Welcome to Greetings. It’s my very great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 edition of the North American Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference. I hope your travels here were uneventful and that your stay here will be exactly the opposite. Conferences don’t just happen. It takes a small army to put an event like this together and I’d like to take a moment to recognize and thank the NATEAC army for their help and support. Sponsors are the backbone of any conference. Their support allows us to be here at the Hilton Hotel in the middle of the theatre capitol of the world. There are 24 companies and 2 organizations listed on the sponsor page and at various locations around the conference rooms. Please join me in thanking them for their support. It is extraordinary that over 70 industry professionals took the time out of their very busy schedules to speak to us over the next 2 days. Their generosity of time and energy is astonishing and I can only hope that my efforts are worthy of their contribution. As inadequate as it may sound, thank you from the bottom of my heart. My staff have done an incredible job. They scheduled and re-scheduled sessions, organized meals, boat trips and tours, all in an effort to help make this conference a success. They even put up with me. I want to offer each an every one of them my deepest thanks, gratitude and respect. Which brings me to you, the delegates of NATEAC. Without you we’d all be back at our day jobs wonder- ing what to have for lunch. Please know that I am very happy to see you here today. To paraphrase the NATEAC mission statement, we are here to raise the level of awareness and promote better communication between those who are responsible for designing, building, specifying, outfit- ting, occupying, visiting and working in performance venues of all types across North America. My staff and I never lost sight of this and we have done the best we know how to meet that goal. So now it’s your turn. We packed the next 2 days for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Go. Enjoy. Be enlightened. But most of all, share that which you know and that which you learn. We’ll all be the better for it. I hope you have a wonderful time here at NATEAC. If there is anything I can do to make your stay here more enjoyable, please do not hesitate to let me know. Thanks, Bill Sapsis Conference Director The NATEAC Board Richard Brett Donna Frankel- Scott Georgeson William Gorlin Sarah Gowan Diana Raymond Eddie Raymond Charter Engineer, NATEAC Architect VP-Entertainment NATEAC NATEAC VP-Training, IATSE Theatreplan Ltd. FAIA, NCARB, LEED Div., McLaren Sapsis Rigging, Inc Local 16 Director, TEA AP Engineering San Francisco Jake Moerschel Richard Pilbrow Monona Rossol Lori Rubinstein Bill Sapsis Adam Shalleck Robert Shook Boston Symphony Chairman Emeritus, MS MFA PLASA NATEAC AIA, The Shalleck Principal, Schuler Orchestra Theatre Projects Industrial Hygenist Collarborative Shook, Theatre Consultants Planners The NATEAC Staff and Crew AV Technicians Administration Staff Volunteers Jason Butscher Dora Novey-Buttfield Linda Aizer Leslie Cohen Lauren Piven Hillary Frisbee Alex Gorman Emma Sapsis Mark Heiser Chris Harris Hannah R Toale Robert Long Abby Walsh Olivia Valentin Tiffany Walker Matt Williams Helen Willard Special thanks to Patrick Faw and the PSAV Hilton staff. 2 www.nateac.org • 2012 • NATEAC NATEAC Information Welcome!! I am delighted & fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with our many fine pan- elists, sponsors & board members over the past many months, and now- here we all are!! I welcome you all to the North American Theatre Engineering & Architecture Conference 2012 and hope your NATEAC experience is enlightening, exciting, enjoyable, entertain- ing… Well, you get the picture. Our staff is eager to be of assistance, so please do not hesitate to call upon them if you have any questions, concerns or problems. You will recognize them by their black NA- TEAC crew shirts and baseball caps. To help make this event enjoyable for everyone, I would ask that you please note the following: We are using the Trianon Ballroom on the 3rd floor and the Beekman and Sut- ton North breakout rooms on the 2nd floor, for all of our panel discussions. Breakfast and lunch will be served on the 3rd floor in the Rendezvous Room & Petite Trianon. We will have coffee service there throughout the day. Please keep your Conference badge in sight when you are in the conference areas. The Hilton is a smoke free environment. Please smoke only in designated outdoor areas. Please use the receptacles placed in these areas. Please turn off your cell phone before entering a session room. (It’s an inter- ruption when you stand up during a session and hurry to the door to take the incoming call.) Please do not leave bags, briefcases