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1. Michigan Architect Seeks State Senate Seat

Architect Brian Craig, senior vice president and chairman of the board of Progressive AE, is running for the Republican nomination for the 29th District in the August 6 primary. A member of AIA Michigan and AIA Grand Valley, Craig has served on the Grand Rapids School Board and on numerous other charitable and civic boards. Upon victory in the primary, Craig will face the Democratic challenger in the general election held on November 5. The 29th District includes Grand Rapids, Kenwood, and Lowell, as well as Cascade, Lowell, Vergennes and Grattan Townships.

2. AIA Huron Valley Presents Honor Awards

AIA Huron Valley presented David Esau, AIA with its Young Architect Award. The following were recognized with Honor Awards from AIA Huron Valley:

·        St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Ann Arbor, Architects Design Group

·        Pool Pavilion at Grosse Pointe Country Club, Damian Farrell Design Group

·        Kalamazoo Public Library, David Milling Associates

3. ESD Presents Construction and Design Awards

ESD The Engineering Society presented its prestigious 28th Annual Construction and Design Awards at a June ceremony. Nine projects throughout Michigan and one from New York City received recognition including (each project's architect is noted in parenthesis):

·        Barton Malow Headquarters, Southfield (Barton Malow Design)

·        Downriver Regional Wastewater Storage and Transport System, Wyandotte (Wade-Trim and NTH Consultants, Ltd.)

·        Driveability Test Facility, Allen Park (Jacobs Sverdrup)

·        Historic Renovation of Fort Mackinac, Mackinac Island (SmithGroup)

·        Michigan Vietnam Monument, Lansing (A. L. Gordon, Architect)

·        Montcalm Community College Beatrice E. Doser Building, Sidney (Straub Pettitt Yaste)

·        New Detroit Science Center, Detroit (Neumann/Smith & Associates and BEI Associates, Inc.)

·        Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Plymouth (HarleyEllis)

·        Rockefeller University Pedestiran Bridge, New York City (Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture)

·        V.A. Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor (Harley Ellis)

4. Dumke To Be Named State Association Leader

AIAM Executive Director Rae Dumke, Hon. AIA was named 2002-2003 chairman of the Michigan Society of Association Executives. Celebrating its 75th anniversary, MSAE functions as an information resource and professional network for more than 700 executives in Michigan’s association and nonprofit communities.

5. Sustainable Design Enthusiasts Convene

On September 28, the Design Futures Council will convene many of the brightest minds in the A/E/C professions to focus on creating visionary strategies and an actionable agenda for the environment. This program is a policy advisory session created to help prepare and equip individual designers and firms with an agenda and recommended strategies needed to move forward in green and sustainable design. Architects Environment Summit will be held on Nantucket Island, MA. (10 HS&W learning units) For more information visit www.di.net/summit.

6.Five Honored with NOVA Awards

In recognition of innovations in construction, the Construction Innovation Forum has selected five innovations as winners of the acclaimed NOVA Award. A brief description follows, for further details visit www.cif.org.

·        Electro-Osmotic Pulse System (EOP) for innovation in basement waterproofing;

·        Ground Penetrating Imaging Radar (GPIR) for subsurface exploration and mapping underground infrastructure;

·        Interlocking, Mortar-less Brick Siding (Novabrik) for innovation in exterior wall materials and construction;

·        Multi-Span Suspended Bridge Platform (Safespan) for innovation in bridge construction, renovation and maintenance;

Reinforced Tied-Arch Truss for innovation in arena roof design and construction.

7. Call for Entries

I.D.E.A.S. (Innovative Design and Excellence in Architecture with Steel), sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction, recognizes designs where structural steel forms a prominent architectural feature of a building. For criteria, award and entry information visit www.aisc.org. Submissions much be postmarked by Mar. 1, 2003.

8. Design & Construction Expo 2003 Update

Architectural Alley, exhibits for the design industry, is a new feature of the Design & Construction Expo 2003. The event is slated for Feb. 12-13 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Interested exhibitors should call the Construction Association of Michigan at (248) 972-1000.

