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• Shadow an Engineer: Call for Volunteers

  • Start
    24 Feb 2023
  • End
    07 Apr 2023
  • Location
    New York City

  Shadow an Engineer: Call for Volunteers

  March - April 2023

  Shadow a Structural Engineer is an opportunity provided by SEAoNY to college students who wish to learn more about the everyday life of a structural engineer (the nuts and bolts!).  Each student will be paired with a professional to follow him/her through a typical workday, which may include structural design and analysis, review and markups of drawings, construction administration - maybe even a site visit, if permitted!  

  • Professionals would only be expected to commit to one 4-hour session with a student
  • Students will be randomly paired with professionals
  • Students will be informed that this is NOT an interview, just a way to see a practicing engineer in his or her typical day
  • Coordination of specific date/time will be on a case-by-case basis, and coordinated directly between the matched student and professional. 

  CLICK HERE TO VOLUNTEER!
  

  For more information, contact the SEAoNY Student Outreach Committee at:  seaonyeducation@gmail.com

  We hope that many of our members will be willing to volunteer this year!

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• Specification Writing Advice for More Sustainable Concrete Projects

  • When
    21 Mar 2023
  •  
    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  SEAoNY Sustainable Design Committee Presents:

  Specification Writing Advice for More Sustainable Concrete Projects

  DATE: March 21, 2023
  TIME: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Zoom Webinar

  
  

  Structural Engineers have the opportunity to include language in project specifications that will influence the selection of materials by the procurement team. When carefully researched, the specification team can identify concrete suppliers that will offer products manufactured with the lowest impact to the environment.

  In this webinar, the presenters will offer the appropriate background information and potential approaches to defining embodied carbon limits within the concrete specs that can be used to determine the acceptance of suppliers and products. They will also outline two approaches for including these embodied carbon limits and discuss the pros and cons of each approach.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Identify clear language that can be written into typical concrete specs to reduce embodied carbon in structural systems
  • Identify different approaches to specifying embodied carbon limits for structural concrete materials
  • Define methods that can be used today to reduce embodied carbon in concrete mixes
  • Define potential challenges and/or contractor resistance to embodied carbon language in concrete specifications

  
  1 PDH offered

  Registration Fees:
  SEAoNY Members – Free
  Non-Members – $15
  Non-Member Student - $5

  
  Presenter:

  Matthew Streeter, PE
   Associate Structural Designer – Skidmore Owings and Merrill

  Matt is an Associate Structural Designer at Skidmore Owings and Merrill who has been practicing since 2014. He did his undergraduate work at Syracuse University and achieved a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University in 2012. Following this, he studied under Sigrid Adriaenssens in the Form Finding lab at Princeton University and achieved a Masters of Science in Engineering with research focused on numerical approaches to the form finding of inflatable dam structures. Matt currently helps lead the lifecycle group at SOM which, along with colleagues from several offices, focuses on quantifying and reducing embodied carbon in various structural systems.

  
  

  Registration ends  9:00 am, March 21, 2023

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• In-person Tour of the First CLT & Mass Timber Building in NYS

  • When
    11 Apr 2023
  •  
    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    1180 Commercial Dr, Farmington, NY 14425
  • Spaces left
    50

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  Upstate Chapter of SEAoNY:
  In-person Tour of the First CLT & Mass Timber Building in NYS

  Tuesday April 11, 2023
  2:00PM - 4:00PM
  1180 Commercial Dr, Farmington, NY 14425
  

  
  

  Join us for an in person tour of the first cross-laminated timber (CLT) building constructed in New York State located in Farmington between Syracuse and Rochester in Upstate NY. The tour will start off with a 1 hour (1 PDH) presentation from the building designers (they will be virtual) with opportunity for questions, followed by a tour of the CLT structure. The presentation is only available to in-person attendees. 

