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Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS
Senior Member
Username: awhitacre
Post Number: 987
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010 - 06:50 pm: |    |
No-- not the weirdest person you've ever met, but the consultant with the most interesting specialty. It seems as though every job, I find some specialist I've never heard of before.
this time: Animal Life Support Specialist (I'm working on a zoo project) |
Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP
Senior Member
Username: redseca2
Post Number: 245
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010 - 06:59 pm: | |
For a University "Large Animal" Veterinary Project at UC Davis, we received the assistance of a "Penning and Gating" specialist who arrived here in San Francisco on the red eye from Wyoming for a day of coordination wearing boots, well-worn Levi 501's, cool belt buckle, cowboy shirt and hat. |
Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP
Senior Member
Username: redseca2
Post Number: 247
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010 - 07:19 pm: | |
After leaving a comment on another thread here I realized I had another:
"Labyrinth Design Consultant" for a meditative garden at a healthcare facility. |
Joseph Berchenko
Senior Member
Username: josephberchenko
Post Number: 25
Registered: 08-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 04:16 pm: | |
Penning and gating consultant is an excellent idea! Have worked on zoo projects, found structural requirements for enclosures especially difficult to determine for animals that might range from gorillas to elephants. |
Tim Werbstein, AIA, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: tim_werbstein
Post Number: 27
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 07:48 am: | |
In the Orient, it's common to have a Feng Shui consultant (called by various names). A classmate, working in Hong Kong on his first job with a British firm, was designing an upscale home and found this consultant to be incredibly difficult to satisfy. |
DanielleGilbert (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 10:17 am: | |
RE: feng shui consultant - depends on the school of feng shui being followed and helps if the consultant also happens to be an architect (like me!). Feng Shui doesn't have to be incredibly difficult. |
Sheldon Wolfe
Senior Member
Username: sheldon_wolfe
Post Number: 421
Registered: 01-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 11:21 am: | |
I have long preferred reading entrails... |
Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate
Senior Member
Username: lynn_javoroski
Post Number: 1084
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 12:10 pm: | |
But only if you have the guts to do that... |
John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: john_regener
Post Number: 465
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 02:14 pm: | |
"Penning and gating consultant" ...
might be useful for design of junior high schools too.
(junior high is an age now called "pre-people")
I worked on a Marine Corps residential facility once where the command wanted to install sally ports at the entrances/exits to address theft problems.
Do we need correctional facility design consultants for public school projects? |
Paul Gerber
Senior Member
Username: paulgerber
Post Number: 19
Registered: 04-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 03:14 pm: | |
Lynn...don't take that too lightly if you can't stomach it!!!
Ride it like you stole it!!! |
Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP
Senior Member
Username: redseca2
Post Number: 250
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 05:42 pm: | |
My penning and gating experience involved post-op horses bulls, and cows at a veterinary hospital. You definitely want good penning and gating when a bull is coming off his pain medication. |
Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP
Senior Member
Username: redseca2
Post Number: 251
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 05:43 pm: | |
Feng Shui consultants are very common in the San Francisco Bay Area too. |
(Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 04:37 pm: | |
reading entrails is such a Nordic way of addressing the unknowable. |
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