The National Council of Building Designer Certification (NCBDC) Board of Examiners will be conducting a four-hour meeting this week to develop the Examinations Specifications of the Certified Professional Building Designer (CPBD) certification program. Acting as the Council’s “Scheme Committee,” the board will be using the results of the 2015 Job Analysis Survey to finalize the content weighting of the examination outline. The meeting will be facilitated by PSI Services, a certification industry leader providing test development, psychometric services, leadership consulting services and item (i.e. question) authoring and banking solutions.
With PSI’s oversight, the board of examiners will review the existing CPBD examination and consider any areas in which an adjustment to the content weighing may be needed to develop a relevant and valid sampling of the competencies required for the CPBD job/career role.
This task is step one of a three step plan for Spring 2016. NCBDC is looking for volunteers from the industry to help reclassify the existing exam content and another group of volunteers to undergo training to become item writers. Once the Exam Specifications are complete, some time in May, step two will include two six-hour online meetings with subject matter experts (SMEs) to evaluate existing examination content according to the newly created Exam Specs. Step three consists of three 90-minute item-writer sessions via webinar with SMEs. PSI will provide training regarding clear guidelines on procedures for writing effective test items, principles for writing good test items and item writing exercises. In addition, the training will introduce the us of PSI’s user-friendly portal for item authoring and banking. This secure method for SMEs to contribute items is a state-of-the-art online banking tool.
ATTENTION !!!! - licensed / registered Architects specializing in residential and light commercial buildings as well as certified professional building designers.
I like to personally invite you to consider participating in Stage two and Three of the NCBDC certification exam 'redevelopment'. As it is the goal of AIBD/NCBDC for this exam to be ANSI accredited. It is also part of the process to involve subject matter experts into the process of making the exam in part necessarily rigorous, valid and covering the kind of work that building designers and architects work on.
More information on this would be available and posted as I become aware of it.
The exam should be necessarily rigorous in assessing the knowledge and skills a building designer would need to know for competent practice. As we know, building designers / home designers work on light commercial buildings and residential. We don't typically work on high rises as the licensing laws exemptions are. I'm probably not be involved in the item-writer phase as I intend to take the exam. I maybe involved in step two (maybe... maybe not), if I do, I'd probably have to wait until step three is completed and implemented into the NCBDC exam before going further. There is key parts I need to not be part of if I am to take the exam at some point.
However, I am suggesting architects and existing CPBDs because they would not be required to take the exam or had already taken the exam. All answers to the questions in the exam will obviously need to be valid with verifiable answers.
You will obviously be talking with the AIBD Director and the NCBDC director. I personally want the questions to be the kind of questions that simple-minded easy. Let it be comparably rigorous as the ARE but focused on the subject matters primarily related to residential and light commercial projects. The questions have depth to it. I'm not looking for what is the acronym for a department. While I may have fewer questions than there maybe in the ARE, I don't want to waste questions on simple-minded questions. Questions obviously needs to be objective and defensible and not just opinions.
A little thing to keep in mind is building designers/residential designers can quite often work in many states and the exemptions ranges a bit so I would expect questions relevant in all ranges from residential & varying sizes of multi-family residential to various sizes of commercial, educational/institutional/assembly buildings typically under two or three stories. Since each state's exemption varies, we don't want to get state specific so much.
The construction systems typically of buildings under 5 stories in height is typically what would be used so exam should be focused to that end.
I recommend architects who specializes in residential and light commercial because our practices overlaps significantly compared to large corporate firms designing skyscrapers, stadiums, and large scale commercial/institutional/etc. projects.
curtkram
May 8, 16 4:52 pm
archinect should make balkins a moderator so he can lock threads at the appropriate time.
Josh Mings
May 8, 16 5:03 pm
1002
Pop lock and drop it - Roo Remix
no_form
May 8, 16 8:03 pm
1003...the culmination of an argument with archinect's resident jester.
