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School has started and Hurri- cane season is in full swing. I hope this newsletter finds everyone safe and sound from Harvey’s wrath. As I’m writing this there’s a storm brewing in the gulf that looks like it’s going to dump 20+ inches of rain in the greater Houston area. This is a great reminder for all of us to pre- pare in advance for these types of situations. I’m sure many of you have sat through one or two safety meet- ings. This is when all of that prepara- tion will pay off. If you are prepared you won’t panic and it’s less likely you will find yourself in some type of des- perate situation. The same can be said about prepara- tion in our professional lives as well. The better prepared and educated we are the better off we will be when at- tending a meeting, performing daily tasks and being a better designer and engineer. Whether you have are a young designer, EIT, CPD, PE or one of the various certifications that are required throughout our industry, go- ing back and expanding your knowl- edge base is paramount to being suc- cessful. This can be performed through self-study but more com- monly it is done through Continuing Education courses. ASPE is a great September 2017 September 6 HESS Club Check in 11:00 to 11:30 Mr. Todd Anglin of Zurn PEX piping systems Meeting notice Chartered July 10, 1968 President David G Clark, PE [email protected] VP‐Technical Donald Taylor, CPD, GPD [email protected] VP‐Legislative Dave Cropper [email protected] VP‐Membership Christopher Ennis, CET [email protected] Treasurer Geoffrey Moore [email protected] Administrative Secretary Jeremy Charmchizadeh, EIT administrativesecre‐ [email protected] Corresponding Secretary Jaime Cruz correspondingsecre‐ [email protected] President’s Message: David G. Clark, PE resource to utilize to help expand your knowledge base. Attending our monthly lunch meetings offer CEU opportunities as well as going online to the www.ASPE.org website and attending the various webinars that are offered. There are many educa- tional opportunities that being a part of ASPE can provide. We’ve got a busy first couple of weeks in September on our ASPE Calendar. September 1 st will be the summer out- ing at Constellation Field to watch a Skeeters game. I’m sure we will have a blast. I will let everyone know how it went at our first General meeting on Wednesday, September 6 at the HESS Club. Don’t forget to go online and sign up. Donald has a great speaker set up for this month. I will let you tell him all about it in his VP Tech- nical article. Also please go online and sign up for the 2017 ASPE Tech- nical Symposium in Montreal, Quebec. http://2017tech.aspe.org/ If you are attending please let me know. I will be attending and it would be good to meet up with some of the Houston representatives will in Canada. Some of you may not be aware that 2018 will be ASPE Houston’s 50 th year as a Chapter. We are planning to have an absolutely fantastic party to celebrate this milestone. We would like to set up a Birthday Party Plan- ning committee to help set up the event. If you are interested please let us know. President cont’d Page 2
Transcript of President’s Message: David G. Clark, PE · 21st Ajay Shah Birthday 22nd Peter Duggan Birthday...
S c h o o l h a s started and Hurri-cane season is in full swing. I hope this newsletter finds everyone safe and sound from Harvey’s
wrath. As I’m writing this there’s a storm brewing in the gulf that looks like it’s going to dump 20+ inches of rain in the greater Houston area. This is a great reminder for all of us to pre-pare in advance for these types of situations. I’m sure many of you have sat through one or two safety meet-ings. This is when all of that prepara-tion will pay off. If you are prepared you won’t panic and it’s less likely you will find yourself in some type of des-perate situation.
The same can be said about prepara-tion in our professional lives as well. The better prepared and educated we are the better off we will be when at-tending a meeting, performing daily tasks and being a better designer and engineer. Whether you have are a young designer, EIT, CPD, PE or one of the various certifications that are required throughout our industry, go-ing back and expanding your knowl-edge base is paramount to being suc-cessful. This can be performed through self-study but more com-monly it is done through Continuing Education courses. ASPE is a great
September 2017
September 6
HESS Club
Check in 11:00 to 11:30
Mr. Todd Anglin of Zurn
PEX piping systems
Meeting notice
Chartered July 10, 1968
President David G Clark, PE
VP‐Technical Donald Taylor, CPD, GPD
VP‐Legislative Dave Cropper
VP‐Membership Christopher Ennis, CET
Treasurer Geoffrey Moore
Administrative Secretary Jeremy Charmchizadeh, EIT
administrativesecre‐[email protected]
Corresponding Secretary
Jaime Cruz correspondingsecre‐
President’s Message: David G. Clark, PE
resource to utilize to help expand your knowledge base. Attending our monthly lunch meetings offer CEU opportunities as well as going online to the www.ASPE.org website and attending the various webinars that are offered. There are many educa-tional opportunities that being a part of ASPE can provide. We’ve got a busy first couple of weeks in September on our ASPE Calendar. September 1st will be the summer out-ing at Constellation Field to watch a Skeeters game. I’m sure we will have a blast. I will let everyone know how it went at our first General meeting on Wednesday, September 6 at the HESS Club. Don’t forget to go online and sign up. Donald has a great speaker set up for this month. I will let you tell him all about it in his VP Tech-nical article. Also please go online and sign up for the 2017 ASPE Tech-nical Symposium in Montreal, Quebec. http://2017tech.aspe.org/ If you are attending please let me know. I will be attending and it would be good to meet up with some of the Houston representatives will in Canada. Some of you may not be aware that 2018 will be ASPE Houston’s 50th year as a Chapter. We are planning to have an absolutely fantastic party to celebrate this milestone. We would like to set up a Birthday Party Plan-ning committee to help set up the event. If you are interested please let us know.
