LIVE WEBINAR SERIES of FIVE 1-HOUR TOPICS: Up to 5.0 NCSEA Diamond-Certified PDHs available Tornado Loads in ASCE 7-22 Surfside, Dangerous Conditions & Understanding IEBC Structural Provisions Snow Loads in ASCE 7-22, What's New Frequently Asked Wind Questions Performance-Based Structural Fire Design of Buildings

EVENT TIMING & REGISTRATION

DATES: Consecutive Thursdays, May 12, 19, & 26, 2022 May 12: Two Webinars: 11:00 a.m. - Noon & 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EST May 19: Two Webinars: 11:00 a.m. - Noon & 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EST May 26: One Webinar: Noon - 1:00 p.m. EST WHERE: Online via Zoom; Registrants receive access links prior to each webinar PDHs: All Attendees Receive up to 5 NECSEA Diamond-Certified PDHs

INVESTMENT: (Registrants will receive webinar recordings regardless of live participation) MEMBERS: (You will list your Primary State SEA at checkout) Full Conference (May 12,19,25) 5 Diamond PDHs: $150.00 May 12 Only (2 Diamond-Certified PDHs): $60.00 May 19 Only (2 Diamond-Certified PDHs): $60.00 May 26 Only (1 Diamond-Certified PDH): $30.00 NON-Members: Full Conference (May 12,19,25) 5.0 Diamond PDHs: $200.00 May 12 Only (2 Diamond-Certified PDHs): $75.00 May 19 Only (2 Diamond-Certified PDHs): $75.00 May 26 Only (1 Diamond-Certified PDH): $50.00 EVENT SPONSOR: $350.00

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PRESENTATION TOPICS & OVERVIEWS

THURSDAY, MAY 12 | 11 a.m. - Noon EST:

Tornado Loads in ASCE 7-22 John O’Brien, PE, SE Senior Engineer - Structural | Haskell

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW: Tornado design loads are a new addition to the ASCE 7-22 design loads standard. This session will present the background on tornado risk used to develop the new Chapter 32 provisions, and when practitioners need to consider tornado loads in design. Similarities and differences between tornado loads and standard wind loads on MWFRS and C&C elements will be discussed, and a tornado design example will be presented.

Thursday, May 12 | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EST:

Surfside, Dangerous Conditions & Understanding IEBC Structural Provisions Michael Fillion, PE, SECB President | Fillion Group, Inc.

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW: This presentation will cover NCSEA’s involvement at the ‘post surfside collapse’ discussions held by ICC last August in West Palm Beach Florida. Discussion will focus on ‘are the building codes adequate’ and briefly on Florida’s 40 year Building Re-certification program. Dangerous conditions will be discussed with case histories as well as what is one’s duty to report dangerous conditions. We receive frequently asked questions of the structural provisions to the IEBC from MOs from around the country; the last part of this presentation will focus on those FAQs and what NCSEA is doing to address those concerns in the upcoming 2024 ICC code cycle.

Thursday, May 19 | 11 a.m. - Noon EST:

Snow Loads in ASCE 7-22, What’s New  Michael O’Rourke, PE, Ph.D Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering | Rensselaer

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW: The presentation will cover the major changes to the snow load provisions in ASCE 7-22. The specific changes to be covered are: new ground snow load maps, inclusion of a winter wind parameter in the evaluation of drift loads, changes to the width of windward drifts, relations for the height of full capture walls, relations for reduced drift height due to a wall separating the snow source area from the drift accumulation area, and inclusion of the ground snow load and roof insulation value in determination of the thermal factor for heated structures with unventilated roofs.

Thursday, May 19 | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. EST:

Frequently Asked Wind Questions Emily Guglielmo, PE, SE Principal, Structural Engineering | Martin/Martin, Inc.

