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Licensure Committee 2012 – NCSEA Conference Report
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Structural Engineers Association of Ohio Licensure Committee
Report of Activities at 2012 NCSEA Annual Conference
By T. M. Gilbert, P.E.,S.E.
Table of Contents Page
Executive Summary 2
Daily Activities – Wed. Oct 3. 2
Daily Activities – Thu. Oct 4. 3
Daily Activities – Fri. Oct 5. 6
Daily Activities – Sat. Oct 6. 10
List of Attachments - Included 12
List of Attachments – Separate Files 13
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The SEAoO Board sponsored selected SEAoO members to attend the 20th NCSEA Conference
in St. Louis Missouri. Tim Gilbert attended as an alternate delegate and as SEAoO Licensure
Committee chair.
Executive Summary
The conference successfully provided an opportunity for SEAoO attendees to learn about the
following from NCSEA and the Member Organizations (MO):
NCSEA Licensing Committee Activity;
MO Goals and objectives;
MO Effective activities;
MO Membership incentives;
MO Committee organization and activities;
Educational sessions presents on a variety of topics;
Young member activities.
Daily Activities
Wednesday October 3
Tim attended the Structural Engineering Licensing Coalition (SELC) meeting. It is a coalition of
ASCE-SEI, NCSEA, SECB and CASE with the goal of providing one voice regarding structural
licensure.
The meeting agreed to the following mission statement:
The mission of SELC is to serve as a united voice for the structural engineering
profession for the promotion of structural engineering licensure.
Further the meeting established SELC’s position in four statements regarding
1. NCEES Model Law
2. SE requirement for designated structures
3. Transition to S.E.
4. Post P.E. credential
One notable item pertinent to the goal of SEAoO Licensure Committee was the recommendation
to seek support from effected groups. Utah gained support from the PTA and this helped
passage of a partial practice act. Similar support might be found with building officials, fire
fighters, and other organizations.
A draft version of the meeting minutes are attached.
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Daily Activities (continued)
Thursday October 4
Thursday was a full day of educational presentations. The table below provides the topic,
presenter and notable items.
Topic Presenter Notes
Design Trends for the
Future
Ronald Hamburger,
S.E.,SECB
Input cycle for IBC 2015 is nearly complete.
NCSEA committees made 62 recommendation for
change, many focused on improving consistency
between IBC & IEBC and adoption of ASCE 31 and
ASCE 41
ACI 318-14 (significant reorganization of ACI 318)
submitted for IBC 2015
AISC 360-15- focus on requirements & remove
“how-to”
BSSC considering simplified procedure for seismic
design category B
Where ASCE 7 Wind
Provisions Might Go in
2016
Don Scott, S.E.
All height and low rise methods will be separate
chapters
Over 500 items under review
Reduce the number of methods
Include RTU and penthouse procedure
Criteria for common items: solar panels, signs;
mechanical screens; open structures; etc.
Irregular building procedure
Seismic Anchorage and
Appendix D
Kevin Moore, P.E.,
S.E., SECB
App. D requirements based on test data & 5 per cent
fractile (provides 90% confidence that there is 95%
probability of actual strength exceeding nominal
strength)
Follow up tests at Simpson lab show sill anchor shear
strength exceeds App. D value
App D is under review by 6 ACI groups
Strength Design of
Masonry Ed Huston, S.E.
1987-1992 MSJC only included ASD 2000 IBC included strength provisions 2002 MSJC adopted IBC provisions to gain control 2005 MSJC made significant updates 2008 MSJC made minor updates 2011 Use of two column format like ACI
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Daily Activities Thursday October 4 (continued)
Topic Presenter Notes
ICC-ES Collaboration,
Process and Effect of
Structural Engineers
Bill Warren, S.E.,
SECB
Jim Collins, PhD.,
P.E.
2Promotes that each state SEA have an ES
subcommittee as part of Code Advisory committee Take care to read ESR & Acceptance Criteria To obtain ESR, manufacturer must prove product
evaluated will be the same as those to be made. QA
process must exist for all portions of production.
Instilling a Culture of
Discipline
Lawrence Griffis,
P.E.
Gustave Eifel – Maria Pia Bridge; Statue of Liberty
frame, and Eifel Tower
o Tallest structure until 1930
o 7,300 tons, 2,500,000 rivets & 5300 drawings
o Tolerance to 0.1mm and 0°00’01”
o Built in 22 months
The devil is in the details
o Hyatt walkway
o Quebec bridge collapse – ignored feedback from
the field
Built quality in design as it evolves- design is
iterative
Avoiding problems in design:
o Review work as design progresses
o Plan the work & work the plan
o Help fellow designers & review each other’s work
o Practice collaboration
o Know software limits
o Draw details to scale
o When conditions vary – develop a solution that
bounds the answer
o Analyze what you design & design what you build
o Study deflected shapes under load
o Study frequency & mode shapes
o Test solution with an alternate approach
o Review drawings for accuracy, coordination &
constructability
o Review shop drawings & RFIs carefully & timely
o Reach out to fabricators, erectors, detailers and
contractors
o Produce designs that respect proportion
o GOOD COMMUNICATION
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Daily Activities Thursday October 4 (continued)
Topic Presenter Notes
Snow Load Provisions
in ASCE 7-10
Michael O’Rourke,
P.E., PhD
Minimum snow load is separate load case
Thermal factor relates to structure’s potential to cause
melting of snow over time (least potential with
freezer building)
½ on 12 is minimum slope to consider unbalanced
load
Consider drifts at parapets and RTU
Carefully consider whether free draining eve is
obstructed
Performance of New
England’s Buildings in
the Winter of
2010-2011
Joe Zona, P.E.,
SECB
Primary risks
o Drifting, sliding & unbalanced loads
o Building modifications
o Drainage obstructions
o Added insulation (increases Ct)
Historic buildings can accumulate damage over time
then collapse at less than design loads
The 2011 Joplin
Tornado
Randal Bernhardt,
P.E., S.E.
Malcolm Carter,
P.E., S.E.
$3B in property damage
Tornado track: 13.8mi long &0.75mi wide
EF-5: 20% of tornadoes & 70% tornado deaths
Fujita scale tornado wind speed is inferred from
damage, not measures
Residential wood structures (poor performance):
o Prescriptive design
o Connections fail first
o Limited uplift
Non-residential wood structures (less poor
performance)
o Designed per IBC
o Special inspection required
o More complete connection design- member failures
vs. connection failures
“Pre-engineered” metal buildings
o Designed to code by manufacturer and/or local
engineer
o LRFS is rigid or braced frame
o Once siding is gone, no protection for occupants
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Daily Activities Thursday October 4 (continued)
Topic Presenter Notes
The 2011 Joplin
Tornado
(continued)
Randal Bernhardt,
P.E., S.E.
Malcolm Carter,
P.E., S.E.
Concrete & steel framed buildings
o Professional design
o Redundancy
o Cladding failure at hospital emergency generator
led to loss of function (no emergency power!)
o Roof ballast became missiles
Hard wall buildings (big box)
o One story with concrete or CMU wall & flexible
diaphragm
o Interior framing only resists gravity load
o Exterior wall resist gravity and are shear walls
o Very limited redundancy
o Loss of roof diaphragm led to collapse
Public perceives these as shelters
SEAKM report of the event is attached
Friday October 5
Friday began with reports from each of the attending member organizations and was followed by
educational presentations. The table below provides the topic, presenter and notable items.
Topic Presenter Notes
Member organization
reports
Each MO delegate
(see attached
conference
document)
MN, Washington DC & some other MOs offer
company based memberships
FL has raised $30k of $40k-60k expected to hire
lobbyist for promoting SE licensing
Several MOs actively promote special inspection
requirements (AR, GA, IN,OK, & OR)
Several MOs are promoting the adoption of state
wide building code or seeking to influence legislation
effecting building codes (TN is blocking movement
to remove major cities from seismic requirements)
Some MOs are organized under IRS 501c3, some
under 501c6
NE helps teach preparation course for structural
portion of Arch. Exam coordinated with AIA
MA supports education related to IEBC
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Daily Activities Friday October 5 (continued)
Topic Presenter Notes
ATC Cliff Notes:
What you Should
Know but Don’t Have
Time to Read
Jon Heintz, P.E.,
S.E.
Ronald Hamburger,
S.E., SECB
ATC-63: Quantification of Building Seismic
Performance Factors (FEMA P‑695).
o Collapse margin ratio (CMR): ratio between the
median collapse intensity and the intensity at MCE-
level ground motions
o Appendix F: Collapse Evaluation of Individual
Buildings
ATC-71-1: Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Multi-
Unit Wood-Frame Buildings With Weak First Stories
(FEMA P‑807).
o Multi-unit wood-frame buildings with a weak first
story have significant risk in high seismic regions.
o Primarily due to soft or weak first-story walls with
large numbers of openings.
o Retrofitting guidelines are first to focus solely on
the weak first story & provide just enough added
strength to protect first floor from collapse but not
so much to drive seismic forces into upper stories.
o Take into account the strength provided by existing
non-structural walls, making seismic retrofitting
more affordable.
ATC-72-1: Modeling and Acceptance Criteria for
Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings
(PEER/ATC 72-1).
o Guidance for nonlinear modeling of tall buildings
(over 160 ft) of reinforced concrete, steel, and
composite construction.
ATC-82: Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground
Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses
(NIST GCR 11-917-15).
o Guidance for selecting, generating, and scaling
earthquake time history ground motions to use in
response history analyses, so ground motion
uncertainties do not dominate the analyses.
o No number of ground motions are adequate if
model is inadequate
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Topic Presenter Notes
ATC Cliff Notes:
What you Should
Know but Don’t Have
Time to Read
(continued)
Jon Heintz, P.E.,
S.E.
Ronald Hamburger,
S.E., SECB
ATC-83: Soil-Structure Interaction for Building
Structures (NIST GCR 11-917-15).
o Document nit yet released
o Two practical modeling options: 1) fixed structure
at the base or 2) use a “bathtub” model of the
foundation soil interaction
o Rule of thumb: if h/(VsT) > 0.1 then soil structure
interaction action can be important
o Motion at the base of the structure is different than
surrounding soil (local interaction of foundation
with soil)
o NEVER use the modulus of subgrade reaction for
soil springs
ATC-58 project report, Seismic Performance
Assessment of Buildings (FEMA P-58), and
associated products such as the Performance
Assessment Calculation Tool (PACT).
o Ultimate goals of performance-based design is the
development of practical design criteria giving the
owner and regulator the ability to select a desired
performance capability as well as to optimize the
performance of code-designed buildings.
o 80% of a building is not structural
Diaphragms and Wall
Anchorage
Timothy Mays,
Ph.D., P.E.
Current NCSEA design guides
o Guide to the Design of Diaphragms, Chords and
Collectors
o Guide to the Design of Out-of-Plane Wall
Anchorage
Use simple beam analogy
Sub-diaphragms resist anchorage forces
Guides offer solutions to same problem under
different seismic design criteria
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Topic Presenter Notes
Serviceability and
Foundation Systems
Timothy Mays,
Ph.D., P.E.
Upcoming NCSEA design guides
o Guide to the Design of Building Serviceability
o Guide to the Design of Foundation Systems
Structural failure vs. perceived failure
Failure could be a reduction in utility of space
Item to watch – joist parallel to wall
Use only chords in calculating “I” for wood
diaphragms
Pile response to lateral load is highly nonlinear
L-pile program can be used for lateral analysis of
piles
The 2012 NCSEA Awards Banquet was held Friday evening:
NCSEA Service Awards were presented to Emile Troup and Mike Tylk for their
longstanding contributions to the organization.
Jim Robinson was presented the James M. Delahay Award in recognition of his years of
service to the profession as the S.E. member of the ICC Code Committee.
Ron Milmed was presented with the Robert C. Cornforth Award for his contributions to the
growth and success of the Florida SEA.
New to the awards banquet this year were three conference scholarships and recognition of
the winners: Heather Anesta of FSEA, Emily Gulielmo of SEAC and Dallin Pedersen of
SEAU.
A total of 16 Awards of Merit and 8 Outstanding Project Awards were presented in eight
categories, as part of the NCSEA annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards
Program. These awards highlighted the amazing depth, breadth, creativity and technical skill
demonstrated by firms of all sizes from across the country.
Incoming President Ben Nelson of SEAC introduced the 2012-2013 NCSEA Board of
Directors:
o Williston Warren, Director (SEAOC)
o Thomas Grogan, Director (FSEA)
o Brian Dekker, Director (SEAOI)
o Mark D’Amato, Director (SEAW)
o Joe Luke, Secretary, (SEAOT)
o Barry Arnold, Treasurer (SEAU)
o Carrie Johnson, Vice President,
(OSEA)
o Ben Nelson, President (SEAC)
o Thomas DiBlasi, Immediate Past
President (SEA-CT)
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Daily Activities (continued)
Saturday October 6
Saturday began with reports from each of the NCSEA committees and was followed by ad hoc
discussions over lunch. The table below provides the topic, presenter and notable items.
Topic Presenter Notes
Code Advisory
Committee
Ronald Hamburger,
S.E., SECB Advise on codes
Educate members
Subcommittees
o General Requirements
o Existing Building
o QA/QC
o Seismic
o Wind
o Evaluation Services
Advocacy Committee Brian Dekker Advocate for profession
Subcommittees
o Clients and Prospects
o General Public and Media
o Code Official and Government Agencies
o Students and Educators
o Website
Basic Education
Committee
Craig Barnes
Brent Perkins Brent Perkins is new chair
Continuing Education
Committee
Carrie Johnson
Mike Tylk Winter Institute will become the Winter Leadership
Meeting
SE exam preparation (with Kaplan)
Webinars
SEER Committee Scott Nacheman Updated SEER manual in Oct. 2011
Three levels of volunteer:
1 - Highest level, specific training required
2 – Most engineers
3 – Anyone
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Topic Presenter Notes
Licensing Committee Susan Jorgensen Avoid use of term “separate” to describe structural
licensing
12 states are pursuing SE licensing
Florida is seeking to hire a lobbyist, needs more $
Texas is moving forward with hiring a lobbyist
SELC (SEI/NCSEA/SECB/CASE) will speak with
one voice on the topic of structural licensing for
structural engineers
Publication Committee Tim Mays Upcoming publications
o Seismic Design for Low & Moderate Seismic
Areas
o Design of Irregular Structures
o Coastal Construction
o Design of Structures in High Wind Areas
o Sheet Pile Design Guide
Seeking committee volunteers
o Will require 1 or 2 in person meetings per year
o Will include work via email correspondence
Seeking reviewers for design guides and example
problems
Young Members
Groups
Heather Anesta Yong Member Group Start-up Guide
o Why – aid students and EIs in transition from
college to career
o Guidance and support for PE exam
o Opportunity to interact with little professional risk
o Study groups
o Skill building
o Build a professional network
Internet based tool guidance in delegate handbook.
Great opportunity to grow the organization over time
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Topic Presenter Notes
Executive Director
report
Jeanne M.
Vogelzang,
J.D., CAE
Sven measures of success:
Commitment to Purpose
1. A Customer Service Culture
2. Alignment of Products and Services with
Mission
Commitment to Analysis and Feedback
1. Data-Driven Strategies
2. Dialogue and Engagement
3. CEO as a Broker of Ideas
Commitment to Action
1. Organizational Adaptability
2. Alliance Building
Suggests organizing under IRS 501c6
75% of annual expenses in reserve
SECB Bill Warren ---
Treasurer report Barry Arnold 2012 is about on track to match 2011, better than
2010
NCSEA spends about $100 per individual member
and if value of volunteer effort is included it would
be more
AD Hoc committee
over lunch
Topic: Webinars
Table occupants MOs make use of NCSEA webinars
Some purchase for later viewing (did not work well
for SEAoO)
List of Attachments - Included1
Item File Name Notes
NCSEA 20th Annual Conference
Book
Annual Conference Book.pdf Speaker biographies
MO data
Committee reports
List of attendees
MO Fees Table MO Fees.xlsx Annual membership fees for MOs
1 Include as a separate file and in this document
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Item File Name Notes
Delegate Handbook Delegate Handbook.pdf About NCSEA
Directory
Roll of a delegate
NCSEA publications
NCSEA Website
NCSEA Committees
Call for Committee Members
2013 Excellence in engineering
Awards call for entries
Appendices:
o MO Report Form
o Conference Information
o Roadmap for Separate
Licensing of Structural
Engineers
o Bylaws
o Establishing a Chapter
o Strategic Plan 2011 – 2015
o Young Member guide
List of Attachments – Separate Files2
Item File Name
SELC meeting notes draft SELC Meeting DraftMinutes 100312_St. Louis.pdf
SEAKM Report on the Joplin Tornado Joplin_Committee_Report_05262012.pdf
FEMA P-695 Quantification of
Building Seismic Performance Factors
FEMA P695.pdf
FEMA P-807 Seismic Evaluation and
Retrofit of Multi-Unit Wood-Frame
Buildings With Weak First Stories
FEMA P-807 Indexed.pdf
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Item File Name
Proceedings of Workshop on Tall
Building Seismic Design and
Analysis Issues
ATC-72FinalFormatted.pdf
Guidelines for Performance-Based
Seismic Design of Tall Buildings
PEER2010_05_GUIDELINES.pdf
NIST GCR 11-917-15 Selecting and
Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions
for Performing Response-History
Analyses
ATC-82_NIST_GCR_11-917-15_GM_Selection.pdf
Seismic Performance Assessment of
Buildings Volume 1 - Methodology
ATC-58-1 75% Draft
ATC-58-75% Volume 1 May 2011.pdf
Special Awards 2012_Special_Awards_Presentation.pdf
Excellence in Structural
Engineering Awards
2012_Excellence_in_Structural_Engineering_Awards_Presentation.pdf
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October 3‐6, 2012 St. Louis, Missouri
NCSEA [20th Annual Conference]
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Message from the President...........................................................................Page 3
Save the Date ................................................................................................ Page 4
Scholarship Winners .......................................................................................Page 5
Program Schedule...........................................................................................Page 6
Featured Speakers ..........................................................................................Page 8
Sponsors and Exhibitors................................................................................Page 11
Member Organization Map ..........................................................................Page 12
2011‐2012 Board of Directors ......................................................................Page 13
2011‐2012 Member Organization Delegates ...............................................Page 14
Partnering Organizations, Associate, Affiliate and Sustaining Members .....Page 17
Member Organization Activity Reports ........................................................Page 21
Committee Reports.....................................................................................Page 106
Committee Chairs .......................................................................................Page 107
Advocacy Committee..................................................................................Page 109
Awards Committee .....................................................................................Page 111
Basic Education Committee ........................................................................Page 113
Code Advisory Committee ..........................................................................Page 115
Continuing Education Committee...............................................................Page 119
Licensing Committee...................................................................................Page 121
Membership Organization Development ...................................................Page 123
Publications Committee..............................................................................Page 124
SEER Structural Engineering Emergency Response Committee .................Page 125
Conference Registrants...............................................................................Page 127
2012 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award Finalists ........................Page 130
Continuing Education Forms.......................................................................Page 132
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Welcome to St. Louis and NCSEA’s 20th Annual Conference! The NCSEA Board and Staff are excited to introduce our new Annual Conference format that starts with a day of committee meetings and vendor presentations. This will be followed by two full days of technical presentations, developed to coincide with the conference theme of “The Spirit of St. Louis…Design Trends for the Future”. In alignment with NCSEA’s role as the advocate for the practicing structural engineer, these presentations will cover topics that are relevant and can be applied in our current practices. The presentations will be delivered by the experts who form the pinnacle of the structural engineering profession. At our annual Awards Banquet on Friday evening, we will honor leaders in our profession and recognize their achievements on outstanding structural engineering projects throughout the world. The conference will wrap up on Saturday with an NCSEA Business Meeting, featuring reports from NCSEA Committee Chairs, followed by discussion of how NCSEA and its Member Organizations (MO’s) can optimize their communications and activities. This year, NCSEA has seen a surge of interest in Young Members Groups among the MO’s, and we are very pleased to encourage the participation of these future leaders in NCSEA through the introduction of our Young Member Scholarship Program. For the first time, three “scholarships” to the conference were awarded; and I encourage each of you to reach out to the recipients, introduce yourself and welcome them. I’m also pleased to be able to report that NCSEA committees have been extremely active in the past year. NCSEA’s Licensing Committee has been a strong advocate for structural engineering licensure and has formed the Structural Engineering Licensure Coalition in conjunction with SEI, SECB and CASE, to provide a unified voice in support for the cause. The Structural Engineers Emergency Response (SEER) Committee completed the second edition of the Structural Engineers Emergency Response Plan. The Code Advisory Committee was extremely busy with the 2015 ICC code development cycle, preparing code change proposals, reviewing and assessing code change proposals prepared by others, and testifying on behalf of NCSEA at the code change hearings. The Publications Committee completed three new publications, two of which will be discussed during the technical presentations. NCSEA Delegates: Enjoy the conference and camaraderie with your colleagues and peers. Please take this meeting as an opportunity for interaction with other MO’s and the NCSEA Board and staff. We hope that you share your local concerns, ideas, and achievements during the year at this Annual Conference, and report national news and these proceedings back to your MO when you return home. NCSEA exists to serve our MO’s and act as the national voice of practicing structural engineers. We value your input, participation, and support to accomplish this mission. Our Ad‐Hoc Committee on Communication and Collaboration completed its work and generated a number of recommendations that will be presented and discussed during the NCSEA Business Meeting on Saturday. Topics covered included executive directors, MO to MO communications and collaboration, SE exam review, webinars, NCSEA website improvements, and communications between NCSEA, MO’s and MO members. This should be an excellent opportunity for NCSEA and its MO representatives to promote collaboration through cooperative efforts and get to know each other better. It has been my great privilege, honor and pleasure to serve NCSEA as its President this past year. Respectfully submitted, Thomas A. DiBlasi, P.E., SECB President, NCSEA
Message [From the President]
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Please join us for the 21st NCSEA Annual Conference on September 17‐20, 2013 at the
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta, Georgia, only 50 minutes by train from the airport.
Atlanta, home of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games and the
world’s largest Olympic Ring fountain also offers other interesting sights including the famous CNN Global Headquarters where guests can get the Inside CNN Studio Tour, with a visit to a mock studio where you can see how it feels to sit behind a CNN desk and have your picture taken.
Another tour not to be missed is the Dixie Coca‐Cola Bottling Plant.
Erected in 1891 and designated a National Historic Landmark, this facility was the first Coca‐Cola bottling plant in Georgia. Designed in the contrasting elements of the Queen Anne style, the convoluted building features a wide range of architectural influences, resulting in a truly unique and oddly beautiful industrial building. And, for fun, try your hand at mixology while you’re there (part of the tour.)
Bring your family and see the Georgia Aquarium 21st Century Waterworld. The Georgia
Aquarium opened in 2005 as one of the largest aquariums in the world. Located in downtown Atlanta, it is undoubtedly a breathtaking experience for all its visitors.
Save [the date]
[Looking to re-engineer your firm with new leadership skills? Mark your calendar for the first Winter Leadership Meeting,
March 7-8, 2013 at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson, AZ.]
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NCSEA is excited to welcome three scholarship winners to this year's Annual Conference. This year, NCSEA instituted a scholarship program for the Annual Conference, awarding three full conference registrations. Eligible entries came from young members (under 36 years) who submitted a 500‐750 word essay on "How can an SEA Young Member Group benefit both young engineers and their entire profession?" The three winners' registrations are being sponsored by DiBlasi Associates, P.C., Martin/Martin Inc., and Wallace Engineering. Be sure to welcome these scholarship winners at the Annual Conference.
Heather Anesta, P.E., M.S., LEEP AP, is a structural engineer and project manager at
Corzo Castella Carballo Thompson Salman (C3TS). A graduate of Florida State University, she received her Master's Degree from Florida Atlantic University, and sat for the PE Exam in April 2012. In January 2011 she founded the FSEA Palm Beaches Young Members Group, which helps obtain and maintain employment for its members by providing events that strengthen their confidence and resumes. She has continued her efforts within FSEA and NCSEA to encourage all Member Organizations to incorporate Young Members Groups into their provided services. Heather has participated on the FSEA Separate Licensure Committee during 2012, and she is currently organizing an FSEA Membership Committee,
of which she will be the Committee Chair.
Emily Guglielmo has nearly a decade of structural engineering experience with Martin/Martin, Inc. Prior to starting her career with Martin/Martin, Emily obtained her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Civil Engineering and her Masters of Science (MS) degree from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in Structural Engineering. Her experience includes design in precast and post‐tensioned concrete, reinforced and cast‐in‐place concrete, structural steel, reinforced masonry and wood. Emily has served on the SEAC Building Department Survey committee and is currently active on the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Young Professionals Committee and the ASCE 7‐16 seismic sub‐committee.
Dallin Pedersen is been a project engineer and manager for BHB Consulting Engineers
since 2006. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Utah, and has designed structures of multiple configurations in steel, concrete, masonry and wood. His experience includes many out of state projects as well as a handful of international projects including a base‐isolated structure in South America. Dallin is an active member of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah (SEAU) and is currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors. In past years, he has served as an assistant to the Treasurer and on SEAU's Codes Committee, reviewing building codes and looking at their applicability to Utah's unique environment.
Scholarship [winners]
[Contact Jeanne Vogelzang, [email protected] if you wish to help sponsor next year’s scholarship winners.]
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Wednesday Vendor Presentations Software Non-Software
1:40 – 2:10 p.m. Bentley Systems AZZ Galvanizing Services 2:20 – 2:50 p.m. Fabreeka Internat. Fyfe Co. Inc. 3:20 – 3:50 p.m. CSC World Vector Corrosion Tech. 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. STRAND7 SidePlate Systems 4:40 – 5:10 p.m. RISA Tech. Hayward Baker
Monday – Tuesday, October 1-2 ICC‐ES Committee Meetings:
Environmental Committee on Monday. Evaluation Committee on Tuesday.
NCSEA Board Meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday, October 3 Concurrent Sessions Committee Meetings 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. NCSEA Board 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CAC General Engineering 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ICC‐ES Committee Meeting and Hearings on Structural engineering topics 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. SECB Board 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. SEAKM Licensing 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Advocacy 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Basic Education 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Structural Engineering Licensing Coalition (SELC) 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. CAC Wind Engineering 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. AZZ Plant Tour – Includes Lunch
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Social Hour sponsored by Kaplan, NCSEA’s SE Exam Review course partner.
Wednesday Night, October 3 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. SECB Reception – Everyone Welcome!
Thursday, October 4 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Exhibits open 8:00 – 8:15 a.m. Ronald Hamburger, S.E., SECB, will provide an overview of 2012 Codes and Standards. 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. Where ASCE 7 Wind Provisions Might Go in 2016 | Don Scott, S.E., CAC Wind Subcommittee Chair 8:45 – 9:15 a.m. Seismic Anchorage and Appendix D | Kevin Moore, P.E., S.E., SECB, CAC Seismic Subcommittee 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Strength Design of Masonry | Ed Huston, S.E., CAC General Subcommittee Chair 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. ICC‐ES Collaboration, Process, and Effect on Structural Engineers | Bill Warren, S.E., SECB, CAC Evaluation Services Subcommittee Chair and Jim Collins, Ph.D., P.E., Director of Engineering for ICC Evaluation Service, LLC 11:00 – Noon. Structural Engineering Practice –Instilling “A Culture of Discipline” | Keynote Speaker: Lawrence Griffis, P.E.
Noon – 1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Snow Load Provisions in ASCE 7‐10| Michael O’Rourke, P.E., Ph.D 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. The Performance of New England’s Buildings in the Winter of 2010‐2011 | Joe Zona, P.E., SECB 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. The 2011 Joplin Tornado | Randall Bernhardt, P.E., S.E and Malcolm Carter, P.E., S.E.
