Thank You & New Opportunities

Thanks to all the Construction Management and Architecture Students for the big turn out for the World Trade Center job site, I have copies of all the photos from our visit. In addition, due to popular demand I will talk to Jones Lang LaSalle about another possible site visit. However, we are still in talks with the MTA about the 2nd Avenue site visit. Lastly, before I go, just a reminder to all students please forward me a copy of your resumes for possible job employment as well as a copy on hand for our resume book to cmaa@pratt.edu. If you have any questions or comments free feel to contact me via email.

Sincerely,



Leander V.P. George
Vice-President of CMAA Pratt Chapter
cmaa@pratt.edu

Jones Lang LaSalle Site Visit

Jones Lang LaSalle Site Visit
Just a reminder to those of those who may not of heard by e-mail or word of mouth. We will be visiting Jones Lang Salle Job Site this Friday, October 26 at 2pm at 7 WTC Port Authority, but for safety purposes I need all the permission slips handed into me before you step foot on the site. I'll try to bring a few extras with me on Friday, but I can’t make any promises. Also, I will have a group meeting me at 12:30pm at Pratt's cannon on the Brooklyn campus, if you don't know how to get to the site. In addition, for all of you who wish to meet me at the site that okay please let me know via e-mail at by Friday morning at 10 am or call me on my cell so I know. Thanks again, and I look forward to seeing all of you this Friday.

Safety gear will be on site and available to all students coming on the tour.

Students will be provided with a job write up and other information upon arrival.

Leander V.P. George

Vice-President of CMAA Pratt Chapter
lgeorge@pratt.edu
cmaa@pratt.edu

Site Visit with Contigroup

Just incase you need the information again about our site visit on October 5, 2007

Our tour of Newark Broad Street with The Conti Group is scheduled as
follows:
Time: 9:00 am
Location: Newark Broad Street Train Station
Tour Guides: You will be greeted by Marcelo Fuentes, Eric Boehm and
myself

Safety gear will be on site and available to all students coming on the
tour.
Students will be provided with a job write up and other information upon
arrival.


Leander George
Vice-President CMAA Pratt Chapter
cmaa@pratt.edu

Welcome Back CMAA Pratt Chapter

Hello Fellow CM Students

This year we plan to have the best year ever, we will be keeping with the same approach of better of club national and locally at Pratt Institute. Last years ASC Competition went so well we decide to not only do the commercial project, but to also take part in the design-build competition. All of you who are interested get your resumes in so we put the team together. Remember November is coming around the corner. In addition, we will have the honor of visiting multiple construction sites this year in different phases thanks to the NYC Transit, Jones Lang Salle Architects, and Conticorp. On our list are the World Trade Center, Bam, and Fulton Transit Courtland to name a few. We will have information as soon as next week on when and where this will take place. Lastly, we decide this year since the overwhelm interest of what the CMAA is that we will outreach to other majors at Pratt to join and share who we are such as Architect, Interior Design, and Industrial Design majors because we all have some similar parts that makes a construction project complete.

Leander VP George
CMAA Vice-President
CMAA@Pratt.edu

Coming back?

HELLO ALL!!

MAN, I haven't touched this site for a long time. For that, I sincerely apologize to all devoted readers that visited this site (which probably only 2 people). The reason for my absence: I’ve been busy running multi-million dollar project, managing 456 people, delegating 24 different agencies, working 20 hours a day and being paid large (7 figures) salary it. …………………NAH just kidding! I just didn’t know what to write that might be interesting so I left it back at March. Which brings me to say that I’m retiring from writing this blog and handing this over to the lovely Belinda Dietel (for those who know her) to discuss various spectacular topics and wondrous insights of construction. Enjoy!

Sustainable issue

I know I posted this up earlier, but here it is again:

If you like the film clip of 'Architecture 2030 presentation', there is another related portion to it and it is called the '2010 imperative'. (http://www.2010imperative.org) Pratt posted it up online and all over school about this. I personally didn't get the chance to watch it since there were some technical difficulty over the webcast, so it sucked! But I'm guessing that the large portion of presentation is similar to the one that Ed Mazria Pienary presented in the 'Architecture 2030 presentation'; That we have a 10 year window to fix this global warming issue. It is not a definite time frame but the egg heads at some enviornmental institute had to give an estimate so as arbitrarily as it sounds, 10 was the number they popped up with.

