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March 2020

Construction Specifications Institute, Inc. Publication of the Madison, WI Chapter

Madison Chapter Website: https://csimadison.org/index.php

HEMPCRETE WALL SYSTEMS

Madison, Wisconsin Chapter CSI meets the second Tuesday of each month, except for June, July, and August, at The Radisson. Check for other events listed inside. Guests are always welcome to attend Chapter meetings. Members are encouraged to bring prospective members to a Chapter meeting.

March 10, 2020 MEETING SCHEDULE: Social hour: 5:00 PM Dinner: 6:00 PM Meeting: following meal LOCATION: Radisson Hotel - Twist Bar & Grill 517 Grand Canyon Drive Madison, WI COST: Chapter Members $25 Non-members $35 Students (member & non) $7 Cost includes meal and presentation REGISTRATION: CSI members & guests visit our site with the but-ton below. Or at:

https://csimadison.org/meet-reg1.php?mi=3147&id=23 Please register by Friday, March 6, 2020 No cancellations within 72 hours, but substitu-tions are allowed. Please note any dietary restrictions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Understand the composition and function of Hempcrete in a wall system • Be able to design a framing system to be com-patible with Hempcrete • Specify guidelines for the successful installation of Hempcrete on a building • Be able to select proper finishes for a Hempcrete wall system AIA - CES 1 Learning Unit

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

PRESENTERS:

Mario Machnicki Tai Olson US Heritage Group

Learn how to design, install, and finish a hempcrete insulating wall system which can contribute to the thermal mass of a wall. What is “hempcrete”? Hemp-crete is a bio-composite masonry material formed from hemp aggregate and a hydraulic lime binder. You’ll learn more about this innovative architectural material at the Madison March CSI meeting!

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2020 Meeting Schedule Mar. 10, 2020: Hempcrete Wall Systems Apr. 14, 2020: CHAPTER ELECTIONS Presentation: Panel Discussion – Product Rep-resentation, Building Relationships May 12, 2020: Verona HS Tour Jun. 9, 2020: TBD Aug. 4, 2020: Madison Chapter Golf Outing, The Oaks

Advancement of

Construction Technology

About CSI: The CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE is a National technical Society embracing the entire construction industry, including research and development, manu-facturers, material suppliers, subcontrac-tors, prime building contractors, as well as design and specifying Professional Archi-tects and Engineers.

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About Madison Chapter: BOARD MEMBERS: President…………………………....Karl Kraemer 608-516-9300 1775honeycreek@gmail.com First Vice President……………....Jolene O’Brion 608-630-1827 jolene.obrion@mg-aec.com Second Vice President…………..Bruce Petersen 608-209-2608 BrucePetersen@marvin.com Third Vice President………………….Curt Norton 608-720-1829 CNorton@strang-inc.com Secretary............................................. Ross Mori 608-837-7899 rmori@trachte.com Treasurer ..................................... George Keehn 608-273-0552 gkeehn@aol.com Director ........................................Lynn Javoroski 608-232-4372 lynnjav@gmail.com Director……………………….…...……Harry Peck 608-254-6181 h.peck@adcidesign.com Immediate Past President……..Owen Landsverk 608-266-1438 owen.landsverk@wisconsin.gov

COMMITTEE HEADS: Academic Affairs ............................... Curt Norton 608-576-7108 Membership…………………………….Ross Mori 608-837-7899 Certification .................................... Janet Diercks 608-232-1396 Golf Outing .......................................... Ross Mori 608-837-7899 Publications ............................... Jolene O’Brion 608-630-1827 Advertising ................................... George Keehn 608-273-0552 Website .............................................. Harry Peck 608-254-6181

PAST PRESIDENTS: Roger E. McMullin .................................... 1958-1959 Ronald Starkweather (D) .......................... 1959-1960 Harold L. Olsen ........................................ 1960-1961 Robert C. Cashin ...................................... 1961-1962 Norman Kenny ......................................... 1962-1964 Stanley Anacker (D) ................................. 1964-1966 Robert C. Kendall ..................................... 1966-1968 Howard R. Steinmann (D) ........................ 1968-1970 Harold R. Ames ........................................ 1970-1972 Dwight D. Zeck ......................................... 1972-1975 Anthony P. Pawlowsky ............................. 1975-1978 William T. Gray (D) ................................... 1978-1982 Eileen K. Bey ............................................ 1982-1986 James C. Gaskell ..................................... 1986-1987 Larry W. Ryan .......................................... 1987-1989 Al Martinson ............................................. 1989-1992 H. Steven Schatz (D) ................................ 1992-1996 Thomas E. Irvin (D) ................................. 1996-2000 Noel Valdes .............................................. 2000-2002 Ross Mori ………………………………….. 2002-2006 Curtis D. Norton………………………….. .. 2006-2010 Kent Calloway .......................................... 2010-2014 Todd Lewis……………………………...…..2014-2016 Owen Landsverk…………………………....2016-2018