4:30‐5:00 p.m. – Speakers’ Forum
Thursday Night, October 4 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. President’s Reception for Delegates 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Welcome Reception with Exhibitors
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Friday, October 5 7:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. Exhibits open 8:00 – 9:45 a.m. Roll call and Member Organization Reports 10:30 – 12:30 p.m. ATC Cliff Notes: What you Should Know but Don’t Have Time to Read | Jon
Heintz, P.E., S.E., and Ronald Hamburger, S.E., SECB 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Diaphragms and Wall Anchorage | Timothy Mays, Ph.D., P.E. 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Serviceability and Foundation Systems | Timothy Mays, Ph.D., P.E. Friday night, October 5 2012 NCSEA Awards Banquet 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Banquet and Award Presentations
Delegate Meeting – Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:00 am Breakfast 8:00 am MO Roll Call 8:15 am Code Advisory Committee Report, Ronald Hamburger, Chair 8:30 am Advocacy Committee Update, Brian Dekker, Co‐Chair 8:55 am Basic Education Update, Craig Barnes & Brent Perkins, Co‐Chairs 9:10 am Continuing Education Update, Mike Tylk and Carrie Johnson, Co‐Chairs 9:25 am SEER Committee Report, Scott Nacheman, Chair 9:40 am Licensing Committee Report, Susan Jorgensen, Chair 10:05 am Morning Break 10:20 am Publications Committee Report, Tim Mays, Chair 10:35 am YMG Scholarship Award Winner, Heather Anesta 10:50 am Executive Director Report, Jeanne Vogelzang 11:05 am SECB Report, Bill Warren, Vice Chairman 11:15 am Treasurer’s Report, Barry Arnold, Treasurer 11:30 am Communication and Partnering Ad Hoc Committee, Jim Malley, Chair 12:00 pm Lunch and Discussion of Ad Hoc Committee w/ brief summaries 1:30 pm Adjourn 2:00 pm NCSEA Board Meeting
The Spirit of St. Louis Design Trends for the Future.
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Randall Bernhardt P.E., S.E., is a professional engineer and licensed structural engineer with 31 years of structural engineering design experience. He has a BS from Southern Illinois University and an MS from Kansas State University. He has served as structural engineering manager for a group of structural engineers providing designs of industrial, institutional and transportation projects. He has served as a member of NEHRP Technical Subcommittee 5, Masonry; is a member of the NCEES Structural Exam Committee; is currently chairman of the Southern Illinois University Civil Engineering Professional Advisory Board; is a member of the ASCE Professional Activities Committee and Local Activities Division Outreach Committee; and member of the SEI – St. Louis Section leadership team.
Malcolm A. Carter, P.E., S.E., is a Consulting Structural Engineer in Lenexa, Kansas and has a career spans more than 43 years. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Military Institute and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and is licensed as a Professional Engineer or Structural Engineer in 19 states. During his career he has been responsible for numerous structures located throughout the world including commercial and institutional structures, marine terminals, heavy industrial structures, arenas and aircraft hangars, both civilian and military. He is a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction and the Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri. He serves on SEAKM’s Joplin Tornado Task Force and provides consulting services on heavy or unusual structures.
Jim Collins, Ph.D., P.E., Director of Engineering joined ICC‐ES in January 2011 to help improve the efficiency
and technical expertise of the engineering staff. Mr. Collins has over 25 years of design and management experience as a professional engineer, with approximately 8 years in the metal platted wooden truss industry, 14 years in the engineered wood industry and 3 years in related design software development including construction hardware. Mr. Collins started his career as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Steven’s Institute. He is a member of ASCE and SEAOC and received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. from Steven’s Institute of Technology.
Larry Griffis, P.E., is President of the Structures Division and Senior Principal with Walter P. Moore and
Associates Inc., a national structural/civil engineering firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. Mr. Griffis is responsible for overseeing the structural, diagnostic/forensic and parking services for nine offices around the country. He is a registered professional engineer in numerous states including Texas, Florida and California. He is a member of the ASCE 7 Committee responsible for the ASCE/SEI 7 load standard and is a member and past Chairman of the Task Committee on Wind Loads for ASCE 7. He is past President and serves as a member of the board of directors for the Applied Technology Conference (ATC). He currently is a member and past Chairman of the ASCE Committee on Steel Buildings and is a member of the Code of Standard Practice Committee for AISC. Mr. Griffis received the TR Higgins Award from AISC as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award and was recently named a Fellow with the American Concrete Institute.
Ronald Hamburger, SE, SECB, is a past president of NCSEA, chair of its Code Advisory Committee and present
President of the Structural Engineering Certification Board. Following the 2001 terrorist attacks and collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, Mr. Hamburger was appointed to the joint FEMA/ASCE team that performed the initial investigation of the collapse and later participated in the more detailed studies performed by NIST. AISC presented him with the 2005 T.R. Higgins Award for his work to develop simplified methods for progressive collapse analysis and he recently chaired the NCSEA‐sponsored joint ad hoc committee that developed the recent proposal that was adopted by the IBC. He chaired the ASCE‐7 General Requirements Subcommittee responsible for adoption of similar requirements in ASCE 7 during the 2010 cycle and presently serves as chair of the ASCE 7 main committee.
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Jon Heintz is currently serving as Director of Projects for the Applied Technology Council for project management, oversight, and quality control on the development of ATC products and publications. Mr. Heintz’s practice has included extensive experience in seismic evaluation and strengthening of existing buildings, advanced analysis methods, and structural engineering research. He is actively involved in the development of guidelines, codes, and standards for existing buildings, and has participated in post‐earthquake damage investigations following the 1989 Loma Prieta, 1994 Northridge, 1999 Chi‐Chi, and 2010 Chile Earthquakes. He also participated in post‐hurricane damage assessments immediately following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005. His professional affiliations include the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Structural Engineers Association of California, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)/Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and the American Institute of Steel Construction. He has served on, or led, a number of committees including the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Technical Integration Committee, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California Existing Buildings Committee, and the ASCE/SEI Seismic Rehabilitation Standards Committee.
Ed Huston, P.E., S.E., is a Principal in the firm of Smith & Huston, Inc., Consulting Engineers in Seattle,
Washington, and a 1971 civil engineering graduate of the University of Washington and a licensed civil and structural engineer in Washington. Mr. Huston is licensed in seven other states and has over 38 years of experience in structural design, evaluation, investigation and code and standards development. He has been very active in, and is a Past President of, the Board of Directors of the Structural Engineers Association of Washington (SEAW). Mr. Huston is a former President of the Board of Directors of NCSEA. He is chair of NCSEA’s Code Advisory Committee – General Requirements Subcommittee and serves on NCSEA’s Licensing Committee. Mr. Huston also served on the Board of Directors of The Masonry Society, served as President of the Applied Technology Council (ATC), and was the Lead Technical Consultant on ATC 45 ‐ A Field Manual for Safety Evaluations of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods. Mr. Huston served on the Project Engineering Panel for the ATC Design Guide 2: Basic Wind Engineering of Low‐Rise Buildings. He is a co‐author of the Wind Commentary to the Uniform Building Code ‐ 1991 & 1994 Editions, ATC‐60, SEAW Commentary on Wind Code Provisions, as well as the SEAW RSM‐03, “SEAW’s Handbook of a Rapid Solution Methodology™ for Wind Design and The Masonry Designers' Guide to the ACI/ASCE 530 Code, First through Fifth Editions.”
Timothy Wayne Mays, P.E., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC and President of SE/ES, LLC. Dr. Mays recently served as Executive Director of the Structural Engineers Associations of South Carolina and North Carolina. He currently serves as NCSEA Publications Committee Chairman. He has received two national teaching awards (ASCE and NSPE) and both national (NSF) and regional (ASEE) awards for outstanding research. He is the recipient of the 2009 NCSEA Service Award. Tim is a prolific speaker who sits on several code writing committees and his areas of expertise are code applications, structural design, seismic design, steel connections, structural dynamics, and civil engineering aspects of antiterrorism.
Michael O’Rourke, Ph.D., P.E., received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and
his M.S. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. During most of his 38 years on the faculty in Civil Engineering at Rensselaer, he has been involved in research on snow loading on roofs, and the effects of earthquakes on buried pipeline. The snow load research has been sponsored by U.S. Army CRREL, the National Bureau of Standards, and the National Science Foundation among others. Dr. O’Rourke has been a member of ASCE 7 Snow Load Committee since 1978 and has been chair since 1997. He is the author of the Snow Load Guides (ASCE Press) on the proper application of the ASCE 7 snow provisions, and has presented numerous ASCE webinars on snow load topics. He was the 2011 recipient of the ASCE/SEI Walter P. More Award. His lifeline earthquake engineering research has been sponsored primarily by NSF. He is the lead author of two MCEER Monographs on the Seismic Behavior of Buried Pipelines and was the 2001 recipient of the ASCE C. Martin Duke Award.
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Kevin Moore, P.E., S.E., SECB, is the Founder, President and CEO of Certus Consulting, Inc. Mr. Moore is the
current Chair of the NCSEA Seismic Subcommittee of the Code Advisory Committee and Chair of the SEAOC Structural Standards Committee and Past Chair of the SEAOC and SEAONC Seismology Committee. Kevin currently chairs Issue Team 3 for the Provisions Update Committee (NIBS/BSSC). IT3 is charged with evaluating ACI 318‐11 Appendix D and assessing issues related to concrete anchorage. Kevin was an integral member of the award winning project team that tested anchorage of wood sill plates to concrete with small edge distances. This work resulted in a code change proposal that allows designers to completely avoid the complicated design equations presented in Appendix D for anchorage of wood sill plates to concrete foundations.
Donald R. Scott, S.E., Vice President‐Director of Engineering with PCS Structural Solutions has been with the company since 1982 and became a Principal in 1986. He has led many of the firm’s educational, commercial, institutional and private projects for new and renovated construction. Don’s proficiency is in high‐end structural analysis. He has authored and co‐authored many technical publications on wind. He is Vice Chairman of the ASCE 7 Wind Load Committee (since 1996), shaping future IBC provisions for wind design. Don is also Chairman of the SEAW Wind Load Committee.
Joe Zona is a senior principal with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. and heads the company’s Structural
Engineering and Structural Mechanics group. His projects involve design of new buildings, additions and renovations, investigation of structural adequacy, and failure analysis. He has been active in the development of structural provisions of the Massachusetts State Building Code for over 25 years and currently chairs the Structural Advisory Committee to the Massachusetts Board of Building Regulations and Standards. He is an active member of many professional organizations, and is a director of the Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts. He is a registered professional engineer in 19 states and holds SECB certification.
Williston “Bill” L. Warren, IV, S.E., SECB is a Structural Engineer and Principal with SESOL, Inc. in Newport Beach, CA with a BS in Architectural Engineering from the School of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, and a MS in Structural Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering from the School of Civil Engineering at University of California in Irvine, California. The 2009‐2010 President of the Structural Engineer’s Association of California (SEAOC), the 2008‐2009 President of the Structural Engineer’s Association of Southern California (SEAOSC), a member of the NCSEA Code Advisory Steering Committee and Chair of the NCSEA Code Advisory Committee Subcommittee for Evaluation Services, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the SECB, Past Chair of the Accreditation Committee of the SECB and is the SEAOC Delegate to NCSEA. Mr. Warren has more than 30 years of professional structural engineering experience in analysis, design, evaluation, construction supervision, education, research and structural engineering analysis and design software development for the analysis and design of foundation and soil rehabilitative structures, rehabilitating failing foundations of small to mid‐size buildings, secondary and substructures on new and existing buildings, and rehabilitation evaluation and design of remediation for distressed buildings.
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American Institute of Steel American Fab Supply Inc. Construction (AISC) AZZ Galvanizing Services Bekaert Corp Bentley Systems, Inc. Boise Cascade Engineered
Wood Products Cast Connex CMC Steel Products Comslab® Concrete Reinforcing Steel
Institute Construction Tie Products Corebrace
CSC Design Data Dwyer Companies Ecospan Euclid Chemical Company Fabreeka International Inc. Fyfe Co. LLC Hardy Frames, Inc. Hayward Baker Hercules Bolt Company Hilti North America International Code Council ITW Red Head Kaplan Lindapter USA
LNA Solutions Nemetschek Scia Nucor Vulcraft Group Powers Fasteners RISA Technologies SE Solutions, LLC SECB SidePlate Systems Simpson Strong‐Tie St. Louis Screw & Bolt Star Seismic STRAND7 PTY LTD Turnasure, LLC UNBONDED BRACE™ Vector Corrosion Group
Silver Level
AZZ Galvanizing Services Dwyer Companies
Kaplan SECB
Bronze
DiBlasi Associates Euclid Chemical Company
Martin/Martin Inc. Wallace Engineering
Exhibitors [and]
Sponsors
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President
Thomas DiBlasi DiBlasi Associates, P.C. 500 Purdy Hill Road Monroe, CT 06468‐1661 203‐452‐1331 tomd@diblasi‐engrs.com Vice President
Ben Nelson SEAC c/o Martin/Martin, Inc. 12499 W. Colfax Ave. Lakewood, CO 80215 303‐431‐6100 [email protected]
Secretary
Carrie Johnson Wallace Engineering 200 East Brady Street Tulsa, OK 74103 918‐584‐5858 [email protected] Treasurer
Barry Arnold ARW Engineers P.O. Box 581292 Salt Lake City, UT 84158 801‐782‐6008 Ext. 8203 [email protected]
Director
Mark D’Amato DCI Engineers 818 Stewart Street, Ste 1000 Seattle, WA 98101 206‐332‐1900 mdamato@dci‐engineers.com
Director
Brian Dekker Robert L. Miller Associates 1835 Rohlwing Road, Ste C Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 847‐749‐0923 Ext. 229 [email protected]
Director
Joseph Luke Jose Guerra, Inc. 2401 A IH35, Suite 210 Austin, TX 78749 512‐445‐2090 [email protected]
Director
Brad Moyes KPFF Consulting Engineers 111 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2500 Portland, OR 97204 503‐227‐3251 [email protected]
Past President
James Malley Degenkolb Engineers 235 Montgomery Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94104 415‐354‐6419 [email protected]
Executive Director
Jeanne Vogelzang NCSEA 645 N. Michigan Avenue, #540 Chicago, IL 60611 312‐649‐4600 Ext. 201 [email protected]
Board of Directors [2012]
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Alabama (SEAoAL) Jason Partain
Structural Design Group, Inc. 700 Century Park South, Suite 114 Birmingham, AL 35226 205‐380‐3832 jpartain@sdg‐us.com
Alaska (SEAAK) Collin Dey
BP 900 East Benson Boulevard Anchorage, AK 99519 not provided [email protected]
Arizona (SEAoA) Fred Sobottka
Fred Sobottka 30133 N 52nd Pl. Cave Creek, AZ 85331 480‐862‐3602 [email protected]
Arkansas (SEAoAR) Paul Fleming
ACME Brick Company 10921 Maumell Boulevard North Little Rock, AR 72113 501‐812‐5574 [email protected]
California (SEAoC) Norm Scheel
Norm Scheel 5022 Sunrise Blvd Fair Oaks, CA 95628 916‐536‐9585 x32 [email protected]
Colorado (SEAC) Brent Norris
J. R. Harris & Company 1775 Sherman Street, Suite 2000 Denver, CO 80203 303‐860‐9021 [email protected]
Connecticut (ACEC/CT) Richard Boggs
DeStefano & Chamberlain, Inc. 50 Thorpe Street Fairfield, CT 06824 203‐254‐7131 [email protected]
Delaware (DVASE) Kirk Harman
The Harman Group, Inc 900 West Valley Forge Road, Suite 200 King of Prussia, PA 19406 610‐337‐3360 [email protected]
Florida (FSEA) Thomas Grogan
1598 Country Walk Drive Fleming Island, FL 32003 904‐791‐4784 [email protected]
Georgia (SEAoG) John Hutton
John Hutton 233 Peachtree Street, Harris Tower, Suite 700 Atlanta, GA 30303 678‐553‐5216 [email protected]
Hawaii (SEAoH) Gary Chock
1132 Bishop Street, Suite 1550 Honolulu, HI 96813 [email protected]
Idaho (SEAI) Sarah McClendon
SEAI (Idaho) PO Box 8733 Boise, ID 83707 208‐342‐2919 [email protected]
Illinois (SEAoI) John Duntemann
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc., Inc. 330 Pfingsten Road Northbrook, IL 60062 847‐272‐7400 [email protected]
Indiana (ISEA) Robert Ladisich
Robert Ladisich 101 W. Ohio Street, Suite 2000 Indianpolis, IN 46204 317‐210‐2667 bob@ic‐designservices.com
Iowa (SEAIA) Brad Hill
Brad Hill 520 42nd St. Des Moines, IA 50312 515‐277‐0275 [email protected]
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Kansas & Missouri (SEAKM) James Palmer
Jim Palmer PO Box 6952 Shawnee Mission, KS 66211 816‐803‐8940 [email protected]
Kentucky (SEAoK) Kelly Gardner
Associated Engineers Inc. 1001 Frederica St., Suite 200 Owensboro, KY 42301 270‐684‐8450 [email protected]
Louisiana (SEAoL) Russell Gardner
225‐756‐8629 x239 [email protected]
Maine (SEAM) Greg Cuetara
482 Payne Road Scarborough, ME 04074 207‐887‐3432 [email protected]
Massachusetts (SEAMass) Edward Moll
Structures North Consult Engrs 60 Washington Street, Suite 401 Salem, MA 01970 978‐745‐6817 emoll@structures‐north.com
Metro Wash D.C. (SEA-MW) Doug Lauer
SEA‐MW 722 18th Street, S (home address) Arlington, VA 22220 202‐223‐1941 [email protected]
Michigan (SEAMI) Jamie Fox
International Industrial Contracting Corporation 35900 Mound Road Sterling Heights, MI 48310 586‐264‐7070 [email protected]
Minnesota (CASE/MN) Stephanie Young
Stephanie Young 901 North 3rd Street, Suite 100 Minneapolis, MN 55401 612‐827‐7825 [email protected]
Mississippi Jason McQueen
601‐898‐1296 [email protected]
Montana (SEAMT) Jami Lorenz
Beaudette Consulting Engineers 1289 Stoneridge Drive, #1A Bozeman, MT 59718 406‐556‐8600 [email protected]
Nebraska (SEAoN) Rob Whorley
Performance Engineering 4940 N 118th Street, Suite 200 Omaha, NE 68164 402‐255‐3854 [email protected]
New Hampshire (SENH) Robert Durfee
831 Union Avenue Laconia, NH 03246 603‐524‐1166 rdurfee@dubois‐king.com
New Mexico (SEA/NM) Russell Bausch
SEANM PO Box 90655 Albuquerque, NM 97199 505‐889‐2797 [email protected]
New York (SEAoNY) Erik Madsen
SEAoNY 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 646‐736‐0694 [email protected]
North Carolina (SEA of NC) Mary Elizabeth Hamilton
Mary Elizabeth Hamilton 4000 Westchase Boulevard, Suite 280 Raleigh, NC 27607 919‐828‐1876 [email protected]
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Ohio (SEAoO) Kip Ping
c/o Steven Schaefer Assoc., Inc. 10411 Medallion Dr., Suite 121 Cincinnati, OH 45241 513‐984‐1663 [email protected]
Oklahoma (OSEA) Orin Johnson
Orin Johnston PO Box 7206 Edmond, OK 73083 405‐200‐4996 [email protected]
Oregon (SEAO) Sue Frey
SEAO (Oregon) 9220 SW Barbur Blvd #119, PMB #336 Portland, OR 97219 503‐753‐3075 [email protected]
Rhode Island (SEARI) Stephen Olsen
Stephen F. Olsen 235 Promenade Street Providence, RI 02908 401‐453‐2220 [email protected]
South Carolina (SEAofSC) Jesse Burke
Jesse Burke 3112 Devine Street Columbia, SC 29205 803‐733‐9595 [email protected]
Southern Nevada (SEASoN) Bill Hassenzahl
Walter P. Moore 3883 Howard Hughes Pkwy #190 Las Vegas, NV 89169 702‐944‐4790 [email protected]
Tennessee (TNSEA) Otto Schwarz
Carptenter Wright Engineers 304 9th Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203 615‐782‐0100 [email protected]
Texas (SEAoT) Paul Rielly
Halff Associates 4000 Fossil Creek Boulevard Fort Worth, TX 76137 817‐847‐1422 [email protected]
Utah (SEAU) Barry Arnold
PO Box 581292 Salt Lake City, UT 84158 801‐782‐6008 [email protected]
Vermont (SEAVT) Tim Dall
Engineering Ventures 208 Flynn Ave., #2A Burlington, VT 05401 802‐863‐6225 tdall@dubois‐king.com
Virginia (VSEC) Paul Gagnon
Paul Gagnon 3200 Norfolk Street Richmond, VA 23230 804‐794‐7555 [email protected]
Washington (SEAW) Chun Lau
DCI Engineers Inc. PO Box 50301 Bellevue, WA 98015 206‐682‐6026 [email protected]
Wisconsin (SEA-WI) Jason Gross
Bloom 414‐771‐3390 [email protected]
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Partnering Organizations Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE
www.seinstitute.org Jennifer Goupil 1801 Alexander Bell Drive Reston, VA 20191‐4400 703‐295‐6102 [email protected]
CASE
www.acec.org/CASE Heather Talbert 1015 15th Street N.W. Washington, DC 20005 202‐682‐4377 [email protected]
Associate Members AISC
www.aisc.org Charlie Carter 1 East Wacker Drive, Suite 700 Chicago, IL 60601‐2001 312‐670‐5414 [email protected]
American Wood Council
www.awc.org John "Buddy" Showalter 803 Sycolin Road, Suite 201 Leesburg, VA 20175 202‐463‐2766 [email protected]
Bentley Systems, Inc.
www.bentley.com/en‐US Jason Reichel 2744 Loker Avenue, Suite 103 Carlsbad, CA 92010 760‐431‐3610 [email protected]
Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety
www.disastersafety.org Wanda D. Edwards 4775 E. Fowler Ave. Tampa, FL 33617 813‐286‐3400 [email protected]
International Code Council
www.iccsafe.org Dominic Sims 5360 Workman Mill Road Whittier, CA 90601 888‐422‐7233 [email protected]
ITW Red Head
www.itwredhead.com Robert Turck 2171 Executive Drive, Suite 100 Addison, IL 60101 630‐350‐0370 engineer@itw‐redhead.com
Metal Building Manufacturers Association
www.mbma.com Lee Shoemaker 1300 Sumner Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115 216‐241‐7333 [email protected]
Schuff Steel Company
www.schuffsteel.com Jay Allen 1841 W. Buchanan Phoenix, AZ 85007 800‐435‐8528 [email protected]
Simpson Strong-Tie
www.strongtie.com Brandy Reyes 5956 W. Las Positas Blvd Pleasanton, CA 94588 800‐925‐5099 [email protected]
USP Structural Connectors
www.uspconnectors.com Barry Ashwell 14305 Southcross Drive, Suite 200 Burnsville, MN 55306 952‐898‐8772 [email protected]
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Affiliate Members AZZ Galvanizing Services
www.azz.com/galvanizing‐services Kevin Irving 625 Mills Road Joliet, IL 60433 815‐723‐5000 [email protected]
Cast Connex Corporation
www.castconnex.com Carlos de Oliveira 366 Adelaide St. E., Suite 425 Toronto,Ontario, M5T 1P9 416‐806‐3521 [email protected]
CETCO Building Materials Group
www.cetco.com Sarah Esp 2870 Forbs Avenue Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 847‐851‐1800 [email protected]
Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute
www.cfsei.org/index.html Don Allen 1140 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 705 Washington, DC 20036 202‐785‐2022 [email protected]
Construction Tie Products, Inc. (CTP, Inc.)
www.ctpanchors.com Stephen Getz 7974 W. Orchard Drive Michigan City, IN 46360 219‐878‐1427 [email protected]
CSC Inc.
www.cscworld.com/Regional/UK.aspx Stuart Broome 500 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 300 Chicago, IL 60611 877‐710‐2053 [email protected]
DECON USA, Inc.
www.deconusa.com Neil Hammill 11 Professional Village Circle Beaufort, SC 29907 843‐525‐1860 [email protected]
Dwyer Companies
www.dwyercompanies.com Dave Jacob 6083 Schumacher Park Drive West Chester, OH 45069 513‐777‐0998 [email protected]
Fibrwrap Construction, L.P. www.fibrwrapconstruction.com
Mark Geraghty 4255 E. Airport Drive Ontario, CA 91761 909‐390‐4363 [email protected]
Hardy Frames, Inc.
www.hardyframe.com Maged Diab 789 S. Victoria Avenue, #200 Ventura, CA 93003 805‐477‐0793 [email protected]
Hilti, Inc.
www.us.hilti.com/holus Troy Lippert 5400 S. 122nd East Avenue Tulsa, OK 74121 800‐879‐8000 [email protected]
Powers Fasteners
www.powers.com Jack Zenor 2 Powers Lane Brewster, NY 10509 800‐524‐3244 [email protected]
RISA Technologies
www.risa.com Amber Freund 26632 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 210 Foothill Ranch, CA 92610 949‐951‐5815 [email protected]
Rosboro
www.rosboro.com Jim Walsh PO Box 20 Springfield, OR 97477 541‐746‐8411 [email protected]
SE Solutions, LLC
www.findyourengineer.com Brian Quinn 691 Ottawa Beach Road Holland, MI 49424 616‐546‐9420 [email protected]
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SidePlate Systems, Inc.
www.sideplate.com Henry Gallart 23332 Mill Creek Drive, Ste. 225 Laguna Hills, CA 92653 949‐305‐7889 [email protected]
Steel Joist Institute
http://steeljoist.org J. Kenneth Charles 234 W Cheves Street Florence, SC 29501 843‐407‐4091 [email protected]
Sustaining Members Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs, Inc.
www.abkj.com Narong Trongtham 800 5th Avenue, Suite 2500 Seattle, WA 98104 206‐340‐2255 [email protected]
Barrish, Pelham & Associates, Inc.
www.barrish.com Stephen Pelham 3001 E. Street Sacramento, CA 95816 916‐418‐9100 [email protected]
Barter & Associates, Inc.
www.barterse.com Marc Barter 1614 Government Street Mobile, AL 36604‐1102 251‐473‐8354 [email protected]
Burns & McDonnell
www.burnsmcd.com Jon A. Schmidt 9400 Ward Parkway Kansas City, MO 64114 816‐333‐9400 [email protected]
Cartwright Engineers
www.caceng.com Craig Cartwright 595 S Riverwoods Pkwy, Suite 270 Logan, UT 84321 435‐753‐2850 [email protected]
CBI Consulting, Inc.
www.cbiconsultinginc.com Craig Barnes 250 Dorchester Avenue Boston, MA 02127 617‐268‐8977 [email protected]
Construction Technology Laboratories
www.ctlgroup.com W. Gene Corley 5400 Old Orchard Road Skokie, IL 60077‐1030 847‐965‐6541 [email protected]
Cowen Associates Consulting Structural Engineers
www.cowenassoc.com Fred V. Cowen 29 Vesta Road Natick, MA 01760 508‐655‐3976 [email protected]
Criser Troutman Tanner Consulting Engineers
www.cttengineering.com Jeffrey Troutman 3809 Peachtree Avenue, Suite 102 Wilmington, NC 28403 910‐397‐2929 [email protected]
DCI Engineers
www.dci‐engineers.com J. Mark D'Amato 818 Stewart Street, Ste 1000 Seattle, WA 98101 206‐332‐1900 mdamato@dci‐engineers.com
Degenkolb Engineers
www.degenkolb.com James Malley 235 Montgomery Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94104 415‐392‐6952 [email protected]
DiBlasi Associates, P.C.
