Transcript LGSEA Light Gauge Steel Engineers Association (www.lgsea

LGSEA
Light Gauge Steel Engineers Association
(www.lgsea.com)
Ben Schafer, President LGSEA
Annual Meeting – October 2006
CFSEI
Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute
(www.cfsei.com)
Ben Schafer, President CFSEI
Annual Meeting – October 2006
CFSEI Board
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Dave Dunbar
Jeff Ellis, Vice Pres.
Jeff Klaiman
Dick Layding
Wei Pei, Past Pres.
Ben Schafer, Pres.
Tim Waite
some of last year’s board at Long Beach
CFSEI Board Focus Areas
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Dave Dunbar
Jeff Ellis
Jeff Klaiman
Dick Layding
Wei Pei
Ben Schafer
Tim Waite
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FL Chapter
Website
Marketing
Newsletter, Online Ed
SEA Outreach
Tech Notes
Strategic Planning &
Chapter Development
CFSEI Strategic Planning
• August 15th and 16th, 2006
• CFSEI Board +
Don Allen (CFSEI Secretary)
Jay Larson (AISI-COFS Liason),
Larry Williams (SFA),
Liza Bowles – facilitator
• Two full days of serious work!
CFSEI Strategic Planning
• Goals:
– focus mission,
– establish vision,
– improve and stabilize operation,
– develop a specific plan for coming year and
future.
• a word about strategic planning...
not strategic planning
Mission and vision
• The mission of the CFSEI is: “To enable
and encourage aid engineers in the
efficient structural design of safe and cost
effective cold-formed steel (CFS) framed
structures.” (Modified)
• The vision of the CFSEI is: “The CFSEI is
recognized as the preeminent worldwide
technical resource for cold-formed steel
framing design.” (NEW!)
Name
• The name of the organization should
reflect the mission and vision
• The Board voted for a change prior to the
meeting, the stickler was, what name?
• The answer, after many hours of
discussion: SFEC: the Steel Framing
Engineers Council.. no.. that did not make
things any better we kept working...
CFSEI
Light Gauge Steel Engineers Association
Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute
An evolution of our name
“Light Gauge” vs. “Cold-Formed”
reflects the modern language of standards and the
technical engineering literature, also brings us in closer
alignment with partner organizations.
“Association” vs. “Institute” (vs. Council)
reflects the changed nature of the organization since
aligning with SFA. “Institute” best denotes the
organization’s intended vision. (removes confusion with
SEA’s since we are not a state SEA)
CFSEI Strategic Planning
• Goals:
– focus mission,
operating procedure changes
– establish vision,
– improve and stabilize operation,
– develop a specific plan for coming year and
future.
• a word about strategic planning...
Operating Procedure Changes
• focus the mission of CFSEI on engineers,
• establish a vision for CFSEI,
• evolve the name to the Cold-Formed Steel
Engineers Institute (CFSEI),
• with appropriate safeguards, make it easier for a
SFA member to affiliate with CFSEI,
• provide a named Board-level liaison to the local
chapters, and
• improve continuity on the CFSEI Board.
(approved by SFA Operating Team September 2006)
Affiliate members
• A new “Affiliate Member” category has been
created for non-engineer SFA members who
want to affiliate with CFSEI.
• Allows local SFA members to align with local
CFSEI, highly desired for some individuals.
• Helps CFSEI establish a larger base of
participants and volunteers.
• Affiliate Members may not serve on the Board,
and may not serve as a committee chairperson.
Board-level Chapter Liaison
• To better reflect the importance of chapters a
permanent Board-level position for a chapter
liaison has been added to the operating
procedures.
• President appoints a Board member to serve in
this role.
• Signals to the local chapters that they have a
permanent stake in the CFSEI Board and a
direct link to the Board.
• Increasing the interaction between the nationallevel CFSEI activities and the local-level CFSEI
chapter activities is an important need.
Continuity on the CFSEI Board
• The current structure of complete re-election of the
Board and its officers creates problems in continuity.
We have already experienced challenges this year.
• Board terms changed to two-years and elections
staggered so only half the board is new in a given year.
• The Vice President takes over for the President, and
then the President serves as the Immediate Past Pres.
• The Vice President is elected by the Board members.
• Safeguards against Board stagnation and other
problems include:
(1) board members may serve only 2 consecutive terms,
(2) board members may only serve 4 terms in their life,
(3) an independent nominating committee establishes
the lists of candidates for the board, that are then
voted upon by the general membership.
Operating Plan for Fall 2006 
1. Produce technical documents that aid and enable
engineers…
2. Create and promote the CFSEI brand
3. Increase relevance to chapter activities and local
membership needs
4. Provide timely and competent response to technical
inquiries on CFS
5. Provide forums for exchange of information and ideas
related to CFS
6. Partner with aligned organizations
7. Help focus research spending on the needs of engineers
8. Develop awareness of CFS through the formal
education system
Produce technical documents that
aid and enable engineers…
• The lifeblood of the CFSEI is the production of
technical documents.
• Timely production of Technical Notes (and
Design Guides) has been a challenge for the
organization, we have a new plan...
• Development of CFSEI Design Guides that
parallel the COFS standards is considered an
important step for CFSEI to create a productive
alignment with the COFS.
• Finally, a key component to the success of
producing CFSEI technical documents is having
an impeccable technical review process.
