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CM Department News
Job Leads Be sure to check my updated list of open positions here. What's Going on in Classes CM 121: On Tuesday we will be discussing the cost of labor. On Thursday, we'll start talking about the cost of materials. Lab this week will include estimating footings. You will perform an estimate that includes a fully detailed estimate for the excavation and placement of concrete (that means takeoffs and detailed estimate of the MOLES) for the St. Francis High School Dining Hall. Once again, this is a big scope of work for a lab period, so eat a healthy lunch and get plenty of sleep the nigh before. CM124 Lab: Not sure. We'll all find out on Monday. But I think it's a good idea for you to bring your PPE to campus just in case. CM 126: PRESENTATIONS! We will start promptly at 1:30 and we have a lot to cover, so be on time! You will also be providing peer feedback to one-another. Presentations are scheduled for Monday and Wednesday. The order for each day will be revealed that day. In other words, show up.
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Job Leads Be sure to check my updated list of open positions here. What's Going on in Classes CM 121: On Tuesday we will be discussing how to determine the productivity of labor. This is a major focus of this class and will be on the first exam (guaranteed). On Thursday, we'll start talking about estimating concrete. Lab this week will include estimating sitework. You will perform an estimate for various sitework elements and means for determining costs (including doing a detailed estimate of the MOLES components, using past subcontractor quotes, and an estimating guide). We will also be starting to estimate our first real project, the St. Francis High School Dining Hall. That's right: it's about to get real. CM124 Lab: Gareth has a cool site lined up on Monday at Prairie City Road and Willard Drive in Folsom, but the site only works for Monday's section. So, if you're in Wednesday's section, I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to attend the Monday lab section field trip. Bring proper PPE. If you cannot meet in Monday's section for the site visit, you will meet with me on Wednesday and do something much lamer. CM 126: Like the Navy SEALS say, "The only easy day was yesterday." This week is even more jam packed than last week. On Monday we will be talking contracts and subcontracts and many restrictions they impose or create, including "Buy American" clauses and utilization of local labor. We will also be discussing the St. Derek High School case so read it tonight. It was posted in SacCT and emailed to you on Friday. On Wednesday we will finish up contracts if necessary. We will also be discussing negotiating, a skill you will need to develop if you want to be successful in the construction industry. If that's not enough, we will also be discussing another case study that I will post on Monday. Get ready because we're about to go turbo. CM Department News
It's surprisingly quiet. Must mean that finals are coming... Job Leads For those actively looking for jobs, check out this follow-up post on leveling job offers. Still a few companies looking for interns: Horizon Glass (NEW!): Junior Construction Management class to start up in a Project Management / Jr. Estimating position in a commercial glazing company in West Sacramento. Michelle Klein (P) 916-373-9900 ext. 109 (F) 916-373-9930 (C) 916-612-8820 (E) [email protected] Flint Builders: The position is part-time and starts immediately, and is based in our Roseville office, working remotely for a jobsite near Arcata. For more info, contact: Megan Actkinson, Marketing Coordinator, LEED BD+C Flint Builders 401 Derek Place, Roseville CA 95678 l (916) 757-1000 office l (916) 825-2388 mobile l www.flintbuilders.com Director of Field Operations: This position is for a more experienced person looking to for something not strictly construction management. I have a former student that is the VP of Operations at Sungevity. Sungevity, a residential solar sales and installation program looking for Director of Field Ops to oversee our installation and service operations. Solar installs closely mirror construction in how it requires multiple phases, permits, roof construction. Let me know if you are interested or know someone who is. Capital Commercial Flooring Inc.: CCF is a commercial flooring company based in Sacramento with annual sales over $10 million with over 50 installers. They are looking for an intern to help with submittals, LEED information, safety, takeoffs/estimating, writing proposals purchasing materials and scheduling. This is a great opportunity to work with a specialty subcontractor and you will experience many aspect of managing construction work. If interested, contact me. What's Going on In Classes It's about to get bananas. This is out last full week before Thanksgiving. CM 121: Goodyear is due this week. Submit