William B. Tracy, MBA, NCARB

Experience | Education | Affiliations | Awards, Speaking, Teaching | Publications
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Experience

Building Area Measurement, LLC

Denver, Colorado

Principal Metrologist

March, 2000 to Present

Founder of the firm that focuses upon training, consulting and dispute resolution services relating to US practices and standards of building area measurement, serving property owners and managers, tenants, attorneys and design professionals. Clients include Beacon Capital, Bergmeyer Associates, BOMA International, BOMA Local Chapters, Brookfield Properties, Colorado and Santa Fe Real Estate Co., David Owen Tryba Architects, Fuller and Company, Gensler, IA Interior Architects, John Costanza Institute of Technology, Lones Lang LaSalle, Klipp, LBA Realty, Legend Retail Group, Neenan Company, Means Knaus, Nichols Partnership, Patrinely Group, Prime West, The RAND corporation, Teletech Holdings, Inc., Urban Neighborhoods and Zions Securities Corporation.

www.BuildingAreaMeasurement.com

 

Gensler

Denver, Colorado

Senior Associate

Project Manager, Facilities Strategic Planner and Programmer

October, 1981 to January, 2000

Originated Rentable Area Management (RAM) System for space measurement, measured 60 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space, and served as firm-wide practice leader for space measurement. Clients included Ameribass Realty, American Property Corp., Bechtel Investment Realty, Betawest Properties, Broe Companies, Brookfield Properties, Centennial Development, Corum Real Estate Group, Denver West Office Park, Embarcadero Development, Glenborough Realty Trust, Homart Development, Kirko Realty & Development, Linclay Corporation, Lincoln Properties, Mutual of New York, Oxford Properties, Pacifica Holdings, Prudential, Rosewood Properties, Shorenstein Company, Tishman Realty, Transamerica Realty Services, Turnkey Development, William Realty and others

Member of firm-wide IT Steering Committee, CAD Manager for Denver Office, and leader in implementation of computers and CAD

Chair of Programming Automation Committee and lead programmer for major programming projects including the R. J. Reynolds Headquarters, General Motors Headquarters and the State of Michigan Office Facility and many others

Project Director for "First Impressions" firm-wide project with the US General Services Administration to upgrade public areas in GSA buildings nation-wide

Project Manager for Prospectus Development Studies for the General Services Administration for Courthouse, office and postal facilities in Denver and other locations

Facilities Strategic Planner for clients such as Key Corp, Cobe Laboratories, Amgen, Jeppesen, Johns Manville, Analog Devices, Adolph Coors Company, Hewlett Packard, Target Stores Headquarters and Lockheed Martin

www.Gensler.com

 

Cost Planning and Management, International (CPMI)

Littleton, Colorado

Vice President

April, 1980 to September, 1981

Programming for Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), Smith Energy and Haworth

Project Architect for Coors Wellness Facility and warehouse facility for Pentax Corporation

Office Management and Marketing for staff of 7

www.CPMI.com

 

Rogers Nagel Langhart (now RNL Design)

Denver, Colorado

Treasurer and Business Manager

January, 1977 to March, 1980

Responsible for financial management, accounting operations and administrative staff management for a firm of approximately 50 professionals.

Financial Representative for Joint Venture project for Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI)

www.RNLdesign.com

 

Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS)

Houston, Texas

Project Architect and Assistant to Sr. V. P. and Operations Manager of CRS

June, 1975 to January, 1977

Responsible for project financial planning and manpower scheduling fo 60 projects and 170 professionals

Project Manager and Project Architect for NASA Lunar Curatorial Facility, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Project Architect on Gulf Air Housing Tower, Bahrain and Moraine Valley Community College, Illinois

Programmer for Holland Hospital, Michigan.

There is no CRS web site - Firm was purchased by HOK in 1994 and does not exist

 

The Kling Partnership (now KlingStubbins)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Project Architect / Job Captain

September, 1969 to September, 1973

Project Architect for renovation of Philadelphia International Airport Renovation Design Development and Contract Documents (Phase I).

Job Captain for Additions to Philadelphia International Airport Design Development and Contract Documents (Phase II)

www.KlingStubbins.com

 

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Education

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Master of Business Administration with major in Finance, 1975

Focus on Real Estate Development

Master's Thesis: "Transferrable Development Rights"

Wharton Public Policy Fellowship with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Washington, DC, summer of 1974

www.Wharton.UPenn.edu

 

University of Illinois

Bachelor of Architecture, 1969

Alpha Rho Chi fraternity

Semester in La Napoule, France, 1968

Architectural Engineering emphasis

www.arch.uiuc.edu

 

University of Delaware

Libral Arts and Sciences Major, 1963 - 1965

Focus on Civil Engineering and Music

www.udel.edu

 

Continuing Education

Exceeded AIA/CES requirements, 1994 to Present

Certificates in AutoCad and Architectural Desktop 2000 - 2008

Certificate in Revit 2008

BOMA seminar on escalations in office buildings, February, 2003

BOMI Instructor Development Workshop, January 2002

Gensler instructor development training, 1999

Certificates in Microstation and CAD system management 1985 - 1996

Energy in Architecture Certificate, 1982

 

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Professional Registrations and Affiliations

Colorado Registered Architect

License #301887

Colorado Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors

 

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)

Certificate # 13572

www.NCARB.org

 

Registered Provider, AIA Continuing Education System

AIA Continuing Education

 

Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)