K4L.
x-jla
May 8, 16 9:36 pm
1004
This thread will never end mwwahhaaaahaa.
Josh Mings
May 8, 16 11:09 pm
While Dean Malenko was well known as the Man of 1,000 Holds, and later Chris Jericho usurped him with 1,004 Holds, I'm the Man of 1,005 Bricks.
JLC-1
May 9, 16 10:18 am
SN 1006 was a supernova that is likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history, reaching an estimated −7.5 visual magnitude,[3] and exceeding roughly sixteen times the brightness of Venus.
Non Sequitur
May 9, 16 10:34 am
The Peugeot 1007 was a Mini MPV produced by the French automobile manufacturer Peugeot from 2004 to 2009. It was based on the same platform as the Peugeot 206 and Citroën C3. The 1007's unique design features four pillars and two power sliding doors (similar to the Toyota Porte) rather than conventional hinged doors for easier access in cramped spaces and on hills.
Anyone know if Astoria Sunday Market is looking for some free, unsolicited, exempt building design help? ... I could hold a paint brush or guesstimate incorrectly about measurements (I know the bar is set high in Astoria for this type of work).
Perhaps I'll give them a call to discuss, (503) 325-1010
no_form
May 9, 16 2:29 pm
Balkins, does this space meet fire code in Astoria?
During Australia's years as a penal colony kangaroos served as a volunteer fire brigade. This space is in America. Maybe it was one of those Victorian fads that never caught on.
x-jla
May 9, 16 3:18 pm
Kangaroo meat is illegal in Astoria.
Non Sequitur
May 9, 16 3:21 pm
REQUEST TO HAVE ADDITIONAL INCOME TAX WITHHELD AT SOURCE
TP-1017-V
This form is to be completed by individuals who wish to request an increase in the amount of income tax normally withheld at source, or to change or cancel a previous request to withhold an amount of additional income tax.
Jla-x, I've had Kangaroo sausage before and it's not that exciting.
also:
no_form
May 9, 16 8:40 pm
IBC Chapter 10
SECTION BC 1018 NUMBER OF EXITS AND CONTINUITY
"All rooms and spaces within each story shall be provided with and have access to the minimum number of approved independent exits as required by Table 1018.1 based on the occupant load of such story..."
b3tadine[sutures]
May 9, 16 10:58 pm
Luke 10:19 New International Version (NIV)
19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
I just went there a read some of his posts. This should keep me occupied today....
no_form
May 10, 16 10:50 am
Brud-G thanks for letting us know. Here's a quote from Balkins in a thread called incompetent architects. Oh the irony.
"Funny thing, much of todays architectural education is about equal to what I already know... I''m already familiar with code, engineering methods, design, CAD/drafting (I know how to use CAD and already know how to draw so the simple lines and circles and squares are nothing and I don''t need to take a class to immediately know how to draw the lines because I know those architectural symbols and how to draw it.
I already have math and know about the variety of architectural philosophy and architectural history and the different styles of architecture.
I already have math and know about the variety of architectural philosophy and architectural history and the different styles of architecture.
No rocket science
So lets see, if this is the quality of education, I''ll be laughing."
1023
no_form
May 10, 16 10:53 am
The there is December 7,2007 where Balkins went before the OBAE...around the time he did/didn't do the theater.
"The firewall for code and fire protection purposes (compartmentalization - more of the architects are faamiliar with that term). It does not get me off the hook when it comes to the Oregon Board of Architect Examiners who looks at things in a different perspective.
I have had this go before the OBAE (RFI/C) on December 7th 2007. If it is connected or fastened in any way, they''ll consider it one building or structure."
I can't believe he is a moderator. It seems there's nobody to contradict or challenge him over there. All the better for a narcissist of his order.
Brud thanks for showing us this goldmine.
Non Sequitur
May 10, 16 11:05 am
USS Van Voorhis (DE-1028) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Commander Bruce Van Voorhis (1908–1942), a naval aviator who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for action in the Eastern Caroline Islands.