www.diblasi‐engrs.com Thomas A. DiBlasi 500 Purdy Hill Road Monroe, CT 06468 203‐452‐1331 TomD@DiBlasi‐Engrs.com
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Dominick R. Pilla Associates
www.drpilla.com Rosanne Tatarsky 23 Depew Ave. Nyack, NY 10960 845‐727‐7793 [email protected]
Dunbar, Milby, Williams, Pittman & Vaughan
www.dmwpv.com Nelson Williams 720 Moorefield Park Drive, Suite 301 Richmond, VA 23236 804‐323‐0656 [email protected]
Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP
www.gmsllp.com Vicki Arbitrio 129 West 27th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10001 212‐254‐0030 [email protected]
Kevcor, Inc.
www.kevcor.com B. Cory Attra 31 Franklin Street Westport, CT 06880 866‐701‐7222 [email protected]
LBYD, Inc.
www.lbyd.com Gregory Robinson 716 South 30th Street Birmingham, AL 35233 205‐251‐4500 [email protected]
Martin/Martin, Inc.
http://wwwmartinmartin.com C. Ben Nelson 12499 W Colfax Lakewood, CO 80215 303‐431‐6100 [email protected]
Ruby & Associates, Inc.
www.rubyusa.com David Ruby 30445 Northwestern Highway, Suite 310 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248‐865‐8855 [email protected]
Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
www.sgh.com Ronald Hamburger The Landmark at One Market, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 415‐495‐3700 [email protected]
Structural Engineers Group, Inc.
www.segonline.com Mark Miller 4114 Sunbeam Road, #200 Jacksonville, FL 32257 904‐262‐4000 [email protected]
TGRWA, LLC
www.tgrwa.com Michael Tylk 600 W. Van Buren, Suite 900 Chicago, IL 60607 312‐341‐0055 [email protected]
The Harman Group, Inc
www.harmangroup.com D. Kirk Harman 900 West Valley Forge Road, Suite 200 King of Prussia, PA 19406‐4525 610‐337‐3360 [email protected]
The Haskell Company
www.haskell.com/en Thomas A. Grogan 111 Riverside Avenue Jacksonville, FL 32202 904‐791‐4784 [email protected]
Thornton Tomasetti
www.thorntontomasetti.com William Bast 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Suite 1500 Chicago, IL 60611 312‐596‐2000 [email protected]
United Structural Systems Ltd., Inc.
www.ifixfoundations.com Brian Lockhart 723 Chenault Bridge Rd. Lancaster, KY 40444 859‐548‐2684 [email protected]
Wheaton & Sprague Engineering, Inc.
www.wheatonsprague.com John Wheaton 1100 Campus Drive, Suite 200 Stow, OH 44224 330‐923‐5560 [email protected]
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MO Activity [reports]
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Delegate: Jason Partain, PE Alternate Delegate: Michael Kingsmore PE Executive Director: Rhea Williams Email address: [email protected] 2012 Board of Directors Immediate Past President: Bill Wilson, PE 2012 President: Mark O’Barr, PE President Elect: Jason Partain, PE Directors: Bart Berneche PE, Joslyn Daniels PE, Michael Kingsmore PE,
Cheryl May PE, and Robert Whyte PE. Year of Formation: 1998 Total Number of Members: 142 Annual Dues: Professional $85 Associate $45
Retired $25 Student $15 Awards Program: N/A Meeting Schedule: Quarterly board meetings, Annual Expo & Conference,
3 Continuing Education Seminars List of Active Committees: SEER, Licensure, Young Professionals, Community Outreach (new),
Safe Room Committee, website committee and newsletter. Previous Year’s Activities: SEAoAL launched our website at the end of 2011. Members can now renew their membership and register for seminars on line. SEAoAL developed a sponsorship program mid‐year that will help grow SEAoAL new programs and further the mission of promoting the art and science of structural engineering. Our new young professional program with site visits and networking events with AIA, ASCE & AGC organizations has been a huge success. We held a communications seminar with the above organizations focused on how to communicate with each discipline. We offered our membership 19.5 PDHs ‐ Structural Steel Connection Design, Cold‐Form Steel Design & Construction and Higgins Lecture (upcoming in Dec.). What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Our focus is providing seminars with nationally known speakers who cover timely topics that are of state and national consequence.
SEAoAL [Alabama]
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Delegate: Colin Dey Alternate Delegate: Jesse Gobeli Executive Director: Jesse Gobeli Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors: N/A Year of Formation: 2006 Total Number of Members: 58 Annual Dues: $90 members / $45 EIT’s Awards Program: None Meeting Schedule: Approx. every other month List of Active Committees: Education, Public Affairs Previous Year’s Activities: General meetings with presentations, SEAAK sponsored 1‐day seminar on Masonry Design What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? SEAAK sponsored seminar
SEAAK [Alaska]
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Delegate: Fredric W. Sobottka, P.E. Alternate Delegate: Ron Schneider, P.E. Executive Director: Looking for replacement Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Ben Crellin President/Director: Kelly MoralesVice Past President: John Woodson Treasurer/Director: Brady Notbohm Secretary/Director: Mike Lu Director – Phoenix: Arpan Tailor At Large Director: Ron Schneider Year of Formation: 1965 Total Number of Members: 247‐141 Full, 51 Junior, 19 Affiliate, 36 Associate Annual Dues: Full Member‐$100, Junior Member‐$75, Affiliate Member‐$110,
Associate Member‐$100, Corporate Membership‐$750 Awards Program: SEAoA’s awards program mimic’s NCSEA’s program so entrants
can submit their entries to the NCSEA awards program with minimum changes.
Meeting Schedule: 8 monthly meeting (each chapter) and an annual state convention, Winter and Spring Seminars (Phoenix Chapter)
List of Active Committees: Membership, Building codes, Scholarship, Legislative, Awards, Website, Programs, SEERP, Convention
Previous Year’s Activities The scholarship committees remain active. The state chapter funds the local chapters to award a $1000 scholarship each semester to each of the three state universities, ASU, NAU, and U of A. The local chapters fund an additional $1000 scholarship each semester as well. While informal, our advocacy volunteers reach out the community and future structural engineers. Pam Kotrys also organizes a group to conduct structural engineering related activities each year during Engineers Week at the AZ Science Center. The AZ State SEAoA Convention was held in June in Tucson this year. The event was held at The Hilton El Conquistador Resort. Structural Engineers form other states are always welcome to attend. Information can be found on the SEAoA website, www.seaoa.org
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Our 8 monthly membership meetings provide continuing education and networking opportunities and are well attended. They also allow members to keep abreast of the latest technology and tools available as vendors and product manufacturers present at some of the meetings. The SEERP Committee continues to develop under the guidance of Fred Nelson. The committee consists of 8 members who meet on a bi‐monthly basis. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The annual SEAoA State Convention is the most valuable program for SEAoA each year. It provides affordable continuing education opportunities to its members. The ability to accept electronic payments has streamlined things greatly.
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Delegate: Paul D. Fleming Alternate Delegate: Kyle Bridges Executive Director: N/A Board of Directors Past‐President: Jason C. Johnston President: Paul D. Fleming Vice President: Kyle Bridges Secretary: Jonathan Story Treasurer: Greg Sellers Directors: Frank Allison, Kent Shreeve, and Todd Robbins Year of Formation: 2006 Total Number of Members: 59 Annual Dues: Professional ‐ $90; Associate (EIT or Student) ‐ $70 Affiliate
(Sponsoring Organization) ‐ $300 Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Third Thursday each month during noon hour followed by one to
two hour technical presentation. All day annual meeting in November with up to 6 hours of technical presentations & luncheon.
List of Active Committees: Special Inspection Guidelines, Continuing Education and
Advocacy Previous Year’s Activities Jan 2012‐NCSEA Recorded Webinar; Feb 2012‐Live Presentation on Roof Retrofit; March 2012‐NCSEA Recorded Webinar; April 2012‐NCMA Direct Design Seminar; May 2012‐ ASCE on‐Demand Webinar; June 2012‐NCSEA Prerecorded Webinar; Aug 2012‐ ASCE On‐Demand Webinar; Sept 2012‐Live Presentation on Corrosion; Oct 2012 –NCSEA Webinar; Nov 2012‐Annual Meeting What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Continuing Education that is affordable yet practical and in a convenient venue.
SEAoAR [Arkansas]
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Delegate: Norman Scheel, SE, F SEAOC, F ASCE Executive Director: Don Schinske Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Jim Amundson President‐Elect: Michael Cochran Secretary: Joe LaBrie Treasurer: Bradley Lowe Past President: Douglas Hohbach Directors: Colin Blaney, Diane Gould, Grace Kang, Jason Horwedel, Zubaid
Karim, Peter Lee, Janah Risha, Jim Stenger, and Doug Thompson Year of Formation: 1929 Total Number of Members: Roughly 3,200 of all types Annual Dues: Approximately Varies by member organization and category.
Engineer membership approximately $200 per year. Awards Program: Excellence in Engineering Awards (annual) Meeting Schedule: SEAOC Board meets 4‐5 times annually; MO boards each meet 10‐
12 times annually. State technical committees meet quarterly. Annual Convention draws 400‐500.
List of Active Committees: Structural Standards Executive Committee, Seismology, Code,
Construction Quality Assurance, Existing Buildings, Wind, Evaluation Reports, Professional Licensing/Certification, Publications, Seminars/Webinars, Communications, National Organization Appointments, Disaster Emergency Services, Sustainable Design, and State Convention Committee
Previous Year’s Activities Publications/Seminars
Nearly completed publication of three‐volume 2009 Seismic Design Manual with examples of how to apply the provisions to the 2009 IBC. IEBC manual on 2009 IBC (with 2012 updates) nearing completion. Began production of five‐volume SDM based on 2012 IBC, with publication set for summer 2013.
Webinar series presenting the content of the 2009 SSDM series is underway through the four SEAOC member organizations.
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On‐line Blue Book articles at seaoc.org continues to expand in number through the efforts of the Seismology Committee. Hard copy articles can be downloaded through the site and ICC bookstore.
SEAOC also publishes proceedings of the technical programs at the Annual Convention.
Communications Began publishing monthly SEAOC Talk e‐newsletter. Began planning for new SEAOC website. Issued several press releases related to SEAOC publications, Building Safety Month. Organizational Relations SEAOC maintains close relations with a variety of national and state organizations in engineering and related fields including NCSEA, NCEES, ICC, ASCE/SEI, AIA(CC), ACEC‐CA, CGEA, CALBO, ATC, and CUREe. SEAOC has maintained its representation on relevant national committees, particularly in the area of codes and standards development. Representation continues on state governmental boards and commissions including the Office of State Health Planning and Development, Hospital Building Safety Board, Division of State Architect Advisory Board, Seismic Safety Commission, Building Standards Commission, and Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. Government Relations SEAOC has developed strategy for pursuing modifications to California’s Professional Engineers Act, and is identifying other policy goals relative to adoption of California Building Code. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Seminars on 2009 SDM; publication of Chapter 34 commentary and PV/Solar Panel Installation documents; Annual Convention
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Submitted by NCSEA Delegate G. Brent Norris (P.E., J.R. Harris & Company) Our Board of Directors continued its protocol of officer progression from Secretary to Past President over a four year time period. Directors serve a staggered three year term. Continuity of leadership is maintained within the organization with annual elections where the membership votes in one director and the incoming secretary. SEAC also retains a part‐time Administrative Director to assist with our activities. Our SEAC leadership for 2012 is as follows: President: David Poe, PE (Anchor Engineering, Inc.) Vice‐President/Treasurer: Jim Ness, PE (Monroe & Newell Engineers, Inc) Secretary: Paul Hause, PE (Structural Consultants, Inc.) Director 2010‐2012: Robert Leberer, PE (Anderson & Hastings Consulting) Director 2011‐2013: Stan Welton, PE (Thornton Tomasetti) Director 2012‐2014: Tom Skinner, PE (JVA, Inc.) NCSEA Delegate: G. Brent Norris, PE (J.R. Harris & Company) NCSEA Alt. Delegate: Jim Ness, PE (Monroe & Newell Engineers, Inc.) Past‐President: Andrew Kelsey, PE (Ascent Group, Inc.) Administrative Director: Caryn Farrell (Martin/Martin, Inc.) (Part‐time) [email protected]
Year of Formation: SEAC was formed in 1954 and at that time was restricted to Owners of Structural Engineering firms in the state. In 1992, professional membership was extended to all licensed engineers practicing structural engineering, and an affiliate category was added for E.I.T.’s, and interested parties in related and supporting fields.
Membership Professional Members: 223 Affiliate Members: 40 Student Members: 8 Honorary Members: 2 Life Members: 7 280 members Annual Dues: Professional/Affiliate in Denver Metro Area $140 Professional/Affiliate outside of Denver $60 Student $60 Business Management Committee $50 in addition to membership 2012 Fall Seminar $60
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SEAC Activity with NCSEA initiatives:
SEAC member Susan Jorgensen is Chair of NCSEA’s Licensing Committee.
SEAC member Ben Nelson serves on the NCSEA’s Board of Directors.
SEAC member Jerry Maly serves on NCSEA’s Existing Buildings/Structural Retrofit Committee
SEAC member John Malcom serves on NCSEA’s Continuing Education Committee Awards Program: No General Meetings: SEAC holds breakfast meetings for its membership on alternate
months (90‐100 attend), comprised of a brief business meeting, followed by an hour‐long educational seminar. An annual lunch or dinner meeting is also held near the end of the year and traditionally includes a non‐technical presentation. Following are the General Meeting seminar topics held in 2012:
January: Joint Meeting with CAGE (Colorado Association of Geotechnical Engineers); David Butler, (Zonge International) and Kevin Haas, P.E., (Martin/Martin, Inc.) “The Geology of Seismic Class and the Effect of Site Class on Structural Design” March: Nico Sutmoller, (Insulfoam, A Carlisle Company) “Geofoam – A Lightweight Fill Alternative” May: Jack Smith, (Initial.AEC) and Sandra Scanlon, P.E., (Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors) “Electronic Signatures – What Practicing Structural Engineers Need To Know” July: Pedro Fernandez, P.E., (EnCon Design, LLC) “Lateral Force Resisting Systems for Precast Structures” September: Daniel Gach, AIA (Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.) “Washington Monument – Post‐Earthquake Assessment” October: Upcoming full‐day technical seminar “Changes to the ASCE 7‐10 Wind Provisions and Their Application to the Front Range” to be presented by Jon Peterka, P.E. (Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc.) and Emily Guglielmo (Martin/Martin, Inc.) November: Annual end‐of‐year luncheon meeting and entertainment
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Website: Our website, www.seacolorado.org, was recently updated and upgraded. The website currently contains many pieces of useful information to our members and other engineers interested in the advancement of the structural engineering profession. Interested parties may order several publications from our website, including a comprehensive update to the Colorado Survey of Building Departments with the Colorado Special Wind Region and Snow Load Map data included. Registration and payment for our events, as well as purchase of our technical documents, is now handled on line through our website.
Committee Activity: Several SEAC committees meet on a regular basis while others meet on an as‐needed basis depending on activity. Following are recent activities of active committees: Business Management: Continued their practice of holding regularly scheduled breakfast meetings on a bi‐monthly basis. The committee’s annual business practices survey was completed and distributed to participating committee members. Steel Liaison Committee: The committee continues to be very active. Regular monthly scheduled meetings take place. Over the past 10 months the committee has been discussing BIM & IPD relative to understanding what skills will be needed by structural engineers, fabricators and erectors to remain competitive. A presentation is not planned at this time. Wind Load Committee: We are collaborating with Dr. Jon Peterka of CPP to update the Colorado Front Range Wind Map to comply with ASCE 7‐10. Snow Load Committee: We are collaborating with Dr. Abbie Liel at CU Boulder to come up with a more accurate Snow Water Equivalence to Snow Depth ratio. We are collaborating with the Snow Load Committees in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Montana to create a Western States Snow Load Map that will appear in ASCE 7‐16. Education Committee: The committee provides organizational assistance for the Fall Seminar and works ongoing to increase university involvement/awareness. Denver Building Department Liaison Committee: Met with the City of Denver Building Department to review and provide recommended amendments for use of the 2009 IEBC in the City and County of Denver. While Denver has not adopted the IEBC, they do permit its use as an alternative to Chapter 34 of the 2009 IBC through the Administrative Modification process. SEER Committee: The committee continues its progress towards establishing a SEER Team for Colorado. The committee is currently working on issues related to professional liability and health insurance/worker’s compensation during a response. The committee is currently meeting 4 times during the year.
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In addition to these committees, SEAC had several members involved with the Sunset Review process regarding regulations for Professional Engineers. This process occurs every 10 years, and the purpose is for the State to evaluate whether the current laws regarding licensing of various professionals are adequate and effective. Colorado also been involved with issues related to Peer Reviews. SEAC is planning to become involved in helping to establish legal protection for peer reviewers, similar to what was recently done by Missouri. Endowed student scholarships: SEAC was thrilled to award its third pair of $2,000 scholarships to Cole Brubaker (Colorado State University) and Katharine Courtright (Colorado School of Mines). They also each received a free Student membership to SEAC. What was the most valuable member program or service that SEAC offered this year? SEAC presented opportunities for up to ten (10) hours of continuing education for its members in five (5) general meetings on diverse topics and a full‐day seminar on 2 topics of particular interest to Colorado engineers. The sessions were valuable as measured by record setting attendance.
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NCSEA Delegate: Richard C. Boggs, PE, SECB, LEED AP (DeStefano & Chamberlain, Inc.), Former President
NCSEA Alternate Delegate: Herbert F. Holz III, PE, SECB (DiBlasi Associates, P.C.) Immediate Past President
Executive Director: Paul W. Brady, [email protected], (860) 635‐5522 Board of Directors President: David J. Toce, PE, SECB (Toce Structural Engineering, LLC) Secretary: Douglas S. Graham, PE, SECB (The SLAM Collaborative) Treasurer: Joaquin Denoya, PE (DiSalvo Ericson Group) Directors Events Coordinator: Whitney P. McNulty, PE, SECB (Fletcher Thompson)
Laura Champion, PE, (Champion Engineering LLC) Committee Coordinator: Scott Erricson, PE (e2 engineers) Year Established: 1985 Total Number of Members: 150 Membership Breakdown
14 Firm Members with 79 Individuals 9 ACEC/PEPP Individuals 46 Associate Members 1 Life Member 1 Retired Member 4 Affiliate Sponsors
Annual Dues: Firm Dues: $180 thru $240 (Based on number of Engineers) Individual Dues: $65 thru $120 Affiliate Sponsors: $175 Educators and Retired: $30 Life and Students: Free Meeting Schedule: Monthly (Approximately 8 per year) List of Active Committees: Emergency Response (SEER) Committee
Chairperson: Kenneth D. Jones, PE (DiSalvo Ericson Group) Building Code Advisory Committee Chairperson: Nicolangelo Cuoco, PE, SECB (Cuoco Structural Engineers, LLC) Special Inspections Committee Chairperson: Joseph W. Carone, PE, SECB (DiBlasi Associates P.C.)
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Advocacy Committee Chairperson: Richard C. Boggs, PE, SECB (DeStefano & Chamberlain, Inc.) Threshold Peer Review Committee Chairperson: Thomas DiBlasi, PE, SECB (DiBlasi Associates, P.C.) Licensing Committee Chairperson: Robert A. Zygmunt, PE, SECB (The SLAM Collaborative)
Previous Year’s Activities Website: SEC‐ACEC/CT maintains an organizational website (www.ct‐sec.org) containing a current calendar of events, committee activities and relevant links. Continuing Education: SEC‐ACEC/CT continues as a Continuing Education sponsor for Professional Engineering by the New York State Education Department. This allows our members to receive Continuing Education credit for programs offered by SEC‐ACEC/CT, which can be applied to the renewal of their New York State PE license. SEC‐ACEC/CT provides PDH certificates for all of its technical meetings Committee Activities Structural Engineers Emergency Response (SEER) Committee: Maintained a group of over 40 volunteer licensed structural engineers to respond to natural or man‐made disasters affecting structures. Continued to maintain an updated operations manual for the group based on the NCSEA SEERPlan Manual. Developed and adapted communications systems to alert membership to an emergency that may require our involvement. Successfully lobbied the State Legislature to enact “Good Samaritan” Laws for structural engineers in emergency situations. Continues to work with the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security to establish a Memorandum of Understanding to initiate a deployment of the group for a state emergency. Organizes training, including first aid, ATC‐20 and ATC‐45, to improve the capabilities of our group. Building Code Advisory Committee: This standing committee serves to review and propose modifications to the State Building Code (based on the I‐codes) during each code adoption cycle. The committee recently completed its review of the 2012 IBC and drafted about a dozen code modification proposals related to structural issues for adoption in Connecticut in early 2014. Our proposals will be considered by the State Codes & Standards Committee for incorporation into the next State Building Code. The Code Advisory Committee also responds to requests for reviews and opinions from the State Building Inspector.
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Advocacy Committee: Focuses on enhancement of understanding of the role of the structural engineer on the part of clients, educators, students and the general public. The primary goal of this committee to date has been to strengthen the relationship between professional structural engineers and local students and educators. Special Inspections Committee: This committee was instrumental in creating and updating the Statement of Special Inspections forms in conjunction with the CASE Special Inspections Committee. The committee is tasked with encouraging higher quality and establishing more consistent practices for testing and inspection reports for the various parties involved in the special inspections process. Threshold Peer Review Committee: This committee published Recommended Guidelines for Conducting an Independent Structural Engineering Review in the State of Connecticut, which contains recommended practices for implementing code‐mandated structural peer reviews. The guidelines are available on our website (www.ct‐sec.org). This committee also works to resolve questions from members as they utilize the guidelines. Licensing Committee: This committee was formed early in 2011, and has made significant progress toward establishment of a separate SE license in Connecticut. During the past year, meetings have been held with the State Licensing Board and co‐chairs of the legislative committees governing professional engineering practice, as well as informal discussions with affiliated professional groups, including AIA CT, ACEC and the State DPW. All are on board and support this initiative. Legislation was crafted, but was not passed in the most recent legislative session. The committee feels we are in good position to pursue this during the next session early in 2013. Technical Program Schedule 2011‐2012
Date Program Location
October 12, 2011
Iconic Masonry Structures: A Closer Look for Durable Repairs (Joint Meeting with ICRI CT) Speaker: Brent Gabby, PE Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger
Holiday Inn North Haven, CT
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November 9, 2011
IBC & IEBC Codes ‐ Structural Provisions for Existing Buildings Speaker: David Bonowitz, SE Chair, Existing Building Committee of NCSEA Code Advisory Committee
Four Points Sheraton Meriden, CT
December 14, 2011
Holiday Event – Including Committee Reports Technical Program: Renovation of the Guggenheim Museum Speaker: Nancy R. Hudson, PE Robert Silman Associates
New Haven Lawn Club New Haven, CT
February 8, 2012
Bridge Inspections, Repairs, Load Ratings and Sustainability Speakers: Daniel Whittemore, PE, LEED AP Muhammad Ammad, PE, LEED AP AI Engineers, Inc.
Courtyard by Marriott Cromwell, CT
March 14, 2012
Glass in Structural Engineering Speaker: Michael Stein, PE Schlaich Bergermann and Partner
Holiday Inn North Haven, CT
April 18, 2012
Ground Improvement 101: The Basics of Ground Improvement in Foundation Design Speaker: Chris Woods, PE, LEED AP BD&C Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
Holiday Inn North Haven, CT
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May 9, 2012
Seismic Rehabilitation of Building Structures and Design of Slabs on Ground Speaker: Timothy Mays, Ph. D., PE President ‐ SE/ES
Homewood Suites Farmington, CT
June 5, 2012
Replacement of the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge ("Q" Bridge) ‐ Presentation and Tour Speaker: Brian Mercure, Assistant District Engineer, ConnDOT
ConnDOT field office and Q Bridge Construction site New Haven, CT
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Delegate: D. Kirk Harman Alternate Delegate: Peter Welsh Executive Director: Patty Barr Russo Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Peter Welsh Vice President: Richard J. Morton Treasurer: Mark W. Lunden Secretary: Christopher Shaffer Year of Formation: 1991 Total Number of Members: 175 Annual Dues Firm Membership: (up to three registered professional engineers may join) Firm Membership with Sponsorship: ($1300) Firm memberships are limited to companies that practice structural engineering or have structural engineering departments. Member firms will be listed on the DVASE website, and recognized on signage at all breakfast seminars. Includes membership for up to three (3) structural engineering practitioners with active professional registration (see Firm Affiliate below for additional members). In addition, the Member firm will receive a full hole sponsorship with 4 golfers for the annual golf outing. Firm Membership: ($675) Standard Firm membership as above without sponsorship. OR Individual Membership (select one of the five types):
Firm Affiliate:($125) Additional individual structural practitioners with a member firm;
Structural Engineer Practitioner: ($175) Individual structural engineer or EIT who is not with a member firm
Public Owner Practitioner: ($100) An employee of federal, state, local, or utility agency;
Academic Member: ($75) Must be fulltime faculty teaching in a structural engineering‐related degree program at an accredited college/university; or
Student Member: ($25) Must be fulltime student enrolled in a structural engineering‐related degree program at an accredited college/university.
Awards Program: Annual Dinner and Awards in May each year Meeting Schedule: 6 Educational Breakfast Seminars per year (1 hour each), 1 or 2
tours of interest, Annual Golf Outing in September, 1 Half Day National Seminar, 1 Webinar or Distance Learning Seminar
List of Active Committees: Golf Outing, Website, Awards, Annual Dinner
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Previous Year’s Activities Six breakfast seminars were held featuring technical issues/products/manual updates, legal issues, and other challenges facing the profession. DVASE hosted a half day seminar featuring Timothy Mays. Our annual awards dinner was held in May. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Our PDH credits for the breakfast seminars have become more valuable as Pennsylvania now requires reporting on PDH credits for license renewal.
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Delegate: Thomas A. Grogan Jr., PE, SE Executive Director: Christine M. Olden Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Thomas A. Grogan, Jr., PE, SE, Past‐president: Amy Miller, PE, President‐elect: Scott Martin, PE Treasurer: Pablo Carreño, PE Secretary: Fred Bowen, PE Directors: Christopher Pfeil, PE, Brian DeVries, PE, Matthew Lowe, PE, Mark
Scala, PE, Roberto Hernandez, PE, Doug Barkley, PE, Brett Rylands, PE, and Greg McLellan, PE
Year of Formation: 1996 Total Number of Members: 351 with students; 324 without students Annual Dues
Licensed Professional: $145.00 Associate (5+ years in structural or related engineering): $145.00 Associate (1‐5 years in structural or related engineering): $85.00 Affiliate: $145.00 Student: $10.00 Sustainer: $210.00 Life or Honorary: No dues Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Quarterly state board of director’s meetings and monthly Chapter
meetings. List of Active Committees: Advocacy (Douglas Wood, Chair): The committee’s first task will be to come up with goals, objectives and strategies for the committee and for the chapter media liaisons. Continuing Education (Robert Hernandez, Chair): Each Chapter offers continuing education opportunities to its members throughout the year. On the state level, three four‐hour seminars presented by Dr. S.K. Ghosh (ACI 318‐11 concrete design) are scheduled for September 11, 12, 13 in Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando. Separate Licensing (Thomas Grogan, Chair): FSEA has begun the process of amending Ch. 471 of the Florida Statutes and is committed to facilitating the legislation of a Practice Act for Structural Engineering. Amended legislation has been prepared and will be submitted to the Florida State Legislature during the 2013 legislative session to establish separate licensing of structural engineers. Currently interviewing lobbyists.
