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The 2011 Architectural Engineering Conference
Update
March 30 - April,
2011
Planning
for the 2011 Architectural Engineering Conference is well underway.
The conference, to be
held March 30-April 2, 2010 at the Oakland Marriott City Center, is
actually three events in one: the 2011 Annual
Architectural Engineering Conference,
the 2011 National AEI Student Conference, and the final of the
AEI Student
Competition.
The
event will start with a new workshop on March 30 on the design of
modern glazing systems, with particular emphasis on earthquake and
blast. Dr. Mohammed
Ettouney, Ph.D., P.E., F.AEI (Principal, Weidlinger Associates,
Inc.) Dr. Ali Memari, Ph.D., P.E. (Professor, Architectural
Engineering Dept., Pennsylvania State University) and Stephen L.
Fisher, SE. (Bagatelos Architectural Glass Systems, Inc.), will
be the workshop instructors.
A welcome reception for the conference attendees will take
place in the evening.
The
technical presentations are scheduled on March 31 and April 1. Both days will start with
outstanding plenary sessions. On March 31, a multi-disciplinary team
from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) will discuss
interdisciplinary architectural/structural collaboration using the
San Francisco International Terminal, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing,
the Huawei Shanghai Campus, the San Bernadino Courthouse, and the
Christ the Light Cathedral as case studies. The presentation will
discuss the design, detail, documentation and execution phases
illustrating the collaborative process citing examples from the case
studies.
After
concurrent technical presentation sessions in the morning and early
afternoon, a walking tour of the
Christ
the Light Cathedral will be organized. The final of the AEI Student
Competition, where the finalist teams will
present
their designs to the Jury for the competition will also be held on
March 31. In
the evening, a Career Fair and reception for the student attendees
will take place in the exhibit area (Foyer).
On
April 1, the team for the California Pacific Medical Center
Cathedral Hill Hospital Project will discuss “Integrating Lean
and Green” on this
most
innovative urban replacement hospital project that is breaking new
ground in multiple areas of design and operations. Project team
members
from different backgrounds (CM/GC, subcontractor, architect, etc.)
will discuss lean design, collaboration, information flow between
designers and trades, design optimization, production planning, role
of technology, co-location, and contractual and financial
framework.
Concurrent
technical presentation sessions will continue in the morning and
afternoon. The final of the AEI Student
Competition will conclude with the feedback from the Jury to the
finalist teams at the end of the morning on April 1. Students of the ACE Mentor
Program will interact with architectural engineering students,
architectural engineering faculty and with practicing engineers in
the morning of April.
The winners of the AEI Student
Competition
will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on April 1. Other awards such as
the “Best Journal of Architectural Engineering Paper”, “Outstanding
Reviewer”, “Best Conference Paper”, etc. will also be presented on
this occasion. The AEI
Student Chapter Officers will hold their meeting and elect new
national officers in the afternoon of April 1. The students will also be
able to take part in a special event in the evening of April 1 and
in an optional tour of San Francisco on April 2.
The
conference also includes an exhibit. For more information on
exhibits,
the
Career Fair, and sponsorship
opportunities,
please
contact Sean Scully at 703-295-6154 or sscully@asce.org.
The conference preliminary
program will soon be posted and on-line registration will soon be
open. Please visit the conference
website
for
updates.
ASCE Charles Pankow Foundation Annual Architectural
Engineering
Student Competition
2011
The
second edition of the ASCE Charles Pankow Foundation Annual
Architectural Engineering Student Competition was announced in
September. The
competition will challenge students to address the design issues for
a new Contemporary Art Museum located in San Francisco,
California. The proposed project site is located at the
intersection of Moraga Avenue and Montgomery Street.
The
competition has been designed to reflect the Pankow goals:
a. To improve the quality, efficiency and value of large
buildings by advancing innovations in structural components and
systems that can be codified.
b. To improve the performance of building design and construction
teams by advancing integration, collaboration, communication, and
efficiency through innovative new tools and technologies, and by
advancing new means and methods for project team practices.
The
submittals should address the following challenges:
1.
Best practices in sustainable design as related to green building
design and construction;
2.
Construction and design issues for a site located within a high
seismic area.
Additionally,
participants are encouraged to meet the challenge to integrate the
engineered systems of the building towards the goal of a high
performance building.
