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Leadership Roster

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CSI Holiday Party!!!This year, our CSI Holiday Party will take place at Mountain Lumber Company’s Ruck-ersville showroom. Light Hors D’oerves and Beverages will be served. This event is FREE for both members and non-members, families are welcome! Great opportunity to connect with local construction industry professionals!

Mountain Lumber Company6812 Spring Hill RoadRuckersville, VA 22968

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Your PresidentAs 2009 comes to a close I choose to reflect on a better 2010 and learn from the challenges we as construc-tion professionals faced in the past year.

I hope you can join us at our annual holiday party, Monday December 14, 2009 hosted by Mountain Lum-ber Company , we will consider it a send off celebration for 2009.

While attending the Mid Atlantic Region conference in October I was reminded of the CSI mission state-ment “The mission of the Construc-tion Specifications Institute is to ad-vance construction documentation and educate building teams to im-prove project performance.” As we merge into a new year it is our focus to provide opportunities to educate, share experiences and keep you up

to date on the latest in building in-dustry advances.

Central Virginia CSI will start off 2010 with our first mass electronic distri-bution of the Parameter, followed by the 2010 product show at the Omni Hotel on February 2. We have planned a full day of education sem-inars in addition to the exhibitors and great food. Plus we will again be offering the 50/50 membership pro-gram to new members who sign up at the product show.

Our regular monthly dinner meet-ings resume on February 16, with Greg Heuer presenting the new Ar-chitectural Wood Work Standards. This is your chance to receive updat-ed information as well as a copy of the new standards.

So as you can see the next year is looking brighter for CVCSI as well as the construction industry in gen-eral.Please remember that I am always available and open to suggestions that will help you get more from your membership.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Happy Holidays,

Tracie SkipperTracie Skipper CSI

President CVCSI 2009-2011

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NOVEMBER ANNIVERSARIESJohn Arant, retired DOW Chemical - 39 yearsThomas Lanahan, Advanced Concrete Foundations - 16 yearsCharles Miller, Built by Designs, LLC - 3 yearsScott Rombach, Tremco, Inc. - 6 yearsMark Wingerd, Window & Door Pros. - 13 yearsSue Albreight, Design Environs Corp. - 15 years

DECEMBER ANNIVERSARIESNida Campbell - 2 yearsKari Daniel, Atlantic Plywood - 8 yearsMark Klosinski, Moseley Architects - 4 yearsFreda McClung - 2 yearsHenry Zirkle, Morris Industries - 13 years

NEW MEMBERSteve Hric of Cedar Ridge Construction

Please join me in welcoming our new Central Virginia member!

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CVCSI Product Expo 2010

The eighteenth annual Central Virginia Construction Specifications Institute Product Expo and Education Seminars will be held on February 2, 2010 at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, Virginia. As of December 1, 2009 eight compa-nies have reserved their tables.

The following companies have signed up to participate in this years show so far. Space is limited (choice locations are going quickly), so get your reservation in soon. Thanks for your support:

Barranger and Company Booth #22 •

Weatherseal Insulation Company Booth #38 •

Georgia-Pecific Gypsum LLC Booth #37 •

Charlottesville Gas Booth #43 •

Atas International Booth #15 •

Parksite Booth #’s 20-21 •

Helfrich Agency Inc. Booth #8 •

Pella Windows and Doors Booth #41 •

We look forward to seeing you at the show this year. For more information about exhibiting, advertising, or at-tending the show, or donating door prizes, contact Tra-cie Skipper at 434-531-0158 or email [email protected]


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EXPO CONTRACT


by Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA maintain: to keep in an existing state of repair; to preserve from failure or decline

To celebrate our sixtieth birthdays, my wife and I took a three-week vacation in Germany and Italy, beginning in mid-September. Before that, our foreign travel had been limited to a trip to Puerto Morelos, Mexico in 1998 and a CSI/CSC convention in Winnipeg in 2006. Our longest vacation had been ten days, so this was quite the adventure for us.

