Candidate for First Vice President
Professional Experience
I am a principal with the engineering/architectural/material science consulting firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. (WJE), located in their Duluth, Georgia office. I have been employed with the firm since 1988, working in Chicago from 1988 to 2003 before relocating to Atlanta. I manage and oversee a wide range of building enclosure projects.
IIBEC Experience
Other Professional Affiliations
Other Professional Organizations
Publications/Presentations
IIBEC International Conventions and Chapter Events
IIBEC Interface, The Journal of IIBEC
Position Statement
Our industry is evolving at an ever-increasing rate, and it is incumbent upon us to stay current with the technology trends, building code advancement, and procurement issues while maintaining a level of common sense regarding these practices. If I am fortunate to be elected as second vice president, I intend to continue the progress of my predecessors by working to enhance and market our brand, protect the integrity of the public procurement process, and strive to identify and encourage young professionals to become leaders in the profession.
The organization’s brand assessment shed light on many facets of the organization—many of which we may already know, some items we may not have been aware of, and others we may have known but perhaps did not want to admit. Of particular interest is the aging population of our member base. Nearly 74% of our members are over the age of 46, with more than 45% of our members over the age of 56. In the next 10 years, it would be fair to say that just under half of our nearly 3400 current members could be retiring. To simply maintain and operate the organization as we do today, IIBEC will need to attract a minimum of 1700 new members in that same time.
Identifying our more junior future leaders and encouraging college-level students and young professionals to get excited and engaged into the practice of building enclosure consulting is going to be critical to our success. Current and future IIBEC leadership must continue to seek other avenues for expansion while maintaining the intent of our organization’s founders. Energizing the member base and encouraging professional growth in the areas of roofing, waterproofing, and exterior enclosure consulting by providing topical educational programs that give exceptional opportunities for learning and networking will be key to our success in attracting the younger professionals we will need.
Personal Information
I have been married to my wife Nancy for 25 years. I have two children, Kathleen (21) and Matthew (18); two German shepherds; one exotic bird; and one fish tank. I am an avid golfer and enjoy playing any one of my electric guitars.
Candidate for Second Vice President
Amy Peevey is a building enclosure engineer with an extensive background in forensic, new construction, and litigation support for buildings and building enclosures. Peevey’s experience includes the investigation, evaluation, analysis, new and repair design, testing, and construction monitoring/administration for building enclosure, structural, and construction material problems. She specializes in building enclosure design; design peer review; building envelope commissioning; failure investigation, evaluation, repair design, and construction monitoring of building envelope systems; as well as litigation support services related to building enclosure, structural, and other building systems.
Education
Professional Work History
Since joining IIBEC in 2008, I have strived to become an active member and to contribute by reinforcing IIBEC’s principles and goals within our industry. IIBEC has been instrumental in defining the roles and responsibilities of building enclosure professionals and the development of my consulting career. The collaboration of the manufacturers, contractors, and professionals within IIBEC embodies my personal approach as a building enclosure expert to ensure successful project outcomes. As a member of the Executive Committee, I will continue to support IIBEC with the same level of passion and dedication with the commitment to support IIBEC’s Strategic Plan.
Technical Notoriety/Professional Practice: As a professional in the building enclosure industry, I often find myself explaining the role and need for an IIBEC certified professional on projects. Therefore, my goal will be to develop recognition for each of the IIBEC certifications so that they become more mainstream and acknowledged as “professional” designations within our industry.
Networking/Collaboration/Branding: All successful endeavors are best supported by a multi-skilled and disciplined team working toward a common goal. As such, I would like to grow the personal and business opportunities within the individual IIBEC members, as well as partnerships within the IIBEC and international building enclosure community.
Education/Certification: As a majority of my IIBEC contributions have been centered on the growth of membership’s technical knowledge, I will continue supporting this effort by developing our educational and certification programs, as well as promoting their industry-wide support.
Thank you for the opportunity to run for IIBEC’s Executive Committee. I look forward to serving you.
Amy is married with two children. She is a native Texan, born in Austin, and has resided in the Houston area since 1999. When not working, she enjoys family time, restoring antiques, home renovations, service work, fitness, and organizing events.
Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer
Chris Dawkins serves as principal building consultant and forensics engineer with Beech Consulting, Inc. and Engineered Solutions International, LLC, and has more than 35 years’ experience in building construction and civil engineering disciplines. His primary consulting practice is focused in building enclosure components assessment and existing building forensics investigations and also includes or has included facilities master planning; construction phase services for new buildings construction, renovations to existing buildings, site grading and paving operations and urban streetscape projects; and civil engineering design. He has practiced as a building consultant/consulting engineer since 1993, after serving for 12 years in a variety of assignments with the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps.