Since we're going with this number 10, I was thinking if it would be possible for us, as a species, to solve the global warming issue in time? Before coastal portion of New York will be under water, as well as other parts of the world. Before another huge hurricane destroy another city.

What's your opinion on this matter? Leave a comment! Also, check out the website and keep yourself informed.

Wooden doors

Learn how doors are made! check out the video!

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/6JLN49voQD9ZP3Amj

CMAA News letter

- CMAA Membership - Those who want to become CMAA members, there is an application in the CM office whoever is interested on applying. The fee is $25 per students. Becoming a member gives you access to news letters, update on current construction projects, future events and etc. Please send the payment and application to the address written on the application (lower right hand corner).

- CMAA National Scholarship – April 16, 2007 (application in the CM office Front desk)

The scholarship is design specifically for Construction Management Students, civil Engineers and architecture students who are American citizen.

Awards will be given to deserving students during CMAA's Association Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Chicago, Illinois. The CMAA Foundation will also fund the trip to Chicago for each student being awarded a scholarship.

- CMAA Regional Scholarship – May 2, 2007 (application in the CM office Front desk)

The scholarship is design specifically for Construction Management Students, civil Engineers and architecture students who are American citizen.

The current award amount is $2,000.00. Award checks will be issued to student recipients only after the Chapter has been notified that they have registered for their continued education.


- Upcoming CMAA ASC competition – Do you want to participate in this year ASC competition! Submit your resumes now to Professor Barrett Richard at BRICHARDS@greyhawk.com. The event will take place fall of 2007 and only 6 members will make up the team, so sign up now!

Architecture 2030 presentation

If you have an hour or so to kill, watch this presentation on current Global Warming and initatives to solve this problem.

http://www.architecture2030.com/media/index.html

site walk through

Hello everyone

yesterday after class, I decided to take a look at a jobsite that a friend of mine was working on. He is a project manager and he has been working on this 3 story brownstone style residential building around park slope. The interior of the whole place was ripped apart and in the process of putting new stuff in it. The place was really a mess! and I don't mean a mess like tools and materials just lying around everywhere....no, i dont mean that. I mean the construction process itself. my friend was giving me the tour and told me how the current floor (which is all wood) will be ripped apart and replace with concrete. When he said that, immediately, I looked at the at the new stud framing on the wall..... thought for a moment....looked at the wooden floor......thought for a moment.... realized that that going to be problem. (concrete goes first then the new studs) He realized that too a few moments after I did...sigh a bit.... and called the foreman to found out who did it and who was going to get fired for it...(dum dum dum). I always hope that I won't have to encounter this kind of problem in my future career...but i'm just kidding myself really....:P

For those who are interested, check out how fluorescent lighting are made:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/261727/how_its_made_fluorescent_tubes/

-Update as of February 19, 2007-
Well, the story about the 'studs going up before the concrete flooring' wasn't a problem at all. Apparently, the architect who designed it didn't tell everyone else that the wood floor stays. At least no one is getting fired.

To some, they might find this story boring and/or a little apathetic to the given circumstance but I find it a little interesting. What I find interesting was the fact that mis-communication from other parties working on this project may have been construed as either voluntary or involuntary mis-communication. Through what I am told about the people working on this job is that they are all trying to convertly screw each, monetarily. I do not know if this is true or not, but if it is, i'm really surprised that things are getting done at all. If it is true, I find it really amazed on how people can think they are smart enough to pull it off to make a buck. If they do pull it off... congrats to them! But there is a high percent chance that most would not and those are the ones will have their asses handed to them at one point or another.

Just got in!

Hello everyone, first time here and ready to type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (thinking). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and I don't have anything now. . . . . . . . . . . but I will eventually :P. keep you updated!