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04.28.10
Manitoba Hydro Building Art Tour
Location: Manitoba Hydro Head Office

Date: April 28/10 Time: 5:30

Cost: Free to PIDIM Members / $10 for Non-Members

The tour will be conducted by Leona Herzog (Manager of Business Communications who holds a degree in Fine Arts) and Ben Wasylyshyn (the art consultant and Interior Designer who was hired to be part of the acquisition team). 

Leona and Ben reviewed the existing art within the corporation and reframed some works for hanging in the new building. The new artwork that was purchased primarily represents Manitoba Artists both experienced and new who have produced work since 1971. 

As well as purchased works there are items that have been donated by artists or families of the artists. Also the Winnipeg Art Gallery has loaned Manitoba Hydro pieces of sculpture for display. 
This tour will include parts of the building not normally part of the general tour. 

Please RSVP to the PIDIM office as soon as possible. Spaces are limited.

01.21.10
Student Meet & Greet
Location: Center space, John A Russell Building, University of Manitoba

Please join us, with your business card, for an evening devoted to interior design in a union of students, educators and professionals featuring student work, conversation, and beverages.

Please RSVP to the PIDIM office.

01.01.10
BUILDING CODE COURSE, presented by Dr. John Frye
The course will consist of 4 lectures, to occur weekly on Wednesday nights starting January 13 2010, from 6:00-9:00pm. Each lecture will be 3 hours in length with a short break. Format will consist of lecture followed by a workshop. Course notes and software for reference will be provided to all attendees (programs for calculating WC #'s, occupancy loads, etc).

The lectures will be held in room 229 in the Engineering 2 building at the University of Manitoba.

The cost: PIDIM Members: $300.00
Non Members: $400.00
Students: $ 80.00

This course is worth 12 Health, Safety and Welfare CEC’s.

RSVP to the PIDIM office pidim@shaw.ca
by end of day January 4th, 2010. Payment in full is required by January 4th, 2009 to reserve your space in the course.

For course outline, please contact the PIDIM office.

06.10.09
The PIDIM would like to congratulate
Emeritus member Lee Finch on his recent IDC fellowship. Lee was awarded this honour at the IDC AGM Saturday Evening Gala.

06.09.09
Thank you to our resource member Jones Goodridge (and to representative Jackie Harmacy) for sponsoring our PIDIM Summer Event!

04.08.09
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS OF THE IDC AGM
Evening Gold Sponsors:
Haworth Inc. and Anthony Allan Work Environments
Saturday Evening Sponsors:
Platinum Sponsor: KOHLER
Gold Sponsors: Shaw Contract Group and InterfaceFLOR
Silver Sponsors:
The New Patcraft & Designweave
First Avenue Office Furnishings / DIIRT / KNOLL
Bronze Sponsors:
U of M, Partners Program
Cloverdale Paint Inc.
BF Workplace
Formations Inc. / Formica
Ames Tile & Stone Ltd.
Johnsonite (Erv Parent Western Ltd.)
Julian Tile Inc.
The Global Group

09.25.08
IIDEX/NEOCON Canada 2008 - Sept 25 & 26, 2008 -- Attend Canada’s largest design expo and conference and receive a travel subsidy of $350 each. Deadline for applications is August 18, so make sure to apply today as space is limited. Visit www.iidexneocon.com for more information.
(http://www.iidexneocon.com/2008/index.php/travel/travel_subsidy/)

02.01.09
ATMOSPHERE will be a yearly symposium in the Faculty of Architecture, at University of Manitoba, to be held each February. We encourage people from the disciplines represented in the Faculty to submit abstracts – and to attend, as well as those outside of these traditional environmental design disciplines.

Atmosphere is the consequence of the projects we make as designers of landscapes, cities, architecture and interiors. Atmosphere is hard to grasp, and even harder to talk about - yet the production of atmosphere, intended or not, is one of our most apparent contributions to the world. It is something that lingers after the program has changed or the client has left. Though palpable, atmosphere resists registration. So fragile and dependent on the world around, atmosphere is also susceptible to our individual perception. It is not something that can be read or interpreted. It is.

