AGG - 2006 - May/June

Volume 20 • Issue 3 • May / June 2006

People

Architects' Guide to Glass & Metal Editorial Board

A number of very talented and knowledgeable people are involved in assisting us on the Architects’ Guide to Glass & Metal by being members of our Editorial Board. They are knowledgeable both about the architectural process and the glass and metal industry. Here are the distinguished members of our Editorial Board.

Michael D. Flynn, a partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners since 1989, joined the New York City firm in 1962. His principal activity is oversight of the building envelope and exposed structures. He also serves as management partner for certain projects and has been principally responsible for many, and after 1989 all, of the firm’s building enclosures, comprising nearly 100 executed projects around the world. Over the years he has coupled his activity in the firm with teaching, lecturing, and other activities related to the profession.

He has lectured widely on matters related to the building envelope in universities and professional seminars in the United States, Canada, Chile, England, Italy, Switzerland and Singapore. In addition to teaching and lecturing, he contributes to the development of codes and standards related to the design of the building envelope. He has served on the advisory board, Glass Research and Testing Laboratory, Texas Tech University (1978–1990); Canadian General Standards Board, Glass Design Standards Committee (1982–1990); board of governors, Insulating Glass Certification Council (1983–1986); and New York City Building Code Seismic Design Overview Sub-Committee (since 1995). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Jerri Smith is a registered architect with more than 20 years of professional experience. Since joining Kohn Pedersen Fox in 1981, she has developed particular expertise in the design of institutional and corporate facilities. She has served as senior associate principal/senior designer for some of the New York City firm’s most high profile corporate and civic projects. She was the senior designer for the Gannett/USA TODAY headquarters in McLean, Va., and winner of a 2005 National AIA Honor Award for Architecture.

Since September 2001, she has worked with the Growth Strategies Committee of New York New Visions, contributing to discussion and white papers produced by the group and working with others to produce analytical and urban design studies intended to promote public discourse on the principles and possibilities for the future of Lower Manhattan and the WTC Site. She has taught at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City; Cornell University; The Catholic University in Washington D.C.; New Jersey Institute of Technology, and New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan. She is a member of the AIA and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Jim W. Sealy, FAIA, is an architect and consultant with more than 40 years of experience. Based in Dallas, he consults with other design professionals, developers, building owners and managers, jurisdictions and attorneys in matters dealing with various aspects of the built environment, and his expertise ranges from zoning and conceptual design to forensic architecture. He has participated in the writing of building codes and standards since the early 1970s and served the International Code Council as a member of the drafting committees for the International Performance Code and International Residential Code.

He serves on technical committees for the National Institute of Building Sciences, the National Institute of Science and Technology, Underwriters Laboratories, the Applied Technology Council and the American Institute of Architects. All these activities, as well as others, are performed without compensation and make-up approximately 20 percent of his professional activities. The mentoring of young architects is also one of his passions. He has been a speaker at four AIA national conventions, as well as many Texas Society of Architects annual conventions. He teaches continuing education seminars for AIA/Dallas and has taught at the Building Professional Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas A&M University, among others.

Mary Carol Witry joined Oldcastle Glass as vice president commercial projects group in 2004. In this role she is responsible for developing and expanding the Santa Monica, Calif. based company’s working relationships with architects, general contractors, owners, consultants and developers. Prior to joining Oldcastle Glass, she was with a top five contract glazier where she held a variety of roles including vice president and division manager with a major focus on large, complex glazing projects.

She has over 18 years of industry experience and an in-depth knowledge of architectural plan review and specifications review, curtainwall systems, structural glazing, fabricated glass and aluminum products and installation.

Christopher (Chris) Barry graduated from the University College Dublin, Ireland, with a bachelor of mechanical engineering degree. He joined Pilkington Glass in Toronto in 1967 where he commissioned and developed cutting and wareroom technology for the first two float glass lines in Canada. He has also developed and designed IG fabrication lines.

In 1976, he became the general manager of the GlassCrete Division of Pilkington Glass and operated the pilot manufacturing plant, designing and producing glass fiber reinforced cement products. In 1981, Chris became technical manager of the Canadian Glass Division. His main responsibilities were technical design, fabrication and installation assistance for architectural products with internal and external customers. In 1986, he moved to Toledo and became the manager of architectural technical services.

Some of his duties were to develop technical data bulletins, design guides, standards and training programs. He is currently the director of technical services, building products, Pilkington North America Inc. He is an active member IGMA, ASTM and ASHRAE, all of which leaves little time for his hobbies of racing windsurfers, playing tennis and reading about cosmology.