BESS2010: High Performance Building Enclosures - Practical Sustainability Symposium

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BESS 2011 COMING SOON!

30 April 2010 - 1 May 2010

The Cal Poly Pomona Department of Architecture and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. are hosting a two-day, peer-reviewed technical symposium to explore the state-of-the-art in professional and academic techniques and teaching tools related to building enclosure design. Occupying one of the most important and visible positions in architecture, building enclosures serve a crucial role in both sheltering building occupants from environmental forces and promoting aesthetic and/or bio-climatic expression. Consequently, the design of building enclosures (whether opaque or transparent) is paramount not only to providing basic life-safety functions, but also in implementing sustainability for the built environment. The symposium seeks to promote integrated practice by bringing together students, faculty, and registered professionals in each of the disciplines responsible for the design and construction of Building Enclosure Systems.

BESS 2010 Online Registration is CLOSED

2010 Symposium Invitation

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Sponsorship

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BESS 2010 Agenda

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DAY 1 - FRIDAY, 30 APRIL 2010

DAY 2 - SATURDAY, 1 MAY 2010

ABOUT SIMPSON GUMPERTZ & HEGER INC.
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) is a national engineering firm that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures. Our award-winning work encompasses building, transportation, water/wastewater, and nuclear/science/defense projects throughout the United States and in more than 30 other countries. SGH has offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC. For more information, please visit http://www.sgh.com/.

ABOUT CAL POLY POMONA
Department of Architecture
The Department of Architecture focuses on the integration of knowledge-based areas of the curriculum into the design studios in both the B.Arch. and M.Arch. degree programs. The Department has a very diverse student body and faculty, and prepares students to be able to make knowledgeable, thoughtful and socially and environmentally responsible contributions to professional practice. For more information, visit www.csupomona.edu.

CONFERENCE PLANNING TEAM

Judith Sheine, Conference Co-Chair
Judith Sheine is Chair and Professor in the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She has won several prizes in design competitions and an Architectural Record House Award (1995) for the Sarli house. She has published a number of books on the architect R.M. Schindler; she co-edited, with Lionel March, R.M. Schindler: Composition and Construction (Academy Editions, 1993) and authored "R.M. Schindler: Works and Projects" (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1998) and R.M. Schindler (Phaidon Press, 2001). E-mail: jesheine@csupomona.edu

Judson Taylor, AIA, LEED AP, Conference Co-Chair
Judson Taylor is an architect registered by the State of California, and is a principal of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH). Mr. Taylor currently serves as the head of SGH's Los Angeles Building Technology division. Mr. Taylor is a specialist in the design and construction of building envelope materials and systems, in all aspects of construction including wood framed structures, high rise structures, masonry, with all forms of exterior cladding including stucco, exterior insulation and finish, prefabricated panels, windows, window walls, curtain walls, plaza/terrace decks over occupied and unoccupied spaces, balconies, decks, roofs and above and below grade waterproofing and has extensive experience in the specification, selection, installation and testing of these building components. E-mail: jataylor@sgh.com

Will Shepphird, P.E., A.I.A. LEED AP, B.S.C.P., Technical Chair
Will Shepphird is both a practicing architect and engineer working with commercial, institutional, and private clients nationwide. He has over 20 years professional experience working for various architecture, engineering, and construction firms including Advanced Structures, Inc. where he was responsible for a number of nationally recognized projects utilizing high transparency glass systems. He founded Shepphird Associates in 2002 with the aim to provide broad based sustainable design services to building design and technical systems across a wide variety of projects and client types. He has taught structures to architectural students at both USC and CSU Pomona and has won a number of national and international architectural competitions. E-mail: will.s@shep-ae.com

Juintow Lin, LEED AP, Conference Director
Juintow Lin is an Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Pomona and a founding partner of FoxLin. She has worked in the offices of Marmol Radziner and Associates, Foster and Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed and Partners. Lin also co-edited and co-authored Sustainable Urban Housing in China (Springer, 2006). She maintains the website toolsforsustainability.com, an online community for students to learn about computational tools for sustainable design. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT. E-mail: juintowlin@csupomona.edu

Alexis Newman, MBA, Conference Manager
Alexis Newman is the Regional Marketing Specialist for the Los Angeles office of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH). Alexis joined SGH in 2005. She recently earned her Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management and graduated with honors (Beta Gamma Sigma). Alexis is a member of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), the American Marketing Association (AMA), and is on the board of the National Association for Women MBAs (NAWMBA). She received two undergraduate degrees from U.C. Berkeley. E-mail: amnewman@sgh.com

Call for Papers – SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

Call for Student Posters – SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

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