Parking: Plenty of free parking with easy access to the venue.
Cost: $45/per person

About the Event:

Please join us for a dinner presentation on one of the most impactful emergency bridge closures, the West Seattle High‐rise Bridge. Jointly led presentation by the Consultant teams (WSP and BDI) and the Seattle Department of Transportation.

The emergency closure of the cast‐in‐place post‐tensioned segmental West Seattle High‐rise Bridge has had a profound impact on local communities and the citywide transportation network. This presentation focuses on topics related to the issue causing the closure of the corridor, including a look into the bridge condition and structural assessments conducted, the emergency stabilization and rehabilitation designs, bridge structural health monitoring systems installed on the bridge, and then associated actions taken including the development of an emergency response plan, community engagement, and traffic mitigation.

Presenters:

Kit Loo, PE (Seattle Department of Transportation)

Mr. Loo is the Manager of Bridge Operations and Bridge Engineering in the Roadway Structures Division of SDOT, with more than 25 years of experience in capital delivery, bridge design, bridge inspection, and construction experience working in both the private and public sector.

Greg Banks; PE, SE (WSP USA)

Greg is the managing director of the structures group within the Northwest Pacific District of WSP and also serves as a voting member of PCI’s National Bridge Committee. Having been involved in the design of over 75-bridge projects, Greg is well versed in nearly all aspects of bridge and transportation projects but specializes in cast-in-place post-tensioned segmental design and construction, accelerated bridge design, and construction methods, and the seismic assessment and design of bridge structures. He focuses on practical solutions that are buildable, biddable, and maintainable.

Brett Commander; PE (BPI)

Mr. Commander is a co-founder of BDI and has led the company’s research

and application of structural testing, monitoring, and non-destructive evaluation for over 30 years. He

serves as the Vice President of Engineering and as a principal engineer he holds professional engineering licenses in 22 states. While much of his work has been considered innovative research, his goal has always been to produce practical results for structural evaluation. The scientific aspect of his work has been the utilization

of the latest measurement and analytical tools. The art of his engineering has been in integrating those results with corresponding design codes and communicating useful information to infrastructure owners.