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9 11 of the Most Beautiful Greenhouses in the World 11 GBI Acquires Global Rights to Green Globes 15 Treepedia 19 A New Way of Working in Austin 9 22 Mercedes-Benz Stadium 23 Jim Morin, Miami Herald 24 “Don’t Tell Me What I Can’t Do, Because I Will Prove You Wrong” 28 40 Years of Pritzker Awards 28 32 Amazing Buildings – Made in China / Inspired by Nature 34 Austin – On the Way to Becoming a Major Sports & Entertainment Venue 38 Beloit College Mindset List 39 Lake Superior State University’s List of Banished Words A pictorial review.

JLL transfer allows expansion to Canada and beyond.

Quantifying Green Cities.

CBRE’s Workplace360 is flexible and innovative.

The first North American professional sports stadium to receive LEED Platinum certification.

Part 1 (the first 20 years) a recap of one of architecture’s premier annual awards.

Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne looks at Chaoyang Park Plaza in Beijing.

BIG plans for the new East Austin District.

Our 7th installment of this 20-years-young look at the perspectives of today’s college freshmen.

In its 43rd year (and our 2nd installment), this Michigan university selects words that it would prefer relegated to the past.

39 Wayne State University Word Warriors

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40 F.A. Bartholdi – Liberty Enlightening the World 42 Happy 300th Birthday, San Antonio 45 10 of the Most Beautiful Museums in the World 48 Herstory – Presidential Pals

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In its 9th year, this Michigan school selects words that, having fallen into disuse, it would like to see returned to our lexicon.

If FedEx and UPS merged, would they call it Fed Up?

For Brittney Holland Wacasey, overcoming obstacles is an everyday thing.

The Frenchman who designed the Statue of Liberty.

Roxana Tofan offers a loving look at the place she now calls home.

Bucket-worthy manifestations of the relationship between art and architecture.

Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley’s looks inside the relationship between Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston.

49 The History Page – Andrew Jackson | Putting Faces to the Names 50 Legal View: Co-Employment A closer look at those around our 7th president.

Attorney and Contributing Editor Anthony Barbieri looks at the legal responsibilities of those who share employees.

52 Artchitecture – The Art of Imagination 59 Important Voices Jose Roosevelt – for whom the fantastic is normal.

‘Illegal immigration’ is less than a century old.

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8 Editor’s Page/InBox 10 You Need to Know – Velcro® 7 Inntel Hotel 14 Stedelijk 18 CBRE Huangshan Mountain 26 JLL 14 Village 20 Institute for Contemporary 36 Professionals on the Move Art at VCU 54 44 Singapore Star Shout Outs 55 I Need to Know the 56 Do Address?

In the News 55 56 Product Showcase 26 in a Name? When Did the Best of the Worst 57 What’s Name Go Away?

17 The Country-Western Songs In the Loop Medical 21 Redneck 58 Definitions 58 You’re Going to Call Me What? 23 Political Corner Links Marketplace and 25 Murphy’s Law...and More 59 The Directory Out” - No Shortage Page: Our Advertisers/ 26 “Take of Meanings 62 Back Contest Winners/Answers/ Coming Next Issue 37 Welcome to the Psychiatric 36 Hotline IBC Contest - Alter Egos Don’t Think; Therefore, 39 IMaybe I Am Not 48 It’s Not Even Normal to Ask! 12 BOMA Dallas Hallowed Halls 54 14 CCIM 61 All Systems Clear 16 AGC San Antonio 16 IREM Fort Worth 44

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“Alice in Wonderland is perhaps the first surrealistic book ever written. There are no fairies, wizards or elves in it, rather a hallucinatory vision of trivial things or beings as cards, tea cups, muffins, cats and rabbits. In this painting, I imagined a vision that Alice could have in the chapter A Mad Tea Party. The word ‘psychedelic’ derives from ancient Greek words ‘psuche’ (soul) and ‘delos’ (show, to make visible).

In Alice’s vision, a house, a bottle, a shoe, a book, a typewriter and many other things reveal their souls; they come alive and they become surrealistic objects.”

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ANGELA O’BYRNE (P. 32) is the president of national architecture, design-build, and real estate development firm Perez, APC. She champions the principles of smart growth in her home community of New Orleans and in her frequent travels across the country and abroad. Born in Cali, Colombia.

Angela is a licensed architect in over a dozen states, a licensed general contractor in Louisiana, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National CREW Network (Commercial Real Estate Women) Board of Directors.

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English as a Second Language

nglish must be a very confusing language for non-natives to learn, even though it does reflect the creativity of the human race (which, of course, is not a race at all). There’s no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger, neither pine nor apple in pineapple. English muffins don’t come from England, French fries don’t come from France. Sweetmeats are candies, not meats; sweetbreads (which are sweet) are meat.

Doesn’t it seem strange that you can make amends, but not one amend – or that you can comb through the annals of history, but not just a single annal. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all but one of them, what do you call what you have left?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Why do we ship by truck but if we send something by ship, it’s cargo? We drive on parkways and park on driveways. We even have noses that run and feet that smell!

Why is it that night falls but day breaks? As I’m writing this, it is cold as hell, but just a few months ago, it was hot as hell. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, and although we say mother, we never say methren. If father is Pop, how come mother’s not Mop? And how is it that Buick doesn’t rhyme with quick?

Oddly, sometimes we speak about things only when they’re absent. Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or strapful gown? Have you ever met a sung hero or experienced requited love?

Have you ever run into someone who is combobulated, or gruntled, or ruly, or peccable?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which a house burns up as it burns down, or in which you fill in a form by filling it out, or an alarm clock goes off by going on. It could make you feel like an idiom! When the stars are out, they’re visible; but when the lights are out, they’re invisible. When I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this editor’s note, I finish it.

Heteronyms

• The bandage was wound around the wound.

• The farm was used to produce produce.

• The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

• We must polish the Polish furniture.

• He could lead if he’d get the lead out.

• The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

• There being no time like the present, he decided to present the present.

• A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

• When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

• I did not object to the object.

• The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

• There was a row amongst the oarsmen about how to row.

• They were too close to the door to close it.

• The buck does funny things when the does are

present.

• A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

• To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

• The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

• After a number of injections, my jaw got number.

• When I saw the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.

• I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

• How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Homonyms are words that sound alike but have different meanings. Homophones are a type of homonym that also sound alike and have different meanings, but have different spellings. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.

Heteronyms are a type of homograph that are also spelled the same and have different meanings, but sound different. Words that both sound the same and are spelled the same are both homonyms and homographs.

Examples: lie (untruth and/or prone); fair (county fair and/or reasonable).

Only in America do we buy hot dogs in packages of 10 and buns in packages of 8.

We take it for granted – but our language is full of paradoxes. Quicksand works slowly. Boxing rings are square. And a Guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham. Why is that the plural of tooth is teeth, but the plural of booth is not beeth? Or that the plural of goose is geese, but the plural of moose is not meese? And, although you can have one index, if you have more than one, you have indices.

A slim chance and a fat chance are the same thing – but a wise man and a wise guy are almost opposites. Overlook and oversee are opposites – but quite a lot and quite a few mean the same thing. Should I slow down or slow up? If the plural of foot is feet, shouldn’t the plural of boot be beet?

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The magazine arrived yesterday. It is delightful! Thoroughly enjoyed reading the “gutters”, More Signs of The Times, More Malapropisms, Summer’s Winter Reading List, When You Feel Stupid, Actual Accident Summaries and best of all, Editor’s Page :-). There is much more for me to read, since my husband and I were sharing its humor. Network is truly a brighter lighter side of real estate, in my opinion.

- Marti Cook, Freehold, NJ

I just discovered the sayings in the gutters on many of the pages. They’re hilarious! Now I make sure I look at every page.

- Shannon Williamson, Mansfield, TX I really enjoyed the feature on UNESCO’s World Heritage sites – but I absolutely LOVED the Political Corner piece on (expletive deleted) Trump which followed it.

- Trey Lowden, San Marcos, TX

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11 of the Most Beautiful Greenhouses in the World 4 Built by Carlsberg Breweries Founder J. C.

Jacobsen in 1874, and designed in Victorian style, this structure took its inspiration from the Crystal Palace, an iron-and-glass structure erected in London in 1851 to house the World’s Fair.

5 Built in 1988, this is a contemporary take on a

greenhouse and the largest single span conservatory in the Southern Hemisphere.

6 Built for Belgian King Leopold II in 1873. With its glass cupolas and soaring pavilions, it springs up like a glass city from the city’s landscape.

7 This pyramid-shaped structure was built in 1976 as a modern contrast to the surrounding prairie.

8 These structures resemble the glass palaces of

19th-century France but were actually constructed in 1991.

9 This Victorian-style building has a 90-foot-high

Only in America do we buy hot dogs in packages of 10 and buns in packages of 8.

central Palm Court and 11 interconnected galleries housing different habitats. Situated around two outdoor courtyard pools, it contains 17,000 panes of glass. Completed in 1902, it was declared a New York City Landmark in 1975.

1 Built in the 1880s with 45,000 sheets of glass, this is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

2 The angular glass façade of the Tropicarium at

Frankfurt’s Botanical Garden reflects waterlilies in the nearby pond.

3 Built in 1860 to house the region’s growing

collection of temperate plants collected across the globe, measuring 52,527 square feet, this is the largest Victorian glasshouse in the world.

10 Built in the 1830s this petite glass-and-steel

Mexican hothouse was one of the first of its kind, when building with such materials had only just become popular.

11 Completed in 1840, this is one of the earliest

examples of the Victorian greenhouse. Just ten years earlier, developments in glass manufacturing introduced six-foot sheets, which, when paired with cast-iron frames, could create glass domes tall enough to allow in the light necessary for tropical palms.

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March 29th will be the earliest start to the Major League Baseball season ever and it will feature the first full slate of Opening Day games in 50 years. All 30 teams will play that day. The last time all clubs played on opening days was 1968 – when there were 20 teams. Get yourself ready for the 2018 season with a short quiz. (The answers are on the back page.)

1. Which of the following did Hall of Fame great Hank Aaron not accomplish?

A) Won two batting titles in his career B) Hit 755 career home runs C) Won an NL MVP Award D) Hit 50 home runs in a season twice

3. Which of these father/son combinations played in Major League Baseball?

A) Harmon and Harmon Killebrew, Jr. B) Ozzie and Roberto Smith C) Don and Sandy Drysdale D) Pete and Pete Rose, Jr. 4. In the 1950s within a 16-mile radius of New York, Major League baseball fans would debate constantly as to who was the best of three tremendous centerfielders - Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snide - who played with different New York teams. Which of these three had the most career home runs?

A) Mickey Mantle B) Duke Snider C) Mantle and Snider tied D) Willie Mays 5. Which of the following was the oldest when they played in their final Major League game?

A) Joe DiMaggio B) Lou Gehrig C) Dizzy Dean D) Satchel Paige 6. 1993 was Nolan Ryan’s final season, and he announced his retirement prior to the season.

Near the end of his career on August 4, Ryan hit a Chicago White Sox player with a pitch. The batter charged the mound only to be met by a headlock from Ryan, then repeated punches to the head. Who was this embarrassed player?

A) Edgar Martinez B) Robin Ventura C) Frank Thomas D) Paul O’Neill 7. Which of the following 25-game winners and also Hall of Fame inductees, never won a Cy Young Award?

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Velcro® | A Serendipitous Invention

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ohnny “the Stick” Velcro was a mobster and bouncer at organized crime premises (such as brothels) in Chicago during the era of Prohibition. He accidentally discovered the hook fastening system that bears his name when paper clips became entangled in his monogrammed terry cloth robe.

Nope. Not really. Not at all. (But it sounds believable, doesn’t it?) Actually …

Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral (1907–1990) first conceptualized the hook and loop after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the woods in 1941. He wondered why burrs clung to his coat and to the dog and (under a microscope) discovered that hundreds of tiny hooks caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion, if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops.

It took ten years to create a mechanized process to weave the hooks and trim the hoops. He submitted his idea for patent in Switzerland in 1951 and it was granted in 1955. Within a few years, he received patents and subsequently opened shop in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada. In 1957 he branched out to the textile center of Manchester, New Hampshire in the United States. (Initially made of cotton, it was eventually made with nylon and polyester.) It was marketed as a “zipperless zipper.”

De Mestral gave the name Velcro to his invention as well as his company. Velcro is a portmanteau (a

linguistic blend of words) of the French words velour (“velvet”) and crochet (“hook”). However,

hook and loop’s integration into the textile industry took time, partly because of its appearance. Hook and loop in the early 1960s looked like it had been made from left-over bits of cheap fabric, an unappealing aspect for clothiers. The first notable use for Velcro® brand hook and loop came when it was adopted by NASA in the 60s, where it helped astronauts maneuver in and out of bulky space suits. Eventually, skiers noted U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the similar advantages of a suit that was easier to get in Madison Building in Alexandria, home to the and out of and scuba and marine gear followed soon after. The positive press received by the use of Velcro® National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in the space program led to its adoption as a clothing material. High fashion designers including Pierre Cardin gravitated toward Velcro® as a modern, space-age fabric.

Although the original patent expired in 1978, Velcro® is still a trademarked term controlled by the Dutch Velcro® company. (De Mestral unsuccessfully tried to update his patent when it expired and sold his rights to the Velcro® company once it achieved success.) Today, Velcro® is a standard material used in households and businesses on a daily basis. Velcro® Brand products are used in everything from roof panels to diapers, and from the AstroTurf at a professional football stadium to the KEVLAR® plates in U.S. military apparel. It is today an integral part of popular culture, fashion and common home goods was invented on serendipity, inspired by a routine hike in the woods.

A day without sunshine is like… night.

2. Major League Baseball retired the jersey number 42 league-wide in honor of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American modernday player to break the color barrier. They also set aside one date in every season to honor him.

Which day of the season is Jackie Robinson Day? A) April 15 B) May 15 C) June 25 D) August 1

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YOU NEED TO KNOW The invention of Velcro is an example of biomimicry.

Biomimicry (or biometics) is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. The terms “biomimetics” and “biomimicry”

come from Ancient Greek bios (life) and mīmēsis (imitation). Humans have looked at nature for answers to problems throughout our existence. Nature has solved engineering problems such as self-healing abilities, environmental exposure tolerance and resistance, and harnessing solar energy.

