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Features 16 The TOBY Awards

Pictures of the International Winners in BOMA’s The Outstanding Build of the Year Awards.

18 Ask The Expert – Concrete Paving Repairs

Master Construction’s Don Weempe shows us that there’s much more to it than you’d think.

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20 Ask The Expert – Nothing is Certain but…Energy Management Software Schneider Electric’s Steve Wilhite on the importance of gathering reliable data.

20 In Fond Memory: Carlos Ruffino 32 Ask The Expert – You’re Only Cool If You Clean It

Aspenmark’s Chris Zazo on the importance of keeping your cool roof clean.

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Frost Tower in the Harwood District of Dallas and Fort Worth’s founder (Major Ripley Allen Arnold) finally gets a statue.

50 Ethicks!

Our biannual look at just some of whom are wrong with our world.

51 UnReal Estate

Boldt Castle and Blue Ciel.

52 Legal View – What You Need to Know About Insurance Attorney Anthony Barbieri simplifies some (otherwise) difficult concepts.

57 Book Review - “No Place to Hide” by Glenn Greenwald 57 UnReal Estate - A Landmark to Precision BIG designs a new headquarters for watchmaker Piguet

64 Educational Programs and Resources

Many of our affiliates offer professional designation programs.

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Rose-Mary Rumbley looks at two heroes of The Alamo.

37 Francis Scott Off-Key

On the 200th anniversary of our national anthem, we learn that its composer may have been tone deaf.

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Cover (and San Antonio) artist Ric Dentinger is a careful observer of nature and people – and it shows.

56 Joan Carroll – The Art of Photography.

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30 Granite Park Four on the border of Plano and Frisco

Go To Health 40 9 Habits of People With a Healthy Relationship to Exercise The Huffington Post’s Sarah Klein offers insights to benefit everyone.

42 Employers – Cover Your Assets!

Wellness guru Dr. Dallas Prévost offers guidance on incentivizing health.

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Cost Comparisons for a Green Globes/LEED In Every Issue Dual-Certification Project at Drexel University1 6 Contibuting Writers 7

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69 What’s In A Name?/You’re Going to Call Me What?

East side of Drexel’s Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building. Image courtesy of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Introduction. In 2010, Drexel University opted to pursue sustainability certification by two paths, using both the Green Globes® and LEED® rating systems, for the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, a five story, 130,000 square-foot laboratory and classroom building. The project was first certified as LEED Gold, then assessed to merit an equivalent award of Three Green Globes.

71 In The Loop 72 The Links Marketplace and Directory 74 Back Page: Our Advertisers/Contest Winners/Answers IBC Contest – The 15 Largest Urban Areas in the World

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To determine costs, Associate Professor Dr. Jeffrey Beard in the Department of Construction Management worked with researchers using carefully designed surveys. The team kept close 48 track of the hard, soft, and optional costs associated with both certification approaches, and documented the results in a formal report. Hard costs comprised registration and administration fees paid directly to USGBC for LEED and to the Green Building Initiative for Green Globes. Soft49 costs included energy modeling, fundamental building commissioning, design and construction 59 premiums, and the cost of owner involvement to participate in certification. Fees associated with specialty professional consulting services were included in soft costs. In addition, optional costs were accounted for, mostly for LEED enhanced commissioning.

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Cost Analysis. The cost of engaging the rating system organizations for the project was a key difference revealed by Dr. Beard’s study. Owner’s records indicate internal costs of over $125,000 for USGBC LEED versus $9,000 for GBI Green Globes, when considering not just certification fees but also staff administration time and consulting fees. The report also shows aggregate costs (hard costs, soft costs and optional costs for sustainability rating) nearly 15 percent higher for LEED than for Green Globes. A key observation from the owner’s perspective was that the time required to administer an energy and environmental rating system process for a new facility was nearly five times greater for LEED than for the process 1

This brief is a summary of the Final Report, A Study of Comparative Sustainability Certification Costs, by Jeffrey L. Beard, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Construction Management, College of Engineering, Drexel University.

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Amazing Buildings 46 One Giant Room

Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne looks at the new Facebook headquarters, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry.

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Editor-at-large Robyn Griggs Lawrence looks at this green Austin community.

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Sustainability editor Ellen Mitchell Kozack and Elise LaPaglia (both of HKS) think outside the historic preservation box.

11 Same Angle, Different Lenses – Airport Terminal Energy End Uses & Benchmarking The next installment in HOK’s Isilay Civan’s Sustainability Series.

12 Drexel University Study – Green Globes Certification Costs Less Than LEED

The Philadelphia campus building shows a significant delta in actual expenses.

13 World’s First Certified Green Garage Could be in Texas Green Building Council Director Trevyr Meade introduces a new program.

14 The International Parking Institute’s Awards of Excellence

Helen Sullivan on the revolution in parking facility design.

51 Summer’s Fall Reading List 53 It’s Complicated!

56 Real Estate Prices Are Bouncing Back 73 Grammar

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contributing writers

anThONY BARBIERI (P. 52) is a shareholder at Kessler Collins, where he enjoys a broad legal practice. He has been a speaker for ICSC,

IREM, and BOMA, has taught continuing-legal education seminars, and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star for many years, as well as being a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. He and his wife, Cathy, enjoy traveling and spending time with their extended families, getting involved in their church and supporting the community through various programs – including raising awareness of muscular dystrophy, education and exercise to fight heart disease, providing care and treatment for autism, and counseling domestic-violence victims.

Bert Berat (P. 63) is a New York-based film producer, editor and photographer. His film and television work ranges from National Geographic

documentaries to the Olympics and the NFL; his commercial work has been seen around the globe. He has a special spot in his heart for art and history, and he enjoys spending time with his wife, Shelley, and his 3 grown (and very successful) sons of whom he is very proud and weekending with the bears at his Berkshire Mountains getaway.

Isilay Civan (p. 10) is a well-rounded life-cycle expert on built environments. Her diversified educational background, and over 15 years of

transnational experience covering all industries and phases, gives her a unique perspective on Sustainability. A proud graduate of Texas A&M and ITU, she has published two books on her two PhDs, and is a sought after speaker at many industry events. Her hobbies include reading/writing, puzzles, brainteasers, sliding, and glamping (a.k.a. glamorous camping). She lives by the quote: “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”

Ellen Mitchell Kozack (p. 11), an associate and sustainable design coordinator for HKS, manages over 30 LEED projects totaling $2.4 billion dollars of construction. She was a 2013 Design Futures Council Emerging Leader and is also spearheading HKS’s efforts in public interest design through the 1% Solution Project. Ellen is a proud resident of Oak Cliff where she lives with her husband, stepson, and three pets. She is the Sustainability Editor of the network.

Elise LaPaglia (P. 11) is an intern architect and sustainable design coordinator for HKS. She recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Master of Architecture degree. Her thesis topic was “The Making of Place: Discovering Clarity Through the Sensory Process of Making.”

This study of the exploration of the human senses interacting with the built environment led her to design and build her own full-scale architectural installation made of 4,500 dry-stacked bricks. Elise started her own design blog right out of college and has a passion for writing editorial articles on all things in the world of architecture and design.

Robyn Griggs Lawrence (p. 9) is a former magazine editor and the author of a book on healthy baby nurseries and two books on wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and impermanence, Lawrence is working on another book and training to become a yoga teacher. She is an Editor-At-Large of the network.

Trevyr Meade (P.13) is Associate Director of the Green Parking Council (GPC), a 501(c)3 promoting sustainability throughout the parking industry. His responsibilities include an on-going webinar series, development and roll out of Green Garage Certification, marketing and outreach initiatives and liaison to the Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Campaign. He enjoys spending time outdoors - hiking, snowboarding, or camping. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Economics and Finance from Bentley University and is a member of the International Parking Institute’s Consultant’s Committee.

Angela O’Byrne (p. 46) 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 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. A singer, golfer, music-lover, and globetrotter, she relishes spending free time with her three grown children, and large extended family. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and her Amazing Buildings feature appears in every issue.

Dr. S. Dallas Prévost (P. 42) is a retired physician and medical acupuncturist who previously specialized in Integrative Medicine.

She adheres to the inventor Thomas Edison’s prediction that “the doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest their patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” In addition to being an employee benefits and wellness program consultant, Dr. Prévost is a medical liaison for Pharmanex (NSE) and specializes in nutrigenomic-based anti-aging and wellness. A life-long globetrotter, she enjoys skiing, scuba diving, sailing, ecotourism and photography, but also enjoys nature walks with her best furry friend closer to her home in Dallas, TX. Rose-Mary Rumbley (p. 36) holds a PH.D. in communications from the University of North Texas. She is a well-known speaker in Texas and enjoys researching each and every topic. She is a Contributing Editor of the network and Herstory appears in every issue.

Helen Sullivan (P. 14) APR, Fellow PRSA, serves as communications counsel for the International Parking Institute, the world’s largest

association of parking professionals and the parking industry. She is a spokesperson and advocate for Parking Matters® and frequently writes about parking, transportation, and sustainability for business magazines.

Don Weempe (P. 18) grew up in Dallas, and graduated from Texas A&M with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He is a licensed engineer and

founded Master Construction & Engineering in 1987. His first job out of college was working for Dresser Industries in the North Sea as a mud engineer. He met his wife-to-be in the UK at that time and brought her back to Texas. They have one daughter who is a freshman in college. He loves motorcycling, domestic and international hunting and all shotgun sports. His motto - ‘Ride it like you stole it.’

Steve Wilhite (P. 20) joined Schneider Electric in 2011 through its acquisition of Summit Energy where he had been CEO and President since 2001. Since that time, his team has grown to become the largest buyer of energy in the world and currently manages more than $30 billion in energy spend for 4,500+ Schneider Electric clients around the world, in addition to providing sustainability-related services to the same client base. Prior to joining Summit, Steve provided consulting services to several Fortune 500 companies that compete in the deregulated retail energy industry.

Chris Zazo (P. 32) grew up in Akron, Ohio and attended the Ohio State University from 1986-1990. He found his way to Texas shortly after

that in the construction industry. In 2006, he founded Aspenmark Roofing & Solar after working one of the biggest storms in history - Hurricane Katrina - in New Orleans. His passion of helping people and a pursuit of excellence drove him to start his own company. Aspenmark has been named by Inc, 500 as one of top 5000 fastest growing business in the nation for 2012 and 2013. When Chris isn’t on a rooftop burning up in the Texas sun, he can be found in Breckenridge, CO at his second home beating the heat and enjoying his other passions - cooking and playing golf.

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Ric Dentinger’s La Mansion Riverwalk Bridge-San Antonio was commissioned by The San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau as a gift for visiting dignitaries from Target. The painting now hangs in the international headquarters of the Minneapolis Company. The SACVB requested a painting that reflected the vibrant beauty, and unique charm that so identifies the San Antonio Riverwalk. Dentinger, best known for bold architectural designs, softened up his approach with a dreamy depiction of the beautiful and well-known bend along the Riverwalk.

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Robert Mueller was a City Council member (back then, a city commissioner) for only a few months in 1926. He died (“of blood poisoning brought on by hay fever”) in office having become gravely ill while debating the city budget.

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It is better to debate a question without settling it that to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert.

Robert Mueller was a City Council member (back then, a city commissioner) for only a few months in 1926. He died (“of blood poisoning brought on by hay fever”) in office having become gravely ill while debating the city budget.

Apparently, friends and colleagues, wizened by the knowledge that long City Council meetings could be fatal, wanted to commemorate his sacrifice.

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robyn@robyngriggslawrence.com Robyn Griggs Lawrence is a critically acclaimed author and editor-at-large of the network. She is also on the board of directors of the CMPBS.

Mueller Austin Leads the Way in Green Urbanism

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hen the U.S. Green Building Council, in partnership with the Congress for New Urbanism and the Natural Resources Defense Council, rolled out its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Neighborhood Development pilot in 2007, one Austin community was way ahead of the game. As the movement to promote walkable, diverse and sustainable development caught on across the country, the City of Austin and master developer Catellus were already well on their way toward redeveloping the 700-acre site of Austin’s former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport as a sustainable, mixed-use community that would live up to Austin’s reputation as a world leader in green building and development.

Sustainable development was a priority even before building began at Mueller.

Buildings were dismantled and components recycled, and deconstructed runway material from the former airport was reused in the construction of new roads.

Developers moved two 500,000-pound 100-year-old oak trees that were joined at the roots to the roundabout at Mueller’s entrance and restored landmark buildings, including an airport control tower, an aviation administration building, and a World War II-era hangar that’s now used for community events and farmers markets. This commitment to reuse continues with new construction, and nearly 54,000 tons of construction waste has been diverted from landfills to date.

Mueller’s deep sustainable roots were reinforced in 2004, when Catellus called upon Austin’s Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a pioneer in green development, to define and codify best green building and development practices for the neighborhood. Under the Center’s guidance, the team gathered its sustainable goals under an umbrella that it called Green Urbanism.

“The vision that the City of Austin and its citizens had for Mueller to be a model of responsible urban development is being realized in many ways, especially its green community design,” said Deanne Desjardin, vice president of Mueller marketing and communications for Catellus. “The roster of LEED-rated buildings at Mueller is extraordinary, led by Dell Children’s Medical Center of Robert Mueller Central Texas as the first LEED Platinum hospital in the world. We have seen our commercial developments inspired to outperform one another with innovative, sustainable design.”

Fast Forward to Today

A decade later, Mueller is a thriving green neighborhood and one of the nation’s most notable green urbanist communities, with homes, offices and retail buildings that meet stringent local and national energy-efficiency standards, as well as public transit connections, 13 miles of hiking and biking paths and 140 acres of parks and greenway designed with water-quality ponds to help keep the creeks clean and irrigated with reclaimed water.

“Instead of saying that green development is this and not that, we really found a great place to push boundaries in a reasoned, pragmatic way,” said Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems co-director Gail Vittori. “We looked carefully at Mueller’s performance-based attributes and set a bar that required minimum green certification levels for all building types which, in 2004, set a leadership standard for green development at such a large scale. As we anticipated, this established a floor that most projects have exceeded, achieving higher than required certification levels.”

All construction at Mueller is either LEED-certified or meets Austin’s highly acclaimed Austin Energy Green Building standards, or both. All new homes are required to earn LEED certification or a minimum three-star rating from the Austin Energy Green Building Program. A town center with cafes, shops, plazas and live/work space is targeted to include at least 30 percent locally owned businesses when fully built out. A LEED Platinum-certified Ronald McDonald House adjacent to Dell Children’s Medical Center sets a high standard as the first of its kind in the world to utilize solar power, a green roof and green materials, and it spurred Ronald McDonald Houses worldwide to develop and adhere to sustainable protocols. The community is also home to Austin’s largest public art project, a series of 18- to 24-foot tall flower-shaped solar sculptures that collect the sun’s rays and convert them into solar energy.

Mueller has worked with the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems to codify its best practices through the Mueller Green Resources Guide (http:// www.muelleraustin.com/uploads/about/mgrg.pdf). Now in its third version, the guide “demystifies green building and sustainability and makes clear why it matters”—not just for Mueller but for developers worldwide, Vittori said.

“Green building and low-impact development practices that were once a challenge to prospective deals are now viewed as an asset,” Desjardin said. “Companies are seeing the long-term benefit of responsible building practices and are looking for locations that attract the best employees with a healthy environment, mix of uses, and transit and pedestrian orientation.”

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In 2009, Mueller earned the Stage 2 LEED Silver certified plan, with final Stage 3 certification anticipated in 2016.

MUELLER PROJECTED AT COMPLETION: Total Acres: 700, Parks & Open Space: 140 acres, Commercial: 4.3 million sq ft, Residential (Single & Multi-Family): 5,900 units, Employment Population: 13,000, Residential Population: 13,000

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Ellen Mitchell Kozack

emitchell@hksinc.com

Ellen Mitchell Kozack, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is an Associate and Sustainable Design Coordinator at HKS, Inc. in Dallas.

She is also the Sustainability Editor of the network.

ELISE LaPAGLIA

elapglia@hksinc.com Elise LaPaglia, Associate AIA, LEED AP BD+C is a sustainable design coordinator for HKS

50 UN Plaza:

esigned by Arthur Brown Jr. and completed in 1936, 50 UN Plaza was the final structure in a seven-building complex in the Civic Center area of San Francisco, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The six-story, Beaux-Arts building is an excellent example of Second Renaissance Revival architecture, but had been sitting vacant since 2007.

The renovation of the Federal Building at 50 UN Plaza was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, legislation intended to put people back to work converting the federal building stock into high-performing sustainable structures.

One of seven representative examples of the City Beautiful movement, it houses federal employees on the Pacific Rim. The design responds to each of these needs: modernization, sustainability, and an efficient and comfortable workplace.

Updating History

This project is a stellar example of Deep Green Retrofit, an integrative, wholebuilding analysis and construction process to achieve excellent energy savings and efficiency. 50 UN Plaza delicately balances this historical retrofit with more modern, energy-conscious technology such as updated toilet fixtures (using 80% less water than the original ones) and highly efficient LED lighting fixtures. To facilitate this balance, the team made constant efforts to evaluate each decision, and determine whether the best sustainable solution was to rehabilitate the existing feature or replace it with new technology.

The result: 98% of the existing walls, floors, and roof were reused, as well as 52% of the building’s interior, non-structural elements.

Typically recognized as a base camp for the city’s homeless, the recent revitalization efforts to the plaza on behalf of the federal government, city of San Francisco, and community have transformed the neighborhood. Since the start of the project, 15 companies – including social-media giant Twitter – have moved into the midmarket area. 5,500 residential units were built, with 26% reserved as affordable.

Mayor Ed Lee touts the neighborhood as, “being developed into a place where people can come visit and [is] just a good place to be.”

The site is adjacent to several public transit modes, including Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), the municipal railway, and 14 bus lines. Bicycle racks and locker/ shower rooms are incorporated for employees who choose to ride bikes or walk to work. To further this effort, parking was neither added nor subsidized. Instead, the client offers the Fleet Alternative Fuel Vehicle Program—an AFV lease arrangement for employees needing access to automobiles.

Making Opportunities Work

The architect worked with the green roof consultant to construct a 14,000 square-foot green roof to help reduce storm-water runoff by 75%. The consultant carefully selected a mix of drought-tolerant plants, including both host and nectar species to help birds, butterflies, and insects thrive and populate the city.

“The roof garden, only 6 months old, is already a flourishing habitat for ground nesting and foraging birds and beneficial insects. Red-tailed hawks have been spotted in the area as they hunt for street pigeons. Our team is surprised how quickly the plant populations have established themselves and begun to thrive,” he said. Shading portions of the green roof, the 96 panel photovoltaic array serves to further reduce dependence on the grid by offsetting 1% of the building’s energy consumption.

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A key focus for 50 UN Plaza was to maximize energy efficiency. The main sustainable goal was to springboard off of the climatic advantages of the region and employ as many passive strategies as possible to reduce energy consumption.

To address the remaining energy usage, an on-site photovoltaic system was incorporated as an integral piece to the energy puzzle.

As is typical of buildings built in the 1930s, the original design of 50 UN Plaza optimizes passive ventilation in the absence of mechanical systems. Care was taken to maximize those passive strategies instead of relying on energy-heavy cooling systems. 50 UN Plaza employs a mixed mode ventilation system, based on operable windows for perimeter spaces with overhead speed control fans to contribute to occupant comfort. A ‘green light’ system advises the building occupants of the outside conditions at which opening the windows would be advantageous. For heating, the original perimeter steam radiators were rehabilitated and fitted with local thermostatic control.

Fiat Lux!

50 UN Plaza also incorporates an elaborate lighting strategy. The system includes daylight harvesting sensors that detect the daylight levels in the space and dim the overhead lights accordingly, which reduces the energy demand of the lights by 48% for open office areas. In addition, occupancy sensors are installed in each space to automatically shut off mechanical lighting when the space is not in use. Task lights are provided at each work station to ensure that employees have a suitable level of lighting at all times.

The historic corridors were opened up to bring natural daylight and outside views into what was previously a dark and underutilized space. The intent of the workspace layout was to create neighborhoods and additional collaboration spaces that are two- to three- bays wide, depending on their location. Since the workspace is completely open, an enclosed Acoustic Privacy Room (APR) was created within each node for employees to use for small meetings, conference calls or personal calls when necessary.

To evaluate the built performance, occupant feedback surveys and multiple personal accounts of space usage are being gathered. The design team is in consistent dialog with the owners, getting feedback of day-to-day working environments to understand what areas are working for occupants and what areas are challenges that may need adjustments. An integral part of the operations and maintenance of the building is the integrated energy dashboard. It represents part of a comprehensive energy management system, which streams energy data in real time for occupants to monitor. The interactive screen provides opportunities to increase employee awareness of their impact on the environment and to modify behavior by visually representing energy consumption in real time.

