John Speweik's Contact Details

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Speweik Preservation Consultants, Inc.

Elgin, Illinois, United States • 3 Employees
Architecture & Planning

Speweik Preservation Consultants, Inc., collaborates with architects and building owners nationwide in the preservation of historic architecture. The company offers pre-construction services that solve the unique challenges faced in conforming with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation: The Standards (Department of Interior regulations, 36 CFR 67) pertain to historic buildings of all materials, construction types, sizes, and occupancy and encompass the exterior and the interior, related landscape features and the building's site and environment as well as attached, adjacent, or related new construction. The Standards are to be applied to specific rehabilitation projects in a reasonable manner, taking into consideration economic and technical feasibility.Speweik Preservation Consultants (SPC) is pleased to introduce Historic Masonry Project Training Programs for 2010. The training is built from the framework provided in ASTM Designation E2659-09e1 Standard Practice for Certificate Programs. Each training event is carried out at the project site with the masons performing the work. The training programs allow owners and architects to identify qualified masons based upon delivering an acceptable test panel of each specified treatment. Each mason must meet certain criteria and pass a written test defined in the training program plan in order to receive a E2659-09e1 project certificate.