One of the early examples was the study of birds to enable human flight. Although never successful in creating a “flying machine”, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a keen observer of the anatomy and flight of birds, and made numerous notes and sketches on his observations as well as sketches of “flying machines.” The Wright Brothers, who succeeded in flying the first heavier-thanair aircraft in 1903, allegedly derived inspiration from observations of pigeons in flight.

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Opening Day Major League Baseball

Green Building Initiative Acquires Global Rights to Green Globes

Acquisition of Global Rights to Green Globes from JLL Allows GBI to Expand Operations to Canada and Beyond

T A day without sunshine is like… night.

The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.

he U.S.-based non-profit Green Building Initiative (GBI) announced that it has completed acquisition of the global rights to Green Globes®, a leading sustainability rating system for commercial and multi-family buildings. This acquisition from JLL allows GBI to support existing Green Globes users in Canada, in addition to the United States, and to expand the reach of the rating system globally.

“This acquisition is a clear win for GBI and our growing base of Green Globes users,” said Vicki Worden, President & CEO of GBI. “Consolidating Green Globes under GBI was a logical and natural next step to further our mission to accelerate the adoption of green building best practices in the built environment.”

Vicki Worden in 2004 from ECD.

JLL had purchased the global rights to Green Globes in 2008 as part of its acquisition of ECD Energy and Environment Canada, the entity responsible for developing the underlying technology. GBI first licensed the U.S. rights to Green Globes

“As a nonprofit, GBI is in a better position to grow the sustainability movement as the sole owner and promoter of Bob Best

Green Globes, and we have every confidence in GBI’s ability to do so,” stated Bob Best, Executive Vice President and Director of Sustainability & Services for JLL. “We value Green Globes as a tool we use with our clients and property managers, and because of this acquisition, GBI can continue to grow Green Globes as a global assessment program.”

According to Worden, GBI has experienced significant growth over the last two years and has certified 1,594 buildings or almost 300 million square feet of real estate since its founding in 2004—1,328 buildings through its Green Globes program and 266 Rich Mitchell buildings through its Guiding Principles Compliance program for U.S. government buildings.

“Green Globes is filling a gap in the market,” stated Rich Mitchell, Managing Principal at Portland, Oregon-based Mackenzie, and elected Chair of the Board of GBI. “It’s comprehensive and flexible, as well as time- and cost-effective.

Design and operations teams are finding it a beneficial tool for their sustainability-minded owners.”

For more information go to www.TheGBI.org.

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he chapter’s Lone Star Awards and The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) Awards were to be announced at a banquet which, as we go to press, has not yet taken place. The winners of the Lone Star Awards and the winners of the regional TOBY competition (in which the local winners will compete with other nominees in BOMA International’s six-state Southwest Region) will be featured in our June issue. The regional winners will be announced in San Antonio on April 14th before which time, several other chapters will announce their local winners. The regional winners will be featured in the June issue of the network.

DALLAS LOCAL TOBY WINNERS

Nominees Senior Property – Portfolio Manager of the Year • David Sansom - JLL • Michelle Rochester - Cushman & Wakefield • Lynne Hejtmanek - Cushman & Wakefield • Traci Devereaux - Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. • Angelique Wade, RPA, LEED AP - Crescent Real Estate Equities Property Manager of the Year • Jonathan “JJ” Jones - Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. • Kim Telkamp - Billingsley Property Services • Brigitte Jamison - DCT Industrial Trust • Kristine Lang, RPA - Crescent Real Estate Equities

100,000 - 249,999 Square Feet

Legacy Center

250,000 - 499,999 Square Feet

Signature Exchange

Administrative Assistant of the Year • Kathleen Cooper- Stream Realty Partners • Libby Heath -JLL • Taylor Floyd- JLL • Michelle Miller - Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Bretley Roche - Granite Properties, Inc. • Roby McCollum - Stream Realty Partners • Daisy Wilson - Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. • Brooke Robinson - Billingsley Property Services • Candace Brownell - Crescent Real Estate Equities Allied Member of the Year • Dan McLaughlin - Facility Solutions Group • Charles Kellis - Landmark Protective Services

Historical Building

The Sharyland Building

Over 1 Million Square Feet

Bank of America Plaza

Committee Member of the Year • Dan McLaughlin - Facility Solutions Group • Teresa Shiller, RPA - Cawley Partners • Ben Manna - Schneider Electric • Dave Smith - Air Performance • Kim SolCruz - Terracare Associates • Allison Skinner – JLL • Mary Lempke – CBRE • Michelle Forrester - Cypress Equities • Regina McClendon, RPA - Texas Health Resources • Shannon McGlasson - Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. Committee Chair of the Year • Jenny Phillips - Fujitec America, Inc. • Michele Martin, RPA - Granite Properties, Inc. • Laysa Fortenberry – TRANSWESTERN • Tia Chambers - Allied Universal • Amanda Barhorst - Mooring Restoration & Construction • Debra Spears, CPM, RPA - Gaedeke Group • Mary Stocks - Rosewood Court Management, LLC • David Sansom – JLL • Kelly Giron – JLL • Jonathan Heckmann - ThyssenKrupp Elevator • Lesia Aguilar, LEED GA - Granite Properties, Inc. • Christy Walters, RPA - Duke Realty Corporation

Renovated Building

Lakeside Campus

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Bank of America Plaza Management Team On July 7, 2016, a lone gunman shot and killed five police officers during an otherwise peaceful protest in downtown Dallas. The property management team at the Bank of America Plaza, led by Adam Bernhardt and Lisa Hall, exhibited remarkable composure and dignity in the face of the horror of a highprofile tragedy, and was awarded the inaugural Award of Excellence by the Dallas chapter.

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International Business Park

Chief Engineer of the Year • Jim Kelley - JLL • Mark Duncan - Billingsley Property Services • Ricky Beard Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Bennie Miles - Cushman & Wakefield • Richard Wade - Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Robert Chapman - Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. • Josh Hartsell - Crescent Real Estate Equities

The first couple to be shown in (one) bed together on prime-time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Assistant Property Manager of the Year • Mary Forsythe - Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Amber Garcia - Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Jessica Beltran - Cushman & Wakefield • Heather Bolton - Harwood International • Marissa Olivo - Stream Realty Partners • Sarah Mendez - Stream Realty Partners • Cheryl Gethers - Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc.

Assistant Chief/Lead Engineer of the Year • Oscar Cardenas - JLL • Rudy Rodriguez - Stream Realty Partners • Isaac Segura - Crescent Real Estate Equities Building Engineer of the Year • Gary Johnson, SMT, SMA - Granite Properties, Inc. • Don Hurley - Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Doug Simmer - Cushman & Wakefield • David Lamb - Billingsley Property Services • Alan Korywchak - Peloton Commercial Real Estate • Joe Vasquez - Stream Realty Partners • Daniel Blair - Crescent Real Estate Equities

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2018 NTCCIM Board of Directors President/Candidate Guidance Debi Carter, CCIM Capstone Commercial

Sporting Clays

The 23rd Annual Sporting Clays Event was on October 26th.

Vice President/Sporting Clays Chair Collin Flynn, CCIM Appian Commercial Realty Secretary/Treasurer/Legislative Chair Tim Veler, CCIM Transwestern

The Winning Team from CRK Construction

Past President/Education Co-Chair John McClure, CCIM McClure Partners Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Director/Events Chair Saadia Sheikh, CCIM ESRP Real Estate Services Director/Education Chair Susan McClure, CCIM McClure Partners (L-R) Shotgun Raffle Sponsor Howard Fuerst (Ten-X) and Shotgun Winner, Jon Anderson

Director/Programs Chair Howard Fuerst, CCIM Ten-X Commercial

Service Project

Director Jonathan Ferrell Old Capital Lending

Service Project with Family Gateway December 6th

A

Redefining th

s much as the city of Amsterdam celebrates its history, it is also a city that looks to the future – and nowhere is that more in evidence than the city's renovated and enlarged Stedelijk Contemporary Art Museum – a/k/a 'The Bathtub'.

Designed by Mels Crouwel of Amsterdam architecture firm Benthem Crouwel, the extension succeeds in accomplishing what architect AW Weissman's original

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Victorian-era red-brick building could not - it provides vaulted, spacious galleries.

(See page 45 for more amazing museums.)

The new wing does not obscure the original building, which was designed by AW Weissman in 1895

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Treepedia Quantifying Green Cities

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here’s not a lot of agreement on how green cities should be quantified and measured, though everyone seems to agree that it is a worthwhile and important endeavor. MIT’s SENSEable City Lab has taken a leap forward in how this type of urban planning data can be collected.

Treepedia (http://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia/) is an interactive, mapbased platform that measures tree canopy coverage in cities around the globe. It uses an algorithm that can scan Google Street View images and determine what percentage of them are made up of trees. The end result of SENSEable City Lab’s block-by-block scan is its Green View Index (GVI), which “represent[s] human perception of the environment from the street level.”

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Of the cities to be analyzed so far, Singapore is far and away the greenest, earning a GVI score of 29.3%. It’s followed by Sydney and Vancouver (both at 25.9%). With a GVI of 25.3% MIT’s home base of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the highest-ranking U.S. city currently on the list.

The real-time city is real! As layers of networks and digital information blanket urban space, new approaches to the study of the built environment are emerging. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed—as are the tools we use to design them. The mission of the Senseable City Laboratory is to anticipate these changes and study them from a critical point of view.

Not bound by the methodologies of a single field, the Lab is characterized by an omni-disciplinary approach: it speaks the language of designers, planners, engineers, physicists, biologists and social scientists. Senseable is as fluent with industry partners as it is with metropolitan governments, individual citizens and disadvantaged communities. Through design and science, the Lab develops and deploys tools to learn about cities—so that cities can learn about us.

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Chris Thiel Alterman, Inc.

President Blaine Beckman F.A. Nunnelly General Contractors

Vice President Albert Gutierrez Guido Construction

Secretary/Treasurer Luis Berumen, Bartlett Cocke General Contractors

Jeff Bryant Joeris General Contractors, Ltd.

Hilda Ochoa 8A Electric, Inc.

Eric Hedlund Sundt Construction, Inc.

Bill Roberts T&D Moravits & Co.

Fernando Figueroa Curv Compliance

Patrick Byrnes Turner Construction Company

Immediate Past President and Chairman of the PAC Mike Sireno, Baker Triangle

Paying it Forward (Update)

In our June 2016 issue, we featured Doug and his wife, Judy, and their ‘Pay it Forward’ initiative thanking others for being ‘Fort Worth Friendly’. The popular program has grown geometrically. Over 100,000 of the cards have been printed and distributed, finding their way into appreciated individuals not just in Tarrant County, but throughout the United States, in Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Doug Laing decked out in Christmas cheer 2017 CPM of the Year – Pattie McClean

Below: (L-R) Board Members Terry Phillips, Pattie McClean, Melinda Payne, Laura Hagan

Get the free cards at one of the following Fort Worth distribution spots: • Ol’ South Pancake House on University • Paris Coffee Shop on Magnolia • Enchiladas Ole on north Sylvania • Heim BBQ on Magnolia • Heaven’s Gate Restaurant on N. Main • Carshon’s Deli on Cleburne Road • Dutch’s Hamburgers on University • Pak-A-Pocket Sandwiches on Bryant Irvin • Vickery Café on Vickery east of Hulen • McKinley’s Bakery and Cafe on University • Yogi’s Deli & Grill on Hulen at Clearfork • Star Café on Exchange on the Northside • Café Bella in Westcliff Center • Foreman’s General Store in Colleyville • JR’s Café, Saginaw • Le’s Wok on Rosedale • Lettuce Cook on White Settlement Road • Pearl Snap Kolaches on Hulen • The Stockyards Museum on Exchange • PrideStaff on Camp Bowie • Fort Worth Barber Shop – Lovell at Montgomery • Barber Shop on Camp Bowie just past Tokyo Palace • Robinson’s Shoe Shine at Burnett Plaza • Fathers & Mothers for Equal Rights on North Main • Securlock Storage on River Bend near Vickery

Hillwood Properties / Ft. Worth

Jessica Hoquist (R) receiving the ARM designation from President Pattie McLean

2018 Board Members being inducted Mayor Betsy Price (L) addressed the Chapter 16

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2018 Board of Directors

Annual Awards The annual IREM Dallas Industry award winners event was held at Texas Musician’s Museum on November 9th. President Christie Clenney, CPM is pictured with most of the recipients here.

President’s Award (R) Brittney Harbour, ARM pictured with Holli Biggerstaff, CPM candidate

ARM of the Year Brittney Harbour, ARM

Rising Star Award Erik Fulkerson

Friend of the YEAR Blackmon Mooring (Keeley Wise accepting)

AMO of the Year Lincoln Property Company Brian Bordelon, ARM accepting

Committee Member of the Year Rebekah Mallette

CPM of the Year Vickie Rathman, CPM

Committee Chair of the Year Chanon Fisher, ARM Committee of the Year Educational Programs Z Young, VP of Educational Programs accepting (Chair: Susanne Kleins)

IREM Dallas Legacy Award Greg Wingate, CPM Nana Asmak was sworn in as an ARM

Candidate of the Year Susanne Kleins, CPM Candidate (not pictured)

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The Best of The Worst Country-Western Song Titles

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Been there, done that. Then, been there several more times because apparently, I never learn.

Friend Committee Member of the Year Vince Lovato

Summer is on retreat (or going through withdrawal) this quarter, so we offer some (not-so-easy-to-imagine) easy listening to hold you over until she (Summer) returns this summer (yes – her).

• Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life • Get Your Biscuits in The Oven and Your Buns in The Bed • Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth ‘Cause I’m Kissing You Goodbye • Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure • How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?

• I Don’t Know Whether to Kill Myself or Go Bowling • I Fell in A Pile of You and Got Love All Over Me • I Flushed You from The Toilet of My Heart • I Would Have Writ You a Letter, But I Couldn’t Spell Yuck!