From the very beginning of the project, the HKS team’s aspirational goals were to achieve LEED Platinum certification. However, the initial path was based on very complicated and expensive solutions. The first design was over budget and the realities of scope and cost were not aligned. They had to pair back expectations, and an extensive redesign effort refocused the design to a more modest, LEED Gold threshold. However, the clarity and simplicity of the redesign, coupled with smart, sustainable design decisions led to LEED Platinum nonetheless. n

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Thinking Outside the Historic Preservation Box

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Isilay Civan isilay.civan@hok.com Isilay Civan MSc, PhD2, LEED® AP O+M, SFP is a Research & Strategic Innovation Specialist at HOK Chicago Consulting Group

“Same Angle, Different Lenses” Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut and still think they’re sexy.

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Airport Terminal Energy End Uses & Benchmarking

he operating environment for airports, both large and small, has changed dramatically over the last decade and it is continuing to change.

A significant number of airports are undergoing large-scale upgrades driven primarily by their aging infrastructures of 25 years or more, user demands, new technologies, and most importantly, their desire to decrease operational costs. Airport facilities are being asked to do more with less while upgrading their existing facilities and demonstrating a reasonable return on investment for identified capital projects.

statements supported with little empirical data and few case studies. The reason for this lies primarily in the fact that airports are particularly complex, and they operate under very different circumstances in terms of aviation-specific activities, commercial activities, site constraints, governance and ownership structure, etc., making the comparability of different facility operations data for benchmarking purposes rather difficult.

Since energy is often the second largest operating expense (exceeded only by personnel costs), airport facility managers are expected to focus particularly on limiting or eliminating unnecessary energy use in airport terminals. However, the ability to calculate a reasonably accurate return on investment on these capital projects is greatly diminished if the airport operators and analysts do not have access to comparable energy end use data upon which to base their assumptions.

Benchmarking is a structured technique to offer such input assistance. It is the process of studying and adapting the best practices of other organizations to improve a business’s own performance and establish a point of reference by which internal performance can be measured. It is used to compare productivity and efficiency, evaluate specific processes, policies and strategies and to assess overall organizational performance. It is also the means for making a more realistic business case for capital expenditures through the assessment of peers’ realized outcomes.

FAA – Airport Sustainability

Given the significant differences between airports and other facilities, having a set of industry-accepted airport energy/utility indices for benchmarking would allow airport managers to compare the performance of an airport with the performance of other airports within the same size range. An airport-specific energy use intensity (EUI) metric would also provide an internal gauge of the effectiveness of various measures implemented.

Initiated in May 2010, the FAA has developed a Sustainable Master Plan Pilot Program to help achieve “social progress” through a broad set of actions that ensure organizational goals are achieved in a way that is consistent with the needs and values of the local community.

The pilot program provides preliminary guidance on airport Courtesy of HOK (from left to right: Indianapolis International Airport Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal - LEED sustainability planning, and outlines a plan to help further define certified; Cork Airport Passenger Terminal; Boston Logan International Airport Terminal A - LEED certified) sustainability planning principles. It includes identifying industryspecific performance metrics that can be widely utilized and accepted.

The Airports Council International Guide to Airport Performance Measures (2012) notes that airport benchmarking is divided into two types of comparisons: There are many benefits of airport sustainability planning, including reduced (1) internal (self-benchmarking) —where an airport compares its performance energy consumption, reduced noise impacts, reduced hazardous and solid waste with itself over time; and (2) external (peer benchmarking) —where it compares generation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved water quality, improved its performance against other airports, either at a single point or over a period community relations, and cost savings. However, even though benchmarking is a very powerful tool, it is not without its limitations. Knowing these limitations of time. is critical in developing a useful approach that can immediately be implemented In either case, over the years, few attempts have been made to quantify or with various scalability and locality capabilities industry-wide. n benchmark the savings potential at airports other than through broad general

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Cost Comparisons for a Green Globes/LEED Dual-Certification Project at Drexel University1

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The final report - A Study of Comparative Sustainability Certification Costs/Green Rating System Cost Comparison Study: LEED and Green Globes - examined: East side of Drexel’s Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building. Image courtesy of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. - Intrinsic hard costs – allocable on a line-by-line basis – for meeting criteria in each of the rating systems; Introduction.

In 2010, Drexel University to pursue sustainability by twoor - Soft costs, whether accounted for as part of the indirect project costs or secondary soft costs that aroseopted as a result of the project, but werecertification otherwise allocated paths, using both the Green Globes® and LEED® rating systems, for the Papadakis Integrated absorbed; and Sciences Building, five story, 130,000 square-foot laboratory and classroom building. The - Optional costs arising from implementation of the two green building ratingasystems.

project was first certified as LEED Gold, then assessed to merit an equivalent award of Three

GreenBuilding Globes.at Drexel’s West Philadelphia campus, a five-story, 130,000-square-foot laboratory and The research was confined to the Papadakis Integrated Sciences classroom building that opened in 2011.

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“Green Globe certification currently gives the market a choice among certification systems and provides competition that helps improve results for users, resulting in more innovation and lower costs over time,” said Jerry Yudelson, President of the Green Building Initiative. “In this particular project, the cost savings to the University were on the order of $1.00 per square foot, a significant number for a large building.”

To determine costs, Associate Professor Dr. Jeffrey Beard in the Department of Construction Management worked with researchers using carefully designed surveys. The team kept close A key variance in the two rating systems that was revealed by the study was track of the hard, soft, and optional costs associated with both certification approaches, and the cost of using each for the Papadakis building. The breakdown summarized thefor results in a formal report. Hard costs comprised registration and administration in the university’s records indicates internal (staff time)documented costs at Drexel fees paid directly to USGBC for LEED and to the Green Building Initiative for Green Globes. Soft costs included energy modeling, fundamental building commissioning, design and construction premiums, and the cost of owner involvement to participate in certification. Fees associated with specialty professional consulting services were included in soft costs. In addition, optional costs were accounted for, mostly for LEED enhanced commissioning.

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Cost Analysis. The cost of engaging the rating system organizations for the project was a key difference revealed by Dr. Beard’s study. Owner’s records indicate internal costs of over $125,000 for USGBC LEED versus $9,000 for GBI Green Globes, when considering not just certification fees but also staff administration time and consulting fees. The report also shows aggregate costs (hard costs, soft costs and optional costs for sustainability rating) nearly 15 percent higher for LEED than for Green Globes. A key observation from the owner’s perspective was that the time required to administer an energy and environmental rating system process for a new facility was nearly five times greater for LEEDforthan forversus the process administering both systems were more than $125,000 LEED $9,000 for Green Globes. The report’s summary shows aggregate green building costs

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nearly higher LEED thanSustainability for GreenCertification Globes. The table illustrates cost This brief is a summary of the Final 15% Report, A Studyfor of Comparative Costs,

by Jeffrey L. Beard, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Construction Management, College of Engineering, University. differences between LEED and Green Globes inDrexel several key areas of design, management and assessment.

The study was funded by the GBI; however, Professor Beard conducted the research without any oversight from GBI, using timesheets and other records of administrative costs maintained by the project team and Drexel University.

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ccording to a recent study completed by Drexel University Professor Jeffrey Beard, GBI’s Green Globes certification process is significantly less expensive to conduct and faster to complete than LEED certification.

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The World’s First Certified Green Garage Could Be in Texas A New Program Generates Excitement

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here are plenty of LEED-certified buildings in Texas, but look high and low and you won’t find a certified parking garage. That’s because the U.S. Green Building Council’s environmental design standard excludes stand-alone parking structures.

Like LEED, the new Green Garage Certification program offers a pathway for increasing building efficiency, lessening environmental effects, enhancing asset value, and aligning with tenants and customers who care about sustainability.

The program is structured for new and existing parking facilities.

“We fully support efforts to continue the focus on energy efficiency and sustainability, whether in the built office environment or in garages that support them,” says Brad A. Molotsky, executive vice president and general counsel at Brandywine Realty Trust. “Materials, envelope, lighting, ventilation, and energy can all be positively affected through design and execution that takes the core principals of conservation into account.”

Photo courtesy of the University of North Texas

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I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

Earlier this year, the not-for-profit Green Parking Council (GPC) an affiliate of the International Parking Institute, launched its Green Garage Certification program right here in Texas, marking a milestone that offers the world’s first environmental certification for parking structures.

Highland Street Garage, Denton, TX Green Garage Certification recognizes that parking facilities are the connector between the built environment and transportation infrastructure. As such, the program encompasses technologies and practices that not only limit a structure’s environmental effect, but enable users to more easily embrace sustainable mobility options. The 47 elements of the program create a blueprint for employing these opportunities and are organized into three approaches: • Garage management highlights operational practices that maximize facility revenues, increase operational efficiencies, and minimize waste.

• Programmatic elements encourage facilities to streamline the parking process and support alternative mobility solutions.

• Technology and structure design aspects outline physical features of a garage that increase energy efficiency, reduce operating costs, and promote the conservation of water resources.

Adopting this holistic approach to parking sustainability allows garages to actively connect the real estate they support to the outside world, helping better a property’s commercial and environmental performance.

engineering, facilities management, sustainability, and technology.

An extensive beta phase was used to assess the sustainability of more than 40 garages throughout the United States and Canada, including six sites in Texas: • 601 Travis Garage, Houston • George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston • Highland Street Garage, Denton • Houston Intercontinental Airport, Houston • Mandalay Tower Parking Garage, Las Colinas • One Greenway Plaza, Houston “The University of North Texas has invested in achieving sustainable measures on our campus in all facilities including parking,” says Geary L. Robinson, director of parking and transportation services at the University.

“The Green Parking Council’s Green Garage Certification program supports these efforts and shines a spotlight on our commitment to being efficient and green.”

“Sustainability in Texas is about taking the self-responsibility to make our great state a better place through design excellence, sensitivity to place and environment, and considering the needs of the future through lessons from our past,” explains Houston-based Michael Cramer, executive vice president of Winpark and a Green Parking Council board member. “Green Garage Certification offers us a platform to do just that.”

Liliana Rambo, CAPP, chair of the International Parking Institute and director of parking, Houston Airport Systems, envisions a number of commercial, residential, university, municipal, hospital, airport, and hotel garages in Texas earning the Green Garage Certification within the next year. She recently participated in a Green Garage Certification site visit to assess Houston Airport parking facilities and provide a roadmap for increasing sustainability to achieve certification, and said, “I was surprised by how much we could do at varying levels to make our garages far more energy efficient and profitable.”

The Green Parking Council’s checklist, How Green is Your Garage? is a tool to provide top-line assessment on how likely your facility is to quality for certification. Those interested in pursuing certification can download Green Garage Certification at a Glance, along with a free Program Guide, which includes application procedures, program requirements, and a breakdown of criteria by certification level, at greenparkingcouncil.org/certification.

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d iv ers i n s Stranger Than Fiction Bolivia's leftist government is turning back the clock – literally - or, more precisely, turning it backward. Coinciding with the hemisphere's winter solstice, the government reversed the clock on top of the Congress building so that it runs counterclockwise (but still accurately).

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sullivan@parking.org Helen Sullivan, APR, Fellow PRSA, is communications counsel for the International Parking Institute.

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The IPI Awards of Excellence A Revolution in Parking Facility Design?

here’s a new aesthetic in parking design, and Texas architects may soon be joining others around the country who are changing garages from ugly add-ons to soaring spaces that transform urban centers. Building owners, architects, and urban planners are looking well beyond the practical function of basic car storage and creating beautiful, multi-use structures that are transforming neighborhoods, workplaces, and entire communities.

become a local landmark. Designed to save energy with low operating costs, it features a powerful solar panel system and energy-efficient lighting with sensors; its interior filters and maximizes natural light. It is pedestrian and bicyclefriendly, accessible to those with disabilities, and offers electric vehicle (EV) chargers on all levels. Its cutting-edge equipment and other amenities minimize egress congestion and functionality.

The world’s largest parking industry event took place in Texas this summer, when nearly 3,000 parking experts found convened at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center. Walking the massive Expo floor (the size of four football fields), you’d likely realize there’s a revolution in technology (mobile apps and pay-by-cell options) and a focus on sustainability (solar panels on parking decks, LED lighting, EV charging stations, and guidance systems that help drivers find parking faster, reducing fuel consumption and emissions). Winners of the 2014 IPI Awards of Excellence design competition winners are excellent examples of parking facilities that have changed the landscape of their cities.

More Than Meets The Eye

Some the country’s most impressive garages conceal their remarkable features beneath the ground. The 1,300-space Boston Common Garage, located below America’s oldest public park and this year’s AOE winner for sustainability, sits beneath a former pre-Revolutionary War British camp and symbolizes how far we’ve come from Paul Revere and his horse. The garage offers priority space and charging stations for electric (EV) and hybrid vehicles as well as access to an increasingly popular car-sharing service.

Enhancing the pedestrian experience was the motivation behind Memphis International Airport’s new pedestrian plaza between the terminal and the Consolidated Ground Transportation Center. Selected by IPI as the top example of rehabilitation or restoration of a parking facility, the parking plaza features an attractive, canopy-covered atrium with moving walkways, water features, landscaped areas, and outdoor speakers that broadcast music from local artists.

Like many other new and rehabilitated parking facilities, its dedicated walkways ensure safety; the lush greenery, art installations, and other aesthetic features make getting there enjoyable.

Toronto’s stunning AJAX GO Parking Garage appears to be a green box floating lightly above the ground, anchored by glass towers with an origami-inspired canopy. The lower levels of the striking, six-level garage feature an asymmetric pattern of perforated screens; above, green aluminum tubes provide the illusion of a scalloped wave. The AJAX structure is also green in ways that really count.

It’s as sustainable as it is visually appealing and user-friendly, typifying an exciting new wave in parking.

Sustainable Parking

Among several notable trends among competition winners are parking facilities that are both beautiful and serve as hubs for dining, shopping, socializing, and mass transit, fostering more walkable, livable cities.

A prime example is Missoula, Montana’s Park Place, a five-level, 333-space structure that houses 3,000 square feet of street-level retail space. IPI’s top award winner for architectural achievement was designed to be fresh, progressive, and consistent with the city’s urban design and economic vitality.

By incorporating the latest in sustainable parking technology, Park Place represents the growing number of facilities that are as economical to operate as they are easy on the eye. The net-zero energy use project maximized parking spaces per dollar and leveraged construction and life cycle costs with state-of-the-art lighting and controls systems, a green elevator that exceeds energy code standards by 64%, and a photovoltaic array that completely powers it.

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Dallas Fort Worth showcased several of its state-of-the-art parking facilities to 2014 IPI Conference & Expo attendees by hosting tours of parking facilities at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the University of Texas, Dallas, and City of Fort Worth.

As more owners and managers are discovering, a parking facility that is attractive, efficient, pleasurable to use, and sustainable can be a significant financial asset, supplying upwards of 10 to 14% of a building’s total revenue.

To learn more about IPI and to obtain information on how to enter the 2015 IPI Awards of Excellence parking design competition, visit www.parking.org. n

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BUMP, SET, SPIKE & VOLLEY FOR GREEN 2014 TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

The USGBC North Texas Emerging Professionals opened the ticketing process for its 2nd annual Volley for Green – Volleyball Tournament & Fundraiser, a public event taking place on October 11, 2014 at 3:00 PM at Sandbar Cantina & Grill in Deep Ellum. It will be a 12-team tournament with hula hoop and giant jenga contests for those on the sidelines. A networking event at heart, the tournament is meant to encourage friendly competition and foster conversation amongst professionals of all ages. It is free to attend and spectating is highly encouraged. Individuals may register for a team for $25. Corporate teams may register for $250.

Sustainable Showcase Sweeps Again The 7th annual North Texas Sustainable Showcase was held on June 17th at the Dallas Arboretum. Despite the rain, 150 attendees arrived for a full day of CEUs plus a keynote by David Riz of KieranTimberlake.

Bill Walsh, executive director of the Healthy Building Network, opened the 2014 North Texas Sustainable Showcase with a look into how the chemicals and components of building products can affect occupant health. Annie Argento, Associate Principal at Pasadena, California base Gaia Development, discussed how life-cycle analysis is applied to specific materials – from creation through end of use, not just until installation. Gary F. Christensen presented – from an owner/developer’s perspective – the value proposition for sustainable building practices by applying lifecycle cost analysis for various strategies. Panelists Annie Argent (Gaia – Pasadena, CA), Roderick Bates (KieranTimberlake – Philadelphia, PA) and Gary Christensen (Christensen Development – Boise, ID) discussed the impact of buildings and addressed questions posed by moderator Betsy del Monte. At the conclusion of the showcase, the presenters remained to answer additional questions from the audience.

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3:00 PM 7:00 PM

Volley for Volleyball Green Tournament

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SPONSORSHIP opportunities available

Sandbar Cantina & Grill 317 S. Second Ave Beach Ellum Dallas, Texas 75226

After-Tournament Activities:

Giant Jenga, Hula Hoop Contest, Water Slide

more info: 214.880.1521 usgbcnorthtexas.org

Cost:

$25 Individual | $100 Team | $250 Corporate Team 4-6 man teams Team Registration opens 8/1

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Mobile Experience Center A traveling educational exhibit that includes an interactive multimedia space so that visitors can actually see, touch, and learn about green building design, construction, and building operation and maintenance strategies. Through videos, touchscreen applications, and real-world demonstrations, the Mobile Experience Center makes the concept of “sustainability’ tangible to visitors. For information about bringing the MEC to your event, contact Michelle McEuen at mmceuen@ usgbcnorthtexas.org.

Mission: Go to the GAP; buy a pair of pants.

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TOBY International Winners

The commercial real estate industry honored 14 commercial properties were honored with The Outstanding Building of the Year® (TOBY®) Awards at the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International’s annual conference (the 2014 Every Building Conference and Expo) in June in Orlando, Florida.

The winners were recognized for excellence in office building management and operations in specific categories of building size or type. To win an International TOBY Award, a property first must win both local and regional competitions. Judging is based on community impact, tenant/employee relations programs, energy management systems, accessibility for disabled people, emergency evacuation procedures, building personnel training programs and overall quality indicators. A team of expert industry professionals also conducted comprehensive building inspections.

Corporate Facility

Historical Building

22 Sylvan Way

The Hurt Building

Earth Award

Industrial Office Building

Parsippany, New Jersey Owned by Mack-Cali Realty Corporation Managed by Wyndham Worldwide and Premier Facility Services.

Atlanta, Georgia Owned by Boxer F2, LP Managed by Boxer Property Management

Constellation Place

Raritan Center Business Park i

Government Building

Medical Office Building

Arizona Game and Fish Building

Pearland Medical Plaza

Los Angeles, California Owned by Constellation Place, LLC Managed by JMB Real Estate Services, Inc.

Phoenix, Arizona.

Owned by Arizona Wildlife Finance Corporation Managed by Lincoln Property Company

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Edison, New Jersey Owned and managed by Federal Business Centers

Pearland, Texas Owned by Healthcare Facilities Development Managed by HCFD Realty Management

Renovated Building

100,000 to 249,999 Square Feet

Premier Place

250 South Wacker Drive

Suburban Office Park Low-Rise

250,000 to 499,999 Square Feet

Delmar Gardens

Atrium Corporate Center

Suburban Office Park Mid-Rise

500,000 to 1,000,000 Square Feet

Colorado Center

U.S. Bancorp Center

Dallas, Texas Owned by CPUS Premier Place, LP Managed by CBRE, Inc.

Chesterfield, Missouri Owned by Delmar Gardens at Conway Ridge, LLC Managed by Cassidy Turley Real Estate Management Services

Santa Monica, California Owned by Equity Office and TIAA-CREF Managed by Equity Office

Chicago, Illinois Owned by Credit Suisse Managed by CBRE, Inc.

Rolling Meadows, Illinois Owned by Spear Street Capital, LLC Managed by CBRE, Inc.

Minneapolis, Minnesota Owned by Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc., Managed by Piedmont Office Management, LLC

Over 1,000,000 Square Feet Under 100,000 Square Feet

Gateway Oaks IV

Sacramento, California Owned by Hines VAF II Sacramento Properties, LP Managed by Hines

Burnett Plaza

Fort Worth, Texas Owned by TIER REIT, Inc. Managed by Behringer.

www.midamericametals.com

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don weempe

dweempe@masterconstruction.com Don G. Weempe, P.E. is the President of Master Construction & Engineering

Concrete Paving Repairs

A process that involves technical expertise together with skilled and knowledgeable craftsmen

Can you seal the joints and cracks at this time? Will that help? Maybe… though usually by this time the damage has already happened, especially in pavement that is 5 years or older. Go ahead and seal the joints and cracks, it could be of some limited value.

Pavement Repairs: Most repair areas are too small. We have all seen repair areas surrounded by a sea of failed pavement around the repair area.

What happened? Here again the patch was too small. The repair area at a minimum should be from existing saw joint to saw joint approximately 15’-20’ square. Patches should be square. Each time you add a corner it creates more opportunity for the pavement to fail. Pavement with a 90 degree corner is a lot stronger than one with, for example, a 30 degree corner. I have seen some patches that have 7 or 8 corners; these are destined for failure. Just the saw cutting and demolition of the patch can damage the pavement around it. Micro cracks can develop and the subgrade at the edge can be undermined.