Van Voorhis was laid down on 29 August 1955 at the New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, New Jersey; launched on 28 July 1956, sponsored by Mrs. Kathryn Van Voorhis, the widow of Lt. Cmdr. Van Voorhis; and commissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 April 1957, with Lt. Cmdr. Joseph J. Doak, Jr., in command.
JeromeS
May 10, 16 11:18 am
Seems like ricky took a couple of years off from thebuildingcode forum. Very few posts between 2013-2015. So probably the board is fresh for spewing his diarrhea.
kjdt
May 10, 16 11:49 am
It's amazing that Richard has managed to have been reported to multiple state boards multiple times over the course of just a few years, without actually ever designing any buildings. That's quite the feat. He's also been prolific in reporting people to his own and other state boards, and even to boards in other countries. It's a bad sign when the staff at the state board all know you! Most architects never have anything to do with the board in their whole career except for application and renewal related things, and this guy is on a first name basis with OBAE's switchboard operator.
Dangermouse
May 10, 16 1:26 pm
god that thread is comedy gold.
guy: "you cannot be a certified building designer in california"
balkins word salad: "you can is loans be building designer, construction official is code with architecture"
awaiting_deletion
May 10, 16 3:53 pm
I still wonder if Richard Balkins is a bot. Some angry architect who created an angrier bot.
JeromeS
May 10, 16 9:10 pm
Uh-oh- I see a new career and job title in someone's future
Not a chance. If anyone anywhere knows just exactly how little real experience, education, and ability to interpret codes Balkins has, it's that city's building department.
Donna Sink
May 10, 16 9:44 pm
Wait. I see a brilliant reality show opportunity.
awaiting_deletion
May 10, 16 9:49 pm
is Balkins a legit "mentally disabled" person? He really sounds like one.
Is Balkins in a home somewhere or even prison writing his own little fantasy world? Maybe a homeless guy at the library?
Based on some comments here he appears to be real and Astoria knows him, I didn't bother checking.
I don't how you can just keep writing like that unless you were just fucking with people and if Balkin's is fucking with people, he's pretty good but also sucks. When you fuck with people you don't want to annoy them or become irrelevant with walls of text.
If it's about disinformation, he pretty much sucks at it.
if this was a fake persona, that's pretty impersessive, but also its a persona that unless it's 50% bot time, a bit overkill and pathetic on the creators behalf.
Troll would be a compliment.
SpontaneousCombustion
May 10, 16 9:56 pm
I don't think he's a bot or a fake. He does lie, exaggerate, and get his stories confused sometimes, but overall he's consistent. Also he does appear in various state board investigations in WA and OR - i.e. he gets himself in real trouble, therefore he is real.
I do think he's mentally disabled but he claims not to be diagnosed as such, and I don't think he ever will be as long as his folks are alive to shelter him and enable this behavior.
no_form
May 10, 16 10:08 pm
i think he suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder and perhaps some shade of autism. i mean that in an honest and objective way. i'm not trying to make light of people who suffer from either disorder. If you read his posts and know his history on this forum i think it's a fair opinion. (balkins, i'm not a Ph.D)
nicholass817
May 11, 16 11:53 am
Alright...I had to sign up for an account on the buildingcodeforum.com and start a direct conversation with the site administrator, jar546.
Hello,
I must express deep concern for the value of some information being provided by a member/moderator on these forums....Richard Balkins aka RickAstoria. I have known of and dealt with Richard for several years on other forums. He tends to dole out poorly written and convoluted interpretations of various codes and provides borderline dangerous suggestions. I don't know how or why this man was allowed to become a Moderator on this forum, but it makes me seriously question the validity of information discussed.
If there is anything you can do to remove him from the forum altogether or at least revoke his moderator status, please do so.
Thank you for your time.