• I Wouldn’t Take Her to a Dawg Fight, Cause I’m Afraid She’d Win • I’d Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy • If I Can’t Be Number One in Your Life, Then Number Two on You • If My Nose Were Full of Nickels, I’d Blow It All on You • If You Don’t Leave Me Alone, I’ll Go and Find Someone Else Who Will • If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? • My Every Day Silver Is Plastic • My Wife Ran Off with My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him • She Got the Ring and I Got the Finger • They May Put Me in Prison, But They Can’t Stop My Face from Breakin’ Out

• You’re the Reason Our Baby’s So Ugly • I Can’t Love Your Body If Your Heart’s Not in It • I Wish I Were in Dixie Tonight, But She’s Out of of Town • I’ll Get Over You as Soon as You Get Out from Under Him • I’m So Miserable Without You It’s Like Having You Here • If You Don’t Believe I Love You Just Ask My Wife • I’ve Got You on My Conscience But At Least You’re Off My Back • The Worst You Ever Gave Me Was the Best I Ever Had • She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye • We Used to Just Kiss on the Lips but Now It’s All Over • She Feels Like a New Man Tonight • Ever Since I Said, “I Do,” There’s a Lot of Things You Don’t • The Next Time You Throw That Fryin’ Pan, My Face Ain’t Gonna Be There • I Got in at 2 With A 10 And Woke Up At 10 With A 2 • I Hate Every Bone in Your Body Except Mine • I Knew I’d Hit Rock Bottom When I Woke Up on Top of You • I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well

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Q4 2017 RETAIL MARKETVIEWS

Austin

Net Absorption (SF,000s) 4,000

Occupancy highest in Texas, causing slower leasing activity

3,500

Occupancy (%) 99 98

3,000

97

2,500 2,000

96.3% Occupancy

96

1,500

95

1,000 500

94

0

93

(500) 2008

2009

2010

2011

Q2

Q3

Q1

2012

2013 Q4

2014

2015

2016

Total Annual Net Absorption

2017

246,856 sq. ft.

Net Absorption

Class A Occupancy Rate

Source: CBRE Research, Q4 2017.

Metroplex retail sector marks record year of occupancy growth

Occupancy Rate (%)

Net Absorption (MSF) 10

95

9 94

8 7

93

6 5

94.6% Occupancy

92

4 3

91

2 1

90

0

Source: CBRE Research, Q4 2016.

(1) 2007

2008

89 2009

Q1

2010

2011

Q2

2012

Q3

2013

Q4

2014

2015

Total Annual Net Absorption

2016

2017

1.0 million sq. ft.

Net Absorption

Occupancy Rate

Source: CBRE Research, Q4 2017.

Houston

Net Absorption (MSF)

Tenant demand stabilizes at year-end following slow start

Occupancy (%)

5

96

4

94

3

92

2

90

1

88

0

86

(1)

84

(2)

82

(3)

80 2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Growth and expansion expected in 2018 following strong 2017

2012

Annual Net Absorption

Source: CBRE Research, Q4 2017.

San Antonio

2011

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

94.1% Occupancy

851,750 sq. ft.

Net Absorption

Occupancy

Net Absorption (MSF)

Occupancy Rate (%)

3.5

96

3.0

95

2.5 94

2.0 1.5

93

1.0

95.2% Occupancy

92

0.5 91

0.0

90

(0.5)

Source: CBRE2008 Research, Q4 2009 2016.

Q1

2010

2011 Q2

2012 Q3

2013 Q4

2014

2015

Total Annual Net Absorption

2016

2017

130,441 sq. ft.

Net Absorption

Occupancy Rate

Source: CBRE Research, Q4 2017.

CON TAC T S

Robert C. Kramp Director, Research and Analysis robert.kramp@cbre.com

Robert Basiliere Sr. Research Analyst, Retail robert.basiliere@cbre.com

To learn more about CBRE Research, or to access additional research reports, please visit the Global Research Gateway at www.cbre.com/research

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It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.

Dallas/Fort Worth

SCOTT SENESE scott.senese@cbre.com

Scott Senese is the Senior Managing Director of CBRE’s Central Texas Region

A NEW WAY OF WORKING IN AUSTIN

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lexibility, collaboration and mobility are the themes of today’s optimized office environment. Clients are keenly focused on this as they look to attract and retain the best talent, maximize productivity and efficiency, and reinforce their brands.

CBRE’s workplace philosophy is no different—its Workplace360 program, now in place in about 60 offices globally, brings a flexible way of working and an increased focus on technology, collaboration, wellness and hospitality. In Austin, CBRE went through its own workplace transformation, a process which took about 18 months and was heavily employee-driven with different committees for the design, art and brand, and experience and protocols.

Today, the Austin office is ‘an entirely free address’ with no assigned seats and 10 ways to work, compared to three in the old office. A balance of private and open workspaces allows employees choice depending on the task to be performed. The result - increased energy, more collaborative encounters and higher engagement. Formerly siloed teams and individuals are interacting more and finding ways to creatively solve challenges, which ultimately results in better outcomes for clients.

A conference room has a vibrant view of the 20-foot long stamp mosaic art installation

An employee neighborhood with open workspaces and sit-stand desks. Every workstation is identical and no employee has an assigned seat.

Unique Features of CBRE’s Austin Workplace360 Office • The Heart is the central gathering place, where clients and guests first take in panoramic views of Lady Bird Lake, employees gather for impromptu meetings and meals, and they host events.

• The office is divided into six neighborhoods, home bases for different teams and groups that typically work together. Each neighborhood offers a variety of space types—some are available on a first-come, first-served basis while others can be reserved ahead of time or on the spot from a computer, mobile device or touch screen at the entrance.

• Enclosed workspaces are on the interior, providing natural light to employees from floor-to-ceiling windows around the entire perimeter of the office.

Employees interact and work in the Rise Cafe

Employees can reserve workspaces through the Crestron reservation system or from a computer or mobile device

• Elements of Austin are woven throughout the design, including a street grid stained on the concrete floor in the Heart showing historical downtown Austin streets; commissioned art and photography; and custom furniture by local artisans.

• Phone extension mobility allows employees to log in to any phone and have their phone number and voicemails follow them, whether they’re in Austin or any other Workplace360 office. Printing follows you too—just swipe your key fob at the nearest printer to pull up your recent print queue.

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Tenants: where they want to be -

most expensive streets

Dallas - McKinney Ave.

17Seventeen McKinney

2000 McKinney

CBD or suburbs Inventory (SF) Average full service rent Average market asking rent Percent premium from street average to market average

2100 McKinney

CBD 3.8 million $51.17 $27.20 88.1%

Ft. Worth - Sundance Square

The Carnegie

Bank of America Tower

CBD or suburbs Inventory (SF) Average full service rent Average market asking rent Percent premium from street average to market average

Frost Tower

CBD 2.8 million $32.11 $22.94 40.0%

McKinney Avenue is the main street running through Dallas’ Uptown district. McKinney has consistently been the preferred address for the region’s top law firms, financial services, and wealth management, as well as other companies seeking a true pedestrian-friendly work, live, shop, and play atmosphere. Close to Klyde Warren Park, the area boasts significant new trophy office development and proximity to the core CBD businesses and extensive residential options.

Fort Worth does not have a single, most expensive street. Rather, the downtown’s Sundance Square area captures that position because of its cohesive, mixed-use development that combines modern and historic architecture incorporating office, shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. The area’s red brick streets, extensive landscaping, and strategic integration of the old and new create a vibrant urban location that commands the area’s highest office rents for properties located around the Square.

Notable tenants McKinsey & Company, Ackerman McQueen, Bain & Company, Gardere Wynn, Sidley Austin, Clarion Partners, Houlihan Lokey, Holland & Knight, Carlson Capital, Texas Capital Bancshares, McGuire Woods, Dentons, Squire Patton Boggs, Lincoln Property, WeWork

Notable tenants Bank of America, MD America Energy, Texas Midstream, K&L Gates, PwC, Frost Bank, Jetta Energy, Winstead, Blaies & Hightower, Hillwood Energy, Chase, Pardue Oil & Gas, Titan Energy, EY, Bass Company, Kelly Hart & Hallman, Wells Fargo, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Deloitte

Austin - Congress Ave.

San Antonio - E Mulberry Ave.

100 Congress

301 Congress

CBD or suburbs Inventory (SF) Average full service rent Average market asking rent Percent premium from street average to market average

816 Congress

CBD 2.8 million $58.25 $55.20 5.5%

Trinity Plaza II

McCombs Plaza

CBD or suburbs Inventory (SF) Average full service rent Average market asking rent Percent premium from street average to market average

Trinity Plaza I

Suburbs 579,000 $34.05 $23.09 47.5%

Directly south of the Capitol and running to the Colorado River, Congress Avenue is Austin’s key business spine, serving as its grand “main street”.

The tree-lined boulevard, with the historic Capitol building framed to the north, is nationally known for its variety of restaurants, shopping, and entertainment options. Just across the bridge is also SoCo, the eclectic South Congress historic district. Business, many being a “who’s who” of important companies, are attracted to the area and pay the highest rents because of its top-quality trophy office properties.

While small compared to the office inventory that makes up the most expensive streets in the neighboring regions, San Antonio’s East Mulberry Avenue consistently commands the highest office rental rates.

Surrounded by the prestigious neighborhoods of Alamo Heights, Terrill Hills, and Olmos Park, East Mulberry is just north of the CBD and adjacent to Brackenridge Park. Combined with its excellent regional access, it is one of the most desirable locations for wealth management, law, and financial institutions in the market.

Notable tenants Armbrust & Brown, Andrews Kurth, Bracewell, Brandywine Realty Trust, Holland & Knight, Dykema, Fitch, Hunton & Williams, Wells Fargo, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, DLA Piper, WeWork, Locke Lord, McGinnis Lochridge

Notable tenants Langley & Banack, RVK Architects, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Raymond James Financial

For more information about JLL’s Insights and Statistics contact: Dallas / Ft. Worth - Walter Bialas • +1 214 438 6228 • walter.bialas@am.jll.com | Austin - Kyle Mueller • +1 210 839 2033 • kyle.muller@am.jll.com San Antonio - Dustin Potter • +1 542 225 2716 • dustin.potter@am.jll.com | www.jll.com/dallas © 2018 Jones Lang LaSalle Brokerage, Inc. All rights reserved.

All information contained herein is from sources deemed reliable; however, no representation or warranty is made to the accuracy thereof.

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IIDA TexasIIDA Oklahoma ChapterChapter Texas Oklahoma 2017 DesignExcellence Excellence Award 2017 Design AwardWinners Winners

Best in Show Corporate Small Design Office Austin, Texas Alterstudio Architecture

Healthcare Small Legacy Community Health Fifth Ward Clinic Houston, Texas Kirksey

Corporate Large Ottobock U.S. Headquarters Austin, Texas Page

Retail Raven + Lily Austin, Texas Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

Hospitality Local Foods Downtown Houston, Texas Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

Healthcare Large Stamford Hospital New Building Stamford, Connecticut EYP Health

Public Services & Assembly BBVA Compass Houston, Texas Kirksey

Sustainability Wilsonart Wilson Center Temple, Texas STG Design

Education Research The Summit at University City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sixthriver Architects

Residential Llano Retreat Austin, Texas Michael Hsu Office of Architecture

Student Commercial Float Suspend Janet Chen University of Texas at Austin

Rednecks’ Medical Dictionary Artery: The study of paintings.

Bacteria: The back door to the cafeteria.

Barium: What doctors do with patients who die.

Benign: What you be after you be eight.

Bowel: Letters like A E I or U. Caesarian Section: A neighborhood in Rome.

Cat scan: Searching for a kitty.

Cauterize: Made eye contact with her.

Colic: A sheep dog.

Coma: A punctuation mark.

D & C: Where Washington is.

Dilate: To live long.

Enema: Not a friend.

Fester: Quicker than someone else.

Fibula: A small lie.

Genital: A non-Jewish person.

G.I. Series: The world series of military baseball.

Hang nail: youmore hang yourinformation coat on. click hereWhat for Impotent: Distinguished; well-known.

Labor pain: Getting hurt at work.

Medical staff: A doctor’s cane.

Morbid: A higher offer than I bid.

Nitrates: Cheaper than day rates.

Node: Was aware of.

Outpatient: A person who has fainted.

Pap smear: A fatherhood test.

Pelvis: A second cousin of Elvis.

Post Operative: A letter carrier.

Recovery Room: A place to do upholstery.

Rectum: Darn near killed ‘em.

Secretion: Hiding something Seizure: A famous Roman emperor.

Tablet: A small table.

Terminal illness: Getting sick at the airport.

Tumor: More than one.

Urine: The opposite of ‘you’re out’.

Varicose: Near by.

Vein: Conceited.

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MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM BECOMES FIRST PROFESSIONAL SPORTS STADIUM TO RECEIVE LEED PLATINUM CERTIFICATION

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ome to the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United of MLS and many of the world’s top sports and entertainment events, Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the first professional sports stadium in North America to achieve LEED Platinum Certification and has obtained more points than any other sports facility in the world with 88 total points.

Opened in August 2017, the new world-class sports and entertainment venue is renowned for its bold design and eye-catching features, however, the twomillion- square-foot stadium’s unique sustainability solutions for water, lighting and energy conservation, as well as community programs and stewardship, have been a key part of the building’s innovation story from day one.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s key sustainability achievements include: • First professional sports stadium in North America to achieve LEED Platinum Certification • LEED score of 88 total points, highest LEED score ever for a sports venue • First sports stadium to receive all water category credits, due in large part to a highly advanced storm water management system • In aggregate, Mercedes-Benz Stadium uses 47%less water than baseline (EPAct 1992) standards due to water-efficient fixtures and conservation infrastructure • The stadium can power nine Atlanta Falcons games or 13 Atlanta United matches with the renewable energy generated through its 4,000

solar PV panels • The stadium features LED lighting, which will last 10 times longer than standard lights and reduce energy usage by as much as 60 percent • Partnership with community organizations like Trees Atlanta to share captured rainwater for tree irrigation • Alternative transportation options including a bike valet program on event day, EV charging stations with capacity to charge up to 48 electric cars simultaneously and new pedestrian-friendly walking paths allowing for more connectivity between communities • Lead the NFL with the highest percentage of fans using public transportation to attend Falcons games thanks to convenient access to public transportation (3 MARTA rail lines in .7 miles)

“We set out to build a venue that would not only exceed expectations, but also push the limits of what was possible in terms of stadium design, fan experience and sustainability,” Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United Owner and Chairman Arthur Blank noted. “We set a goal of achieving the highest LEED rating because it was the right thing to do for our city and the environment and with this achievement, we have a powerful new platform to showcase to the industry and to our fans that building sustainably and responsibly is possible for a venue of any type, size and scale.”