Standard Method of Floor Measurement Area Committee

  Participant 2001 to Present

  Vice Chair 2007 to Present

ANSI Z65.1 Revision Task Force

Industrial Standard Committee

IFMA/BOMA Working Group - "A Unified Approach for Measuring Office Space for Use in Facility and Property Management"

  Participant 2005 - 2007

www.BOMA.org

 

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Committee E06 (Performance of Buildings) and E06.25 (Whole Buildings and Facilities)

2001 to Present

www.ASTM.org

 

International Facility Management Association (IFMA)

1987 to Present

www.IFMA.org

 

American Institute of Architects (AIA)

President, Colorado Component, 2003

Finance Chair for National AIA Convention in Denver, June 2001

Treasurer, Colorado Component, 1997

President, Denver Chapter, 1994

Treasurer, Denver Chapter, 1992

Founded AIA Denver Computer Committee and chaired many committees and conferences since 1973

 

The Denver Architectural Foundation

Board member and Treasurer, March 2000 to present

President, 1994

www.DenverArchitecture.org

 

The International Facility Management Association

www.IFMA.org

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Awards, Speaking, Teaching

U.S. General Services Administration - Golden Hammer Award

Awarded in 1998 by Vice President Al Gore for contributions to the GSA Architect/Engineer Procurement Business Redesign Team, National Performance Review

 

AIA Denver - James S. Sudler Award

Awarded in 1992 and 2003 for excellence in leadership and outstanding contributions to the Denver Chapter AIA.

 

AIA Colorado - Award of Distinction

Awarded in November 2003 by AIA Colorado for excellence in leadership and outstanding contributions to the Colorado Component AIA

 

Seminar - How to Use BOMA's New Floor Area Measurement Standard

A four-hour seminar about understanding and applying the ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996 “Standard Method for Measuring Floor Area in Office Buildings”, taught on numerous occasions to diverse groups including BOMA Metro Denver, IFMA Denver, Gensler and numerous private professional firms (architects, attorneys, Realtors)

 

Seminar - The Measurement of Space

A 3-hour lecture/seminar presented first to a class at the University of Colorado Graduate School of Architecture, March 15, 2001 and many times since to diverse groups.

 

Conference Presentation - BOMA's New Industrial Floor Area Measurement Standard

Introducing the new Industrial Standard at the BOMA International Convention in Chicago, June 24, 2002

 

Conference Presentation - The BOMA Method of Measuring Floor Area in Office Buildings - Its History, Purpose and How it Works

Explaining the BOMA Office Standard to members of the BOMA Method of Measuring Floor Area Committee at the BOMA National Convention in Toronto on June 25, 2004

 

Conference Presentation - Computer Applications for Facility Management

Co-presented with Barry G. Lynch, IFMA Fellow

A presentation at IFMA Facilities 91 Computer-Aided Facility Management and High-Tech Systems Conference, March 1991.

 

Luncheon Presentation - Rentable Area Management

A speech to the members of the Denver Metro Building Owners and Managers Association at the Denver Athletic Club, December 10, 1986

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Publications

Book - Space and Asset Management

Chapter 21 in Facilities Management Handbook, edited by Eric Teicholz, McGraw-Hill, 2001

 

Articles:

Some of these published articles plus others and some unpublished white papers can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format from www.BuildingAreaMeasurement.com by clicking on the Articles link.

 

Using single R/U ratio: Will this method be the new way?
Published in the Colorado Real estate Journal, February, 2008

 

The BOMA Design Constraint
Published in the Colorado Real estate Journal, May, 2007

 

Measuring Floor Areas for Commercial Leases
Published on the AIA Best Practices web site, February, 2007

 

Area Calcs - Like an Annual Physical
Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal, February, 2007

 

BOMA Math: Feature or Bug?
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to raise awareness of issue with ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996

 

Modifying the BOMA Standard
Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal July, 2006

 

Understanding Comon and Usable Area
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to raise awareness of issues relating to classification of space

 

What Commercial Tenants Need to Know About Area Calculations
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, July, 2005

 

Getting Down to Brass Tacks
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, December, 2005

 

R/U High? Adjust Base Rent!
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, April, 2005

 

Use of a Single R/U Ratio in Office Buildings
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to address an increasingly common modification to the ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996

 

Laser Distance Meters
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to provide information on laser distance meters

 

The IFMA and BOMA Floor Measurement Standards - a Comparison
Unpublished whitpaper posted on BAM web site highlighting differences between the two standards

 

Quandry for CICs
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, April, 2005

 

Know Cleanable Area Measurement
Published in the Colorado Colorado Real Estate Journal, January, 2005

 

Lease Audits
Published in Colorado Construction Magazine, June, 2004

 

Area Calculations: Documentation and Communication are Critical Today
Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal, July 21, 2004

 

BOMA Introduces Measurement Standard
Published in BOMA Matters, July, 2004 and the Colorado Real Estate Journal, June, 2004

 

Hidden Standards - What You Don't Know Can Bite You!
Published in the AIA Small Project Forum Journal, Sept., 2003

 

The Right Fit
Published in BOMA Matters, July, 2003

 

The Incredible Shrinking Building
Published in BOMA Matters,January, 2003

 

A Review of the BOMA Standard e-Seminar
Published in BOMA Matters, June, 2001

 

Inside Gensler and Techniques
Regular columnist on space measurement issues for internal Gensler communications publications 1989 - 1996

 

Free Space
Published in the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter NIAOP NEWS, 1986

 

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