Education Committee

Purpose: Engage members and the local professional engineering, construction, and jurisdictional community in technical education within the field of Structural Engineering.

Benefits of Joining:  

• Meet and work with technical experts in the field of structural engineering  

• Stay current with the latest code update cycles and latest technical topics  

• Improve your organizational, planning and people skills   

• Attend Education Committee sponsored seminars for free

Recent Seminars and Webinars:

January 20, 2022 - January Virtual Meeting: “Sustainability in Structural Engineering, An Introduction to SE2050"

Learning Objectives/Overview:

1. Learn the purpose, goals, and requirements for joining the SE 2050 Commitment.

2. Learn about the SE 2050 database, how to upload data, and what tools are available for structural engineers to measure embodied carbon/global warming potential.

3. Learn about the resources available to structural engineers on se2050.org.

4. Learn different tactics to reduce the embodied carbon on structural framing systems.

Presenter:

Chris Jeseritz, S.E., P.E., LEED AP BD+C

Functional Recovery (originally presented 9/16/2021)

Content: This presentation will summarize provisions from the NIST SP report 1254: “Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Preoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time.”

Presenter:

Siamak Sattar, Research Structural Engineer and the Associate Program Manager in the Earthquake Engineering Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Hollow-core Floors in Earthquakes - Assessment and Retrofit (originally presented 7/22/2021)

Content:

This presentation will summarize provisions in the New Zealand Seismic Assessment Guidelines capturing three potential failure modes for hollow-core floors: loss of seating, positive moment failure, and negative moment failure.

Presenter:

Ken Elwood, Professor of Earthquake Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland

Review of the changes to the 2018 IBC Structural Provisions (originally presented 5/16/2020)

The webinar covers:

• Special Inspections

• Masonry (TMS 402/602-2016)

• Steel (AISC 360-16, AISC 341-16, AISC 303-16, AISI S240-15 & S400-15/S1-16)

• Wood (NDS 2018)

• Tall Wood Building provisions

• City of Seattle amendments

• City of Seattle URM ordinance

Presenters:
Ed Huston, PE, SE
Jon Siu, PE, SE
Nancy Devine, PE, SE
Erik Lofthus, PE, SE
Hans-Erik Blomgren, PE, SE
James Farley, PE, SE
Alexander Lang, PE, SE
Taylor LaForge, PE, SE

Updates to the Provisions of ASCE 7-16 & ASCE 41-17 (originally presented 9/28/2019)

Includes updates to ASCE 7-16 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures:

• Load Combinations, Dead & Live Loads, Snow Loads, Flood Loads, Rain Loads, Ice & Atmospheric Loads - Tsunami Loads

• Seismic Design Criteria, Site Specific ground motion procedures, ASCE 41 Seismic Hazards - Seismic Design Requirements for Building Structures, Seismic Design Requirements for Nonstructural Components

• Seismic Design Requirements for Nonbuilding Structures, Nonlinear Response History Analysis - Wind Provisions

Includes updates to ASCE 41-17 Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings:

• Overview and General Provisions

• Evaluation and Retrofit Requirements, Tier 1 Screening Procedure, Tier 2 & Tier 3 Evaluation and Retrofit, Nonstructural

• Analysis, Foundations, Steel, Concrete, Masonry, Wood, Cold-Formed Steel

Presenters:
Ed Huston, PE, SE
Donald Scott, PE, SE
Michael Chamberlain, EIT
Cale Ash, PE, SE
Marcus Freeman, PE
Bryan Zagers, PE, SE
Laura Rendos, EIT
Rebecca Hix Collins, PE, SE
Zach Whitman, PE

Engineering Requirements for Mass Timber and CLT Buildings (originally presented 6/12/2019)

Learning Objectives

• Understand the structural and fire engineering requirements for mass timber commercial buildings

• Understand Fundamentals of CLT and Glulam Behavior

• Define the IBC (2018) code compliance pathways

• Provide proper specification of materials and assemblies

• Define and apply appropriate design methods

Presenters:
Robert Gerard, PE; Associate Fire Engineer, Katerra
Hans-Erik Blomgren, PE SE P.Eng. Struct.Eng.; Director of Testing and Characterization, Katerra

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