or luggage unattended and keep your valuables with you at all times. We can not be held responsible for lost, dam- aged or stolen property. Once again I’d like to thank you for attending NATEAC. If there is anything I can do to make your experience here more enjoyable, please do not hesitate to ask. Donna Frankel, Conference Coordinator NATEAC • 2012 • www.nateac.org 3 NATEAC Sponsors 2012 NATEAC would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following sponsors: Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors 4 www.nateac.org • 2012 • NATEAC NATEAC Sponsors 2012 Bronze Sponsors The Conference has also been greatly assisted by the following organizations: Lighting & Sound Lighting & Sound Protocol Stage Directions ABTT Sightlines America International Magazine Magazines AIA ASTC USITT The American The American United States In- PLASA Randi Minetor Institute of Society of Theatre stitute for Theatre Architects Consultants Technology NATEAC • 2012 • www.nateac.org 5 NATEAC Schedule of Events Saturday July 21,2012 7:00 - 10:00p Complimentary NY City Harbor Cruise Sunday July 22, 2012 Trianon Sutton North Beekman 7:00a – 8:45a Conference Registration and Breakfast Keynote Address 8:45a – 10:00a Richard Pilbrow All You Ever Wanted High School Auditoriums Safety By Design to Know About Stage Dan Culhane (M) Eddie Raymond(M) 10:10a – 11:30p Automation Peter Scheu, Vijay Sehgal Scott Georgeson, Monona Rossol Panel Session I David Edelstein (M), Mark Ager, Scott Fisher, Andy McArthur Richard Pilbrow 11:30p – 12:00p Book Signing Sponsor sessions 12:00p – 1:00p Lunch The Changing Infrastructure How to be the Perfect Client NYC Model for Developing of Performance Spaces in the Jack Tilbury (M) Performing Arts Facilities 1:00p – 2:20p Era of Solid State Lighting Cosmo Catalano, Steven Friedlander (M) Panel Session II Steve Terry (M), Curtis Kasefang, Molly McGowan Andrew Burmeister, Joel Rubin, Robert Young David Rosenburg, Adam Bernstein, Adrian Ellis, Carol Ochs Restoration of Promoting Sustainable Grids, Catwalks & Pre-Depression Era Design Aerial Platforms 2:30p – 3:50p Theaters John Runia(M) Peter Svitavsky (M) Panel Session III Bill Gorlin (M) Nico Kienzl Robert Shook Mitchell Kurtz Mark Loeffler Glenn Turner Francesca Russo History of Broadway A Conversation with Two Case Studies in 4:00p – 5:00p & Its Theatres Local One the Pacific Rim Robert Long Paul Dean (M) Craig Gamble Panel Session IV Scott Crossfield Roger Bardwell Virginia Ross Fred Smith Open Evening 6 www.nateac.org • 2012 • NATEAC NATEAC Schedule of Events Monday July 23, 2012 Trianon Sutton North Beekman 7:30a – 9:30a Breakfast What is that Seat Worth? Variable Acoustics Designing for the Next 10 Adam Shalleck(M) Larry Kirkegaard (M) 9:00a – 10:00a Years Duncan Webb Hugh Hardy Andy Hayles (M) Panel Session V Steven Roth David Kahn David Jensen Arthur van Maurik Susan Feldman Lincoln Center Renovation Stage Lifts/Stage Edge Efficient Design Ideas Mark Holden (M) Safety Robert Hamilton (M) 10:30a – 11:50p Ron Austin Jules Lauve (M) Virginia Ross Panel Session VI Peter Duffin Tanya Gillette Anne Minors Ben Gilmartin Steve Sweet Katie Oman Peter Rosenbaum Cosmo Catalano 12:00p – 1:00p Lunch Core Values - What Makes ADA 2012 Working with Manufacturers a Great Theater Scott Crossfield (M) Sonny Sonnenfeld (M) 1:00p – 2:20p Josh Dachs (M) Kristi Avalos Mark Vassallo Panel Session VII David Cromer Michael Maag Jonathan Resnick Charles Isherwood Bob Lorelli Narelle Sissons Flat Floor Conversion Building Code Non-Traditional Spaces Joe Mobilia (M) Requirements Gregory Miller(M) 2:30p – 3:50p Panel Session VIII Mark Blakeman Karl Ruling (M) Josh Dachs George Shaw William Dailey Ryan Ingebritsen Duncan Webb Shawn Nolan Plenary 4:00p – 4:45p Steve Ehrenberg Eddie Raymond 7:00 pm Conference Dinner at Sardi’s - 234 West 44th St Tuesday July 24, 2012 10:00a - 2:00p Theatre Tours (available by pre-registration only) NATEAC • 2012 • www.nateac.org 7 NATEAC Panel Sessions Keynote Address: How to Be the Perfect Client Architecture and the Art of Theatre Design Jack Tilbury (M), David Rosenburg, Cosmo Catalano, Jr., Molly McGowan Richard Pilbrow It is often forgotten that theaters are not built by architects and contractors, but by clients. It is the client who identifies the need, creates the vision, writes the brief, raises the money and eventually, after many years of hard work and determination, hires a team to start the design All You Ever Wanted To Know About process. But as the project moves into the world of architects, project Automation, But Were Afraid To Ask. managers and consultants, a new set of challenges awaits. This session will offer practical advice and guidance to clients on how to success- David Edelstein (M), Mark Ager, Scott Fisher, Andy McArthur fully organize your resources and manage your theatre project.