Tuesday@REI April 12, 2005
ClickHere for a full sized view of the poster created by Chicago architect, Russell Walker
"PBL & Industrial Innovation in Cleveland"
Sarah Taylor, civic entrepreneur, has assembled a dynamic group of industry, business and crafts people who participated in the construction of the Frank Gehry designed Peter B. Lewis Building, now home to the Case Weatherhead School of Management.
The REI.Tuesday discussion will bring back commercial and industrial innovators and construction craftsman who created new ways of translating Gerhy's abstract designs into steel, plaster and glass. They will share their stories of how collabortive team thinking resulted in new solutions to new problems, changing their NEO businesses forever.
Sarah Taylor, with the help of REALNEO, has built a regional portal for industrial innovation (http://neogehry.org/). Explore the NEO Gehry web site for photos (http://www.bldesign.org/photo/gehry/index2.html), industry links (http://neogehry.org/node/19) and first hand stories about building the Peter B. Lewis Building in University Circle.
Our speakers:
John Zaranec, President of Zaranec Surveying Company, Chagrin Falls
Wayne Miller, Foreman, Ironworkers Local 17,(http://www.geocities.com/ironworkers373/iwhistory2c.html) on the PBL Building construction project
Pete Accorti, Co-Chair of NEOCAM (Northeast Ohio Campaign for American Manufacturing)(http://www.neocam.org/), and V.P. of Operations for Talan Products, Cleveland
Arthur Huckelbridge, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Case School of Engineering; specializing in bridge engineering, bridge health monitoring, structural dynamics, vibration & fatigue in structures
Deryl Kratzer, President of the Roofing and Building Maintenance Division of Tremco Inc. (http://www.wtiservices.com/default.asp?expand=1)
Anshel Gleyzer, C.E.O. of PhotoPeak? Inc.,(http://www.photopeak.com./) Chagrin Falls
Joe Stanley, creator of the NeoMainstreet?(http://www.neomainstreet.com/) plan for University Circle
More stories about what can happen in a mix of unprecedented design, construction and technology:
Spark Steel (http://www.sparksteel.com/publications.html)
"Cleveland Gets a Case of Gehry's Totally Unreserved"
(https://enr.construction.com/projects/buildings/archives/020527.asp )
Emporis Buildings (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=173203)
View at:rtsp://ion.cwru.edu/input/REI_04_12_05.rm
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