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• Innovative local food production features such as: edible landscaping, an urban garden currently in development and partnership with local organizations to train Westside residents in culinary arts and help place them in living wage jobs in the industry • Home Depot Backyard: 13-acre greenspace under development adjacent to stadium will offer game day parking and tailgating, as well as arts and cultural events, entertainment and community building on non-event days Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s sustainable design was born from the vision and commitment of Arthur Blank, a leader in sustainable and socially responsible building practices in Atlanta for many years. The Stadium will host more than 50 major events each year, as well as conduct daily public tours and private events. Already on tap: the 2018 College Football Playoff, the 2018 MLS AllStar game, the 2019 Super Bowl, and the 2020 NCAA Men’s Final Four.

Photos Courtesy of AMB Sports and Entertainment

Political Corner 2018 Board of Directors and Officers From North Texas Corporate Recycling Association Cheryl Brock (President), Republic Services Fred Davis (Vice-President), Frito Lay, Inc. Kim Flynn (Secretary), City of Plano Jeremy Starritt (Treasurer), City of Frisco Jillian Dornak, Evergreen Paper Recycling Cheri Howard, Cowboy Compost Jason Keller, United Electronic Recycling Paul Kuhar, Champion Waste and Recycling Kevin Lefebvre, City of Dallas Murray Myers, City of Fort Worth Lanny Shivers, EARTHx Lynn Teel, LEED AP O+M, GRI 4 Lora Hinchcliff, Living Earth

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SUSAN HOLLAND, CPM, CSM sholland@urbanpartners.com

Susan Holland is the Director of Property Management for Urban Partners and the mother of Brittney Wacasey

“Don’t Tell Me What I Can’t Do, Because I Will Prove You Wrong”

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rittney, my second child, was born with a birth defect to her eyes. She has no vision in one eye, and her other eye is missing the macula, the part which enables people to see clearly. There is no way to correct her vision; she is legally blind.

She wanted to barrel race (as her sister and I did) and began competing at the age of four. At first, I would use a walkietalkie to cue her when to pull the horse around the barrel, but, as her confidence increased and with faster horses, she began feeling the horse as it came to a barrel to sense when to turn. She competed and won in barrel racing, pole bending and goat tying. Then, she learned to trick ride.

In high school Brittney continued to achieve. She became president of the Aledo High School FFA, competing at the state level three years in a FFA speaking competition, and Vice President of the North Texas High School Rodeo Association. She also advanced to the high school rodeo finals two years, rode with a rodeo entertainment team with trick riding, did competitive clogging, and played the timpani drums in the band.

Then came the time for Brittney to go to college. I thought it would be best for her to attend school in the area so I could drive her to and from school but she wanted to go to Texas A&M, which was several hours away from home. I told her about some of the difficulties I imagined she would encounter, and she undoubtedly said, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do, because I will prove you wrong.”

Brittney attended Texas A&M and pursued a teaching degree in agriculture. While studying, she wanted to become part of the Aggie Orientation Leaders Program that consisted of approximately 100 students responsible for facilitating new student orientations for all incoming Aggies. I told her there were 47,000 students attending the school and not to get her hopes up that she would be selected. Her response -“Don’t tell me what I can’t do, because I will prove you wrong.” Not only was she selected as an orientation leader, but she received one of three outstanding orientation leader awards!

Among the duties of the orientation leaders, she even learned to give campus tours that required her to tell the history of the main buildings and campus traditions all while walking backwards. The following year she decided to become one of the 16 Aggie students (overseeing the 100 orientation leaders) in charge of planning the orientations.

Yes, she was selected for this honor too. In her fourth year of college she married Keith Wacasey, her high school sweetheart, whom she had met at a high school rodeo. Along with keeping high grades and being involved in several organizations, she even found time to compete on A&M’s college rodeo team.

When it came time for Brittney to graduate from Texas A&M, she ambitiously entered her name to be considered to be the one graduating student to give the Aggie Tribute Prayer at graduation. I told her that it would be awesome, but there were 5,000+ students graduating and cautioned her not to get her hopes up. Graduation day came; the basketball coliseum was filled with parents and family members awaiting the ceremony.

On the floor were all the graduating students in their caps and gowns. On the stage were the professors with their colored sashes over their black gowns. When the ceremony started everyone looked to the big screen to see a petite 5’ tall young woman standing 24

Brittney went on to teach high school agriculture for two years in another part of the state before deciding to move back to Fort Worth and switch careers. Since I have been in property management since 1984, Brittney and her sister (Hayley) were raised learning how to manage a commercial property. I made a few calls to fellow managers and learned that Carma Bohannon with Holt Lunsford Commercial was looking for an assistant. She gave Brittney a chance and this “chance” has turned into more than three years. Carma has been a wonderful boss and mentor to Brittney over these years.

In my career, the Institute of Real Estate Management has been an important source for continuing education. I am a proud that I am a Certified Property Manager and had the privilege of being the president of the Fort Worth Chapter 103 of IREM for two different terms. When Brittney shared her desire to advance in her career, Carma (a past President as well) and I suggested beginning with the ACoM designation from IREM. Brittney did her research and found out that the four required classes cost about $900 each. My recommendation was for her take one course per year, but like all the other times, Brittney proved me wrong. She contacted Laura Hagen, 2017 President of Fort Worth IREM and Melinda Payne, the IAE, and asked for assistance completing a scholarship application through the IREM Foundation.

She received two scholarships from IREM, completed all the courses, and received her ACoM in less than two months. I was given the honor of presenting Brittney with the ACoM certificate and pin at the lunch this past September.

While working full time, Brittney and Keith had a baby boy they named Bronc and are continuing to be a part of rodeos by raising bucking bulls. Additionally, in 2016 Brittney decided to take classes online to further her education and now has her Masters Degree from Sam Houston State University.

In November, she became a CPM Candidate and has set a goal to earn her CPM in 2018. Through all of this, Holt Lunsford Commercial constantly provides her with opportunities to continue to be successful and learn their business.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the floor and miss.

As a family we prayed for a miracle, that Brittney would have correctable sight. What a miracle it would have been if she could see clearly, in order to live a full and productive life. But her vision has never changed. To our surprise, her lack of sight was less of an obstacle for her than we originally thought. Brittney began not only overcoming challenges, but instead, going above and beyond in whatever she set out to accomplish.

at the podium – my daughter. Yes, Brittney was selected to say the prayer. She stood proudly and calmly before 8,000 attendees and gave the Aggie Tribute Prayer. The committee told her she was selected because she represented what it meant to be an Aggie: a true testament of someone who overcomes challenges and has many accomplishments that set her apart from other students. Tears filled my eyes as I reflected on how my daughter proved to everyone that her blindness does not define who she is.

What is obvious to me is that God did in fact answer our prayers from 27 years ago. While He did not give Brittney sight to see clearly, he gave her a strong desire to overcome any challenge, and inspire others, like me, in the process. Brittney has accomplished more in 27 years than I ever will. She is living a happy, full, and productive life. That is all any parent desires. Now, at 61, I can see my career coming towards the end. So, I pass my love of property management on to Brittney. Some advice to her future bosses: don’t tell her she can’t do something, because she will prove you wrong!

Holt Lunsford Commercial Quarterly Values Awards 2015. (L-R) Carolyn Taylor, Brittney Wacasey, John McGee, Carma Bohannon, Holt Lunsford

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I have an EpiPen. My friend gave it to me when he was dying. It seemed very important to him that I have it.

Brittney Holland Wacasey – Ain’t No Mountain Too High

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the floor and miss.

I have an EpiPen. My friend gave it to me when he was dying. It seemed very important to him that I have it.

2018 Officers, Board of Directors

President Mike Arbour, AIA, JHP Architecture/Urban Design

President-Elect: Richard M. Miller, FAIA Hoefer Wysocki

Vice President/Treasurer: Kirk Johnson, AIA, LEED Fellow Corgan

Vice President/Programs: Al Hernandez, AIA Stantec Architecture

Board Members

Director of Advocacy: Maria Gomez, AIA GFF Architects Director of Education: Bruce Rachel, AIA Hensley Lamkin Rachel, Inc. Director of Networks: Mahbuba Khan, AIA City of Dallas Chapter Director: Nunzio Desantis, FAIA Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects TxA Director: Ana Guerra, AIA Jacobs At Large Member: Michael Malone, FAIA Malone Maxwell Borson Architects At Large Member: Briar Hannah Glenn, AIA Glenn|Partners Public Member: Pam Stein ULI North Texas University Liaison: Brad Bell University of Texas at Arlington CAPPA Northeast Texas Liaison: Steve Fitzpatrick, AIA Fitzpatrick Architects DCFA Liaison: Zaida Basora, FAIA Huitt-Zollars

2017 Chapter Awards

At the AIA Dallas Holiday Party on December 7th, 2017 President Nunzio DeSantis, FAIA, recognized individuals who made outstanding contributions to the Dallas Chapter of The American Institute of Architects in 2017 1 President's Medal: Harry A. Mark, FAIA (Photo credit: Allison Richter) 2 Young Architect of the Year: Jeramie Rittiluechai, AIA 3 Associate of the Year: David Whitley, Assoc. AIA 4 Industry Allied Partner Award: PORCELANOSA 5 Presidential Citation for Exemplary Service to the Profession through Leadership Development: Peter DeLisle, Ph.D., Hon. TxA 6 Presidential Citation for the Creation of Relevant and Engaging Programming - Empowering: Samantha Markham, AIA and Cindy Rosewell (not pictured) 7 Presidential Citation for Outstanding Volunteering Efforts: Khang Nguyen, Assoc. AIA 8 Presidential Citation for the Creative Design of Columns: Frances Yllana Photo credit: Michael Bruno

Murphy’s Law…And More Murphy’s Law (“If anything can go wrong, it will.”) was ‘born’ at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person could withstand in a crash. One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, “If there is any way to do it wrong, he’ll find it.”

The contractor’s project manager kept a list of “laws” and added this one, which he called Murphy’s Law. Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.

Catch-22: A paradoxical situation in which an action has consequences which make it impossible to pursue that action.

The Peter Principle: Within an organization, managers rise to the level of their incompetence.

The Dilbert Principle: Companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing.

Shortly afterwards, Air Force Dr. John Paul Stapp gave a press conference, saying that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy’s Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it. Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles.

There are many corollaries and offshoots of Murphy’s Law – including Murphy’s philosophy (Smile. Tomorrow will be worse.), Murphy’s Paradox (Doing it the hard way is always easier.) Murphy’s Corollary (Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.) and Murphy’s Constant (Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.)

Just for fun – here are some lesser-known but also immutable laws of the universe: Murphry’s Law: A deliberate misspelling: If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.

Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Queue Principle: The longer you wait in line, the greater the likelihood that you are standing in the wrong line.

Sdeyries’s Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the keyboard, the one you don’t want is the one that gets typed.

Hecht’s Law: There is no time like the present to procrastinate.

Green’s Law of Debate: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Ginsberg’s Theorem: 1) You can’t win. 2) You can’t even break even.

3) You can’t even quit the game.

Zappas’s Law: There are two things on earth that are universal: hydrogen and stupidity.

The Unspeakable Law: As soon as you mention something… if it’s good, it goes away; if it’s bad, it happens.

Vac’s Conundrum: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

Thompson’s Theorum: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Lowe’s Law: Success always occurs in private, and failure in full public view.

Todd’s Law: All things being equal, you lose.

Todd’s Two Political Principles: 1) No matter what they’re telling you, they’re not telling you the whole truth. 2) No matter what they’re talking about, they’re talking about money.

Baruch’s Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Johnson’s Law: If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue that contained the article, story or installment you were most anxious to read.

Issawi’s Law of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Perkin’s Postulate: The bigger they are, the harder they hit.

Johnson and Laird’s Law: A toothache tends to start on Saturday night.

Kirby’s Comment on Committees: A committee is the only life form with 12 stomachs and no brain.

The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your takehome pay.

Harrison’s Postulate: For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Hutchin’s Law: You can’t out-talk a man who knows what he’s talking about.

Wellington’s Law of Command: The cream rises to the top. So does the scum.

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Society of Commercial REALTORS® December Breakfast

Dr. Mark Dotzour presented his 2018 economic forecast to over 300 Society of Commercial REALTORS® members at the SCR December Breakfast.

Commercial real estate sales volume is slowing.

However, DFW is ranked in the top ten for foreign CRE investment in America. The confidence level for

small businesses has risen as more are looking to expand and add new workers. For residential real estate, DFW is still facing a housing shortage as the current inventory remains under 3 months. The Real Estate Center states that 6.5 months of inventory equals a balance between supply and demand.

Dr. Dotzour has been the featured speaker at this annual breakfast for more than a decade. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and served as Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years. He served as Chief Economist at the Real Estate Center from 1997 to 2015. He has published 83 articles in magazines and given over 1,100 presentations. His research findings and comments have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, USA Today and Business Week.

2018 SCR Officers:

Chairman - Wayne Burgdorf, Burgdorf Realty Group Vice Chairman - Graham Stiles, RE/MAX Trinity Secretary / Treasurer - Michael Langford, Orr & Associates Real Estate Immediate Past Chairman - Huck Newberry, The Newberry Company, Inc

2018 SCR Governors:

Scott Blakewell, Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s Int’l Leah Dunn, RE/MAX Trinity Michael Karol, Northern Realty Group Mark Nation, Keller Williams Realty Troy Moncrief, Fidelity National Title Stephen Fithian, SVN Trinity Advisors Bill Tinsley, Ellis & Tinsley, Inc.