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Membership (Heather Anesta, Chair): Working on several initiatives to attract new members and provide value for existing members including:
Define services provided by FSEA in order to attract prospective members and keep current members active.
Encouragement of starting Young Member’s Groups.
Outreach to potential members by attending and hosting joint events with other related organizations.
Plan/outline “non‐typical” events that each chapter can host in order to provide their board members with a quick and easy way to advertise FSEA and solicit membership to structural engineers who are not interested in attending the typical monthly meetings.
Gear website toward providing information that is interesting and necessary for practicing Florida structural engineering. Increase user‐friendliness of website to make it more of a place for members to go. Put tabs on website for each committee. The website should keep people in the loop so that they will be less likely to feel out of touch and may be more likely to come to meetings.
Participate in community service in order to involve members in their community as well as raise awareness of the structural engineering profession.
Brainstorm reasons why members are inactive and why structural engineers don’t join, and then brainstorm how to reach those engineers.
5. SEER (Chris Pfeil, Chair): Reaching out to other building profession groups in the state including the Building Officials Association of FL to streamline communications between those that need SEER volunteers and the actual volunteers. 6. Liaison: (FBPE Liaison: Ron Milmed; FES Liaison: Doug Barkley): Liaison activities ongoing as the Florida Board of PE’s and the Florida Engineering Society meet. Previous Year’s Activities Bay Area Florida Chapter: Increased our overall membership by 18% over 2011. We have worked to improve our committee structure and participation by adding chairpersons for our Membership, Continuing Education and Scholarship Committees. Recent Chapter presentations have included an NCSEA webinar on Evaluation of Joists/Joist Girders for Modification and Repair; Structural Demolition by Kimmins Contracting Corporation; Deep Foundations by Hayward Baker; and Structural Renovations to the USF Sundome and the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Big Bend Florida Chapter: The FAMU/FSU College of Engineering hosted the Annual ASCE Student Conference this year and we were heavily involved in volunteering. We are very pleased to say, that the FAMU/FSU COE placed 2nd overall. In addition to the volunteer work,
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we have had some great meetings with Brian Hadar from Suncoast Insurance Associates discussing trends in claims, and we had a few speakers from the Florida Board of Professional Engineers speak to us regarding the board investigation process. Central Florida Chapter: In the spring, we held a seminar on ASCE 7‐10 Wind Design worth four PDH’s, presented by T. Eric Stafford, PE. In June we held a workshop on Autodesk’s Revit Structure (building information modeling or BIM) software. Northeast Florida Chapter: Chapter presentations included “Changes in the 2010 Florida Building Code” by James Schock, P.E., CBO, who is the chief building official for the City of Jacksonville and is the Chair of the Structural TAC for the Florida Building Commission. Our last program was by Mr. Christopher Cobb, Esquire on “Arbitration or Mediation/ Jury Trial ‐ Pros and Cons: What Engineers and Architects Need to Know.” We have been filling in our regular meetings with ASCE and NCSEA webinars and they have been extremely popular. Financially, we are on track to offer two scholarships to the University of North Florida College of Engineering and hope to continue this for years to come. The FSEA student chapter at the University of North Florida had elections this past semester and we look forward to helping them get active in the fall. Palm Beaches Florida Chapter: The following topics have been presented during our meetings: Mix Design for Corrosive Environments; Pre‐Stressing and Post Tensioning; Stud Welding and Stud Applications and Repair and Protection of Parking Structures. Chapter members attended the Broward County Building Officials Association Expo “2012 Code Awareness and Safety” that was held at the War Memorial Auditorium in Ft. Lauderdale on June 23rd to network with colleagues and building officials as well as to distribute advocacy material. South Florida Chapter: We started the year with a great turnout for our ASCE 7‐10 Wind Seminar. The event sold out and the room was maxed out with 100+. We are continuing the efforts of previous years to have more joint events with other organizations. We are organizing different types of seminars to help attract these different members. In February, we provided a seminar on Lean Construction and in March we provided a liability seminar. We are looking to build on previous success with future joint events and open more channels of dialogue with other organizations. Our Young Member’s Group is chaired by Steve Schuering, a senior at the University of Miami. We are modeling our group after the Palm Beaches group who have been very successful. We hope the group will not only increase our membership with younger members but also provide EI’s an opportunity to network and have field trips to local fabricators or construction sites. We are also coordinating efforts with ASCE and AIA for joint Young Member social events. Our Chapter also awarded three $1,000.00 scholarships to students from Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University and the University of Miami.
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Southwest Florida Chapter: Hosted a “Round Table Discussion of Relative Issues” and included Q&A and general discussions on such topics as ASCE 7‐2010, FBC‐2010, business forecasts, FBPE Rules, Florida Statutes, fee surveys, and local permitting issues. Our Chapter has contributed $750.00 to the Florida Gulf Coast University Scholarship Fund. The funds were provided in accordance with FSEA guidelines, and selection of the recipient of the 2012‐2013 funds is expected to be completed during the fall semester. Young Member’s Group (Palm Beaches): This group stays very busy with fundraisers, hosting “P.E. Teach‐Ins”, volunteering at places like Habitat for Humanity and providing a networking base to help other engineers find employment. Heather Anesta, who is the brainchild of this group, is in the process of creating an “YM How‐To Guide” to show how to start YM Groups for other SEA’s around the country. This group was actually acknowledged in the April edition of Structure Magazine with an article authored by Heather Anesta. The article advocates the need for YM Groups in individual structural engineering organizations like ours to assist with knowledge acquisition, PE preparation and other great points for young structural engineers. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The most valuable service that we offered our membership this year was facilitating the legislation of a Practice Act for Structural Engineering in Florida. Over the past three years, our Separate Licensing Committee has worked hard to better protect the public and improve the quality of all structural engineering projects and therefore amend Ch. 471 of the Florida Statutes.
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Delegate: John Hutton Alternate Delegate: Michael Planer Executive Director: Albert F. Lagerstrom Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Robert Weilacher Past President: Kurt Swensson Vice‐President: Michael Planer Secretary: Eric Hagberg Treasurer: Wilbur Bragg Directors: Kenneth Nuttall, John Hann, and Adrian Persaud Year of Formation: 1991 Total Number of Members: 109 Annual Dues: $75.00 Professional Members $37.50 Associate Members (Students, EIT’s) Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Monthly, September thru May, excluding December. List of Active Committees: Structural Engineer Emergency Response, SE Licensing, Programs,
Board of Registration Liaison, GEA Legislative Council, and SE Exam Preparation Classes
Previous Year’s Activities Fall Seminar – Structural Renovations of Existing Buildings All day event covering the following topics:
Code Provisions for Existing Buildings: Philosophy and Practice
Existing Masonry Buildings
Existing Steel Structures
Existing Wood Buildings
Using CRSI Design & Construction Resources in Renovation & Repair Spring Seminar – Hands on Welding An all day event held at Lincoln Electric training facility in Atlanta, Georgia. The day began with an entertaining and informative morning lecture by Duane K. Miller Sc D., PE. Lectures included Welding Myths and the Truth Behind the Myths, as well as Principles for Welding Heavy Structural Shapes. The afternoon was the hands‐on portion with the group breaking in two
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groups. One group learned and used the tools for weld inspection including: visual, ultrasonic, mag‐particle and dye‐penetrant. The second group learned and got to make their own welds using stick and MIG welding equipment. The groups then switched giving everyone a chance to try their hand at welding and testing. Monthly Membership Meetings
Christ Church, New Zealand Earthquake
Internal Concrete Curing
Cold‐formed Steel in Midrise Construction and Masonry Veneer
Structural Design of the Georgia Tech Hinman Building Rehabilitation
Extended Single Plate Shear Connections
Changes in National Design Specification for Wood
CMU Testing and Inspection
Micropile Design and Construction Considerations with Case Histories Sponsor for CRSI‐AIA Golf Tournament and Design Charette
Fund raiser for scholarships for architectural and engineering students. Committee Meetings What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Two full day seminars and monthly meetings providing professional development credits.
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Delegate: Brian Kung Alternate Delegate: Gary Chock Executive Director: Wes Segawa Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Wes Segawa Vice President: Brian Kung Secretary: John Uno Treasurer: Marvin Mestanza Directors: Brian Ide, Linda Moran, Alison Agapay, Tim Goshi, and Aaron
Erickson Year of Formation: 1971 Total Number of Members: 129 Annual Dues: $50 Awards Program: None Meeting Schedule: BOD Monthly List of Active Committees: Annual Convention, Building Codes, Disaster Response,
Legislative, Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies, and Membership
Previous Year’s Activities: Annual Convention, Various Technical Seminars What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Technical Seminars
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Delegate: Sarah McClendon Alternate Delegate: David Nelson Board of Directors: President: David Nelson Vice‐President: Guy Brousseau Secretary: Robert St. Michell Treasurer: Sandra Hyde Directors: Wilson Antoniuk and Patrick Bird Past President: Brian Garner Year of Formation: 1978 Total Number of Members: 76 Annual Dues: $85.00
Additional Fee per Lunch Meeting: $15.00 Meeting Schedule: 3rd Thursday of each month @ 12:00‐1:00pm, September‐ May List of Active Committees: Program/Seminar Committee, Technical & Education Committee,
Legislative/SE Licensure, SEER Committee, QBS Committee, Building Code Committee, Membership Committee, Newsletter/Website Committees
Last Year’s Programs/Seminars:
Masonry Construction by Tom Young
Heavy Timber Rehabilitation by Paul Gilham
Out‐Of‐Plane Wall Anchorage Seminar by Tim W. Mays
Nail Fasteners by Alan Brown
Professional Liability: “Don’t Get Burned” by Jeremy Kroll
Performance Based Seismic Design‐ Case Studies by Judsen Williams and Jordan Terry
Mechanical Stabilized Earth Walls by Dr. James Collin
Simpson Strong Tie: New Product Overview by Eric Pugmire
Combined ATC‐45 and Wind Design Seminar by Ed Huston
Hilti ACI 318‐08/11 Appendix D by Tim Nordstrom
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Delegate: John Duntemann Alternate Delegate: n/a Executive Director: Elizabeth O’Connor Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Ken Nizamuddin President‐Elect: John Duntemann Treasurer: David Horos Secretary: Terry McDonnell Directors: Jan Blok, Mary Coombe Bloxdorf, Lauren DiPalma, Salvatore
DiBernardo, Steve Elver, David Fanella, Shane Farr, David Nickell, Dipak Shah, Tony Shkurti, Jennifer Traut‐Todaro, Craig Vespa
Year of Formation: 1965 Total Number of Members: 798 Annual Dues: $ 0‐265 (less class discount of up to $30) Awards Program: Yes Meeting Schedule: monthly Board meetings, monthly (Sept‐May) dinner meetings,
Annual Banquet (June), Trade Shows List of Active Committees: Annual Meeting, Awards, Building Codes, By‐laws, Continuing
Education, Government Relations, Membership, Nominating, Program, Public Relations, Publications, Structural Engineers Exam, Young Engineers Committee. The organization also provides support for the Structural Engineers Foundation and the Structural Engineers Political Action Committee.
Previous Year’s Activities Continuing education programs, lectures, dinner meetings, Trade Show, Awards Banquet, Awards Competition, Refresher Exam (for engineers planning to sit for the SE exam), strategic plan development What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? SE Review Course, Central Chapter Trade Show (now in its 2nd year) along with all existing programs.
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Delegate: Bob Ladisich Executive Director: In progress Email address: Kurt Heidenreich ([email protected]) Board of Directors President: Kurt Heidenreich, PE,SE Pres Elect: Robert Ladisich, PE, SE Treasurer: Rodney Alberts, PE Secretary: James Kirk, PE, SE Dir/Past Pres: Jim Lewis, PE Director: Dan Schenkel, PE Director: William Boucher, PE Year of Formation: 2002 Total Number of Members: 68 Annual Dues: $80 Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Bi‐monthly meetings with Spring Conference List of Active Committees: Code Committee IBC Chapter 17 Committee Previous Year’s Activities The membership was overwhelming in their support of the ISEA Board continuing its emphasis on adoption of IBC Chapter 17 ‘Special Inspections’. Currently, Indiana does not implement Chapter 17 as a code requirement. ISEA will remain committed to this endeavor throughout the coming months. Also, the Board is aggressively pursuing an Executive Director, which is an invaluable position for Board and membership alike. Moreover, filling this position benefits those members ‐ many of whom have served as officers/directors in the past – to more easily accept a position on the Board or with a Committee. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Clearly the Spring Conference remains our greatest benefit to the membership. This has been consistently a very modestly priced way in which our members can take advantage of the most recent and informative seminars offered, while at the same time having access to vendors ‐ the people and products leading our industry ‐ throughout the day long conference.
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Delegate: Brad Hill, PE Alternate Delegate: Ashley Gregory, PE Executive Director: not applicable Board of Directors President: Ashley Gregory, PE Past President: Thomas Bosch, PE Vice President: Brad Hill, PE Treasurer: David Salazar Secretary: Alex Carnahan Board Members: Brad Penar, PE, SE Year of Formation: 1968 Total Number of Members: 54 Annual Dues: $50 Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Monthly Membership Meetings and Board Meetings List of Active Committees: Membership Committee, Continuing Education Committee, Social
Committee, and Advocacy Committee Previous Year’s Activities Formed ad hoc committee with local Concrete Council to develop standardized concrete mix design specifications for several classes of concrete. Incorporated the Association as a non‐profit organization and developed bylaws. Provided nine hours of continuing education at membership meetings. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Continuing Education
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Delegate: Jim Palmer Alternate Delegate: John Falkenrath Executive Director: Tracy Palmer Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Doug Antholz Vice President: Snehal Kadam Secretary: Dennis Cook Treasurer: Alan Wiley Directors: Corey Myrtle and Lana Denning Year of Formation: n/a Total Number of Members: 216 Annual Dues: $70.00 professional members, $60.00 associate members Awards Program: Special awards given at Annual Meeting. Meeting Schedule: Monthly chapter meetings and yearly bi‐state conference. List of Active Committees: University Relations, Member Services, Professional Practice,
Member Services, Programs, and Public Relations Previous Year’s Activities The Joplin Tornado Committee provided some valuable information. 2012 SEAKM Annual Meeting. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Our Annual Meeting continues to be the most impactful bi‐state program. The Joplin Committee provided some valuable information on the tornado damage.
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Delegate: Kelly B. Gardner, PE Alternate Delegate: Mark Caldwell, PE Executive Director: n/a Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors Chair: Chella Subram Directors: Mark Caldwell, Kelly Gardner, John Schweri, Kourosh Marefat,
and Gregg Buccola Year of Formation: 1993 Total Number of Members: 63 Annual Dues:
MEMBER: Individuals who are licensed Structural or Civil/Mechanical engineers ($85.00 per year).
ASSOCIATE: Individuals who have been regularly engaged for at least 4 years in structural or related engineering and who have received their baccalaureate degree
within the last eight or more years ($85.00 per year), or 2) within the last 7 years ($50.00 per year).
AFFILIATE: Individuals who are in a position to cooperate with Structural Engineers ($85.00 per year).
STUDENT: Individuals who are juniors, seniors, or graduate students in related engineering schools or in accredited engineering or architectural schools ($10.00 per year).
RETIRED: Individuals who are retired from practice ($10.00 per year).
SUSTAINING: A firm, company, or corporation, or a division thereof and other similar organization that is interested in advancing the knowledge of SEAOK (shall be classed as a sustaining member, but have no voting rights, $225.00 per year).
Honorary and life membership grades exist and are awarded at the judgment of the SEAOK Board of Directors.
Awards Program: NO Meeting Schedule: Periodic (basically monthly) with most “Go‐To‐Meeting” online
access. List of Active Committees: Membership, Building Codes, Special Inspections, Website, and
Conference Planning
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Previous Year’s Activities Board meetings followed by 1 to 1.5 hours of professional development/CEU presentations. Had booth at the Engineering Expo at the University of Louisville. Slight increase in membership What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Annual Conference that provided up to 13 PDH opportunities. Gave direct code review opinions to state Building Code officials related to pending adoption of IBC 2012 and IRC 2012.
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Delegate: Russell Gardner Alternate Delegate: David Soulier Executive Director: N/A Board of Directors: Russell Gardner, David Soulier, Larry Jones and Bob Fenner Year of Formation: 2003 Total Number of Members: 20 Annual Dues: $80 for returning 2011‐12 members
$60 introductory for new 2012‐13 members $50 for associate members $30 for student members $150 for affiliate members
Awards Program: no Meeting Schedule: Monthly List of Active Committees: None Previous Year’s Activities Continued attempts to revitalize SEAoL through new membership drive with reduced dues; scheduling continuing education seminars and webinars to increase meeting attendance What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? PDH/continuing education seminars and webinars
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Delegate: Greg Cuetara, P.E., S.E. Alternate Delegate: Mark Gray, P.E. Executive Director: N/A Board of Directors President: James Hall, P.E. Secretary: Mark Gray, P.E. Directors: Aaron Jones, P.E., Greg Cuetara, P.E., and Helen Watts, P.E. Year of Formation: 1991 Total Number of Members: 78 Annual Dues: $60 Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Monthly, September through April List of Active Committees: Special Inspections Task Force Previous Year’s Activities: This past year SEAM has had varying seminars from a 2009 International Existing Building Code seminar, Tim Mays presenting seismic rehabilitation of buildings and design of slabs on ground, California Emergency Management Agency Safety Assessment Program webinar, and Changes between ASCE 7‐05 and ASCE 7‐10 – major revisions to both wind and seismic provisions presented by S.K. Ghosh. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? SEAM was pleased to provide our members with the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) Safety Assessment Program (SAP) webinar presented by NCSEA. It is one of only two post‐disaster assessment programs that will be compliant with the requirements of the forthcoming Federal Resource Typing Standards for engineer emergency responders.
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Delegate: Edward Moll, P.E. Alternate Delegate: Michael Fillion, P.E. Executive Director: Wayne Siladi, P.E. Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Wayne Siladi, P.E. Vice President: Michael Fillion, P.E., SECB Treasurer: Michael Berry, P.E., SECB Secretary: Jeffrey Struble, P.E. Directors: Richard Croswell, P.E., SECB (Past President; David Berg, P.E.;
Fred Cowan, P.E.; John Isbell, P.E.; Wayne Lawson, P.E.; Adam McCarthy, P.E.; Jennifer McClain, P.E., SECB; Garrett McClean, P.E.; David Morand, P.E.; and Joe Zona, P.E., SECB.
Year of Formation: Offshoot of Boston Assn. of Structural Engrs (1950’s)
SEAMass – 2006. Total Number of Members: 86 Annual Dues: $50 Professional and Associate, $25 Student Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Monthly List of Active Committees: Membership, Programs, Publications, Codes, Nominating, SEER,
and Structural Advisory Previous Year’s Activities
June: Breathing Life into Boston’s First Skyscraper: Structural Challenges and Exterior Masonry Restoration
September: Massachusetts State Building Code, 8th Edition, Chapter 34: Existing Structures Incorporating the International Existing Building Code (IEBC 2009)
September: From Master to Servant: The Rise and Fall of the Structural Engineer
November: Use of the New International Existing Building Code (IEBC)
February: Time Saving Design Aids for Reinforced Concrete
April: Evaluation of Existing Masonry Structures: A Process Approach
May: Seismic Rehab of Building Structures and Slabs on Ground Based on 2012 IBC, ASCE 31 and 41, and ACI 360R‐10
May: Presentation of Northeastern University’s Kostas Institute Stress Lab (Laboratory for Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Systems)
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The program in September, “Massachusetts State Building Code, 8th Edition, Chapter 34: Existing
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Structures Incorporating the International Existing Building Code (IEBC 2009)” – MA adopted IBC and IEBC 2009 and understanding how existing structures are to be treated under the (new) Code generated tremendous interest.
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Delegate: Douglas F. Lauer, P.E. [[email protected]] Alternate Delegate: none Executive Director: Thomas A. Bouffard, P.E. Email address: tbouffard@ehlert‐bryan.com Board of Directors Chairman: Thomas A. Bouffard, P.E. Past Chairman: Matthew Daw, P.E. Vice Chairman: Justin Domire, P.E. and Peggy Van Eepoel, P.E. Secretary: Douglas F. Lauer, P.E. Treasurer: Don Gray, P.E. Directors: Wayne Stocks, P.E., Craig Myers, P.E., David Smith, P.E., Zach
Kates, P.E., and Jim Bufano, P.E. Ex Officio: Charlie Vonderheid Year of Formation: 1988 Total Number of Members: 64 (membership is by firm) Annual Dues: $150.00 Awards Program: SEA‐MW Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Gala,
Annually in February Meeting Schedule: Monthly, September through May List of Active Committees: Media Committee, Membership Committee Previous Year’s Activities: Awards Gala, Rebuilding Together What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Members find the presentations at the monthly meetings most valuable.
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Delegate: Jamie Fox, P.E. Alternate Delegate: Brian Quinn, P.E. Board of Directors President: Matthew Rechtien, P.E. (Bodman Law Firm, Detroit, MI) Vice President: Traci Weirda, P.E. (WL Perry, Grand Rapids, MI) Secretary: Brandon Hildreth, P.E. (Prein & Newhof, Grand Rapids, MI) Treasurer: Rich Kipke, P.E. (Graitec, Rockford, MI) Directors: Karin Kasper, P.E. (Classic Engineering, Grand Rapids, MI), William
Thayer, P.E. (Macmillan Associates, Bay City, MI), John Gruber, P.E. (Sheppard Engineering, Troy, MI), Larry Chute, P.E. (SME, Plymouth, MI), Todd Hamilton, P.E. (Hilti, Detroit, MI)
Past President: Larry Hulst, P.E. (LH Consulting, Grandville, MI) Year of Formation: 1997 Total Number of Members: 172 (3 out‐of‐state and 2 Canadian members), decrease of 9% Annual Dues: $40.00 for licensed professionals
$30.00 for non‐licensed engineers We raised dues $5 starting for the 2012 renewal period.
Meeting Schedule: Normally six or seven program meetings are held each year in both the Detroit area and the Grand Rapids area and a few in the Saginaw Valley area. Board meetings are monthly and normally held via teleconference.
List of Active Committees: Membership Committee, Building Code Committee, Special Inspections Committee, and Program Committee
Previous Year’s Activities The Special Inspections Committee had been working for the past few years diligently to put together a comprehensive set of guidelines for special inspections. In March of 2008 the Committee was able to present a draft copy of the guideline to the membership and the Board for comment. This has been a fairly long process that we look forward to completing. We hope to get the committee together this year and get the document updated to the new building code. The Building Code Committee was active in the summer of 2009 with the state committee meetings over the summer and there has been some follow up for that. We have a few active participants working with the state.
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SEAMi has three active chapters, Southeastern Michigan (mainly metropolitan Detroit), West Michigan (Grand Rapids area) and Saginaw Valley (Saginaw, Bay City and Midland area). The Program Committee plans all activities. Southeastern Michigan Chapter Activities:
Structural Anchorage with Jeff Warmolts, Powers Fasteners on October 25, 2011
Precast Trusses with Cal Van Ooyen, Kerkstra Precast on December 8, 2011
Dynamic Pile Testing with Chris Nicol and Mark Stapleton, G2 Consulting Group on January 31, 2012
Concrete Specifications, What are you really asking for? With Alf Gardiner, Braun Intertec on February 23, 2012
Voided Slab Systems with Michael Mota, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute on March 13, 2012
Special Inspections from a Jurisdictional Point of View with Scott Cope, City of Rochester Hills on April 17, 2012
West Michigan Chapter Activities:
Structural Anchorage with Jeff Warmolts, Powers Fasteners on October 26, 2011
Precast Trusses with Cal Van Ooyen, Kerkstra Precast on December 6, 2011
Rammed Aggregate Piers with Steven Werling, Geopier on January 19, 2012
Concrete Specifications, What are you really asking for? with Alf Gardiner, Braun Intertec on February 23, 2012
Prefabricated Masonry Panels with David Biggs, Biggs Consulting Engineering on May 10, 2012
Saginaw Valley Chapter Activities:
Structural Steel Galvanizing with Tim Woll, Voigt and Schweitzer Galvanizing on October 18, 2011
Rammed Aggregate Piers with Steven Werling, Geopier on February 7, 2012
Prefabricated Masonry Panels with David Biggs, Biggs Consulting Engineering on May 9, 2012
2012 Statewide Meeting: In 2012, SEAMi hosted a State Meeting in metro Detroit and had over 50 attendees from around the state attend for dinner and four presentations:
Structural Steel Coating and Surface Preparation with Troy Fraebel, Sherwin Williams
Masonry Construction Methods in Michigan with Scott Walkowicz, Walkowicz Consulting Engineers
A Story About Principles in Constructability, The John Hancock Building with David Ruby, Ruby+Associates
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Valmont Superstruct Tube with Kyle Debuse, Valmont Industries 2012 Awards: In 2012, SEAMi also gave out 2 awards in our Fourth Annual – a “Young Engineer of the Year” and a “Structural Engineer of the Year” award. These awards were presented to structural engineers who are helping make a positive impact in the profession of structural engineering as well as our communities and our world around us. In essence, who would we consider as good role models for others?
Young Engineer of the Year Award Winner: Jason Shingledecker, P.E., JDH Engineering, Grandville, MI
Structural Engineer of the Year Award Winner: William Kussro, S.E., P.E., Giffels/IBI Group, Southfield, MI
Upcoming Activities: Michigan plans on pursuing separate licensure for Structural Engineers in the State of Michigan. A committee looked into this in the past. There is hope to develop a plan of action and a strategy to get this accomplished in Michigan. We are waiting to see how the State Legislature acts on a few issues to see if the opportunity is there. A full schedule of programs is planned for the 2012‐2013 program year with at least 5 programs for each of the active chapters. We are trying to arrange for an ATC‐20 training class at some point, likely in second half of 2013 The Board will formally issue the Special Inspections Guidelines produced by the Special Inspections Committee. We would like to publish it to our web page and make it available for members to use as we have done with other documents in the past. SEAMi is planning a comprehensive overhaul of our website to make it more user‐friendly and the place to check regularly for information and activities. There was an issue with the hosting of our site during the summer of 2012 and this has been rectified and we’re moving forward with a new host and hopefully a fresher look soon.
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Delegate: Stephanie Young (Mattson Macdonald Young, Inc.) Alternate Delegate: Greg Greenlee (Engineering Partners International, LLC) Executive Director: David Oxley Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President Greg Greenlee (Engineering Partners International, LLC) Vice President: Michael Manor (Mattson Macdonald Young, Inc.) Secretary: Terri Erickson (Donaldson Filtration Solutions) Past President: Ahmet Senyurekli (Uni‐Systems) Year of Formation: 1989 Total Number of Members: 42 Member Firms, 2 Associate Members Annual Dues: $ 150 per Member Firm, $ 75 per Associate Member Awards Program: Participates in ACEC/MN Awards Program Meeting Schedule: Monthly (September thru May) List of Active Committees: Education Committee Duties of the Organization:
Provide a forum to improve the quality and practice of structural engineering
Participate in joint ventures with building officials, architects, organizations, and educators
Present information to our membership regarding codes, technology, design and business
Provide educational information about the practice of structural engineering to architects, building officials, and other appropriate parties
Work with ACEC/MN to lobby state officials on issues affecting the structural engineering community
Previous Year’s Activities: 1. Monthly meetings were held September through April. Topics are typically geared toward the technical nature of structural engineering. Attendance was good, averaging between 25 to 30 people. Monthly meetings and topics were as follows:
September 2011: “The Schubert” by Andrew Rauch, P.E., S.E., LEED AP – BKBM and by Denita Lemmon, AIA, LEED AP – Miller Dunwiddie Architecture
October 2011: “Chapter N – Quality Control and Quality Assurance” by Charles J. Carter, S.E., P.E., Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Structural Engineer, AISC
November 2011: “Determining As‐Built Structural Systems for Evaluation of Existing Buildings” by William E. Bloemendal, P.E., Principal Engineer, American Engineering Testing, Inc.