your estimate electronically by the end of your respective lab period. See SacCT for more details. In lecture, we will be talking about estimating subcontractor work (Tuesday) and the estimating process (Thursday). Lab will be allocated to working on McKinley Park. CM 124: We'll basically be working on the final project. Gareth posted info on SacCT. CM 126: Monday's presentations will be the trio of Neil Devlin, Edgar Fuerte, and Kyle Simonini. Read the case study and ask questions as appropriate. Wednesday's presentations will be Rob Clark and Dan Millan. We will also be discussing Case 7 (Rattlesnake Rd), which is due Wednesday morning (see SacCT for details). As a heads up, we will be having four presentations on Monday, November 25 (Efrain Ramirez, Arturo Marin, Mark Dantes, and Jason Miller). We will also be having a quiz that day. There's no class on Wednesday Nov. 27. The following week, we will have two guest lectures from industry: C.W. Driver on Technology and Swinerton is bringing two Superintendents to talk to you about running projects. I'm looking forward to both. There will be questions on the final based on both guest lectures. You've been warned. CM Department News
Go Sac State CM DBIA Team! Beat Auburn and Colorado State! Job Leads Still hectic on the job front. Have I ever reminded you that the quality of the job offers you receive once you graduate depend on whether or not you had an internship? It's true. Firms Hiring CM Grads Coming to Campus: hiring season is still in full effect. For more info on interviews at Sac State, click here. A summary of upcoming campus visits is below:
Horizon Glass (NEW!): Junior Construction Management class to start up in a Project Management / Jr. Estimating position in a commercial glazing company in West Sacramento. Michelle Klein (P) 916-373-9900 ext. 109 (F) 916-373-9930 (C) 916-612-8820 (E) [email protected] Flint Builders: The position is part-time and starts immediately, and is based in our Roseville office, working remotely for a jobsite near Arcata. For more info, contact: Megan Actkinson, Marketing Coordinator, LEED BD+C Flint Builders 401 Derek Place, Roseville CA 95678 l (916) 757-1000 office l (916) 825-2388 mobile l www.flintbuilders.com Overaa: full description below, but Overaa is also looking for interns locally. Maggie White | Director- Human Resources/Training | [email protected] C. Overaa & Co. | 200 Parr Boulevard| Richmond| CA| 94801 Office: 510-234-0926 | Direct: 510-231-5511 | Fax: 510-237-2435 |www.overaa.com Steve P. Rados: This just came hot off the presses from Sac State alum Russell "Big Cat" Bonnifield. Rados, a heavy civil company, is looking for interns. For more info on Rados, click here. Send resumes to Russell at [email protected]. You gotta love the Sac State CM network! Director of Field Operations: This position is for a more experienced person looking to for something not strictly construction management. I have a former student that is the VP of Operations at Sungevity. Sungevity, a residential solar sales and installation program looking for Director of Field Ops to oversee our installation and service operations. Solar installs closely mirror construction in how it requires multiple phases, permits, roof construction. Let me know if you are interested or know someone who is. Capital Commercial Flooring Inc.: CCF is a commercial flooring company based in Sacramento with annual sales over $10 million with over 50 installers. They are looking for an intern to help with submittals, LEED information, safety, takeoffs/estimating, writing proposals purchasing materials and scheduling. This is a great opportunity to work with a specialty subcontractor and you will experience many aspect of managing construction work. If interested, contact me. What's Going on In Classes Laptop is still in the shop, but world domination cannot stop due to technical difficulties. Sac State CM perseveres. At least it does in my classes... CM 121: Yo, check this out: I graded the Concrete SOG/Wall lab! Only took 2 months (a new record). This week we'll discuss progress on Goodyear. We'll also cover interior work for Goodyear (partitions, ceilings). In lecture we'll talk about finishes and maybe some MEP if I'm feeling aggressive. After this week, we may deviate from the original schedule and launch into McKinley Park Tennis Courts early. CM 124: Not sure what's going on. Actually, that's a lie, Gareth and I talked about it. But I'm going to let him break the news. CM 126: Monday's presentations will be will be courtesy of Ryan Malli and Mike Zenk. Wednesday is courtesy of Josias Nadal a and George Karavan. Aside from their presentations, Monday's class will finish up our condo on project risks. By Wednesday, I hope to revive the case studies and get you another one. I think I promised this last week as well. I'm blaming this week on standard time... I apologize for the brevity of this post, but things have been a bit hectic this weekend.