“Take Out” • No Shortage of Meanings • Food that is cooked and sold by a restaurant or store to be eaten elsewhere • In bridge, a bid in a different suit made in response to a bid or double by one’s partner • To borrow from the proper authority (take out a loan; take out a book from the library) • To expend anger, vexation, or frustration in harassment of (take it out on…)

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• To need a lot of effort and to make you feel very tired (take it out of you) • To kill, knock out or destroy (take out the enemy or a building) • To deduct (from your taxes) • To remove something (the trash; your appendix) • To go out with someone (to date) Can someone take me out? Like on a date or with a sniper rifle. I don’t care – surprise me.

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bviously, it’s not the air quality that makes these building idyllic, but the architectural firm of Ma Yansong (MAD), which we have featured many times on these pages (see the network December 2014), never ceases to produce awesome buildings.

Ten housing blocks make up MAD’s Huangshan Mountain Village - a cluster of housing towers in China’s Anhui province which take their forms from the granite contours of the mountains themselves. Plans for the development was first unveiled in 2012. The floorplates of each one decrease in scale towards the summit, tapering to create a peak-like formation along the edge of a lake. It is located near ancient villages which are UNESCO heritage sites and forms part of a wider masterplan for a 100-hectare site at this popular tourist destination.

The design is based on the Shanshui City idea, an architectural concept created by MAD’s founder Ma Yansong, which takes its inspiration from Chinese landscape paintings (see Sidebar). It aims to help inhabitants reconnect with the natural environment. Wavy balconies surround each glazed floor and the undulating formation means no two apartments are the same. The blocks are linked by pathways that meander through woods.

Shanshui City Exhibition

“It is a bit mysterious, like ancient Shanshui landscape paintings that are never based on realism, but rather, the imagination. This inexplicable feeling is always poetic; it is obscure and indistinct,” said Ma. “This is the basic idea: we hope that residents will not just look at the scenery, but see themselves in relation to this environment, attention that is brought inward. In observing oneself, one perhaps begins to notice a different self than the one present in the city…. The dynamic relationship that is created among the 10 buildings establishes a new type of village landscape: one where architecture becomes nature, and nature dissolves into architecture.” ®

found in traditional Chinese shan-shui paintings (see the network September 2017).

Last year the firm completed a section of Fake Hills – an apartment complex in Beihai with an undulating roofline that accommodates tennis courts and swimming pools see the network, March 2016) and work is nearing completion on Chaoyang Park Plaza in Beijing, which is based on mountains, rocks and lakes

An architectural model of Shanshui City, a new urban development proposed by MAD for Guiyang, China. Inspired by a concept first developed in the 1980s by Chinese scientists, the city is named after the Chinese words for mountains and water and is intended as a model of how cities and their inhabitants can reconnect with the natural world. He explained: “The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilization to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilization at the expense of the natural environment.”

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he Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation. It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes, and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

including 550 Madison Avenue which was designed for AT&T. In 1978, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.

4 1982 Eamonn Kevin Roche (1922 - ) is an

Irish-born American architect responsible for the design/master planning for over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad, including 8 museums, 38 corporate headquarters, 7 research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for 6 universities. He created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has designed all the new wings since then.

The prize is awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology." The recipients receive $100,000, a citation certificate, and a bronze medallion.

The designs on the medal are inspired by the work of architect Louis Sullivan.

The Executive Director of the prize solicits nominations from a range of people, including past Laureates, academics, critics and others "with expertise and interest in the field of architecture". Any licensed architect can also make a personal application for the prize before 1 November every year. The jury, each year consisting of five to nine "experts ... recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture", deliberate early the following year before announcing the winner in spring.

2 1980 Luis Ramiro Barragán Morfín (1902

We have featured these ‘starchitects’ through 1997 on these pages. In our June issue, we will feature those who provided shape to our world from 1998-2018.

– 1988) was a Mexican architect and engineer.

His work has influenced contemporary architects through visual and conceptual aspects. His buildings are frequently visited by international students and professors of architecture. His personal home, the Luis Barragán House and Studio, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. (See the network Sept 2017 for more on UNESCO.)

1 1979 Philip Cortelyou Johnson (1906 - 2005)

3 1981 Sir James Frazer Stirling (1926 –

was an American architect best known for his works of works of modern And postmodern architecture,

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1992) was a British architect. During the 1970s, his architectural language began to change as the scale of his projects moved from small (and not very profitable) to very large. His architecture became more overtly neoclassical, though it remained deeply imbued with modernism, producing his a wave of large-scale urban projects.

5 1983 Ieoh Ming Pei (I. M. Pei) (1917 - ) is

a Chinese American architect whose first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado His new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts. He went on to design Dallas City Hall, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong amongst many famous buildings around the world.

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10 1988 Gordon Bunshaft (1909 – 1990) was

an American architect and a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, he was hired by the State Department's Office of Foreign Building Operations as a collaborator on the design for several U.S. consulates in Germany.

His only single-family residence was the 2300 square foot Travertine House, built for his own family. On his death he left the house to MoMA, which sold it to Martha Stewart in 1995.

6 1984 Richard Meier (1934 - ) is an American

abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. He has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and The Hague City Hall.

7 1985 Hans Hollein (1934 – 2014) was an

Austrian architect and designer[ and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna. Although he worked mainly as an architect, he also established himself as a designer and staged various exhibitions.

9 1987 Kenzō Tange (1913 – 2005) was a Japanese

architect, and one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism He designed major buildings on five continents. His studies on urbanism put him in an ideal position to handle redevelopment projects after the Second World War, and his work influenced a generation of architects across the world.

11 1988 Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (Oscar Niemeyer) (1907 – 2012)

8 1986 Gottfried Böhm (1920 - ) is a German

architect, renown mostly for having constructed many buildings around Germany, including churches, museums, civic centers, office buildings, homes, and apartments. He defines himself as an architect who creates "connections" between the past and the future, between the world of ideas and the physical world, between a building and its urban surroundings.

was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. He was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was highly influential in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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15 1992 Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira (1933 - ) is a Portuguese architect, internationally known as Alvaro Siza. Most of his best known works are located in his hometown Porto: the Boa Nova Tea House, the Faculty of Architecture, and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.

12 1989 Frank Owen Gehry (born Frank Owen Goldberg) (1929 - )is

13 1990 Aldo Rossi (1931 – 1997) was an Italian architect and designer

who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror, has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."

16 1993 Fumihiko Maki (1928- ) is a Japanese architect often explores

pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. He worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York City and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts and founded Maki and Associates in 1965. Among his best known works are a $330 million expansion of the United Nations building in Manhattan, and the design of Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site which opened in 2013.

When your gecko is broken, you have reptile dysfunction.

a Canadian-born American architect, A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age". His works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

14 1991 Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (1925 - ) is an American architect and one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century. He helped to shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the American built environment.

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17 1994 Christian de Portzamparc (1944 -)

is a French architect and urbanist. (He was born in Morocco when it was a French protectorate.) He is known for his bold designs and his projects reflect a sensibility to their environment and to urbanism that is a founding principle of his work. His iconic buildings are said to create environments in which the interior and exterior spaces interpenetrate.

18 1995 Tadao Ando (1941 - ) is a Japanese self-

taught architect who emphasizes the association between nature and architecture. He intends for people to easily experience the spirit and beauty of nature through architecture, and his work is known for the creative use of natural light and for structures that follow natural forms of the landscape, rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building.

19 1996 José Rafael Moneo Vallés (1937 - )

When your gecko is broken, you have reptile dysfunction.

is a Spanish architect of universal scope whose work enriches urban spaces with an architecture that is serene and meticulous. Among his works are the Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, the Audrey Jones Beck Building (an expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), the Chace Center at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Northwest Corner Building at Columbia University in New York City, and Peretsman-Scully Hall at Princeton University.

20 1997 Sverre Fehn (1924 – 2009) was a

Norwegian architect. He gained international recognition for his design of the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition. In the 1960s he produced two works that have remained highlights in his career: the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Hedmark Museum in Hamar, Norway. His other notable works include Schreiner House in Oslo and Busk House at Bamble.

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Inspired by Nature

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hen it comes to ambitious construction, no modern nation can compare with China. In 2017, more than half of the world’s 144 skyscrapers were Chinese, reflecting the country’s massive ongoing urban migration and a rapid bid for modernization. In fact, the zeal to build high and fast has created hundreds of anticipatory “ghost cities,” totally completed large-scale developments—complete with roads, apartments, and malls—that don’t yet have any actual residents.

Amidst all of this rapid and audacious development, however, is a growing contingent of buildings that eschew towering skyscrapers in favor of a more natural overall effect. These buildings seek to work in harmony with their natural contexts, often drawing inspiration from the topography of their surroundings to resemble mountains, hills, and even whole forests. The trend is even statesupported. A 2016 statement from China’s State Council, clearly wearied by frenzy of unconventional skyscrapers crowding the country’s cities, discouraged “bizarre” and “odd-shaped” buildings in favor of more buildings that are “economic, green, and beautiful.”

At the forefront of this organic architecture movement is Beijing-based MAD Architects, devoted to “developing futuristic, organic, technologically advanced designs that embody a contemporary interpretation of the Eastern affinity for nature.” Their striking multiple-building Chaoyang Park Plaza, just completed at the end of 2017, feels as much like a landscape as it does an office complex, blurring the boundary between the natural and the built worlds.

Chaoyang Park Plaza’s smooth and glossy forms of glass, in varying masses, mimic the effect of erosion on rock. Their dramatic ridges and valleys feel weathered and wind-worn. The ten-building, 220,000 square meter complex contains twin office towers, low-rise commercial buildings, and two smaller Armani residential apartment buildings. And amongst the buildings are gardens and pools, creating a tranquil, calming effect for pedestrians. As one might expect, the project is LEED-certified and built for sustainability. (See the network, December 2017.)

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the city’s green space and its dense urban sprawl, extending organic forms into the built landscape. Taking inspiration from traditional Chinese shan shui ink paintings, in which abstractions of natural forms (typically mountains and water) create a unified and balanced composition, Chayong Park Plaza is itself a work of art, feeling both futuristic age and primordial, unique in Beijing’s skyline but still at home in its surroundings.

While Chaoyang Park Plaza’s mission is to create natural forms with man-made buildings, another Chinese project is aiming even higher, hoping to create a holistic and integrated ecosystem from scratch: a full-fledged forest city.

Liuzhou Forest City, located in the mountainous region of Guangxi, is the brainchild of Stefano Boeri, whose earlier project, Milan’s Bosco Verticale, placed hundreds of trees on the balconies of two residential towers. Liuzhou Forest City is even more ambitious: a 30,000-occupant city where buildings are covered by plants and trees. Geothermal air conditioners and rooftop solar panels will help with the city’s footprint, and a high-speed rail line will provide responsible

transportation. The trees would also serve to provide homes for another type of occupants: displaced wildlife. (Seen in the network, June 2016.)

In a country where overwhelming smog and pollution have become facts of life, reducing visibility and even leading to road closures, the forest city could come as a literal breath of fresh air. And in an age concerned with sustainability, Liuzhou may be the first built city to be self-sustainable in the realm of air production. The “carbon-eating” city would absorb 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide and produce 900 tons of oxygen annually thanks to its almost 1 million plants. Construction on the ambitious project is set to wrap by 2020, although its organic components will obviously require a little more time to grow.

While some architects have imagined the buildings of the future as inorganic, metallic, space-age spires, we may be seeing another path opening up, thanks to the demands of climate and density: one where the most advanced ideas in design feel familiar. Nature, as it turns out, is often the best designer.

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someday allow the self-sufficient district to share its energy resources communitywide—powering East Austin’s electricity and economy.

“Like a collective campus rather than a monolithic stadium, the East Austin District unifies all the elements of rodeo and soccer into a village of courtyards and canopies.

Embracing Austin’s local character and culture, the East Austin District is a single

All images courtesy of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Austin Sports & Entertainment announced plans to launch East Austin District, the city’s first and only sports, culture and entertainment destination located east of downtown Austin. Designed by New York and Copenhagen-based architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, known for 2 World Trade Center in Manhattan and Google Headquarters in Mountain View, in partnership with Austin-based architects STG Design, the new East Austin District captures the distinct spirit of Austin with the city’s first pro-sports stadium and large-scale music arena. The development will be anchored by a 40,000-seat outdoor bowl and a 15,000-seat arena featuring a revamped Rodeo Austin. The new ecosystem will be energized year-round by its

destination composed of many smaller structures under one roof. Part architecture, part urbanism, part landscape – the East Austin District is the architectural manifestation of collective intimacy – a complex capable of making tens of thousands of fans come together and enjoy the best Austin has to offer inside and between its buildings.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG. surrounding urban character: workspaces, youth enrichment, medical facilities, convention space, and hospitality amenities that boost the local East Austin community and all of Greater Austin.

Bjarke Ingels

Located at the site of Rodeo Austin, the 1.3 million sf East Austin District is a world of worlds for sports fans, music festival-goers and adventurists to take the pilgrimage for the quintessential Austin experience. Meanwhile, Texans and Austinites will feel at home with cultural roots and history embodied in the architecture of East Austin District: inspired by the Jefferson Grid, the individual buildings are arranged as a checkerboard of different functions, appearing as a latticed roofscape from above.

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he new East Austin District created by Austin Sports & Entertainment and designed by award-winning architects BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is an entirely new sports and entertainment neighborhood tailored to celebrate world-class sports and cultural experiences under one checkered roofscape.

The nice thing about being senile is that you can hide your own Easter eggs.

The 40,000-seat stadium is designed for large-scale soccer and rugby matches, music festivals and other major events. Another venue, a 15,000-seat multi-purpose arena connected to the stadium, will serve as the home for Rodeo Austin, musical acts, basketball, hockey and other programs. The stadium and arena are conjoined by 190,000 sf state-of-the-art premium facilities and support functions, optimizing efficiency and cost while providing views to the best of both worlds. Though separate in program, the individual buildings are unified by all-wooden interiors based on the local barn and porch vernacular, tapping into Austin’s characteristic style and warmth.

An extension to Austin’s patio culture where so much happens outside as much as inside, East Austin District’s generous courtyards are the outdoor ‘living rooms’ for public life. Sandwiched between buildings and connecting the entire district, the eight courtyards never go off-season for the community. Austinites can gather in the

public parks and plazas for communal gatherings, food truck scenes and recreation, as well as soul-satisfying concerts that fuel the hometown’s claim as the Live Music Capital of the World.