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December 2011: “Structural Wood to Wood Fasteners” by Brice Hereford, Code Compliance Specialist, FastenMaster
January 2012: “Tips for Optimizing Structural Masonry” by Diane B. Throop, P.E. FASTM, FTMS, Director of Engineering, International Masonry Institute
February 2012: “Empowering your Practice with Ethics” by Kristine A. Kubes, Esq., Principal of the Kubes Law Office, PLLC
March 2012: “Field problems and possible fixes and ways to prevent them” by Lawrence A. Kloiber P.E., consultant to LeJeune Steel Co.
April 2012: “Engineered Solutions For Long‐Span Floor Systems” by Marty Williams – The Metal Dek Group
2. MNSEA hosted two web/teleconference seminars; they were "free" to attendees, including lunch. Attendance was limited to the first 25 people that signed up. 3. The annual seminar was held on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. The topic was "ASCE 7‐10 Wind Provisions" presented by S.K. Ghosh, Ph.D. Attendees received a copy of the ASCE 7‐10 for a reduced fee. 4. Minnesota's representatives to the National Council of Structural Engineers Association (NCSEA) for MNSEA.
Stephanie Young is MNSEA's correspondent to NCSEA and is the current voting delegate. She still handles most of the communications between NCSEA and MNSEA.
Mike Manor and Stephanie Young attended the NCSEA 19th Annual Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in October 2011
Joy Beers is the MN representative for the NCSEA Code Advisory Committee for General Engineering. This committee presents recommended modifications to the structural engineering provisions of the model building codes
Ron LaMere and Andy Rauch continue to be active with national committees; Ron is on the NCSEA QA/SI Subcommittee and serves on SEI's Business and Professional Activities Division (BPAD) Executive Committee
5. SEA is not specifically associated with CASE/National; however, Andy Rauch continues to be active in both. He is the chair of the CASE/National Guidelines Committee and as Chair he is also on the Executive Committee for CASE/National. Andy continues to give MNSEA detailed updates on CASE/National activities. 6. Dave Westerheide is our liaison with the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). 7. Greg Duerr is the liaison to the Construction Industry Cooperative (CICC).
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8. Irene Peterson, Lynn Brekke, and Ross Turner are on the MNSEA membership committee. 9. Brion Szwed is the chairman of the Education Committee. 10. Ahmet Senyurekli, as president, represented MNSEA and provided a report at the ACEC/MN Board of Directors meeting in January 2012. 11. The organization enacted a name change from CASE/MN to MNSEA at the December 2010 meeting. This was done to better align the organization with NCSEA, of which we are a member organization, as opposed to CASE/National, with which we have no direct affiliation. 12. MNSEA licensing committee chaired by Joy Beers has voted to pursue an SE Title Act in Minnesota and is in the process of developing proposed legislation language to present to the Board of Registration. 13. A $200 donation was made to the U of M Concrete Canoe Team. 14. MNSEA is in the process of creating a MNSEA website that will be launched between May and September of 2012. The website will list all member firms and a link to their website, which we hope will boost membership. Recommended Activities for 2012 to 2013
Continue monthly meetings and if the budget allows, host 5 webinars
Continue the Annual Seminar in May with good quality speakers
Continue to build alliances with the Minnesota Steel Fabricators Group
Maintain representation with NCSEA, State Code Advisory Committee, Construction Industry Cooperative Council, and other appropriate organizations
Present a "brown‐bag" seminar to AIA Minnesota and/or maintain a booth at the AIA Convention
Maintain our ties to the University of Minnesota Department of Civil Engineering and encouraging faculty members and students to become involved in our organization
Continue to support the committee looking at establishing separate licensing of structural engineers in the State of Minnesota.
Produce a white paper in conjunction with the state building official outlining recommended procedures when dealing with a structure which is known to have areas that are potentially overloaded according to the current building code.
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What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? MNSEA licensing committee chaired by Joy Beers voted to pursue an SE Title Act in Minnesota and is in the process of developing proposed legislation language to present to the Board of Registration.
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Delegate: Jason McQueen Alternate Delegate: none Executive Director: N/A Board of Directors President: Harlan Dean Past President: Jerry Montgomery Secretary: Bill Myers Treasurer: Xan Cutcliff Year of Formation: 2010 Total Number of Members: 53 Annual Dues: $95.00/P.E.
$50.00/E.I. 250.00/Corporate
Awards Program: None Meeting Schedule: Monthly (excl. July and December) List of Active Committees: None Previous Year’s Activities: Monthly meetings and a half‐day seminar What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Structurally‐relevant continuing education/pdh’s
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Delegate: Jami Lorenz, P.E. Executive Director: Tom Abel, P.E. Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Tom Abel, P.E. Vice President: Will Freese, P.E. Secretary: Steve Brackman, P.E. Treasurer: Janna Moser, P.E. Past President: Carol Pivonka, P.E. Directors: Gary Grassel, P.E., Matt Miller, P.E., Matt Schmidt, P.E., and Jesse
Fortune, P.E. Year of Formation: 2004 Total Number of Members: 82 Annual Dues: $75 Awards Program: None Meeting Schedule: Semi Annual List of Active Committees: Committees are now aligned with the NCSEA committees, and
consist of: Advocacy, Code Advisory, Continuing Education, Membership, Publications/Magazine, and SEER Committee.
Previous Year’s Activities Joint Engineers Conference in November ‐ Helena, Montana. This is an annual event where engineers from the entire state meet for several days. Educational sessions are offered that count towards PE continuing education requirements. Vendors have displays and sponsor a lunch. SEAMT always invites speakers for the structural track and has had the pleasure of having many NCSEA members speak at this conference. Spring Code Class, Bozeman, Montana. Craig Barnes presented a seminar entitled “Existing Building Renovation & Structural Failures Case Studies by an Expert in the Field”. He spoke for the entire day and much was learned by SEAMT about a wide variety of subjects in Craig’s expertise. We have created small SEAMT groups in the major cities in Montana who will hopefully hold their own meetings and maybe take advantage of webinars that SEAMT purchases. We are looking at building a library of NCSEA webinars for the use of our membership. We would charge a minimal fee for viewing the webinars, enough to pay for the initial purchase of the webinars.
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What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? At the November 2011 Joint Engineers Conference and May 2012 Spring Conference, we had a list of high‐quality speakers/presenters sponsored by SEAMT, and are looking forward to the same caliber of speakers this coming fall.
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Delegate: Robert A. Whorley Alternate Delegate: N/A Executive Director: N/A Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Robert Whorley President‐Elect: Rich Kotan Secretary: Nancy Melby Treasurer: Jeff Ehler Directors: Pete Vacarro, Mike Naccarato, Mike Kuhse, Jeff Stevens, Troy
Nissen, Sandi Davison, Ken Kilzer, Adam Christensen, Mike Eisenbarth, and Brad Schaap
Year of Formation: 2004 Total Number of Members: 102 Annual Dues: $70 Awards Program: no Meeting Schedule: Four meetings per year plus an annual Banquet meeting. Also, co‐
sponsor an annual Structural Engineering Conference with ASCE List of Active Committees: Programs and Meetings, Membership, Structural Conference,
Professional Practices Codes and Standards, Website, Licensing, Publications/Newsletter, and Student Chapter
Previous Year’s Activities:
SEAON held 3 dinner meetings during the year (technical presentations), 1 full day AISC Steel Manual seminar and had an end of the year annual banquet with student involvement.
Our organization has updated our website, making it easier to navigate and utilize on‐line payment services.
We provide on‐going participation in the State of Nebraska's efforts (through the Nebraska Board of Engineers and Architects (NBEA) to assist in revising state statutes and rules pertaining to proposed new legislative changes by the NBEA.
Furthermore, SEAON has been working with the NBEA and other interested parties in developing proposed legislative language that would implement a partial practice act for structural engineering and transition clause recognizing engineers who are currently practicing.
Also, SEAON has joined the Professional Engineers Coalition (PEC). The PEC is a lobbying group comprised of several Nebraska engineering associations whose goal is to present a unified voice on issues of interest to PEC members. Besides SEAON
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the other members of the PEC include the Nebraska Society of Professional Engineers (NeSPE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Professional Surveyors of Nebraska (PSAN), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
SEAON has helped fund the local student chapter in their participation in the concrete canoe contest, steel bridge competition, and other activities. We also continue to support the local engineers’ round table in promotion of the engineering profession within our community.
Finally, we have board meetings approximately monthly. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Technical presentations to allow membership to gain professional development.
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Delegate: Robert H. Durfee, P.E., SECB Alternate Delegate: Alex Azodi, P.E., SECB Executive Director: Deb Coon, Administrative Assistant Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Josh Lund, P.E., SECB Vice President: Adam Stockin, P.E. Secretary: Normand Cote, P.E., SECB Treasurer: Robert Champagne, P.E., SECB Director at Large: Sean James, P.E. Year of Formation: 1995 Total Number of Members: 134 Annual Dues: $55.00 Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: Five (5) regular meetings held throughout the year in September,
November, January, March and May. One (1) technical seminar is held in October and/or March
List of Active Committees: Professional Development (PD), N.H. Quality Based Selection (QBS) Coalition, Joint Committee of N.H. Engineering Societies, NCSEA Communications, Bureau of Emergency Management (BEM), Public Relations (PR) and Northeast Coalition of SEA's (NECSEA)
Previous Year’s Activities: The September 2011 meeting was a site visit to the " Newington/Dover NH Bridge Widening Project" and a meeting therafter with a presentation and overview of the project, by Cianbro Construction, the prime contractor. The November 2011 meeting was a "Business Owners Roundtable" presented by SENH members. The ins and outs of structural consulting engineering practices was covered. The January 2012 meeting had two presentations. The first presentation “An Overview of the NHDOT Bureau of Bridge Design” was made by Mark Richardson, PE, New Hampshire Department of Transportation. The second presentation was on “Thermoplastic Bridges” by Eric Kim, P.E., of Parsons Brinkerhoff. The March 2012 meeting was held at the University of New Hampshire. This was a joint meeting with the SENH student members and interested engineering students. Robert Landry,
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P.E., NHDOT Project Manager, made a presentation on the “Overview of the Memorial Bridge Replacment Project in Portsmouth, NH". Student presentation by Eric Picard on “Accounting for Effects of Temperature on Long Term Stress Strain Bridge Monitoring" was made. The May 2012 was the annual meeting with new officers elected. A presentation by Douglas Phelps, Aegis Metal Framing on “The Specification, Design, Manufacture and Installation of Cold Formed Steel Trusses” was made. SENH sent two (2) representatives to the Annual Conference in Oklahoma City, OK in October. They were: • Bob Durfee, P.E., SECB Delegate • Alex Azodi, P.E., Alternate Delegate The SENH PR Committee awarded its sixth annual round of scholarships to two University of New Hampshire (UNH) Juniors who, through their course selection, have designated structural engineering to be the focus of their education. Mr. Ryan McNabb and Mr. Sean Brown each received a $500 scholarship to assist with the financial burdens of pursuing their degrees. They were extended SENH student membership and acknowledged at the annual Engineer’s Week Banquet in February 2012 for their scholastic and extra‐curricular achievements. In 2011‐2012, SENH sponsored and advised the University of New Hampshire (UNH) students planning and participating in the ASCE/AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition. This year the team competed well enough at Regional’s to attend the National SSBC for the second year in a row. SENH representatives attended the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Engineering, Science and Technology Career and Internship Fairs in the fall of 2011 and again in the spring of 2012 to share our experience as structural engineers with the students and discuss what SENH had to offer. Students were encouraged to network with SENH members, advice was offered, and resumes were gathered to share with SENH members upon request. The SENH newsletter keeps our members informed of these UNH activites, with the SENH/UNH Liaison and the students writing articles. The students also make presentations to SENH meetings through out the year. In the coming year, SENH is planning the following meetings:
September 2012– This will be a joint meeting with the NH Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (our eighth such joint meeting). The meeting topic will be "Geotechnical Case Histories"
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The NH Joint Engineering Societies, which includes SENH, is planning the Sixth Annual Joint Society Conference on October 4, 2012 in Bedford, NH. The program is titled “Emerging Technologoes”.
November 2012– The meeting topic will be a business practice related topic.
January 2013– This is a bridge topic meeting that would include an NHDOT update of state bridge activity, followed by a presentation on a bridge project of interest.
March 2013– This meeting will be held at the University New Hampshire (UNH) and is part of an outreach effort between SENH and UNH. A similar meeting was held the last three years and is well attended by students and SENH members.
May 2013– This is our Annual Meeting. New Board members are elected.
A day long building Design seminar is being considered for Spring, 2013 time frame. Possible topics include: an update on 2012 International Existing Building Code.
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? During the 2011‐2012 year we sponsored our first National Highway Institute (NHI) training seminar. The seminar was titled “Fracture Critical Inspection Techniques for Steel Bridges” and was closely coordinated with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. This seminar allowed us to provide an important training opportunity for our Bridge Engineer members as the course is often a requirement for DOT inspection contracts.
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Delegate: Russell S. Bausch, P.E. Alternate Delegate: Vicky Watt, P.E. Executive Director: Russell S. Bausch Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Russell S. Bausch Vice President: Jennifer Greenleaf Past President: Rhonda Young Secretary: Nicholas Torres State Director: Eric MacFarlane Treasurer: Vicky Watt Year of Formation: 1998 Total Number of Members: n/a Annual Dues: $135 Awards Program: n/a Meeting Schedule: Board of Directors Meet 1st Thursday of Every Month
Members Meet 2nd Wednesday of Every Month List of Active Committees: Membership Committee: Eric MacFarlane, Nicholas Torres
Special Inspection Committee: Vicky Watt, Chris Romero Scholarship Committee: Russell Bausch, Rhonda Young Website Committee: Francis Catanach SEAoC/SEANM Annual Meeting 2012 Rhonda Young, Vicky Watt SEANM Annual Meeting 2013: Russell Bausch, Rhonda Young
Previous Year’s Activities:
August 10, 2011: Precast Structures and Frames, Presented by Miles Blackman with Coreslab Structures
September 14, 2011: Tour of ProBuild Truss Manufacturing, Presented by Max Smith with ProBuild
October 12, 2011: ACI 318 Appendix D, Presented by Jeff Stoneman with Simpson Strong Tie
November 9, 2011: Common Pitfalls in Steel Joist Specifications, Presented by Michael R. Miller with Vulcraft
December 14, 2011: Update on NCSEA Annual Conference, Presented by Bob Crossno and Nicholas Torres
January 11, 2012: Expanded Polystyrene Geofoam and Its Uses, Presented by Mike Tobin with AFM Corporation
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February 8, 2012: Steel Tank Structures, Presented by Eric MacFarlane with Los Alamos National Labs
March 21, 2012: Wood Design and Connectors, Presented by Francis Catanach with Vigil Enterprises
April 11, 2012: Design of Post Tensioned Structures, Presented by Bryan Allred with Seneca Structural Engineering
May 9, 2012: ACI 318 Appendix D, Presented by Craig Hering with Powers Fasteners
June 13, 2012: NCSEA Current Events, Presented by Mark D’Amato with DCI Engineers
July 13, 2012: Ethical Thoughts for Structural Engineers, Presented by J.W. Hall with UNM
August 8, 2012: Emerging Trends in Construction Litigation and How to Protect Yourself, presented by Edward M. Anaya with Anaya Law, LLC
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? This year we implemented the use of webinars through the use of the NCSEA license for Adobe Connect. Due to the presentations being broadcast on the internet, we were able to increase the number of members for SEANM. We are currently broadcasting our monthly presentations via webinar to 3 different cities across New Mexico and we plan to expand to more cities this year. In order to help cover the costs of the webinars and the increased NCSEA dues, the members and Board of Directors for SEANM agreed to an increase in the cost of the annual dues from $100 to $135. Another program that we started offering this year is the ability to pay dues for annual memberships, ethics seminars, monthly meetings, and webinars via PayPal. Several of our members have stated that this is much more convenient for them to pay their dues. We still give them the option of paying by check or cash, but Paypal saves time for the people paying, as well as time that would have otherwise been spent driving to and from the bank to make deposits. Paypal automatically sends an email to the SEANM Board of Directors every time anyone pays their dues.
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Delegate: Erik Madsen Alternate Delegate: Brian Falconer Executive Director: Kristin Darga, Jaffee Management Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Scott Hughes President‐Elect: Brian Falconer Past‐President: Karl Rubenacker Secretary: Douglas P. Gonzalez Treasurer: Eli Gottlieb Directors: Vezna Hadzibabic, Jonathan Hernandez, Sara Steel, and Brad
Kiefer Year of Formation: 1995 Total Number of Members: 421 Annual Dues: Dues for practicing Structural Engineers Licensed in the State of
New York are $150. Dues for individuals practicing in the field of structural engineering but not licensed in New York are $75. Dues for individuals who work outside the structural engineering profession are $150. Dues for full or part‐time students pursuing a degree in Civil or Structural Engineering are $25.
Awards Program: Yes, modeled after NCSEA Meeting Schedule: Monthly Educational Seminars, monthly board meetings List of Active Committees: Programs Committee, Publications Committee, Codes &
Standards Committee, Education & Outreach Committee, and Sponsorship Committee
Previous Year’s Activities: Programs Committee’s Overview The Programs Committee continued the initiatives this past year to expand and improve SEAoNY events. To develop a consistent format for programming, we instated the Perennial Lecture Themes: Historic Preservation, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Structures and Art/Architecture, BIM/Technology, Legal Issues/Management, Geotechnical, and Honorary Member Presentation
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The day‐long seminar this year was centered around renovation and rehabilitation. 6 presenters explored different facets of the subject, including non‐destructive testing, smart structural health monitoring, adaptive reuse, and researching existing buildings in NYC. In addition to the technical monthly lectures, we also organized a number of new fun events. A joint pub debate with another engineering society saw American and British engineers delve deep into the nuances of engineering issues. Members also enjoyed tours of the Number 7 train Subway Extension project and a guided tour of the Old Croton Aqueduct that provided NYC’s water for many years. To wrap up an eventful year and acknowledge jobs well done, we hosted the SEAoNY Excellence in Engineering Awards at our annual boat cruise around lower Manhattan. The winners are forwarded to NCSEA for consideration for the national awards. Summary of Events
09.20.11: SEAoNY Annual Meeting Honors Commissioner Robert LiMandri
10.18.11: The No. 7 Line Subway Extension Project ‐ Design and Construction of Running Tunnels and Station Structures. Speaker: Sankar Chakroborty, P.E., Deputy Chief Engineer, MTA Capital Construction
11.07.11: DOB Presentation: Guidelines to Registering a Special Inspections Agency in NYC
Speakers: Alan Price P.E., Director, OTCR and Dawn Davidson, Project Manager
11.15.11: TR Higgins Lecture: Gusset Plate Connections for Seismic Design
Speaker: Charles W. Roeder, PhD, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Washington.
12.13.11: High Performance Concrete Reinforcement Systems
Speakers: Felix E, Ferrer, P.E. and Steven J. Bongiorno, P.E., S.E.
01.17.12: Practical Methods for Drift Optimization of Braced and Portal Frames
Speaker: Edward M. DePaola, PE SECB President & CEO, Severud Associates Consulting Engineers, PC
02.07.12: Sustaining New York: Renovation and Rehabilitation of Existing Structures (Day Long Seminar)
02.21.12: Best Practices for Integrating BIM and Structural Analysis
Speaker: Brian E. Johnson, P.E., Autodesk
03.13.12: SEAoNY/ICE Pub Debate, Motion: STARchitects' iconic structures are worth the money.
03.20.12: Mock Mediation
Attorneys from Donovan Hatem LLP hosted a mock mediation, illustrating how owner or contractor vs. designer mediation typically operates and how to resolve such conflicts.
04.17.12: Challenges of Foundation Work in New York City
Speaker: George Leventis, senior principal at Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
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05.15.12: SEAoNY Honorary Member Lecture: DOB Commissioner Robert LiMandri
Presentation Title: Raising Today’s Safety Standards for Tomorrow’s Structures
05.19.12: Old Croton Aqueduct Visit
06.11.11: SEAoNY Annual Boat Cruise and Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Dinner
06.18.11: SEAoNY Golf Outing SEAoNY Education and University Outreach Committee: SEAoNY’s Education and University Outreach Committee just completed its’ 3rd active year.
Over the past year, the committee has continued to establish relationships with the NYC Metro area universities.
This year, our “Structure Quest” event on November 11th attracted 43 students from 6 universities in the New York City Area. Students gathered at The Cooper Union hailing from Princeton University, Cornell University, The Cooper Union, Manhattan College, Stevens Institute of Technology and Columbia University. The students were placed in teams with practicing engineers from 6 different prominent New York City Structural Engineering firms. The teams explored the city hunting for notable feats of structural engineering, keeping an eye out for construction techniques that scored them bonus points.
The committee also hosted a Resume Workshop on March 1st. Twenty‐three students from 3 different universities attended the event at Columbia University. The event gave structural engineering specific advice for resume writing; presented sample “good” and “bad” resumes and featured a panel of representative professional engineers to answer student’s individual questions.
SEAoNY Publications Committee: The Publications Committee has continued to generate high‐quality issues on wide‐ranging topics. Since the end of last fiscal year, feature article topics included SEAoNY events, such as the Excellence in Structural Engineering Award Winners, Engineers and the Economy, How to Avoid Change Orders, Earthquakes in New York City, and the structural engineering of bird nests. A recurring article was introduced, entitled "Structural Profile," which describes a local historical project in detail, typically including artistic photography from one of our members. The overall structure of each issue is also constant. While we have shifted away from the concept of a themed issue, where each article shares a common topic, recurring article types and this constant framework help to maintain cohesion between issues. The primary goal for the next year is increasing frequency of the publication to achieve a true quarterly schedule. This will enable the publication to give more timely recaps of SEAoNY events, and will increase the volume of technical content that may be published within a year.
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SEAoNY Codes & Standards Committee The Codes and Standards Committee has been very active this past year, usually meeting on a monthly basis. We have coordinated our efforts with the NYC code cycle and Buildings Department. Our efforts this year focused on the topic of existing buildings. Currently the NYC Building Code has provisions for existing buildings interspersed throughout the code, as well as in various rules and policy & procedure notices. The perceived goal is to clarify, improve and extend these provisions, and/or possibly adopt the IEBC in some form. We have pursued a multi‐pronged effort with regard to this issue, with the following topics:
Proposed existing building code outline
Comparison with existing codes of other jurisdictions and with model codes or standards
Categorize different types of alterations common in NYC
Identify “grey areas” in the current NYC code with regard to existing buildings.
Categorize typical historical building types in NYC
Categorize typical existing historical building materials and systems in NYC
Collect historic NYC codes
Compare historic NYC codes to see changes in loads and allowable stresses.
Some of these topics are close to completion, and some are still in the formative stage. Publication of the attained results is anticipated to occur in the coming year. Some of the results will simply be informational, and be presented in the form of reference documents or “best practices” guidelines for the benefit of practicing engineers.
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Most valuable program was the day long “Building Renovation and Rehabilitation Seminar” – a collaboration with members of private industry and government organizations to discuss the finer points of renovation and construction in New York City.
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Delegate: Mary Elizabeth Hamilton Alternate Delegate: Matthew Hickey Executive Director: Clinton Robertson Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Matthew Hickey Vice President: Don Woods Secretary: Kirsten Baldwin Treasurer: Mary Elizabeth Hamilton Board Member At‐Large: Steven Knight Year of Formation: 2009 Total Number of Members: 148 Annual Dues: $50.00 Awards Program: No Meeting Schedule: State Conference, Annually and Local Chapter Meetings, Monthly List of Active Committees: State Building Code Committee, Website Committee, and State
Conference Planning Committee Previous Year’s Activities:
Member Education Activities
Monthly Local Chapter Meetings
Each month local chapter held meetings presenting educational topics in structural engineering to their membership from university professors, industry professionals and structural engineering product manufacturers. Some of this year’s highlights included: o Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Parking Decks o Maturity in Concrete o Hurricane Damage Assesment, Dr. Spencer Rogers o Steel Fiber Reinforcing, Bekaert o GeoFoam, ACH Foam Technologies o Camber Steel Talk, AISC o American Galvanizers Association
Field Outings: Members participated in field outings to project sites, experimental research demonstrations and structural product fabrication facilities this year. Several of this year’s trips included: o Steel Fab, INC Steel Fabrication Facility o Chester Wood Products Mill Research Testing Facility, WoodWorks
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o Infrastructure Security and Emergency Responder Research and o Training (ISERRT) Facility, University of North Carolina Charlotte o Current Research Demonstrations, NC State University Construction Lab
Annual State Conference: This year’s State Conference was held in Wrightsville Beach, NC and was attended by 75 industry professionals from around the state. The conference topics included: Wind Engineering, Forensic Engineering: Case Studies in Wind Damages, and Liquefaction Mitigation. The conference also featured a variety of vendor displays and social networking for attendees.
Member Outreach Activities NC State Capstone Design Class, Advisory Committee Members from the Triangle Chapter of SEA of NC met monthly with the senior design course at NC State University to offer real world engineering expertise to the students from initial schematic design through project completion. Website Committee New this year, the website committee’s goal is to extend the state chapter’s accessibility to our membership while, also, increasing the visual presence of the structural engineering profession in the state. Our hope is to have an online community for our members including event calendars, state forms and local chapter contacts. The website will, in the future, also provide a resource for those looking to expand their businesses in the North Carolina area in need of a Structural Engineering professional. Building Code Committee Also new this year, the SEA’s building code committee has been establishing contacts in the State Building Code Committee. They provided recommendations for an Ad‐Hoc committee member, and they continue to explore how the SEA can be involved in the Building Code Approval process. Member Social Activities Local Chapters and the State Conference strive to provide opportunities for the membership to meet socially at planned after work happy hours, social lunches during field outing events, and during annual conference activities. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The most valuable service that we provide to our membership is the ability to fulfill the state’s continuing education requirement with valuable information from experts in the profession while in an environment that promotes discussion in the structural engineering community.
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Delegate: Kip Ping Alternate Delegate: Tim Gilbert Executive Director: N/A Board of Directors: Dave Ferencik
Ryan Konst Kip Ping Brad Boomer Greg Sliger Carrie Bremer Tim Gilbert Jason Hoover Walk Heckel Mark Churpek Frank Monastra
Year of Formation: 2003 Total Number of Members: 246 Annual Dues: $50.00 Awards Program: 3 Annual Educational Awards for Students at Ohio Colleges Meeting Schedule: Annual Conference in Columbus
6 Section meetings in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo each per year.
List of Active Committees: Programs, Membership, Education, Annual Conference,
Communications, Licensure, Building Code, and SEER Previous Year’s Activities: 2011 Annual Conference attended by nearly 100 Structural Engineers as well as approximately 18 meetings in the city sections of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and Columbus. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Our Annual Conference is well attended each year with very high review comments form the attendees.
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Delegate: Orin (OJ) Johnston III Alternate Delegate: Carisa Ramming Executive Director: Dustin Cole Email Address: [email protected] Board of Directors: Kristin Killgore P.E.
Aaron Landrum P.E. Chris Strunk P.E. Sarah Woodward P.E. Vinay Thottunkal P.E. Chris Willis P.E. Shannon Koeninger P.E. David Gastgeb P.E. John Kelly P.E. Tahir Nasir P.E.
