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 commercial space measurement, serving property owners and managers, tenants, attorneys and design professionals. Clients include Allen Matkins, Beacon Capital, Bergmeyer Associates, BOMA International, BOMA Local Chapters, Brookfield Properties, Tryba Architects, Gensler, Hines Interests, Holland & Knight, IA Interior Architects, John Costanza Institute of Technology, Lones Lang LaSalle, Klipp, LBA Realty, Legend Retail Group, Neenan Company, McWhinney, Means Knaus, Nichols Partnership, Patrinely Group, Prime West, The RAND corporation, Senn Visciano, Teletech Holdings, Inc., Trammell Crow, and Zions Securities Corporation. Assisted BOMA International in the development of published measurement standards for gross area and for buildings containing office, industrial, retail, and multi-unit residential occupancies, as well as development and implementation of BOMA training programs for the 2010 BOMA Office standard.
- 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.
- Firm purchased by HOK in 1994
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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 Continuting Education requirements, 1994 to Present
- Air Rights in Development, June, 2010
- Understanding Land and Title Surveys, July, 2008
- Certificates in AutoCad and Architectural Desktop 2000 - 2009
- Certificate in Revit 2008
- BOMA seminar on Escalations in Office Buildings, February, 2003
- BOMI Instructor Development Workshop, January 2002
- BOMA e-Seminar on Standard Method for Measuring Floor Area in Office Buildings, April 2001
- Gensler instructor development training, 1999
- Certificates in Microstation and CAD system management 1985 - 1996
- Energy in Architecture Certificate, 1982
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- Colorado Architect License (inactive)
- License #301887
- Colorado Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors
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- Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA)
- Standard Method of Floor Area Measurement Committee
- Participant 2001 to Present
- Vice Chair 2007 to Present
- Vice Chair, ANSI Z65.1 Revision Task Force
- Gross Area Standard, Industrial Standard, Retail Standard, Multi-Unit Residential Standard and Mixed-Use Standard Committees
- Participant, IFMA/BOMA Working Group - "A Unified Approach for Measuring Office Space for Use in Facility and Property Management"
- 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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- 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 - The New 2010 BOMA Office Standard
- A three and a half hour seminar about understanding and applying the ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-2010 BOMA "Office Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement". Developed the seninar for BOMA International and presented numerous times around the United States and at BOMA natioanl conventions as the official trainer for BOMA International.
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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:
- In addition to the articles listed below, many others and some unpublished white papers can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format from www.BuildingAreaMeasurement.com by clicking on the Articles link or looking in the Article Archives on the web site.
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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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