Austin Sports & Entertainment (ASE) is an Austin-based company founded

by Andrew Nestor & Sean Foley.

BIG is a Copenhagen, New York and London based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors.

STG Design, with offices in Austin, Houston and Nashville, is a dynamic firm with an integrated approach to architecture, interior design and planning.

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ocated 98 miles south of Washington, D.C., Virginia Commonwealth University is a public research university in Richmond, the capital of (the Commonwealth of) Virginia. The metropolitan area has a population of 1,260,029 (and the university has an enrollment of over 31,000). Because the university is seamlessly integrated in the middle of a bustling city, it is hard to determine where one starts and the other begins; it creates the advantage of having some important and amazing structures on campus.

New York-based Steven Holl Architects designed the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) to provide Virginia Commonwealth University with

The Virginia Opera

classrooms, galleries and outdoor facilities for its theater, music and dance programs. The building is comprised of a series of irregularly- shaped blocks of zinc and translucent glass that slot together. The building is scheduled to open in April. Propelled by VCU’s top-ranked School of the Arts, the ICA’s architecture will be for exhibitions, film screenings, public lectures, performances, symposia, and community events, engaging the University and the city of Richmond. It will join other creative facilities on the campus, which include those pictured here.

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Richmond Symphony

The Science Museum of Virginia

Virginia Repertory Theatre

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1 They are the first generation for whom a “phone” has been primarily a video game, direction finder, electronic telegraph, and research library.

14 Jet Blue has always been a favorite

travel option but the Concorde has been permanently grounded.

2 Electronic signatures have always been as

15 By the time they entered school, laptops

3 eHarmony has always offered an algorithm

16 Once on campus, they will find that

legally binding as the pen-on-paper kind.

were outselling desktops.

have always been repeats.

college syllabi, replete with policies about disability, non-discrimination, and learning goals, might be longer than some of their reading assignments.

5 They have largely grown

17 Whatever the subject, there’s always been a blog for it.

6 There have always been

18 One out of four major league

for happiness.

4 Peanuts comic strips

up in a floppy-less world. emojis to cheer us up.

7 The Panama Canal

corner when looking for a job.

27 Wikipedia has steadily gained acceptance by their teachers.

28 Justin Timberlake has always been a solo act.

baseball players has always been born outside the United States.

has always belonged to Panama.

19 Carl Sagan has always

29 Barbie and American Girl have always

8 It is doubtful that they

20 The Latin music industry

30 Family Guy is the successor to the Father

have ever used or heard the high-pitched whine of a dial-up modem.

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Zappos has always meant shoes on the Internet.

10 Their folks have always been able to get reward points by paying their taxes to the IRS on plastic.

11 In their lifetimes, Blackberry

has gone from being a wild fruit to being a communications device to becoming a wild fruit again.

12 They may choose to submit a listicle in lieu of an admissions essay.

13 Dora the Explorer

and her pet monkey Boots helped to set them on the course of discovery.

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26 There has always been a Monster in their

had his own crater on Mars. -> has always had its own Grammy Awards.

been sisters at Mattel.

It might look like I’m doing nothing, but at the cellular level I’m really busy.

It began as a (very creative) way of reminding their faculty colleagues to be mindful of the perspectives of their incoming students and has since mushroomed into a widely utilized annual guide to “the intelligent, if unprepared, student consciousness.” When Professor Ron McBride and (former) Public Affairs Director Tom Nief began the Mindset List (in 1998 at Beloit College in Wisconsin), they couldn’t have had any idea what a phenomenon it would become. This is our seventh installment – a glimpse of the cultural milestones that mold the lives of those whom entered college in the fall of 2017. Students who began their first year of college then (the class of 2021) are mostly 18 and were born in 1999 – the last class of the Millennials (next year – Generation Z). They have always been searching for Pokemon, and among the iconic figures who have never been alive in their lifetimes are Joe DiMaggio, John F. Kennedy Jr., Walter Payton, and Creators Dusty Springfield. Their classmates could include Eddie Murphy’s daughter Zola and Mel Gibson’s son Tommy, or (America’s Got Talent’s) Jackie Evancho singing down the hall. There’s a lot more than what you see here at www.beloit.edu/mindset.

Knows Best they never knew.

21 They have only seen a Checker Cab in a museum.

22 Men have always shared a

romantic smooch on television.

23 As toddlers, they may have

taught their grandparents how to Skype.

24 The image of

Sacagawea has always adorned the dollar coin (if you can find one).

25 Nolan Ryan has always

worn his Texas Rangers cap in Cooperstown, while Steve Young and Dan Marino have always been watching football from the sidelines.

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ast year we ‘discovered’ and presented the two lists you see on this page (the network, March 2017). Now a New Year’s Eve tradition, Lake Superior State University (Michigan’s smallest public university) released its 43rd annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness” was released on December 31st in a tradition that looks back over words that have been overused in the previous year.

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Word Warriors

he Word Warriors of Wayne State University (also in Michigan) are trying to rejuvenate English by advocating for words of style and substance that see far too little use. Alarmed by the tendency that people sometimes overuse words that are momentarily popular (like some of those in the LSSU piece), and miss out on English’s inherent beauty and agility, now in its 9th year, Wayne State’s Word Warriors series promotes words especially worthy of retrieval from the linguistic closet. The Word Warriors’ extensive list is composed of submissions from both administrators of the website as well as the public. Participants worldwide have seen their favorite words brought back from the brink of obsolescence. See the archives at https://wordwarriors.wayne.edu/archive.

Insuperable - Impossible to overcome. (He never considered an obstacle insuperable; if a mountain were in his path, he’d simply learn to climb.)

Eucatastrophe - A sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending. (No matter how convoluted the story gets, every romantic comedy ends in a eucatastrophe.)

It might look like I’m doing nothing, but at the cellular level I’m really busy.

The tradition was started by the late W. T. Rabe, a public relations director at Lake Superior State University, on December 31, 1975. Though he and his friends created the first list from their own pet peeves about language, Rabe knew from the volume of mail he received in the following weeks that the group would have no shortage of words and phrases from which to choose for 1977. Since then, the list has consisted entirely of nominations received from around the world throughout the year; it has been so popular among language purists that the university has kept it going. (https:// www.lssu.edu/banished-words-list/banished-word-list-archive/)

The 2018 List

Unpack – Misused word for analyze, consider, assess. Concepts or positions are not packed, so they don’t need to be unpacked.

Tons – Refers to an exaggerated quantity, as in tons of sunshine or tons of work. ‘Lots’ would surely suffice.

Dish – As in to dish out the latest rumor on someone. Let’s go back to ‘talks about’ and leave dishes in the cupboard.

Pre-owned – What is so disgraceful about owning a used car now and then?

Onboarding / Offboarding – Creature from the HR Lagoon. We used to have hiring, training and orientation. Now we need to have an “onboarding” process. Firings, quitting, and retirements are streamlined into “offboarding.”

Nothingburger – Says nothing that ‘nothing’ doesn’t already.

I’ll take a quarter-pound of something in mine.

Let that sink in – One could say shocking, profound, or important. Let that sink in.

Let me ask you this – Wholly unnecessary statement. Just ask the question already.

Impactful – A frivolous word groping for something ‘effective’ or ‘influential.’

Covfefe – An impulsive typo, born into a 140-character universe, somehow missed by the autocorrect feature.

Drill Down – Instead of expanding on a statement, we “drill down on it.”

Fake News – Once upon a time stories could be empirically disproved. Now ‘fake news’ is any story you disagree with.

Hot Water Heater – Hot water does not need to be heated. ‘Water heater’ or ‘hot water maker’ will keep us out of hot water.

Gig Economy – Gigs are for musicians and stand-up comedians. Now expanded to imply a sense of freedom and a lifestyle that rejects tradition in a changing economic culture. Runs a risk of sharecropping.

Frangible - Fragile; brittle. (He picked up the frangible remains of the stained-glass display, which promptly fell apart in his hands.)

Couth - Cultured, refined and well mannered. (Her couth delivery was a relief following the blithering performance of her predecessor.)

Compunction - A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad. (He unleashed the flurry of tweets with no compunction about the bile he spewed.)

Recondite - (Of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse. (He couldn’t pass a history quiz to save his life, but the voracious reader was a repository of facts and recondite information.)

Nugatory - Of no value or importance. (He rambled on for hours, his big words masking the nugatory contribution he made to the debate.)

Bilious - Spiteful; bad-tempered. (He was in a bilious mood, given that it was Monday morning and he hadn’t yet had his coffee.)

Littoral - Relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake. (We drove along Michigan’s west coast, passing a variety of littoral towns and villages.)

Picaresque - Relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. (“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is one of the most picaresque novels ever written.)

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F.A. Bartholdi

Liberty Enlightening the World

He served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and took part in the defense of Colmar. Distraught over his region’s defeat, over the following years he constructed a number of monuments celebrating French heroism. Among these projects was the

Statue of Liberty

Lion of Belfort which he worked on from 1871 until 1880. A massive image of a lion sculpted into the side of the red sandstone hill that towers over the city, it was created to commemorate those who survived the siege of the Prussians at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1871, Bartholdi made his first trip to the United States, where he pitched the idea of a massive statue gifted from the French to the Americans in honor of the centennial of American independence. The idea had first been broached to him in 1865 by his friend Édouard René de Laboulaye, and resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. After years of work and fundraising, the statue was begun in 1876. During this period, Bartholdi also sculpted a number of monuments for American cities, such as a cast-iron fountain in Washington, DC completed in 1878.

The work for which Bartholdi is most famous, of course, is Liberty Enlightening the World, better known as the Statue of Liberty. Soon after the establishment of the French Third Republic, the project of building a suitable memorial to demonstrate the fraternal feeling between the republics of the United States and France was suggested, and in 1874 the FrancoAmerican Union was established by Edouard de Laboulaye. Bartholdi’s hometown in Alsace had just passed into German control in the FrancoPrussian War, and this influenced his great interest in independence, liberty, and self-determination and subsequently joined this Union.

Bartholdi’s design for a massive statue was approved and the Franco-American Union raised more than 1 million francs throughout France for the building of the statue. On July 4, 1880, the statue was formally delivered to the American minister in Paris, the event being celebrated by a great banquet, and in October 1886, the structure was officially presented as the joint gift of the French and American people, and installed on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor . Bartholdi personally chose the site. It was rumored in France that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bartholdi’s mother. The statue is 151 feet and 1 inch high but including its pedestal and foundation it reaches 305 feet. (The famous Colossus of Rhodes, one

Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in New York City’s borough of Manhattan.

Long known as Bedloe’s Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. In 1937, by proclamation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and in 1966,was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island.

Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye was a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist. In 1865 he originated the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He got the idea thinking that this Édouard René de would help strengthen their Laboulaye relationship with the United States.

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There are two kinds of people who don’t say much: those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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rédéric Auguste Bartholdi was born in Colmar, France, in 1834 to a family of Italian and German heritage; he was the youngest of four children, and one of only two to survive infancy. While in Colmar, He studied sculpture, attended the Lycee Louisle-Grand in Paris, and received a baccalaureat in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts as well as painting under Ary Scheffer in his studio in the Rue Chaptal, now the Musée de la Vie Romantique.

Later, Bartholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which afterward exclusively occupied him.

There are two kinds of people who don’t say much: those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Fontaine Bartholdi in Lyon, France (1892) of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was less than a third of the Statue’s height.)

It was the largest work of its kind that had ever been completed up to that time.

Bartholdi has graced the world with many large sculptures. He was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition where he exhibited bronze statues and received a bronze medal. He died of tuberculosis in Paris on October 4, 1904. His hometown of Colmar has several statues and monuments by the sculptor, as well as a museum founded in 1922 in the house in which he was born.

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ROXANA TOFAN

What first comes to mind when you hear San Antonio?

Is it the famous river walk, the Alamo, the Pearl District, Tower of Americas or Fiesta celebrations? Whether you plan a romantic getaway weekend filled with music and dining, a trip with your family to the zoo and theme parks, or a girls’ trip at the Pearl district, to explore the missions and shop along the River Walk, the possibilities are endless as Alamo City or Military City, USA celebrates 300 years in 2018!

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city with rich heritage, San Antonio - the seventh-most populous city in the United States and the second-most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States - is best known, among other things, for the San Antonio Spurs, the Alamo, great Tex-Mex food, the River Walk with cafes and shops, SeaWorld, its sizable military presence, and the Tower of the Americas.

Long before the Alamo fell, before William Barret Travis’s letter and call to action for “Victory or Death”, there was this place, by a clear river where people gathered. San Antonio was given its name on June 13, 1691, because that was the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua, the day that a Spanish expedition came to the river they called Rio San Antonio.

But San Antonio was not founded until 1718, when its first mission and first presidio were established at San Pedro Springs. The building in San Antonio now called the Alamo originally was built as the chapel of the Mission San Antonio de Valero. Valero mission was established at San Pedro Springs in present-day San Antonio in 1718 by Fray Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, a Franciscan missionary of the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. Like all Spanish missions, Valero was a combination of religious and industrial trade school for Indians. The Tejanos, a group of mostly Spanish-Indians loyal to the Spanish crown, pushed their colonial empire north from Mexico to found a military post and religious missions.

explore the Missions district. The River Walk itself is a network of walkways along the river, one story beneath the streets of San Antonio. Lined by bars, shops, restaurants, nature, public artwork, and the five historic missions, River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops, connecting the major tourist draws.

The River Walk also welcomes several river parades throughout the year. Fiesta San Antonio River Parade features flowery floats that float down the river during Fiesta’s eleven days of partying. Armed Forces Day River Parade is a patriotic parade dedicated to the men and women of the Armed Forces with twenty-five

What most Americans think of when they think of San Antonio is the city’s world-famous River Walk that expands past the downtown area and is 15 miles long! In 2009, a new extension of the River Walk connected the San Antonio Zoo, the Japanese Tea Gardens, Brackenridge Park, the historic Pearl District, and three museums: The Witte, The Doseum, and The San Antonio Museum of Art. Water taxis for hire allow visitors and locals to relax and enjoy the views as they venture to Downtown for dinner or star spangled floats carrying representatives of all 5 branches of military personnel with ranks ranging from Junior Enlisted to General. Finally, the Ford Holiday River Parade rings in the holidays with a night parade filled with lights, costumed float riders and music.

