked at how redundancies needlessly
increase the size of specifications. Another thing that affects the
length of specifications is writing style. Even though CSI’s mantra,
“Clear, concise, correct, complete”, suggests specifications
Brenda Hunsinger and Bernadette Jurich should contain only the essence of requirements, commercial
guide specifications and office master specifications alike tend to
use words that aren’t necessary.
In 1949, Ben John Small wrote an article titled “The Case for the
Streamlined Specification.” In it, he uses anecdote and logic to
explain why terse writing is superior to verbose. He also cites
previous works to show that streamlined writing is nothing new,
but has been advocated as far back as 1896.
In his opening remarks, Small said, “Streamlining is not and
never has been considered a panacea or short cut in the writing
of good specifications. If one can write a thorough and competent
specification using the long form one can streamline that same
specification without the slightest adulteration, yet reduce its bulk
by one-third or more.” Briefly, streamlining is the removal of all
words that are not essential to understanding the specifications.
Cathy and Nick Vadasz with Robert
Hemphill
Tim Maliepaard and Carl Falchetta
Small used this quotation to show an impressive extreme of verbosity:
“The Owner shall not nor shall any department or officer thereof
be precluded or estopped by any return or certificate made or
given by the Board, the Engineer or other officer, agent or
appointee thereof under any provision of this contract from at any
time either before or after the final completion and acceptance
of the work and payment therefor pursuant to any such return or
certificate, showing the true and correct classification; amount,
quality and character of the work done and materials furnished
by the Contractor or any other person under this contract or the
reasonable value of work done under ITEM XXX of this contract
or from showing at any time that any such return or certificate
is untrue and incorrect or improperly made in any particular or
that the work and materials or any part thereof do not in fact
conform to the requirements of this contract; and the Owner
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shall not be precluded or estopped, notwithstanding any such
return or certificate and payment in accordance therewith, from
demanding and recovering from the Contractor such damages
as it may sustain by reason of his failure to comply with this
contract or the specifications.”
Linda Stansen, John Sellen and
Merideth Marschak
That’s a single sentence with 196 words! Small goes on to say,
“Opposition lawyers love obese specifications for there are bound
to be many loopholes in the avoirdupois.”
One of the first steps in streamlining is to use imperative mode,
rather than indicative mode. While your English teacher might be
impressed to hear you use those terms, they’re not in everyone’s
vocabulary. In everyday language, this means use verbs to begin
sentences, as if you’re talking to someone. If you were talking
to a contractor, you wouldn’t say “The Contractor shall paint the
bollard” and you wouldn’t say “You shall paint the bollard.” Instead,
you would say, “Paint the bollard.”
Next, eliminate articles, such as “a”, “all”, “an”, “any”, and “the”.
Your Division 01 states that words such as “approved”, “directed”,
and similar actions are assumed to be performed by the architect
unless followed by some other entity, so they can be omitted.
With these few rules, Small shows how specifications can be
simplified without losing their intent (see diagram on next page).
Patricia Smith
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Paulette Salisbury
Guests enjoying the holiday celebration
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Linda Stansen, Mary Nowee, Merideth
Marschak, Anne Whitacre and Paulette
Salisbury
He follows with this amusing summary of the changes.
Chatterbox Hospital Specification Surgery Department Laboratory
Report No. 11/8.
Robert Hemphill and John Sellen
1. Patient: Case “X”
2. Weight (before operation): 485 words
3. Weight (after operation): 251 words
4. Net Loss: 234 words
5. List of diseased Excised Material: [followed by a list of text
removed from each paragraph]
At each step in the streamlining process, it’s common to hear, “So
what? If the meaning is the same, what difference does it make
how it’s stated?” As it happens, it makes a big difference.
The obvious difference is one of length. Following the above rules,
and, at the same time, correctly addressing the contractor rather than
Christopher Tesser and Taryn Fischer
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a subcontractor, “The painter shall apply paint to the bollard” becomes
“Paint the bollard”, reducing the length from eight words to three.
Eric Patricio and Linda Stansen
The shorter text means the specifications can be read more quickly,
and the simpler sentences mean they will be easier to understand.
I believe they also will be more likely to be read. I’m sure you’ve
seen a variety of expressions when you ask someone to review a
project manual: bewilderment, dread, disbelief, and hate come to
mind. You probably have not seen joy, thankfulness, or excitement.
You never will, but if the project manual is half an inch instead of
two inches thick, it’s more likely you’ll get useful responses.
The bottom line is the driving factor in virtually everything related
to construction. We try to save money on materials, installation,
storage, transportation, and more, but we seem to have no concern
about the cost of poorly written or poorly drawn documents.
A number of studies have shown that documents that are easy
to understand do affect cost. An oft-cited Navy study showed
that changing from bureaucratic style to plain language reduced
reading time by about twenty percent, at the same time increasing
comprehension. If only officers read documents in plain language,
the savings were calculated to be about $30,000,000. If all Navy
personnel used plain language documents, the savings were
projected to be $300,000,000.
Christopher Tesser
Removing redundancies and streamlining not only make them easier
to read, they make them easier to understand. The result? Fewer
mistakes, fewer questions, more accurate bids, and lower cost.
© 2015, Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CSC
Agree? Disagree? Leave your
swconstructivethoughts.blogspot.com/
comments
at
http://
Sources:
John Sellen, Bill Nelson and Vivian Volz
The Case for the Streamlined Specification, the Construction Specifier.
Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please, www.impact-information.com/impactinfo/
dollars.htm
Tell me again part 1 http://swconstructivethoughts.blogspot.com/2015/08/tell-meagain-part-1.html
Haystacks: Do construction documents do what they’re supposed to do? http://
swconstructivethoughts.blogspot.com/2015/03/haystacks-do-constructiondocuments-do.html
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Nick DeOcampo, Michael Morris, Edwin Essary and
David Rausch
Mary Nowee, Julie Barrett and Joseph Joslin
Guest, Fred Deuschle and Anne Whitacre
Speaker Odis Sudderfield and Eric Cole
Vivian Volz has an appetite!
Fred Deuschle and Odis Sudderfield, our speakers
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Construction Specifications Institute
PO Box 2356
San Francisco, CA 94126-2356
415-294-3800
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
President-Elect
Merideth Marschak
510-649-8295
[email protected]
Immediate Past President Tim Maliepaard
916-847-8447
[email protected]
Secretary
Michael Morris
415-956-5211
[email protected]
Treasurer
Ben Miller
619-248-1576
[email protected]
Vice President Liesl Morell 650-207-5266
[email protected]
Vice President
Vivian Volz
415-244-6756
[email protected]
Director
Peg Collins
909-509-1402
[email protected]
Director
Edwin Essary
415-715-4678
[email protected]
Director
Jeffery Glick 415-595-1740
[email protected]
Director
Bill Nelson
415-836-4182 [email protected]
Region Director
Linda M. Stansen
650-570-6411
[email protected]
Publications
Elizabeth Porter
510-517-5360
[email protected]
Pro-Fair
Edwin Essary
415-715-4678
[email protected]
Programs
Anne Whitacre
415-356-8685
[email protected]
Bill Nelson
(415) 836-4182 [email protected]
Directors
Committee Chairs
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