President cont’d Page 2
trip now. You do not want to miss it. This event is held October 19-22. There will be a product show and technical sessions. For those of you needing CEU’s, this is a great way to get a large chunk of your required c r e d i t s . G o t o http://2017tech.aspe.org/ for more details. This website will also show you Montreal fun facts and teach you a little French to help you get around town.
We are booked up through November with lunch speakers for our general meetings. If you are on the fence about being a speaker at our meet-ings, please contact me. The next available spot is May. ASPE is a great way to obtain CEU’s and net-work with many of the most knowl-edgeable people in the plumbing in-dustry. If there is a topic you would like discussed please contact me and we will try and get something set up. M y c o n t a c t i n f o i s d o n [email protected]. If you have any questions or comments about this article or anything else for that matter, just let me know.
Hello members of the Houston chapter. As the t e m p e r a t u r e heats up for us in August, ASPE get-togethers do as well. I look forward to see-
ing everyone in early September.
Reminder: The summer break is ending so our next ASPE Houston general meeting will be held on Sep-tember 6th at the HESS Club. The presentation will discuss the various cross-linking methods to produce PEX, ASTM Standards and listings, mechanical fitting systems, and ap-plications for: potable water distribu-tion, radiant heating, snow melt and turn conditioning. The speaker will be Mr. Todd Anglin with Zurn PEX. Lunch for all engineers, designers and City Officials in attendance will be sponsored by Zurn PEX and Southwest Sales.
If you have been considering going to the 2017 ASPE National Technical Symposium in Montreal Canada, stop procrastinating and book your
VP Technical: Donald Taylor, CPD, GPD ASPE HOUSTON CHAPTER
COMMITTEE POSITIONS
Board of Governors Chairman
Daniel Leos
Social Director
Vic Schneider, Jr.
Affiliate Liaison
Daniel Leos
2018 Product Show Chairman
Brandi Rocha
brocha@park‐usa.com
Education Committee Chairman
Donald Taylor
Construction Industry Council Delegate
Dave Cropper
Roster and Product Directory Chairman
Christopher Ennis, CET
Newsletter Editor
Curtis Dady
Historian
Christine Moseley, CPD, LEED AP
NATIONAL POSITIONS HELD BY HOUSTON CHAPTER MEMBERS
Region 5 Affiliate Liaison
Dave Cropper
Chair Legislative Committee, Chair College of Fellows, Region 5 Rep‐resentative Nominating Commit‐
tee
Cyril Unger, FASPE, CPD
President cont’d from Page 1
Also, please remember that the Houston Chapter will be hosting the Region V President’s meeting. ASPE Chapter President’s & Mem-bers from Central Illinois, Central Texas, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Kansas City, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Omaha, St. Louis and Wisconsin. This is a meeting where the Region Chapters gather to discuss ideas to help promote our chapters and not only increase membership but ideas to improve the benefits that the chapter provides to our members.
We will be putting together a Commit-tee to help plan the events and activi-ties for this event. If you are inter-ested in getting in front of engineers/designers from other parts of the country and would like to assist in the planning of this event please send me an email.
If anyone is interested in getting in-volved with any of the events we have in store for this year please don’t hesitate to reach out and shoot me an email or give me a call. Thank You! David Clark, P.E.
I hope you enjoyed the ASPE Houston Chapter sponsored Skeeters baseball game. There’s a lot coming up we’ll be working on for the 2018 year. Stay tuned.
We’re back in school and within a week or so, of the busiest hurricane day of the season. For those of you that
didn’t realize it, September 10th is the peak day of hurricanes. Let’s pray they stay away this year and a little cooler weather is close.
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WELCOME NEW HOUSTON CHAPTER MEM-BERS
Andrew Shannon, G.E. – Shah Smith & Associates Houston, Texas
Aaron Padilla – Mueller Industries Houston, Texas
Mark Letsos Jr. – LAMBDA Specialties Houston, Texas
Anthony Gunn – Hugh Cunningham Houston, Texas
Diana Limon-Ton – HOK Inc. Houston, Texas
Lawrence Richardson – Telios Corporation Hous-ton, Texas
I will be contacting all those who qualify for their tenure pin to be presented to them at our Septem-ber General meeting. If you are a recipient of one of these prestigious pins, please be sure and plan on joining us for your dubious recognition.
