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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF
STRUCTURES
Conceptual design is the most influential part of designing a structure, but requires the highest level of insight, experience and skill. 2 CPD
CREDITSR 8500This course equips engineers with a knowledge base and toolkit of value during
conceptual designΦ
Stellenbosch STIAS Wallenburg centre 8 - 9 April 2019Enquiries: [email protected] | 021 808 2080
This course deals with the phase that is not only the most influential in the process of designing a structure, but requires the highest level of insight, experience and skill - deciding on the type of structure to employ for a project and its broad parameters.
Conceptual design of structures receives little attention at universities and few young engineers are trained in this skill by their superiors, who tend to monopolize what is generally regarded as the interesting part of a project. Engineers also don’t tend to discuss and critique their and others’ designs. In addition, for most projects neither the budget nor the schedule allows for a comprehensive process of conceptual design. The result is that largely the profession is not developing skills in conceptual design or actively pursuing innovation.
The course aims to open up the subject of conceptual design to enable an understanding of what it entails, provide guidance on how to handle the process, equip engineers with a knowledge base and toolkit of value during conceptual design, and develop a new enthusiasm for this vital concept.
SEMINAR OBJECTIVE
SEMINAR FOCAL POINTSThe course is primarily aimed at practicing structural engineers who are either engaged in conceptual design or likely to do so in the foreseeable future. It is intended as a high level course.
• The concept ‘conceptual design’ and associated concepts• Structural heroes of the past and present and their work• What makes a design ‘good’• Overview of structural concepts• Ideas from nature, mathematics, and other fields of human endeavour• ‘Other’ factors to consider in design: green issues, robustness, aesthetics, constructability• Proposed approach to the conceptual design process• Case studies of challenging projects• Conceptual design for ordinary, run-of-the mill projects• Workshop on practical application of conceptual design
PRESENTERS
Dr Kourosh Kayvani
Kourosh Kayvani is Managing Director: Design, Innovation and Eminence at Aurecon. He has played key roles in the engineering of many high profile structures across the globe. Kourosh is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and a recipient of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers prize for his work on long span structures.
In 2009 he was listed among Engineers Australia’s 100 most influential engineers and in 2016 he won the institution’s Structural College John Connell Gold Medal. Kourosh is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Case Studies in Structural Engineering published by Elsevier. He is the founding Dean of Aurecon’s Design Academy.
Mr Jaco de Villiers
Jaco is currently employed as a Technical Director at Aurecon. He holds a BEng Civil degree and completed his MSc Structural Engineering obtained at the Univer-sity of Stellenbosch.
Jaco’s main field of specialisation is the structural design of buildings, such as offices and retail centres, in areas with high seismicity.
Jaco also has extensive experience in the design of light and heavy industrial structural steel, including long-span steel roofs, heavy plant supporting steel structures, and retrofitting of structural steel to strengthen existing structures
Dr Hennie de Clercq
Hennie has a BSc (1968) and BSc(Hons) (1972) in Civil Engineering from the University of Pretoria and a MS (1973) and PhD (1975) from the University of California (Berkeley). He spent most of his career in consulting engineering and the remainder as CEO of the SA Institute of Steel Construction. He is the principal author of the updated SAISC Red Book, the Green Book and several other publications.
He was also lead author of SANS 10162-1 and various other standards, and is a member of the committee responsible for the updating of the Canadian steel design code S16. He is an honorary life member of the American Institute of Steel Construction and of the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction. Dr de Clercq is currently a research associate at Stellenbosch University.
PRESENTERS
Mr Henry Fagan
Henry Fagan has an Hons B Eng from the University of Stellenbosch and an M Eng from the University of British Columbia.
He commenced his career in Liebenberg and Stander’s bridge design section, but in 1984 he started his own firm, Henry Fagan & Partners. The firm has won numerous awards over the years, including Fulton Awards and awards from the SA Institute of Steel Construction, SA Institution of Civil Engineers, Consulting Engineers South Africa, and the Institution of Structural Engineers, London.
The Boomslang tree canopy walkway was voted the most beautiful object in South Africa by the Design Indaba Expo in 2015 and it also won a Loerie Award.
Mr Michael LouwMichael Louw holds an Architecture degree fromthe University of Pretoria and an MPhil degree in Sustainable Develop-ment Planning and Management from the University of Stellenbosch. He is currently registered for a PhD with the topic Re-scripting technique in contemporary African architecture: Hybrid subversions of the global and the local.
He worked in the UK for two years before returning to South Africa where he was a Director at CMAI Architects during which time he completed more than a hundred buildings, including residential, commercial and civil work. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, where he teaches Technology to undergraduate students and co-convenes the Adapt! Design Research Studio in the BAS Honours and MArch (Prof) programmes.
Prof Jan Wium
Jan Wium qualified as civil engineer from the University of Pretoria and holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He worked as structural engineering consultant for 20 years including as project manager for the construction a light rail transit system in Kuala Lumpur.
He joined Stellenbosch University in 2003 as specialist in structural concrete and structural dynamics. In 2010 he was appointed to the Chair in Construction Engineering and Management. His research interests are modular construction, collaboration for better constructability and design management, and risk management. Jan is Chairman of the working group for the revision of SANS 10100-1 and was chairman of the working group for the part on seismic loading of SANS 10160.
Prof Johan RetiefJohan Retief is Emeritus Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He has a BSc(Eng) degree from the University of Pretoria, a DIC MPhil from the University of London, Engineer from Stanford University, a DSc from the University of Pretoria, and a DEng from the University of Stellenbosch. He started his career at the Department of Water Affairs and worked for the Atomic Energy Corporation before joining the University of Stellenbosch in 1990.
Johan's supervision of post-graduate studies in structural reliability modelling and calibration, including wind engineering, over the past decade led to significant advances in the development of statistical and probabilistic wind load models for South Africa. He is responsible for the calibration of the new wind map in collaboration with Drs. Adam Goliger Andries Kruger. He was a driving force behind the revision of SANS 10160.
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Stellenbosch University, Department of Civil Engineering Email: [email protected]: 021 808 2080/4131
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The seminar is accredited for 2 Continued Professional Development credit with the ECSA.
Course fee: R 8500.00 Payment must be received prior to the start of the course
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Closing date for applications: 30 March 2019