Year of Formation: 1994 Total Number of Members: 287 Annual Dues: Licensed Members: $55
Non‐licensed (degreed) Members: $40 Student Members: $10 Affiliate Members: $55
Awards Program: N/A Meeting Schedule: Monthly lunch meetings in Tulsa (Eastern) and Oklahoma City
(Central) Chapter plus Fall & Spring Conferences. List of Active Committees: Spring Conference, Fall Conference, Structural Licensing, Young
Members Group and Website. Previous Year’s Activities: Spring and fall conferences, monthly lunch meetings, started a young members group in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, continue progressing with plans to recommend a partial practice act in Oklahoma Most valuable program: The Eastern Chapter has had 9 monthly meetings so far in 2012. One notable meeting was a tour of a local ready‐mix concrete and precast concrete plant. We saw a demonstration of the software they use to design and detail the precast concrete. We then had a tour of the fabrication yard while learning the member casting processes and the quality control processes.
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The Central Chapter has had 8 meetings so far in 2012. One notable meeting was a presentation by Versa Floor and site visit. We learned about the unique composite steel/concrete system and the benefits both in construction time and design strength. We then took a site visit of a project on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The site visit highlighted how the system is actually constructed and demonstrated the multiple phases and advantages of the system. The OSEA annual Spring Conference had 3 different speakers presenting topics of special inspections, ethics and the Skydance Pedestrian Bridge in Oklahoma City. The Conference also had a panel discussion on special inspections with local industry leaders. The Fall Conference is scheduled for October 18th. It will have 4 speakers presenting topics of expert witness testimonies, component and cladding loads and the code update design of the Old Faithful Inn. Each conference had approximately 200 attendees, and provided a total of 12 hours of continuing education.
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Delegate: Susan (Sue) M. Frey, SE Alternate Delegate: Ed Quesenberry, SE 2011‐2012 SEAO President Aaron Burkhardt, SE 2012‐2013 SEAO President will attend 2012 NCSEA Conference in Ed's place. Executive Director: Jane Ellsworth, Executive Secretary Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors 2011‐2012 President: Ed Quesenberry Vice President: Aaron Burkhardt Treasurer: Kevin Kaplan Secretary: Michelle Chavez Directors: Norm Farris and Don Ellsworth Past President: Trent Nagele Board of Directors 2012‐2013 President: Aaron Burkhardt Vice President: Amit Kumar Treasurer: Shelley Duquette Secretary: Jennifer Eggers Directors: Don Ellsworth and Jason Thompson Past President: Ed Quesenberry Year of Formation: 1949 Total Number of Members: 433 (343 Members, 90 Affiliate) plus 7 Retired, 18 Student, and 29
Life Members as of the February 2012 Roster. Annual Dues: $102 Members/$95 Affiliate Members Awards Program: Life Membership awarded annually.
Student Scholarships awarded annually. See specifics in committee information below. 2011‐12 Awards to (4) students at (4) different Universities totaling $8,500.
Meeting Schedule: Sept to May Lunch or Dinner Meeting in Portland with concurrent webcasts to other cities in Oregon (See more information below on topics and speakers) February Vendor Trade Show Hosted 2012 SEA Northwest Conference and Council Meeting(OR, ID, WA, BC) Summer golf tournament See specifics in Committee information below.
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List of Active Committees See http://www.seao.org/committees/ for committee responsibilities and history: Building Code Subcommittees:
Vintage Building
Oregon Structural Specialty Code Interpretations
Special Inspection, Observation, Testing Technical Subcommittees:
Seismic
Wind
Snow Program Subcommittees:
Monthly Program
Conferences
Golf Tournament Membership: Subcommittee: Newsletter Education Subcommittees:
Seminars
Emergency Response Legislative: Subcommittee: OSBEELS Liaison Public Relations Subcommittees:
Website
Scholarship
Engineers Week
Young Member Forum Previous Year’s Activities: 2011‐2012 OSSC Code Liaison Activities: The committee continues to give recommendations of code interpretations to the Oregon Building Codes Division, which provides statewide code interpretations. 2011‐2012 Engineer's Week: Announcements were made to SEAO Membership through the newsletter the months preceding the event and an article in the March newsletter following the event. This year the SEAO board decided not to host an exhibit table because of short notice and lack of volunteers. SEAO sponsored 5 students and 3 SEAO members as host engineers on February 22nd. The committee is committing to hosting a booth next year with plans of a new banner, pictures and handouts with input from YMF. Also, a list of volunteers has been generated for next year’s event.
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2011‐2012 Young Member Forum: This past year the YMF participated in a high school/middle school outreach program helping to educate students in the field of structural engineering. The hour long presentation consisted of a short power‐point presentation followed by a hands‐on‐activity and was developed by SEAOC and NCSEA. We were able to go out to 4 schools and we were well received by both students and teachers. YMF also continues to hold monthly social hours in conjunction with the AIA young professional group. 2011‐2012 Special Inspection, Observation, Testing: The subcommittee worked on and is in the process of finalizing the 2012 IBC Chapter 17 Tables for a Statement of Special Inspection Plan. The Tables are currently being vetted by committee members, including testing agencies, permitting agencies and consultants. The tables are intended to be included by the SE RDP on project drawings, usually following or at the end of the general SE note drawings. Additional project specific and common construction inspections can be added to the mandatory code requirements. Commentary for each table is included. Currently posted versions consist of the 2003, 2006 and 2009 IBC versions and are available for free download on our website at http://www.seao.org/publications/specialinspection/.2011‐
2011‐12 Seismic: Review of ASCE 7‐10 to provide input for state building code adoption and/or revision, and contributions to newsletter featuring a seismic quiz to test member knowledge.
2011‐12 Wind: Review of ASCE 7‐10 to provide input for state building code adoption and/or revision, with updates to membership regarding upcoming changes and available wind design resources.
2011‐12 Snow: Awaiting the finalization of web site to allow for site specific lookup of the design snow load, development of which is by Oregon State University. Coordinating with bordering states to reconcile differences in snow load data at near border locations.
2011‐12 Programs: Monthly Meetings: For more information see above summary and newsletter articles at http://www.seao.org/publications/newsletter/newsarchive/
Sept 2011 Dinner Meeting Portland with Corvallis, Medford live webcast: Collaborative Opportunities for Architects & Engineers, looking beyond your desk. Speaker: Kurt Haapala
Oct 2011 Dinner Meeting with webcast live in Corvallis, Medford: The Business of Structural Engineering. Speaker: Dan Cuoco
Nov 2011 ‐ Lunch Meeting with webcast live in Corvallis, Medford: Structural Engineering The Profession, The Grandeur and The Glory. Speaker: Ashraf Habibullah
Jan 2012: Lunch Meeting: Specifying Wood & Cold Formed Steel Trusses, Avoiding pitfalls and Unnecessary Liability. Speaker: Ed Huston
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2012 Feb: SEAO Scholarship Foundation Tradeshow.
Clackamas, Oregon from 5:00 to 8:00 pm with mini seminars from 12:30 to 5:15 pm. This event is the main fundraiser for our scholarship fund which continues to grow to allow significant student scholarships each year.
2012 April: Dinner Meeting in Portland with webcast feed to Corvallis and Medford. Forensic Engineering. Speaker: Gene Corley.
2012 May: Lunch Meeting with live webcast feed to Corvallis, Eugene, Medford and Bend. Today's Civil Engineering Education in Oregon, Panel Discussion.
Speakers: Dr. Tom Miller, Dr. Franz Rad, Dr. Sean St. Clair, Dr. Mehemet Inan. 2011‐12 Conferences/Prep: As follows: Oct 2011: SEAO delegates attended the NCSEA annual conference in Oklahoma City. SEAO delegates will be attending the 2012 NCSEA Conference in St. Louis in October 2012. SEAO Members active in NCSEA include: Brad Moyes, NCSEA Board Sue Frey, Licensing and Continuing Education Committees July 2012: SEAO delegates and general membership attended 2012 NW SEA Conference. The conference this year was hosted by the SEAO and was held at Kahneeta Resort in Warm Springs, OR. NW Council consists of multiple SEA sections in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. 2012 Golf Tournament: July 18th at Stone Creek Golf Club. 4‐man scramble format with a shotgun start. Golf was followed by dinner and award of prizes. The event is co‐hosted by the Oregon chapter of ACI. 2011‐12 Newsletter: See 2011‐12 editions at: http://www.seao.org/publications/newsletter/newsarchive/ 2011‐12 Seminars:
March 2012 Seminar: Seismic Design Manual.
Fall 2012: SK Ghosh, ACI 318 Updates 2011‐12 Website: The website committee’s work has been maintenance, working out the bugs from the redesign, and looking to the future. We are in talks with AVibe (Web Designer) looking at opportunities for PDH’s (surprise!), online voting, and some additional features that will make it even better SEAO is also in talks with SEAW about the potential of sharing the computer code behind the website so that SEAW can cost effectively update their website design. SEAO and SEAW are working to establish a fair price for this transaction, and exploring ways to make it a mutually beneficial endeavor.
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2011‐12 Scholarship: The SEAOSF has awarded three $2,000.00 scholarships to Oregon students from Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University and University of Washington, and one $2500 Don Kramer Memorial Scholarship to a student at UC Berkeley for the upcoming academic year. Once again, the generosity of our membership, combined with the success of the annual Trade Show continues to keep the SEAOSF scholarship program strong. 2011‐12 Young Members: This past year the YMF participated in a high school/middle school outreach program helping to educate students in the field of structural engineering. The hour long presentation consisted of a short power‐point presentation followed by a hands‐on‐activity and was developed by SEAOC and NCSEA. We were able to go out to 4 schools and we were well received by both students and teachers. YMF also continues to hold monthly social hours in conjunction with the AIA young professional group. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Our focus this year has been on encouraging our membership to look beyond their desk and find ways to actively advocate for the profession of structural engineering. SEAO pursued this in several ways. Several of our monthly meetings were focused on exploring the importance of and advocacy for and education about structural engineering, and all of these meetings seemed to be well received. The highlights were the presentation by Ashraf Habibullah of CSI on the Glory of Our Profession, and a very informative, interactive panel discussion with college educators from Oregon universities that offer BSCE/Structural degrees. The emphasis of this panel discussion was the seemingly growing disconnect between curriculum requirements for graduation and the needs and expectations of employers of engineers. Our YMF group, with the help of NCSEA, successfully launched the effort to educate high school students about careers in structural engineering and plans to expand the outreach to more schools this coming year. SEAO members are also heavily involved in the State of Oregon Seismic Resiliency Planning effort that is underway currently. Our members are on several task groups evaluating the seismic vulnerability of critical buildings and infrastructure throughout our state and developing recommendations to State Legislature that will provide a roadmap for improved seismic resiliency in 50 years. SEAO has recognized the importance of this effort and will remain an integral part of the process as the final report develops and is finished in February of 2013. Several of our members have volunteered as advisors to the Portland Public School District in their efforts to develop a long term seismic upgrade plan for the district. The majority of the facilities in the district are seismically deficient, and funding for upgrades is difficult to obtain.
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Our members are assisting by educating the public and district officials on the importance of the upgrades and advising on ways of prioritizing the upgrade effort and obtaining funding. Lastly, SEAO successfully hosted the SEA NW Conference, which brought engineers from 3 states and British Columbia together for two days of technical sessions, tradeshow and delegate meetings, which proved very beneficial for all those that attended.
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Delegate: Stephen F. Olsen, P.E. Alternate Delegate: Matthew Loqa Executive Director: n/a Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Stephen F. Olsen, P.E. Vice‐President: Erik A. Nelson, P.E. Treasurer: Michael Milano, E.I.T. Secretary: Matthew Loqa, E.I.T. Year of Formation: 1998 Total Number of Members: 35 Annual Dues: Member: $60.00 Associate Member: $50.00 Affiliate Member: $125.00 Awards Program: We do not offer an Awards Program Meeting Schedule: The second Tuesday of every other month, excluding summer
months (usually 4‐6 per year) List of Active Committees: Special Inspections, SEARI Building Code Advisory Committee
(which studies both the RI State Rehab Code and the proposed new adoption of the International Existing Building Code)
Previous Year’s Activities: Presentation: Coastal Construction in Rhode Island Presentations: Using the New International Existing Building Code
Welds, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Wind and Seismic Design Considerations for Wood Framed Structures
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The presentation given by our Vice President, Erik Nelson, on welds was very informative. It was a good opportunity for learning the basics of designing welds and identifying common examples of welds. This topic was very valuable, especially for helping to avoid the common mistakes in designing them. It was especially important for our younger members, who generally did not receive much education in this topic.
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Delegate: Jesse S. Burke, PE [email protected] Alternate Delegate: Jason R. Hubert, PE [email protected] Executive Director: Christine Olden Email Address: [email protected] Website: www.seasouthcarolina.org Board of Directors STATE OFFICERS President: Jesse Burke, PE [email protected] Vice President: Jason Hubert, PE [email protected] Secretary: Ed Stehmeyer, PE [email protected] Treasurer: Brian Pietras, PE [email protected] CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES Charleston: Matt Wilks, PE [email protected] Columbia: Michelle Motchos, PE mmotchos@sw‐sc.com Greenville: Jonathan Cox, EIT [email protected] Hilton Head: Xavier Miranda, PE [email protected] Year of Formation: 2005 Total Number of Members: 2011–2012 Membership Year – 164 Total Members
38 Charleston Chapter Members 20 Columbia Chapter Members 43 Greenville Chapter Members 19 Hilton Head Chapter Members 44 Clemson University Student Chapter Members
Annual Dues: 2011–2012 $85 – National & State Dues
2012–2013 $85 – National & State Dues (Individual Chapters determine annual Chapter dues)
Awards Program: No State Awards Program
Greenville & Hilton Head Chapters have scholarship award programs for local college‐level structural engineering students
Meeting Schedule: (3) Regular Board of Directors Meeting
Annual Conference & Membership Meeting Individual Chapters (Charleston, Columbia, Hilton Head, Greenville & Clemson University Student Chapters) hold several meetings throughout the year.
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List of Active Committees: SEA of SC Code Advisory Committee (Chair: Brian Pietras, PE), SEA of SC Licensing Committee (Chair: Brian Pietras, PE), SEA of SC Structural Engineer Emergency Response (SEER) Committee (Chair: Ed Stehmeyer, PE)
Previous Year’s Activities:
7th Annual Conference held on June 1, 2012 in Hilton Head Island, SC with 6 PDH's of Technical Presentations and the Annual Membership Meeting
Contracted with Christine Olden for part‐time Executive Director services
SEA of SC Member, Timothy Rickborn, PE, appointed to South Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors for 5 year term
SEA of SC Code Advisory Committee:
Active participation at the South Carolina Building Codes Council meetings
Public review process of the 2012 I–Codes SEA of SC Licensing Committee:
Active participation at the South Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors meetings
Presentation of Proposed Structural Engineering Practice Act for South Carolina Whitepaper to South Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors
Ongoing activities to achieve some level of SE licensing in South Carolina SEA of SC SEER Committee
Ongoing discussions with South Carolina Emergency Management Division regarding assistance to the State after natural disasters
Ongoing activities for better organization of SEER Committee What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year?
Technical presentations at the 7th Annual Conference
Ongoing activities of the Code Advisory, Licensing & SEER Committees
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Delegate: William Hassenzahl Alternate Delegate: N/A Executive Director: Dawn Miller Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Paul Pitcher, P.E., S.E. [email protected] President Elect/ Vice President: William Hassenzahl, P.E., S.E, [email protected] Treasurer: Steve Schiller, S.E. [email protected] Director: Diego Giraldo, Ph.D., P.E. [email protected] Past President: Kent Barber, P.E., S.E. [email protected] Year of Formation: 1997 Total Number of Members: 53 Annual Dues: $90 Awards Program: N/A Meeting Schedule: Member meeting every month except June, July, and August. List of Active Committees: Membership, Program, and Agency Previous Year’s Activities: Eight membership meetings and our first member social event. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Our membership meeting entitled “Designing Efficient and Economical Post‐Tensioned Floor Systems.”
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Delegate: Otto J. Schwarz Alternate Delegate: Robert Paullus Executive Director: N/A Email address: info@tn‐sea.com Board of Directors President: Eugene Adams Vice President: Otto J. Schwarz Treasurer: David Cartwright Past President: Stephen Shearer Secretary: Andy Milligan Board Members: Logan Meeks, Robert Paullus, and Jason Perry Year of Formation: 1998 Total Number of Members: 150 ‐ 200 Annual Dues: East Region ‐ $75 Middle Region ‐ $100 West Region ‐ $75 Awards Program: Pending Distinguished Member Awards Meeting Schedule: East Region – Quarterly w/ quarterly technical mtgs. Middle Region – Monthly w/ bi‐monthly tech. mtgs. West Region – Quarterly w/ monthly tech. mtgs. List of Active Committees: Programs and Meetings, Codes and Standards, SEER, Licensure,
and Professional Practice Previous Year’s Activities Programs and Meetings: Each region has provided technical seminars and presentations for the general TNSEA membership. These seminars are aimed at providing usable and up‐to‐date technical information for the practicing structural engineer. Please see our web site at www‐tn‐sea.org for updates on these. The committee and state board has begun work on the first ever state‐wide SEA conference, scheduled for the spring of 2013. Codes and Standards:
Initial draft of the Special Inspection Guide for TN is complete. Statewide review of the document by each TNSEA region is underway.
West region has held joint meeting with the Memphis Chapter of AIA to present proposed Building Code changes in Memphis/Shelby County and worked extensively with Memphis and Shelby County to recommend adoption of the 2012 IBC ‐ WITHOUT exemption of the IBC seismic provisions.
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SEER: Actively involved with helping to create databases with state officials containing contact information for engineers who have completed the ATC 20/45 training. Licensure: The committee is actively pursuing and debating the framework for instituting legislation for separate licensure for structural engineers in the state of TN. Professional Practice: Membership of the committee has conducted visits to high‐schools and colleges to educate students on structural engineering. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? See Above!
Delegate: Paul J.Rielly, P.E., S.E. Alternate Delegate: Joe Kallaby, P.E. Executive Director: Liz Stansfeld Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Justice Edge, PE, President Elect: William Wallace, PE, Past President: Jon Jelinek, PE, AUSTIN: Brett Fagan, PE and Todd Speck, PE CORPUS CHRISTI: Lew Shrier, PE and Shane Torno, PE DALLAS: Bradford Russell, PE and David Barrett, PE EL PASO: Danny Anderson, PE and Ruben Ponce, PE FORT WORTH: Robert Nicholas and Brad Watson, PE HOUSTON/GULF COAST: Joe Kallaby, PE and Dennis Paul, PE SAN ANTONIO: Roger Martinez, PE and Ron Podojil, PE Year of Formation: 1983 Total Number of Members: 719 Active; 66 Inactive Annual Dues: $125.00 Awards Program: William C. Schoeller Award and SEAoT Service Award Meeting Schedule: Quarterly with the Annual State Conference in San Antonio, Texas
on September 26‐28 List of Active Committees: Activities Committee, Awards & Recognition, Communications,
Hall of Honor, Community Impact, Information Technology, Financial Health, Professional Activities & Legislative Liaison, Membership, SE Emergency Response, State Conference, and Technical & Code
Previous Year’s Activities: The State Organization and the local Chapter remain very active.
Each Chapter has two delegates that serve on the State Board and each year attends the four Board of Directors Meetings.
Each Chapter has committees that correspond to and report to the State Committees.
The State Organization and each Chapter publish newsletters. The SEAoT State Newsletter is published four times a year.
The State Organization and the Chapters have websites to keep their members informed of SEAoT activities.
The Chapters continue to offer their members a wide variety of programs for continuing education. Each chapter tailors the programs to meet the needs of their members.
SEAoT [Texas]
The Austin Chapter provides Saturday half‐day seminars on topics suggested by their membership.
The El Paso Chapter has a similar program and also has a very strong scholarship program for local engineering students.
The Dallas Chapter has prepared publications on engineering design that are distributed by the State Organization.
The State conference was held in Dallas and was attended by approximately 180 people. The conference occurred over a three‐day period and 9 continuing education hours were provided.
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The SEAoT Structural Engineering Licensing Task Force chaired by past chairman of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers, Robert Navarro, PE, continue to work network with the Texas Legislature regarding special licensing for structural engineers. In June of 2012, SEAoT contracted with the lobbyist firm of Congress Avenue Partners for the amount of $60,000 to help with this effort.
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Delegate: Barry Arnold, P.E., S.E., SECB ([email protected]) Alternate Delegate: Chris Kimball ([email protected]) Executive Director: Gloria Dearden Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Chris Kimball [email protected] VP/President Elect: Scott Roche [email protected] Past President: Dave Pierson [email protected] Treasurer: Dorian Adams [email protected] Secretary/Historian: Chandra Clyde [email protected] UEC Delegate: Curtis Earl cearl@dunn‐se.com UEC Delegate Elect: Dallin Pedersen [email protected] Year of Formation: 1980 Total Number of Members: 280 Annual Dues: $100.00 (If paid before Sept. 30th. $120.00 after Sept. 30th) Awards Program: Combined with spring social. Meeting Schedule: Fall social + a minimum of 8 monthly membership meetings
usually scheduled for the third Thursday of the month. List of Active Committees: Audit Committee: Jerod Johnson [email protected] BSSC Delegate: Parry Brown [email protected] By‐Laws Committee: Brent Maxfield [email protected] Codes/Technical Com: Doc Moyle [email protected] Existing Buildings Com: Barry Welliver [email protected] Legislative Committee: John Coffey [email protected] Membership/Roster Com: Mark Thimm [email protected] NCSEA Delegate: Barry Arnold [email protected] Newsletter Committee: Jesse Malan [email protected] Prof Practices and Ethics: Eric Kankainen [email protected] Programs/Con Ed Com: Chandra Clyde [email protected] Public Relations/Web Page: Troy Dye [email protected] Residential Design Com: Todd Snider [email protected] SEER Committee: Matt McBride [email protected] Seismic Committee: Stephen Cohen [email protected] UBC Commission Delegate: Justin Naser [email protected] Southern Utah Committee: Christen Demille [email protected] Northern Utah Committee: Joe Stuart [email protected]
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USSC Delegate: Greg McCombs [email protected] Previous Year’s Activities: SEAU hired an executive director and looks forward to the assistance and other benefits an ED will provide. SEAU received much useful information at last year’s NCSEA Annual Conference / ED meeting on how to hire and work with an ED. The SEAU has made great progress in improving the quality and accessibility of the broadcasts of their membership meetings. This has allowed more engineers from remote over the state to join in on the general membership meetings and enjoy the benefits of enhancing their knowledge and skills. The broadcast to remote locations via the internet have helped bring in new members. SEAU has continued to support both the Southern and Northern committees which were specifically created for those members located outside the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The committee members have appreciated having an avenue for participating in the SEAU organization and furthering their education and professional interests. The SEAU web site was made more user friendly and the members are able to review the compete calendar for upcoming events, review member data, pay renewal dues simply by logging on. Although the SEAU’s committees have been very active this past year the SEAU has been able to reduce expenses and have not felt the need to increase membership dues. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Making the Member's portion of the SEAU website more user‐friendly and easier for the member to update their current contact information, follow upcoming events, read important announcements, and pay their dues.
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Delegate: Tim Dall Alternate Delegate: Greg Sellers Executive Director: N/A Board of Directors: Tim Dall, Greg Sellers, Bill Nourse, and Barb Evans Year of Formation: 2000 Total Number of Members: 40 Annual Dues: $40 Awards Program: None Meeting Schedule: Monthly Board of Director meetings, 6 educational programs for
member per calendar year. List of Active Committees: Snow Load Mapping, Special Inspections, Emergency Response,
and Building Code Previous Year’s Activities:
SEAVT delegate attended 2011 NCSEA National Conference.
Provided educational opportunities for our members. Two of these meetings were held jointly with the Vermont ASCE Chapter and Vermont ASCE Student Chapter.
Joint Board of Director meeting with Vermont ASCE Chapter to discuss future collaboration.
Established the following committees: Snow Load Mapping, Special Inspections, Emergency Response and Building Code.
Pursued partnering with local Vermont AIA Chapter to coordinate Emergency Response plan with State officials.
Participated in review process of the 2012 Vermont State Building Code.
Identified and nominated candidates from within SEAVT for Vermont Engineer of the Year and Young Engineer of the Year. Both candidates nominated by SEAVT were awarded their respective titles from a pool of candidates from other Vermont engineering societies.
Continued working on updating the SEAVT website.
Investigated the use of video conferencing to offer remote meeting access to members throughout Vermont.
What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? By far, the most valuable service SEAVT offered is an increased participation and visibility of the organization within the State of Vermont. This has been achieved through collaboration with other Vermont engineering societies and outreach to engineering students at the University of Vermont.
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Delegate: Paul Gagnon, PE Alternate Delegate: Boyd Brown, PE Executive Director: Nancy Israel Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors Chairman: Paul Gagnon, PE Vice Chairman: Boyd Brown, PE Secretary/Treasurer: Ealr Inge, PE Immediate Past: Jeffrey S. Davis, PE, SECB Board Members: Jeffrey A. Fisher, PE, SE; Stephen M. Jones, PE; Neil Haner, PE;
Khalid Abed, PE; and Donna Adams, PE, SECB Year of Formation: 1994 Total Number of Members: 96 Annual Dues: $65 Awards Program: NA Meeting Schedule: Bimonthly Board Meeting in addition to seminars List of Active Committees: BIM Position Paper Workgroup and Special Inspections
Workgroup Previous Year’s Activities:
August: Tim Mays Seminar
November: Delegated Design of Steel Connections
February: IBC Structural Sections Update
June: What a Structural Engineer Needs to About Operable Partitions and High Density Filling Systems
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Delegate: Chun Lau Alternate Delegate: Andrew McGlenn Executive Director: Lynnell Brunswig Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Jill Shuttleworth Vice President: Cale Ash Secretary/Membership Chair: John Tate Treasurer: Ted Smith Past President: Luke Heath Trustees: Howard Burton, Jacob Gokey, Larry Harris, Jeff Klein, Peter
Somers, and Bill Whipkey Year of Formation: 1950 Total Number of Members: 896 (783 dues‐paying) Annual Dues: Vary by chapter and membership category Awards Program: Engineer of the Year, Lifetime Service Award, Young Engineer of
the year. Meeting Schedule: Monthly meetings vary by Chapter. List of Active Committees: Building Engineering, Code Advisory, Disaster Prep/Response,
Education, Existing Buildings, Earthquake Engineering, Exam, Legislative, Membership, Professional Practices, Public Information, Scholarship, Technology, and Wind Engineering
Previous Year’s Activities: Held a Strategic Planning Summit attended by State and Chapter Board members and key people where we identified five core values around which to plan goals and activities:
Continuing education
Membership growth and engagement
Advocacy and public outreach
Leadership succession and committee effectiveness
Optimized organizational effectiveness and structure Chapters have been working to formulate ways to address the core values in their local activities. The newly formed Structural Engineers Foundation of Washington (SEFW) held its first annual Fall Forum in October 2011, and is busy planning the 2012 Forum which will take place on
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Thursday, October 1, and will feature Bill Baker of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, speaking on “Creating the Language of Architecture.” The SEFW held an all‐day taping session with engineers who worked on the 1962 World’s Fair. Nine “Fair veterans” participated in the session. A “Hall of Fame” has been established to recognize engineering achievements and participation in SEAW. Member biographies are being collected for the HOF website. Our Younger Member Forum continues to be a vital and active arm of SEAW. What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? The results of our Strategic Planning session are beginning to take shape in increased communication between State and Chapter Boards, Committees and members.