But here’s more about this city…….

Home to several U.S military bases, San Antonio officially adopted its trademark of Military City, USA in 2017. The U.S. armed forces have numerous facilities in and around San Antonio: Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, Lackland AFB/Kelly Field Annex, Camp Bullis, and Camp Stanley. San Antonio is a prime landing zone for military retirees transitioning in civilian life. Today the city has one of the nation's largest active and retired military populations. The city is also home to the Department of Defense’s largest medical center at Joint Base San 42

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2018 - Happy 300th Birthday, San Antonio!

The Tricentennial Commemorative Week, May 1-6, 2018, is one week you won’t want to miss. For six days, San Antonio will showcase its diversity through educational, artistic, and entertaining events.

May 1 is a day of reflections. All faith-based communities will join together for a community candlelight vigil and sunset services at Main Plaza. This day of reflection is led by the Archdiocese and other religious leaders for the community to come together with a communal prayer. Interfaith services will be held at places of worship through San Antonio with a central, candlelight service at Main Plaza.

May 2 will focus on history and education. Public, private, parochial and homeschool students will work on exhibits to be put on display at libraries, schools, and museums. A "tree-centennial" program is also scheduled, 300 trees will be planted at various locations across the city.

May 3 is Founders Day. A Founder’s Gala will celebrate the city’s multinational Antonio Fort Sam Houston. Every year the city welcomes the families of the 39,000 students who graduate from military training here each year.

In 2017 San Antonio landed five companies on the Fortune 500 companies to include iHeart Media Inc., CST Brands Inc., USAA, Valero Energy Corp, Tesoro Corp, and the South Texas Medical Center, the only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region.

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Six Flags Fiesta Texas is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with new rides and events. SeaWorld San Antonio’s combination of unique animal attractions, entertaining shows and thrilling state-of-the-art coasters make this park an exciting place to be! The original Schlitterbahn, just 20 minutes north of San Antonio in New Braunfels, has over 65 acres of tube rides, water slides and uphill water coasters. Splashtown San Antonio is 20 landscaped acres of cool, clean water excitement just three minutes north of downtown. Morgan's Wonderland was designed with special-needs individuals in mind and built for everyone's enjoyment. The 25-acre, completely wheelchair-accessible culture by focusing on the city’s founding mothers and fathers.

May 4 will be geared toward the arts. Museums, art venues, and theaters will offer free admission. Also on this day the tricentennial art piece will be unveiled.

park features more than 25 attractions plus the all new Splash Island - the world's first ultra-accessible splash park.

Alamo Plaza Attractions include Ripley's Believe it or Not, Ripley's Haunted Adventure, Louis Tussaud's WaxWorks, Tomb Raider 3D, and the Guinness World Records Museum.

There are so many things about San Antonio that you can enjoy. If you missed the Bidi Bidi Banda, Little Joe Y La Familia and Sam Riggs at the fabulous concert and fireworks at New Year’s Eve kick-off party for San Antonio’s Tricentennial, or the U.S. Army All American Bowl on January 6th, don’t worry, celebrations celebrating San Antonio 300 continue the entire year. No matter what time of the year you decide to visit, you will be able to enjoy several events and activities celebrating San Antonio’s 300 years. Here are just a few.

May 5 is Legacy Day, which honor the contributions of the missions in San Antonio. Throughout the World Heritage Site there will be five miles of musical entertainment, health and fitness activities, and tours culminating in fireworks over every Mission at night. The San Antonio River Authority will also dedicate the transformation of San Pedro Creek.

May 6 will focus on the military and the city’s rich military history.

Take the time this year to enjoy what this beautiful fun historic city has to offer. There’s something to enjoy all year long. To learn more about San Antonio and its 2018 celebrations please go to https://www.sanantonio300. org or http://visitsanantonio.com/300. For major events and festivals in 2018, check out http://visitsanantonio.com/english/Explore-San-Antonio/Events/ Major-Events-And-Festivals.

March 31 - April 2 - 2018 NCAA Final Four April 19 - 29 - Fiesta - www.fiesta-sa.org - Fiesta San Antonio started in 1891 as a one-parade event as a way to honor the memory of the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. It has evolved into one of this nation’s premier festivals and is the Party with a Purpose. There are nine Official Royalty, two Kings and seven Queens, who reign over Viva! Fiesta®!

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he Star Performing Arts Centre is located in a mixed-use complex called The Star which comprises the performing arts center and a shopping mall, The Star Vista. It was designed by Andrew Bromberg (Aedas Architects) and completed in 2012.

The 409,000-square foot performing arts center, from Level 3 to Level 11, occupies almost two-thirds of the building with a 5,142-seat performance venue. Aside from the main indoor concert hall, it also features a 770-seat function hall, an outdoor 300-seat amphitheater, multipurpose An architectural marvel, the complex, has won numerous awards for its brilliant architecture, such as the Cityspace 2010 Awards for Architecture.

The 3-story The Star Vista houses predominantly food and beverage outlets, a supermarket, and loads of shopping options.

An architectural landmark, The Star Vista is Singapore’s first naturally cooled mall. The environmentally-friendly building’s layout encourages air movement in the common areas. This was made possible after studies on wind flow and the optimal ways to enhance air flow through The Star Vista, for the comfort of visitors. At the base of its spectacular 109-foot-high Grand Foyer is a 200-seat amphitheater and water feature, which helps cool breezes

flowing through the building. The result is an all-year-round naturally cool ambience set amidst lush surroundings, akin to taking an evening stroll in the park. In recognition of its efforts to be environmentally-friendly, The Star Vista has been awarded Green Mark Gold by the Building and Construction Authority.

The BCA Green Mark Scheme was launched in January 2005 as an initiative to drive Singapore’s construction industry towards more environment-friendly buildings. It is intended to promote sustainability in the built environment and raise environmental awareness among developers, designers and builders when they start project conceptualization and design, as well as during construction. It is a benchmarking scheme which incorporates internationally recognized best practices in environmental design and performance that can have positive effect on corporate image, leasing and resale value of buildings.

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10 of the Most Beautiful Museums in the World

he relationship between art and architecture is crystal clear when we think about museums. Magnificent museums are visited both for the precious content they hold, andt also because of the aesthetics of their appealing design. Being chosen to design a museum is a great honor for architects, as it enables them to carve their names in the memories of the generations to come. In tribute to these great buildings and the value they present, we present you a selection of some of the most mesmerizing museums from around the world.

4. The Guggenheim Bilbao (Frank Gehry, Basque Country, Spain, 1997) The Guggenheim Bilbao museum overlooks the Nervión River, and it was created from glass, limestone, and titanium. The industrial port city of Bilbao generally witnessed what is now known as the “Bilbao Effect”—a term used to describe the influence of commissioning a “starchitect” to design a world-class cultural facility on revitalizing the economic condition of a city.

1. The Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum (Oscar Niemeyer, Niteroi, Brazil, 1996) A collaboration between the prominent Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and structural engineer Bruno Contarini. Built on the outskirts of Rio de Janiero, the museum’s futuristic design resembles to look like a flower moving through the rocks lands. Thee spiraling red ramp at the entrance is very distinctive.

8. Denver Art Museum (Studio Libeskind, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2006) Designed by Studio Libeskind (see the network -September 2017) as an extension to the 45-yearold main building, the annex contains collections of contemporary and modern art, as well as the Oceanic and African art collections. The museum is now one of the iconic buildings in Denver and attract thousands of visitors every year.

5. The Hanoi Museum (GMP Architect, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2010) An upside-down pyramid which displays the heritage of Hanoi over the last 1000 years, the building has an atrium from which all of the exhibition floors can be entered. The design also offers shade to the bottom floors and increases the efficient use of energy.

2. The Louvre Museum (Paris, France, 1793) The ancient museum offers three 360-degree tours to visit several exhibitions like the Egyptian wing.

It contains 380,000 valuable pieces of human heritage as well as displays 35,000 art pieces.

The objects on display vary from paintings, archeological findings, relics, and sculptures. It is the most visited museum in the world, receiving 15,000 visitors per day.

3. The Museum Soumaya (Fernando Romero, Mexico City, Mexico, 1994) Funded by Carlos Slim, the 6-floor museum holds various types of art pieces from Europe and Mexico, and its building cost nearly $55 million dollars. The avant-garde design. reminiscent of the sculptures of Rodin, The exterior is composed of 16,000 polygonal aluminum panels which create a twinkling effect.

6. The Jewish Museum in Berlin (Daniel Libeskind, Berlin, Germany, 2001) The museum comprises an old Baroque-style building in addition to a new annex designed by Daniel Libeskind (whose work was featured in the network in September 2017). The new building zigzags, has sharp angles, dark and narrow paths, interior walls of bare concrete, and a titanium-zinc facade with minimal openings. The museum aims to commemorate the Holocaust.

9. The Louis Vuitton Foundation (Frank Gehry, Paris, France, 2014) The $143 million-worth art venue is not only a museum but also a cultural center designed to encourage contemporary art. It has two floors and 11 exhibitions. The cloud-like design was meant to appear as if the building is floating against gravity.

10. Louvre-Abu Dhabi (Jean Nouvel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2017) The Middle-eastern branch of the Louvre features a white façade and overlooks the Arabian Gulf.

It is intended to be the focal point of a dialogue between civilizations and cultures, symbolically continuing the age-old history of the Arabian Peninsula as a land of convergence and exchange.

7. The Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar (I.M. Pei, Doha, Qatar, 2008) Overlooking the Arabian Gulf, the museum is a 5-story building linked to an education center by a large courtyard; its design was inspired by Islamic architecture. The atrium has a high dome and an oculus which transmits daylight. The angular features of the building are in keeping with the Islamic art pieces which it displays.

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Magnolia Award: Dena Rowland, Steele-Freeman

Volunteer Leader of the Year: Ryan McDow, TDIndustries

Specialty Safety Professional of the Year: Cameron Williams, TDIndustries

Vision Award: Manhattan Construction for The Ford Center at The Star and Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters

Young Constructor of the Year: Cody Treese, J. Cordell Landscape & Irrigation

SIR Award: Russ Garrison, SEDALCO

Volunteer Leader of the Year: Brian Sidwell, George McKenna Electrical Contractors (continued)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Denward Freeman, MEDCO Construction

Each year, TEXO The Construction Association recognizes outstanding individuals based on their contributions and dedication to the construction industry. The winners were announced at its Holiday & Awards Gala.

Specialty Superintendent of the Year: John Hogan, TDIndustries

General Safety Professional of the Year: Billy Naylor, McCarthy Building Companies

General Superintendent of the Year: Chris Arpaia, McCarthy Building Companies (not pictured)

People + Place Celebration

AIA San Antonio’s new People + Place Celebration replaced the annual Design Awards Banquet. The more inclusive event recognized Professional Achievement of chapter members, Design Excellence of projects submitted for award consideration and Community Leadership of individuals who have had a positive impact on urban, environmental or neighborhood issues in San Antonio. The event took place at Join us at ZaZa Gardens on November 29th.

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Legacy Award Carolyn Peterson, FAIA (Ford Powell & Carson)

Community Partner Sue Ann Pemberton, FAIA (Mainstreet Architects)

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ndy Jackson and Sam Houston were big buddies who had much in common.

Both of them lost their fathers at a very young age; thus, they never enjoyed a formal education.

Andrew Jackson Sr. worked himself to death leaving a wife with two sons and expecting (who would later become) Andrew. To protect the children from the battles of the Revolutionary War, she traveled many miles Andrew Jackson to safety. One child died on the trek, and the mother died soon after that. In 1783, Andy, the orphaned sixteenyear-old, surviving in South Carolina, adopted America as his family. (His parents had immigrated to North America just two years before his birth.) A Presbyterian minister took it upon himself to teach Andrew to read.

Sam and Andy both declared Tennessee as their adoptive state. (Tennessee was the 16th state to join the Union – June 1, 1796.)

Sam grew up in Tennessee, and Andy, gaining a reputation as a young man who loved drinking and playing cards, somehow was admitted to the bar, and at age twenty, arrived in the state of Tennessee. The rangy six-foot-one young man made an immediate impression in Nashville. For the record, Sam grew to be six-foot-six. Both were very tall men and both served in high offices in the State of Tennessee, before they served as presidents. And they both proved to be tough men in battle.

Sam and Andy both had trouble with women! Andy fell in love with another man’s wife, the beautiful Rachel Donelson. She was from a prominent Tennessee family.

Her marriage had gone sour, so she readily married her love, Andy Jackson. But, her divorce was not final. She Sam Houston had two husbands at the same time. The scandalous talk killed Rachel.

She never made it to the White House.

Sam was a womanizer.

As Governor, to show his fine morals and stop all rumors, he married Eliza Allen.

She stayed with The Treaty of Fort Jackson him six weeks. He after the Battle of Horseshoe was crushed Bend required that the Creek and resigned as surrender of vast lands in governor; he moved present-day Alabama and Georgia. in with the Indians and became an alcoholic. This is Rachel Donelson when Andy told him to go to Texas, defeat the Mexican Army, Jackson and bring Texas in as a state.

Andy was so loved in Tennessee, he was placed in charge of the Tennessee Militia. With that great fighting force, Andy, in the War of 1812, was able to defeat the British at the Battle of New Orleans. He came back the hero and was elected President of the United States. He was so proud of that victory in New Orleans on January 8, 1815 that he declared that January 8th was as important a date as July 4th. Independence was won on both dates!

It was during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in the War of 1812 that Andy and Sam met. Sam was terribly wounded in the battle and was thrown on a pile of dead bodies. He arose! Andy was so impressed, that he told Sam, “I’ll never forget you.” Sam responded, “Please don’t.”

Sam, known as the biggest drunk in Texas, did just that! But when he won the battle, he didn’t bring Texas in as a State. He declared Texas a Republic and himself its President!

Later, Sam sobered up and married a Baptist girl, Margaret Lea, who lugged him to the Baptist Church where he became a Christian. The preacher baptized Sam in the river waters of Houston. “Sam, your sins are washed away!” Sam answered with, “God help the fish!”