One of the major contributing factors was my work sched-ule. For the first time in the last thirty years, there was a hole! Despite the economy, I had been working overtime, so to see a couple of weeks with nothing scheduled was a bit of a shock. Hmm, what to do? Work anyway, and lose the vaca-tion time? Stay home and try to catch those pesky gophers? Or - hey! here’s an idea - do something you’ve talked about doing for twenty years!

And so, in just a few weeks, we planned our trip. At first we were going to play it safe and take a short trip to England, but we quickly decided to make the most of the opportuni-ty; we added a third week and began planning a tour of the continent. Our list of cities continually expanded and shrank as we alternately added interesting sites, then cut things to avoid the “if it’s Tuesday it must be Belgium” syndrome.

We were a great team, both in planning and execu-tion. We split the itinerary, with Linda focusing on Italy and I on Germany. Once we had that more or less settled, she worked more on accommodations, while I worked on transportation. By the time we left, we knew where we were going and when, with one exception - but that’s another story.

The weather could hardly have been better. We had one misty morning in Immenstaad, and light drizzle on our last day, in Limburg. Otherwise, all sun and light breeze, enhanced with the occasional glass of wine. We relied primarily on rail transporta-tion, with a couple of bus trips and a few cruises thrown in for variety. I can’t say enough about the rail system, especially in Germany; there was no comparison with my Amtrak experiences. In short, it was as perfect a trip as I can imagine.

Of the many remarkable things we saw, the most pervasive was the sheer age of the buildings and artifacts. Coming from a country just over two hun-dred years old, I couldn’t help but think about the fact that every place we went had a history many hundreds of years longer than ours. It was an odd

sensation, sitting in a restaurant that was doing business long before Columbus set foot on North America. In Pom-mern, Germany, we toured a winery that had been in the same family since 1610. In both Germany and Italy, we saw countless buildings that were centuries old, yet still in use today.

In some areas, I was struck by the apparently poor condition of buildings that were not in obviously poor areas. The paint was peeling, the roofs were damaged, and some had holes in the walls. Yet there they stood, still serviceable after hun-dreds of years. The secret of their longevity? They were built of stone, concrete, and plaster.

In many parts of Italy, I was amazed by the countless ter-races built to allow agriculture on the steep slopes. In a dark, lower-level room in Rio Maggiore, I found a room-sized mu-seum that showed how the terraces were built. While most of the masonry construction we are familiar with uses man-ufactured masonry units and mortar, the terraces I walked among were built of dry-stacked, rough-cut stone. This method of construction requires both the meanest grunt la-bor and sophisticated artistry; the mason had to carry each stone to its location on a steep hill (often 70 degrees), then choose the right combination of stones that would produce a stable wall with a relatively smooth, planar surface. Ac-

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cording to the information I was able to find, the terraces in this area contain more than ten million cubic yards of stone. (For an aerial tour of this area, go to http://snipurl.com/tdkfq. The scenes of Manarola and Rio Maggiore include a good view of the terraces surrounding those cities.)

Although logic tells us our world is built on the past - the inspi-ration, artistry, genius, and brute labor of our predecessors - it’s easy to forget what has gone before and accept everything we see as normal. If we occasionally took the time reflect on the wonders around us, or the long chain of events that led to their creation, we might better appreciate what we have, and plan better for the future.

It’s interesting to consider what I saw in the context of “sus-tainable” design. I’m pretty sure the Europeans weren’t terri-bly concerned about sustainability, yet they built cities that survived to this day with essentially no maintenance. Not that they necessarily had that in mind, but when you build with stone, you’re building for the long haul! Those ancient struc-tures have proven to be impervious to all but the worst disas-

ters, and it hasn’t mattered that someone forgot to paint them for a few years - or a few hundred. They also demonstrate the recyclability of stone; many a castle has contributed material for the construction of a newer building.