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW: This session will cover the most frequently asked questions related to wind design.  Topics will include: Wind loads on balcony handrails Shielding and buildings with expansion joints  Drift limits and serviceability under wind loads Wind loads on rooftop screen walls Wind loads on temporary structures  The reason ASCE 7 wind loads are now at ultimate levels, along with 3 maps instead of 1 Difference between 3-second gust and fastest-mile wind speed Relation between ASCE 7 wind speeds and hurricane categories   This session will discuss these frequently encountered situations and how to use current research and codes to address these designs safely and efficiently.

Thursday, May 26 | Noon - 1:00 p.m. EST:

Performance-Based Structural Fire Design of Buildings  Ali Ashrafi, Ph.D, PE Principal | Thornton Tomasetti

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW: The current prescriptive approach to safety in fire has many shortcomings since the performance of buildings and safety of their occupants in fire is not quantified. Performance based design is a rational design approach that brings science and engineering to the picture, resulting in more flexibility in design, better economy, better aesthetics, and reliable performance. In this presentation, several examples from projects such as the Shed in New York, Seaport World Trade Center renovation in Boston and Pittsburgh International Airport, will be discussed to show when and how performance based design could provide such benefits.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

John O’Brien, PE, SE Senior Engineer - Structural | Haskell John is a Senior Structural Engineer at Haskell in Atlanta, GA with over 15 years of structural design experience. He has extensive experience designing senior living, mixed use, hospitality, industrial and retail structures in hurricane prone regions. He has designed tornado shelters throughout the Midwest, and assisted developers in making economical design decisions to improve building resistance to the most common EF0-EF2 tornadoes. In addition to design work, he has investigated hurricane and tornado damage to structures throughout the Southeast, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. John is a voting member of NCSEA's Wind Engineering Committee and the ASCE 7 Wind Loads Subcommittee.

Michael Fillion, PE, SECB President | Fillion Group, Inc. Michael has over 30 years of experience as a licensed structural engineer consulting on both new and existing structures. He is current chair of NCSEA’s Existing Buildings Code Committee and serves on the Structural Advisory Committee to the Massachusetts State Building Code. Mike is also a board member of the Massachusetts Architects & Engineers Emergence Response Task force and is a certified trainer of the California OES SAP course on post disaster building assessments.

Emily Guglielmo, PE, SE | Principal, Structural Engineering Bay Area Office | Martin/Martin, Inc.  Emily earned her Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from UCLA, and her Master's Degree in Structural Engineering from UC Berkeley. She has nearly two decades of structural engineering experience, all with Martin/Martin, Inc. She began her career in their Denver, CO area office, and is currently a Principal with the firm, managing their San Francisco Bay Area office. She has lectured on building code provisions across the nation and is the Chair of the NCSEA Wind Engineering Committee. A licensed PE, SE, and CE, Emily has received a number of awards, including SEI Fellow and the Susan M. Frey NCSEA Educator Award, for effective instruction for practicing structural engineers.

Michael O'Rourke, PH.D., P.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering | Rensselaer Dr. O’Rourke earned his BSCE degree in the late 1960s from IIT and his Masters and Ph.D from Northwestern in the early 1970s. He served on the Civil Engineering faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1974 and has been involved in snow load research for most of his years at Rensselaer. His research was sponsored by the U.S. Army Cold Region Research and Engineering Lab, the National Bureau of Standards, the National Science Foundation and the Metal Building Manufacturers Association, among others. His research has resulted in approximately four dozen snow-related publications including journal papers and conference proceedings. Dr. O'Rourke served as Chair of the ASCE 7 Snow and Rain Subcommittee from 1997-2017 and currently serves as the Vice-Chair and a Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI).

Ali Ashrafi, Ph.D, PE Principal, Thornton Tomasetti Dr. Ashrafi is currently a Principal at Thornton Tomasetti. He was the Vice-chair of the ASCE Fire Protection Committee, and is a member of the ACEC Metro Region Fire Codes Committee. He has overseen numerous projects including performance based structural fire engineering at several projects throughout the US such as the Shed in New York City, Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Pittsburgh International Airport, and Kravis Center in Florida. He also has extensive experience in investigating the impact of fire at various buildings and facilities. Ali is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, having taught both Structural Fire Engineering and Earthquake and Wind Engineering.

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