9. Grapevine

(Editor's Note: Firm News and Grapevine usually appear in the AIAM Bulletin. However, since we are publishing E-News more frequently, these columns will appear here periodically.)

Harvest House shelter in Flint recently dedicated a room to Tom Sedgewick, FAIA in honor of his support and contributions. Past AIAM President Park Smith represented the AIA in the presentation … ESD Engineering Society of Detroit inducted Alvin Blair, AIA, vp of BEI Associates into its College of Fellows … Leanne Homberg, PE has been named 2002 Young Engineer of the Year by the Flint Chapter of Michigan Society of Professional Engineers … Marjorie Simmons, president and CEO of Duce Simmons Associates in Troy was named one of Crain's Detroit Business Entrepreneurs of the Year … Department Chair of Architecture David Chasco has been named Interim Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University. Meanwhile a national seach will be launched to fill the position vacated by Dr. Neville Clouten, who served as Dean for a dozen years …  A 40-person delegation from Korea visited Deerfield Elementary School in Novi, which was designed by Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc. The award-winning school design will serve as a benchmark for future schools in Korea …  Two construction firms were among the top 20 of Crains Detroit Business Private 200 list, ranked by 2001 revenue. Barton Malow Co. placed ninth on the list, while Walbridge Aldinger Co. ranked sixteenth … Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. and Atlas Technologies, Inc., a supplier of pressroom automation equipment and stamping systems, have formed a strategic alliance to address the specialized needs of the stamping industry … New in bookstores is "Residential Archicture: Living Places"  published by the Ashley Group. The book features a roundup of fine homes designed by Dominick Tringali Architects … Harley Ellis elected William Stamps to its board of directors. Stamps leads Spectrum Strategies, a partner company of HarleyEllis … LTU awarded the 2002 HarleyEllis Architecture and Engineering Scholarship to Emanuel Arguelles of Sterling Heights … Gregory McDuffee, director of real estate strategies at SmithGroup is serving as chairman of Fannie Mae's HouseMichigan Advisory Council … Construction Association of Michigan 2002 officers include Chairman Bruce Pregler, Facca, Richter & Pregler, PC, Vice-Chairman Clyde Jones, Center Line Electric, Frank Nehr, Davis Iron Workds, and Treasurer Dale McAtamney, Armor Glass and Metal; New directors are Thomas Burke, Jr., Burke Equipment Co., Jeffrey Harrison, Harrison Piping Supply, and Frank Nutt, North Electric Supply … Crain's Detroit Business Special Section on the new McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport featured architect David King, FAIA chairman of SmithGroup Inc. … Robert Daverman, AIA was named Employee of the Year by Progressive AE.

10. Firm News

Awards, Recognitions …

Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc. selected for American Association of School Administrators Shirley Cooper Award for design of Deerfield Elementary School, Novi. Also ranked #3 educational facilities design firm in the world by World Architecture magazine … HarleyEllis named 2001 Consultant of the Year for Projects over $2 Million by the University of Illinois at Chicago, for the College of Dentistry Feasibility Study … Robert Hund honored by Detroit Ceramic Tile Contractors Association with Lifetime Achievement Award, only the second time the award has been presented in the association's 75-year history … INTEX Achievement Awards presented by Architectural Contractors Trade Association to three projects including FountainWalk, Novi, for the EIFS category (architect: JPRA Associates); Seaholm High School, Birmingham, for the Resilient Floor category (architect: TMP Associates) and State of Michigan, New Center Development, Detroit, for Wall & Ceiling/Carpentry category (architect: LaSalle/Gough, architect of record: Albert Kahn Associates, designer of high finish area: Gensler of Detroit) … Albert Kahn Associates earned two Awards of Excellence for the HUMMER H2 Assembly Plant Project in Mishawaka, Indiana, in the categories of Building-Industrial and Roofing-Industrial from the Michiana Builders Association and the Michiana Area Construction Industry Advancement Fund … Andrew Zago, founder and principal of Zago Architecture, awarded a Rome Prize, a fellowship which provides an opportunity to live, work and study in Italy.