Never overcut pavement. Always cut from joint to joint. When you overcut, the existing pavement is weakened and the area around the new patch fails.

Patch Failures

Other common reasons for new patches to fail are: lack of soil compaction (base preparation); lack of rebar and dowels or improper installation; the concrete is too thin (it should be minimum of 6”); or the concrete strength is too low (due to too much water being added at job site). Many times, especially during the summer, water is added to the surface of the new pavement during the finishing process. This may help the crew finish the concrete, but it weakens the surface.

The top ½” of the pavement could be 150-200 psi while the concrete mix design is 3500 psi. Thus, at a later date, the pavement spalls; even though, a pothole may not form or the pavement may not fail, it is still unsightly.

Another cause for patch failure is improperly cut control joints or the lack thereof. The joints need to match the existing joints - no more than 12’ to 15’ spacing on 6” thick pavement. 1 ½” deep joints should be cut as soon as you can walk on the pavement. The purpose of the saw cut is to control random cracking by encouraging cracks to form beneath the saw cut in the pavement. If you wait too long to do the saw cut, cracking will start soon after the pavement is placed; in most cases, if you wait until the next day to saw the joints, it’s already too late.

Cracking has probably started even though you can’t see it. You can cut the joints 15’ on center, but in the days to come, random cracks will appear. Some repair companies will do paving repairs all over town during the week, then on Friday come back and cut control joints. It’s too late.

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The Repair

Saw cut the patches square full depth (no over cuts). Demolish the paving and haul off the debris. Compact the subgrade to 95% compaction (only a testing lab can verify this and usually is not practical on a small repair job). Grade area with 2” of crushed concrete if required to level up the area (not sand) and compact the area once again. Install #3 rebar dowels - 18” on center set 8” into adjoining pavement. Dowels are installed to transfer load across the joint between the new repair and the old pavement. Install #3 rebar 18” on center each way set on rebar chairs to ensure proper placement within the concrete. Rebar should be positioned 1/3 of the depth from the top of the slab.

Place 6” of 3,500 psi concrete (avoid adding water on site). As soon as you can walk on the pavement, cut control joints 12’-15’ on center to match the existing joints.

Barricades

Use TxDOT approved barricades. The most foolish thing is an $8,000 - $10,000 paving repair that is blocked off with string and flagging tape. The contractor does this to save money, but not only does this look cheap, it’s dangerous! If the contractor ‘cheaps out’ on barricades, where else are they cutting corners? Leave barricades up for a minimum of 7 days after the concrete is placed. Concrete gains 70% of its strength in 7 days.

Truisms (most of the time)

• You place concrete; you don’t pour it.

• The more water added to the mix, the lower the strength.

• Don’t say cement parking lot; it is a concrete parking lot.

• Concrete is strongest in compression.

• In tension, concrete is about 10% of its compression strength; in shear it is about 30%.

• When water turns to ice, it expands about 5%.

• Increasing paving thickness is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve paving performance.

• Increasing paving thickness by 1” results in a 36% increase in load-carrying capability. n

Too many over cuts…

This patch will fail

There’s a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can’t get away.

What can you do? Old Pavement: Not much if the saw joints and cracks have not been sealed and maintained. Throughout the years moisture has already made its way under the pavement and loss of base material and strength is already under way.

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verybody gets potholes sooner or later. The main reason is moisture under the pavement. Unsealed joints and cracks allow water to get under the pavement and the water becomes trapped between the pavement and clay base. Most pavement in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is constructed with 1” or 2” of sand sub base; this granular material sandwiched between the pavement and clay base sometimes allows water to travel hundreds of feet. The water is seeking a way out, and when it’s moving it carries sand particles along with it. This weakens the base material. Also, when vehicles travel over the pavement, the sand and water is forced up through the joints and cracks. This action creates voids under the pavement; thus, a pothole starts to form. It only gets worse as more base material is lost.

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steve wilhite

Steve. Wilhite@ems.schneider-electric.com Steve Wilhite is the Senior Vice President of Energy & Sustainability Services for Schneider Electric.

Nothing is Certain but... Energy Management Software

Without question, tax season creates great anxiety for many people. If you haven’t been responsible along the way, collecting a year’s worth of paperwork and receipts is no picnic, even for those who expect a sizable tax refund. Whether we’re talking about personal finance or energy data management, it begins with data organization and concludes with data accuracy.

(For the record, an energy audit is a lot more interesting than a tax audit, and has a much more appealing payback!)

The most practical personal finance/tax software really serves five fundamental functions: 1. Organization: It categorizes your spending so you understand when, where and how much you spend 2. Analyses: It alerts you when your approach or exceed your budgets 3. Optimization: It maximizes your return or minimizes your liability 4. Goal-setting: It helps you set budgets/targets/goals for both spending and saving 5. Support: It gives you optional access to experts for additional support Now let’s consider energy software. Let’s say you own several factories. Each month, utility bills arrive for each of your facilities. You have visibility into how much energy you use, but to do anything with this information, you need more: • What equipment is consuming this energy?

• When is it being consumed?

• Where are my facilities most efficient? Where are they inefficient?

• Why am I on a particular rate?

And, when it’s necessary, the software connects the user to energy experts (#5).

That’s the support function I mentioned, and it highlights an important distinction in software options: Software as a Service (SaaS) vs. Software as a Managed Service (SaaMS).

Traditionally, SaaS includes expert support as an additionalfee-based option. SaaMS includes the software as well as the services necessary to get the most out of it. The sophistication of an organization’s energy personnel and the complexity of the energy profile can help to determine which is the better fit.

In either case, just like tax preparation, energy management doesn’t have to be difficult. The right energy software makes your energy data easier to access, your key metrics easier to understand and your energy efficiency projects easier to prioritize. And, it helps provide true visibility to the very real opportunities that exist on both the supply and demand side of the energy equation.

Ben Franklin may have known a thing or two about the certainty of death and taxes. But, as the guy who famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm, Ben certainly had a lot to learn about energy management. Just think of what he could’ve done with software.

If you’re interested in energy management software, we can help. Please reach out to Paul Ward, Schneider’s local representative in Texas. (paul.ward@ems.schneider-electric.com 972-629-5861) n

In Fond Memory: Carlos Ruffino We are honored and privileged to remember our friend, Carlos Ruffino, and to be able to share part of his life with you. Everyone who learned of Carlos’ death on July 16th was completely surprised. Yet we are grateful that he did not suffer greatly over a long duration but went home to be with Jesus so quickly.

Carlos never met strangers. Those of us who knew him well realize that there’s never been anyone like him. He was unique, smart, unassuming, loving, and among the most caring people most of us have ever known. He didn’t have customers; he had friends who supported his endeavors by allowing him to serve them. If you knew him at all, you felt like you were one of the most important people in his life, and the reality is that in that time you were with him, you were the most important person to Carlos.

Carlos’ personal and professional life intertwined because he saw all of his life as a gift from God. He made no apologies for his strong and firm faith in Christ; that is what drove him, guided him, and made him the man we all enjoyed and loved so dearly.

Carlos opened PoCo Energy Group in 2000, just prior to the opening of Texas energy deregulation. Prior to that, he had served in multiple capacities at TXU. PoCo was purchased by Summit Energy in Louisville, and subsequently by Schneider Electric in 2011. Through it all, Carlos remained the unwavering “out of the box” thinker and proactive innovator in so many practical ways. And he always reminded us, “It’s about the peoples.” (one of his many Carlos’isms) This great man leaves a legacy of love for family, friends, coworkers, neighbors… for anyone he knew, however long or short. And that love kept him focused on the task at hand in order to serve better those for whom he felt so responsible. This unending love was a constant reminder of the fact that the source, his ultimate and daily resource, was his faith in his savior, Jesus Christ. We will deeply miss his contagious laugh, his quirky humor, his little gestures and sounds and other such nuances that made him so endearing to us all.

Carlos is survived by Delinda, his loving wife of 27 years, and two remarkable children - Michaella and Robert. Rest well in Father’s loving arms, dear Carlos.

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You’re never too old to learn something stupid.

There’s no substitute for reliable data. And not just more data.

Better data. Personal finance and tax software does what we humans sometimes struggle with: it aggregates complex data streams – checking accounts, savings accounts, retirement vehicles, stocks, bonds, etc. – into one central platform. Data organization is the perfect place to start for finances, and for energy management. In fact, the benefits are incredibly similar.

Now let’s apply those five fundamental areas to better understand how energy management software benefits energy managers, facility personnel, operations professionals, etc.: 1.

Organization: It aggregates your energy data in a single system and provides easy access to your information at any time, from anywhere 2.

Analyses: It allows you to see where and when energy is being consumed by assigning energy consumption to specific processes, loads or departments 3.

Optimization: It identifies poor performers and best practices 4.

Goal-setting: It produces performance reporting vs. goals with timely alerts when you’re off target

Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.

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JLL Energy Outlook

Energy is among the fastest growing industries in the United States, expanding at two-and-a-half times the national average in the past five years, creating a positive ripple effect through the economy. In fact, according to Bruce Rutherford, JLL’s Global Energy Practice Lead, without energy, there’d be no economic growth in the United States. With this growth come both challenges and opportunities for energy companies, and real investors and developers. Our 2014 North America Energy Outlook explores where, when and why the change is happening; how it may impact your business; and what you can do to come out on top.

The U.S. shale story

U.S. SHALE

STORY Bakken

[NATIONAL] OVERVIEW

Little industry diversification and growing on all cylinders

Energy is among the fastestgrowing industries, 2.5xs faster than the national average.

Employment will increase by another 5% through 2020.

Bismarck Municipal Airport

The engine behind Denver's energy boom

Booming shale energy supply spurs economic development; shale areas experiencing growth in construction, housing and jobs

3.2 mil s.f.

Denver International Airport

Permian

32,817 (bbl/d) 1,415,672 (Mcf/d)

Midland International Airport 5,623,000 (Mcf/d)

Eagle Ford A young workforce poised for more energy jobs and spending power

The largest and most developed of all the shale plays

14,445,375 (Mcf/d)

Fayetteville Positive employment data but lowest household income

Will Rogers World Airport

Shreveport Regional Airport

1,379,994 (bbl/d) San Antonio International Airport Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

41,232 (bbl/d)

83.6 mil s.f.

54,262 (bbl/d)

Haynesville

3.0 mil s.f. 17.2 mil s.f.

Pittsburgh International Airport

26.6 mil s.f.

Fayetteville Executive Airport

1.9 mil s.f.

6,915,506 (Mcf/d)

1,566,000 (bbl/d)

Marcellus

Fewer energy jobs but higher household income and a need for real estate

16.0 mil s.f.

All about energy with record-low unemployment

7.6 mil s.f. 3.6 mil s.f.

1,052,388 (bbl/d)

Woodford

13.9 mil s.f.

322,000 (bbl/d)

4,441,000 (Mcf/d)

Landlords have leverage in most hubs but energy tenants will benefit from a large pipeline of office space starting in 2015 U.S. oil and gas industry is investing aggressively in retail infrastructure with 2014 expected to be especially strong

1,236,797 (Mcf/d)

Niobrara

Flying under the radar, this heavily populated shale play has momentum

6,862,632 (Mcf/d)

11.4 mil s.f.

38.4 mil s.f.

Source: JLL Research, Energy Information Administration

DALLAS-FT WORTH Shale area attributes: Local airport

6.0% 9% 28% 34.6% 40,000

Oil (bbl/d)

[OFFICE] STORY

DALLAS-FT WORTH

Natural gas (Mcf/d)

Office stock

[OFFICE] OUTLOOK

Percentage of energy tenants in the market [DALLAS] Percentage of energy tenants in top-tier CBD market [FT. WORTH] Percentage of energy tenants in top-tier CBD market

Percentage change of energy jobs since 2007

Average lease size (s.f.) among energy companies

[TENANTS]

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Higher operating costs due to rising rents in new construction and in existing stock Downward pressure on energy pricing requires rightsizing for office operations and potential geographic location adjustments More regional operations offset local growth and expansion

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Industrial stock

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[LANDLORDS]

Higher competition for tenants due to increased “spec” office construction and BTS opportunities needing anchor users Ability to raise rates due to tighter office market conditions Tenants may need flexibility for expansion or shifting space needs

austin office

Vacancy and Asking Rate

Quick Stats

Asking Rate $29.00

Vacancy Rate

Hot Topics

Gross Average Annual Asking Rate Per Sq. Ft.

Total Vacancy

Q4 2013

Q2 2014

Q1 2014

Q3 2013

Q2 2013

Q1 2013

Q4 2012

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Q2 2011

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Q2 2010

153,061

17%

Q1 2010

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Q2 2009

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Q1 2009

Asking Rates

$27.00 19%

Q4 2008

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21%

Q2 2008

11.8%

23%

Q1 2008

Vacancy

25%

• A study by The Business Journals ranked Austin as the top metro area for small businesses.

Q2 2014 Q-o-Q Y-o-Y

$24.00

Source: CBRE Research, Q2 2014.

Gross Annual Average Asking Rates, Per Sq. Ft. $34

Positive quarter sees vacancy rise. Asking rates continue to reach record levels. Under construction product reaches six year high.

• Forbes ranks Austin as the fastest-growing city in the nation for the fourth straight year.

• H ighspeedinternet.com lists Austin as the thirdbest city to start an online business.

$32 $30 $28

• A survey by MyFitnessPal ranked Austin as the Top City for Group Fitness.

$26 $24 $22 $20 $18

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2008

2009 Class A

2010 Class B

2011 2012 2013 Market Average Asking

Q2 2014

DALLAS-FORT WORTH office CONSTRUCTION 4,993,837 Sq. Ft.

DELIVERIES 927,163 Sq. Ft.

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Vacancy 23%

JOB Growth 106,800 Y-o-Y

22%

5,000

21%

4,000

20% 19%

3,000

18%

Under Construction Sq. Ft.

Q2 2014

Q1 2014

Q4 2013

Q3 2013

Q2 2013

Q1 2013

Q4 2012

Q3 2012

Q2 2012

Q1 2012

Q4 2011

Q3 2011

Q2 2011

Q1 2011

Total Absorption Sq. Ft. Total Vacancy Rate

Q4 2010

0

Q3 2010

1,000

Q2 2010

15%

Q1 2010

16%

(1,500)

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2,000

Q3 2009

17%

Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q3 2008 Q4 2008 Q1 2009 Q2 2009 Q3 2009 Q4 2009 Q1 2010 Q2 2010 Q3 2010 Q4 2010 Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2012 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2013 Q1 2014 Q2 2014

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Q2 2009

0

Q1 2009

500

Q4 2008

1,000

Q3 2008

1,500

6,000

Q2 2008

Net Absorption Sq. Ft. 2,000

Direct Absorption Sq. Ft. Direct Vacancy Rate

UNEMPLOYMENT 5.2%

Construction

Net Absorption and Vacancy Rate 000's

TRADE VOLUME -36% Y-o-Y

Q1 2008

VACANCY 18.7%

Delivered Construction Sq. Ft.

san antonio office

200

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Class A

Class B

Total Net Absorption

Q2 2014

Q1 2014

Q4 2013

(400)

Q3 2013

(200)

Q2 2013

• The unemployment rate for the San AntonioNew Braunfels metro area dropped to 4.8%, the lowest rate in nearly six years.

400

Q1 2013

The office market ended Q2 2014 with 276,155 sq. ft. of net absorption, bringing total vacancy down to 16.8%.

Q4 2012

Hot Topics

600

Q3 2012

1

Q2 2012

1

Delivered Construction

Historical Vacancy

Q1 2012

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Q4 2011

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Q3 2011

443,960

Q2 2011

Under Construction

Q1 2011

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Q4 2010

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• San Antonio received a ‘Grade A’ on the 2014 Small Business Friendliness Survey given

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Q3 2010

276,155

Q2 2010

Net Absorption

Q1 2010



Q4 2009



Q3 2009

$20.00

Q2 2009

Asking Rates, FSG

July 1, 2013.

• San Antonio ranked fourth in population growth according to the U.S. Census Bureau, adding 25,378 people during the year ending

Q1 2009

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Q4 2008



Q3 2008

16.8%

Q2 2008

Vacancy

• San Antonio was amongst the top 25 U.S. Job Markets in 2014, according to ZipRecruiter.com

Q1 2008

Y-o-Y

Q4 2007

Q-o-Q

Q3 2007

Q2 2014

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Q2 2007

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he American Subcontractors Association – North Texas Chapter (ASANTC) is a non-profit trade association representing construction subcontractors, specialty trade contractors and suppliers of goods and services in North Texas. Chartered in 1969, ASA-NTC has 168 company members.

ASA-NTC members work in every specialty trade – from steel erection and masonry, to drywall and painting – and in every related service industry, from insurance to accounting. Member companies range in size from the smallest start-up firms to the largest specialty contractors in the region. Affiliated with the American Subcontractors Association, the chapter is part of a nationwide network of more than 30 local and state chapters representing the single voice of all subcontractors, specialty trade contractors and suppliers in the construction industry.

2014-15 Officers & Directors President - Dale Payne, Prism Electric 1st Vice President - Rusty Vaughn, Texas AirSystems Secretary/Treasurer - Lee Ann Collins, Lane Gorman Trubitt, PLLC Immediate Past President - Dennis Lewis, Potter Concrete Brad Baylis, City Wide Mechanical Butch Burden, Don Burden & Associates, Inc. Barry Duncan, Polk Mechanical Randy Hazzard, Morrison Supply Gene Johnston, Johnston Products of Dallas, Inc. Mike McAdams, Walker Engineering David Meyer, Trade Management Scott Roan, TDIndustries, Inc. Elmer Strieker, Striland Construction Michael Ward, GMi Jason Wroblewski, Haley-Greer. Inc. Executive Director - Beverly Reynal Legal Counsel - Richard G. Thomas, Thomas, Feldman & Wilshusen, LLP

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HAPPENINGS

A networking event in downtown Dallas at Savor Gastropub at the beautiful Clyde Warren Park.

1 Saadia Sheikh and Mac McClure 2 Past President David Schnitzer and current

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President Brad Crumpecker

3 McClure Partners were sponsors of the event.

Susan McClure and Mac McClure are shown on the right.

An Education Happy Hour at Pluckers - an environment for instructors, students, designees, and chapter members to network and socialize.

4 Event photo 5 Chris Mims with two CCIM course 104 attendees 6 (L-R) Jim Hancock, Al Berry and Joe Fischer The Capital Market Panel Luncheon at the Park City Club featured Chris Daniel of American Bank of Texas, Chris Martineau of Mutual of Omaha Bank, Phillip Bankhead of NorthMarq Capital, and Patrick Ramsier of ViewPoint Bank. Nick Nicholas of Nicholas and Company was the moderator.

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I’m supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

ASA-NTC is the only organization dedicated exclusively to the business issues affecting subcontractors, who perform more than 85 percent of the work on all commercial construction, in both the public and the private sectors. It provides information, resources and contacts to help its members run their businesses more profitably. The Association is their advocate, working to promote fair business practices throughout the construction industry and, in addition to government advocacy, it offers its members business practice interchange (BPI), informative meetings and workshops, industry news, trends and business tips, model contract documents, industry exposure, networking opportunities, and discounts on numerous products and services through the ASAdvantage Program. Membership investment includes membership in ASA-NTC, ASA of Texas (ASAT), ASA National and our legislative branch Texas Construction Association (TCA).

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REGREEN Workshop will be held at the Cosentino Showroom in Dallas on September 16th. It is based on the REGREEN Residential Remodeling Guidelines©, a set of sustainability best practices that emphasize green product selection, team integration, and whole-systems thinking. Filling a unique niche in the marketplace, REGREEN is designed for professionals who want to create sustainable, healthy interiors through singlescope projects such as a kitchen or bath remodel, as well as a whole-house gut rehab or historic renovation.

I’m supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

The new interiors-focused practicum was developed to address the industry-specific challenges interior designers face when renovating a client space.

The full-day course is full of practical tools and in-depth applications to prepare designers to make sustainable retrofit decisions that save money, improve home performance, and contribute to healthy interiors. Building on foundational knowledge from the REGREEN Guidelines, the workshop employs faculty-led instruction and team charrettes for a fast-paced, information-filled day that will transform your design practice.

