presented by Fay Lorraine Sueltz, AIA

Fay Lorraine will demonstrate how a building project can benefit from a pre-construction review of plans, details and specifications. Timely action can be taken before any construction is started. Necessary code or constructability issues can be addressed before construction, averting costly field “change orders” and extensions of the project schedule.

About Fay Lorraine Sueltz, AIA

Ms. Sueltz graduated from Columbia University, New York, NY with a Master’s degree in Architecture in 1982.

She has a BS in Architecture from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1977.

Licensed for Architecture in: California, New York, District of Columbia.

She began her Architectural career at the office of A. Q. Jones & Associates (the then Dean of Architecture at USC) doing work on Annenberg Center and housing for UC Santa Barbara. She took time off working to fulfill her Traveling Grant awarded upon graduation form USC to study Passive Energy in Morocco: (Using the Sun to Cool). She gave a lecture on her findings to USC students.

Fay worked a couple of years at J, C. Warnecke Assoc. Architects on the renovation for Royce Hall at UCLA before going for her Master’s at Columbia University where she received another traveling grant, this time to Spain to study the birth of Modernism.

Since Grad school, her work has included being on project teams for residential, commercial and institutional projects, including as Project Architect, Program Developer, Designer as well as Job Captain on a 90,000 s.f. Amenity / Lab TI for the Pfizer La Jolla campus.

For the past two years, she has been writing Technical Reports or Constructability Reviews on townhouse, high rise, and podium residential projects, and institutional projects, specifically educational buildings. The projects include: The new USC Commons Building and 3 urban schools in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York. The most interesting project was "The House" designed by Stark Architects and located in Dallas. Many of Fay’s suggestions for improving facade details of "The House" were incorporated into the drawings later.

Cost

Each attendee will pay for his/her own meal/beverage PLUS $7.50 to the FCA to cover the cost of the room, tip, and other incidentals, whether dining or not. Click here for Sizzler's menu.

Location...

Sizzler - Private Meeting Room
2855 Midway Drive, San Diego
Tel. 619.224.3347

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Making Reservations...

RSVP to Margy Ashby — 619.593.9988 (admin. office) 619.685.8043 (voice mail) — or email. If necessary, cancel at least 24 hours prior to the meeting or you will be billed.

About FCA Meetings

The general membership meetings of the FCA are held on the second Wednesday of each month.

The standard schedule is as follows:

• 5:30 PM - Networking
• 6:00 PM - Dinner, followed by the Program, usually beginning no later than 7:00 PM

Potential members are invited as guests. If you are not a member and would like to attend a meeting, please contact our Administrator at 619.685.8043 or email. We will arrange a host for you.

Venues change from meeting to meeting. Please consult the meeting announcement for cost details. Reservations are often required and attendees without reservations may be charged more. No shows will be billed!

Previous Meeting

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

A Plaintiff Trial Attorney’s View of What Makes an Effective Expert

presented by Suzy Moore, Esq.

Included Sample Agreement Letters from Various FCA Members

Ms. Moore's view is a Plaintiff Attorney's view of Experts in trial, as well as in presenting aspects of Expert Testimony in the California Courts of Appeal. Along with the "standard" war stories of how experts have been effective, how they have allowed the other side to anger them losing their professionalism, how to rehabilitate them, and even how one of her witnesses took her notes up to the stand only to have the defense expert take them away from her ... a story which can be a learning experience for us all. Ms. Moore will discuss the input and impact Experts have had in trial while trying cases from catastrophic personal injury cases where she has relied heavily upon spinal injury specialists; rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, life care planners and economists to employment trials involving human resources experts, psychologists and treating physician experts.  Ms. Moore would prefer a question/answer mode of presentation, so come to this meeting with questions and a willingness to learn from an attorney who is also anxious to learn from us.

Location...

Sizzler - Private Meeting Room