I urge anyone who has the time to do something similar. #stopramblinrick #k4l
JeromeS
May 11, 16 3:33 pm
I posted something similar in the Porta Pot thread
no_form
May 11, 16 4:15 pm
Hi all,
I just spoke with Lisa at Astoria Building Department. She said the Fire Chief and Fire Marshall are headed over to the theater this afternoon to do their inspection.
She also reiterated that Balkins has nothing to do with it. I also told her that he did SD drawings but she said there's nothing to indicate that is true. She said it was all done by licensed GCs in '07-08
x-jla
May 11, 16 4:45 pm
Balkins is a liar. We need to stop entertaining his fantasy.
anonitect
May 11, 16 4:51 pm
I think that the best thing to do about the Balkins bot is to avoid taking the bait. Ignore the guy completely, and maybe he'll go away. Don't insult him, or argue, just scroll over his comments without responding.
tduds
May 11, 16 4:51 pm
anonitect +1044
May 11, 16 5:25 pm
no_form,
The GC didn't design the project. I have the actual email dialogue between me and the ASOC director at the time.
You do realize that I didn't put the title block on for preliminary drawings. She doesn't have a clue as to who actually prepared the drawings. The permits may have the GC name indicated on the form for contractor. They just didn't put my name on the forms.
There is no designer indicated, period. It was left blank. The permit file wasn't filed by me. It was filed by the client and/or contractor.
tduds
May 11, 16 5:28 pm
Always put your name on the page! Didn't you go to elementary school?
Everyday Intern
May 11, 16 5:31 pm
Post the emails then. Redact any personal details.
tduds
May 11, 16 5:35 pm
This is probably the most attention the poor Astor St Opry Company has ever received.
no_form
May 11, 16 5:38 pm
Let's see the emails Balkins. You have no problem posting personal emails in other forums. So go ahead and do it here.
Dangermouse
May 11, 16 6:22 pm
BALKINS: "You do realize that I didn't put the title block on for preliminary drawings. She doesn't have a clue as to who actually prepared the drawings. The permits may have the GC name indicated on the form for contractor. They just didn't put my name on the forms. "
CPBD exam specifications under review by NCBDC.
The National Council of Building Designer Certification (NCBDC) Board of Examiners will be conducting a four-hour meeting this week to develop the Examinations Specifications of the Certified Professional Building Designer (CPBD) certification program. Acting as the Council’s “Scheme Committee,” the board will be using the results of the 2015 Job Analysis Survey to finalize the content weighting of the examination outline. The meeting will be facilitated by PSI Services, a certification industry leader providing test development, psychometric services, leadership consulting services and item (i.e. question) authoring and banking solutions.
With PSI’s oversight, the board of examiners will review the existing CPBD examination and consider any areas in which an adjustment to the content weighing may be needed to develop a relevant and valid sampling of the competencies required for the CPBD job/career role.
This task is step one of a three step plan for Spring 2016. NCBDC is looking for volunteers from the industry to help reclassify the existing exam content and another group of volunteers to undergo training to become item writers. Once the Exam Specifications are complete, some time in May, step two will include two six-hour online meetings with subject matter experts (SMEs) to evaluate existing examination content according to the newly created Exam Specs. Step three consists of three 90-minute item-writer sessions via webinar with SMEs. PSI will provide training regarding clear guidelines on procedures for writing effective test items, principles for writing good test items and item writing exercises. In addition, the training will introduce the us of PSI’s user-friendly portal for item authoring and banking. This secure method for SMEs to contribute items is a state-of-the-art online banking tool.
(originally posted: http://www.aibd.org/mondayminute/?p=3435)
ATTENTION !!!! - licensed / registered Architects specializing in residential and light commercial buildings as well as certified professional building designers.
I like to personally invite you to consider participating in Stage two and Three of the NCBDC certification exam 'redevelopment'. As it is the goal of AIBD/NCBDC for this exam to be ANSI accredited. It is also part of the process to involve subject matter experts into the process of making the exam in part necessarily rigorous, valid and covering the kind of work that building designers and architects work on.