The workshop is the capstone course in the REGREEN Trained certificate program. http://regreenprogram.org/learning-programs/REGREEN-workshop

2014 Student Symposium Oct. 10th - 11th This event exposes budding designers from schools all over Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arkansas to the real world of interior design, while bringing them together to learn from established professionals and industry members. The two-day event will be filled with rich opportunities, exciting new venues and will EXPOSE attendees to the reality of this amazingly diverse profession. http://www.asidtxstudentsymposium.org/ The 2013 Student Design Competition Winners: (L-R): Christopher Lowe (Texas State University); Eleanor Smith (Texas State University); Kristy Mastrandonas, ASID, RID; Gracia Ferreyro (Abilene Christian University); Emily Hanes Hinckley (Baylor University); Katherine Voyce (Baylor University); Whitney Hendrickson (El Centro College); Jennifer Jenkins (Art Institute of Austin)

Real World Design Week November 2nd – 8th Registration is open for designers, educators and industry partners. Open exclusively to members to learn more about membership http://www.asid.org/rwdw

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easonally adjusted construction employment increased in 38 states and the District of Columbia from June 2013 to June 2014 and decreased in 12 states, an AGC analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showed. The largest percentage gains were in Florida (11%, 41,700 jobs), Nevada (10%, 5,900) and Utah (9.3%, 6,800). Florida added the most jobs, followed by California (29,800, 4.7%) and Texas (19,100, 3.1%).The largest onemonth losses were in California (-9,500, -1.4%) and Texas (-3,400, -0.5%). Commercial construction activity strengthened across most districts and Dallas indicated strong overall commercial real estate construction activity though skilled construction and craft workers were reportedly in short supply. Dallas noted that the strongest wage pressures within its District were in the energy and construction sectors. the net work | sept2014

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It’s Not JUST Lunch 1 May’s luncheon featured a presentation from KDC on the new State Farm and City Line Development in Richardson. (L-R) Janice Peters (Hudson Peters Commercial); Travis Boothe (Cassidy Turley); Craig Wilson (Cassidy Turley); Walt Mountford (KDC); Michelle Hudson (Hudson Peters Commercial); Tracie Frazier (KDC)

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2 Steve Brown of the Dallas Morning News joined the June luncheon to

discuss hot topics and commercial real estate headlines. (L-R) Sadie Fitzpatrick (Husch Blackwell); Kassandra McLaughlin (Husch Blackwell); Irene Hosford (Husch Blackwell); Janice Peters (Hudson Peters Commercial) Michelle Hudson (Hudson Peters Commercial): Ann Murray ( Trammell Crow)

3 Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price joined the July luncheon to provide an insider’s

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report from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the New Cities Summit. L-R: Lisa Price (Stutzman Bromberg); Janice Peters (Hudson Peters Commercial); Mayor Price

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Development); Mike Wyatt ( Van Trust Real Estate); Ran Holman ( Van Trust Real Estate); Jim Tudor ( Twinrose Investment); Manny Ybarra (Pillar Commercial) L-R Front Row: Carl Ewert (JLL); Bill Brokaw (Cushman & Wakefield); David Pinsel (Colliers International)

5 L -R: Suzanne Brasuell (ENTOS Design); Rena Chappell; JJ Leonard, (Cushman

& Wakefield); Kari Walker-Higgins ( Walker+Miranda); Paula Nelson (Fischer & Company); Karen Pierre (Axiometrics); Tracie Frazier (KDC)

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CREW Careers™- An Outreach Program of CREW in the Community Nearly 100 high school girls participated in Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’ College Journey at UTD - a four day workshop that gives girls the opportunity to participate in fun, hands-on experiments, exciting STEM related projects, and network with amazing women in STEM career fields.

6 L-R: Karla Peterson (Karla Peters Consulting); Sandy Watson (Strong Group); Beth Carroll (Page Southerland Page); Heather McClure(Behringer Harvard); Coni Hennersdorf (CODA Consulting Group); Debbie Bagley (Furstenwerth + Bagley Design); Kaye McCallum, Michele Langenberg, ( TIER REIT ); Rebecca Tudor ( Twinrose Investments)

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7 Volunteers worked with teams of Girl Scouts to design their ideal STEM center via hands-on learning activities that included needs analysis, site plan development, construction budgeting, floor plans, and more.

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Eat, Drink, and Compete 8 Members tested their cooking skills at the event in the popular Trinity Groves

area—a 15-acre entertainment destination in Dallas. Participants were paired into small teams for a “friendly” competition (top chef style) Corporate sponsors such as Spencer, AOS Engineering, Peloton Commercial Real Estate, Greenberg Traurig, Walter P Moore, bankSNB, and CODA Consulting Group partnered with CREW to put on the event. The winning team wowed the judges with their culinary creation.

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Macaroni Grill, served as a judge and spoke about the Trinity Groves incubator project.

2014 Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) Finalists Since 1984, the OAA is the highest award and recognition given to a CREW Dallas member. The winner will be announced at “An Evening of Outstanding Achievement” on September 10, 2014 at the Belo Mansion.

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“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.” Frank Sinatra

4 L-R Back Row: JJ Leonard (Cushman & Wakefield); Jon Napper (Courtland

They say that alcohol kills slowly. So what? Who’s in a hurry?

The 3rd annual event benefitting CREW in the Community at City Club in downtown Dallas featured male leaders in commercial real estate as servers.

Dallas IREM Inducts New CPM® Members A Sworn in by President

Jessica Warrior CPM®, RPA® (left) were Allison Hamrick of LumaCorp, Kellie Mayhew of Hillwood, Kelly Higgins of Sequoia Real Estate, Misty Sample of Weingarten Realty Investors, Teresa Parker of Cencor Realty, Patricia McClean of Hillwood, Teresa Starwalt of CBRE, Michelle Morris of Duke Realty (Not pictured: Justin Hawkins of Huntahome Realty)

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Recognized for their outstanding service were Brian Bordelon, ARM®, Patti Dyess and Debbie Bunch, CPM®.

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They say that alcohol kills slowly. So what? Who’s in a hurry?

“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.” Frank Sinatra

Ginny Goldsmith, CPM® and Michelle Morris, CPM® held a happy hour at The Rustic to say thank you for being a Friend of IREM

The leadership of IREM Region 7 held an Innovative Strategies meeting in Austin on June 6th. Hosted by the Austin Chapter, the session was lead by Regional Vice President George Griffin III, CPM® and involved an exchange of ideas and strategizing on optimizing benefits for the members in the chapters of the region - Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, El Paso, Austin, San Antonio and Tulsa..

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Austin and San Antonio; David Bryant, SecretaryTreasurer, Dallas; Melinda Payne, Executive Director, Fort Worth; Jessica Warrior, President, Dallas; Susan Heath, President-Elect, Dallas; Susan Holland, President, Fort Worth; Amy Dandridge, President-Elect, Austin; Kristin Hiett, Executive Director, Dallas; Regina Bell, President, Tulsa; Janie Snider, President, Houston; Patty Doty, Executive Director, Tulsa; Jill V. Welborn, President-Elect, San Antonio; (Seated L-R) JoD Miller, Executive Director, Houston; George Griffin, III, Regional Vice President; Kim Morgan, President, Austin

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Evolution of Balls di v ersi n s The From the Official Rules of Baseball 1858 • For the first time the umpire is allowed to call strikes on a batter that repeatedly refuses not swing at good balls. The umpire was required to warn ‘the striker’ before calling a strike. After three strikes were called, the batter was bound to "make his run" to first base if the last called strike was not caught by the catcher on the fly or first bounce.

1872 • The size and weight of the baseball became the same as the ball used today.

1879 • The number of "called balls" became 9 and all balls were either strikes, balls or fouls.

1880 • Base on balls was reduced to 8 "called balls."

1884 • Six "called balls" became a base on balls.

1887 • Four "called strikes" were adopted for this season only. Bases on balls were recorded as hits for this season only.

1889 • Four balls became a base on balls.

1908 • Pitchers were prohibited from soiling a new ball.

1910 • The cork center was added to the official baseball.

1920 • All freak deliveries, including the spitball, were outlawed.

1975 • The ball was permitted to be covered with cowhide because of the shortage of horses.

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Karrie McCampbell Honored as a BOMA Fellow The 2014 Class of BOMA Fellows was announced at the International TOBY Awards Program & Banquet in Orlando. Former BOMA Dallas president Karrie McCampbell, CPM, senior vice president at TRANSWESTERN, was among those honored. The Fellows Program, launched in 2011, recognizes members for exemplary and sustained contributions to the industry, the profession, the community and BOMA at all levels. A BOMA member since 1987, McCampbell is a dedicated and committed member of the association, having served as a board member for BOMA Dallas, BOMA Texas and BOMA Southwest Region. She has also served on the BOMA International Executive Committee and was twice awarded the BOMA Dallas Property Manager of the Year distinction (2006 and 2008). She received the Southwest Region Outstanding Member of the Year in 2008 and was recognized by Texas BOMA with the Governmental Affairs Award (2008).

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T. Michael Pugh, RPA was recognized as the 2014 Southwest Region Member of the Year. A senior property manager with CBRE, Pugh has been a dedicated and committed member of BOMA Dallas since 1990. He is a current member of the BOMA Dallas and BOMA Texas Board of Directors and he serves on the BOMA International Audit Committee.

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Premier Place 3 Lori Martin, Property Manager accepts the International TOBY Award as Premier Place won in the Renovated Building category (see picture on page 17)

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The Community Service Committee Cell Phones for Life Drive received over 300 donated phones that will help provides phones for battered women’s organizations including Genesis Women’s Shelter as well as elderly & disabled individuals. Participating were Lincoln Property Company, Transwestern, Fortis Property Group, Parmenter Realty Partners, B.H. Management, Gaedeke Group, Two Trees Management, CBRE, Cushman and Wakefield, M-M Properties, and Rosewood Property Company.

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Top Golf On June 11 at Top Golf Dallas 180 players enjoyed a new annual favorite BOMA Dallas event.

4 Top Male Don DeLorge of Pritchard Industries Southwest 5 Top YP Female Annie Williams (2nd from left) of Pavement Services Not pictured: Top Female - Monica Kapiloff of Lincoln Property Company and Top YP Male- Nathan Smith of Facility Solutions Group

Trade Show The 2014 Roadhouse Trade Show was held on May 8th at Dallas Market Hall. Rain, tornadoes and high winds did not deter the members.

6 Best Theme (Small Booth) Matting By Design 7 Best in Show (Large Booth)Trade Show Winner iidon Security Associates 8 Best Theme (Large Booth) RESTORx of Texas and Select Commercial Services 9 Best in Show (Small Booth) Blackmon Mooring

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I was so drunk last night at the bar that when I walked across the dance floor to get another drink, I won the dance competition.

Mike Pugh honored as the Southwest Region Member

15 for 12 Membership Drive

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Membership is vital to professional success and a company’s performance. As the industry’s premier source for education, networking and advocacy on the local, state and national level, you get a tremendous return on your dues dollar.

• You become an influencer in a $4.6 trillion market place that is 20% of the gross domestic product of the United States.

• You acquire the techniques and strategies to succeed with groundbreaking education, award winning publications and up-to-date information on the top commercial real estate issues, trends, statistics and news.

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Burnett Plaza Wins Big In Orlando

Burnett Plaza won the best of the best in the commercial real estate industry during the TOBY Awards Reception and Banquet at the 2014 Every Building Conference & Expo in Orlando.

87 buildings competed from nine different regions, including China, for the honor to claim excellence in building operation management, going through a rigorous building inspection at the local level. The buildings were judged by property managers and real estate professionals. 14 buildings were awarded an International TOBY on June 24th in Orlando, and Burnett Plaza won the coveted Over 1 Million Square Feet category.

Allison Millington’s team (Russ Leverman, Amee Fuchs, Sandy Berry, Genevia Crow, Cori Weston, Kweli Campbell, Deryl Wilson, Michael McGowan, Jon Kilgore, and Darryl Claxton) competed against six other buildings across the U.S. and Canada, and brought home the win.

The property is owned by TIER REIT, Inc. and managed by Behringer. It is a BOMA 360 certified building and encompasses two city blocks, creating a powerful image at the southwest edge of Fort Worth’s Central Business District. Built in 1983, this 40-story building is one of the city’s most elite commercial

properties. It overlooks Burnett Park, a spectacularly landscaped, two-acre urban park and is beautifully showcased through the main lobby’s east window wall of 18-foot high glass, running the building’s length. At night, the building’s outline is spectacularly lit by 5,100 LF of clear bulbs, showcasing its iconic status in the Central Business District. (See page 17)

Introducing the CAREER CENTER

Visit www.bomafortworth.org to: Search for and quickly apply to great, relevant jobs. (Job seeking is free.)

• Set up Job Alerts to be immediately notified when a job is posted matching your skills • Create an anonymous profile or upload an anonymous resume so employers can find you • Access job searching tools and tips Looking to hire commercial real estate professionals, the Career Center will: • Place your job in front of highly qualified members • Search our resume database of qualified candidates • Manage jobs and applicant activity right on our site • Limit applicants only to those who are qualified • Fill your jobs more quickly with great talent This site is also for product and service providers to the commercial real estate industry.

It’s Like Totally the 80s!

Annual Fall Event

Remember the fun last year at Viva Las BOMA? Blackjack, craps, roulette and even a visit from two Elvises. A great time was had by all, and this year’s event promises to be even better.

While Elvis may not be in the building, there just might be a visit from an 80s hair band or Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. Dress up in your most awesome 80s garb (ponies, leg warmers and parachute pants) because there will be prizes. Expect the awesome sounds of the 80s with DJ Ray. One twist with the music … is it live or is it Memorex? Who will belt out their favorite WHAM song?

Registration is FREE for commercial real estate professionals (property managers, asset managers, administrative and accounting staff and operational staff - engineers). www.bomafortworth.org

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Hospitality-Inspired Amenities Attract Top Tenants to New Commercial Office Building

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ranite Properties knows amenities are key differentiators that attract top customers to Class A commercial office properties. The Dallas-based privately held commercial real estate investment and management company continues to push the envelope at Granite Park in Plano, located in one of North Texas’ most vibrant submarkets, by creatively adding value to new speculative office buildings in the form of hospitality-inspired spaces.

Based on corporate campus planning, Dallas-based architecture and interiors firm BOKA Powell has worked closely with developer Granite Properties since 1998 to create a sustainable corporate setting at Granite Park in a cohesive, walkable environment. In all, it is a master-planned 90-acre mixed-use development of approximately 2.5 million square feet of Class A office space, and 120,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space located at the high-profile intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and Sam Rayburn Tollway, two of the area’s busiest commuter thoroughfares. At the boundary between the burgeoning cities of Plano and Frisco, Granite Park is at the center of the area’s major retail and restaurant amenities, such as The Shops at Legacy and Stonebriar Center, and features easy access to CBD, Love Field and DF/W Airport.

Completed to date at are four Class-A office towers, two retail centers and restaurants, as well as the 299-key Hilton Hotel and conference center, also designed by BOKA Powell. All are located around an extensively landscaped park featuring native Texas plantings, strategically located water retention pond that beautifies and attracts native wildlife, and walkways that connect all the buildings on a pedestrian level. Completed in June 2014, Granite Park Four, a 12-story, 306,000 square foot office tower, features a café, an outdoor dining area, a covered connection to an adjacent five-level parking structure and a fitness center with locker room facilities. The building conference center, featuring a board room, large meeting room and pre-function space, extends off the first floor lobby.

Another unique feature is an expansive technology lounge that unfolds behind a punched lobby wall. This is the “corporate living room,” and it feels like stepping into a luxury hotel. “We wanted to activate the lobby and create a comfortable touch-down space for our customers and their guests,” said David Cunningham, Director of Development/Construction for Granite. A 299-key Hilton hotel and conference center, also developed by Granite, opens in August 2014, and the hospitality-inspired lobby space in Granite Park Four borrows some of the ambiance of the hotel’s public areas. Design principal Don Powell said integration of the hospitality elements into the office building is part of a trend toward more inviting multi-use spaces.

“Granite Park Four represents a step up from typical commercial office properties because of its flexibility and efficiency, but also because of the amenities Granite asked that we integrate

Interior photos courtesy of Erika Edwards of BOKA Powell

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as benefits to customers,” Powell said. “The corporate living room concept applied our skills in hotel design to create a unique common space that presents an opportunity for casual meetings, much as one experiences in a hotel lobby.” A sophisticated palette of plush carpet, stone and wood creates a soft, warm impression, and seating groups are modern, versatile and comfortable. Large-screen televisions, integrated power outlets and wireless access provide opportunities for tenants to steal away for relaxation and a bite to eat while still staying connected to work.

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Granite Properties is committed to sustainability, which is at the forefront of Granite Park’s development. Each office property at there has been built to LEED standards, up to LEED Gold. The implementation of energy and water-saving strategies, efficient glazing and mechanical systems, and hardy, drought-resistant landscaping has reduced the carbon footprint of the office park significantly. These return as benefits to customers whose utility use is less costly over the term of their lease.

“With our location, amenities, and the new Hilton Hotel coming on line, we are experiencing high leasing activity,” said Granite Properties COO Greg Fuller. “Customers are excited to be a part of all that’s happening in Plano.” Several major companies, including Heartland Payment Systems and Mitel, have inked leases in the last few months at Granite Park Four, bringing the building to approximately 60 percent leased.

Additionally, more companies are relocating to North Texas each month.

Toyota and FedEx Office both recently announced new corporate campus developments in the Legacy submarket of Plano.

“We’re excited for this area to continue its growth,” Fuller said. “It’s a great location where the customers want to be.” Granite Properties is poised to continue development at Granite Park, with another office tower in design. n

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chris@aspenmarkroofing.com Chris Zazo is CEO / President of Aspenmark Roofing & Solar in Dallas, one of the top 5,000 fastest growing businesses in the nation according to Inc. Magazine.

You’re Only Cool If You Clean It

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ool roofs are popular commercial roofing solutions that deliver two major benefits in contrast to regular roofs. First, they contribute less heat load to building interiors, lowering the cost required to cool a building and second, they reduce overall wear and tear due to decreased expansion and contraction, improving the lifespan of the roof.

As cool roof membranes age, they become less reflective, less cool, and less effective, mostly due to exposure to the environment. Atmospheric pollution, acid rain, temperature cycling caused by sunlight and sudden thunderstorms, condensation, wind, and hail all contribute to the loss of reflectance of a roof ’s exterior surface. Many cool roof systems can lose from 30 - 50% of their reflectance within the first three years of exposure, especially in hot climates like Texas.

through reduced energy expense. Additionally, a well-maintained facility helps create favorable underwriting conditions, potentially lowering your building insurance premiums.

Spot Trouble Before Trouble Spots Your Wallet

The benefits of cleaning a cool roof transcend energy savings. There’s an old saying, “Spot trouble before trouble spots you.” Like any roof, a soiled, grimy cool roof can hide small problems that have the potential to become larger, more costly issues in the near future. Through regular cleaning, you’re better able to identify potential problem areas such as water ponding, failing seams, rips, and leaks around penetrations. Identifying and tackling small problems before they become larger issues is the best way to avoid unexpected expenditures and stop ‘trouble’ from spotting your wallet.

Stay Lean and Clean!

In order to maintain optimum performance and keep energy costs lean, how often should you be cleaning a cool roof?

Different businesses have different cleaning needs. In addition to everyday weather, roofs are exposed to chemical contamination, including grease and oil. Businesses such as restaurants, food processing plants, refineries, airports, and machine and manufacturing facilities are examples where these additional contaminants have the greatest impact. These types of roofs will likely require more frequent cleaning.

For example, a restaurant owner who has grease regularly emitting from rooftop vents will likely require a monthly roof cleaning. Conversely, an apartment complex owner or manager may only need to clean once or twice a year. A good contractor will recommend adding grease containment devices to rooftop vents, or other relevant preventative features specific to a business, in addition to a regular cleaning and maintenance program.

Most manufacturers will provide a product chemical resistance guide in their product specifications designed to educate about what amount of exposure the roof can handle. This is handy in helping to determine a suitable cleaning schedule for a cool roof. Underscoring the need for regularly scheduled cleaning is the fact that many manufacturers’ guarantees do not cover damage due to chemical contamination. As a property manager or business owner, don’t risk losing your warranty to something that’s within your control.

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Vital to the health of cool roofing systems are regular inspections of the membrane. Manufacturers encourage scheduling roof inspections annually to clear debris and check seams, flashing joints, and vent boots for signs of damage. If protective coatings are used, building managers also should have inspectors check and repair those as needed.

Here are some helpful tips managers and business owners can employ to keep a cool roof in optimal shape: • Keep a roof maintenance file with a log of repairs or service performed on the roof, as well as other work not directly related to the roof (such chiller maintenance) that requires rooftop traffic. The log should include inspection dates and notes of any findings.

• Inspect roofs at least twice year.

• Inspect roofs after severe weather.

• Promptly remove debris from roof.

• Minimize rooftop wear and tear via installation of walkway pads.

No matter how you slice it, proactive cleaning and maintenance of any roof investment is critical to realizing its performance benefits and dramatically reducing the risk of large, unanticipated out-of-pocket expenditures. n

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While cool roofs have gained popularity, the attention given to their upkeep hasn’t followed suit. A regular cleaning and inspection schedule for a cool roof are critical components in maintaining the energy-saving benefits it provides, as well as the long-term structural health of the roof investment.

