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• Cross-cutting Perspectives in Resilience: SEAoNY Resilience Committee Series #1

  • When
    26 Oct 2021
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  SEAoNY Resilience Committee Series #1

  Cross-cutting Perspectives in Resilience

  October 26, 2021

  12:00 PM - 1:15 PM 

  Zoom Webinar

  
  

  We kick off the SEAoNY Resilience Panel Series with an introduction to the quickly evolving resilience market in the AEC industry, exploring the role of the structural engineer within the context of a holistic and integrated approach to resilience in the built environment. Examples from around NY will be discussed, along with the changing legislative environment and the increasing public and private sector awareness around the topic.

  The speakers at this program provide a multidisciplinary view of resilience from their respective roles – a structural engineer designing resilient infrastructure, an architect who founded the AIA NY Design for  Risk and Reconstruction Committee, an urban planner from the Department of Housing Preservation & Development, an infrastructure specialist from the NYC Mayors Office of Resilience advancing the City’s agenda to enhance the resilience of our buildings and infrastructure, a structural engineer supporting international organizations such as the World Bank build the resilience of infrastructure in developing countries' - moderated by a co-chair of the SEAoNY Resilience Committee.

  Individually and then as a panel, they will discuss their work and address the issues and misperceptions that invariably arise. For starters: What is “safe enough” – and who decides? What resilience guidance is available for engineering professionals? How is policy shaping the resilience of our city?  Who assesses shocks and stresses and vulnerability and who sets the design standards against them?

  This event is the first in a series of resilience-focused panel events hosted by the SEAoNY Resilience Committee. Stay tuned for upcoming events which will dive deeper into specific shocks and stresses we face in NY and across the country:

  • Adapting to flooding and the rising tides in NYC
  • Founded on shaky ground
  • Standing strong in extreme winds
  • Lessons from the wildland urban interface (WUI)

  
  

  Objectives and Learning Methods:

  More information to follow

  
  

  Panelists:

  
  

  Peter Adams, Senior Policy Advisor for Infrastructure, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency

  Peter Adams is a senior policy advisor in the Mayor's Office of Climate Resiliency where he leads on the development of future flood maps and design standards to mitigate climate change risk. Prior to joining the Mayor’s Office, Peter worked at the Port Authority of NY and NJ as a Climate Resilience Specialist in the Engineering Department and as a project manager at Acclimatise, a consultancy that specializes in climate adaptation. He holds a Masters in Geography from McGill University, where his graduate thesis was on south Asian water resource management in a changing climate.

  
  

  
  

  Illya Azaroff, Director of Design, +Lab Architects

  Illya Azaroff, FAIA, founder, +LAB architect PLLC. Assoc. Professor, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), a leader in disaster mitigation, adaptation, and regenerative planning strategies with over 25 years experience. The US state department lists Illya as an expert in the field, advising international bodies on building resilient capacity. He currently leads the AIA New York Unified Crisis Task Force City & State and is honored to serve as 2021 AIA New York State President. He is working with several island communities creating cultural resilience hubs. Prior to NYC he worked in Germany, Italy & Holland and has responded to disasters around the world.
  

  
  

  
  

  Lida Aljabar, Director of Climate Resiliency Planning & Acquisitions, NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development

  Lida is an urban planner, researcher and social impact strategist striving to build an urban future that is both resilient and just. She is the Director of Climate Resiliency Planning at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Previously, she led the Climate-Smart Cities program at The Trust for Public Land, advancing green infrastructure for climate equity in cities across the nation, and executed public-private partnerships for public spaces and community development in the Washington, DC area. She is a Fellow at the Urban Design Forum and presents internationally on cities, climate change and social equity.

  
  

  Rebecca Laberenne, Resilience Consultant, World Bank Safer Schools Program

  Rebecca is an independent consultant on the topics of infrastructure resilience and disaster risk reduction with a focus on housing and social infrastructure. She is a Senior Consultant for the World Bank's Global Program for Safer Schools, providing technical support to World Bank-funded operations related to school infrastructure in West Africa, Central Asia and the Caribbean. She is also the Technical Lead for the Resilience Shift's climate-resilient infrastructure initiative Infrastructure Pathways. She was previously the Associate Director for Innovation in the Built Environment at The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative. Prior to 100 Resilient Cities, she worked for over 13 years as a practicing structural engineer at Guy Nordenson and Associates in New York and as Program Manager/Structural Engineer for the social enterprise Build Change. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Certificate in Architecture from Princeton University; a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials from University of California, Berkeley; and a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) from New York University.

  
  

  1 PDH pending

  
  

  Registration Fees:

  SEAoNY Members – Free

  Non-Members – $15

  
  

  Registration ends 2 pm, October 25, 2021

  
  

  Interested in joining SEAoNY Resilience Committee?

  The SEAoNY Resilience Committee seeks to provide a multidisciplinary collaboration platform to formulate recommendations and innovations to enhance resilience in the built environment. The committee’s goal is to educate the structural engineering community on resilience approaches to planning, design and construction through collective experiences in the multi-hazard urban environment.

