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SYMPOSIUM:
Aging Composite Materials and Assemblies: Sustainable Repair & Reinvestment

Credits: 7

Saturday, October 14 Schedule: 8:30 am–5:00 pm

Conference Hotel: Sheraton Grand Seattle, 1400 6th Ave. Seattle, WA, 98101

Continuing Educational Credits: AIA 7 LUs; Engineering 7 PDHs

Coordinators: Caroline Alderson, Center for Historic Buildings, US General Services Administration and Kelly McLeod, Principal, KSM Architects; APT Technical Committee on Modern Heritage Co-Chairs


Aging modern heritage buildings and structures face complex repair and reinvestment challenges.  Manufactured composite materials and multi-material assemblies often cannot be cost-effectively repaired or replaced in kind; proprietary building materials may no longer be manufactured. Others contain components, such as asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that are toxic or hazardous. Limited guidance is available to assist practitioners in identifying appropriate substitutes and approaches that balance stewardship, safety, environmental, lifecycle performance and resilience goals for sound long-term treatment. In the face of these challenges, APT’s Technical Committee on Modern Heritage invites practitioners, scholars, and decision-makers to contribute their experiences and wisdom in a working session to discuss model approaches and develop practice guidance for the responsible and cost-effective treatment of composite materials and assemblies.


Presentations:

Speakers

Brian Rich, Principal, Richhaven Architecture & Preservation.

Author of the Principles of Future-Proofing (www.principlesoffutureproofing.com), Brian Rich is a LEED accredited architect and Principal of Richaven Architecture & Preservation, with more than 30 years’ experience in Historic Preservation and Construction Project Management, working on educational, institutional, and theater projects. Richaven Architecture & preservation specializes in the management and delivery of sustainable existing building renovation and rehabilitation projects with complex schedules, phasing, and designs. Richaven approaches existing buildings with the goal of future-proofing them against natural and man-made hazards. 


David Fixler, FAIA/FAPT, Principal, Fixler Architects & APT Technical Committee on Modern Heritage Co-Founder. David Fixler is a practioner, scholar and educator specializing buildings of the 20th century modern movement.  He has guided the renovation of numerous landmark facilities for including Alvar Aalto’s Baker House at MIT, Louis Kahn’s Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania and the United Nations Headquarters.  A frequent writer and lecturer on architecture and preservation, Mr. Fixler has had his design and written work published internationally and has taught and lectured at many institutions and conferences throughout Europe, the Americas and Australia. He is current teaching in the Architecture Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.  Mr. Fixler is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, co-founder and president of DOCOMOMO-US/New England, a Peer Review Architect in the Design Excellence program for the GSA, and co-chair of the Association for Preservation Technology (APTI) Technical Committee on Modern Heritage.

 
Bill Parks, Senior Project Manager, F.D. Thomas. Identifying, Removing, Mitigating Hazardous Materials. Bill Parks joined F.D. Thomas, Inc. in March of 2012. He currently serves as a VP – Division Manager of the Specialty Contracting division of F.D. Thomas, Inc. based out of Kent, WA. As Division Manager, Bill is responsible for all aspects of the division. This responsibility includes control of all projects and production through estimating, pre-job planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting. He ensures that production and budgeting requirements are maintained through the duration of the project and to ensure that every effort is made to meet customer expectation in service and performance.


John Sandor, Senior Historian, National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services. John Sandor has worked as an architectural historian in the Technical Preservation Services Division of the National Park Service since 1996. He reviews rehabilitation projects seeking certification for federal tax credits and provides assistance to the users of the program and the general public on technical aspects of preservation. He speaks frequently on windows for historic buildings and a variety of other issues relating to the application of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. He is currently revising Preservation Brief #16, The Use of Substitute Materials on Historic Buildings. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in architecture he spent time as a carpenter and preservation consultant before serving as the architectural coordinator for the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office.


Chandler McCoy, Senior Project Specialist, Getty Institute. Chandler McCoy is a specialist in conservation of Modern Architecture and historic preservation planning with the J. Paul Getty Trust, currently focused on Getty’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative. Prior to joining the GCI in 2015, he was Associate Director for Planning and Design for the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, and prior to that, worked as a Historical Architect for the National Park Service in New York City. Chandler has a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Virginia and received additional architectural conservation training at ICCROM. He is a founding member of the Northern California chapter of DoCoMoMo-US and past president of the San Francisco Heritage Board of Directors.


César Bargues Ballester, Associate Project Specialist, Getty Institute
Cesar Barques is involved in conservation projects within the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative, including treatment research, publications, and workshops, with a particular focus on conservation planning for twentieth-century heritage.  Before joining the GCI in 2018, he conducted recording, documentation, and investigative studies with a particular focus on modern architecture in both private practice and in academia, as a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania. Barques holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.


Mic Patterson has concentrated his professional and academic career on advanced technology and sustainable building practices. He is principal of Design Tectonics, Inc, co-founded the Facade Tectonics Institute, served as its inaugural president, and currently serves as FTI’s Ambassador of Innovation and Collaboration. He was a co-founder of the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos, served on the Advisor Group for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and currently serves on the technical research committee of GlassCon Global. Patterson is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he earned a PhD focusing on building sciences to challenge the sustainability of current curtain wall retrofit practices. Author of Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures (John Wiley, 2011), Patterson has taught, written, and lectured internationally on diverse aspects of facade technology.


Beth L. Savage, Federal Preservation Officer and Director, Center for Historic Buildings, US General Services Administration. Director of GSA’s Center for Historic Buildings. In this capacity she also serves as the agency's Federal Historic Preservation Officer, leading the stewardship of more than 500 historic buildings spanning 1810-1979. She came to GSA as the Regional Historic Preservation Officer for the National Capital Region after her long tenure at the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places, where she served as a multi-State liaison and the Managing Editor of the technical publications program and website. Her professional experience includes documenting, assessing, speaking and writing on the recent past; maritime, roadside and vernacular historic properties; transportation corridors and African American historic places. She holds degrees from the University of Maryland and George Washington University.