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Economic Impact of Investment in Nonresidential Construction: • An additional $1 billion invested in nonresidential construction would add $3.4 billion to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), $1.1 billion to personal earnings and create or sustain 28,500 jobs. o About one-­‐third (9,700) of these jobs would be on-­‐site construction jobs. o About one-­‐sixth (4,600) of the jobs would be indirect jobs from supplying construction materials and services. Most jobs would be in-­‐state, depending on the project and the mix of in-­‐state suppliers. o About half (14,300) of the jobs would be induced jobs created when the construction and supplier workers and owners spend their additional incomes. These jobs would be a mix of in-­‐state and out-­‐of-­‐state jobs. Conversely, investments elsewhere would support some indirect and induced jobs in the state.

Nonresidential Construction Spending: • Nonresidential spending in the U.S. in 2013 totaled $569 billion ($305 billion private, $264 billion public).

• Private nonresidential spending in Texas totaled $15.2 billion in 2012. (Public spending is not available by state.)

• Nonresidential starts in Texas totaled $27.1 billion in 2013, according to Reed Construction Data.

Construction Employment (Seasonally Adjusted): • Construction (residential + nonresidential) employed 6.0 million workers in May 2014, an increase of 193,000 (3.3%) from May 2013 and a decrease of 1.7 million (22%) from April 2006, when U.S. construction employment peaked.

• Construction employment in Texas in May totaled 636,600, an increase of 4.3% from May 2013 and a decrease of 6% from the state’s peak in April 2008.

Construction Industry Pay: • In 2013, annual pay of all construction workers in the United States averaged $53,200, 7% more than the average for all private sector employees.

• Construction workers’ pay in Texas averaged $55,700, 7% more than all private sector employees in the state.

Small Business: • The United States had 652,900 construction firms in 2012, of which 92% employed fewer than 20 workers.

• Texas had 38,500 construction firms in 2012, of which 87% were small (<20 employees).

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herstory Rose-Mary Rumbley

rosetalksdallas@aol.com Rose-Mary Rumbley has written three books about her native city – Dallas. She has also written “WHAT! NO CHILI!” and a book about the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano. She has appeared on the stage at the Dallas Summer Musicals and at Casa Mañana and was head of the drama department at Dallas Baptist University for 12 years. Today she is on the speaking circuit and teaches drama classes at Providence Christian School. Her loving views of Texas history appear in every issue of the network..

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y husband and I lived at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, where he was stationed in the Fourth Army Band. It was in 1954, the very year that Disney featured Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier, a TV series that destined from the very beginning to become an overwhelming success.

From everywhere, friends descended on us with their little boys wearing coonskin caps and demanding to go to the Alamo. As a true Texan, I hate to admit it, but one day I screamed, “If I have to go to that Alamo one Davy Crocket more time, I’m going to shoot myself with a Davy Crockett rifle.”

suffered greatly at the hands of the Indians. John Crockett was one of those who didn’t leave the area but married and had nine children, one of whom was Davy. When Davy was twelve years old, his father hired him out to a cattle driver, who was as mean to the boy as his father had been. Davy ran away and walked seven miles in the snow to come home. There an irate father met him. It was so bad for the boy he ran away and searched for work on his own.

Over the next two and a half years, Davy labored and learned how to win friends and influence people. In 1802, he came home once again, but this time to a father who was truly glad to see him. Davy worked off his father’s debts and worked for a neighboring Quaker in exchange for schooling. He was smart and learned enough for the life that was to come.

Davy’s first marriage (at age 20) ended tragically. Polly died in childbirth leaving him with three children to care for. Not wanting to divide the family, he married a lovely lady who owned a farm; he eventually established a beautiful relationship with her and a happy home. Happy except for the farming. Davy was not a farmer; he was hunter, so he went west to make a living and in the west he became a spokesman for the people who wound up sending him to Congress. From Congress, Davy went to Texas and to his death at the Alamo. He once said, I have made “acquaintance with hard times, and a plenty of them.” Nevertheless, he was always the hero.

The Alamo, 1854 I’m sure Davy was smiling from heaven the whole time, because he would have loved all of the attention. He was called an “amiable cuss” by almost everyone who knew him except for President Andy Jackson, who would say the cussedness outweighed the amiability. As a US congressman, Davy found himself at odds with the congress and the president. It was then that he uttered that unforgettable statement. “You can go to hell, I’m going to Texas.”

By the way, Davy was always known as David, until a play was written and produced in 1831 – The Lion of the West. That play portrayed him as a frontiersman who could only be called ‘Davy’ - so I’ll call him Davy.

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Davy was descended from Irish settlers who came to Appalachia, and who

Another hero at the Alamo was James Bowie. I spoke to the Chamber of Commerce of Bowie, Texas, and I was given a Bowie knife, a weapon that Jim wielded very skillfully. He was afraid of no one and nothing.

Born in Kentucky, he Jim Bowie spent most of his growing up years in Louisiana. As a young man, he and his brothers were dealing in slave smuggling with the pirate, Jean Laffite, who actually was thought of as a hero who saved New Orleans from the British.

Soon Bowie set his sights upon Texas where there was land and promised riches. At Austin’s San Felipe, he met up with Don Juan Martin de Veramendi, who had a beautiful daughter, whom Bowie married. She bore him Ursala de Veramendi two children who died as children, and soon after their deaths, Ursala (their mother) died as well.

Don Juan Martin de Veramendi (1778–1833) became vice governor of Texas in 1830. He lived in a building so large and luxuriously furnished that it was called the Veramendi Palace. It was where the aristocracy gathered for lavish social events, and where James Bowie wooed and won Ursula de Veramendi, the vice governor's daughter. This 1886 photo shows the former Veramendi Palace on 130 Soledad St.,

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Bowie suffered from the loss, but he continued his quest for Texas land. He heard of the outbreak in Gonzales, and from there he headed straight to the Alamo and his death. He is remembered as aTexas hero. n

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n 1814, in what is known as the War of 1812, British forces had captured Washington, D.C. and taken Dr. William Beanes as a prisoner. Beanes was a colleague of Francis (“Frank”) Scott Key, a 35-year-old attorney who was asked to help in the negotiation of his release.

Along with Colonel John Skinner, Key went to Baltimore, where British naval forces were in the Chesapeake Bay. The two were able to negotiate Beanes' freedom, but they were not permitted to return to land until the British completed their bombardment of Fort McHenry.

Frank Key was a prolific amateur poet but he was not a songwriter. Biographers have said that he was “unmusical at best” and perhaps even “tone deaf ”. Other than two religious hymns and one patriotic poem (written nine years earlier and which also matches the meter and rhyme of To Anacreon in Heaven), he had not written the words to any song before 1814 nor did he write any after that.

Key went on to run a thriving law practice. He argued more than a hundred cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, served as U.S. District Attorney in Washington, and was a member of Andrew Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet. n

The three men watched the daylong assault at sea. The British were unable to destroy the fort, and left the area. Key immediately wrote a poem that he would continue composing the next day; it came to be known as the "Defence of Fort M'Henry" and was widely printed and distributed.

(Of course, his most important visual image was of the American flag still standing.)

One of the earliest reproductions said that it was to be sung to the tune of To Anacreon In Heaven, an English song composed in the 1770’s by John Stafford Smith, the president of the Anacreontic Society, an amateur gentlemen’s music club in London.

Key died in 1843 and The StarSpangled Banner (as it had come to b e known) continued to be a U.S. musical symbol; however, it was not until 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson ordered "The StarSpangled Banner" to be played at official events; and it wasn’t until 1931 that Congress declared the song to be the U.S. national anthem.

“And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.” The 15 Star American Flag that flew over Fort Henry

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9 Habits Of People With A Healthy Relationship To Exercise

uch like the precarious line between thinking carefully about food and obsessing over it, exercise is also a highly beneficial component of a healthy lifestyle that can easily become problematic.

Especially among people with a history of eating disorders, a healthy relationship to exercise is “just as pertinent as having a healthy relationship with food,” says Marjorie Nolan Cohn, RD, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics and an American College of Sports Medicine certified Health Fitness Specialist. These days, we hear almost as much about the health risks of excessive exercise as we do lack of physical activity.

"One end of it is avoidance of exercise, versus the other extreme, which is too much exercise," says Jennifer E. Carter, Ph.D., the director of sport psychology and the Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center. "Balanced exercise finds the middle ground."

Some of us need an extra push to get off the couch, or some reining in once in a while. For others, finding the balance between too much and too little physical activity comes easily. Below are a few things these people do differently.

1. People with a healthy relationship to exercise know the difference between a good burn and true pain.

"You hear so much about the whole 'no pain, no gain' attitude," says Cohn. "I think we really have to redefine what pain is." Yes, you want to feel like you worked hard, you want some fatigue, you might even relish your second-day soreness.

But feeling discomfort in joints, or feeling so exhausted you just want to drop at the end of the day is not normal, says Cohn. Pain can be serious, and pushing through could cause worse injury.

People with a healthy relationship to exercise know when to say when.

2. They take rest days.

And when they are in pain or are exhausted, they know it's time to skip a sweat session. "It's the same as that chocolate cake," says Cohn. "It's delicious, you want to have another piece, but you know it's not good for you, and you need to stop eating now." No matter how much you love working out, there is such a thing as too much exercise, and the people with the healthiest relationships to exercise enjoy their off days. Carter recommends taking at least one a week.

3. They don't exercise to eat, they eat to exercise.

Exercising purely to "influence weight or shape", says Carter, can be a slippery slope into obsession and disorder. For a healthy athlete or exerciser, food is fuel, not the enemy. Our bodies require a bare minimum amount of calories simply to survive, and we need to provide extra energy for physical activity. Rather than exercising "to 40

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allow themselves to eat," says Carter, people with a healthy relationship to exercise eat to allow themselves to exercise. Eating whatever you want just because you exercised today doesn't cut it either, even if you just want to maintain weight, she says. Of course we'd never say the occasional brownie was completely off limits, but "'occasional' doesn't mean every dinner warrants a dessert!" Carter says.

4. They can go with the flow.

Many experts recommend scheduling exercise into your day like you would any other appointment to help you stick with your fitness plan. But there also needs to be some flexibility in the scheduling.

One sign it's become too restrictive is if straying from the usual routine causes extreme upset. Take traveling, says Carter.

Someone with a healthy relationship to exercise won't panic if her day-to-day routine is a little off. Someone with an unhealthy relationship to exercise might skip out on important events or exciting moments or wake up drastically early to fit in a workout. "The exercise becomes number one," says Carter.

On those days where a regular workout gets bumped from the schedule, Cohn helps clients keep things in perspective by focusing on other ways in which they are physically active. Even walking just a few more steps a day -- whether it’s by taking the stairs instead of the elevator or commuting by foot -- is still physical, and can help ease anxiety over skipping a sweat session.

7. They do it on their terms.

Along with finding a fitness plan they enjoy, people with a healthy relationship to exercise also work out when and where they like. Yes, there are big benefits to a morning workout, like fewer cravings and greater energy, but it comes down to personal preference, says Carter. "Some people like to exercise in the morning, some people hate mornings," she says. "You don't have to force it."

8. They seek support.

Everyone has their off days, even people with a healthy relationship to exercise. Whether it's a lack of motivation to stick to healthy exercise or a compulsion to overdo it, Carter says one of the most effective safety nets is having a workout buddy. "It's harder to do the compulsive thing when you've got someone with you to encourage something a little more moderate, and it's a great motivator for [others]," she says. Of course, if exercise -- or lack of it -- is truly interfering with someone's health, it may be safer to consult a dietitian, a physician or a mental health professional, "or a mixture of all three," says Carter.

9. They do it for the mental benefits.

"We know so much about the mental health benefits of exercise," says Carter, and yet many unbalanced exercisers only consider breaking a sweat helpful for altering weight or shape. For many, exercise is an effective coping method for stress, anxiety and depression, and healthy exercisers harness these powers for good. n

5. They know what they like.

"Balanced or healthy exercise is exercise that you like, not exercise that you dislike," says Carter. "If you're doing something that you hate, you're not going to keep doing it." That might mean running marathons for some and practicing Bikram yoga for others, but what's important is that you don't feel like you're torturing yourself -- and that you don't feel obligated to try every single fitness fad.

The same principle applies to exercise intensity, says Carter. Some people love high intensity workouts like CrossFit, and others will simply find moderate intensity movement more tolerable, she says.

6. But they still mix things up.

"Doing the elliptical every day at the same intensity level is just a repetitive motion," says Cohn, not one you're going to see huge results from. People with the healthiest relationships to exercise balance their workout routines with a mixture of activities, whether that's high and low impact, cardio and strength training, or arm days and leg days, she says. And it doesn't require pricey sessions with a personal trainer or a degree in exercise science to add a little more balance to your regular routine, she says. Simply reading the directions on a machine at the gym you've never tried before, for example, can be surprisingly helpful, she says.

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hen we first decided to create this section several months ago, it was (and still is) because health is integrally related to many of the features we run on a regular basis. We have our Going Green section which emphasizes sustainability and its relationship to a healthy work environment; we have Staycations and Destinations to unwind from the stresses of our daily routines, to create and maintain internal stability; we even have Our Readers and Their Pets and Diversions throughout because laughter truly is the best medicine, enhancing relationships and supporting both physical and emotional health.

What you will see on this section’s pages is not health as contrasted with illness. Not medicine or surgery as a medical necessity. It’s not wellness (or not just wellness) as we’ve come to think of that word over the last several decades - a healthy balance of the mind, body and spirit resulting in an overall feeling of well-being, a view of health that emphasizes the state of the entire being include mental (physical, spiritual, social, occupational and environmental health conditions) and its ongoing development.

Rather it will be a broad-based view of products and services for those in conscious pursuit of living life to its fullest potential. Hearing aids; laser surgery for vision improvement; exercise and exercise equipment; nutrition; specialized furniture.

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DALLAs Prévost

dallasprevost@live.com S. “Dallas” Prévost, M.D. is an employee benefits and wellness program consultant based in Dallas and serving companies throughout the United States. She specializes in nutrigenomic-based anti-aging and wellness. (www.linkedin.com/in/

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mployers today are faced with everincreasing costs for healthcare for their most valuable assets – their employees.

Truth is insurance rate increases are being driven by poor employee behaviors.

Previously associated with older age groups, there is an alarming increase in the early onset of these chronic diseases among Americans of working age. This adds to the economic burden from illness-related loss of productivity due to absenteeism and decreased performance while at work (presenteeism).

It makes sense to address health at work because working adults spend so much of their time on the job. In no small part due to concern about the impact of chronic disease on employee health and well-being, the increasing cost of health care coverage, and business competition, workplace wellness programs have emerged as a common employer-sponsored benefit.

Nearly half of small businesses (with 50 or more employees) – a group that employs threequarters of the U.S. workforce – have wellness programs, and larger businesses are even more likely to offer such programs, often with a variety of options.

Preventive interventions can target employees with risk factors for chronic disease (lifestyle management) and also improve disease control in employees with chronic conditions (disease management).

Many employers offer some form of nutrition and weight loss program – such as onsite Weight Watchers group meetings, weight loss competitions, and personalized phone support from health coaches – as well as smoking cessation activities through educational programs or telephonic counseling.

Incentivizing Health

Today, nearly 90% of employers offer incentives to employees who meet specific wellness criteria or outcomes. This is up from 57% in 2009.

Incentives can be rewards for meeting certain requirements or penalties for not meeting them. Either can be effective. An employer should know from previous experience how its employees respond to a reward for action, or a penalty for non-action.

Offering premium reductions or increased employer contributions has seen a rise in recent years, as have contributions to health savings and health reimbursement accounts. Some employers still reward with cash and gift cards.

Benefits-integrated incentives tend to work better than non-financial or cash incentives.

Convenience incentives, such as on-site biometric screening, clinics or health coaches, and social incentives (e.g., ‘bragging rights’ offered by team-based wellness challenges) are popular options.

Wellness Programs

Most employers consider a wellness program a viable strategy to contain health care costs, maintaining the affordability of health coverage by lowering insurance premiums. Programs often include wellness screening to identify health risks and interventions to reduce risks and promote healthier lifestyles. Screening 42

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Where to Start

When first implementing an incentive-based wellness program, there are a host of factors beyond the scope of this article to consider.

Suffice it to say you should determine the best approach for financing the incentives with the least impact on the company’s bottom line including cost-neutral approaches, such as employee premium reductions for participants

can be offset by additional premiums for nonparticipants.

Examine how ready your employee population is for your intended incentive-based wellness program. Prepare them with communications well in advance of its launch.

Define the specific behaviors/outcomes you hope to change (blood pressure, BMI, cholesterol, risk reduction) and estimate the potential outcome, for instance, as a percentage improvement in values.

Make sure your incentives are fair, that they aren’t weighted toward people who are already healthy and that your requirements aren’t so challenging that people decide it’s not even worth trying. Offer a combination of meaningful rewards focused on the behaviors you want to change and which will achieve the best outcome.

Although incentives are central to wellness program engagement, rewards alone are not enough to drive healthy changes. The wellness culture in your organization is a big part of what motivates lasting change. Strong senior management support is essential and includes involvement in health planning, budget and resource approval, and efforts towards an overall culture of health. Let employees see executives participate in screenings and wellness challenges, host wellness lunch-andlearn sessions, and recognize employee wellness successes.

Communication that is consistent, yearround, and inspiring improves participation rates. Interaction with health coaches, lifestyle improvement programs, and incentives should include phone, mail, online, and onsite options to keep employees engaged at home as well as at work.

While there’s no single simple answer to problems as complex as healthcare, employers who invest in a healthy workforce can see a return on their investment through improvements in the health of their employees, reductions in their health risks in general, increased productivity levels, and more affordable health coverage.

Employers should set realistic, long-term goals, assuming that positive returns will likely be realized over the course of three or more years after program launch. n

There is actually a patron saint for hemorrhoid sufferers – Saint Fiacre

Over the last several decades, there has been an epidemic of lifestyle diseases in the United States. Unhealthy lifestyles – smoking, lack of exercise, unhealthy eating and high stress – are causing long-lasting problems, such as diabetes, heart disease, and chronic pulmonary conditions. These conditions result in a decreased quality of life, premature disability or even death and, of course, increased health care costs.

activities use Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) and sometimes include clinical screenings to collect biometric data – such as height, weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels. The results are used in program planning and evaluation and for directing employees to preventive interventions that address their specific health risks.

There is actually a patron saint for hemorrhoid sufferers – Saint Fiacre

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Fort Worth dedicated a new 22-foot-tall bronze statue monument at the banks of the Trinity River to the man who founded the city 165 years ago - U.S. Army Brevet Major Ripley Allen Arnold.

He named it in honor of his former commander, Brevet Maj. Gen. William Jenkins Worth, who never saw it. Worth, a New York native, died in San Antonio a month before Arnold planted the flag just up the hill on June 6, 1849. (Worth is honored with a 51-foot monument and tomb in New York City.)

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e’ve all heard the stories from the Bay Area. From the lavish, ego-driven spending of the young techies to the stark income rifts developing in San Francisco real estate, no Gold Rush comparison feels unwarranted. And so in 2012, when the poster child for the current hyper-valued tech-boom, Facebook’s multi-billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg, tapped one of the world’s best-known architects to design the corporation’s new expansion of their West Campus in Menlo Park, CA, no one was particularly surprised. But what may surprise onlookers is what Zuckerberg and Gehry actually have planned: a thoroughly green and decidedly openplan monument to collaboration, not individual achievement.

Current Facebook Headquarters

Known for his signature dynamic and deconstructivist buildings— exemplified by his legendary rippling, metallic Guggenheim Bilbao and the smashed-guitar shock of Seattle’s Experience Music Project —Gehry’s Facebook campus seems downright functional, and even a departure from form, by comparison. The significantly and deliberately toned-down effort is clearly geared toward kindling creativity inside its walls rather than reveling in ostentatious and eye-catching forms.

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green roof that acts more like a sizeable and functioning park than the standard, token collection of decorative foliage that has accompanied the ‘greening’ trend. Native grasses, sizeable trees, and even a vegetable garden will sprawl over the space. Cafes, grills, and workbenches will facilitate outdoor employee interactions, capitalizing on the Bay’s temperate climate. And of course, green roofs have a cost-cutting effect, reducing the need for excessive heating and cooling.

The green roof also allows the 430,000 square foot building to blend in with its marshland surroundings more seamlessly, easing neighborly tensions and maintaining the affluent Menlo Park neighborhood’s character.

Facebook made significant contributions to the town to gain approval for its expansion, including civic donations and building lowincome homes in the area.

The new campus extension will also be linked to Facebook’s nearby main offices by an underground tunnel. The tunnel will include an airport-style people mover and a bike lane, allowing employees to access the main office’s considerable suite of amenities—including a full gym, a number of restaurants, a bank, and even a dentist office.

The West Campus, which will sit atop a massive surface-level parking garage, fluctuates in height between 45 and 73 feet. It is unlikely to draw the kind of architectural tourists that flock to Gehry’s Dancing House or his Walt Disney Concert Hall. What is most distinctive about the building is inside: the West Campus features an unprecedented amount of open plan space.