Unfortunately, stone buildings can’t be built fast enough, and they require too much labor to be affordable in today’s world. Modern construction relies heavily on complex technology for production of materials and labor-saving equipment, and for maintenance and operation of building systems. Our chal-lenge is to create materials and systems that make better use of existing resources, require little maintenance, and will either last a very long time or be easily reused or recycled. Instead of designing for performance on the day of occupancy, we must evaluate the total cost of each material and system, including maintenance and replacement, and base our decisions on the life cycle cost of the entire facility.

Without maintenance, I wonder, how many twentieth century cities would be intact and in use a thousand years from now?© 2009, Sheldon Wolfe


PRESIDENT Tracie Skipper Pella Windows & Doors 434-531-0158 [email protected]

VICE-PRES W. Duncan Macfarlane Macfarlane Homes, Inc. 434-361-0081 [email protected]

TREASURER Ron Keeney, RA, CDT, NCARB Keeney & Co., Architects PLC 434-978-2000 [email protected]

SECRETARY Laura Fiori, LEED AP Macfarlane Homes, Inc. 434-361-0081 [email protected]

IMMED PAST PRES Charles Hendricks, AIA, CDT, LEED-AP The Gaines Group, PLC 540-437-0012 [email protected]

DIRECTOR Meghan Johnston, CDT University of Richmond 804-287-6379 [email protected]

DIRECTOR Adrienne Stronge, LEED-AP The Gaines Group, PLC 434-979-5245 [email protected]

DIRECTOR R. Tucker Shields, RA, CCCA R. Tucker Shields, Architect. 540-885-8192

DIRECTOR Patrick Wright Luck Stone Corporation 434-985-8830 [email protected]

DIRECTOR Mark Wingerd, CDT Window & Door Pros 434-296-0050 [email protected]

DIRECTOR John Kerber Dominion Development Co. 434 975-1166 [email protected]

DIRECTOR Nida DeBusk, Intl. Assoc. AIA, CDT, LEED AP Martin Horn Inc. 434-220-7790 [email protected]

DIRECTOR Freda McClung, CDT 434-466-4478 [email protected]

STUDENT ADVISOR David Groff, CDT Virginia Tech 434-977-4480 [email protected]

TECHNICAL Charles Hendricks, AIA, CDT, LEED-AP The Gaines Group, PLC 540-437-0012 [email protected]

MEMBERSHIP W. Duncan Macfarlane Macfarlane Homes, Inc. 434-361-0081 [email protected]

PRODUCT EXPO Tracie Skipper Pella Windows & Doors 434-531-0158 [email protected]

NEWSLETTER Adrienne Stronge, LEED-AP The Gaines Group, PLC 434-979-5245 [email protected]

PROGRAMS Laura Fiori LEED-AP Macfarlane Homes, Inc. 434-361-0081 [email protected]

HOSPITALITY Tracie Skipper Pella Windows & Doors 434-531-0158 [email protected]

AWARDS Adrienne Stronge, LEED-AP The Gaines Group, PLC 434-979-5245 [email protected]

CERTIFICATION Charles Hendricks, AIA, CDT, LEED-AP The Gaines Group, PLC 540-437-0012 [email protected]

EDUCATION Freda McClung, CDT 434-466-4478 [email protected]

HISTORIAN Ray Gaines, RA, CDT The Gaines Group, PLC 434-979-5245 [email protected]

ACADEMIC LIASON Charles Hendricks, RA, CDT, LEED-AP, Assoc. The Gaines Group, PLC 540-437-0012 [email protected]

NOMINATING Ron Keeney, RA, CDT, NCARB Keeney & Co., Architects PLC 434-978-2000 [email protected]

WEBMASTER David Groff, CDT Virginia Tech 434-977-4480 [email protected]

ADVISOR George Gercke, CCCA Gercke Brothers, Inc. 434-974-1330 [email protected]

ADVISOR Ray Gaines, AIA, FCSI, CCS The Gaines Group, PLC 434-979-5245 [email protected]

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