Welcome to our October meeting. Our topic "How to Run a Meeting" will be presented by Marcus Mann, Director of Employee Development for Lease Crutcher Lewis. Marcus has facilitated hundreds of high stake meetings over the past 25 years. His experience includes everything from facilitating planned meetings as a college educator, union executive board member and  town hall meeting facilitator to spontaneous meetings as a crisis negotiator - executing on-scene suicide interventions and peacefully ending armed stand-offs. Most of his meetings were successful and a few were dismal failures. He will touch on both the positive and not so positive factors during the presentation.  You will learn about pre-meeting attitudes, common barriers to effective meetings, crafting a useful agenda, and three parts of effective meetings. You will also be given the opportunity to understand leverage and how to guide the group to solutions/decisions. Marcus will share some deal-breakers, best practices and a trade secret: How to "pre-dedicate" and "re-dedicate."

So, make your dinner reservations and plan on attending this important meeting and remember to bring a fellow co-worker.  For AIA members you can obtain AIA CES credit (1 hour, non-HSW) for attending this meeting. When checking in to the meeting, mark your AIA member number on the provided sheet at the registration table. The program also offers CSI CEN learning units.

Download revised 2008-2009 Seminars & Programs schedule.

WHERE  Swedish Cultural Center  1920 Dexter Ave N  Seattle MENU   Salad Swedish Meatballs or "Meat"balls Boiled Red Potatoes Braised Red Cabbage

RESERVATIONS Click here for reservations by noon, Tuesday,  October 7.

WHEN Thursday, October 9 5:15 Social 6:00 Dinner 7:00 Program COST $35 reserved $40 waiting list $10 student members

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Reservations for Quick Pitches at Chapter meetings are now being taken for November 13, 2008, January 8, February 12, March 12, April 9 and May 14, 2009. For $100.00 you get an opportunity to make a 10-minute presentation of your product at the meeting. Call Dick Owen at 206-254-0969 ext 117 or email dick.owen@lewisbuilds.com.

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On Thursday October 9, the CSI Education Committee will present “Acoustical Design.” Bill Stewart, President of SSA Acoustics, located in Seattle, will be the presenter. SSA provides consulting services in Architectural, Mechanical, Environmental Acoustics, and audio/video system design.

This 2 hour program will be presented from 3:30 to 5:30 PM at the Swedish Cultural Center, located at 1920 Dexter Avenue N, Seattle, on the west side of Lake Union. Individual registrations are $25 per person; additional people from the same firm may attend for $10. Students are $10 per seminar. There are 2 AIA and CSI Learning Units provided. Register on line up to 2 days in advance (deadline Tuesday, Noon) for the Seminar and the CSI Dinner afterwards at www.psccsi.org. Sign-ups at the door are welcome. You do not need to be a CSI member to attend. Please bring a friend or co-worker.

The CSI Education Committee is providing 8 monthly seminars this year, prior to the regular monthly CSI dinner meeting. The theme of this year’s seminar series is “Interior Systems.”

Download revised 2008-2009 Seminars & Programs schedule.

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Congratulations go to former chapter president David Axt. He was just named an Associate at Bassetti Architects. Good work!

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On Thursday, October 16, 2008, the Seattle Building Enclosure Council is presenting a program titled, “Halloween Horror Stories in the Building Enclosure World.” David Bates of Olympic Associates Company, an architect specializing in construction defects and building enclosure detailing, will be discussing good intentions gone bad.

The intent of the program is to present failures related to the building enclosure and to get a dialog going to bring to light things for designers, contractors, owners, and consultants to think about when it comes to design, construction and maintenance of buildings.
 
The one hour program will be presented during the October 16 meeting, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM, at University House, 4400 Stone Way North, in Seattle. Industry members and students are welcome, at no charge. Membership for non-students is encouraged, at $50.00 per calendar year. Please visit www.seabec.org for further details.

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Today was my first day in office as Institute Director for the North Central Region. Nothing went wrong today, and I am enjoying my term so far.

One congratulatory message reads, “The good news is that you won the election. The bad news is that you won the election.”

Those were the first and last words of the opening article in this series. Despite the promises of a number of people whose advice I sought before running for office, I soon learned that there is, indeed, politics in CSI, and “nothing went wrong today” was a phrase I would use only occasionally.

Download and read entire article.

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Gene Fosheim, President: Awards
Doug Brinley, President Elect: Bylaws & Ops Guide, Technical, Nominations, Liaison
Dick Moreno, Vice President: Program, ProSpec
Jeff McIntyre, Secretary: none
Konrad Hee, Treasurer: Budget & Finance
Ed Storer, Director P1: Academic Affairs, Education
Charles Calvano, Director P-2: Meetings, Membership
Lars Sandgren, Director I-1: Publications
Don Richards, Director I-2: Chevrons, Certification
Brian Keil, Past President: Historian, Public Relations

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Following are the new and renewing chapter members as of September 2008.

New Members
Mr. Kelly Bryant CSI, RCI, Coastal Specified Products
Ms. Arika Perry CSI, Jones Lang LaSalle
Mr. Finnegan W. Wetterau, CSI, Charter Construction

Renewing Members
Mr. Philip J. Agnelli, CSI, McGregor Door & Hardware, LLC, 7 years
Mr. William P. Castillo, CSI, GGLO Architecture & Interior Design, 7 years
Mr. David S. Chatburn CSI, US Aluminum Corp, 1 year
Mr. Don Davis, CSI, Wetherholt & Associates, Inc., 3 years
Ms. Dorrance Denner, CSI, Callison, 1 year
Mr. Wayne M. Drexler CSI, Grace Construction Products, 9 years
Mr. Derek Faulkner, CSI, Cornerstone Architectural Group, 17 years
Mr. Gene R. Fosheim, CSI, 11 year
Mr. Michael Galbraith, CSI, Lance Mueller & Associates, 14 years
Janice S. Guthrie CSI, Tremco Inc., 1 year
Mr. Brian D. Keil, CSI, CCPR, Kelly-Moore Paint Company, 12 years
Ms. Vicki Long CSI, Draper Inc., 6 years
Mr. Torin P. Mowbray CSI, TNW, Inc., 2 years
Mr. Mark Nakatani, RA, CSI, AIA, NCARB, Tetra Tech, Inc., 4 years
Mr. Kevin D. Nolan, CSI, IBA Consultants West, LLC, 1 year
Mr. Jack O'Brien, CSI, 12 years
Chris P. Rogstad, CSI, CDT, Window Tech, Inc., 21 year
Mr. Dan Stevens, CSI, Concrete Waterproofing Products, Inc., 2 years
Mr. WIlliam Stewart, CSI, SSA Acoustics, LLP, 6 years
Mr. Bill Stone, CSI, Stone-Drew Ashe& Jones, Inc, 6 years
Mr. Sandi Susanto, CSI, AIA, Weber Thompson, 5 years
Mr. Scott H. Thomas CSI, Dependable Construction Supply, 3 years
Mr. Earl D. Thorgalsen, CSI, RTB Company, 10 years

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