Principal Metrologist
Building Area Measurement LLC
PO Box 9936, Denver, CO 80209
303-795-2148 / 720-294-1286 fax
Bill@BuildingAreaMeasurement.com
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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- 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
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- University of Illinois
- Bachelor of Architecture, 1969
- Alpha Rho Chi fraternity
- Semester in La Napoule, France, 1968
- Architectural Engineering emphasis
- www.arch.uiuc.edu
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- University of Delaware
- Libral Arts and Sciences Major, 1963 - 1965
- Focus on Civil Engineering and Music
- www.udel.edu
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- 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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- Colorado Registered Architect
- License #301887
- Colorado Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors
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- National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
- Certificate # 13572
- www.NCARB.org
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- Registered Provider, AIA Continuing Education System
- AIA Continuing Education
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- 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
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- 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
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- International Facility Management Association (IFMA)
- 1987 to Present
- www.IFMA.org
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- 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
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- The Denver Architectural Foundation
- Board member and Treasurer, March 2000 to present
- President, 1994
- www.DenverArchitecture.org
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- The International Facility Management Association
- www.IFMA.org
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- 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
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- AIA Denver - James S. Sudler Award
- Awarded in 1992 and 2003 for excellence in leadership and outstanding contributions to the Denver Chapter AIA.
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- AIA Colorado - Award of Distinction
- Awarded in November 2003 by AIA Colorado for excellence in leadership and outstanding contributions to the Colorado Component AIA
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- 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)
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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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- Book - Space and Asset Management
- Chapter 21 in Facilities Management Handbook, edited by Eric Teicholz, McGraw-Hill, 2001
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- 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.
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- Using single R/U ratio: Will this method be the new way?
Published in the Colorado Real estate Journal, February, 2008
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- The BOMA Design Constraint
Published in the Colorado Real estate Journal, May, 2007
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- Measuring Floor Areas for Commercial Leases
Published on the AIA Best Practices web site, February, 2007
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- Area Calcs - Like an Annual Physical
Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal, February, 2007
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- BOMA Math: Feature or Bug?
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to raise awareness of issue with ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996
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- Modifying the BOMA Standard
Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal July, 2006
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- Understanding Comon and Usable Area
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to raise awareness of issues relating to classification of space
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- What Commercial Tenants Need to Know About Area Calculations
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, July, 2005
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- Getting Down to Brass Tacks
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, December, 2005
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- R/U High? Adjust Base Rent!
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, April, 2005
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- 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
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- Laser Distance Meters
Unpublished whitepaper posted on BAM web site to provide information on laser distance meters
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- The IFMA and BOMA Floor Measurement Standards - a Comparison
Unpublished whitpaper posted on BAM web site highlighting differences between the two standards
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- Quandry for CICs
Published in Colorado Real Estate Journal, April, 2005
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- Know Cleanable Area Measurement
Published in the Colorado Colorado Real Estate Journal, January, 2005
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- Lease Audits
Published in Colorado Construction Magazine, June, 2004
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- Area Calculations: Documentation and Communication are Critical Today
Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal, July 21, 2004
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- BOMA Introduces Measurement Standard
Published in BOMA Matters, July, 2004 and the Colorado Real Estate Journal, June, 2004
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- Hidden Standards - What You Don't Know Can Bite You!
Published in the AIA Small Project Forum Journal, Sept., 2003
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- The Right Fit
Published in BOMA Matters, July, 2003
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- The Incredible Shrinking Building
Published in BOMA Matters,January, 2003
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- A Review of the BOMA Standard e-Seminar
Published in BOMA Matters, June, 2001
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- Inside Gensler and Techniques
Regular columnist on space measurement issues for internal Gensler communications publications 1989 - 1996
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- Free Space
Published in the Colorado/Wyoming Chapter NIAOP NEWS, 1986
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