Create and promote the CFSEI brand
• The change from LGSEA as a standalone
organization to a council of the SFA,
combined with the new name for the
organization: CFSEI, creates an important
opportunity to establish the CFSEI brand
and help the organization achieve its
vision.
Increase relevance to chapter activities
and local membership needs
• The CFSEI needs to provide value to its membership,
particularly those groups that align themselves formally
with the CFSEI at the local level. Greater communication
between the national and local levels of CFSEI is
needed.
• The CFSEI will
– Provide structure and support to the chapters, including
• model operating procedures/ bylaws,
• website with the national CFSEI, and
• programs for the local chapters.
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Work with chapters to help find chapter funding, including
Provide a national partner for local education efforts, including
Listen and respond to local needs, through
Provide a national partner for local research needs.
Move annual meeting to a local chapter
Provide timely and competent response
to technical inquiries on CFS
• The CFSEI’s goal is to be a primary resource for
engineers, providing timely and competent response to
technical inquiries is fundamental to this goal.
• Four areas have been identified to meet this goal:
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frequently asked questions (i.e., FAQs) on the website,
searchable technical documents on the website,
properly monitored discussion forum on the website, and
telephone question hotline.
• The identified areas show a bias towards the CFSEI
website. The goal is to create such a content rich and
easily searchable website that most engineers will be
able to “serve themselves”.
Provide forums for exchange of
information and ideas related to CFS
• online website discussion forum,
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newsletter column on technical exchange,
chapter meetings,
annual meeting, and
outreach to related technical organizations
and conferences.
Partner with aligned organizations
• SFA
• AISI-COFS
including COFS-CFSEI committee
• AISI-COS
• In the long-term, a non-exhaustive nonprioritized list of organizations that the CFSEI
intends to effectively partner with includes:
ASCE-SEI-CFS, CCFSS, SSRC, BSSC,
NCSEA, CA WA HI and other SEA’s, WTCA,
ASTM, CSI (ARCOM), AIA, ICC ES, and others.
Help focus research spending on
the needs of engineers
• The Technology Development Committee of the CFSEI
is the SFA’s primary vehicle for collecting and prioritizing
the research needs of the steel framing industry.
• CFSEI participation in the Technology Development
Committee is the key means of achieving the goal of
focusing research spending on the needs of engineers.
• The research needs and prioritization process is an open
one, but the CFSEI needs to do a better job of
communicating to its members the large potential impact
that they can have in the process.
• The CFSEI Board needs to become a more effective
advocate at the SFA Operating Team level in securing
funding for the research.
Develop awareness of CFS through the
formal education system
• The challenges for increasing CFS awareness at twoyear colleges, as well as at the B.S. and M.S. levels are
many.
• However, resources have been developed, such as
those by the Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures,
and effective partnerships may be established that would
create progress on this objective.
• Further, the model used by some other organizations
which give away design manuals and books at seminars
held at colleges is perceived to be particularly effective
for increasing awareness in the college-level engineer.
• Secure external help in developing a long-term plan.
Eight key strategies...
1. Produce technical documents that aid and enable
engineers…
2. Create and promote the CFSEI brand
3. Increase relevance to chapter activities and local
membership needs
4. Provide timely and competent response to technical
inquiries on CFS
5. Provide forums for exchange of information and ideas
related to CFS
6. Partner with aligned organizations
7. Help focus research spending on the needs of engineers
8. Develop awareness of CFS through the formal
education system
Implementation
• For each strategy a detailed
implementation plan has been drawn up.
• The plan was approved by the Board and
implementation is now underway.
• Based on this plan CFSEI has requested a
significant increase in funding from SFA
and the Board is working to secure those
funds!
• Example of the implementation plan...
3. Increase relevance to chapter activities and local membership needs
Develop model operating procedures/bylaws
meeting of chapter presidents (travel costs)
Waite
Create a model local chapter website page(s) on national CFSEI website
find chapter interested in having a presence on the national CFSEI webpage
work with chapter to determine appropriate content on the page
develop a model web page, solicit feedback from chapter and users
publicize result to other chapters
Ellis
Allen/Waite
Allen/Ellis
Ellis/Kuria
Waite
15-Mar-07
1-Jan-07
1-Feb-07
1-Mar-07
15-Mar-07
Create a formal Board-level representative for Chapters
change CFSEI Operating Procedures
CFSEI Board approval
SFA Operating Team approval
Appoint representative (Waite selected)
Allen
Schafer
Board
Ellis/Allen
Schafer
complete
by 25-Aug-06
by 7-Sep-06
8-Sep-06
Publicize Technical Development Committee activities to the Chapters
(this committee provides a direct means for chapters and members to impact research
prioritization, communicating the committees activities to the local level will be increased)
press release
website splash / email teaser
Larson
Larson/Kuria
Create a new CFSEI chapter in Florida
Brief, written, plan of attack (with estimated budget)
METALCON meeting
COFS/CCFSS Specialty Conference kickoff meeting
Chapter Activities calendar
Budget finalization: quarterly meetings: 1st two: $3000; next two: $2000
Bylaws and operating procedures
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15-Mar-07
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yearly
yearly
Dunbar
Allen
Allen
1-Oct-06
14-Oct-06
24-Oct-06
Dunbar
Dunbar/Waite
1-Jan-07
1-Jun-07
(plus more details...)
CFSEI
• Has a worthy mission and vision
• Expect and demand more of CFSEI!
• Needs your participation
• Moving forward with direction!