More information on this would be available and posted as I become aware of it.
The exam should be necessarily rigorous in assessing the knowledge and skills a building designer would need to know for competent practice. As we know, building designers / home designers work on light commercial buildings and residential. We don't typically work on high rises as the licensing laws exemptions are. I'm probably not be involved in the item-writer phase as I intend to take the exam. I maybe involved in step two (maybe... maybe not), if I do, I'd probably have to wait until step three is completed and implemented into the NCBDC exam before going further. There is key parts I need to not be part of if I am to take the exam at some point.
However, I am suggesting architects and existing CPBDs because they would not be required to take the exam or had already taken the exam. All answers to the questions in the exam will obviously need to be valid with verifiable answers.
You will obviously be talking with the AIBD Director and the NCBDC director. I personally want the questions to be the kind of questions that simple-minded easy. Let it be comparably rigorous as the ARE but focused on the subject matters primarily related to residential and light commercial projects. The questions have depth to it. I'm not looking for what is the acronym for a department. While I may have fewer questions than there maybe in the ARE, I don't want to waste questions on simple-minded questions. Questions obviously needs to be objective and defensible and not just opinions.
A little thing to keep in mind is building designers/residential designers can quite often work in many states and the exemptions ranges a bit so I would expect questions relevant in all ranges from residential & varying sizes of multi-family residential to various sizes of commercial, educational/institutional/assembly buildings typically under two or three stories. Since each state's exemption varies, we don't want to get state specific so much.
The construction systems typically of buildings under 5 stories in height is typically what would be used so exam should be focused to that end.
I recommend architects who specializes in residential and light commercial because our practices overlaps significantly compared to large corporate firms designing skyscrapers, stadiums, and large scale commercial/institutional/etc. projects.
archinect should make balkins a moderator so he can lock threads at the appropriate time.
1002
Pop lock and drop it - Roo Remix
1003...the culmination of an argument with archinect's resident jester.
K4L.
1004
This thread will never end mwwahhaaaahaa.
While Dean Malenko was well known as the Man of 1,000 Holds, and later Chris Jericho usurped him with 1,004 Holds, I'm the Man of 1,005 Bricks.
SN 1006 was a supernova that is likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history, reaching an estimated −7.5 visual magnitude,[3] and exceeding roughly sixteen times the brightness of Venus.
The Peugeot 1007 was a Mini MPV produced by the French automobile manufacturer Peugeot from 2004 to 2009. It was based on the same platform as the Peugeot 206 and Citroën C3. The 1007's unique design features four pillars and two power sliding doors (similar to the Toyota Porte) rather than conventional hinged doors for easier access in cramped spaces and on hills.
xkcd Comic # 1008 - a classic.
Patel Bros. Indian Food Store.
1009 W. Rochelle Rd.
Irving,Texas 75062
http://www.patelbros.com/
Anyone know if Astoria Sunday Market is looking for some free, unsolicited, exempt building design help? ... I could hold a paint brush or guesstimate incorrectly about measurements (I know the bar is set high in Astoria for this type of work).
Perhaps I'll give them a call to discuss, (503) 325-1010
Balkins, does this space meet fire code in Astoria?![](webkit-fake-url://3acb2587-d859-44a5-82e0-0a92dc662677/imagejpeg)
https://imgur.com/a/JcLDC
^Kangaroos can jump that high and reach the hose.
During Australia's years as a penal colony kangaroos served as a volunteer fire brigade. This space is in America. Maybe it was one of those Victorian fads that never caught on.
Kangaroo meat is illegal in Astoria.
REQUEST TO HAVE ADDITIONAL INCOME TAX WITHHELD AT SOURCE
TP-1017-V
This form is to be completed by individuals who wish to request an increase in the amount of income tax normally withheld at source, or to change or cancel a previous request to withhold an amount of additional income tax.