ATMOSPHERE has been planned over a three-day period starting with a Thursday evening registration and the main invited lecture event. There will be two streams of speakers throughout the next two days. Invited lecturers would be woven through these streams. We hope that students across Canada and from the Midwest in the United States will attend. The range of speakers and topics will supplement students design education. This event can possibly become a highlight of the winter term.

The output from ATMOSPHERE would be the event itself and the Conference papers published yearly prior to the Symposium. However, every five years we propose to collect the most memorable papers and invite authors to expand or elaborate their work to be included in a ‘reader’ that would be published by an international publishing house.

The intent of ATMOSPHERE is to also provide a venue for students to hear, to meet participants with a perspective perhaps different from what they are normally exposed to. The excitement of such an event can also encourage students to submit their own work to this or other symposiums/ conferences. We also hope that the success of the event will help to further develop a sense of pride and belonging to this Faculty.

ATMOSPHERE will provide a venue for local practitioners to see more of what is going on in the Faculty and in the global context that the speakers will be drawn from. We hope to attract practitioners, academics and students nationally and internationally as participants. This event will also provide a window into what we do to other members of the University of Manitoba community.


To submit abstract and further information, go to:
www.atmos.ca
Please pass on this message to all that may be interested.

11.20.07
PIDIM members - There will be a tour of the new Winnipeg Humane Society facility.

An email invitation with further details will be sent to all members.

10.23.07
There will be an NCIDQ info session
on Tuesday October 23rd 6:00 p.m.
Location: The PIDIM office , 137 Bannatyne Avenue East, 2nd floor.

In the meantime for more information
refer to the NCIDQ website at www.ncidq.com

Deadline for the spring 2008 exam is approaching.

Deadline for first time applicants only is December 10, 2007
Spring 2008 Exam date is April 4th and 5th.

11.10.07
PIDIM Members - please visit the CANstruction Website to see what PIDIM is building!

http://www.canstructionwinnipeg.com

Or listen to a recording of live interview on radio:

http://www.cjob.com/station/audiovault_preview.aspx

Just go to 6:00 am - Friday October 12th to hear Laney Stewart - President talking oabout the PIDIM Team effort with Larry Updike.

You can also read a Winnipeg Free Press article about Canstruction: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/story/4056673p-4661207c.html

The PIDIM would like to recognize the following Resource Members by
designating each piece of the sculpture to the donor as a Thank-You for
their CANtributions to the Team Entry Fee:

DIRTT - Thank-you for building our Walls!
SHAW CONTRACT GROUP - Thank-you for helping to build our Rug!
TEKNION - Thank-you for helping to build our Chair!
WHITE-WOOD DISTRIBUTION - Thank-you for helping to build our Table!
METRO WALLCOVERINGS - Thank you for building our Lamp!

The PIDIM would also like to thank JONES GOODRIDGE and KITCHEN & BATH CLASSICS for the CANstruction team T-shirts.

Please come out and vote for your favorite sculpture!

09.12.07
Interior Design student Celeste Brunel, a Student Member of the PIDIM, has been chosen as a student winner in the 10th Annual Best in Canada Design Competition. Her submission, called Extending the limits: design through motion which is taken from her Master's practicum, will be part of an exhibition from Sept 26 to Oct. 2 on the main floor of the Design exchange in Toronto.


A two day exhibit of the winners will also be shown at IIDEX/NeoCon, Toronto, Sept 27 and 28. Winners have been announced in the July/August issue of Canadian Interiors and are also on their website at www.canadianinteriors.com .


The public is invited to vote online for a People’s Choice project and product. You are encouraged to go to the website and vote.


Prof. Jerry Weselake was Celeste’s Advisor, Dr. Susan Close and Dr. Lena Horne were Celeste’s Examiners.

