president’s message: daniel leos · 2016-11-18 · daniel leos (dl), president, called the...
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I know it’s hard to be-
lieve that November is
here already, but it is.
Hopefully it will bring
some cooler weather
with it. With 2016
practically over that
means that we are down to our last
ASPE general meeting of 2016. Can
you believe it?
A friendly reminder that the Novem-
ber general meeting will be held on
the second Wednesday of November,
11/9, instead of the first Wednesday
as usual due to the 2016 ASPE Expo
and Convention in Phoenix. The No-
vember meeting will be presented by
Charlotte Pipe and will cover Consid-
erations for DWV Piping Value Engi-
neering. Please be sure to remind
your colleagues of the date change
and don’t forget to register online!
We are in the planning stages of or-
ganizing a Christmas Happy Hour
event for our Houston ASPE mem-
bers in early December. This will be
a little different than the Christmas
parties we have done in the past, and
November 2016
Drainage Design
Paul Tully, Charlotte Pipe
Wednesday November 9
11:30 am
HESS Club
Meeting notice
Chartered July 10, 1968
President Daniel Leos
VP‐Technical David Clark, PE
VP‐Legislative Freddie Landaverde
VP‐Membership Christopher Ennis, CET
Treasurer Geoffrey Moore
Administrative Secretary Donald Taylor, CPD, GPD administrativesecre‐
Corresponding Secretary Jeremy Charmchizadeh EIT
correspondingsecre‐[email protected]
President’s Message: Daniel Leos
will definitely be something you won’t
want to miss! Once we finish planning
out all the details we’ll be sure to let
everyone know, so keep an eye out
for that!
Speaking of planning, the Product
Show Committee is definitely in full
swing. Special thanks to all the volun-
teers that have been a part of the
committee. The show couldn’t go on
without all the help! We will be having
our third committee meeting on No-
vember 16th at Park USA’s offices at
6pm. If you are interested in partici-
pating in the Product Show Committee
or have any questions about the show
please contact our Product Show
Chair, Brandi Baker, by email at pro-
[email protected] or by
phone at (713) 849-7187.
As always if any vendors or manufac-
turers are interested in presenting as a
technical speaker at the Product Show
or at our General Meeting please be
sure to contact our VP Technical,
D a v e C l a r k , d i r e c t l y a t
performance as measured by the particular building’s system requirements. All participants of the VE proc-ess must have a working knowledge of the two materi-als and their respective ca-pabilities and limitations in order to successfully evalu-ate them. This course is a comparison of the two mate-rials, consideration points for evaluating which material is optimal, and offers examples of product failures and the resulting liabilities.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Have a working knowl-edge of the capabilities and limitations of CISP and PVC.
2. Match the requirements of the building’s DWV sys-tem to the capabilities of the material considered.
3. Understand the related costs associated with the material beyond the ac-quisition cost.
4. Understand the issues, consequences and poten-tial liabilities with the in-correct material selection.
Don’t’ forget about the 2016 ASPE Convention and Exposition which is being held in Phoenix, Arizona from October 28 – November 2nd. Go to www.aspe.org/expo for more details.
Fall is finally here and luckily it’s beginning to cool down. It seemed like it was still 95 degrees up until this past week. Thanks everyone for coming out to
the last meeting. Remember to RSVP online and it will make the sign in process much smoother. You can also pay online and get an im-mediate receipt as well.
I want to thank Mr. Craig Froeter and Froeter Industries, LLC for a great presentation last month on Rood Drainage Design and for sponsoring lunch to the engineers and contrac-tors who were in attendance.
Our next ASPE Houston General meeting will be held on November 9, 2016. Charlotte Pipe will be the sponsor lunch for all engineers, de-signers, contractors and city officials. The speaker will be Mr. Paul Tully with Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company.
Course Description:
Over the last several years, there has been a trend in commercial construction to value engineering (VE) a building’s drain, waste, and venting (DWV) system from the traditional cast iron soil pipe to PVC. While both products are approved by building codes and widely accepted in the construction industry, they are not always interchangeable in regard to
VP Technical: David Clark, PE ASPE HOUSTON CHAPTER
COMMITTEE POSITIONS
Board of Governors Chairman
Anthony Jaspal, PE, CPD
Social Director
Vic Schneider, Jr.