  Learning Objectives:

  • What is a CLT and when is it considered sustainability benefit
  • Balancing engineering and esthetic needs in design
  • Cantilevered beams & bridge trusses: why truss design & connections matters
  • How a found-form tree can act as a load bearing column

  1 PDH 

  Fees:
  SEAoNY Members - FREE 
  SEAoNY Students - FREE
  Non-Members - $15
  Non-Member Students - $5

  Presenters:
  

  
  Jonathan Orpin
  New Energy Works

  Jonathan Orpin founded New Energy Works and Pioneer Millworks over 30 years ago operating on the triple bottom line—a simple belief that people, planet, and profit work together to ensure a better future. His philosophy on sustainability, business management, and giving back are reflected in everything the companies currently do, have done in the past, and are always stiving to improve upon.

  From their studio-shops and mills in New York and Oregon New Energy Works design, craft, and build sustainable custom homes, buildings, and high-performance enclosures throughout North America. Their sister company Pioneer Millworks manufacture reclaimed and sustainable wood flooring, paneling, siding, and decking for the building industry.

  
  

  
  Ben Brungraber, Ph.D., P.E.
  Fire Tower Engineered Timber

  Ben Brungraber, Ph.D., P.E. is a company co-founder and timber frame visionary with more than forty years of experience in the field, including trend-setting research on mortise and tenon joinery.

  In his early years, Ben worked in the construction industry after acquiring his civil engineering degree from Cornell. His jobs included inspecting the concrete used in the Washington DC subway, and helping American Bridge build steel high-rise structures, long-span bridges and steel mills. After many years of teaching and various wide-reaching roles in the field, Ben reconnected with colleague, Mack Magee, and started Fire Tower Engineered Timber, which quickly evolved into one of the timber frame industry’s most ambitious and respected design and engineering firms.

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  Registration closes at 5pm on April 10, 2023

  

  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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• Sustainability successes at the IStructE

  • When
    02 May 2023
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Buro Happold, 100 Broadway, 23FL New York, NY 10005
  • Spaces left
    108

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  Sustainable Design Committee presents:

  Sustainability successes at the IStructE

  Tuesday May 2, 2023
  6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  Buro Happold, 100 Broadway, 23FL New York, NY 10005
  
  

  Join this special presentation by Will Arnold, Head of Climate Action at the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and co-sponsored by the Structural Engineering Association of New York's Sustainable Design Committee (SEAoNY SDC) and Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) New York.

  Over the last three years, the IStructE has been at the forefront of the global structural engineering community’s refocusing around sustainability. In this evening lecture, Arnold will reflect on the industry change that he has helped to spearhead, placing reduction in embodied carbon at the heart of what the IStructE now expects of its 30,000-strong global membership.

  The talk will explore the methods used by the IStructE to create such rapid change, including the pulling together of more than 200 pieces of sustainability guidance, much of which the Institution made free to non-members. It will look at updated membership standards, and cross-industry initiatives such as a campaign to legislate the UK’s embodied carbon emissions that Will has been leading.

  This presentation is relevant for structural engineers, architects, and other building professionals. Following Will’s presentation there will be a moderated discussion addressing applications to local and regional embodied carbon reduction activity and ways attendees can become involved.

  1 PDH Pending
  

  Free Event

  Panelist:

  
  

  Will Arnold
  CEng FIStructE FRSA
  Head of Climate Action
  The Institution of Structural Engineers

  Will is a Fellow and staff member of The Institution of Structural Engineers, responsible for embedding sustainability action into all aspects of the institution's work. He is responsible for driving the update of minimum standards for institution members, developing supporting guidance, and leading collaboration with wider industry. Will was the lead author of Part Z (an industry proposal for embodied carbon regulation in the UK) and is helping to deliver both the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, and the Built Environment Carbon Database. In recognition of his work instigating change in the field of structural sustainability, Will holds the IStructE President’s Award, and the Memcom Outstanding Achievement Award.

  
  

  Registration ends  12:00 pm, May 2, 2023

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