FELLOWS OF THE INSTITUTE: Ronald S. Starkweather, FCSI Harold L. Olsen, FCSI William P. Vickers, FCSI Howard R. Steinmann, FCSI Lynn Javoroski, FCSI, CCS Ross Mori, FCSI

NC REGION DIRECTOR: Ross Mori, FCSI

Phone: 608-837-7899 E-mail: rmori@trachte.com

PRODUCT REPRESENTATIVES

Would you like the opportunity to do an inexpen-sive sales pitch to our professional members? If so, I would like to remind you, that we do offer tab-letop presentations at our chapter meetings. The cost for doing a tabletop presentation is $50.00 for chapter members, and $75.00 for non-members. Your fee includes a table set up for you to display your products, and a chance to do a brief (10 mi-nute max.) introduction for yourself and your prod-ucts. To reserve a space at one of our upcoming meet-ings, please contact Curtis Norton, at (608) 576-7108 or at the Chapter email address: csi.madison.wi@gmail.com

MEMBER FORUM: Mad-spec is your newsletter. Local news is always of interest to our members. If there is personal or company news worth sharing, please send it in. Articles on technical issues are always welcomed. Writing from local talent is what will make our newslet-ter shine. Email: csi.madison.wi@gmail.com Deadline for the next issue: March 25, 2020 Thank you, Jolene O’Brion, Editor

Upcoming Chapter Board Meeting:

Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2020

4:00 pm, Radisson-Twist Bar & Grill

Madison, WI

MEMBERS NOTICE

Now Accepting Nominations For Chapter Elections

@ April 14, 2020 Meeting

Positions up for election: President 1st Vice President Secretary Director

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Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon is really the story of three projects. First is the history of the City Hall completed in 1928, the second is the story of what is known today as City Hall East located across Main Street along with its adjacent shopping mall complet-ed during the administration of Mayor Sam Yorty in the 1970s. And last is a description of the seismic strengthening and damage repair project at City Hall following the 1994 Northridge earth-quake. The book is loaded with rich photos, historical drawings, and offers details, not only on the design of these projects, but also of the architect selection process in each case. Architects will ap-preciate this part of the book if for no other reason than to read that not much has changed in this aspect of architectural practice on public projects. The need for a new city hall arose in the first decade of the 20th Century. The population of Los Angeles had been growing rapidly and the existing city hall was too small. By 1920 the city’s popula-tion was 600,000 and the population would double by the time a new city hall would be completed in 1928. With Mayor George Cryer’s support, voters approved a municipal bond issue in 1923 providing $7.5 Million for constructing a new city hall including $2.5 Million for purchase of the land. The location was to be be-tween Spring and Main Streets, at the east end of the new civic center proposed by landscape architects Wilbur Cook and George Hall. This is the present-day location of City Hall at the east end of our Grand Park. Architect selection began in late 1923 as a tug of war between the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works and the City Council. It would take the resolution of a lawsuit filed by the Board of Public Works against the City Council, and the firing of another architect that had been hired by the City while the dispute over architect selection was being resolved, before the architect selection process was completed. The Board of Public Works favored the selection of the Allied Association of Architects, comprised of nearly 95% of Los Angeles architects, while the City Council initially favored hold-ing a design competition. The City Council soon gave up on the idea of a competition and advocated instead hiring the firm of As-sociate Architects comprised of architects A. C. Martin, John Austin, and John Parkinson, three of the most distinguished and capable Los Angeles architects. Austin, the “politician” in the group, had designed Griffith Observatory, the Shrine Auditorium, and several schools and churches. A.C. Martin was the engineer in the group in addition to having been the architect of St. Vincent’s Catholic Church. He held several patents for reinforced concrete construc-tion and had supervised the construction of the Los Angeles Coun-ty Hospital, the Hall of Records, the Orpheum Theater, and other important buildings. John Parkinson had the most significant ex-perience of nearly any architect in Los Angeles having designed over $200 Million of projects including downtown office buildings, Bullock’s Wilshire, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Union Station. On their merits, Associated Architects seemed to be the

logical choice in the first place but it wasn’t until July 1925 that issues were resolved enough for their contract to be signed. It included an architect fee of 6% of the $4.5 Million construction budget. Architect John Parkinson’s first sketches for City Hall bore a strik-ing resemblance to the Nebraska State Capitol building designed by architect Bertram Goodhue in 1920. And the final design for city hall varies only slightly from the early sketches. (Goodhue had recently completed his design for the Los Angeles Central Library

