Podcasts about state architect

Unlock the secrets of effective laboratory monitoring with insights from Greg Uherek, Manager of Business Development and Technical Services. Greg sheds light on the specifier feature of the AASHTO re:source website, a game-changer for agencies that require AASHTO Accreditation like DOTs and California's Division of the State Architect. Journey through the evolution of laboratory monitoring from outdated methods to the cutting-edge specifier tools that enhance transparency and accountability. Greg takes us through the transformation, revealing how features like mapping and real-time alerts have made lab monitoring more intuitive and effective. Learn how these specifiers streamline oversight, ensuring labs comply with stringent testing standards. Discover why this tool is indispensable for public and private entities aiming for efficiency and compliance.Related information: aashtoresource.org/specifiersaashtoresource.org/eventsYouTube videoCompanion articleSend us a textHave questions, comments, or want to be a guest on an upcoming episode? Email podcast@aashtoresource.org. Related information on this and other episodes can be found at aashtoresource.org.

In Episode 25 of The CM Mentors Podcast, Matt Graves and Kyle Grandell chat with Natassia Melendrez-Knutson, President & CEO at Project Support Services, Inc.We chat about:* Successful Closeout Tips* Who is the DSA?* Constructibility Reviews* Closing Out 20-Year-Old Projects* You're Never Going to Know It AllListen on your Favorite Podcast platform orWatch the interview on YouTube.About Natassia:Natassia Melendrez-Knutson is the Owner and CEO of Project Support Services, a multifaceted organization specializing in DSA closeout, document archiving, and comprehensive project organization. PSS assists in certifying hundreds of projects for over eight years, working diligently to resolve problems, organizing document-keeping systems, and working directly with the Division of the State Architect to fulfill project needs and requirements.To Connect with Natassia:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nmelendrez/https://psscert.com/ Get full access to Construction Yeti at constructionyeti.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Flanigan's Eco-Logic, Ted speaks with Panama Bartholomy, Founder and Executive Director at the Building Decarbonization Coalition.Panama discusses his youth in Northern California, and from an early age, seeing the importance of the human dimension on forging a healthy and sustainable future. He then describes his academic career which focused on sustainable community development. Panama goes on to share his works for the California Division of the State Architect on a sustainable schools initiative, for the California Conservation Corps, for the California Energy Commission, and as an advisor the Speaker of the California State Assembly. He then moved to Europe and worked for over three years in the Netherlands for the Investor Confidence Project, an Environmental Defense Fund initiative to standardize certification of energy efficiency retrofits to ease financing and lower interest rates.He later moved back to the states to found the Building Decarbonization Coalition, now in its fourth year with a prestigious list of sponsors. The Coalition he leads is a force, now marshalled to enact policies and to foster collaboration between manufacturers, designers, and installers. So far, nearly 100 cities have passed ordinances that ban natural gas use in new construction. He concludes with a discussion of scale, and scaling decarbonization. He talks about "Zonal Decarbonization," taking neighborhoods and sequentially removing the gas. He sees the 2020s as preparation.... and 2030s as the decade of scale.

Made Welcome's Founder and Principal Josh Klipp, CASp, Esq speaks to the importance of making the built and digital environment accessible for people with disabilities. He drives home the point that if we were to listen to this population, we would be much better off during the COVID pandemic. He dives into his journey becoming a CASp and why equity matters. Prior to founding Made Welcome, Josh practiced employment law for nearly 16 years, specializing in the American's with Disabilities Act. Josh is also a Certified Access Specialist through California's Division of the State Architect, #812 in all of California, and is certified to provide guidance on accessibility in the built environment. After practicing law for nearly 2 decades, Josh left litigating to do all things disability for one of the world's largest tech companies. Because of his experience in workplaces and events, Josh understands the challenges and nuances faced by employers, event producers and venues. Josh brings not only his technical expertise to bear, but also his skill from years volunteering as a settlement Judge at the San Francisco Superior Court. Josh takes tough situations and helps everyone find a good path to a better, happier and more accessible place. On nights and weekends, Josh moonlights with his band, the Klipptones, and is a volunteer Planting Leader with Friends of the Urban Forest. https://made-welcome.com/ Transcript: rb.gy/fwbqzl Produced by https://www.fiverr.com/jonathan_raz Voice over by https://www.fiverr.com/johndrennanvo