Jla-x, I've had Kangaroo sausage before and it's not that exciting.
also:
IBC Chapter 10
SECTION BC 1018 NUMBER OF EXITS AND CONTINUITY
"All rooms and spaces within each story shall be provided with and have access to the minimum number of approved independent exits as required by Table 1018.1 based on the occupant load of such story..."
Luke 10:19 New International Version (NIV)
19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
this is fun!
RickAstoria
Moderator
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I visit The Building Code Forum on occasion and this guy is an effing moderator!?!
1020
Those who can't do, moderate?
1021
this is a real moderator, ruger 10/22
http://www.ruger.com/products/1022Carbine/models.html
I just went there a read some of his posts. This should keep me occupied today....
Brud-G thanks for letting us know. Here's a quote from Balkins in a thread called incompetent architects. Oh the irony.
"Funny thing, much of todays architectural education is about equal to what I already know... I''m already familiar with code, engineering methods, design, CAD/drafting (I know how to use CAD and already know how to draw so the simple lines and circles and squares are nothing and I don''t need to take a class to immediately know how to draw the lines because I know those architectural symbols and how to draw it.
I already have math and know about the variety of architectural philosophy and architectural history and the different styles of architecture.
I already have math and know about the variety of architectural philosophy and architectural history and the different styles of architecture.
No rocket science
So lets see, if this is the quality of education, I''ll be laughing."
1023
The there is December 7,2007 where Balkins went before the OBAE...around the time he did/didn't do the theater.
"The firewall for code and fire protection purposes (compartmentalization - more of the architects are faamiliar with that term). It does not get me off the hook when it comes to the Oregon Board of Architect Examiners who looks at things in a different perspective.
I have had this go before the OBAE (RFI/C) on December 7th 2007. If it is connected or fastened in any way, they''ll consider it one building or structure."
How about this thread
http://www.thebuildingcodeforum.com/forum/threads/designer-of-plans-that-seeks-a-license.11970/
Who wants to OUT him there?
I can't believe he is a moderator. It seems there's nobody to contradict or challenge him over there. All the better for a narcissist of his order.
Brud thanks for showing us this goldmine.
USS Van Voorhis (DE-1028) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Commander Bruce Van Voorhis (1908–1942), a naval aviator who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for action in the Eastern Caroline Islands.
Van Voorhis was laid down on 29 August 1955 at the New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, New Jersey; launched on 28 July 1956, sponsored by Mrs. Kathryn Van Voorhis, the widow of Lt. Cmdr. Van Voorhis; and commissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 April 1957, with Lt. Cmdr. Joseph J. Doak, Jr., in command.
Seems like ricky took a couple of years off from thebuildingcode forum. Very few posts between 2013-2015. So probably the board is fresh for spewing his diarrhea.
It's amazing that Richard has managed to have been reported to multiple state boards multiple times over the course of just a few years, without actually ever designing any buildings. That's quite the feat. He's also been prolific in reporting people to his own and other state boards, and even to boards in other countries. It's a bad sign when the staff at the state board all know you! Most architects never have anything to do with the board in their whole career except for application and renewal related things, and this guy is on a first name basis with OBAE's switchboard operator.
god that thread is comedy gold.
guy: "you cannot be a certified building designer in california"
balkins word salad: "you can is loans be building designer, construction official is code with architecture"
I still wonder if Richard Balkins is a bot. Some angry architect who created an angrier bot.
Uh-oh- I see a new career and job title in someone's future
Astoria BCOhttp://www.thebuildingcodeforum.com/forum/threads/astoria-or-building-official-code-enforcement.13339/#post-150402
This could solve all theater issues
Not a chance. If anyone anywhere knows just exactly how little real experience, education, and ability to interpret codes Balkins has, it's that city's building department.
