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APTNE 2011 Annual Symposium
Use of Substitute Materials on Historic Preservation Projects

The Association of Preservation Technology - Northeast Chapter will hold it's Annual Meeting and Symposium at the Back Bay Events Center in Boston on Friday, February 4, 2011.

The focus of the Symposium will be the Use of Substitute Materials on Historic Preservation Projects.

Papers on the following topics will be presented:

• Limitations or Imitations? Burlington's Experience with Substitute Materials

• Casting About for a Solution: The Use of Substitute Precast Limestone-Based Masonry Panels on Modernist-Era Federal Courthouse Rehabilitation

• I TOLD YOU SO: Thirty Year Study of 45 Years of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) Facsimile Weathering on Preservation Projects in England

• Repair of Historic Masonry Structures using Cementitious Materials

• The Management of Historic Wooden Double-Hung Window Sash on New York City Landmark Buildings

• Lalique Cast Glass Facade, the Coty Building, NYC: Conservation with Epoxy and Replication of Damaged Cast Glass Panels

• Composite Repair Mortars: The "Other" Substitute Material

• An Introduction to Lithos Arte Restoration Mortar

• Fort Jefferson's Substitute Teachers: An Examination of Original and Restoration Material Performance

Sponsors:

Event Sponsors

Consigli Construction

Nicholson & Galloway

Platinum Level Sponsors

Robert Silman Associates

Gold Level Sponsors Sponsors

Enola Contracting Services, Inc.

Essex Works Ltd.

Femenella & Associates

Freedom Cement LLC

Gale Associates, Inc.

Goody Clancy

Structures North Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Silver Level Sponsors Sponsors

Allen Architectural Metals, Inc.

Arteco & Design Restoration Corp.

CBI Consulting Inc.

Contracting Specialists, Inc

Kaese & Lynch Architecture and Engineering LLP

Facade MD Architects & Engineers

Manassas Consulting

Menders, Torrey and Spencer

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Preservation Trust of Vermont

Thornton Tomasetti

Vertical Access

Coffee Break Sponsor

John Canning & Co. Ltd.

Evening Reception Sponsor

Nicholson & Galloway

Registration Includes:

- Coffee / Refreshments, Lunch, Evening Reception (details forthcoming)

- Annual Membership to APT NE

Details and Logistics:

Continuing Education

- This event qualifies for AIA Learning Units (last year we provided 5.0 CEU's and expect this year's to be the same, amount to be formally verified)

- Please fill out form on the day of the event if you would like LU's to be reported to the AIA  

Schedule of Events

7:30 - 8:30Registration

8:30 - 8:45Welcome by President of APTNE, Ed Meade

9:00 – 9:40Keynote Speaker, Henry Moss on "Authenticity and Transience: Issues of

Representation in Substitute Assemblies"

9:40 – 10:00Limitations on Imitations?  Burlington’s Experience with Substitute Materials

Mary O’Neil, Associate Planner; Certified Local Government Coordinator, 

City of Burlington, Vermont

10:00 - 10:20Casting About For a Solution: The Use of Substitute Precast Limestone-Based

Masonry Panels on a Modernist-Era Federal Courthouse Rehabilitation

Christopher Eck, Historic Preservation Officer, US General Services

Administration, Atlanta, GA

10:20 -11:00Coffee Break

11:00 -11:20The Management of Historic Wooden Double-Hung Window Sash on New York

City Landmark Buildings

Catherine M. Albert

11:20 -11:40Lalique Cast Glass Façade, the Coty Building, NYC: Conservation with Epoxy and

Replication of Damaged Cast Glass Panels

Arthur J. Femenella, President, Femenella & Associates, Inc.

11:40 - 12:00 Fort Jefferson’s Substitute Teachers:  An examination of original and restoration

material performance.  

Michael Gnazzo, Cenaxo, LLC, Ken Uracius, Enola Contracting Services, Inc. and

John J Walsh, Highbridge Materials Consulting 

12:00 - 12:30Discussion

12:30 - 2:00Lunch and Annual Meeting

2:00 - 2:20I TOLD YOU SO: Thirty Years Study of Forty-Five Years of Glass Fiber-Reinforced

Plastic (GFRP) Facsimile Weathering on Preservation Projects in England

John A. Fidler RIBA, IHBC, Intl Assoc AIA, FRICS, FSA, FIIC, FAPT, Staff Consultant

and Practice Leader: Preservation Technology, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc.,

Los Angeles

2:20 - 2:40Composite Repair Mortars: The "Other" Substitute Material

Michael Edison, President, Edison Coatings, Inc.

2:40 - 3:00Repair of Historic Masonry Structures Using Cementitious Materials

Brent Gabby, Senior Principal, Peter M. Babaian, Senior Project Manager and 

Emily R. Hopps, Senior Staff II – Building Technology, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, 

Waltham, MA 

3:00 - 3 :20Break

3:20 - 3:40An Introduction to Lithos Arte Restoration Mortar

Roy Ingraffia, Architectural Conservator, Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC,

Philadelphia, PA and Kyle Normandin, Associate Principal, WJE, New York, NY 

3:40 - 4:30Discussion

5:00 - 7:00Reception at Old South Church, Gordon Chapel

Directions, Parking, Accommodations

Please refer to the website for the venue: www.backbayeventscenter.com.  Our program will be held in the Dorothy Quincy Suite.