My first exposure to IIBEC was attending RCI’s 1997 BES, which was outstanding and most relevant to my practice. Afterward, I regularly sought out RCI’s classes because they were exceptional, both technically and with a strong bent toward application and real-world conditions. RCI’s continuing education reputation led me to get actively involved with our Georgia Chapter.
IIBEC’s community is blessed by our founders and early leadership for establishing a rock-solid foundation of advocacy and advancement of consulting excellence within our industry. We stand on their shoulders, but there is still much more to achieve. If I am privileged to serve as Secretary/Treasurer, I will steadfastly work as part of our international team, in support of IIBEC’s strategic plan vision that we are “universally recognized as the leading authority for building enclosure consulting,” with emphases on: Growth of Membership and Chapters (let’s smartly get to 5,000 members and beyond); Education (let’s continue to nurture this foundational pillar of our association’s culture); and Recruitment and Development of Future Leaders (our current chapters/branches and committees’ leadership and volunteers are an exemplary team that, with support and encouragement, will sustain and increase our excellence going forward). In short, my guiding leadership principle is to “energetically serve our membership”.
I have created the margin within my day job to be able to commit the time needed for this role and would be honored by the opportunity to serve as Secretary/Treasurer. Thanks for taking time to read this document and I would appreciate your vote.
I grew up in Greensboro, NC, but presently call North Georgia home with my wife, Lee. We have a daughter and two sons and two grandsons. Outside of professional life, personal passions include guitar, golf, boating, and travel.
Candidate for Secretary/ Treasurer
Robért Hinojosa is the principal engineer and owner of the engineering/consulting firm RJH & Associates Inc., located in Miramar Beach, FL, with three branch offices located in Charlotte, NC, Houston TX, and London, ON.
Professional Affiliations/Work History
Technical Publications
IIBEC is the organization that is and should be the driving force in the roofing and building enclosure industry and profession for education and registrations.
In this time of COVID and the year 2020, it should be IIBEC’s role to continue to solidify and promote our organization and the building enclosure consulting industry. Now, more than ever, IIBEC needs to support its members and chapters by modernizing communication, education, and networking events like the convention and building enclosure symposium.
With the aging population of our member base, it is more important than ever to promote the organization to attract younger and a more diverse membership. I believe that attracting younger members from universities, trade schools, and at early stages of their career is paramount to bringing in new members to our industry and continue the growth of IIBEC.
IIBEC should continue to develop and increase our recognization and profile in the building enclosure industry and ensure that our registrations become more recognized. Advocating for our members and registrations needs to be a priority, and we need to develop plans and commit resources to promote IIBEC within the industry.
I have had the great fortune of being involved in IIBEC throughout my career and have benefited both professionally and personally. If elected again to the EC, I will continue my staunch effort to advocate for this organization, its registrations, members, and their interests
My wife, Shelly, and I have been married for 14 years. We have two children: Lance, 13 and Alina, 11. In my personal time I enjoy boating with my family and participating in long-distance running events. I have run over 40+ full marathons (26.2 miles) including all the world major marathons: Boston, Chicago, New York, Berlin, London, and Tokyo. I am working toward my goal of running a marathon on all 7 continents and in 2019 ran a marathon in Antarctica.
While attaining my bachelor of science degree at Southwest Missouri State University, I began working as a design draftsman for a major window, storefront, and curtainwall manufacturer. I spent two years detailing shop drawings for the glazing industry and five and a half years in curtainwall R&D and applications. During this time, I designed a complete curtainwall system, including dies, tooling, fabrication, and testing. In 1997, I took a position as the manager of an AAMA-certified testing laboratory at which I was exposed to hundreds of products and projects. This experience helped to form my understanding in the complexities of the building enclosure systems and the requirements necessary to create a successful building enclosure. In 2000, I returned home to Monett, Missouri, and started KDENT, Inc. to provide shop-drawing services to the glazing and panel industry. In 2002, KDENT received the first consulting project and has completed hundreds of projects, which include design consulting, inspections, testing, forensic investigations, expert witnessing, and litigation support. Today I enjoy enclosure design, teaching what I have learned, and spending time with my kids, grandkids, and my soulmate.
Professional Affiliations
Work History
Over 30 years’ experience in all phases of curtainwall, storefront, window, and door design, fabrication, and engineering, including supervision of system prototype, development, erection, and testing. Twenty years of exterior wall, waterproofing, and roofing consulting.
It has been a privilege and a pleasure being the Region III director and a member of the board. We have completed our association’s rebranding and we are moving forward fast with the Building Enclosure Commissioning Provider Certification. There is no good reason for a building to leak and 75% of building leaks occur at fenestration openings. If we are to be acknowledged as the go-to association for learning in the building enclosure industry, we need to continue our educational efforts and focus on the continuity, compatibility, and constructability of all six sides of the box. C3 is the principles required to ensure our buildings do not leak. I am asking for your continued confidence as I strive to improve our industry by expanding our education to include these fundamental principles, and I ask for your vote.