To encourage conversation and interaction among employees from various departments, the building eschews conventional closed-off office spaces in favor of a more social, dynamic plan.

The whole campus has been designed to take into account Facebook's way of working and culture. It is one large office that will be broken up by conference rooms and breakaway spaces, with a parking structure underneath. There will be a rooftop garden, as well as a ground level one. The building is designed to be simple—almost like a giant warehouse; its emphasis is on functionality, rather than extravagance. Housing up to 2,800 employees, it will be an engineeringonly office. Facebook will keep its old campus and use a tunnel under the highway to connect the two.

In a field where roles, tasks, and titles are comparatively malleable, and where most work is being done on laptops anyway, the work environment has been built to match the tasks at hand. And so, the majority of the campus’s 2,800 engineers will be toiling, coding, and poking away in a giant, single room. Angled walls and meeting spaces peppered throughout were introduced to reduce the potentially alienating feeling of working in a giant hangar.

With 70% of all modern offices including an open floor plan, Facebook is not inventing anything new. But as with its social network, it’s certainly the largest-scale experiment yet. A common criticism of the open plan scheme is that it encourages constant, focusruining distraction and seriously cuts down on privacy—two critiques that could be levied at Facebook itself. However, the positive aspects are clear: encouraging serendipitous sparks of collaboration and breaking down the silos of conventional corporate organization. Slated to open in the spring of 2015, the campus is sure to encourage reflection and speculation.

Facebook’s campus extension comes as part of a recent construction boom of giant tech projects, along with new Silicon Valley behemoths for Google and Apple and an ambitious new headquarters for Amazon in Seattle. Flush with record-breaking profits, the tech giants are moving beyond their former rental spaces and into flexible but massively ambitious and progressive campuses. Considering the industry’s past volatility, one hopes that they never become the hubristic ruins of the future.

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Left: Architect Frank Gehry with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

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Julie Brand Lynch

julie@LYNOUS.com Julie Lynch is the principal of LYNOUS, a Dallas-based talent management firm focused on executive search, interim staffing, coaching and customized employee training exclusively within the real estate industry. She is also a contributing editor of the the network.

Jeff McKenney joined Henry S. Miller as Vice President

Michael D. Voit joined KAI Texas as Director of Architecture

Robin Francis-Baker joined Sperry Van Ness/Visions Commercial as Associate Advisor

Rebekah Moore joined Sperry Van Ness/Visions as Marketing Director

Steven Toppel joined Trademark Property Company as Executive Vice President

Bo Estes joined Colliers as Executive Vice President in Dallas

Liesl Dudley joined United Renovations as a Vice President of National Accounts

Jeremy Koomler, RA joined Stantec (formerly SHW) as a project manager

Daniel Dain, LEED AP BD+C joined Stantec (formerly SHW) as a designer

Samantha Raburn joined Stantec (formerly SHW) as an architectural intern

Bruce Merwin became a Partner in the Real Estate and Banking Practice Group of Thompson & Knight

Rickey Wilson, CPA joined Sperry Van Ness / Visions Commercial as accounting manager

Steve Church joined Venture Commercial as a Senior Vice President

Michael A. Wilson joined Venture Commercial as an Assistant Vice President

Elizabeth Ellenwood was promoted to Senior Vice President at Venture Commercial

Michael Dearden was promoted to Vice President at Venture Commercial

Jeff Langham, AIA was named Director of Architecture at Sixthriver Architects

Kathryn Sontag joined BOMA Dallas as Communications & Marketing Manager

Daniel LaGree joined Colliers International as a financial analyst with their Capital Markets Team

Amanda Mann joined Colliers International as an associate in brokerage

Lindsay Wolcott joined Colliers International as a senior associate in brokerage

Elissa Plotsky joined Freedom Title as the Director of Business Development

Sarah Rochester joined Stream Realty as an Assistant Property Manager

Kevin Frederick joined Henry S. Miller as a corporate real estate and office leasing specialist

Mark Meyer joined Henry S. Miller as a corporate real estate and office leasing specialist

Brian Straley joined CBRE as Director of Project Management in Dallas

Jennifer Clendening joined CBRE as Director of Project Management in Dallas

CBRE promoted Marc Krohn to Managing Director of Asset Services for Central Texas

CBRE promoted Hunter Mills to Senior Associate in Austin

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Barack Obama once had a summer job as an ice cream scooper at Baskin Robbins.

Lane Kommer was promoted to Vice President at Henry S. Miller Brokerage

Shout-Outs!

Expressions of praise given in the presence of many people.

Barack Obama once had a summer job as an ice cream scooper at Baskin Robbins.

Congratulations to JLL for being named one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by The Ethisphere® Institute for the seventh consecutive year. The Ethisphere® Institute is an independent center of research, best practices and thought leadership that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and compliance and enables organizations to improve governance, mitigate risk, and enhance relationships with employees, business partners, investors and the broad regulatory community. It evaluates and benchmarks compliance and governance programs, honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies™ recognition program. The company assessment is based upon the Institute’s Ethics Quotient. Scores are generated in five key categories: ethics and compliance program (25%), reputation, leadership and innovation (20%), governance (10%), corporate citizenship and responsibility (25%), and culture of ethics (20%). This year’s honorees represented 41 different industries and included organizations from 21 countries and 5 continents. (www.ethisphere.com).

• • • • • Jeff Kittleson, a Senior Vice President of CBRE Group, Inc. in Dallas, Texas, earned the firm’s Larry Perrish Award, an accolade bestowed upon an individual who is a genuine role model for retail real estate professionals, exhibits boundless Kittleson energy and enthusiasm and is eager to share knowledge with their colleagues.

Kittleson and his team completed 62 transactions in 2013 totaling 1.1 million square feet for high-profile clients such as Floor & Décor, Gander Mountain, 24-Hour Fitness, Conn’s Electronics and First Choice ER.

• • • • • Congratulations to Phil Puckett on being named named Office Broker of the Year and Dave Anderson on being named Industrial Broker of the Year (Executive Vice Presidents with Anderson CBRE in Dallas) by the North Puckett Texas chapter of the National Association of Office and Industrial Parks (NAIOP). Broker of the Year candidates are nominated by Principal Members of the chapter and are selected based on consistent, outstanding performance, excellent reputation for honesty and integrity, and active involvement in volunteer organizations in the area.

• • • • • Congratulations to Myra Smith, a Managing Director of CBRE Group, in Houston who was included in Fortune’s Heroes of the 500 2014, part of the magazine’s Fortune 500 coverage. The feature highlighted employees from America’s biggest companies who have Smith performed extraordinary acts of bravery, charity, ingenuity or selflessness—transforming their communities and the lives of others in the process. Ms. Smith was honored for her work with CBRE’s Birthday Cakes & More for Homeless Children program, which she started in 1998 when she began delivering birthday cakes to children living in a local Houston shelter. CBRE offices across the U.S. quickly adopted the initiative, and it has been an official company philanthropic program since 2001. To date, CBRE employees in 55 cities across the United States have delivered more than 7,500 birthday cakes to children in 81 shelters.

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The Energy Plaza building, a 49-story office property located at 1601 Bryan Street in downtown Dallas, has become the first building in the United States to be awarded the IREM® Certified Sustainable Property certification by the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®). Owned

by Energy Future Holdings and managed by Transwestern, AMO®, the building has met the diverse but attainable requirements of the certification — drawn from categories ranging from energy and water conservation to waste and tenant engagement — that distinguish the property as a high-performance building. Energy Plaza earned the certification by completing core and elective requirements, some of which include energy and water efficiency, a tenant and construction recycling program, indoor air quality and staff education. The Energy Plaza was able to quickly complete the certification at no major cost since most of the requirements, policies and procedures were already in place through the building’s LEED Gold EB certification.

Donald J. Sherwood, a director in the Fort Worth office of Integra Realty Resources DFW, was named a finalist for the International Right of Way’s W. Howard Armstrong Instructor of the Year award.

The award recognizes the IRWA instructors Sherwood who have demonstrated an extraordinary passion and commitment to sharing their expertise and enhancing the educational opportunities available to more than 10,000 IRWA members.

• • • • • Leonardo González Sangri of HKS and fellow architect Scott Taylor of Bernbaum Magadini Architects, put their hearts, heads and sweat equity to work this spring, helping build community reading hubs in West and South Dallas neighborhoods.

Little Free Libraries (Libros Libres) is an effort of the Wisconsin-based nonprofit Little Free Libraries, Big Thought, buildingcommunityWORKSHOP (bcA young reader enjoys the Little WORKSHOP) and the Dallas Free Library at the Lakewest Family YMCA Photo courtesy of Public Library. In 2009, the Little Free Library moveDaryl Shields/HKS, Inc. ment began when the first Library, fashioned after a red schoolhouse, was built as a tribute to one schoolteacher. Today, more than 15,000 Little Free Libraries have been built worldwide.

• • • • • Kudos to NRG Energy which will create a highlevel sustainability master plan for the future of NRG Park as well as install solar panels, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and energy-efficient LED lighting. This will make the newly rebranded NRG Stadium the first professional football stadium in the country to be equipped with energy-efficient LED lighting on the field and the first professional football stadium in Texas with a solar installation. The company has installed sustainable energy solutions at five stadiums previously.

• • • • • Congratulations to Keri L. Redford, Managing Director at Integra Realty Resources DFW, for earning the Member Appraisal Institute (MAI) designation.

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• • • • • Kudos to Crescent Real Estate Holdings which broke ground on McKinney & Olive. The 20-story building is being built as a LEED Gold Certified, Class AAA structure; it will be the tallest building in Uptown Dallas. One of Dallas’ largest law firms, Gardere Wynne Sewell, has signed a 15-year lease to become the anchor tenant (occupying floors 9 through 12), leaving Thanksgiving Tower at the expiration of its 26-year lease. The unique building was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (led by worldrenowned Argentine architect Cesar Pelli who is known for designing some of the world’s most architecturally compelling urban landmarks, including the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and the World Financial Center complex in lower Manhattan. Gardere was represented by Jeff Ellerman and Phil Puckett of CBRE.

• • • • • Congratulations to Sanober Syed of Hudson Peters Commercial who earned the CCIM designation.

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Congratulations to David Pinsel, Managing Director of Colliers North Texas who was honored as one of the Dallas Business Journal’s top professionals under 40 and Bryson Battle, Sales Associate at Colliers International who was recognized as one of Tomorrow’s Leaders by The Real Estate Forum magazine.

• • • Cheers for Managing Partners Scott Jessen and Scott Morse of Citadel Partners for having been named SIOR designee members.

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• • • Kassandra McLaughlin of Husch Blackwell LLP has been elected to membership in the Fellows of the Texas Bar.

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In 2012, we began this feature which brought several responses that we won’t print here (e.g., “Holy S#@%! You must be f…ing kidding me!”). Oops! Despite those words, readers clearly appreciated the feature which is presented regularly in our March and September issues.

The truly unfortunate thing is that there is no shortage of people, pictures, events to fill this page

Real estate mogul 1 Donald Sterling’s ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers was finally wrested away from him thanks to a judge’s ruling on his lawsuit against his wife. He gained ‘notoriety’ due to racist remarks he made in 2014 caught on an audiotape leaked to website TMZ in late April.

He told his girlfriend 2 V. Stiviano not to bring black people to games. Now she’s apparently trying to extend her ‘fame’ by alluding to a new bombshell – that her 4-year old daughter Madison might be the ‘love child’ of the disgraced and still very litigious Sterling.

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Meanwhile former Illinois Congressman 6 Melvin Jay Reynolds (who resigned from his congressional seat in 1995 after being convicted of 12 counts of statutory rape, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography) is back in the news. He has been arrested in Zimbabwe for allegedly possessing pornographic material and violating immigration laws. And Representative 7 Trey Radel of Florida resigned after pleading guilty to cocaine possession. A former conservative radio show host, he s believed to be the first sitting member of Congress charged with cocaine possession.

8 Dr. Nikita Levy (an obstetrician-gynecologist) was fired by Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore after it was discovered that he took (what police called “an exorbitant amount” of) secret photos and videos with a secret pen camera worn around his neck while conducting pelvic exams.

He took his own life by asphyxiating himself before he was arrested and the hospital has agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class action suit by up to 8000 patients.

Former Utah Attorneys General 9 Mark Shurtleff and 10 John Swallow have been arrested, and are facing multiple charges of second and third degree felonies for corruption while in office. A total of 11 felony charges and two misdemeanors have been levied against Swallow, including receiving or soliciting a bribe or bribery by public official, false statements, evidence tampering, and misuse of public monies. 10 felony charges were issued against Shurtleff, including unlawful acts, receiving or soliciting a bribe or bribery by public servant, witness tampering, evidence tampering, and obstruction of justice. Mugshots via Salt Lake County.

Uruguayan soccer star 11 Luis Suarez was banned from all soccer related activity for four months for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup. According to (suburban Atlanta) Cobb County police, 12 Justin Ross Harris (the man whose son died after being left in a sweltering SUV for 7 hours and who is now charged with felony murder and second degree child cruelty) sexted six women (at least one of whom was underage) while his son, Cooper, was dying in the vehicle where he allegedly ‘forgot’ him there. The investigation revealed that both he and his wife, 13 Leanna Harris had conducted Internet searches about child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur.

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3 Leland Yee, a onetime candidate for mayor of San Francisco is criminally charged with bribery and conspiring to traffic in arms from the Philippines. 4 Ron Calderon, whose district includes parts of Los Angeles, was indicted on 24 counts ranging from federal bribery to money laundering charges; and 5 Roderick Wright was convicted on 8 felony counts of perjury and voter fraud.

(He lied about living in the Inglewood district he represents.).

Askhole – A person who is constantly asking for your advice, yet always does the opposite of what you tell them.

Some of these are ongoing stories that continue to (dis)grace our front pages.

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Why do Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

Askhole – A person who is constantly asking for your advice, yet always does the opposite of what you tell them.

One of Man’s Greatest Erections for Woman - a tragic love story and the magnificence of a bygone era At the turn-of-the-20th century, George C. Boldt, the millionaire proprietor of the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, set out to build a full size Rhineland castle in Alexandria Bay, on picturesque Heart Island nestled among the St Lawrence River’s 1000 Islands. The grandiose structure was to be a display of his love for his wife, Louise.

Beginning in 1900, the Boldt family spent summers in the 1000 Islands at the Boldt Families Wellesley House near Mr. Boldt’s Wellesley Island Farms while 300 workers including stonemasons, carpenters, and artists fashioned the six story, 120 room castle, complete with tunnels, a powerhouse, Italian gardens, a drawbridge, a children’s’ playhouse tower and a dove cote. Not a single detail or expense was spared.

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Summer’s Fall Reading List NON-FICTION

• The Industrial Revolution by Otto Mattick • Artificial Weightlessness by Andy Gravity • Color Blind by Rachel Animus • Allegiance to the King by Neil Downe

Fiction • Trails in the Sand by Dick Dragon • If Tomorrow Never Comes by Stew Layte • Shhh! by Danielle Soloud • Without Warning by Oliver Sudden BIOGRAPHY

• A Boxing Cornerman’s Story by Dawson DeTowel • Fat Lady In The Sideshow by Ellie Funt • The French Chef by Sue Flay • Yoko’s Robe by Kim Ono

Self Help

• Guide To Mixology by Bart Ender • Take a Break! by Colin Sick • How to Make Your Wife Happy by Dick C. Normos • A Guide to Binge Drinking by Carrie Meholm

In January 1904, tragedy struck. Boldt telegraphed the island and commanded the workers to immediately “stop all construction.” Just months before the completion of the castle, Louise had died suddenly.

A broken-hearted Boldt could not imagine his dream castle without his beloved. He never returned to the island, leaving behind the structure as a monument of his love.

For 73 years, the castle and various stone structures were left to the mercy of the wind, rain, ice, snow and vandals. When the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority acquired the property in 1977, it was decided that through the use of all net revenues from the castle operation it would be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. Since 1977, several million George Boldt dollars have been applied to rehabilitating, restoring and improving the Heart Island structures and Boldt Castle is once again becoming what it was always meant to be, the premier home and attraction in the region.

Real Estate Blue Ciel briefs

Dallas residents can now “own a piece of the sky” as Dallas-based Harwood International will break ground on Bleu Ciel this fall. The new luxury 33-story high-rise condominium tower (at the northwest corner of Wolf and McKinnon in the Harwood District) will include 158 luxury residences, with enormous terraces (with fireplaces) and floor-toceiling glass boasting stunning views of downtown, uptown and the Katy Trail. Priced from the high $600,000s, and ranging in size from 1,300 to more than 7,000 square feet, the residences will provide a combination of luxury indoor and opulent outdoor living; the “walk to life” neighborhood has a mix of boutique shops, restaurants and entertainment destinations.

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Anthony J. Barbieri is a shareholder of Kessler Collins, PC in Dallas, Texas. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a member of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

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ontracts are a way of life in the commercial real-estate world. Nearly every aspect of our business necessitates a written contract. Aside from memorializing “the deal”, the main purpose of a contract is to allocate risk between the parties. Risk allocation is done in various ways, such as through warranties, representations, assumptions of liabilities, and indemnification. But the most common and cost effective way to mitigate risk is a contractual requirement to obtain insurance. If done properly, insurance can be a very thankful safety net when something goes haywire with your tenants, vendors, or construction projects.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett once said, “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” That is certainly true in real estate. Merely having insurance isn’t enough – you must ensure that your tenants and contractors have the correct coverage. This article addresses some “must know” points.

Self-Insurance & Self-Insured Retention Many companies claim to be “self-insured”. But ordinarily this just means that the company with “self-insurance” pays for any claims from their available cash.

In those rare situations when you are dealing with a very solid credit company with an abundance of cash, this might be an acceptable position. Most of the time, however, this will not be the case, and even if you’re dealing with a solid company that “self-insures”, success can be fleeting – as we’ve all witnessed during the economic downturn over the past several years. If a financial hardship occurs, they may not have the ability to pay a claim if they self-insure.

reduce the cost of its premiums. If you’re dealing with a company that has a large SIR, you need to ensure that they have the financial wherewithal to cover any claims that fall within the self-insured retention limit.

Additional Insureds Generally speaking, an “additional insured” is a person or organization that enjoys the benefits of being insured under an insurance policy, in addition to the insured that purchased the policy.

The protection kicks in when the additional insured is sued for the acts of the named insured. For instance, if a lease agreement requires the tenant to name the landlord as an additional insured, and the tenant’s customer slips and falls on the proverbial banana peel, the tenant’s policy should cover the tenant (the original named insured) and the landlord (the additional insured). An additional insured also has the right to make a claim against the named insured’s policy. The insurance company must provide the additional insured with a legal defense of a covered claim.

If you are a landlord, you want all of your contractors, tenants, and your tenants’ contractors to provide an endorsement listing you as an additional named insured. Likewise, if you are a tenant, you will want your vendors to provide this protection for you, and you may ask the landlord to do the same. The key to allocating risk is to “pass the buck” – literally – and require the party who is most likely to be responsible for an incident to be the same party whose insurance pays to clean up the mess, so to speak.

In order to obtain additional-insured status, you must confirm that the other party’s policy provides this coverage through an endorsement. (An endorsement is an amendment to an insurance policy/contract.) These endorsements allow the policyholder to basically add an additional insured to the policy upon request.

Another approach is to have your tenants, vendors and contractors purchase insurance that contains a “blanket additional insured” endorsement. It’s also important to note that the additional insured does not automatically receive notices of policy cancelations, unless you obtain an endorsement to the policy.

Certificates of Insurance Before doing business with a company that claims to be “self-insured”, check to see that they have established a restricted and encumbered fund or a reinsurance program. That fund or reinsurance program should be investigated to see how secure it is, perhaps with some sort of “financial means” tests and monitoring program to ensure they stay financially healthy. Your contract should also contain some minimum requirements for the self-insurance program. Furthermore, especially in long-term contracts, such as a lease, the self-insurance right should be limited to the named entity, and should not extend to any of their successors or assigns.

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Many real-estate professionals believe that Certificates of Insurance are ironclad proof that another company has insurance, and has identified you as an “additional insured”. Be careful! Generally, these “certificates” are just evidence of the coverage the policyholder has at the very moment the certificate is issued.

It says that on the face of the certificate. Further, courts have held that the certificates confer no rights on the certificate holder. Most insurance policies specify that if you want to change the policy language, you must actually change the policy. This is dangerous because oftentimes these certificates are prepared at the last minute, or at 4:45pm on a Friday afternoon, by an insurance agent who may slip up when it comes to actually getting the insurer to provide the coverage. So, if your intent is to be listed as an additional insured on your tenants’ or vendors’ policies, it might not be satisfied if the underlying policy was not

changed (endorsed) to provide the coverage. You should request proof of this change to ensure it was done properly.