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Sam Houston was born in Virginia. His father died when he was a child. His mother moved her family to Tennessee where her husband’s brother took care of her children. Sam was a rebel and would not go to school. He thought he was too smart to go to school, so he taught himself everything he needed to know.

Tennessee. “I need you up here in Washington!” Sam served in Washington and then returned to Tennessee to run for Governor. He won the election.

Sam and Andy carried scars of battle all of their Margaret Lea lives, but they were truly gentlemen at heart! Both Houston of them could hold their own in society. When the tall men, Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston, walked into a room, they commanded attention.

And, both were known to kneel in prayer when the times got tough!

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The Battle of Horseshoe Bend was waged between the US and some Battle of Hoseshoe Bend vicious Creek Indians that the British had stirred up. Some years later, a saying evolved from this battle. “Lord willing and the Creek don’t rise.” (Creek is capitalized, because it refers to the tribe and not to a body of water.)

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ndrew Jackson (1767 – 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829 to 1837). Before that, he gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the “common man” against a “corrupt aristocracy” and to preserve the Union.

Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide. He faced the threat of secession by South Carolina over the ‘Tariff of Abominations.’ The crisis was defused when the tariff was amended, and Jackson threatened the use of military force if South Carolina attempted to secede. Congress, led by Clay, tried Born in the Waxhaws (a region including parts of North and to reauthorize the Second Bank of South Carolina) to Scotch-Irish immigrants, Jackson became the United States; Jackson regarded a frontier lawyer and married Rachel Donelson Robards. He the Bank as a corrupt institution and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Portrait of Andrew Senate representing Tennessee. After resigning, he served as a Jackson in 1837 by Ralph vetoed the renewal of its charter. After a lengthy struggle, he and his allies John Quincy Adams justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 until 1804. Eleaser Whiteside Earl thoroughly dismantled the Bank. In Jackson purchased a property later known as the Hermitage, and became a wealthy, slave-owning planter. In 1801, he was appointed colonel of 1835, Jackson became the only president to completely pay off the the Tennessee militia and was elected its commander the following year. He led national debt. His presidency marked the beginning of the rise of troops during the Creek War of 1813–1814, winning the Battle of Horseshoe the “spoils system” in American politics.

Bend. The subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson required the Creek surrender of The Tariff of Abominations was a protective tariff (passed by Congress in 1828 during vast lands in present-day Alabama and the presidency of John Quincy Adams) Georgia (see map on opposite page). designed to protect industry in the northern Jackson won a decisive victory in the War United States. (It was labeled the Tariff of of 1812 over the British at the Battle of Abominations by its southern detractors New Orleans, making him a national The Hermitage, built in 1835 because of the effects it had on the antebellum hero.

Southern economy.) It set a 38% tax on 92% of all imported goods. Industries in the northern After the First Seminole War the Adams–Onís United States were being driven out of Treaty (1819) between the United States and business by low-priced imported goods; the Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. major goal of the tariff was to protect these industries by taxing those goods. The South, however, was harmed directly by having to After the war, he led U.S. forces in the First pay higher prices on goods the region did Seminole War, which resulted in the annexation of not produce, and indirectly because reducing the exportation of British Florida from Spain. He briefly served as Florida’s goods to the U.S. made it difficult for the British to pay for the cotton first territorial governor before returning to the Senate. He ran for president they imported from the South. The reaction in the South (particularly in in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular South Carolina, led by John C. Calhoun) lead to the Nullification Crisis. and electoral vote, but since no candidate 1830, Jackson won an electoral majority, the House of In Representatives elected John Quincy Adams signed the Indian in a contingent election. In reaction to the Removal Act, which most alleged “corrupt bargain” between Adams relocated of the and Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda members Native American of President Adams, Jackson’s supporters tribes in the South to founded the Democratic Party.

Indian Territory. The Henry Clay relocation process A contingent election is a procedure used in dispossessed the presidential elections where no candidate wins an absolute majority of Indians and resulted in votes in the Electoral College. A contingent election for the president widespread death and is decided by a vote of the House of Representatives; a contingent sickness. In foreign election for the vice president is decided by a vote of the Senate. The procedure (along with the other parts of the Electoral College process) affairs, Jackson’s administration concluded a was established in Article Two of the United States Constitution, then ‘most favored nation’ treaty with Great Britain, modified by the 12th Amendment. They are extremely rare, having settled claims of damages against France from occurred only three times in U.S. history. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson the Napoleonic Wars, and recognized the was pitted against his own vice-presidential nominee (Aaron Burr) in Republic of Texas. He vehemently opposed the a contingent election due to the oddities of the pre-12th Amendment rising trend of abolitionism. electoral procedure. In 1824, the presence of four candidates split the Electoral College, and Andrew Jackson lost the contingent election to In his retirement, Jackson remained active John Quincy Adams despite winning a plurality of both the popular and in Democratic Party politics, supporting the electoral vote. In 1836, faithless electors in Virginia refused to vote for Martin Van Buren’s vice-presidential nominee (Richard Mentor Johnson), presidencies of Martin Van Buren and James K. Martin Van Buren denying him a majority of the electoral vote and forcing the Senate to Polk. Though fearful of its effects on the slavery elect him in a contingent election. debate, Jackson advocated the annexation of Texas, which was accomplished shortly before his death. Jackson was widely revered in the United States as an advocate for democracy and the common man, but his reputation has declined since the civil rights movement, largely due to his role in Indian removal and support for slavery.

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hese days, employers are constantly looking for ways to maximize the PEO takes on a lot more responsibility than a typical payroll company. Most efficiency and the almighty dollar. This mindset has created a “new PEOs also serve as a “one-stop shop” so the client doesn’t have to outsource various normal” world where more and more traditional employees are being HR duties to multiple vendors. Keep in mind that even though the PEO performs replaced by so-called “non employees”: independent contractors, these tasks, the customer will still be responsible for providing the proper criteria temporary employees, and contract workers. These new employment arrangements and standards for the PEO to follow. For example, if the contract with your PEO give employers a competitive advantage by allowing them to quickly respond to states that the PEO is responsible for recruiting new employees, the customer must changing business needs in an ever-changing economy. Over the years, courts have communicate its desired hiring criteria to the PEO. But note that all hiring must been eyeballing these arrangements to look for potential abuse by the employers, be done in a legally compliant manner to avoid possible claims and liability, such as and our government is clamoring to capture tax dollars connected to independent discrimination complaints and lawsuits. contractor and temporary worker relationships. So now we have another issue to deal with: co-employment. Generally speaking, “Oh, you hate your job? In addition to a solid contract with your staffing company or “co-employment” is an arrangement where two or PEO, it’s a good idea to have all contract workers sign more employers share employees, and each has Why didn’t you say so? a (legally compliant) document stating that they are certain legal responsibilities to the shared employees. There’s a support group employees of the staffing firm or PEO and that they Co-employment arrangements are becoming more popular in waive any claim to compensation or benefits from for that. It’s called the commercial-real estate world, especially with landlords (or the client. their property managers) and certain vendors. While beneficial, EVERYBODY, and they this arrangement can pose legal consequences.

The customer-PEO arrangement can allow the customer to meet at the bar.” mitigate certain employment-related legal risks, such as I-9 - Drew Carey Co-employment issues can arise when an employee has two or requirements, EEO reporting, payroll deductions, reporting, more employers who exercise real or potential control over their collecting and remitting taxes with the applicable state and duties and activates. This often comes up when utilizing temporary employees or federal taxing agencies. However, in the customer-PEO agreement, the PEO will staffing-type agencies. In most co-employment scenarios, employees technically likely try to get the customer to indemnify (protect) the PEO from these liabilities. “work” for two separate entities: the business owner, or client employer, who This will require you to carefully review, negotiate and draft your contracts. It is controls their daily duties and job functions; and the “professional employer also recommended that before you engage a PEO, you carefully study their staff organizations” (PEO) or staffing company, or co-employer, who handles HR-type to make sure they have competent, experienced human-resources staff members duties and functions. Staffing agencies, “temp” agencies, and PEOs are all very who can properly and legally handle your company’s personnel needs. Therefore, similar, however, staffing and temp agencies typically just provide workers on a you should conduct a thorough investigation and proper due diligence before part-time or temporary basis, but a PEO provides you engage a PEO, which is similar to diligence services and benefits to a client employer and its you conduct on your own employees before hiring existing workforce. them. For example, carefully review the biographies or curriculum vitaes for the PEO’s staff to make PEOs sure they have the proper qualifications, ask for In a typical PEO-customer arrangement, the client/ references, and conduct background checks. This employer maintains control of all business decisions should be completed before you sign the services and operations. For example, suppose you own contract with your PEO. multiple office buildings and apartments across Texas and you employ various building engineers, janitorial CPEOs staff and maintenance personnel to keep the assets On December 9, 2014, President Obama signed the in tip-top shape. Overall, your staff is excellent, but Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, which required you have grown weary of all the personnel-type the IRS to established a voluntary certification obligations that go along with keeping a good staff. program for PEOs. Per the IRS requirements, a However, if you had a co-employment arrangement qualified PEO may be eligible for this certification. with a PEO, then you would pay the PEO to handle PEOs must apply for the certification with the IRS all of the personnel duties and responsibilities so you and comply with the IRS’ requirements to maintain can get rid of that headache and focus on delving eligibility. PEOs that have this certification are quality engineering, janitorial and maintenance work referred to as “certified professional employer for your buildings and their tenants. organizations” or “CPEO”. Unlike PEOs that are not IRS certified, a CPEO assumes the sole responsibility As the co-employer, the PEO takes on certain, specific employer obligations, for federal employment taxes for wages it pays to worksite employees. In addition, which are agreed upon by the client and the PEO. This agreement is extremely the law governing the CPEO relationship allows customers to maintain important, and should be in writing, with the duties and obligations of the PEO specified tax credits for which they would otherwise be eligible. and the client clearly spelled out. This arrangement allows the PEO to handle It also extinguishes “wage base restarts” for new and terminating functions such as recruiting, new-hire onboarding, payroll, benefits, tax payments, customers throughout the entire year. This could significantly reduce worker’s compensation coverage and administration, immigration paperwork, and tax expenses and make using a CPEO a more attractive option. For other similar functions. Since the PEO acts as an employer for these purposes, 50

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example, federal unemployment taxes (FUTA) have to be paid by employers for all their employees. The FUTA tax rate is 6.0% (without state unemployment credits) and only applies to the first $7,000 paid to an employee annually. Once an employer pays that amount, they are no longer obligated to pay the FUTA tax for that year.

However, if an employee is paid by a new employer in the same calendar year, then the $7,000 resets and the employer has to pay the taxes off again.

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Legal Issues Related to Co-Employment and “Non-Employees”

Way back in 2000, a well-publicized lawsuit brought co-employment issues to the forefront of business-owners’ minds. That lawsuit involved Microsoft Corporation, who wound up paying almost $100 million to settle a federal lawsuit from employees who claimed the software giant classified them as “temporary” workers for years to deny them standard benefits such as health insurance and the lucrative employee stock-purchase plan, thereby saving the company millions. As the legal battle raged on, Microsoft changed its policies for using temporary workers. First, it developed guidelines to help managers figure out when a job shouldn’t be given to a temporary employee. Then, Microsoft set up policies favoring temp agencies that offer better benefits to the temporary workers.

So how can you mitigate risks in your workplace if you use temporary employees, contractors, staffing agencies or PEOs? Below is a summary of things to watch out for and avoid: Independent contracts should be, well, independent. They are responsible for performing a specific service for the company, the terms of which should be in a written, carefully drafted contract. The contract states what the contractor needs to accomplish, but the contractor has to decide how, when and by what means the service is provided. That seems obvious, but often the managers and supervisors who utilize contractors don’t often understand the distinction between contractors and employees. When contractors work side-by-side with the rest of the workforce, they appear to function just as a “normal” employee would. As the work load increases, the contractors can unintentionally take on new duties and start acting more and more like an employee. There are a few ways to try and avoid this problem: 1. Have a specific agreement with the contractor. The supervisor plays an integral part of this process, because she is the one that really knows what the contractor’s scope of services should be. Also, the contractors should not do the same job as other employees. Try to create different and specific jobs for your contractors.

2. Ensure that the supervisors are properly trained. Like most workplace problems, good communication and training are key to ensuring that managers know what their contractors’ scope of services is and can make sure they don’t start “blending in” with the workforce too much.

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3. Legal classifications. The IRS, the Department of Labor, the EEOC, state unemployment agencies, and other agencies, all have different classifications for what distinguishes an employee from a contractor. For example, there are three main groups of factors that the IRS uses to determine an independent contractor: behavioral control, financial control and the type of relationship of the parties. You must have someone familiar with these entire requirements serve as the company watchdog to ensure that there are no violations. Keep in mind that the biggest factor is the “control” test – it is acceptable for an employer to have complete control over its employees, but not its contractors.

4. Single point of contact. Have one person who is in charge of making sure the relationships are being managed, and no one is violation. This avoids issues slipping through the cracks.

5. Handling a misclassification. If you discover that a contractor is being treated as an employee, you must have a process in place to handle the “no what do we do” question. This process is often tricky because you have legal and “human” interest issues that you must address, not to mention the potential financial ramifications.

6. Internal Audits. In addition to training, periodic internal audits are a good tool to assess where you are on the spectrum of compliance.

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You must also be mindful of various myths and misinformation about co-employment rules. For example, some companies limit the length of service of a contract worker to under 1,500 hours over 52 weeks, based on the belief that such workers are automatically eligible for company benefits. Not only is this incorrect, but certain assignment limits may constitute an ERISA violation if they are construed as an unlawful effort to prevent workers from reaching the hours needed for plan participation. By contrast, the IRS allows companies to exclude certain people in their benefit plans as long as it is non-discriminatory. Therefore, companies can explicitly exclude certain temporary staff and independent contractors in their benefits wording. Alternatively, companies can have components of their benefits plans, such as SPPs, that are nonqualified.

Unfortunately, there is no “set-it-and-forget-it approach when it comes to co-employment and independent contractor risks. It is an ongoing process that starts with implementing solid policies and processes, is enforced by training and communication, and constant vigilance for changes in legal applications and market trends. But when done properly, it can be a win-win scenario for your company.

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