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Delegate: Sam Rubenzer, 715.563.5390 Alternate Delegate: n/a Executive Director: n/a Email address: [email protected] Board of Directors President: Sam Rubenzer, (715) 513‐6773 [email protected] President‐Elect: Chad O’Donnell, (414) 278‐3347, [email protected] Treasurer: James Gerloff, (262) 292‐1608, [email protected] Secretary: Bob Steckel, 262) 377‐7602, [email protected] Director of SE Branch: Mike Blodgett, (262) 293‐9923, [email protected] Director of SW Branch: Tom Boehnen, (608) 410‐8089, [email protected] Director of NE Branch: John Roob, (920) 734‐9867, [email protected] Director of NW Branch: Eric Fink, (608) 410‐8000, [email protected] Year of Formation: 2009 Total Number of Members: 61 Annual Dues: $80 Awards Program: Engineer of the Year Awards Meeting Schedule: 3rd Thursday of the month List of Active Committees: Continuing Education, Legislative, Membership &
Newsletter/Website Previous Year’s Activities: 8/28/2012: Transitioning from the 2006 to the 2009 IBC Structural Provisions, presented by S.K.
Ghosh and Associates 5/23/2012: Structural Masonry Short Course 4/27/2012: 2nd Annual SEA‐WI Technical Conference 4/10/2012: Tour of the Wisconsin Energy Institute site at UW‐Madison 3/08/2012: Introduction to Helical Foundation Systems, Helical Soil Nails & Hydraulic Push Piers 02/23/2012: Code Requirements for Structural Integrity Webinar 01/18/2012: HILTI event Milwaukee 10/12/2011: Madison College Health Education Building 9/22/2011: Joint ACI‐WI/SEA‐WI meeting La Bahn Arena Construction Tour 9/20/2011: Simpson Strong‐Tie presentation Design of Multi‐Story Light‐Frame Shear Walls What was the most valuable member program or service that you offered this year? Second Annual Technical conference held in April, 2012 with nine technical programs; offered CE opportunities; and ‐ networking opportunities, etc.
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Committee [reports]
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Advocacy Committee Chairs Brian Dekker 847‐749‐0923 x 229 [email protected]
Richard Boggs 203‐254‐7131 [email protected]
Advocacy Subcommittee Chairs Clients & Prospects Subcommittee Chair Richard Boggs 860‐635‐7740 x102 [email protected]
General Public & Media Subcommittee Chair Carrie Johnson 918‐584‐5858 [email protected]
Code Officials and Government Agencies Subcommittee Chair Kevin Westervelt 865‐218‐5306 [email protected]
Students & Educators Subcommittee Chairs Brian Dekker (PowerPont Group Leader) [email protected] 847‐749‐0923 x 229
Irene Peterson (Poster Group Leader) [email protected] 612 604 3639
Ad Hoc Website Re-Design Subcommittee Chair Carrie Johnson 918‐584‐5858 [email protected]
Awards Committee Chair
Carrie Johnson 918‐584‐5858 [email protected] Basic Education Chair
Craig Barnes 617‐268‐8977 [email protected]
Basic Education Vice Chair
Brent Perkins 316‐263‐7591 [email protected]
Continuing Education Chairs
Carrie Johnson 918‐584‐5858 [email protected]
Michael J. Tylk 312‐341‐0055 [email protected]
Licensing
Susan Jorgenson 303‐756‐2100 [email protected]
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Code Advisory Committee Chair Ronald Hamburger 415‐495‐3700 [email protected] Seismic Provisions
Kevin Moore 510‐835‐0705 [email protected] General Engineering General Engineering, Materials, Wind, other loads, and Family 1 & 2 Residential
Ed Huston 206‐448‐8448 [email protected] Existing Buildings/Structural Retrofit
David Bonowitz 415‐771‐3227 [email protected] Special Inspection/Quality Assurance
D. Kirk Harman 215‐628‐9844 [email protected] ICC Evaluation Service Advisory Committee
Bill Warren 916‐447‐1198 [email protected] Wind Engineering
Donald Scott 253‐383‐2797 DScott@pcs‐structural.com
Member Organization Chair
Ben Nelson 303‐431‐6100 [email protected] Publications Committee Chair
Timothy Mays 843‐953‐7678 [email protected] SEER Committee Chair
Scott Nacheman 312‐596‐2000 [email protected]
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The NCSEA Advocacy Committee operates as 5 separate but overlapping subcommittees that work together towards a well‐defined goal: To improve and enhance the image of structural engineers and of the profession itself to a broad audience including clients & prospects, general public & media, code officials & government agencies, and students & educators. After a long tenure, Bob Durfee has handed over the reins of the Advocacy Committee to Rick Boggs and Brian Dekker. We would like to thank Bob for all that he has done for NCSEA and the profession!
Clients & Prospects Subcommittee Chair, Richard Boggs (SEC/CT) Members, Brian Dekker (SEAOI), Carmelo Giglio (FSEA), Tom Langan (SEAVT), Jon Schmidt (SEAKM) Goal/Mission: To enhance the real and perceived value of structural engineers to their current and prospective clients. 2012 Accomplishments: A brochure describing structural engineering services to a lay‐person. Look for it on NCSEA.com.
General Public & Media Subcommittee Chair, Carrie Johnson (OSEA) Members, Tom Abel (SEAMT), John Joyce (OSEA), Jeannette Pfeiffer (SEAOI) Goal/Mission: Educating the public at large about the activities of structural engineers and their benefit to society. Additionally, serving as a contact group for media requests and offering prompt responses to disasters. 2012 Accomplishments: A PowerPoint presentation, entitled, “Creating Good Media Relationships”, with pointers for engineers who find themselves in the media spotlight. A white paper entitled, “Writing a Press Release.” Look for them on NCSEA.com.
Code Officials and Government Agencies Subcommittee Chair, Kevin Westervelt (TNSEA) Members, David Cartwright (TNSEA), Dustin Cole (OSEA), Jeannette Pfeiffer (SEAOI) Goal/Mission: Educating code officials and government agencies about how structural engineers should carry out the requirements of building codes and standards. 2012 Accomplishments: Three white papers: When are Geotechnical Reports Required?, Structural Code Requirements for Modifying Existing Buildings, and When is it Permissible to Reduce Roof Live Loads? Look for them on NCSEA.com.
Students & Educators Subcommittee PowerPoint Group Leader, Brian Dekker (SEAOI) Poster Group Leader, Irene Peterson (CASE MN) Members, Lisa Buellesbach (SEAO), Jennifer Butler (OSEA), Bob Durfee (SENH), John Joyce (OSEA), Jill Shuttleworth (SEAW)
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Goal/Mission: Promote structural engineering to students and educators in a way that will plant seeds of interest, to accurately define our contribution to society and to encourage the development of those students who may be interested in pursuing a career in structural engineering. 2012 Accomplishments: A customizable PowerPoint presentation entitled “What is Structural Engineering?” for engineers to present to high school students. A new poster to promote structural engineering to students. A video to educate students about the structural engineering profession. Look for them on NCSEA.com.
Ad Hoc Website Re‐Design Subcommittee Chair, Carrie Johnson (OSEA) Members, recruiting Goal/Mission: This is a temporary subcommittee formed to create an all‐new NCSEA website by early 2013. The new NCSEA website will provide a user‐friendly, highly interactive, comprehensive source of information for structural engineers, students, and the general public. If you have any suggestions for the new website, or would like to participate in the subcommittee, please contact Carrie Johnson at [email protected].
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Submitted by: Chair, Carrie Johnson
2012 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards This year, we had 70 entries for the NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. There were quite a few truly interesting projects and the level of competition continues to grow each year. This year, an effort was made to contact winners of the Member Organizations that have awards programs and encourage them to enter. Also, an invitation was extended to firms who had interesting projects in the media.
Strategic Plan – 2012 to 2015 The main goal is to continue to improve the quality and quantity of projects that are being submitted. The main ways I envision this happening is through the following:
Getting entry information to additional potential firms
Encouraging award winners to promote their win with local and regional media
Coordinating promoting the awards with the Advocacy – General Public and Media subcommittee
Additional coordination with member organizations who have awards programs
Encouraging additional member organizations to start awards programs I would love to hear any suggestions anyone has for potential improvements. Also, if you are considering adding an awards program for your organization, let me know what I can do to help!
Award Categories New Buildings under $10 Million New Buildings $10 Million to $30 Million New Buildings $30 Million to $100 Million New Buildings over $100 Million New Bridge and Transportation Structures International Structures over $100 Million (structures under $100 million entered in other categories) Forensic / Renovation / Retrofit / Rehabilitation Structures Other Structures
Judging The judging was held Wednesday August 7, 2012 in Orlando, FL at the offices of Cuhaci & Peterson. The 2012 awards jury, with engineers from throughout Florida provided by FSEA, included the following individuals: Roberto Archila, P.E. Cuhaci & Peterson 1925 Prospect Ave. Orlando, FL
Luis Bedoya, P.E. BBM Structural 1912 Boothe Circle, Suite 100 Longwood, FL
Kevin Casey, P.E. Paul J. Ford and Company 3670 Maguire Blvd, #250 Orlando, FL
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Luis Correa, P.E. Integral Engineering, Inc. 16704 Tobacco Road Lutz, FL Justin Gatzemeyer, P.E. Amore Engineering 2295 S. Hiawassee Road Orlando, FL
Tom Grogan, P.E. The Haskell Company 111 Riverside Ave. Jacksonville, FL Roger Jeffery, P.E. AMEC Environmental and Infrastructure 75 E. Amelia Street Orlando, FL Amy Miller, P.E. National Ready Mixed Concrete Association 4733 Raggedy Rt. Rd. Fleming Island, FL
Ron Milmed, P.E. FSEA Southern Florida Brett Rylands, P.E. Cuhaci & Peterson 1925 Prospect Ave. Orlando, FL Mark Scala, P.E. A Mark Scala PE, Inc. 100 SW 15 CT Boca Raton, FL
Up to three awards will be given in each category with one project in each category being named the Outstanding Project. These awards will be presented at the banquet Friday night, October 5, during the NCSEA Annual Conference. I would like to thank FSEA and Christine Olden, their executive director, for organizing the judging. Also, a huge thank you goes to the NCSEA staff, particularly Joyce VanWieren, for organizing the entries, plaques, banquet attendees, and answering questions from the award winners.
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October 3, 2012 This has been a very active year for the committee. A major event and one that has occupied most of our time has been the national survey currently out for response from schools and universities. The process of gathering responses and following up takes over a year. We are looking forward to the survey results being published in STRUCTURE in 2013. As promised last year, we worked with Copper Creek this year to send out a draft survey that prepared respondents for the October 2011 date and, more importantly, was utilized to confirm contact information. Any engineer who has a contact within their alma mater, please feel free to remind them the survey is on the way. The committee continues to work on ways to make specialization in structural engineering more relevant to the large number of schools and a large student body who do not receive specific acknowledgment that they have trained in structural engineering. At the request of NCSEA President Tom DiBlasi, the committee will craft a policy statement regarding the Basic Education Program for Structural Engineers for review by the BOD. The NCSEA BOD is assessing its webinar target and content. The Basic Education Committee is preparing a survey letter for review by the BOD that would be sent to MO's for distribution to their membership to assist in the targeting effort. The survey will seek input on the following issues:
Is providing continuing education opportunities for your members a key aspect of your SEA’s mission?
What types of continuing education is your MO providing? (on site webinars, in person presentations group seminars, other………
Do you feel webinars help your membership? Please explain.
Do you feel webinars increase/reduce attendance at your state meetings? If so, please describe briefly in what way.
Additional comments/suggestions? Canned Concrete PowerPoint Mike Mota provided a CRSI document called “Simplified Design of Concrete Buildings – A Look at the Future.” SEAMass ran the program as a seminar on February 21, 2012. The course was well received from both the aspect of a new approach and as a review by seasoned practitioners. Participants were awarded 4 NCSEA Diamond Program PDH's. Mike would be pleased to speak with any MO interested in presenting this program Recognition for Concentrating in Structural Engineering Education BEC Members are contacting schools to learn of the schools acknowledgement that a student is/has concentrated on structural engineering. This is an ongoing activity. Please contact your alma mater if you feel that your structural concentration could be more solidly promoted. Regarding SECB Student Certificate: Following is the committee's draft proposal.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FIRST CERTIFICATE PHASE Course Credit Hours Analysis 3 Steel Design 3 Concrete **3
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Technical Writing Evidence presented by the school that the requirements have been incorporated into other courses.
Rigid Body Analysis 1.5 Soils 1.5 Optional Elective*: _________________ ________ Optional Elective*: _________________ ________ Optional Elective*: _________________ ________
** Refer to an alternate course suggestion prepared by committee member Brent Perkins PE, slated for publication in STRUCTURE in 2013.
*Optional electives are to be taken from Second Certificate Phase Requirements and may be carried over to the Second Certificate Phase. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SECOND CERTIFICATE PHASE Course Credit Hours Timber 1.5 Structural Dynamics 1.5 Foundations 1.5 Masonry 1.5
Verification that the course work had been completed would be through transcript verification by the BE Committee. The last step for Full Structural Certification would be passing the SECB criteria for education‐training‐testing. Other issues worked on by the committee:
Participation in the NCEES Practitioners Survey questionnaire (Craig Barnes, P.E. and Brent Perkins, P.E.)
Publication of the combined Masonry/Timber course syllabus authored by Melvin Green PE.
Question of school self‐promotion using an NCSEA seal of approval
Making the national school survey more relevant
Benefit, if any, of accessing high school websites
Making the Basic Education core curriculum parallel with SECB requirements Respectfully submitted by the Basic Education Committee of NCSEA Craig E. Barnes, P.E., SECB – Chairman Brent Perkins, P.E., SECB – Vice Chairman Brian Quinn, P.E., SECB – Member Lisa Willard, P.E., SECB ‐ Member Kevin Dong, P.E. – Member Uchenna Okoye, P.E. ‐ Member
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August 2012 Ronald O. Hamburger, SE, SECB, Chair, NCSEA Code Advisory Committee The Code Advisory Committee is composed of 6 subcommittees: General Requirements, Existing Buildings, Seismic, Quality Assurance, Wind, and Evaluation Services, and an executive committee, composed of the chairs of each of the subcommittees including Ed Huston (General), David Bonowitz (Existing Buildings), Kevin Moore (Seismic), Kirk Harman (Quality Assurance), Don Scott (Wind), Bill Warren (Evaluation Services) and this author. In a general sense the Code Advisory Committee’s charge is to improve the building codes to assure safe, economical and reliable construction. However, building codes today consist of no single document, but rather, a complex suite of documents including the model codes themselves (there are several), the ANSI consensus standards the codes adopt by reference, and a series of evaluation services reports that identify the code conformance of proprietary products of different types. The committees’ specific activities include:
Monitoring the status of the building codes, their referenced standards, and evaluation service approvals, to assure that our “codes” are providing safe and economical structures, and to not place undue burden on structural engineers either through unfair apportionment of professional responsibility/liability, or through imposition of unclear, conflicting, or hard‐to‐implement requirements.
Through advocacy, suggest to the standards committees, proposals intended to address our membership’s concerns
Provide public comment to the standards associated with revisions that are not in our member’s interests.
Development and submittal of code change proposals to the ICC to address issues of concern.
Monitor code change proposals submitted by others, to assure that these do not violate the principles indicated in 1 above.
Attend the ICC code hearings, and advocate for (submit argument against) proposals consistent with the goals indicated in item 1 above.
Partner with the ICC‐ES to improve the technical adequacy of their evaluation of acceptance criteria and product reports.
Provide public comment on acceptance criteria proposals, through the public hearing process, as appropriate to accomplish the goals it item 1 above.
A brief summary of our activities follows: Building Codes ICC is in the process of developing its 2015 series of model building codes. It does this in 2 groups, over a period of 3 years. Group A changes include technical changes to structural design criteria. Group B changes include administrative adoption of updated structural standards. Presently, we are in the middle of the cycle for Group A changes. Proposal submittals were due in January 2012 and ICC held public hearings to review and vote upon proposals submitted, in Dallas, last May. In recent years, and in accordance with NCSEA policy, most technical structural engineering provisions have moved out of the building codes, and become adopted by reference to national standards, such as ASCE 7, ACI 318, etc. As a result, there has been little direct submittal activity by our seismic and wind committees, as technical criteria under these committee’s purview, is mostly contained in the reference standards. However, the Existing Buildings Committee, General Requirements Committee, and Quality Assurance Committee have been quite active, as the requirements in these areas remain within the body of the building codes.
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The Existing Buildings Committee submitted 44 separate proposals heard by the ICC’s IBC General and IBC Structural Committees dealing with such topics as: when an existing building must be structurally evaluated or upgraded; as well as the detailed technical requirements of certain evaluation and upgrade means. The requirements for Existing Buildings are embodied in both the International Building Code (IBC) and International Existing Building Code (IEBC). A major focus of this cycle was the reference of ASCE’s newly reorganized ASCE 31/41 standard, not yet complete, by both the IBC and IEBC. NCSEA also advocated for more consistency between the IBC and IEBC on structural issues and successfully proposed that certain upgrade triggers previously found only in the IEBC should be in the IBC as well. The General Requirements Committee submitted 11 separate proposals to the Structural Committee addressing requirements associated with roof‐mounted photo‐voltaic cells; snow loads; allowable deflections; public assembly classifications; crane wheel loads; excavation and stockpiling of earth adjacent to construction; conventional wood construction; and coordination of the risk categories in ASCE 7 with the occupancy categories specified by the building codes. The Quality Assurance Committee submitted 4 proposals clarifying definitions associated with Q/A, requirements for structural observation and load testing of structures. The Seismic Committee submitted 1 proposal associated with anchorage to concrete and clarifying mis‐coordination of references to ACI 318 Appendix D. This low level of activity is because seismic building code provisions have been generally static in the IBC over the last two code cycles. In efforts related to the current 2015 IBC code cycle, the Seismic Committee has been participating as full members of the Code Resource Support Committee (CRSC), a National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) funded committee that comprises members from academia, industry and the profession. The CRSC provides the most effective conduit for the NCSEA “voice” to effect change to any proposed seismic regulation changes. Through efforts with CRSC, NCSEA has worked with Standards Development Organizations (e.g. ASCE, ACI, AISC) the Seismic Committee has successfully effected change in applicable national standards and the IBC. Aftermath Following submittal of proposals, our committees reviewed a total of 445 proposals with potential structural content submitted by others and provided public comment on many of these. This is a major effort and is one of NCSEA’s most publicly visible activities. A major part of this effort is coordination between the committees, to make sure that one of our committees does not speak contrary to the position of another of our committees. Our delegates to the code hearings work with their committees and the other committees to develop consensus positions on each proposal. They also reach out to building officials, industry organizations, and other stakeholders prior to the hearings to negotiate positions and build consensus in advance. However, the code hearings often involve ad hoc consensus‐building between advocates of various proposals, as well as floor modifications made during the hearings. Effective action in this environment requires not only detailed technical knowledge, but also political sensitivity and superior communication skills. The code hearings last several weeks and are a major effort by our delegates. The ICC produced a Report on the Dallas Hearings and Public Comments were submitted on August 1st. Final Action Hearings for Cycle A for the 2015 codes will be held in Portland Oregon in late October.
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Evaluation Services The Evaluation Services Committee has been engaged in two principal activities. One of these consists of participation in an ICC‐ES task force developing acceptance criteria for proprietary lateral force resisting elements (substitute shear walls such as Simpson Strong Wall, Hardy Frame, et) when installed in multi‐story configurations or on flexible bases. The second consists of participation with ICC‐ES on a task force to review the Simpson Strong Frame submittal for qualification as a Special Steel Moment Resisting Frame. On this latter issue, the Evaluation Services Committee proposed an expert panel to assist ICC‐ES to perform reviews of the Simpson frame. ICC solicited proposal from the panel, however, the panel was never formed. In addition, the Evaluation Services Committee monitors proposals for Acceptance Criteria submitted by others, and provides testimony as appropriate at three hearings per year. Standards Liaison The CAC maintains active liaison with the ASCE 7, ASCE 31/41, AISC Committee on Specifications, Masonry Standards Joint Committee and ACI 318 Committees. The most significant activities this year include: ACI 318 – which is undergoing major reorganization for the 2014 edition. ASCE 31/41 – which is nearing completion of a major effort to combine the two former standards ASCE 31 and ASCE 41 into a single, coordinated standard. Three of our Existing Buildings Committee members are voting members on the ASCE committee. ASCE 7 –is initiating the cycle to produce the 2016 edition of the standard. This will include splitting the standard into 2 volumes: Volume 1: the basic standard, applicable to all construction and for all loadings; and Volume 2 – sometimes referred to as “ASCE 7‐light” which will contain one simplified procedure for each of the most common loadings, applicable to regular, low and mid‐rise construction in regions of modest environmental hazards. This is a major attempt at simplification of the codes. AISC 341 – The seismic committee of AISC is attempting to pull much of the “how‐to” information out of the code, and place it in commentary or reference to manuals and texts, while leaving the standard as a “what is required” document. This is also an attempt at code simplification. Building Seismic Safety Council Seismic Committee efforts also include keeping abreast of issues identified and vetted by the Provisions Update Committee (PUC), a NIBS/BSSC funded group that develops issues and regulation changes for the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP). The PUC is currently working on a 2014 NEHRP recommended seismic provision update. Generally, NEHRP recommendations are intended to influence any material changes to ASCE 7‐15 related to seismic provisions. Current issues under consideration are:
simplified seismic design regulations for areas of moderate to low seismicity
incorporation of component and/or system evaluation (FEMA P695/P795) methodologies into seismic regulations
evaluation of seismic performance objectives
seismic anchorage of concrete (ACI 318 Appendix D applications)
response history analysis
diaphragm issues for seismic design and performance
self‐centering seismic force resisting systems
liquefaction and other site seismic hazards
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Seismic and Publications Committee Cooperative Effort Considering the need for better guidance related to seismic design in Seismic Design Category C (SDC C), the Seismic Committee will assist the Publications Committee in the development of Seismic Design Manuals for certain buildings types in Seismic Design Category C. This effort will leverage work done by ICC and SEAOC for the 2012 IBC. Once ICC/SEAOC complete the 2012 design examples (expected mid‐2013) the Seismic Committee intends to re‐craft a few familiar examples for SDC C. If you are interested in participating in this effort, please contact the Seismic Committee Chair.
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Submitted by Michael J. Tylk and Carrie Johnson General The Continuing Education Committee members are: Sue Frey, John Malcolm, Tom DiBlasi, Bob Crossno, David Puskas, Joe Luke, Brad Moyes, Carrie Johnson, Co‐Chair and Mike Tylk Co‐Chair. The Committee meets via conference calls. The calls are at least monthly and sometimes bi‐weekly when planning for upcoming Winter Institute programs. The Committee would like to thank the NCSEA Office Staff, Jeanne Vogelzang, Jan Diepstra, Melissa Matarrese and Joyce VanWieren for their support and hard work. Structural Engineering Winter Institute The twelfth annual Winter Institute was held on February 10‐11, 2012 at The Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, Louisiana. The two day seminar was titled “Soft Soil – Water and Wind” and included a tour of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) and the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier as well as presentations about the design challenges of this structure. The following additional topics were also covered: ASCE 7‐10 Wind Design, Hurricane and Tornado Shelter Design, Flood and Retaining Wall Design, Soil Improvement Methods, Wave and Flood Loading, Building Foundations on Soft Soils, and Design of Piles and Piers for Lateral Loads. The next Winter Institute will be held on March 7‐8, 2013 at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona. The two‐day seminar will change this year and focus on best practices in structural engineering, featuring speakers focused on how leaders can take their business to the next level. We are working with CASE on this effort and they will provide one or two of the speakers. NCSEA Diamond Review Program Our Diamond Review Program provides a recognized means of evaluating continuing education programs to ensure that the programs provide meaningful and useful information to structural engineers. To date we have approved over 14 seminars Including ones for Hilti, Power Fasteners, Fortacrete (USG), Simpson Strong Tie, Vector Corrosion Technologies, and courses by Tim Mays. Webinars Our goal is to provide one‐to‐two high quality webinars per month, with speakers from around the country speaking on informative topics. We have had 14 webinars to date this year, with the following webinars still planned for 2012:
October 11, 2012: Tools for Structural Assessment – Part 1: Visual & Physical Surveys, Destructive and Non‐Destructive Testing | Matthew Carlton
October 26, 2012: CalEMA Safety Assessment Program | Scott Nacheman
November 1, 2012: I‐Codes Structural Provisions for Existing Buildings | David Bonowitz November 8, 2012: Tools for Structural Assessment – Part 2: Instrumentation, Monitoring & Load
Testing | Matthew Carlton
November 27, 2012: Troubleshooting Concrete Cracks | Kim Basham
December 4, 2012: How to Repair Cracks – a Continuous Opportunity | Kim Basham We also have a number of webinars already scheduled for 2013, including an informative set of five seminars on wind load design, to be given by members of the Wind Code Committee. See the NCSEA web site for regular updates and upcoming topics.
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SE Exam Review Webinar The New 16‐hour SE Exam started in April of 2011, and the Continuing Education Committee worked with Kaplan Architecture and Engineering to develop a series of webinars that will prepare engineers for the exam. We have given the review courses for four test cycles now and have continued to work on improving the content. The most exciting recent development is our group pricing. The following is the current group pricing list: Attendees Regular Cost Group Cost Savings Discount % 1 $1,199.00 $1,199 / Student $0 0% 2 $1,199.00 $700 / Student $499 42% 3 $1,199.00 $600 / Student $599 50% 4 $1,199.00 $550 / Student $649 54% 5‐10 $1,199.00 $500 / Student $699 58% 11‐15 $1,199.00 $465 / Student $734 61% 16‐20 $1,199.00 $440 / Student $759 63% 21+ $1,199.00 $425 / Student $774 65% Some of the other unique features of the course include:
Separated into Gravity and Lateral Load courses to match exam with sessions based on material type, loading type, etc.
Initially given on two separate weekends, but allows 24/7 playback of separate sessions
Over 28 hours of instruction
Blog for students with instructors answering questions
Recommended study list
Sessions on exam strategy
Sessions covering both bridges and buildings
Discount pricing for those who re‐take the course
Study book included with the course price We would like to thank the following engineers for providing their time and expertise for making this effort a success: Jennifer Butler, PE Susan Frey, PE, SE Ravi Kanitkar, SE Donald Scott, SE John Lommler, PhD, PE Tim Mays, PhD, PE Joe Miller, PhD, PE Rafael Sabelli, SE We are currently in the planning stages for providing the series again prior to the April 2013 exam, including discussions on how member organizations can provide this series to their members at a reduced rate if they desire, encouraging articles by engineers who were successful in recent exams, and promoting the idea of engineers electing to take the SE exam, although they can practice with a PE exam credential.