Membership delinquent list: If you are on this list, or know you haven’t paid your annual dues I’ll be sending out a gentle reminder. We don’t want to see you go!! If there is an administration problem with the National office let us know and we’ll help facilitate straitening that up.
VP Membership: Christopher Ennis, CET
See you September 6th. Think DOOR PRIZES!!!!!!
Please remember if any of your pertinent information
has changed that it is your responsibility to notify ASPE National and The Houston Chapter. You’ll want to do this in order to remain on our mailing list. We are working on the electronic version of our Member-ship Directory also. This is very exciting. We will be unveiling this directory soon so stay tuned.
september calendar
1st Skeeters Game
2nd Brian D. Peterson, P.E. Birthday
5th Mona Zamora Birthday
6th Randy Willis Birthday
7th ASPE General Meeting HESS
7th Carl Crow, P.E. Birthday
8th Frank Colon Birthday
8th Jerome Griffin Birthday
10th Joshua Jimenez, P.E., CPD Birthday
12th Joe Barrile Birthday
12th Robert Cardenas Birthday
13th Robert Morales Birthday
13th Victor Rodriguez Birthday
15th Kenneth Gau Birthday
15th Tony Green Birthday
17th Gary Wylie, P.E. Birthday
18th Tony Schnur, Jr. Birthday
21st Ajay Shah Birthday
22nd Peter Duggan Birthday
22nd Michael LeBlanc Birthday
23rd Melissa Lopez Birthday
23rd Abbeylane Torres Birthday
25th Frank Hersom Birthday
26th Mary Phelps Birthday
ASPE CLASSIFIEDS
DBR Engineering Consultants is always looking for innovative and dedicated professionals to join our team. We offer career opportunities at every level in areas ranging from MEP engi‐neering to administration. Currently, we are seeking candi‐dates for the following positions:
Electrical Designer/Engineer‐mid to senior level
Mechanical Designer/Engineer‐mid to senior level
Plumbing Designer‐mid to senior level
Technology Consultant—mid to senior level We provide:
Competitive salary
Medical/Dental/Life/Disability Insurance
401(k) with match
PTO and holidays
Fast‐paced energetic work environment with growing firm
Please submit resume to Shaunda Betts, CISR, Human Re‐sources Manager. Email [email protected] or Fax 713.914.0886.
Telios: Are you a plumbing designer looking to: • Utilize your experience to be a plumbing leader for the Houston office • Work in a dynamic, visionary firm with a great culture • Work with great clients on exciting projects? With: • 5‐10 years of experience in plumbing design • Full experience in all phases of plumbing design • An understanding of applicable design codes and specifica‐tion requirements • Healthcare experience a plus • REVIT experience a plus As a firm on the rise, TELIOS is one of Houston’s leaders in MEP engineering and commissioning. You will be a great fit with our culture when you share our core values of dedica‐tion, improvement and character. At TELIOS, we strive to make a positive impact on our employees, clients and indus‐try. If this sounds like your kind of place, we want to meet you. How to Apply: To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to Hous‐[email protected]
Dave Clark (DC), President, called the Houston
Chapter BOD meeting to order at 11:56 a.m. on
August 11th , 2017 at Pappadeaux’s restaurant at I
-10 and the Beltway. Also present was Donald
Taylor (DT), Curtis Dady (CD), Dave Cropper
(DAV), Geoffrey Moore (GM), Jim Ivey (JI) and
Diana Limon (DL). Diana Limon attended to lead
up our chapter’s WOA. Last month’s meeting
notes were voted on and approved by the board.
DC ask the board to review the contact info for
each board member listed on the agenda to verify
info is correct. DC notified the board to watch
video of each board position as stated by national
and presented online. DC updated the board that
there were just a few tickets left for the ASPE
summer outing. The board discussed ways to
BOD Meeting Minutes: Donald Taylor, CPD, GPD
achieve merits for our Houston chapter. DC reminded
the board that we need to develop a committee to start
planning a combination president’s meeting and ASPE
Houston Chapter’s 50th anniversary in 2018. DT in-
formed the board that the September, October and No-
vember technical speakers have been selected. CE in-
formed the board that there were 6 new members that
signed up in June plus some additional in July and Au-
gust. The board discussed ways to increase the mem-
bership for the local chapter. The board voted and ap-
proved the treasurer’s activity reports. GM presented to
the board a better way to keep with the chapter’s fi-
nances was is to purchase “QuickBooks” for $35. The
was voted on by the board and approved. Meeting was
adjourned at 12:55.
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