Recently, Texas passed a law that says only certificates approved by the Texas Department of Insurance may be issued. If an insurance company wants to use a non-standard form, they may file it with the Department, pay a fee, and wait for approval. However, you cannot ask your tenants or contractors to add specific provisions to insurance certificates “on the fly”. This reinforces the need to require tenants, contractors and subcontractors to provide owners and property managers with a copy of their insurance policy(ies) so you can see the specific coverage they have. You should check the policy’s declarations page(s), and ask for a copy of an endorsement showing you (and your agents) are additional insureds.

Wrong or outdated language In 1986 the insurance industry overhauled its policy forms. This dramatically impacted certain coverages and created different terminology. Even though it’s been nearly 30 years, many professionals – even lawyers and risk managers – still use outdated language, and this outdated language still appears in contracts all the time. Here are some examples: Property Insurance. Terms like “fire insurance”, “extended coverage”, “vandalism and malicious mischief ”, and “special extended coverage” are gone. Instead, we now use terms like “basic causes of loss”, “broad causes of loss”, and “special causes of loss”. Additionally, the term “all risk” is seldom used because many courts have held that the term “all risk” gives consumers the impression that the policies cover “all risks”, when in fact they do not. A “basic causes of loss” policy is just that – basic. A “broad causes of loss” policy offers broader protection, and a “special causes of loss” policy is what most insurance professionals think of as “all risk”.

Liability Insurance. The phrase “comprehensive general liability” has been phased out and the more common term now is “commercial general liability” insurance (a/k/a “CGL”). The difference is that the “comprehensive general liability” was very basic and required the policyholder to purchase multiple endorsements; however, “commercial general liability” includes many of the coverages that typically were excluded under the old form. Not only does this allow the insured to receive greater protection, but the shift in policy types allows insurance companies to increase premium charges for their “standard” policies without worrying about whether or not their insureds elect to cut corners by skimping on endorsements. In that regard, since most CGL policies now cover the same types of claims that pre-1986 policies obtained through “blanket” or “broad form” coverage, the terms “blanket” or “broad form” should not be used.

Contractual Liability Insurance Another common tool to shift risk in a contract is an indemnity clause. An indemnity clause requires one party to protect the other party for things that “go wrong”. The indemnity clause identifies who is to be responsible if liabilities arise. But if the party providing the protection does not have the financial ability to satisfy the claim, then the indemnity is meaningless. This is akin to buying an insurance policy from an insurance company that goes broke.

In order to protect against this risk, contractual liability insurance can fund all or a portion of certain indemnities. Contractual liability insurance applies to bodily injury and damage to tangible property only. If available, contractual liability coverage is subject to the policy limits, and you cannot just assume that this coverage is in the CGL. You should ask for your tenants, contractors and vendors to provide the endorsement showing the coverage is in place.

What is Subrogation?

Why do we waive it?

From a legal standpoint, “subrogation” means that one party has the right to “step into the shoes” of another party for the purposes of suing someone to recover damages. Property-damage claims are the most commonly subrogated claims.

Not all claims may be subrogated.

How does subrogation work? Suppose your tenant or your vendor damages part of the building. Unless your tenant or their insurance company pays for the damage, you may have to submit a claim to your insurance company. If your insurance company pays the claim, they will likely want to recover their out-ofpocket costs against the responsible party. In most states (including Texas), your insurance company becomes “subrogated” to your rights to sue the tenant or vendor. In essence, your insurance carrier “steps into your shoes”.

A waiver of subrogation clause minimizes lawsuits and claims among the parties because all the risk is shifted to the insurance companies, and the cost of the insurance coverage is contractually allocated among the parties. As a practical matter, if your contract requires the other party to waive subrogation, you must ensure that their insurance policy allows for such waiver.

Conclusion These issues are extremely important for anyone in real estate. A misstep can have incurable consequences down the road. It is, therefore, critical to understand these concepts and seek assistance from your insurance broker or competent counsel. n

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The Western powers including Australia, New Zealand and Canada, support the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS. We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like.

We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him. We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS. So … some of our friends support our enemies. Some of our enemies are now our friends and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose, but we also don’t want our enemies who are fighting our other enemies to win.

If the people we want to defeat are defeated, people we like even less could replace them, and all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out. All we wanted to do, as a bottom line, was to help establish a peaceful democracy. sept2014 | the net work

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Great art is among the most sublime, meaningful, and redeeming creations of all civilization. Few endeavors can equal the power of great artwork to capture aesthetic beauty, to move and inspire, to change perceptions, and to communicate the nature of human experience. Great art is also complex, mysterious, and challenging. Filled with symbolism, cultural and historical references, and often visionary imagery, great artworks oblige us to reckon with their many meanings.

Architects and designers (many of our readers) have a lot of influence on the way we perceive the world. A structure often plays a significant part in how we experience a place. ( Think of a restaurant, a museum, an arena, a stadium…even an office building – virtually anywhere!) The interior design impacts our sensory perception, our comfort, and our physical connection and there is also artistry in the exterior design. ( That’s why we call it artchitecture.)

Ric Dentinger

R “I’ve been drawing ever since I can remember,” says the artist. “My mother always tells a story about when I was a little kid that she would go to the butcher shop and bring home extra paper for me to draw on.

I’d sit for hours on the floor coloring and drawing Marvel Superheroes.”

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ic Dentinger’s La Mansion Riverwalk Bridge-San Antonio graces the cover of this issue. It was originally commissioned by The San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau as a gift for visiting dignitaries from Target, and it now hangs in the international headquarters of that Minneapolis company. The SACVB requested a painting that reflected the vibrant beauty and unique charm that is the San Antonio Riverwalk. Dentinger, a San Antonio resident and a nationally recognized watercolorist, is best known for bold architectural designs, softened up his approach with a dreamy depiction of the beautiful and well-known bend along the Riverwalk.

While Dentinger considers himself primarily self-taught, the time he spent at the Hunter School of Art had an impact on his love of painting and his respect for the art. His art instructor, Warren Hunter, taught the European Atelier method of art - serious art for serious artists. Atelier method is centered on realism, and the acquisition of fundamental skills before exploring personal expression. It is a form of realism based upon the careful observation of nature and people. Still life, landscape, portraiture and illustrative work are explored in a measured and systematic process. Artists using this approach tend to be united in a desire to reintroduce classical methods and techniques into modern painting. Although best known for his watercolors, Dentinger’s oil paintings also resonate with a depth of contrast and dramatic flair that truly distinguish his signature pieces.

Dentinger’s work can be seen at www.ricdentinger.com and is available through the Hunt Gallery in San Antonio, TX, the Keating Gallery in Aspen, Colorado and the Felder Gallery in Port Aransas, TX. n

If it weren’t for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

Eilan Watercolor

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The Argyle – San Antonio, Texas

Bridge of Art Watercolor on paper 14.5’ x 21.5” The world famous Parisian bridge was painted during an art expedition to France.

(Jane and John Brown Collection)

If it weren’t for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

Waring, Texas

Ric Dentinger began his career as a professional illustrator and art director and has worked with such high-profile clients as Coca Cola, HEB Federal Credit Union, Lone Star Beer, Joshua Creek Ranch, Lexus, and Valero Energy. Born in La Rochelle, France, he traveled Europe and America with his military family eventually settling in San Antonio. He has exhibited in many states including California, Texas, New York, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky, and Washington. His work includes architecture, still life, portraits, wildlife and outdoors, as well as contemporary subjects.

He has been the recipient of numerous national awards and has been featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine, American Artist, and American Art Collector, Southwest Art Magazine, Splash 12 and many local and regional newspapers. He teaches at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, and conducts workshops throughout the US.

Welfare, Texas Watercolor on paper 14.5” x 22” Well-known and painted by many local artists for over 30 years, the Welfare Store is now a restaurant located near Joshua Creek Ranch in the Texas Hill Country.

(Private Collection)

Rusted Lone Star

Gruene Hall Watercolor on paper, 22’ x 30’ Nationally famous dance hall located in Gruene, Texas. (Albert Estrada Collection)

The Good Setter Oil on Board 9” x 12” One of the champion hunting dogs at Joshua Creek Ranch.

(Ann and Joe Kercheville Collection)

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She looks as though she’s been poured into her clothes, and forgot to say “when”.

nchanted with planes and trains from an early age, Joan clearly wanted to go places. Almost as soon as she could, she was traveling through the US and abroad. She took the further adventurous step of living for seven years on several Caribbean islands...all with a camera, and many rolls of film.

Fast forward through multiple academic degrees and a couple of careers to find Joan in Beijing, China for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her love of photography was reignited by the inspiring culture and landscape of China and she began to practice her craft anew. While her early influences in photography were the landscapes of Ansel Adams, she quickly began to find her inspiration in urban scenes and architecture.

In her hometown of Fort Worth TX, she explores the beauty of historical, endangered, and modern architecture. Farther afield, she loves depicting the richly detailed historical county courthouses of Texas as well as other iconic Texas landmarks.

From across the US, her love of lighthouses is evident. Browse her portfolio and travel the world with her.

She looks as though she’s been poured into her clothes, and forgot to say “when”.

BOOK REVIEW

T

he United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities was chaired by Senator Frank Church of Idaho. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, it investigated the illegality of intelligence gathering by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair. In 1975, Senator Church said that the U.S. had perfected “a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air.” He warned that that knowhow could at any time “be turned around on

Greenwald, how the papers came to be released and what is actually contained in them.

the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything…. There would be no place to hide.”

Fast-forward 38 years … and the stark reality of that fear has come to pass. Glen Greenwald’s very important work (about the revelations in the documents released by Edward Snowden) draws its name from that quote. No Place To Hide tells the story of how Snowden chose

Whether you consider Snowden a hero because of his whistle-blowing (as clearly Greenwald does) or a traitor, as many have labeled him, the revelations of the documents released are astounding – and Greenwald’s insights into and about the issue of surveillance and its implication/threat to civil liberties are persuasively presented.

This is an important book, and we have secured several copies to give to readers who enter and win this month’s contest. (See the inside back cover.) Even if you do not win the book as a prize, we urge you to consider it a must-read!

“A righteous, controlled, and razor-sharp fury runs through a great deal of Greenwald’s writing….

His independent persuasion can make him a danger or an asset to both sides of the aisle.” - Newsweek

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Real Estate

A Landmark to Precision

Seamlessly Integrated into the Landscape The architectural team of BIG, HG Merz, Luchinger & Meyer and Muller Illien´s 25,800 sf pavilion design is rooted in the origins of the family owned company, a history of watchmaking that goes back centuries and is nested in the nature and culture of the Vallée de Joux. Located in the heart of La Vallée de Joux, the new museum - Maison des Fondateurs - will be imbedded in the landscape - uniting the buildings with the undulating fields of the valley.

BIG created an intertwined spiral shaped pavilion which is conceived as a storyline for the visitors – blending old and new - and guiding the visitor through a linear sequence of spaces and events, from the entrance through lounges, galleries and workshops, to the attic of the heritage building in the workshop where it all began. According to Bjarke

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Ingels, BIG’s founding partner, “Watchmaking like architecture is the art and science of invigorating inanimate matter with intelligence and performance. It is the art of imbuing metals and minerals with energy, movement, intelligence and measure – to bring it to life in the form of telling time. Unlike most machines and most buildings today that have a disconnect between the body and the mind, the hardware and the software, for the Maison des Fondateurs we have attempted to completely integrate the geometry and the performance, the form and the function, the space and the structure, the interior and the exterior in a symbiotic hole”.

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG works on a broad spectrum of projects in more than 20 countries. It takes a human-centered approach to design - looking at how urban environments can increase the quality of life and in finding ways of designing cities and buildings as double ecosystems that are both ecologically and economically profitable. They focus on the necessary details in order to realize the BIG idea. www.big.dk

The intertwined spirals solve one of the dilemmas of the program. The narrative structure calls for a succession of galleries and workshops, while the logistics of operations requires the workshops to be interconnected.

By coiling up the sequence of spaces in a double spiral, the three workshops find themselves in immediate adjacency – forming one continuous workspace – surrounded by galleries.

The roof and ceiling of the pavilion is conceived as a single sheet of metal – a steel structure clad in brass, continuous in plan but undulating in section to create a series of openings allowing daylight and views to the exhibits. Towards the end of the visit the double spiral intersects the existing museum building providing access to the vaulted spaces in the lower floor and to the attic. The dynamic forms of modern materials, concrete and brass, give way for a locally anchored tectonic of straight lines and warm surfaces of wood or stone. Heavy meets light.

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wiss luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet is expanding its historic headquarters.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. Mario Andretti

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COTTONWOOD ART FALL FESTIVAL

October 4 – 5 Sat.10am - 7pm Sun. 10am - 5pm Cottonwood Park 1321 W. Beltline Road Richardson, TX 75080 • 972-744-4582 Featuring works from the nation’s top visual artists, this prestigious art show has been a part of Richardson life for over 40 years. Admission and parking are free. Jurors will select over 240 artists to exhibit their museum-quality work and compete in 14 categories: 2D Mixed Media, 3D Mixed Media, Ceramics, Digital, Drawings/Pastels, Fiber, Glass, Jewelry, Leather, Metalwork, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Wood. Local bands perform the best in rock, country, jazz, blues, swing and folk.

Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cookoff!

8TH ANNUAL FIESTA LATINOAMERICANA!

The DFW International Community Alliance’s free family cultural celebration held at Klyde Warren Park in the Dallas Arts District. With two stages of music and dance, Children’s Discovery Workshops, a Parade of Nations, and interactive activities for the entire family, Fiesta is the Metroplex’s only Cultural Festival of the Americas.

OKTOBERFEST

October 3- 5 Fri. 5pm – 11pm Sat. 10am - 11pm Sun. 12pm - 5pm Southlake Town Square The 13th anniversary hosted by the Southlake Chamber of Commerce. Nearly 50,000 people visit throughout the weekend festival. Attendance and parking is free; there will be a wide variety of food, beverages and booth items available for sale. Activities include: live entertainment, children’s areas, wiener dog races, handcrafted arts & crafts booths and much more! For more information, visit http://www.oktoberfestsouthlake.com/.

The fifth annual free event features live bluegrass music, jamming, and chili-eating. Perfect for the whole family - no ticket required! Artists scheduled to appear include Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Seldom Scene, Gibson Brothers, Joe Mullins & Radio Ramblers, Kenny & Amanda Smith Band, Rambling Rooks, Balsam Range, Flatt Lonesome, and more!

City Lights

November 22 3pm – 11pm Main Street Garden 1902 Main St. Dallas, TX 75201 • www.downtowndallas.org A “Holiday Festival” Downtown along Main Street that continues throughout the evening.

Family-friendly activities include an outdoor market, face painting, ornament making, musical performances, concessions and much more. City Lights Opening Night marks the lighting of the official Downtown tree and a special arrival from Santa.

32nd Annual XTO Energy Parade of Lights

November 28 (begins at 6pm) Fort Worth at the intersection of Belknap & Throckmorton http://www.fortworthparadeoflights.org/parade-info or 817-336-2787.

A day filled with exciting things to do throughout Downtown, from holiday shopping in Sundance Square to dining out - all while enjoying the holiday spirit of the country’s top holiday parade. At 2:00 PM, the Holiday Fun Zone opens in General Worth Square with entertainment, children’s holiday craft-making. Food from Downtown restaurants will be featured, along with beverages and lighted parade merchandise. Cowboy Santas volunteers will collect toys around the parade route before the parade and in the Holiday Fun Zone.

Bring an unwrapped toy (for up to 12 years of age) to give to the Cowboy Santas to help give kids around Fort Worth have a brighter holiday. www.cowboysantas.org

Holiday at the Arboretum

November 16 - January 4, 2015 • Dallas Arboretum 8525 Garland Road Dallas, TX 75218 Visitors can delight in the festive decorations at the DeGolyer Estate, take a stroll through the gardens to view seasonal plantings, and enjoy a variety of family-friendly activities. The 12 Days of Christmas. exhibit will consist of a Victorian collection of threedimensional, life-size gazebos filled with the charming characters made famous in the famous carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas.

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In 1920, Eugene V. Debs ran for president as a Socialist and got 6% of the vote. (He was in jail at the time.)

September 28 (11am – 7pm) Klyde Warren Park , 2012 Woodall Rogers Freeway, Dallas, TX 75201

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

October 17 – 18 Fri. 4:30pm – 10pm Sat. 10:30am - 10pm Farmers Branch Historical Park 12000 Ford Road Farmers Branch, TX 75234 972-919-2631 • www.bloominbluegrass.com

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austin In 1920, Eugene V. Debs ran for president as a Socialist and got 6% of the vote. (He was in jail at the time.)

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

staycations

Austin City Limits

Jazz’SALive

October 3-5 and 10-12 Zilker Park www.aclfestival.com

September 20-21 Travis Park

One of the country’s largest celebrations of music, this six-day festival takes place on 46-acres in Zilker Park, the crown jewel of Austin’s public green spaces. It has amazing local eats and wares, free fun for the kids, green goingson, and other cool activities to entertain between sets – all the while bringing the magic of the famed public TV series Austin City Limits outside the studio and into Austin’s most beloved park with more than 130 musical acts on eight stages over two weekends.

Presenting the best local, regional, national and international Jazz musicians in a two-day outdoor festival in beautiful Travis Park. Local acts perform in the afternoon and national artists are showcased in the evening.

Rock & Roll San Marathon and a Half

Antonio

December 7 The marathon and half marathon courses are as flat and festive as they come, perfect for runners and walkers of all ability levels. The finish line location is Cherry Street, adjacent to Alamodome Lots B & C. After the race, reunite with family and friends in the Family Reunion area and relish in your post race accomplishment with refreshments and live music at the finish line stage.

There’s SO MUCH MORE……

Visit: www.visitsanantonio.com

Chuy’s Christmas Parade

November 29 Congress Avenue www.chuysparade.com A procession of giant balloons, marching bands, vintage cars, celebrities and floats usher in the season of giving.

There’s SO MUCH MORE……

Visit: www. austintexas.org

An historic boutique hotel providing excellent service in the heart of San Antonio since 1909.

Enjoy Crockett comfort, convenience and service next to the Alamo and the entrance to the Riverwalk.

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bert berat

bertberat@gmail.com Bert Berat is a film producer, editor and photographer.

In 1957, the Turia flooded its banks and caused such severe damage to the city that the decision was made to reroute the river to the outskirts of town. All water was drained out of the riverbed and in 1986 work was started to transform it into the “El Jardin del Turia", the garden of the Turia, a park that transects the city and has become an oasis of culture, recreation, leisure and sports in the middle of this bustling port city on the Mediterranean.

The Garden is also a splendid way to get around the city as it gives you access to the old city, all major arteries, and attractions.

Native Son – Santiago Calatrava

Where the river used to empty into the sea, we find the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (City of Arts and Sciences). This complex of futuristic buildings was conceived as the new crown jewel of a city already rich with remarkable architecture. It was started in 1994 and not completely finished ‘til 2005. As a showcase for the Americas Cup, held there for the first time in 2007, it was built to restore Valencia to the world map as a modern tourist destination. And, of course, the city tapped its native son and architecture wunderkind, Santiago Calatrava.

Calatrava, architect, engineer and sculptor was born in 1951 in Benimàmet, Valencia.

After studying architecture and engineering in Spain and Switzerland he opened his own practice and by the end of the nineties he already had made his mark building mostly bridges and railroad stations. Mind you, these were not your run of the mill bridges; they looked more like science fiction artifacts or cosmic musical instruments.

Deeply rooted in his civil engineering background Calatrava designed impossible looking spans by exploiting the latest material science to the fullest. And the unconventional and innovative shapes were derived from his work as a sculptor.

Gone were the old bridge lines with their trusses,their symmetry of anchorages and suspension cables. Modern material science stretched the boundaries of strength and form to new limits, new daring. Oh, and one last thing: all his bridges are white, stark white!

The Barcelona Olympics in 1992 won him the Montjuic Communications Tower commission and it became the symbolic totem of the Games. 2001 brought Calatrava to America for the critically acclaimed Milwaukee Art Museum and the Malmo, Sweden “Turning Torso” in 2005, a residential skyscraper, was the first commission that was so iconic it changed an entire city’s image. But the Valencia assignment was of an entirely different order of magnitude.

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The Guggenheim in Bilbao

The bar had been set high by Frank Gehry in 1997 in Bilbao, Spain, along the Nervion river in Basque Country. This is where Gehry built the modern art Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. No other public building has done more to change the image of a somnolent little city anywhere on the planet. The building is of such beauty and perfect integration into the site and creates human friendly space with so much grace that a universal critical singularity occurred: silence. The public, the critics, the financiers, all agreed! Astounding. Result: the so called “Bilbao Effect”, millions of tourists from around the globe descended on Bilbao, Euros flowed, the building was paid off in no time, and most importantly, the city of Bilbao was on the map! Now every city in the civilized world with any self-respect would be looking for its own Bilbao effect!

