Sustainable Structural Design: Strategies That Can Make a Big Impact

This presentation provides a summary of sustainable design strategies that every structural engineer can readily implement (at minimal to no extra cost) as well as highlighting emerging technologies in the field including resilient design strategies, life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify and reduce carbon impacts of buildings, and new timber systems available as alternative building materials. Sustainability is now a mainstream consideration on projects. While architects have focused in large part on improving energy efficiency, the structural engineer is increasingly being looked upon to make decisions that will help reduce the embodied environmental impacts of the structures they design. You don’t have to be a “Green” structural engineering company to build better buildings; a few slight shifts in standard practice can make all the difference. It might be easier than you think!

• Course will award 1.5 hours of continuing education
• This course is Diamond Review approved in 49 states. New York does not accept hours from recordings.

Speakers:

Erik Kneer, SE, LEED AP BD+C, is an Associate Principal in Holmes Structures’ San Francisco office. He was the founding Chair of the SEAOC Sustainable Design Committee and has authored multiple publications on the engineer’s role in sustainability including: “Structural Engineering Strategies for Sustainable Design” and “Consideration of Building Performance in Sustainable Design: A Structural Engineer’s Role”.

Megan Stringer, S.E., LEED AP BD+C, is an Associate Principal with Holmes. Motivated by our impact on the built environment, Megan is at the forefront of reducing structural embodied carbon. She champions Holmes’ SE 2050 commitment and gets sustainable structures built at impressive scales. Megan has overseen North America’s largest mass timber project at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, utilized low-carbon concrete pours at Intuit, and performed many life cycle assessments. She also serves as Vice President of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California.

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