  To join SEAoNY RC, contact co-chairs Chris Cerino (Chris.Cerino@stvinc.com) or Amy Macdonald (AMacdonald@ThorntonTomasetti.com).

  https://seaony.org/Resilience-Committee

  

  Not yet a Member of the Structural Engineers Association of New York?

  Join Us and Become a Member! https://seaony.org/join-us 

  All levels of Structural Engineering experience as well as affiliated trades and professionals are welcome to join and enrich your career, with special reduced rates for all Upstate NY members

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• SEAoNY's 6th Annual Young Member Pub Trivia Night!

  • When
    04 Nov 2021
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar
  • Spaces left
    48

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  SEAoNY YMG Presents: 

  SEAoNY's 6th Annual Young Member "Pub" Trivia Night!

  November 4, 2021

  6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

  Zoom Webinar Platform

  Registration closes 11/3, 3:00 pm

  
  

  Join SEAoNY YMG for a virtual night of engineering and pop culture trivia while we welcome our new and young members. This will be our 6th year of annual pub trivia. Are you ready to compete? Get your team together and sign up!

  Pre-registration is required for this event.

  You will receive an email with a link to join via zoom prior to the event

  If you have any questions about trivia night or other Young Members events, please email the co-chairs at seaonyYMG@gmail.com

  
  

  Registration closes 03:00 pm November 03, 2021

  Zoom Link will be sent anytime between 3:30 pm on 11/03 to 5:00 pm on 11/04

  SEAoNY members and student registrations are free

  Non-members registration is $5

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• Carbon Leadership Forum

  • When
    09 Nov 2021
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  SEAoNY November Seminar:

  Carbon Leadership Forum

  November 09, 2021

  12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 

  Zoom Webinar

  
  

  “Embodied Carbon” is one of the many buzzwords in the climate change discussion going on today, but what does it actually mean and why should structural engineers care about it?  During this presentation you’ll learn about how the structural engineering community is mobilizing to fight climate change by reducing embodied carbon in our structures, and ways that you can reduce embodied carbon on each of your projects.

  
  

  Learning objectives:  

  • • Understand the importance of embodied carbon as it relates to structural engineering.
    • Learn about methods that firms can use to track embodied carbon on their projects.
    • Learn strategies for reducing the carbon impacts of structural materials.
    • Identify the business case for carbon reduction through LCA.

  
  Speakers:
  Kristina Miele is an Associate at Fast + Epp’s New York office. She has worked on a variety of public, commercial, and residential projects, including the 9-story CLT and Glulam "Intro" building in Cleveland, Ohio; one of the first buildings to adapt the Tallwood Provisions of the 2021 IBC. Kristina co-leads Fast+Epp’s Sustainability group as well as the New York chapter of the Carbon Leadership Forum and the sub-committee for AIA NY’s Committee on The Environment. Kristina acts as a visiting professor at Parsons and Pratt Graduate School of Architecture.
  
  Alex Vandenbergh is a Senior Project Engineer at Silman.  He has worked on new and existing buildings in a variety of uses ranging from private residential to K-12 schools, including a new Mass Timber building constructed in the NYC area.  He sits on the steering committees for Silman’s Green Initiative group as well as the NYC Carbon Leadership Forum, and is interested in finding practical, easily implemented tools to help structural engineers track and reduce embodied carbon in their projects.  
  

  1 PDH offered

  
  

  Registration Fees:

  SEAoNY Members – Free

  Non-Members – $15

  
  

  Registration ends 3 pm, November 08, 2021

  

  Not yet a Member of the Structural Engineers Association of New York?

  Join Us and Become a Member! https://seaony.org/join-us 

  
  

  All levels of Structural Engineering experience as well as affiliated trades and professionals are welcome to join and enrich your career, with special reduced rates for all Upstate NY members

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• How to Measure Embodied Carbon and Perform LCA in Your Structural Design

  • When
    17 Nov 2021
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  SEAoNY Sustainable Design Committee Presents:

  How to Measure Embodied Carbon and Perform LCA in Your Structural Design

  November 17, 2021

  06:00 PM - 7:30 PM 

  Zoom Webinar

  The SDC committee will gather a panel of structural professionals to showcase several Life Cycle Assessment (LCAs) and embodied carbon calculators. Attendees will learn the several tools available and how to easily implement them into their projects at their firms.

  Objectives and Learning Methods:
  

  1. Learn what free life cycle assessments (LCAs) and embodied carbon calculators are available to structural engineers
  2. Learn how to use the life cycle assessments (LCAs) and embodied carbon calculators
  3. Learn how to import material quantity information from your structural or BIM models
  4. Learn the goals of the SE 2050 movement and how to get your firm involved!

  Panelists:  More information to follow

  • Mel Chafart
  • Stacy Smedley
  • Rob Otani

  1 PDH pending

  
  

  Registration Fees:

  SEAoNY Members – Free

  Non-Members – $15

  
  

  Registration ends 3 pm, November 16, 2021

  

  Not yet a Member of the Structural Engineers Association of New York?

  Join Us and Become a Member! https://seaony.org/join-us 

  
  

  All levels of Structural Engineering experience as well as affiliated trades and professionals are welcome to join and enrich your career, with special reduced rates for all Upstate NY members

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