CM Department News In case you're living under a rock, the Sac State CM Healthcare team went to Chicago and put a beating on some pretty large schools. For more, click here. Job Leads Check out the list from last week's post--those jobs are still open. If you sent me an e-mail about interest in any of those jobs, follow up with me (I'm buried in unread e-mail messages). The only new job to report is... Flint Builders: The position is part-time and starts immediately, and is based in our Roseville office, working remotely for a jobsite near Arcata. For more info, contact: Megan Actkinson, Marketing Coordinator, LEED BD+C Flint Builders 401 Derek Place, Roseville CA 95678 l (916) 757-1000 office l (916) 825-2388 mobile l www.flintbuilders.com What's Going On in Classes CM 121: Exam on Tuesday! EXAM ON TUESDAY!!! Structural steel and miscellaneous metals on Thursday. Not exactly sure about lab this week. I may call an audible so that we can condense masonry and structural steel together. CM 124: Site visit to the railyards project. Gareth will have details. CM 126: Monday's presentations will be from Alex Campbell (JIT deliveries) and Kristian Lyssand (superintendent-site logistics). Wednesday's presentations will be Alyssa Zayas (managing DFH subs) and Chris Harrington (ordering and tracking). I'm falling way behind in terms of developing cases, so there won't be one this week. I hope to resume them next week. I will fill in the gaps with some lecture material. CM Department News
This week, I get the honor of joining Alyssa Zayas, Kim Braga, Mark Oliveira, Nate Boyer, Rob Clark and Preston Tziouvaras (I spelled that without looking it up, a first for me) to Chicago for the ASC Region 3 Healthcare competition. The team has been working tirelessly to prepare for the competition in a tradition that's customary to Sac State CM. In case you didn't hear, another Sac State CM team, consisting of Alyssa, Nick Staykow, Javier Mederos and Neil Devlin won the Western Pacific Division of the DBIA competition. They're off in a few weeks to compete for the national championship. Sac State CM is already a western powerhouse. Soon, we'll be a national powerhouse. That benefits all of us. Wish both teams luck! Job Leads Overaa: Overaa is looking for interns for the Water Treatment Plant that is right next to Sac State (probably the easiest commute you'll ever have). For more on Overaa, click here. For more on the position, talk to me or Mike Anderson. Firms Hiring CM Grads Coming to Campus: hiring season is still in full effect. For more info on interviews at Sac State, click here. A summary of upcoming campus visits is below:
Steve P. Rados: This just came hot off the presses from Sac State alum Russell "Big Cat" Bonnifield. Rados, a heavy civil company, is looking for interns. For more info on Rados, click here. Send resumes to Russell at [email protected]. You gotta love the Sac State CM network! Director of Field Operations: This position is for a more experienced person looking to for something not strictly construction management. I have a former student that is the VP of Operations at Sungevity. Sungevity, a residential solar sales and installation program looking for Director of Field Ops to oversee our installation and service operations. Solar installs closely mirror construction in how it requires multiple phases, permits, roof construction. Let me know if you are interested or know someone who is. Capital Commercial Flooring Inc.: CCF is a commercial flooring company based in Sacramento with annual sales over $10 million with over 50 installers. They are looking for an intern to help with submittals, LEED information, safety, takeoffs/estimating, writing proposals purchasing materials and scheduling. This is a great opportunity to work with a specialty subcontractor and you will experience many aspect of managing construction work. If interested, contact me. What's Going On In Classes CM 121: This week, you're free of me. That said, there's a lot to do. I have posted an assignment to SacCT. It's a spreadsheet that I want you to fill out with estimate data from Goodyear. MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. It's due for both lab section on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. When you're done with the lab assignment, start studying for the exam on October 22. CM 126: We only have class on Monday. Our presenters are Nik Brenich and Vitaliy Leshchik. I will round out the rest of the class with some of the most valuable information you will ever learn. Either that or I'll rant about how much I hate the Red Sox. Either way, you'll be entertained. Job Leads
Overaa: Overaa is looking for interns for the Water Treatment Plant that is right next to Sac State (probably the easiest commute you'll ever have). For more on Overaa, click here. For more on the position, talk to me or Mike Anderson. Firms Hiring CM Grads Coming to Campus: from Cici Mattuzi, the following firms are coming to campus. Time to get those resumes looking spiffy. For more info, click here. A summary of the campus visits is below:
Steve P. Rados: This just came hot off the presses from Sac State alum Russell "Big Cat" Bonnifield. Rados, a heavy civil company, is looking for interns. For more info on Rados, click here. Send resumes to Russell at [email protected]. You gotta love the Sac State CM network! Construction Assistant: This position is for a local building developer that also acts as a general contractor. If you're interested in learning both sides of building (owner and contractor), come see me. This is a unique position and I'm trying to fill this position for a friend. It's a great opportunity for someone with the right fit. What's Going On In Classes CM 121: BRING YOUR GOODYEAR PLANS TO CLASS AND LAB. This week, we be covering the cost of materials in Tuesday's lecture and estimating concrete in Thursday's lecture. In lab we will be estimating the cost of select site utilities for Goodyear. CM 126: Slight deviation from the syllabus. I will not be assigning a case for Monday or on Monday. I will assign one on Wednesday that will be due the following week. In other words, Case #5 will be assigned on Wednesday, Oct. 2 and will be due on Oct. 9. I'm going to slow the pace of cases until I can get caught up on grading. Assignments associated with Case #3 and Case #4 are due this week (Monday and Wednesday respectively). See SacCT for details. Lastly, Monday's student presentations are by Nick Staykow and Mohamed Shammet. Wednesday's are Manuel Moya and Jeremiah Thixton. This is the first of back-to-back short weeks. The next two weeks will be fairly relaxed, and then we'll hit it full speed until the end of the semester.