06.19.07
At the June 19th PIDIM Summer Event, PIDIM honoured three long-time members with Emeritus status: Debby Lexier, Donna-Mae Yeo and Cynthia Lauren Coop. Congratulations to Debby, Donna-Mae and Cynthia.

06.11.07
Teknion Corporation today announced the opening of its newly designed and expanded showroon at NeoCon. The tenth-floor showroom (#1048) was designed to showcase four major 2007 new product introductions during NeoCon - The World's Trade Fair for interior design and facilities management - from June 11 to June 13 at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Visit Teknion at www.teknion.com .

05.01.07
2007 Colours for your Home’
&
‘Why Choose the Best Quality Paint?’

“An exclusive presentation for the residentially focused design community”
DATE & PLACE
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Inn at the Forks
75 Forks Market Road: Winnipeg, MB
Phone: 204-942-6555

EVENT SCHEDULE
4 – 5 pm: Networking
5 – 6 pm: Presentation
6 – 8 pm: Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres

04.09.07
Canadian Interiors Magazine is currently hosting the Tenth Annual Best of Canada Design Competition, celebrating the talents, skills, and creativity of Canadian designers. Winners will be featured in the August issue of Canadian Interiors and feted at the Best of Canada Awards Gala in September. This year, there are two new categories -- landscape design and student design. Deadline for entries is April 20th at 5pm. For more information and to download an entry form, go to http://www.canadianinteriors.com/bestofcanada/ . Good luck!

Lesley Anderson
Canadian Interiors Magazine

03.30.07
Letter to the Editor re George Will's Article:
To read what Carrie L. Fitzpatrick, IIDA Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs had to say re George Will's Article, go to http://iida.informz.net/iida/data/images/georgewill.pdf (to see George Will's article which prompted C. Fitzpatrick's response, visit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032101789_pf.html)

03.27.07
George F. Will - Wallpapering With Red Tape - washingtonpost.com
To read what George Will had to say regarding The Practice Act for Interior Designers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032101789_pf.html

03.14.07
The PIDIM welcomes Debbie Grant in the role of PIDIM liaison on the
Permit Advisory Express Board. Debbie was asked to fill this position
by several of her colleagues.

03.14.07
Hope MacKenzie has volunteered to sit on the Doors Open Winnipeg
Committee on behalf of the PIDIM. Several other PIDIM members have also
agreed to volunteer time on this endeavor as well. If you are
interested in volunteering some time please contact Hope via email.

03.13.07
Welcome to the PIDIM's newest member:
Resource Affiliate Member, Marco Component Products

02.27.07
Congratulations to Richard Walls on his recent Heritage Winnipeg Award.

02.27.07
Leland Finch was honored with Emeritus Status at the 26th Annual General Meeting - Congratulations Lee!

02.26.07
Welcome to the PIDIM's newest members:
Resource Affiliate Member, CMDS Agencies.
Provisional Member, Tricia Schilling.

02.03.07
Welcome to the PIDIM's newest members:
Resource Affiliate Member, Savoia Canada Inc. ;
Provisional Member, Robin Knight.

01.26.07
The Green Building Policy for Government of Manitoba Funded Projects is in effect and becomes mandatory in April 2007. For more information on the Policy please visit http://www.gov.mb.ca/est/energy/green_bldg.html

09.14.06
The PIDIM Achieves Representation on the Building Standards Board of the Province of Manitoba - September 14, 2006.

09.01.06
The PIDIM would like to Congratulate Crispin Butterfield on the opening of her new store in Brandon: Roost.

08.12.07
Date: Monday, December 15th, 2008

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: Julian Ceramic Tile, Inc., Unit 10 - 885 Keewatin Street

Theme: Exchange a book, any book, from your library!

RSVP by December 10th to pidim@shaw.ca or to Mireille at 925-4625

Cost: $15.00