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Submitted by Committee Chair: Susan Jorgensen Committee Members: Barry Arnold, Gretchen Bryc, Greg Cuetara, Mike Fletcher, Sue Frey, Tim Gilbert, Tom Grogan, Chris Jenkins, Carl Josephson, George Kelley, John Kelly, Joe Luke, Colin Maynard, Ron Milmed, Brian Pietras, Tim Rickborn, Jon Schmidt, Pete Vaccaro, Rob Weilacher and Robert Zygmunt. The Licensing Committee refined its charge (mission) so a clear message of what we are trying to deliver is communicated. The revised charge is: The Licensing Committee works with the Member Organizations to influence states to adopt consistent licensing laws and rules in the interest of public safety, especially relating to separate licensure of structural engineers. This year has seen some exciting activity in furthering Structural Licensing in a number of states. Florida has made great strides during this past year. It was decided late last year that they would wait to go to the legislature in 2013 to be fully prepared. They have been able to meet with a number of groups in Florida gaining support from many including the Florida Society of Professional Engineers. They are in the process of raising funds from members, chapters and businesses to support a lobbyist as they have determined this will be their best approach in the legislature. Texas has also engaged the services of a lobbyist. They presented legislation in 2011 but were unsuccessful. They did however learn a great deal about the process and the opposition in Texas, which is led primarily by TSPE. The Texas legislature only meets once every two years so they plan to make a strong stand in 2013. They have gotten support from the structural engineering community and are working to bring others on board. Georgia has a dedicated committee and has been approaching various groups to get a better understanding of those that support structural licensing. Both GDOT and GSPE are in support of licensing of structural engineers. The geotechnical engineers are concerned as to where the line will be drawn between what structures will require a structural engineer and what foundation type structures may still be designed by civil/geotechnical engineers. Connecticut submitted legislation for consideration in February but was unsuccessful in getting it passed. They will be looking into possibly making regulation changes prior to going before the legislature again. This may take a year or two. Oklahoma has developed a task force that is developing a flow chart and work plan to make changes in their state. Their goal is to have a bill before the legislature in 2014. Alaska licensing board added a number of disciplines to their list including Structural Engineer – these were accepted by the attorney general. There is a two year transition clause in effect. For now, the SE is a stand alone license, not a post PE credential. Other states in which we have seen activity include Nebraska, South Carolina, Missouri, and California. It was reported that Oregon, will be working to refine their licensing and threshold structures so they are more in line with Washington and Utah. Committee members were able to give presentations in a few states, hoping to better educate others on what we are trying to accomplish and get more states moving forward with making changes. The states we met with this year included Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.
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The committee authored and published a number of articles related to Structural Licensure that were published in STRUCTURE magazine. These included: “Proposed NCSEA Policy on Separate Structural Engineering Licensure” October 2011 “A Young Professional’s Perspective on Structural Licensing” by Greg Cuetara, January 2012 “Getting Motivated for SE Licensure:” by Tom Grogan, February 2012 “Achieving Separate Licensing of Structural Engineering” by Susie Jorgensen, May 2012 The committee is working on a number of articles intended to help states further the initiative of licensing of structural engineers. Topics include:
Meeting the challenges of the future
The historical progression of Structural Licensing
Currently, who can use the SE title and in which states
What to know before you talk to your licensing board
Who is opposed to Structural Licensing and Why
A historical perspective on discipline cases NCSEA joined SEI, CASE and SECB in developing the Structural Engineers Licensure Coalition (SELC). The mission of the group was developed and stated as follows: The Structural Engineering Licensure Coalition (SELC) is a broad coalition of many organizations dedicated to a common position on structural engineering licensure. The SELC is comprised of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations (NCSEA), the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB), and the Council of American Structural Engineers (CASE). It is the intent of SELC to be a united voice for the above organizations on the subject of structural engineering licensure. The group met in June and developed a draft Policy on Licensing of Structural Engineers. This policy is still in the process of being refined. Representatives from the group met with members from NSPE at their annual conference in San Diego in July to begin conversations on coming to a common ground on the issue of Structural Licensure. No conclusions were reached at this meeting but a dialog on the subject was started and points of consideration were made on both sides. Members of SELC will be meeting with the NCSEA Licensing Committee during the Annual Conference in St. Louis. The Committee will continue to work at keeping the issue of Structural Licensure a topic of discussion and activity in the various states. They will also continue to develop material (articles, white papers, presentations, etc.) that will be available and of use by the states that are actively pursuing Structural Licensure. We also hope to improve the Committee web page to make it more interactive and easier to find current and pertinent material.
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Chair: Ben Nelson Member: Ed Huston A new Committee Chair, Ben Nelson, was appointed. Preliminary discussions were held with John Mercer regarding a potential seminar in Bismarck or Fargo with the intent to float the idea of a ND/SD SEA chapter formation. Preliminary discussions are planned in 2013 with Jim Cagley regarding a possible chapter in West Virginia. Preliminary discussions were held with John Shaffer of Cheyenne regarding a possible chapter in Wyoming. John plans to attend the 2012 Annual Conference to further the discussion and meet with members and staff of NCSEA who might provide advice and assistance with establishing a Wyoming SEA.
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Submitted by: Chair, Timothy W. Mays Committee Members: Chun Lau Dan Campbell Michael Donoghue John Finke
Jon Kiland Roberto Leon Badri Prasad Tom Abel
Clem McCarey (past member ‐ helping as reviewer)
The NCSEA Publications Committee is in the process of completing several new and exciting publications which should be available to our membership by the end of 2012 while just beginning several other design guides with anticipated publication dates sometime towards the beginning of summer 2013. Inspection, Testing, and Monitoring of Buildings and Bridges is now available through NCSEA and ICC.
A major initiative of the NCSEA Publications Committee is to create a new series of design guides based on the 2012 IBC and ASCE/SEI 7‐10. The first two guides under this charge follow and are expected to print by the end of 2012. Guide to the Design of Building Serviceability in Accordance with the 2012 IBC and ASCE/SEI 7‐10 by Kurt Swensson, P.E. This design guide focuses on serviceability provisions contained in the 2012 IBC and all referenced load/material standards. Topics considered include beam and wall deflections, story drift, floor vibrations, crack control, and special limit states associated with specific materials. Various design procedures are introduced as necessary to address serviceability requirements. Guide to the Design of Building Foundations in Accordance with the 2012 IBC and ASCE/SEI 7‐10 by Mike Valley, P.E. This practical design guide is a problem based step by step review of all provisions contained in Chapter 18 of the 2012 IBC. Emphasis is placed on structural provisions and interaction with geotechnical engineers. Under the same initiative, the NCSEA Publications Committee is just beginning other new guides on the following topics.
Seismic Design for Low and Moderate Seismic Areas
Design of Irregular Structures
Coastal Construction
Design of Structures in High Wind Areas
Design of Structures in Low and Moderate Wind Areas
Sheet Pile Design Guide The committee last met in November 2011 in Atlanta. The next committee meeting is planned for the 2012 NCSEA Annual Meeting.
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Submitted by Scott G. Nacheman, Chair 2011 ‐ 2012 Objectives The following Objectives were pursued in 2011 – 2012. These are a combination of internal objectives as well as those presented in the 2011‐2015 NCSEA Strategic Plan: Publish Updated SEER Manual.
Publication of SEER Committee articles.
Updating of SEER Web Page.
Coordination with allied associations such as TISP and the ASCE Committee on Critical Infrastructure.
Coordinate and communicate with all MO's SEER committees and obtain databases by Fall 2011.
Coordinate and communicate with all MO's SEER committees assessing the state Good Samaritan Laws.
Obtain copies of state Good Samaritan Laws and determine differences between them by Spring 2012.
Compile list of MO members that have received ATC‐20 and ATC‐45 training classes as of October 2011; SEER Database of MO members containing contact information and training/experience/licensure/certification data.
Addition of New Committee Members.
Media Information/Boilerplate press release and fact/FAQ sheet development.
ATC Program delivery.
Newsletter updates.
Expansion of Legislative and Government Affairs (LGA) Subcommittee/Legislation development. 2012 Status Update During the 2012 period the SEER Committee has finalized the Second Edition SEER Manual, collaborated on the development of a training database, and worked with allied agencies on national standards for emergency response by engineers and allied professionals. Committee members have once again drawn upon their real‐world experience in Haiti, Japan, New Zealand, Joplin, and other disasters that have occurred over the past 18 months. Below is a summary of the status of our above‐listed objectives: Publish Updated SEER Manual. The Second Edition SEER Manual has been completed and a hyperlinked PDF version has been formatted for free download from the SEER web page. Publication of SEER Committee articles. A highlight article describing the new SEER Manual has been authored and published by NCSEA. Updating of SEER Web Page. Website has been updated to reflect current committee members. Future enhancements are planned for 2013. Coordination with allied associations such as TISP and the ASCE Committee on Critical Infrastructure. SEER members have helped to facilitate and strengthen multi‐association collaboration between AIA, ASCE, APWA, TISP and our MOs in Utah, Rhode Island, Colorado, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other states and cities. This collaboration has lead to a unified effort for the organization, training and deployment of Design Professionals in the event of disasters. Coordinate and communicate with all MO's SEER committees and obtain databases by Fall 2011.
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A central database (http://ncsea‐seer.com/) has been developed to track and catalog the training credentials of SE’s and provide a means to disseminate information to these individuals. The database currently contains contact information, training qualifications and experience for 292 professionals. Coordinate and communicate with all MO's SEER committees assessing the state Good Samaritan Laws. Efforts related to Good Samaritan legislation have generally been suspended due to the focus on national emergency responder legislation, in addition to the collaborative efforts related to EMAC responses, whereby state emergency management mobilize Mobile Support Units of engineers and allied professionals, thereby providing liability protection and portability of licensure. Obtain copies of state Good Samaritan Laws and determine differences between them by Spring 2012. Refer to #6. Compile list of MO members that have received ATC‐20 and ATC‐45 training classes as of October 2011; SEER Database of MO members containing contact information and training, experience, licensure, certification data. See #5 above. Addition of New Committee Members. New members were added over the last 25 months to better balance the geographic distribution of members. An updated ‘commitment request’ will be sent to current members and vacancies determined based on member response. It is anticipated that involvement from representatives of MOs in the NE and NW regions will be solicited. Media Information/Boilerplate press release and fact/FAQ sheet development. No additional progress. ATC Program delivery. CalEMA SAP program (webinar) delivered in May 2012, with a second program to be delivered October 26, 2012. Newsletter updates (SEER and LGA). No notable progress. Expansion of Legislative and Government Affairs (LGA) Subcommittee/Legislation development. Due to departure of the LGA subcommittee chair from the SEER committee and the efforts noted in #6 above, no additional efforts are planned for this work item. 2011‐2012 SEER Committee Members Scott G. Nacheman, Chair Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. Chicago, IL William Bracken Bracken Engineering Tampa, FL Craig Dashner Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc. Livonia, MI
Chad R. Fischer Engineering System Inc. Aurora, IL Bill Hawkins Centennial, CO August W. Domel, Advisor, Chair Emeritus Engineering Systems, Inc Aurora, IL
Douglas Fell Clark Engineering Corporation Minneapolis, MN Stanley Fuller Jezerinac Geers & Associates Dublin, OH David Hammond Structural Engineer Palo Alto, CA David Wolfson United States Air Force Eglin AFB, FL
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Attendees [conference]
First Name Last Name Company City State
Tom Abel Abel Engineering, Inc. Kalispell MT
Jim Amundson Hope Engineering San Diego CA
Heather Anesta C3TS Boca Raton GA
Doug Antholz KPFF St. Louis MO
Victoria Arbitrio Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LL New York NY
Roberto Archila Winter Garden FL
Ricardo Arevalo Simpson Strong‐Tie Pleasanton CA
Barry Arnold ARW Engineers Ogden UT
Cale Ash Degenkolb Engineers Seattle WA
Alex Azodi Newbury NH
David Baca KPFF St. Louis MO
Kent Barber L.R. Nelson Consulting Las Vegas NV
Craig Barnes CBI Consulting Inc. Boston MA
Marc Barter Barter & Assoc. Inc. Mobile AL
William Bast Thornton Tomasetti Chicago IL
Russell Bausch RME ABQ, LLC Albuquerque NM
James Beicker J L Beicker Co San Antonio TX
Davy Beicker San Antonio TX
Giancarlo Benedeti Haskell Jacksonville FL
Richard Boggs DeStefano & Chamberlain Trumbull CT
Robert Bourdages Stantec Consulting Ltd. Edmonton, Alberta CAN
Jon Boyd Klein & Hoffman Chicago IL
William Bracken Bracken Engineering, Inc. Tampa FL
Kyle Bridges TME, Inc Little Rock AR
Boyd Brown Ronayne, Turner, Brown & Assoc. Ashland VA
Jesse Burke Burke Engineering, LLC Columbia SC
Aaron Burkhardt KPFF Consulting Engineers Portland OR
Marshall Carman Steven Schaefer Assoc. Cincinnati Ohio
Malcolm A. "Andy" Carter Lenexa KS
Anthony Cerino STV, Incorporated New York NY
Peter Cheever LeMessurier Consultants Boston MA
Randall Crews Crews Engineering, Inc. Valdosta GA
Greg Cuetara Stantec Auburn ME
J. Mark D'Amato DCI Engineers Seattle WA
Brian Dekker Robert L. Miller Assoc. Lake Zurich IL
Thomas DiBlasi DiBlasi Associates, P.C. Monroe CT
Robert Durfee Dubois & King, Inc. Laconia NH
Fred Emanuel Emanuel Engineering Inc. Stratham NH
Terri Erickson Donaldson Company Bloomington MN
Daniel Falconer American Concrete Institute Farmington Hills MI
Brian Falconer Severud Assoc. New York NY
John Falkenrath Kansas City MO
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First Name Last Name Company City State
Michael Fillion Fillion Group, Inc. Sharon MA
Paul Fleming Acme Brick Company Little Rock AR
Jamison Fox Internat'l Industrial Contracting Corp. Sterling Heights MI
Susan (Sue) M Frey CH2M HILL Corvallis OR
Paul Gagnon Moseley Architects richmond VA
Timothy Gilbert Louis Perry & Assoc. Wadsworth OH
Jennifer Goupil ASCE Reston VA
Thomas Grogan Haskell Jacksonville FL
Emily Guglielmo Martin/Martin Larkspur CA
Ronald Hamburger Simpson Gumpertz & Heger San Francisco CA
Mary Beth Hamilton Clark Nexsen Raleigh NC
D. Kirk Harman The Harman Group King of Prussia PA
Thomas Heausler Heausler Structural Engrs Kansas City MO
Jon Heintz Applied Technology Council Redwood City CA
Mark V. Holland, P.E. Paxton & Vierling Steel Company Omaha NB
Herb Holz DiBlasi Associates, P.C. Monroe CT
Edwin Huston Seattle WA
John Hutton Uzun & Case Engrs Atlanta GA
Carrie Johnson Wallace Engineering Tulsa OK
Orin (OJ) Johnston III JAG Engineering, LLC Edmond OK
Susie Jorgensen LEO A DALY Denver CO
John Joyce Engineering Solutions Oklahoma City OK
Joe Kallaby OSI HOUSTON TX
Bob Kolf DCR Engring Services Chesterfield MO
Brian Kung Aiea HI
Tyler Kurz DCI Engineers Seattle WA
Bob Ladisich IC Design Services Indianapolis IN
Chun lau Brown and Caldwell Seattle WA
Douglas Lauer SK&A Structural Engrs Washington DC
Cheri Leigh Leigh & O'Kane Kansas City MO
Daniel Tian Li Arcadia CA
Jami Lorenz Beaudette Consulting Engrs Missoula MT
Joseph Luke Jose I. Guerra, Inc. Austin TX
Erik Madsen Madsen Consulting Engrg Brooklyn NY
James Malley Degenkolb Engineers San Francisco CA
Mike Manor Mattson Macdonald Young Minneapolis MN
Scott Martin Walter P Moore Tampa FL
John Miller KPFF St. Louis MO
Ronald Milmed Bliss & Nyitray, Inc. Hollywood FL
Heath Mitchell AISC Tacoma WA
Edward Moll Structures North Consult Engrs Salem MA
Brad Moyes KPFF Consulting Engrs Portland OR
David Nelson Weyerhaeuser Boise ID
Ben Nelson Martin/Martin, Inc. Lakewood CO
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First Name Last Name Company City State
Rawn Nelson Hermosa Beach CA
James Ness Monroe & Newell Engrs Denver CO
Brent Norris J.R. Harris & Co. Denver CO
Chad O'Donnell HGA Architects & Engrs Milwaukee WI
Scott O'Neill Millstadt IL
Jim Palmer Kansas City Power & Light Kansas City MO
Jason Partain Structural Design Group, Inc. Birmingham AL
Bob Paullus Paullus Structural Consultants Olive Branch MS
Dallin Pedersen BHB Consulting Engrs Salt Lake City UT
Marcos Perez Douglas Wood Assoc. Coral Gables FL
Brent Perkins Dudley Williams & Assoc. Wichita KS
Richard Pierce Pierce Engineers, Inc. Milwaukee WI
Kip Ping Pinnacle Engineering, Inc. Cincinnati OH
Michael Planer Pruitt Eberly Stone Atlanta GA
Jim Robinson Robinson Assoc. Norcross GA
Scott Roche Ensign Engineering Sandy UT
Norm Scheel NSSE Fair Oaks CA
Greg Schindler KPFF Consulting Engineers Seattle WA
Jon Schmidt Burns & McDonnell Kansas City MO
Ron Schneider Schneider Structural Engrs Tucson AZ
Steve Schuetze Metropolitan Contracting Co.,LLC San Antonio TX
Donald Scott PCS Structural Solutions Tacoma WA
Matthew Senecal ACI Farmington Hills MI
Mohammad Seraji Pyramid Consulting Struc./Civil Engrs Lexington KN
John Shaffer Martin/Martin Wyoming Cheyenne WY
Jill Shuttleworth JTS Engineering Sunnyside WA
Fredric Sobottka Beauchamp Engrg Phoenix AZ
James Soules CB&I Inc. The Woodlands TX
Ed Stehmeyer Collins Engineers, Inc. Charleston SC
Michael Stiefermann Central Electric Power Cooperative Bonnots Mill MO
Allen Thompson WSPCS Cantor Seinukq New York NY
Emile Troup Cantion MA
Jim Walton The Boeing Company Salt Lake City UT
Williston "Bill" L Warren IV, S.E. SESOL, Inc. Newport Beach CA
Robert Weilacher Uzun & Case Engineers, LLC Atlanta GA
Robert Whorley Performance Engineering, Inc Omaha NE
Tom Xia Mukilteo WA
Stephanie Young Mattson Macdonald Young Minneapolis MN
Joseph Zona Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Waltham MA
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Category 1: New Buildings under $10 Million Buckner Companies Home Office ‐ Graham, NC Structural Engineer Stewart Engineering, Inc. Killam Oil Company, Ltd. ‐ Hollywood Park, TX Structural Engineer Beicker Martinez Engineering Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Proton Therapy Vault ‐ New Brunswick, NJ Structural Engineer O'Donnell & Naccarato, Inc.
Category 2: New Buildings $10 Million to $30 Million CENTRA ‐ Iselin, NJ Structural Engineer DeSimone Consulting Engineers Salvador Dali Museum ‐ St. Petersburg, FL Structural Engineer Walter P. Moore VanDusen Botanical Gardens Visitor Centre ‐ Vancouver, British Columbia Structural Engineer Fast + Epp
Category 3: New Buildings $30 Million to $100 Million Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability ‐ Vancouver, British Columbia Structural Engineer Fast + Epp Milstein Hall, Cornell University ‐ Ithaca, NY Structural Engineer Robert Silman Associates Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine ‐ La Jolla, CA Structural Engineer Hope Engineering, Inc.
Category 4: New Buildings over $100 Million 8 Spruce Street ‐ Beekman Tower ‐ New York, NY Structural Engineer WSP Cantor Seinuk Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ‐ Bentonville, AR Structural Engineer Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts ‐ Kansas City, MO Structural Engineer Arup
Excellence [awards]
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Category 5: New Bridge and Transportation Structures Harbor Drive Pedestrain Bridge ‐ San Diego, CA Structural Engineer T.Y. Lin International Lake Champlain Bridge Replacement ‐ Crown Point, NY ‐ Chimney Point, VT, Structural Engineer HNTB Corporation Tempe Town Lake Pedestrian Bridge ‐ Tempe, AZ Structural Engineer T.Y. Lin International
Category 6: International Structures over $100 Million Al Hamra Tower ‐ Kuwait City, Kuwait Structural Engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Marina Bay Sands ‐ Singapore Structural Engineer Arup Regent Emirate Pearl Hotel ‐ Abu Dhabi, UAE Structural Engineer DeSimone Consulting Engineers
Category 7: Forensic / Renovation / Retrofit / Rehabilitation Structures BC Place Revitalization ‐ Vancouver, British Columbia Structural Engineer Geiger Gossen Campbell Engineers, PC Chelsea Piers, Connecticut ‐ Stamford, CT Structural Engineer WSP Cantor Seinuk J. Paul Leonard and Sutro Library ‐ San Francisco, CA Structural Engineer Simpson Gumpertz and Heger
Category 8: Other Structures Atrium Operable Roof at the California Academy of Sciences ‐ San Francisco, CA Structural Engineer Walter P. Moore Miami Beach Soundscape ‐ Miami Beach, FL Structural Engineer Douglas Wood Associates, Inc. Van Alen Books ‐ New York, NY Structural Engineer Robert Silman Associates
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National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Twentieth Annual Conference
St. Louis, Missouri October 3 - 6, 2012
Continuing Education Certification
Name: _____________________________________________
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Continuing Education Contact Hours Available SECB Attended 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. CAC General Engineering 4.0 E _______ 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. SECB Board 4.0 E _______ 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. SEAKM Licensing Committee 2.0 E _______ 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Advocacy Committee 4.0 E _______ 1:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Basic Education Committee 4.0 E _______ 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Structural Engineering Licensing Coalition (SELC) 4.0 E _______ 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CAC Wind Engineering 3.0 E _______ 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. AZZ tour & lunch 1.0 _______ Software Presentations 1:40 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. Bentley OR AZZ Galvanizing .5 _______ 2:10 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Febreeka OR Fyfe Co. .5 _______ 3:20 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. CSC World OR Vector Corrosion Technology .5 _______ 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. STRAND7 OR SidePlate Systems .5 _______ 4:40 p.m. – 5:10 p.m. RISA Technologies OR Hayward Baker .5 _______
Wednesday total: ____________ hours Thursday, October 4, 2012 8:00 a.m. - Overview of 2012 Codes & Standards .25 A _______ 8:15 a.m. Ron Hamburger 8:15 a.m. - Where ASCE-7 Wind Provisions Might Go in 2016 .5 A _______ 8:45 a.m. Don Scott 8:45 a.m. - Seismic Anchorage & Appendix D .5 A _______ 9:15 a.m. Kevin Moore 9:15 a.m.- Strength Design of Masonry .5 A _______ 9:45 a.m. Ed Huston 9:45 a.m. - ICC-ES Collaboration, Process, and Effect on Structural .5 F _______ 10:15 a.m. Engineers Bill Warren & Jim Collins 11:00 a.m. - Structural Engineering Practice – Instilling “A Culture of .1.0 F _______ 12:00 p.m. Discipline” Larry Griffis 1:00 p.m. - Snow Load Provisions in ASCE 7-10 1.0 A _______ 2:00 p.m. Michael O’Rourke 2:00 p.m. - The Performance of New England Buildings in the Winter of 1.0 A _______ 3:00 p.m. 2010 – 2011 Joe Zona 3:30 p.m. The 2011 Joplin Tornado 1.0 A _______ 4:30 p.m. Randall Bernhardt & Malcolm Carter
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4:30 p.m. - Speakers’ Forum .5 A _______ 5:00 p.m.
Thursday total: ___________ hours
Friday, October 5, 2012 8:00 a.m. – Member Organization Reports 1.75 E _______ 9:45 a.m. 10:30 a.m. - ATC Cliff Notes: What You Should Know but Don’t Have 2.0 A _______ 12:30 p.m. Time to Read Jon Heinz & Ron Hamburger 1:30 p.m. Diaphragms and Wall Anchorage 1.5 A _______ 3:00 p.m. Timothy Mays 3:30 p.m. - Serviceability and Foundation Systems 1.5 A _______ 5:00 p.m. Timothy Mays
Friday total: ____________ hours
The following activities may satisfy the continuing education requirements in some states. Please check your state regulations.
Saturday, October 6, 2012 8:15 am - NCSEA Committee Reports & Other Organization Reports 3:25 B _______ 11:30 a.m. Code Advisory – Ron Hamburger, Chair SEER Committee –Scott Nacheman, Chair Basic Education – Craig Barnes, Chair Continuing Education – Mike Tylk and Carrie Johnson, Co-Chairs Licensing – Susan Jorgenson, Chair Publications – Tim Mays, Chair Advocacy – Bob Durfee and Tom DiBlasi, Co-Chairs Executive Director Report – Jeanne Vogelzang Communication & Partnering Ad Hoc - Jim Malley, Chair SECB – Marc Barter, Board Member Treasurer’s Report – Ben Nelson, Treasurer
Saturday total: ____________ hours
Committee / Misc. Total: ____________ hours
Grand Total: ____________ hours It is the individual’s responsibility to claim credit only for those activities that comply with the applicable state laws and rules. NCSEA does not guarantee that the available hours comply with the continuing education requirements in all jurisdictions. I certify that I attended the sessions noted. ___________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Signature Date Diamond Review Approved
Professional
or Full
Affiliate (use varies
by MO)
Associate
or
Academic
EIT or
JuniorRetired Student Corporate Other
Alabama AL 142 85$ - 45$ - 25$ 15$ - -
Alaska AK 58 90$ - - 45$ - - - -
Arizona AZ 247 100$ 110$ 100$ 75$ - - 750$ -
Arkansas AR 59 90$ 300$ - 70$ - - - -
California CA 1929 200$ - - - - - - -
Colorado CO 223 140$ 60$ - - - 60$ - -
Connecticut CT 150 120$ 175$ 30$ - 30$ FREE $180 - $240 -
Delaware DE 175 175$ 125$ 75$ - - 25$ - -
Florida FL 351 145$ 145$ $85 - $145 - - 10$ - Sustainer: $210
Georgia GA 109 75$ - - 37.50$ - 37.50$ - -
Hawaii HI 129 50$ - - - - - - -
Idaho ID 76 85$ - - - - - - -
Illinois IL 798 $0 - $265 - - - - - - -
Indiana IN 68 80$ - - - - - - -
Iowa IA 54 50$ - - - - - - -
Kansas/Missouri KS/MO 216 70$ - 60$ - - - - -
Kentucky KY 63 85$ 85$ $50 - $85 10$ 10$ - Sustaining: $225
Louisiana LA 20 80$ 150$ 50$ - - 30$ - Introductory: $60
Maine ME 78 60$ - - - - - - -
Maryland MD
Massachusetts MA 86 50$ - - - - 25$ - -
Metro DC DC 64 - - - - - 150$ -
Michigan MI 172 40$ - 30$ - - - - -
Minnesota MN 42 - - 75$ - - - 150$ -
Mississippi MS 53 95$ - - 50$ - - 250$
Montana MT 85 75$ - - - - - - -
Nebraska NE 102 70$ - - - - - - -
South Nevada NV 53 90$ - - - - - - -
New Hampshire NH 134 55$ - - - - - - -
New Jersey NJ
New Mexico NM n/a 135$ - - - - - - -
New York NY 421 150$ - - - - 25$ - Varies:$75 - $150
North Carolina NC 148 50$ - - - - - - -
North Dakota ND
Ohio OH 246 50$ - - - - 10$ - -
Oklahoma OK 287 55$ 55$ 40$ - - 10$ - -
Oregon OR 433 102$ 95$ - - - - - -
Pennsylvania PA
Rhode Island RI 35 60$ 125$ 50$ - - - - -
South Carolina SC 164 85$ - - - - - - -
South Dakota SD
Tennessee TN 150-200 $75 - $100 - - - - - - -
Texas TX 719 125$ - - - - - - -
Utah UT 280 100$ - - - - - - -
Vermont VT 40 40$ - - - - - - -
Virginia VA 96 65$ - - - - - - -
Washington WA 896 varies - - - - - - -
West Virginia WV
Wisconsin WI 61 80$ - - - - - - -
Wyoming WY
TOTAL or AVG 9,712 77$ 102$ 51$ 50$ 10$ 18$ 183$
No SEA organization
No SEA organization
No SEA organization
No SEA organization
NCSEA Member SEAsNo. of
Memb.
Mebership Category
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