Seattle Chapter's Spring Social Virtual Meeting
"Washington State Convention Center Addition – Structural Challenges and Solutions"
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - Add to Calendar
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM PST
Location: Online via Zoom
Agenda:
4:00 - 4:30 - SEAW announcements, SEFW, Scholarships, Awards, and Social breakout rooms.
4:30 - 5:20 - Presentation
5:20 - 5:30 - Q&A and Wrap Up
Cost: SEAW Members and Students - FREE! / Non-Members - $10
PDH: 1 Hour PDH certificates will be emailed to attendees after the webinar.
Presentation:
The Washington State Convention Center Addition, currently under construction in downtown Seattle, includes more than 570,000 square feet of event space. Scheduled to open mid-2022, it will double the program area of the overall facility. This presentation will provide an overview of the project that highlights the architectural design, as well as the project delivery team, structural design criteria and systems, and schedule. In addition, it will include a detailed discussion about some of the key structural challenges the project design faced and the solutions that were implemented to address them. This project set out to define a new standard for stacked-program convention centers, and the structural systems were integral to the realization of that objective.
Presenter: Derek Beaman, P.E., S.E., P. Eng., Struct. Eng.
Derek is a Senior Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), a 185-person structural and civil engineering firm headquartered in Seattle. Derek leads MKA’s Convention Center Specialist Group, which focuses on the unique requirements associated with the structural design of convention center facilities, both new buildings, and the expansion and renovation of existing buildings. His design portfolio includes over 60 convention center projects with a combined cost of built work totaling almost $13 billion and a corresponding program area of more than 26 million square feet. In addition to the Washington State Convention Center Addition project, his recent project experience includes expansions of the centers in New York City, Las Vegas, Sacramento, and Oklahoma City.