We write and talk a lot about property developers in Flat Chat – not often in positive terms – but we rarely get the chance to hear their side of the story, at least, untainted by promotional spin for some new project or another. So it was a pleasure to sit down recently with Chris Johnson, CEO of the Urban Taskforce, and get his views on what is happening in the world of apartment development for the Flat Chat Wrap podcast. Chris is the former State Architect for NSW and Urban Taskforce represents the top developers in the country, so he knows a fair bit about the subject.  On top of that, he is as passionate about apartment living as we are – although from a slightly different perspective. The discussion in this week’s podcast is wide-ranging and occasionally surprising. We can’t ignore the issue of defects in new buildings, not least because of the damage that has done to public confidence.  It could take years to recover but Chirs believes the only way is up – literally – as cities reach their physical and geographical limits. He believes the days of the McMansion are numbered, partly because you can’t fit any more houses into the space available but also because there's a sea change in public thinking. We are moving away from the “I, me, mine” mindset into more collaborative, sharing communities, he says.  He cites a development in Roseberry where there is a childcare centre right on the ground floor, so it obviously attracts families. However, those families take it a stage further, with parents taking turns to host “play dates” where all the kids can go to different unit blocks each of which has its own playground - yes, they have children's playgrounds - and swimming pools that they don't have to worry about maintaining.  It certainly gives the lie to the old thinking that apartments are no place for young families. You can find out more about that in an Urban Taskforce publication about why people love apartment living. Elsewhere in our wide-ranging discussion, Chris muses about why registration of architects and engineers wouldn’t have prevented the crisis at the Opal building – the internationally known architects and engineers on that project would “get registration with their eyes closed” – and why a return to council-based certification wouldn’t have prevented the issues in the Mascot Tower (it was certified by the local council). However, Chris does think there’s merit in a continuing “duty of care” from builders to apartment owners while making every contractor and sub-contractor take responsibility for their work in the construction of an apartment block. He also thinks the “missing middle” in home building is unlikely to be filled with town-houses, if only because of the flawed economics of replacing a single dwelling with two terraced houses. Instead he foresees a spread of European style, medium-rise, four or five story blocks – small enough not to lose human scale and deter communities but tall enough to merit installing the lifts that down-sizing baby boomers will demand. There’s all that and more in this week’s podcast. You can subscribe to the Flat Chat Wrap and get new episodes on your phone, tablet or computer completely free as soon as they are posted - just click on this link for iPHONE and IPAD and this one for Youtube. You can also subscribe on  Castbox (our favourite Podcatcher) or here on Spotify or wherever you download your podcasts.  And if you like our podcasts, share them with friends and, if you can, leave us a review and rating .  Thanks for listening.