General News I'm moving the general news to the Blog section of my web page. I hope to update it more frequently with news from the places that interest me (construction + economics + technology). CM New and Events Evening with Industry: I hope you have been seeing the e-mails Sean Davis has been sending out. This Wednesday (November 14) is the Evening with Industry. It starts at 5:30 (I think) and is being held at the Boldt Sutter Hospital project in midtown. Since this event is being held at a construction site, dress appropriately (hard hat, boots, vest, eye protection). This is a great chance to tour a cool project and meet some great people from industry. A lot of current students and alumni work on this project, so it will be nice to support them and you will get to experience the craziness of an OSHPD project. Student Fall Welcome: On the Monday when we get back from Thanksgiving break (November 26), the Fall Student Welcome will be held at The Firehouse Restaurant (1112 2nd Street) from 5:30 to 8:00. Wear nicer clothes (clean ironed dress shirt, nice pair of pants, etc. for the gents, ladies should wear their equivalent to that). Our industry sponsors put this event on and some big industry and academic ballers show up (Sac State's President and Provost are coming). We will be celebrating our becoming a department and will be having two alumni presenting on one of their projects. This is a fun event and this year there is a lot to celebrate. WCIECA Scholarship: There is a $1,000 scholarship available through the Western Chapter of the International Erosion Control Association. If interested, contact Cyndi Brinkhurst at (530) 272-2407 or [email protected]. This scholarship will likely not draw a lot of interest, so those that put some effort into applying for it will likely have a good chance. Job Leads Mike has a couple of internship opportunities that he has cycled around. I don't have any details, so hit him up here for more info. What's Going On In Classes CM 10: I will be lecturing this week. Your memos for Bill Hansen are due this week. Next week (week of Thanksgiving), we WILL NOT be having class. CM 121: THERE WILL BE NO LAB THIS WEEK OR NEXT (***except for the Monday section, which will meet next Monday***). However, we are essentially done with Goodyear, so all outstanding Goodyear lab assignments will be due the week we return from Thanksgiving class. After Thanksgiving, we start our next project, which is McKinley Park Tennis Courts. In lecture, we will be doing a data dump from the first 5 weeks of Goodyear and then covering subcontracting on Tuesday and discussing overhead and insurance on Thursday. CM 126: On Wednesday, we will be having a guest speaker from Rosendin Electric coming to class. Please show some respect and show up for class. Introduce yourself--these guys are looking to hire. Even if you're not interested in working in the electrical, it's good to understand that side of the business. Actually, let me restate that: it's incredibly good to understand the electrical business. I promise to try to grade something this week. "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Get the hell out and vote on Tuesday. Even if you feel that, as a Californian, your vote won't count in the presidential election due to the electoral college process (if what you're reading doesn't make sense, click here), there are several California initiatives on the ballot that you should look into. Pay particular attention to Propositions 30 and 38 because they apply to funding schools (including the CSU system). General News Hurricane Sandy creates havoc on a construction site. Check out pix of this damaged tower crane. Nonresidential building construction spending slumped in August after gaining in July. So the news is mixed, but the market is still tough. Check out which sectors are doing better that others (or less bad than others) here. CM News and Events Accreditation: I cannot report anything specific about the accreditation visit other than that it is over and I think we've survived to fight another day. Evening with Industry: Evening with Industry will be on November 14 (5:30 to 7:30, I believe). We are being hosted by Boldt Construction at their Sutter Hospital project in midtown. Sign up on the list near Margaret's desk. Job Leads None this week. What's Going on In Classes CM 10: No guest lecture this week, so you're stuck with me. Not sure what I'll discuss, but we will likely talk about some of the things brought up by past guest speakers. CM 121: We will be discussing finishes and the (very) basics of MEP trades. In lab we will be covering wood framing in the partitions and doors, frames & hardware. Don't be sad, but this will be our last week of labs until after the week of Thanksgiving (except for the