Affiliate Liaison
Sean Smith, CPD
2016 Product Show Chairman
Brandi Rocha
brocha@park‐usa.com
Education Committee Chairman
David Clark
Construction Industry Council Delegate
Freddie Landaverde
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
dcropper@park‐usa.com
Chair Legislative Committee, Chair College of Fellows, Region 5 Rep‐resentative Nominating Commit‐
tee
Cyril Unger, FASPE, CPD
Fall is here, finally!! Check out these coool mornings and sunny afternoons!! I can almost smell those fried turkeys. It is a little amazing though that by October first many of the “Box” stores and “Marts” started building their Christmas dis-plays. The holidays will be here before we know it. Hope you’re ready!
Many of us are headed to the National Convention. Hope to see you if you plan on attending.
WELCOME NEW HOUSTON CHAPTER MEMBER
Jeffrey Peters P.E., G.E LEED® AP BD+C, MAC, CEICC, CSDS, CMCC.
Rimkus Consulting Group Houston, Texas
Membership delinquent list: If you are on this list, or know you haven’t paid your annual dues get ready to receive a phone call from one of the Board mem-bers or at least an email. 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. If there is a financial issue, please contact me.
See you November. 9th. Think DOOR PRIZES!!!!!!
Please remember if any of your pertinent informa-tion has changed that it is your responsibility to no-tify ASPE National and The Houston Chapter. You’ll want to do this in order to remain on our mailing list. If you need help, please contact me. [email protected]
VP Membership: Christopher Ennis, CET
NOVEMBER calendar
10/28-11/2 ASPE Convention/Exposition Phoenix, AZ
11/1 Ed Palacios Birthday
11/4 Joe Brewers Birthday
11/9 ASPE Houston General Meeting HESS Club
11/9 Alfred Mazzocchi Birthday
11/11 ASPE Houston BOD Meeting Pappadeaux’s
11/17 Bruce Nelson Birthday
11/19 Daniel Leos Birthday (42)
11/25 Jim Ivey Birthday
11/25 George Torralba, G.E. Birthday
11/30 Richard Merz, Jr. Birthday
11/30 Bryan Vavra Birthday
Daniel Leos (DL), President, called the Houston
Chapter BOD meeting to order at 11:45 a.m. on
October 14th, 2016 at Pappadeaux’s restaurant at
I-10 and the Beltway. Also present was David
Clark (DC), Donald Taylor (DT), Jeremy Charm-
chizadeh (JC), Dave Cropper (DAV), Curtis Dady
(CD), Chris Ennis (CE) and Christine Moseley
(CM). A motion to approve the September’s BOD
meeting minutes as published in the newsletter
was passed. DL informed the delegates to
download and review By-Laws changes that will
be presented at the Phoenix National Convention.
There was a continuous discussion among board
members to change advertising in the newsletter.
CD and Jim Ivey to discuss in further detail and
present to the board proposed changes. DL noti-
fied the board that Jesse Bain will not be able to
make it as a Houston Chapter delegate to the na-
tional convention, so alternate DAV will take his
place. DL again presented to the board changing
BOD Meeting Minutes: Donald Taylor, CPD, GPD
the current policy of advertising the top Houston Prod-
uct Show sponsors to yearly sponsors. This change
would provide advertising at every meeting, event,
newsletter and e-mail correspondence for the entire
year in-lieu-of only providing advertisement at the prod-
uct show. DL presented to the board the use of “Cvent”
as a tool to assist in registration and better accurate
records at the local Houston Product Show. This tool is
roughly $6000 which would be offset by changing facili-
ties and other key items. A motion was approved by the
board to allow funding to use “Cvent”. DC updated the
BOD possible presenters at future general meetings.
Paul Tully with Charlotte Pipe will be presenting at the
November general meeting. DL announced that the
chapter’s active membership is not at 192. It was
brought to the board by DL asking if the chapter should
ask for sponsorship to the AYP events. DL will be men-
tioned this at the general meetings. Meeting was ad-
journed at 1:08 p.m.
ASPE CLASSIFIEDS
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