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RLGA, specifications, building codes,
and other articles of interest related to the construction industry.
Ron Geren is Recipient of CSI Communication Award
The Construction Specifications
Institute (CSI) publicly announces the recipients of this year's
awards and honors. Among the list of recipients was
Ronald L. Geren, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP,
owner and principal of RLGA Technical Services. Ron Geren,
nominated by the Phoenix Chapter of CSI, was awarded a Communication
Award for his article series
Keynotes.
The award will be presented at
CSI's Annual Meeting on Friday, September 16th, at CONSTRUCT2011 &
The CSI Annual Convention, to be held in Chicago, Illinois.
According to CSI's "Honors and
Awards Guide," the Communication Award "is presented to a CSI
member, chapter, region, or group for outstanding effort in the
communication of CSI related topics and activities."
Keynotes articles focus on the improvement of construction
documents and frequently reference CSI publications.
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CSI Phoenix Chapter Returns to Taliesin: Ron
Geren to Teach Construction Documents
The Construction Specifications
Institute (CSI) Phoenix Chapter returns to the grounds of Taliesin
West in Scottsdale when Ron Geren begins teaching students at the
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (FLLWSA).
Prior to Ron's involvement, Kenn
Lockhart, FCSI, was an apprentice of Wright starting in 1939 and
eventually established himself as the in-house expert on
specifications and construction. Kenn Lockhart took that
technical expertise and passed it on to the students and architects
within the Taliesin Fellowship. Kenn Lockhart was an active
member of the CSI Phoenix Chapter and earned his fellowship in 1990.
However, since his passing in the mid-1990's, there has been no
connection between CSI and Taliesin.
Wanting to expand their technical
course offerings, the staff of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of
Architecture approached representatives of CSI's Academic Programs
Committee at a recent Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture (ASCA) conference. Ron Geren, a member of the CSI
Academic Programs Committee, agreed to teach a construction
documents course based on CSI's Construction Documents Technology
(CDT) certificate program—similar to the
program Ron taught at ASU's School of Architecture and Landscape
Architecture.
The
first offering of the course is scheduled to start late October 2009
when the students return from their summer campus at Taliesin in
Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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Ron Geren is Selected
for Editorial Advisory Board for The Construction Specifier
RLGA Technical Services
principal,
Ronald L. Geren, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP,
was appointed by Gilman Hu,
President of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), as a
new member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) for The
Construction Specifier, the official publication of CSI.
The appointment, which begins on September 1st, is for three years
and could be extended for a second term. The EAB has 14
members, which includes 6 new appointees selected this year.
All articles for The
Construction Specifier undergo a peer review process. EAB
members are asked to provide timely reviews of articles that are
submitted for publication in the magazine.
The Construction Specifier is
a monthly periodical published by Kenilworth Media, Inc., Buffalo,
New York. The magazine has over 25,000 subscribers.
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to
go to CSI's webpage for The Construction Specifier
Ron Geren is Selected by ARCOM to Fill Position
on MASTERSPEC Architectural Review Committee
During the
fall meeting of the MASTERSPEC Architectural Review Committee,
Ronald L. Geren, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP, was selected to fill
one of six positions on the committee. Ron’s nomination, along with
two other new members, was approved by the AIA in January 2008.
Architectural Computer Services, Inc. (ARCOM) is the publisher and
distributor of MASTERSPEC, a master guide specification having over
12,000 licensed users throughout the country and internationally.
MASTERSPEC is a product of the American Institute of Architects.
The position
is a one-year assignment, involving quarterly trips to ARCOM’s
offices in Alexandria, Virginia. The assignment can be renewed
annually for up to three years. Committee members do not write the
specifications for ARCOM, which has its own staff of qualified
specification writers, but members review and provide technical
advice on existing specification sections that are due for revision
or new sections that are being added to the MASTERSPEC libraries.
ARCOM’s Vice
President of Architectural Specifications, Paul Brosnahan, AIA, CSI,
CCS, states that Ron Geren’s location in the desert southwest
provides a perspective from an area of the country that has been
under-represented on the committee in the past. He adds that Ron’s
knowledge of building codes provides a technical expertise that is
not typical for this committee.
RLGA Technical Services is a
licensed user of MASTERSPEC.
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go to ARCOM’s webpage on Review Committees
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to read an article about the MASTERSPEC Review Committees
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