Calatrava had his work cut out for him when he was asked to do the same for the city of Valencia. In my humble opinion, there is something in the drinking water on the north-east Mediterranean coast of Spain - in that stretch from the French border through Barcelona to Valencia. It can’t be happenstance that so many bolts of genius just happen to strike with such frequency in one region. Besides Calatrava and his inspiration, Antonio Gaudi (Segrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona), Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Miro, Picasso, Salvador Dali, just to name a few, the upper Mediterranean coast of Spain has produced a disproportionate share of artistic genius. So Calatrava and Valencia had that going for them.

Back to Valencia

Meanwhile, back on the bike, in the Turia Garden, riding under one last bridge, the Pont del Regne, the bike path suddenly opens up, the foliage parts and you’re transported into the future, a spectacle to behold. This is the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, the City of Arts and Sciences, a complex of buildings that constitutes the largest conglomeration of Calatrava buildings on one site in the world. It is the crown jewel of Valencias' world image.

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iding a rented bicycle on the bottom of a riverbed is a very odd experience!

Cars and busses pass overhead on bridges that used to cross the river that cut a city in half. I am in Valencia, Spain at the bottom of what used to be the Turia River. Valencia is the third largest city in Spain, and the 5th busiest container port in Europe. It’s 2000 years old, dating back to Roman times. Valencia’s historic old city, Ciutat Vella, is one of Spain’s most popular tourist destinations.

The Opera (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía)

The first building is the Opera house, “El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía”. Someone has called it 4239 a Darth Vader helmet. Indeed! No straight lines here. All curves and cutouts, spectacularly graceful lines and undulations. A sculpture, really, on a

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m) timages.co ww.bertbera (w C LL s e Berat Imag ©2014 Bert grand scale. What a statement it makes about what is possible besides a brick and glass box. Another spaceship has landed a few hundred feet beyond “L’Hemisfèric” the IMAX theatre. Then the Science Museum, all spines and glass surrounded by cyan water in white mosaic wading pools reminding us we’re still at the bottom of a river bed and the buildings could be dragons bathing themselves in the hot sun. Next is a bridge that looks like a giant harp, a graceful instrument with cars crossing to the other side.

The bridge is white - of course.

Flanking the complex is a spiked construct reminiscent of a dinosaur skeleton on its side. It’s the parking garage - all in white, white ribs, white mosaics, white roofs… and all of it is surrounded by pools of crystal clear, cyan water. This is a world-class civic space, perfectly integrated into the landscape of the old riverbed swooping and curving, reflecting like the water it replaced.

©2014 Bert Be a 21st century nod to the arts rat Ima ges LLC and the sciences built at the bottom of a dry river bed, by a sculptor who likes to work big, a poet of space. Valencia created the time capsule of the Spanish modernism.

Back on the bike for the most important part of the ride, the second treasure hunt of the day in this delightful city: the culinary specialty of the region: paella, unequalled anywhere except maybe in the casco viejo in Barcelona.

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Architecture, especially civic architecture has, throughout history heralded the lofty ideals, the imaginations as well as the ambitions and vanities of a society. Our time is no exception. Buildings and public spaces are excellent barometers of the values we want to project, power we aspire to, arrivals we want to announce: think Shanghai sky scrapers, Dubai palm islands, or New York’s High Line! And as such, in a world on the move, they become hot spots, places to which people gravitate, tourist destinations, economic engines, magnets.

©2014 Bert Berat Images LLC

Valencia wanted to create one of those hot spots, and it has succeeded, not with a shot at the tallest sky scraper or with an island in the shape of a palm tree but with

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We set out to provide a detailed listing of the wide variety classes, programs and certifications offered from our affiliates, but most of the schedules had not been established yet for 2014, so this presentation is not complete. However, on the masthead of this publication (page 6), you will find the website for each of our affiliates; from there it is easy to navigate to find up-to-date information on class descriptions, schedules and designation programs.

BOMI International courses are also offered throughout the US through a partnership with Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) locals. BOMI now offers a new designation for seasoned property managers: High Performance – Sustainability. It includes three courses: HP Principles, HP Practices, and HP Investments.

BOMA Dallas BOMI International offers competency-enhancing certificates, designations, and professional development opportunities for new and experienced personnel who have property, facility, or systems responsibilities inside the built environment. (See page 66)

With several course delivery options and a selection of programs proven to increase job performance. 98% of graduates have become more efficient as a result of their education and add value to a company; 68% of graduates have experienced a decrease in monthly expenses.* Both individuals and employers benefit from a BOMI International education. *Statistics based on a 2012 survey of BOMI International graduates.

COURSE DELIVERY OPTIONS • Instructor-Led Online: Flexible, 15-week interactive online course led by an expert instructor. Sessions are offered three times a year, beginning in January (spring), May (summer), and September (fall).

• Self-Study: Convenient, self-paced course to be completed within a six-month time period. All courses are offered in this format.

Registration is always open and available.

• Accelerated Review: Fast-paced, three to four day course taught in a classroom environment. Offered throughout the year across the US. Availability and length depend on location.

• Semester-Length Classroom: Traditional classroom course taught over an extended period of time. Offered throughout the year across the US. Availability and length depend on location.

• Corporate Onsite Instruction: Tailored to meet the needs of an organization. Time, cost, and location to be determined and agreed upon by the organization and BOMI International.

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Dallas BOMA offers many educational opportunities throughout the year in addition to a full complement of the BOMI designation classes. Additional information and the schedule: www.bomadallas.org.

BOMA San Antonio

BOMA San Antonio offers a full complement of the RPA®, FMA® and SMA® designation classes over a 3-year cycle. Go to www.bomasanantonio.org for updated information.

BOMA Austin

BOMA Austin offers a full complement of the RPA®, FMA® and SMA® designation classes over a 3-year cycle. Go to www.bomaaustin.org for updated information.

BOMA Fort Worth

BOMA Fort Worth plans to offer a full complement of the RPA®, FMA® and SMA® designation classes. Go to www.bomafortworth.org for updated information.

BOMA Nevada

BOMA Nevada offers a full complement of the RPA®, FMA® and SMA® designation classes. The remaining 2014 classes are listed below.

EDUCATIONAL COURSE SCHEDULE 2014: Las Vegas Sep 15-17 Budget and Accounting RPA®, PAC Nov. 11-13 Law and Risk Management RPA® Dec. 3-5 Design, Operations and Maintenance I RPA®, FMA®, FMC, PMC

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8:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. Participants will learn a process for resolving conflicts while building constructive work relationships. The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the world’s best-selling assessment for understanding how different conflict-handling styles affect interpersonal and group dynamics. It’s also a fast and powerful tool COURSE DATES, TITLES & DESCRIPTIONS that can go beyond conflict management to support your team-building, leadership and coaching, and retention goals.

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International Facility Management Association (IFMA)

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demonstrates comprehension of foundational and critical aspects of FM. Earned by completing 4 courses that focus on operations and maintenance, project management, finance and business, and leadership and strategy. Requires passing a 50-question final assessment. http://www.ifma.org/professional-development/ credentials/facility-management-professionalfmp

SFP Sustainability Facility Professional International Facility Management Association (IFMA)

For professionals with a foundational knowledge of FM and an interest in sustainable design, practice and operations. Requires passing one 50-question and one 100-question exam after classes in 3 focus areas aligning sustainability strategy with FM. http://www.ifma.org/professional-development/ credentials/sustainability-facility-professional-sfp

CPM Certified Property Manager

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ARM Accredited Residential Manager

Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) For those who manage small to mid-size residential portfolios.

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Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI)

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Building Owners and Managers Institute

Focuses on how to manage facilities to support staff and the organization’s objectives. Covers workers’ safety, environmental health and maintenance.

Prerequisite – 3 years of FM experience. Program has 6 required courses and 2 electives. http://bomi.org/FMA.aspx

RPA Real Property Administrator

Building Owners and Managers Institute

Focused on design, operations and maintenance; covers the management of real estate assets to maximize a property’s net income while minimizing risk. Prerequisite – 3 years of PM experience. Program has 7 required courses and 1 elective. http://bomi.org/RPA.aspx

SMA Systems Maintenance Administrator

Building Owners and Managers Institute

For those in charge of technicians who run daily building operations; covers creating a safe, energyefficient, environmentally sound and cost effective workplace. Prerequisite: 3 years of experience as a stationary engineer or equivalent performed for a minimum property portfolio of 40,000 sf. Program has 8 required courses. http://bomi.org/Students/Educational-Offerings/ Designations-and-Certificates/Designation-Programs/ Systems-Maintenance-Administrator-%28SMA%29.aspx

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A CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) is a recognized expert in the commercial and investment real estate industry. The lapel pin and designation are earned after completing a process that ensures proficiency in both theory and practice.

There are 5 core courses for the CCIM designation and all are offered in North Texas. The elite corps includes brokers, leasing professionals, investment counselors, asset managers, appraisers, corporate real estate executives, property managers, developers, institutional investors, commercial lenders, attorneys, bankers, and other allied professionals - a global commercial real estate network with members in more than 30 countries. Over 15,000 have earned the CCIM designation; over 5,000 more professionals are pursuing it. (Go to ntccim. com for up-to-date information.)

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The Appraisal Institute is a global association of real estate appraisers, with nearly 23,000 valuation professionals in almost 60 countries throughout the world. Its mission is to advance professionalism and ethics, global standards, methodologies, and practices through the professional development of property economics worldwide.

Organized in 1932, the Appraisal Institute advocates equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in the appraisal profession and its professionals benefit from an array of education and advocacy programs, and may hold the prestigious MAI (www.appraisalinstitute.org/airesources/MAI_Designations.aspx ), SRPA (www.appraisalinstitute.org/airesources/SRPA_designations.aspx), and SRA (www.appraisalinstitute.org/airesources/SRA_designations.aspx) designations.

MAI - The MAI designation is held by individuals who are experienced in the valuation and evaluation of commercial, industrial, residential and other types of properties, and who advise clients on real estate investment decisions.

SRPA - The SRPA membership designation is held by appraisers who are experienced in the valuation of commercial, industrial, residential and other types of property.

SRA - The SRA designation is held by individuals who are experienced in the analysis and valuation of residential real property.

The North Texas Chapter of the Appraisal Institute offers a full complement of the designation classes. Program details and online registration are available at www.appraisalinstitute.org/education/northtexas.aspx.

The National Association of Women in Construction

Established in 1973, the NAWIC Education Foundation (NEF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, governed by a board of trustees, and has been named a Quality Education Provider by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE).

Certifications offered by NEF: CBT - Construction Bookkeeping Technician; CCA - Certified Construction Associate; CIT - Construction Industry Technician; CDS - Construction Document Specialist K-12 Programs: Accessory Structure Project (ASP) - for grades 8-12.

Block Kids - an award winning program introducing children in grades 1-6 to the construction industry.

CAD/Design/Drafting - a high school student program, awarding creative design, successful problem solving and craftsmanship in preparing architectural drawings.

ACE Scholars at MacArthur High School Go to www.nawic-dallas.org for more information, or apply directly to the Dallas Chapter scholarship committee scholarship@nawic-dallas.org for additional information and qualifications concerning educational programs and available scholarship funds.

Dallas Fort Worth IIDA City Center There are numerous CEU (Continuing Education) programs as well as NCIDQ Study Courses provided through the Texas/ Oklahoma Chapter of IIDA. Professional and Associate Members are required to complete and report 1.0 CEU (10 hours) of Continuing Education for the current compliance period ending December 2014. To follow the schedule and stay updated on upcoming event dates, times, and locations, including CEUs and NCIDQ study courses, follow the chapter on Facebook at Facebook.com/IIDADFW and online at: http://iida-tx-ok.org/events/tx-ok-chapter-calendar.

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Always on the first Monday in September, it celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. Congress passed it unanimously after the end of the Pullman Strike in 1894.

Always on the second Monday of October, it became a federal holiday in 1937 and commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

Always on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Elections for national offices occur only in even numbered years. Presidential elections occur only in leap years.

Veterans are thanked for their service to the United States on this day, the anniversary of the signing of the armistice ending World War I in 1918.

Since 1863, this annual feast traces its origin back to the Pilgrims’ harvest celebration in Plymouth, MA in 1621.

September 3 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon 3-6 NAWIC | 59th Annual Meeting & Educational Conference | IN 4-5 AIA Dallas | Choices for a 21st Century Dallas 8 TEXO | Golf Tournament9 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 9 ASID Dallas | Chapter Meeting 10 AIA Fort Worth | Design Talk 10 IREM Dallas | Luncheon 10 CREW Dallas | Outstanding Achievement Awards Dinner 11 CREW San Antonio | CREWtini 12 ASA | Clay Shoot @ Dallas Gun Club 12 IREM San Antonio | Redneck Bowl 14-16 IAVM | Arena Management Conference | Long Beach, CA 15 NAWIC Dallas | Dinner Meeting 16 AGC San Antonio | Tech Forecast 16 ASID | REGREEN Workshop 16 BOMA Dallas | Luncheon 17 BOMA FW | Fall Event: IT’S LIKE TOTALLY the 80’S 17 – 19 IFMA | World Workplace in New Orleans 18 CCIM | Luncheon 18-19 ASID | Go Pro in New York City 18 USGBC | North Texas Giving Day 19 ASA | Texas Lien Laws Seminar at ASA Conference Center 19 WE | Art With Repurpose 22 IREM Dallas / Golf Tournament at Hackberry Country Club 22 and 24 ASID San Antonio | Pinnacle of Design Awards 23 ASID Austin | Luncheon 24 AIA Dallas | Happy Hour – Women in Artchitecture 24 AIA Fort Worth | Chapter Meeting 25 ASA | Meet & Greet Subcontractor/Supplier Night 25 IFMA Austin | Golf Tournament 25 IIDA Austin | 2nd Annual rEvolution reDesign Gala 30 – 10/3 CREW Network Convention & Marketplace | Miami

October 2 BOMA Dallas | Golf Classic 2-4 IAVM | International Convention Conference | Vancouver, BC 3-4 ASID Dallas | Chapter Symposium

7 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 8 CREW Fort Worth | Luncheon 8 IREM Austin | Golf Outing 8 AIA Fort Worth | Design Talk 9 ASA | Tailgate Cookout 10 BOMA Dallas | Adopt-A-Block 10 & 12 ASID | Student Symposium 11 AGC San Antonio | Safety Fair and Barbecue Cook-Off XXI 13 AIA Dallas | Site Power – Renewable Energy Opportunities 14-16 ASID Dallas | Inspire! 2014 – A CEPH Event 14-18 IREM | National Leadership Conference in Orlando, FL 14 CREW San Antonio | Luncheon 15 CREW Dallas | Monthly Luncheon 16 AIA Fort Worth | Sporting Clay 16 NTCCIM | Luncheon and Sporting Clays 18 TEXO | Washer Tournament 20 ASA | Golf Tournament at Riverchase Golf Club 20 AIA Dallas| Artchitecture Matters – Project Tour 20 NAWIC Dallas | Dinner Meeting 21 AIA Fort Worth | Design Awards 21 BOMA Dallas | Luncheon 21-23 ULI | fall Meeting 22 IREM Fort Worth | Luncheon 22 USGBC | Greenbuild 2014 22 ASA | Killer Clauses in Contracts Seminar @ ASA Conference Center 23 NTCRA | 18th Annual Recycler’s Golf Tournament 23 ASA | Schmooze & Mingle 23-25 AGC San Antonio | Leadership Development Conference 28 CREW Dallas and SMU | Strategic Leadership 28 USGBC | Green Apple Day of Service 29 IREM Austin | Forecast Forum 29 CREW Dallas | Careers Building Opportunities 29 AIA Fort Worth | Chapter Meeting 30 BOMA San Antonio | Sporting Clay Tournament 30 IREM Dallas | Signature Event – The 50th Anniversary of The Beatles 30 NTAEE | 30th Annual Energy Conference in Denton 30 AIA Dallas | Tour of Homes 30 BOMA San Antonio | Sporting Clay Tournament & Chili Cook-off 30 TEXO | Chili Cook-off 30 AGC Austin | Networking Event at Top Golf

November 1 BOMA Dallas | The Gatsby Gala 2 AIA Dallas | Tour of Homes 2 ASID | RealWorld DesignWeek 2014 2-8 ASID | Real World Design Week 4 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 7-8 NAWIC Region 7 | Regional Meeting in Corpus Christi 10 AIA Dallas | AIA + 2030: The Handoff & Staying in Shape 12 BOMA San Antonio | Luncheon 12 IREM Dallas | Awards Luncheon 12 CREW San Antonio | Luncheon 13 ASA | GC Night at Eddie Deen’s 17 USGBC | CATEE Conference 17 NAWIC Dallas | Dinner Meeting 18 AIA Fort Worth | Design Talk 19 IREM Fort Worth | Food Bank Work Day 19 CREW Dallas | Monthly Luncheon 20 BOMA Austin | Luncheon 20 CCIM | Luncheon 20 AIA Dallas | KRob

December 2 AI | Holiday Party and Installation of Officers 2 BOMA Fort Worth | Luncheon 4 AIA Dallas | Holiday Party 4 ASA | Holiday Open House & Blanket/Coat Drive 5 BOMA San Antonio | Holiday and Awards Luncheon 8 AIA Dallas | AIA + 2030: Achieving 2030 Goals 9 CREW San Antonio | Annual Holiday Luncheon 9 BOMA Dallas | Luncheon 10 AIA Fort Worth | Design Talk 11 AGC Austin | Holiday Party 12 CREW Dallas | Holiday Awards Luncheon 18 BOMA Austin | Holiday Mix ‘n Mingle Luncheon

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7. Dr. Watson (Sherlock Holmes) 8. Sherman (Mr. Peabody) 9. Gabby Hayes (Hopalong Cassidy) 10. Doctor Spock (Captain Kirk) 11. Friday (Robinson Crusoe) 12. Pat Brady (Roy Rogers)

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1. After 60 years of iconic advertising, Coppertone held a contest to choose a new Little Miss Coppertone, the blonde girl in pigtails seen on ads with a black cocker spaniel mischievously pulling down the her bottoms exposing her pasty posterior. The advertisement began in 1953. (As an iconic image, many appeared in commercials as the reallife Coppertone girl, including Jodie Foster at age 3 in her acting debut.) The winner of the contest was 5-year-old Alaina Thompson (pictured) of Winter Haven, FL, who assumed the role as the iconic Coppertone girl beginning in 2013.

2. Hamburglar (who first appeared in March 1971) was one of the first villains in commercials. He was dressed in a black-and-white hooped shirt and pants, a red cape, a wide-brimmed hat, and red gloves. His primary object of theft was McDonald’s hamburgers, hence his name.

3. Punchy, the Hawaiian Punch mascot appeared for the first time in 1962. He would ask an unsuspecting character if he would like “a nice Hawaiian Punch,” and after the character said yes, Punchy would clobber him. His punch line was a punch.

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4. The Noid is an advertising character for Domino’s Pizza created in 1986. Clad in a red, skin-tight, rabbit-eared body suit with a black N inscribed in a white circle, he was a physical manifestation of all the challenges (becoming annoyed—”a noid”) inherent in getting a pizza delivered in 30 minutes or less. Commercials that featured the character used the slogan “Avoid the Noid!” (On January 30, 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill customer who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta, Georgia, Domino’s restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a pizza and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow’s Son. Noid surrendered to the police. He was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, extortion, and possession of a firearm during a crime but was found not guilty by reason of insanity.)

5. Chuck E. Cheese is the mascot for a restaurant chain of the same name – the main brand of CEC Entertainment, Inc. (headquartered in Irving, Texas. In 2012, Chuck E. Cheese received a major makeover to make him look more like a rock star.

Jaret Reddick, lead singer of the musical group Bowling for Soup, was hired as the new voice of the character.

6. Zorro is a character created in 1919 by New York writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, and a television series that starred Guy Williams (pictured) which ran from 1957-1959.

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A Diana Guillory of Fort Worth won the Misfit Shine; B Kelly Garca of Irving won Power Practical’s Rechargeable Battery Bank; C Sharon Willis of Norcross won the boompro microphone and high fidelity earplugs from v-moda; and D Alan Buckman of San Antonio won a New Trent Gladius iPad case; Steven Tabb (not pictured) of Dunwoody, GA won Stay Out Of Real Estate Jail by Barbara Bell-Olsen; Janet Perkins (not pictured) of Austin won the Braven 710 bluetooth speaker.

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An urban area (or agglomeration) is an area of continuous urban development within a metropolitan area - the physical form of that constitutes the essence a city. Generally, the lights you would see from an airplane at night or in a satellite photograph can identify them. They are not metropolitan areas, which represent the economic or functional form of a city (the labor market area). Urban areas are a component of metropolitan areas, the other component of which is non-urban or rural territory. A metropolitan area is the combination of the urban area(s) and rural areas, which together comprise the economic region or labor market. Match the number of the urban area with the picture below. Send your entry (by email to editor@crestnetwork.com or fax to 817.924.7116) by the end of the day on September 30, 2014 and you could win one of the prizes shown on pages 38-39 and 59 or another valuable prize. At least one winner from each of our markets (Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin and Atlanta) will be chosen. ___________________

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