Wait. I see a brilliant reality show opportunity.
is Balkins a legit "mentally disabled" person? He really sounds like one.
Is Balkins in a home somewhere or even prison writing his own little fantasy world? Maybe a homeless guy at the library?
Based on some comments here he appears to be real and Astoria knows him, I didn't bother checking.
I don't how you can just keep writing like that unless you were just fucking with people and if Balkin's is fucking with people, he's pretty good but also sucks. When you fuck with people you don't want to annoy them or become irrelevant with walls of text.
If it's about disinformation, he pretty much sucks at it.
if this was a fake persona, that's pretty impersessive, but also its a persona that unless it's 50% bot time, a bit overkill and pathetic on the creators behalf.
Troll would be a compliment.
I don't think he's a bot or a fake. He does lie, exaggerate, and get his stories confused sometimes, but overall he's consistent. Also he does appear in various state board investigations in WA and OR - i.e. he gets himself in real trouble, therefore he is real.
I do think he's mentally disabled but he claims not to be diagnosed as such, and I don't think he ever will be as long as his folks are alive to shelter him and enable this behavior.
i think he suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder and perhaps some shade of autism. i mean that in an honest and objective way. i'm not trying to make light of people who suffer from either disorder. If you read his posts and know his history on this forum i think it's a fair opinion. (balkins, i'm not a Ph.D)
Alright...I had to sign up for an account on the buildingcodeforum.com and start a direct conversation with the site administrator, jar546.
Hello,
I must express deep concern for the value of some information being provided by a member/moderator on these forums....Richard Balkins aka RickAstoria. I have known of and dealt with Richard for several years on other forums. He tends to dole out poorly written and convoluted interpretations of various codes and provides borderline dangerous suggestions. I don't know how or why this man was allowed to become a Moderator on this forum, but it makes me seriously question the validity of information discussed.
If there is anything you can do to remove him from the forum altogether or at least revoke his moderator status, please do so.
Thank you for your time.
I urge anyone who has the time to do something similar. #stopramblinrick #k4l
I posted something similar in the Porta Pot thread
Hi all,
I just spoke with Lisa at Astoria Building Department. She said the Fire Chief and Fire Marshall are headed over to the theater this afternoon to do their inspection.
She also reiterated that Balkins has nothing to do with it. I also told her that he did SD drawings but she said there's nothing to indicate that is true. She said it was all done by licensed GCs in '07-08
Balkins is a liar. We need to stop entertaining his fantasy.
I think that the best thing to do about the Balkins bot is to avoid taking the bait. Ignore the guy completely, and maybe he'll go away. Don't insult him, or argue, just scroll over his comments without responding.
anonitect +1044
no_form,
The GC didn't design the project. I have the actual email dialogue between me and the ASOC director at the time.
You do realize that I didn't put the title block on for preliminary drawings. She doesn't have a clue as to who actually prepared the drawings. The permits may have the GC name indicated on the form for contractor. They just didn't put my name on the forms.
There is no designer indicated, period. It was left blank. The permit file wasn't filed by me. It was filed by the client and/or contractor.
Always put your name on the page! Didn't you go to elementary school?
Post the emails then. Redact any personal details.
This is probably the most attention the poor Astor St Opry Company has ever received.
Let's see the emails Balkins. You have no problem posting personal emails in other forums. So go ahead and do it here.
BALKINS: "You do realize that I didn't put the title block on for preliminary drawings. She doesn't have a clue as to who actually prepared the drawings. The permits may have the GC name indicated on the form for contractor. They just didn't put my name on the forms. "
BALKINS: "On a set of permits, you would more likely scratch out 'architect' and write in 'building designer' or 'designer' and put the designer information in where applicable. If you are a certified building designer, you would have an CPBD stamp/seal and have your certification #. Just don't represent it has license number."(http://www.thebuildingcodeforum.com/forum/threads/designer-of-plans-that-seeks-a-license.11970/page-2#post-139149)