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National Fire Sprinkler Assoc. Seminar...June 20, 2009
The four hour, 4 CES credit seminar will be held in the Community Room at the Bridghampton National Bank, 2200 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY . To register to attend this seminar, (admission costs are $ 75.00 per person or $ 85.00 per person for late registration) click here for complete e-mail registration information.
Upon completion of the seminar, attendees will be able to determine the inadequacies of current basic building and fire code requirements, provide increased fire protection without increasing construction costs, use the Fire Sprinkler Guide to identify code requirements and design advantages, understand the various types of sprinkler systems and where they are requires and have a broader range of material options. For additional details on this Seminar which is open to Fire personnel, Building Officials and Code Officers send an e-mail to: aiapeconic@usa.net.
For a link to the National Fire Sprinkler Assoc. site, click below:: http://www.nfsa.org/
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VOLPE Transportation analysis....click on #4 RESOURCES for more details and a link to support document
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FEMA Maps are being revised....
The new FEMA maps for the East End are being revised...click on #4 RESOURCES for more details _______________________________________________________
Code Hurricane Rules Opposed....
The AIA Peconic CODE's Committee has been engaged in an ongoing effort to improve the NYS Building Code. Using the above menu, go to # 5 NEWS and you will find press releases and relating position papers.
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Click on this link for information about this well traveled AIA Peconic hat; thanks to Fred Throo AIA Peconic member for sharing this photo.
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B. Kay Jones, Executive Director |
AIA Peconic, Inc. |
P O Box 327 |
Hampton Bays, New York 11946 |
phone: 631-728-7832 |
fax: 631-728-7831 |
e-mail: aiapeconic@USA.net |
web site: http://www.aiapeconic.org |
2009 AIA PECONIC OFFICERS
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President
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Vice President
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Secretary
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Bruce Siska AIA |
Treasurer
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| Past President | Ian McDonald AIA |
| AIA NYS Rep. | Richard Stott AIA |
EAST END SECTION CHARTERED Presidents
1992 Andrew Weiss AIA
1993 Joseph Deppe AIA
1994 Anthony DiSunno AIA
1995 Robert Ortman AIA
1996 Armando Ortiz AIA
1997 Richard Stott AIA
1998 Henry Flynn AIA
1999 Shawn Leonard AIA
2000 Debbie Kropf AIA
2001 Andrew Weiss AIA
2002 Maziar Behrooz AIA
2003 Armando Ortiz AIA
2004 Christopher DiSunno AIA
2005 Douglas Moyer AIA
AIA PECONIC CHAPTER CHARTERED Presidents
| 2005 | Douglas Moyer AIA |
| 2006 | Richard Stott AIA |
| 2007 | Richard Stott AIA |
| 2008 | Ian McDonald AIA |
2009 AIA Peconic President’s Message
With collapse of some of the world’s critical financial institutions, the imploding American auto industry, decades of national and world neglect of the planet’s environmental health accompanied by cynical and myopic attitudes toward science and better energy policies and uses, the year of 2009 presents enormous challenges to all of us. We have never before been faced with the need for such a broad-based re-examination of the fundamental assumptions of conventional wisdom and the organization of society.
Daunting as this may all seem, there is reason to be excited and hopeful that being so shaken and dislodged from conventional wisdoms of the past and out-dated methods of production, education and institutional organization, we may already be experiencing unprecedented opening moments of a great era of innovation, scientific discovery, universal educational improvement, and new employment structures, and entrepreneurial activity.
The profession of architecture, challenged as it might be by the contracting housing market and constricted credit environment, is nevertheless already engaged in the vanguard of “green” technologies that will form the basis of overcoming the challenges and exploiting the opportunities spread before us. New materials and methods of integrating them with innovative new architectural forms and vocabularies just emerging or not yet even imagined offer the designers of today awesome new freedoms. The buildings of the future are going to look like and function like none others in the past. Totally new “machines for living.” And that means living in more healthy, responsible and future-conscious ways than ever in the history of the art.
AIA Peconic, the component of the American Institute of Architect for architects in the five towns of the North and South Forks and, thus, a conduit for the National and State organizations, plays a vital role in educating and informing local practitioners about the tools and products emerging and already proven for addressing the challenges and opportunities at hand.
Information-sharing, facilitated by the monthly meetings (that provide Continuing Education Unit credits) and colleague friendships that are engendered in the collegial environment of the social setting can be vital in navigating rough waters. Some firms are finding survival benefits in collaborations with other colleagues. Many firms, even those perhaps required to scale back, are nevertheless leveraging their time to retrain and educate themselves as LEED accredited professionals, the experts who will be the first in the new economy to be called upon to design the sustainable and energy-responsible structures that must come on-line immediately and that will be the paradigms for the future. AIA Peconic will be there supporting its members and helping to the lead the way.
William Sclight, AIA 2009 AIA Preconic President
