| The RICS Southern California Chapter includes members located in the southern regions of California. Most chapter events currently take place in Los Angeles/Santa Monica and Orange County. |
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Peter Smith FRICS
Chapter Chair Ernst & Young 725 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90017 T: +1 213-977-3427 Email Peter |
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Julie White MRICS Chapter Board Member Gardiner & Theobald Inc. 9777 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 800 Beverly Hills, CA 90212 T: +1 310-598-1944 Ext. 210 Email Julie |
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Chris Gray FRICS Immediate Past Chair GBG Inc 1624 Wilshire Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90403 T: +1 310-230-5441 Email Chris |
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Daniel Kaye MRICS Chapter Board Member Totum Consulting 3231 Ocean Park Bvd #218 Santa Monica, CA 90405 T: +1 310-351-0138 Email Daniel |
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Andrew McColl MRICS Chapter Board Member Sherman Oaks, CA |
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Melvin Earley FRICS Chapter Board Member Faithful+Gould 3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite B180 Seal Beach, CA 90740 T: +1 609-505-6386 Email Melvin |
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Paul Abernathy FRICS Chapter Board Member Davis Langdon LLP 301 Arizona Avenue, Suite 301 Santa Monica, CA 90401 T: +1 310-393-9411 Email Paul |
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Ann Gray FRICS FAIA Chapter Board Member GRAY Real Estate Advisors 512 East Wilson Street Glendale, CA 91206 T: +1 818-956-5313 Email Ann |
For our Southern California Chapter Board biographies, please click here: Southern California Chapter Board biographies.
Upcoming RICS Southern California Events
| June 23, 2011- Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Lean Construction 101: How BIM is Changing the Process - Santa Monica, CA As the recession continues to put pressure on the need for greater efficiency and cost/benefit effectiveness in the construction industry, Troy Barbu of Davis Langdon will be discussing how BIM is being used to promote new ways of thinking about building delivery. Learn more about this event. |
Past Event Photos
Southern California Holiday Dinner, December 14, 2011.
RICS, AIA and WCAPT present: Cost Estimating and Management for Existing Important Buildings
Santa Monica, CA - June 29, 2010
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RICS Southern California Rendezvous, Santa Monica, CA - March 9, 2010
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Chapter News and Southern California Member Articles
Fair Value Revisited Based on Market Fundamentals & the Real Estate Investment Pyramid The global recession has caused a re-examination of the financial services industry, specifically of the fundamentals of real estate transactions and reporting requirements based on IFRS and the use of Fair Value. The ensuing credit crisis has highlighted the need to appropriately reflect credit risk in the measurement of Fair Value of financial instruments. The paradigm presented in this brief provides practical criteria which a valuer or user of valuation services should consider in any real estate transaction or report. Read more... RICS Appoints a New Chair to the Southern California Chapter RICS Americas is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter M. Smith FRICS, as the new Chair of the Southern California Chapter. He is an Executive Director and West Zone Property Tax Leader at Ernst & Young, LLP in Los Angeles, California. Read more... Ten Mistakes Employers Make That Cause Disputes After nearly four decades as a contracting officer, construction manager, and a construction claims consultant, James Zack FRICS has concluded that employers routinely make a number of mistakes on projects that actually cause disputes. Read more... Sustainability Project - Linde Robinson Laboratory, Cal Tech, Pasadena RICS Americas, Communications Manager, Abigail E. La Croix, conducted a Q&A with the Davis Langdon Group based on a presentation about the Linde Robinson Laboratory, Cal Tech, Pasadena project given at the joint RICS/AIA gathering in 2010. The Q&A also focuses on the dynamics of green buildings. A copy of the project’s cost for sustainable features is attached. Read more... RICS FiBRE: Residents’ Satisfaction with Local Public Goods and Services: The Effects of Income and Privatization in Southern California Using the five counties of the Los Angeles metropolitan area as a case study, this research by Peter Gordon and Huanghai Li of the University of Southern California explored whether there is a relationship between homeowners’ satisfaction with the provision of municipal services and different forms of local governance, looking in particular at whether income, privatization and place matter. Read more... |