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BuchNotes #88 Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon By Stephen Gee Ed Buch, CSI, CCS, AIA, LEED AP

Los Angeles, CA Mar./Apr. 2020

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April 14 CSI Madison Meeting

April 21 Module 5 - Procurement Module 6 - Preconstruction

April 28 Module 7 - Construction Module 8 - Life Cycle Activities

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BuchNotes — Con’t.

that was also influenced by his design in Nebraska.) The city council wanted an “efficient” building and both the city council and the architects wanted a modern, “forward looking” building. Parkinson achieved this by following the approach Goodhue used on the Central Library. The design of both buildings wasn’t done in a single historical style as was the practice on other governmental buildings of the day. Both buildings had a monumental central tower at the heart of their designs, and surface embellishments were mostly non-existent except in locations where they could be seen and appreciated by the public. The focus of these embellishments at City Hall is the exterior doors and win-dows, especially at the main entrance court on the Spring St. side of the building, and the more ceremonial public spaces on the interior of the building. Local artists were commissioned to design the decorative wall and ceiling tiles, the bronze entry doors and window grillwork, the stone carving, and the stone pattern on the floor of the rotunda on the main floor. The architects designed the light fixtures throughout. Before construction could begin in March 1926, a city ordi-nance limiting building heights to 150 feet had to be re-pealed since the city hall tower would be 28 stories tall, or 452 feet high. The height limit had to do with earthquake and fire safety concerns. (You may recall the deadly build-ing fires in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries such as the Iroquois Theater fire of 1903 in Chicago that took 700 lives and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 in New York City that took 141 lives. Building codes were only in their infancy at this point. Even though the National Fire Protection Association was established in 1896 its codes were in their first generation and the first Uniform Build-ing Code did not appear until 1927.) City Hall construction was awarded to the local contractor, C.J. Kubach. Steel erection began in July 1926 and con-struction was completed in January 1928. At the dedica-tion ceremony in April 1928 over 200,000 attended the day-long event that included a 16 city-blocks-long parade. The culmination of the ceremony was the lighting of the Lindbergh aircraft beacon at the top of the tower. This was done by President Coolidge remotely from his office in Washington, DC. City Hall remained the tallest building in Los Angeles until 1966 when the Union Bank Square was built at a height of 516 feet. By 1960 city offices had outgrown City Hall. This led to the construction of City Hall East designed by architects Stan-ton and Stockwell during the administration of Mayor Sam Yorty. This project also included the Los Angeles Mall adja-cent to City Hall East and the much maligned sculpture, “Triforium”. The project had a difficult start. The Munici-pal Arts Commission complained that the design was too “monotonous” and wasn’t complimentary to City Hall. The Fire Department wasn’t happy either since they thought it should be named the Fire Administration Building. The mayor wanted it to be larger and added eight floors to the original seven-story design. Meanwhile in October 1969 a

construction contract was awarded to Montgomery-Ross-Fisher for $17,640,000, not including the additional eight floors requested by the mayor. This work added another $8,000,000 to the construction cost. And to make the de-sign of the building more aesthetically pleasing to the Mu-nicipal Arts Commission, the well known California artist Millard Sheets was retained to create ceramic murals for the east and west facades of the building at the ground level. The building was dedicated in 1972 and the installa-tion of the Triforium sculpture was completed in 1976. The third project in the story of City Hall began in 1990 with the passage of ballot Measure “G” that allocated $112 Million for seismic strengthening and damage repair at City Hall resulting from the Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1987. Initially architect Edward H. Fickett was awarded the design contract for the work but by March 1993 he was supplanted by the firm of A.C. Martin Partners. This be-came a family project for the Martins since the grandfather of the current generation of Martins, A. C. Martin Sr., was involved in the original City Hall project. Following the Northridge earthquake of 1994, the scope of the project expanded and the budget grew to $273 Million. The mayor of Los Angeles at the time, Richard Riordan, argued that spending such an amount on an out-of-date City Hall build-ing didn’t make economic sense since a new, modern city hall could be built for $300 Million. His argument was un-successful and in 1998 Clark Construction was awarded the contract that included a seismic base isolation system in addition to repair of damage to the building from years of wear and tear and the 1987 and 1994 earthquakes. In this process a significant amount of historic restoration to interior finishes and fixtures took place under the guidance of architect Brenda Levin. In 2001 the historic Lindbergh beacon was relit after a $250,000 restoration and the re-dedication of City Hall took place in April 2002.

Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon was published in 2018 by Angel City Press. It has 215 pages and includes a treasure of current and historic photographs and many cop-ies of original architectural drawings. Ed Buch, FCSI, CCS, AIA, LEED AP Los Angeles, CA Feb. 24, 2020 P.S. If you’re interested in more information on some of the topics mentioned above, please refer to the following: 1. Los Angeles Central Library, A History of its Art and Architec-ture, by Stephen Gee. See BuchNotes #83. 2. Iconic Vision, John Parkinson Architect of Los Angeles, by Ste-phen Gee. See BuchNotes #60. 3. The Fireproof Building, Technology and Public Safety in the 19th Century American City, by Sara Wermiel. See BuchNotes #6. 4. Tinder Box, The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903, by Anthony P.

Hatch. See BuchNotes #3.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MADISON CHAPTER - CSI

DATE: 2/11/2020 PLACE: Twist Bar and Grill CALL TO ORDER: 4:16 PM ATTENDANCE: Present: Ross Mori, Curt Norton, George Keehn, Lynn Javoroski, Harry Peck, Karl Kraemer, , Owen Landsverk Absent: Bruce Peterson, Jolene O’Brion Guests: none MINUTES OF LAST MEETING: Ross Mori presented the meeting minutes from the 1/14/20 board meeting, read and accepted. TREASURER’S REPORT: George Keehn presented a financial statement, which was read and approved. To-tal balance of $36,366.83. November income was $1,690.96. November expenses were $2964.33. Includ-ed payments for website host, and both December and January meetings. CORRESPONDENCE: None. COMMITTEE REPORTS: CERTIFICATION: Discussed upcoming CDT training classes. Harry Peck will coordinate. Classes will be held at ADCI’s Madison office. EDUCATION/ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: No report. MEMBERSHIP: Current membership is 95 members. 0 student, 83 professional, 10 emerging professional 1 retired and 1 emeritus. Four new members: Justin Armitage (Henry Company), Mark Jenssen (Flad), Mi-chael McQuade, Brian Shores (Huber Engineered Woods) PLANNING/MEETING TOPICS: Feb. 11, 2020: Specification for Engineers – Harry Mar. 10, 2020: Hempcrete – Bruce Apr. 14, 2020: Product Representation, Building Rela-tionships – Ross May 12, 2020: Verona HS Tour – Karl Jun. 9, 2020: Aug. 4, 2020: Golf Outing, The Oaks – Ross Potential future tours: County Materials Hufcor Potential future topics: Virtual Reality presentation Whole Trees Restoration of Historic Building Use of Robotics in Construction What’s New in Wood Construction – Ross (Fall 2020) BlueBeam ESRI ArchGIS

PUBLICATIONS: Submission deadline 2/21/2020. WEB SITE: No report NCR: No report. OLD BUSINESS: George has the approved sample for the badges. We will need to use a copy of the current member spread-sheet to populate the data needed to print the badges. We will show the name and CSI Credentials. If request-ed by members we can have their company name added to their badge, but they will have to purchase their badge. NEW BUSINESS: Elections: President (Karl), 1st Vice President (Jolene), Secretary (Ross), Director (Lynn) DATE/TIME/LOCATION FOR NEXT BOARD MEET-ING: 4:00 p.m. on Mar. 10, 2020 at Twist Bar and Grill. ADJOURNMENT: 5:03 PM Respectfully Submitted: Ross T. Mori, PE, SE, FCSI Secretary CSI Madison Chapter

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MADISON CHAPTER - CSI

Current Madison CSI Chapter Board Member Terms

Term Position Name 2018 - 2020 President Karl Kraemer 2018 - 2020 Immediate Past Pres. Owen Landsverk 2018 - 2020 1st VP Jolene O'Brion 2019 - 2021 2nd VP Bruce Petersen 2019 - 2021 3rd VP Curt Norton 2018 - 2020 Secretary Ross Mori 2019 - 2021 Treasurer George Keehn 2018 - 2020 Director Lynn Javoroski 2019 - 2021 Director Harry Peck

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