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• Resilience Panel Series: Engineering in the Emergency Response Cycle

  • When
    06 Oct 2022
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  Resilience Panel Series
  Engineering in the Emergency Response Cycle

  October 6, 2022 
  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
  Zoom Webinar

   Zoom Links will be sent on October 6th after 9:00 am

  We continue the SEAoNY Resilience Panel Series with a panel on engineering in the emergency response cycle. This panel has a focus on design for stages of the emergency response cycle, following three panels focused on best practice design considerations for specific hazards. Our speakers focus on a few different vantage points - advance preparedness, emergency response during and in the immediate aftermath of a natural hazard event, and longer term restoration and recovery. Each will speak broadly on their focus within the resilience cycle, while also touching on how design choices enable success.

  This event is part of 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.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Preparedness – Joseph Sutkowi – Participants will gain understanding of the role that engineering and design can play in hazard mitigation.
  • Emergency Response – Alberto Marquez and Alex Stephani – Understand how professionals in the AEC industry, specifically structural engineers, can use their training as 2nd responders and participate in a local, state, or national level recovery after a natural disaster.

  
  

  Panelists:

  
  

  
  

  Joseph Sutkowi
  Chief Waterfront Design Officer, Waterfront Alliance

  Joseph Sutkowi, WEDG is the Chief Waterfront Design Officer at the Waterfront Alliance, leading the WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) program. He brings experience in ports and waterfront operations, economic development policy, and infrastructure. Previously, Joseph was a senior consultant at Karp Strategies, a New York City-based urban planning and economic development consulting firm where he led projects in infrastructure and sustainability. Joseph spent seven years with the American Red Cross in disaster operations in Michigan. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan and a Master’s of Public Administration from New York University’s Wagner School.

  
  

  Alberto Marquez, PE.
  Structural Engineer, Stanley D. Lindsey

  Alberto Marquez P.E. has over 10 years in the design and construction management of structural engineering and façade projects. Currently he works at Stanley D. Lindsey, an erection and structural engineering firm based in Atlanta, GA. He is the chair of the Structural Engineer Association of New York’s (SEAoNY) Structural Engineering Emergency Response (SEER) Committee, where they train professionals, advocate for education of and assist in coordination of second responders. He has assisted in the recovery from multiple tornado events in the Midwest, has attained the recommended CALOES SAP training, and participated in NYC DOB’s Continuity of Operations Program Exercise.

  
  

  Alexander Stephani, PE
  Project Consultant, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc.

  Alexander D. Stephani has worked at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) for over 4 years and is a licensed PE in New York State. He is heavily involved in new design, investigation, and rehabilitation projects involving concrete, steel, and wood structures. He also performs specialized work related to evaluating flood hazards and designing structures to mitigate flood risk. Alexander is an active member of SEAoNY’s Structural Engineering Emergency Response and has participated in NYC DOB’s Continuity of Operations Program Exercise.
  

  
  

  1 PDH offered

  
  

  Registration Fees:

  SEAoNY Members – Free

  Non-Members – $15

  Non-Member Student - $5

  
  

  Registration ends 09:00 am, October 6, 2022

  
  

  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 Filippo Masetti (fmasetti@sgh.com) or Adam Brooks (adam.brooks@arup.com).

  https://seaony.org/Resilience-Committee

  

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  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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• Code Advisory Committee Meeting

  • When
    11 Oct 2022
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    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Teleconference

   Codes and Standards meeting will be held at 5:00 pm on 10/11/2022

  Please RSVP with ashear@wje.com by end of day 10/11/22, if you plan to attend.

  1 PDH - Credits pending

  
  

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• Programs Committee Meeting

  • When
    12 Oct 2022
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Teams

   Please RSVP to seaonyprograms@gmail.com on or before 10/11/22 at 10am.

  Please email seaonyprograms@gmail.com with any questions.

  
  

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• Defining the Evolving Professional Standard of Care- by Kriton

  • When
    25 Oct 2022
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place

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  Defining the Evolving Professional Standard of Care
  Ethics Presentation by
  

  Kriton A Pantelidis, JD
  Vice President, Professional Services
  Risk Strategies Company 

  
  

  Date: 10/25/22
  Registration Ends 10/24/2022 
  Time: 6:00 PM  - 8:00 PM
  Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place

  Description:
  The professional standard of care is not static but fluid. This course will explain what the standard of care is at a base level and how it is legally determined; discuss how it is and potentially will evolve in the face of new design challenges; support the development of best practices in conforming to same under specific circumstances; and provide an understanding of what constitutes related professional misconduct.

  Learning Objectives:

  • The definition of the standard of care.
  • The criteria for how it is generally determined.
  • A basic understanding of how it evolves.
  • How a deviation from the standard of care can be considered professional misconduct.
  • Some examples of best practices for confirming to the standard of care.

  Presenter Bio:

  

  As a specialty A&E insurance broker and risk-management consultant, Kriton acts as a resource for his clients on issues related to cost-conscious placement and enhancement of professional liability and other relevant insurance, contract terms & conditions, project-specific concerns, insurance coverage, loss prevention & mitigation, and litigation & claims advocacy.  Prior to joining Risk Strategies, Kriton spent eleven-plus years as a practicing attorney dedicated to counseling architects and engineers, including litigating on behalf of design professionals through to trial, representing same in contractual negotiations and other transactional matters, and acting as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP’s Associate General Counsel.

  1 PDH Credit Offered

  
  

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• 2022 T.R. Higgins Lecture - Dr. Amit Kanvinde Presents Column Base Connections

  • When
    07 Nov 2022
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  2022 T.R. Higgins Award Winner Amit Kanvinde, PhD. 

  NEW DATE: 11/7/2022

  Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

  Location: Zoom Webinar

  Each year, AISC's T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical paper or papers, published during the eligibility period, are considered an outstanding contribution to the engineering literature on fabricated structural steel.

  Description:

  Column base connections are arguably the most important connections in steel buildings, transferring loads from the entire structure into the foundation. At the interface of steel and concrete, these connections are complex in terms of behavior, design, as well as structural interactions with the building frame. The lecture will present our current understanding of these connections based on numerous studies, with an emphasis on AISC-funded studies conducted over the last 15 years. Exposed, slab-overtopped, and embedded connections will be discussed, addressing their response (strength, failure modes, stiffness, and deformation characteristics). Implications for design of the connections as well as the building will be presented. Prospective developments in base connection design will be foreshadowed, including a revision of the AISC Design Guide One, and the use of dissipative base connections in seismic design. 

  Learning Objectives:

  • Design process for exposed column base connections
  • Seismic Response of Weak Base Connections
  • Rotational Stiffness of Base Connections 
  • Overview of codes and standards pertaining to base connections 

  Presenter Bio:

  
  

  Amit Kanvindeis a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis. His research is focused on the seismic response of steel structures and connections.  He is the recipient of the 2022 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award from AISC (on the topic of base connections), and has previously received AISC’s Special Achievement Award (2017) and various awards from ASCE, including the Walter Huber Research Prize (2016), and the State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award (2018), and the Norman Medal (2008). He is the co-author of the column base plate example (for Steel Moment Frames) in the SEAOC Seismic Design Manual, and is the lead author of the next edition of AISC's Design Guide One on column base connections. His research is cited in numerous standards, and he currently serves on the AISC Connection Prequalification Review Panel, which approves the AISC 358 standard on prequalified moment frame connections. 

  1.5 PDH Credit Offered

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