SEAoNY Sponsored Full-Day Seminar: Best Practice Guidelines for Structural Fire Resistance Design of Concrete and Steel Buildings

• Introduction to Fire Resistance Design: John Gross, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NIST

• Decision Framework for Fire Risk Mitigation: Bruce Ellingwood, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, Georgia Tech

• Design of Steel Structures: Nestor Iwankiw, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., M.ASCE, Hughes Associates, Inc.

• Design of Concrete Structures: Jim Milke, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, University of Maryland

• Detailed Application of the Guidelines: Don Dusenberry, P.E., F.ASCE, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

• Case Study and Discussion: Matthew Johann, P.E., LEED AP, Arup, Cambridge, MA
Over the past four years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working through the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and in collaboration with industry experts, has prepared a comprehensive document providing guidelines on designing structural fire resistance.



The Guidelines contain the current “best practices” for fire-resistant design of concrete and steel structures including a review of existing U.S. and international guidelines and design standards, which use approaches that range from simple prescriptive methods to sophisticated software programs with advanced methods of analysis under a wide range of realistic fire conditions.



Consistent with the document, this seminar will provide general guidance on the approaches to, and practical aspects of, implementing a fire-resistant design approach for concrete and steel buildings. The guidance includes key concepts and examples for identifying performance objectives, conducting risk analyses, selecting design fire scenarios and fire exposure curves, and implementing heat transfer and structural response analyses for the structural fire-resistant design of concrete and steel structures.



New York
Friday, September 10, 2010,
7:30am – 3:00pm

Registration Fee: $175
Registration Deadline: August 27, 2010

AIA Center for Architecture - Edgar A Tafel Hall, 536 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012

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Local co-sponsors: SEAoNY, ASCE NY Metro Structural Technical Group


For more information and to register visit www.SEInstitute.org

Questions? Contact Suzanne Fisher at SEI, Tel: 1 800-548-2723 or 703-295-6195, sfisher@asce.org