New Firms, Names, Mergers…

Waterstreet Design, PC merged with Ferweda Architects, Inc. to form Sedgewick & Ferweda Architects.

New Positions …

Arcadis: Kurt Burwinkle as vp and practice area manager … DiClemente Siegel Design Inc.: Philip Branson, AIA as architectural vp; Robert Pietrzyk joins architectural department and Laura Janek, PE joins mechanical engineering department … DLZ Michigan, Inc.: Jan Seaman to project architect … Duce Simmons Associates: Jeffrey Maier, AIA as project architect … Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc.: Joames Dobey, PE to operations manager; Paul Shay, PE to executive director - Williamston office; and George Kacan, AIA to executive director - Novi office … FTC&H: Janice Kitchen, ASID as interior designer … Gensler: James Meredith, AIA and Ralph Mocerina, AIA to senior associates; David Czeszewski, Assoc. AIA, David Herjeczki, AIA, George Ontko, RA, Rob Staelens and Margie Stern to associates … HarleyEllis: Paul Goldsmith, AIA to operations assistant; Eric Essique, AIA to director of architecture … Hobbs+Black Associates Inc.: Timothy Andres, AIA and Thomas Phillips to vp; William Harvey, AIA, Donald Haughton, Lauren Prager, IIDA, Todd Cordill, NCARB, Nicholas Scarpone, AIA, and Robert Hoida, AIA to senior associates; Ann Alise Hovey, Elizabeth Wagner and Tim Kerby to associate; Stephen Janick, AIA joins Toledo office … Lord, Aeck & Sargent: John Wacksmuth, AIA, Timothy Burke and Sadashiv Mallya have joined the Ann Arbor office …  Metro Group Architects: Jacob Bonnici as designer and Kelly Dickenson as office manager … Quinn Evans Architects: Kenneth Clein to principal … Rossetti: Gail VonStaden, AIA to associate … SmithGroup: Andy Vazzano, AIA to managing director of SmithGroup Michigan; Bart Stasa, PE to vp and general counsel; Derek White to vp and director of information technology; Kathleen Reehil, AIA as director of interior design; Edward Dodge as vp and director of human resources; Sandra Knight as director of public relations; Anne Belleau-Mills, AIA to health studio leader; Jeffrey Hausman, AIA to research studio leader; Eugene Hopkins, FAIA to office workplace studio leader; J. Michael Kirk, AIA to head of cities and communities studio; Thomas O'Connor, FAIA to building technologies studio leader; John Richards, PE to technology studio leader; Kenneth Rohlfing, AIA to Chicago office studio leader; Kevin Shultis, AIA to learning studio leader; Lorri Sipes, FAIA to studio leader for Ann Arbor; Z.Y. Liu, PE, and Joseph Trusk, PE to principals … Wolf Wineman, Inc.: Gerald Kaplan, AIA and Deborah O'Hara-Welby, AIA as senior project managers.

New Addresses, New Offices …

Garbooshian Architects, Inc. moved to 31500 W. Thirteen Mile Rd., Suite 101, Farmington Hills, MI 48334; ph: (248) 851-1700 … HarleyEllis opened a new office at 201 E. Fifth St., Suite 1440, Cincinnati, OH 45202; ph: (513) 263-6300.

11. Mark Your Calendar
Be sure to mark your calendar for these upcoming events:

August 8-10 -
AIAM Mid-Summer Conference and Business Meeting,
Mackinac Island. Register Now

September 13-14
Design Conference / Camp Hayo Went Ha / Torch Lake
Register Online

October 3-4
Educational Facilities Conference / Bellaire
Register Online

October 24
AIA Detroit Annual Meeting

November 20
AIA Detroit Continuing Ed Fest

November 22
AIA Detroit Honor Awards

December 12
AIAMI Holiday Open House

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