Monday section, which will meet on November 19 as a make-up for a previous missed lab date). CM 126: On Monday, the superintendents from Swinerton (formerly HMH), Rob Stratton and Steve Harless will be giving a guest lecture. This will be cool because we rarely get superintendents to come to campus to talk about what's important to them. Please be on time. I don't remember exactly what's going on Wednesday (probably because I stupidly forgot to post the presentations schedule like I said I was going to do...). I know Chip Becker will be doing his toolbox on heat exhaustion and Mark Campbell and Doug Shirk will giving their presentation on project controls. I think there is another presentation or toolbox, but I cannot remember off the top of my head. If you think it's you and want me to confirm, send me an e-mail. The faculty of the CM Department spent this morning giving tours of the facilities to the ACCE accreditation team. Students may not appreciate them, but we actually have some great facilities at Sac State. Our CM 9, 40 and 135 labs are among the best in the CM universe. Mike asked all the faculty to show up to walk the team through the labs in which we operate. We didn't need to be there, but it looked really good that we all showed up. But the best part of the morning was when Henry Meier showed up. Most of you know Henry, but if you don't, he's the President of SCMEF and is serving as the Member of the CM Department Industrial Advisory Board's representative to meet with the accreditation team. He also basically serves as the "athletic director" of all our Reno teams and is a CM alumni. So stating the obvious, he gives a lot to the Department. Henry certainly didn't need to be there today, but he was. And he stayed all day and is having dinner with the accreditation team as well. I should also say that Henry is a PX for Swinerton and has a family. In other words, he's a busy guy. But he didn't hesitate to volunteer a full Sunday to serve as the the Department's industry bridge to the accreditation team. We all owe Henry a huge "thanks", so when you see him (and at some point, you will all meet him), tell him you appreciate his efforts.
Quotes of the Week Based on Henry's service... "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth." -- Muhammad Ali "Your life and mine should be valued not by what we take, but by what we give." -- Edgar Allen, founder of Easter Seals General News I found two articles on-line that I thought were pretty interesting. First, there is this article (click here) regarding billing rates for architects. Billing rates are considered a forecast for the construction industry because the more architects are billing, the more buildings will ultimately be constructed. Second, I just read this article on the historical mission and funding sources for the University of California and California State University systems (click here). It's from a left-leaning publication, so it's definitely trying to make a point. But that aside, it does a pretty good job of telling how the public university system in California has gone from a taxpayer subsidized institutions to tuition driven institutions (and hence why your tuition has gone up dramatically) and how Governor Reagan and Proposition 13 were at the genesis of this change. It's a worthy read if you have 10 minutes and care about higher education in California. CM News and Events The Q&A session with the accreditation team is tomorrow afternoon in 4003 Riverside. If you have time, stop by and participate. Job Leads None this week What's Going On In Classes CM 10: This week's guest lecture will be your classmate Nick Hansen's dad, Bill. Bill is a superintendent with R.M. Harris. This could be the best Show-and-Tell session ever because it's rare for superintendents to come to Sac State. Be sure to pay attention and ask a lot of questions. Some of you may ultimately choose to pursue the superintendent route. CM 121: My goal is to grade the exam tonight and tomorrow so we can have a recap on Tuesday. Thursday's lecture will continue on rough carpentry/wood framing, focusing on partitions. Lab this week will be the rough framing on the roof and possibly some roofing. I'm going to try to get some Goodyear labs graded this week so you get some feedback. CM 126: It's a big week for Joe Perez-Windmiller. He will be giving his toolbox presentation on Monday (fire emergency) and he and Chip will giving their team presentation on Wednesday (pick plan and crane coordination). Wednesday will also have two toolbox presentations (DougyFresh Shirk on shoring systems and Marky Mark Campbell on unconscious person first aid), so it will be a busy day. I hope to get a homework assignment or two graded this week as well. |
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