Are you a locust or a bee?  Those are the divisions appearing between residents in Australia as many of us move from the more acquisitive, self-centred lifestyle typified by the McMansion in the suburbs, to a more communal, sharing way of life that you increasingly find in apartments. In this week's podcast we talk to Chris Johnson, CEO of the Urban Taskforce, who predicts a more communal way of life as more of us move from houses into apartments. Chris is the former State Architect for NSW and Urban Taskforce represents the top developers in the country, so he knows a fair bit about the subject.  On top of that, he is as passionate about apartment living as we are – although from a slightly different perspective. The discussion in this week’s podcast is wide-ranging and occasionally surprising. We can’t ignore the issue of defects in new buildings, not least because of the damage that has done to public confidence.  It could take years to recover but Chirs believes the only way is up – literally – as cities reach their physical and geographical limits. He believes the days of the McMansion are numbered, partly because you can’t fit any more houses into the space available but also because there is a sea change in public thinking. We are moving away from the “I, me, mine” mindset into more collaborative, sharing communities, he says.  He cites a development in Roseberry where there is a childcare centre right on the ground floor, so it obviously attracts families. However, those families take it a stage further, with parents taking turns to host “play dates” where all the kids can go to different unit blocks each of which has its own playground.  It certainly gives the lie to the old thinking that apartments are no place for young families. You can find out more about that in an Urban Taskforce publication about why people love apartment living. Elsewhere in our wide-ranging discussion, Chris muses about why registration of architects and engineers wouldn’t have prevented the crisis at the Opal building – the internationally known architects and engineers on that project would “get registration with their eyes closed” – and why a return to council-based certification wouldn’t have prevented the issues in the Mascot Tower (it was certified by the local council). However, Chris does think there’s merit in a continuing “duty of care” from builders to apartment owners while making every contractor and sub-contractor take responsibility for their work in the construction of an apartment block. He also thinks the “missing middle” in home building is unlikely to be filled with town-houses, if only because of the flawed economics of replacing a single dwelling with two terraced houses. Instead he foresees a spread of European style, medium-rise, four or five story blocks – small enough not to lose human scale and deter communities but tall enough to merit installing the lifts that down-sizing baby boomers will demand. There’s all that and more in this week’s podcast. https://episodes.castos.com/flatchatpod/Flat-Chat-42-Chris-Johnson.mp3 You can subscribe to the Flat Chat Wrap and get new episodes on your phone, tablet or computer completely free as soon as they are posted - just click on this link for iPHONE and IPAD and this one for Youtube. You can also subscribe on  Castbox (our favourite Podcatcher) or here on Spotify or wherever you download your podcasts.  And if you like our podcasts, share them with friends and, if you can, leave us a review and rating .  Thanks for listening.

On this week's episode of Archinect Sessions Ken, Donna, and I share our conversation with Rusty Long, an architect based in Cary, North Carolina. Rusty’s private practice focuses on sustainability and community engagement with a style that bridges modernism and the history of the the American South.  Rusty’s day job, however, is a State Architect for the USDA Rural Development office. As a federal employee, Rusty is one of approximately 800,000 individuals currently furloughed by the Government Shutdown. On this 34th day of the historic shutdown, as he and many others remain unpaid after two pay cycles, Rusty sits down with us to share his story. We talk about how and why he entered public service, the work he typically undertakes as a state architect, and the problems that this shutdown are causing for him, his colleague and the US taxpayers in general.

Throughout the mid to late 1800s in the United States there was a rise in popularity of the “Italian Renaissance” architectural style, especially for public buildings like city halls and courthouses. A man by the name of Albert A. Bennett got a lot of work in California building and designing this style of structure after the gold rush. So much work in fact that he was named “State Architect” under Governor Haight in the 1870s. With that he built courthouses and government buildings all over the state but due to age and decay many have been destroyed but in my hometown of Merced California there happens to be the last standing example of his famous courthouse design. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Special Guest Ida Antoniolli Clair AIA LEED AP CASp Join Mark and Paul for a great discussion with Ida Clair Principal Architect with the Division of State Architect (DSA). Learn more about how DSA operates and the complexities of the code developed process, the new adult changing station regulations, DSA Academy classes, upcoming changes to […] The post Episode 048 -Special Guest Ida Clair Principal Architect with DSA (Division of the State Architect) appeared first on ADA Shop Talk.

Sim Van der Ryn Ecological Design Sim Van der Ryn is a visionary pioneer in ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature’s intelligence. He has served as California’s first energy-conscious State Architect, authored seven influential books, and won numerous honors and awards for his leadership and innovation in architecture and planning. A recent New York Times profile writes, “Long before sustainability became the buzzword du jour, there was Sim Van der Ryn, the intrepid pioneer on the eco-frontier.” Join Michael Lerner in this conversation about Sim’s collaborative approach to ecological design that help show the way to an evolving planetary era that values both the integrity of ecological systems and the quality of life. Sim Van der Ryn Sim is a visionary, author, educator, public leader, and internationally distinguished pioneer in ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature’s intelligence. He has served as California’s first energy-conscious State Architect, authored seven influential books, and won numerous honors and awards for his leadership and innovation in architecture and planning. Sim’s collaborative approach and meta-disciplinary accomplishments help show the way to an evolving planetary era that values both the integrity of ecological systems and the quality of life. Find out more on his website. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.