DON'T MISS FLASH SALE REGISTRATION RATES FOR THIS YEAR'S STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SUMMIT! |
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Join the best and brightest at the 2022 NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit in Chicago from November 1 – 4. A must-attend event, this year’s Summit includes 14+ PDHs, a Chicago River Cruise (SE Style!), Keynote Speakers Adrian Smith FAIA and Dr. Ivan Joseph, the SEE Awards, the Awards Celebration, and a special Leading Women in the Built World event!
FLASH SALE REGISTRATION RATES END JULY 1!
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Chicago River Cruise: SE Style
Back by popular demand, we will be cruising the Chicago River: SE Style! Enjoy music, food, drinks, and friends with an evening view of Chicago and narration by your colleagues from SEAOI. Get your tickets now, as this event will sell out fast!
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Leading Women in the
Built World Panel & Lunch
In this panel discussion, learn about the opportunities and challenges these outstanding female leaders faced as they offer advice to those embarking on their own AEC journey. Stick around after as we celebrate the incredible contributions and leadership from women in the AEC community with the Women in the Built World Lunch. Both events are co-hosted by AISC.
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SUBMIT YOUR FIRM’S PRIZED PROJECT TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS YEAR’S SEE AWARDS!
NCSEA's Structural Engineering Excellence (SEE) Awards highlight structural engineering ingenuity throughout the world and incredible achievements in the profession. Projects are judged on innovative design, engineering achievement, and creativity. Structural engineers and structural engineering firms are encouraged to enter their projects to highlight their successes and accomplishments.
The deadline for nominations is July 12, 2022.
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CALL FOR SPECIAL AWARD NOMINEES
The NCSEA Special Awards are presented to members who have provided outstanding service and commitment to the association and to the structural engineering profession. NCSEA Special Awards include the NCSEA Service Award, Robert Cornforth Award, Susan M. Frey Educator Award, James Delahay Award, and the Susan Ann "Susie" Jorgensen Presidential Leadership Award.
The deadline for nominations is July 12, 2022.
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Welcome to the next installment of Read.Watch.Listen: a monthly forum hosted by the NCSEA SE3 Committee to share and promote conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion within the structural engineering profession. Each month, we will curate a series of articles, audio-visual and digital media to facilitate self-education in matters that affect our professional practice as structural engineers. Whether you choose to read, watch, or listen (or all three!), we hope you will join us in this important conversation.
This June installment is in honor of Pride Month and in celebration of LGBTQ+ engineers. To start, we want to recognize the history of this month and the early leaders of the queer liberation movement, many of whom were Black trans women and trans men. While Pride Month is a time for celebrations, it is also a time for contemplation. We aim to recognize the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to our industry and our society, while also acknowledging some of the challenges they face. According to a recent study by Erin Cech titled Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM, “LGBTQ STEM professionals were more likely to experience career limitations, harassment, and professional devaluation than their non-LGBTQ peers… These findings reveal LGBTQ status as a clear axis of inequality in STEM.” Additionally, as of June 10th, there have been over 175 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced or active in state legislatures in 2022 alone. Inside and outside the industry, we must realize that the fight for equality and equity is far from over. The resources below share the stories of LGBTQ+ engineers and provide ways that non-LGBTQ+ engineers can become better allies.
Share your thoughts and/or recommended resources for the next issue at ncsea@ncsea.com.
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Scientific American
April 20, 2018
Author Jennifer Leman shares her interview with Joey Nelson, an
environmental scientist and mathematician. Nelson shares his experiences as a
gay man in STEM and his work with the Queer in STEM project. This article was found in a collection
for LGBTQ+ people in STEM that aims to collect at least 500 unique biographies
to serve as role models for future generations of queer scientists and
engineers.
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In this video, structural engineer Diego Padilla Philipps discusses his experiences as a gay man in our field. He also highlights his love for our profession and what brought him to engineering in the first place. If you are interested, find more videos from InterEngineering’s “What’s It Like? Being LGBT in Engineering” campaign here.
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This podcast episode discusses the harm caused by stereotyping people and professions and highlights the importance of representation in the engineering field. This conversation is from a three-part series on mental health at work with a focus on LGBTQ+ engineers.
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The design of multifamily residential buildings considers a number of objectives, including structural performance. Different structural systems, while all permitted within the International Building Code, will deliver different performance in earthquakes and other natural disaster events. A code-compliant building is expected to provide a minimum level of life safety, however, the amount of physical damage, repair costs and building functional recovery time will depend significantly on the strength and stiffness of the selected structural system. Cost, however, is often a perceived barrier to selecting the most resilient structural system.
The U.S. Resiliency Council recently published a report titled “Earthquake Performance Comparison of Multifamily, Multistory Apartment Building Constructed of Various Materials.” The study compared seismic performance of multifamily residential structures of four construction types: traditional wood framing, cross-laminated timber (CLT), steel framing, and concrete built using insulated concrete forms (ICF). The study considered each structural system in areas of very high seismicity (Los Angeles), high seismicity (Seattle), and moderate seismicity (Memphis). The construction cost differential among the various materials systems considered is relatively minor. While the structural engineering community has long recognized the benefits of resilient building construction, the USRC study quantifies these benefits beyond first construction costs to include the impacts of damage, repair, and recovery time. Estimates were made on the repair costs and recovery times associated with damage caused by a range of earthquake intensities at each location. Ultimately, net benefits and net construction cost deltas were compared across the four configurations and potential return on investment was estimated considering earthquakes that might occur over a 50-year building life.
The results of the study demonstrated that more resilient configurations, such as concrete construction using ICFs, produced significantly higher lateral force strength and four to five times higher building stiffness than the other configurations. Property losses in a Design Level Event (DLE) were significantly higher for less resilient building configurations including timber and steel. Estimated recovery times in a DLE for more resilient building configurations were typically less than two weeks, while recovery times for less resilient building configurations spanned several months in areas of high and very high seismicity (Seattle and Los Angeles). Total losses, considering property and rent were 2.7 to 5.3 times higher for less resilient building configurations. The net benefit in a DLE of the concrete building configuration considering the difference in estimated construction cost ranged from $ 1 million to $5.3 million in areas of high and very high seismicity.
For more information on the study, USRC’s report is available for free download here.
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YOUNG MEMBER GROUP OF SEAU REIGNING TRIVIA CHAMPIONS! |
Representatives from the Young Member Group (YMG) of SEAU (Utah) are all smiles. They were the Pacific/Mountain time zone winning team from this year’s Trivia Night. Organized and sponsored by the Young Member Support Committee of NCSEA, the event was held twice to accommodate the various YMGs across the country. The winner of the Eastern/Central time zone was SEAMASS (Massachusetts).
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the young engineers who were involved. The two winning teams will each receive a $100 gift card to enhance a future program or local YMG event.
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