More
details are available on the competition website. The
registration deadline is December 22. To register a team, complete
and submit the form on the
registration
page.
New
AEI Publication
TC for the
Study of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
AEI
just published the findings of the team of volunteers it sent to
study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on a select group of critical
facilities: hospitals, nursing homes and buildings serving as
refuge. The report,
edited by Adam Hapij, P.E., Chair
of the
AEI Task
Committee for the Study of the
Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is titled: Multidisciplinary
Assessment of Critical Facility Response to Natural Disasters—The
Case of Hurricane Katrina.
After
an introduction defining the objectives and the scope of the team’s
investigation, and presenting the rationale for the selection of
buildings to be examined, six chapters focus on the performance of
specific building engineered systems: mechanical, electrical and
plumbing systems;
building envelope systems; structural systems; and fire protection
and life safety systems.
The performance of the communication infrastructure is
examined in a separate chapter, and a methodology for
multidisciplinary risk assessment is
outline
in a final chapter. The
book includes numerous pictures taken by the AEI team illustrating
salient issues, as well as the comprehensive multi-disciplinary
assessment form developed by the team to collect relevant data and
evaluate building performance.
The
book can be ordered by calling 1-800-548-2723 or on-line
at: Multidisciplinary
Assessment of Critical Facility Response to Natural
Disasters.
New AEI Board
Members
Mark McAfee,
P.E.
Mr. McAfee is a practicing structural engineer and a
prinicipal of Dudley Williams and Associates in Wichita,
Kansas. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural
Engineering from Kansas State University. He is a licensed
professional engineer in the State of Kansas and has 31 years of
experience in private practice. Mark is a founding fellow and
past-president of the National Society of Architectural Engineers,
is a fellow of the Architectural Engineering Institute of ASCE, and
is chair of the Architectural Engineering Principles and Practice of
Engineering Examination Committee.
Ali Memari, Ph.D.,
P.E. 
Dr. Memari is a Structural Engineering faculty at Penn State
University, Department of Architectural Engineering, and has over 20
years of teaching and research experience, as well as several years
of part time and full time consulting activities. Learn
more.
AEI Membership
Renewal
Accomplishments
AEI members will soon receive in the mail letters
asking them to renew their membership for 2011. In that context, it is
appropriate to review some highlights of our twelfth year of
activity. The AEI Leadership is particularly proud of the AEI new
initiatives which will help disseminate important new knowledge and
engage the membership of the Institute.
AEI
Symposium on Aging Buildings
The AEI Continuing Education Committee assembled a
Steering Committee, chaired by Mohammed Ettouney, Ph.D., P.E. for a
“Symposium on Aging Buildings – A Symposium on the Structural Frame
and the Glass Curtain Wall Enclosure” organized jointly with the
Steel and Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York. The event initially
scheduled on June 2 in New York City was postponed to December 9,
2009. It had a
strong technical content not available elsewhere and was well
attended: http://content.asce.org/conferences/aei/aging_buildings/index.html
AEI 2011
Conference
Planning is well underway for the 2011 Annual Architectural Engineering
Conference in Oakland,
California.
New
webinars
Three new AEI webinars are being planned for the
coming year. You will receive further information
shortly.
Architectural Engineering
Exam
Following the PAK study for the architectural
engineering P.E. exam conducted in 2007-2008, and the approval by
the EPE committee of NCEES of the updated exam specifications, the
AEI Architectural Exam Committee prepared
the 2nd edition of the exam review manual, Principles and
Practice of Engineering – Architectural Engineering Sample Questions
and Solutions, edited by Mark McAfee, P.E. The review of the manuscript
was completed and the new edition was published in early January
2010, and the book was available for the April 2010 Architectural
Engineering P.E. exam.
The AEI Architectural Engineering P.E. Exam Committee
organized with the assistance of ASCE Professional Activities a very
successful AE exam writing workshop on April 23-24, 2009 in Reston,
Virginia. A cut-score workshop was held in May 2010 in Kansas City,
MO and an item writing workshop was held in Reston, VA in July.
Architectural Engineering
Education
The AEI Academic Council developed, discussed and
adopted updated EAC/ABET criteria for architectural engineering
which were approved by the AEI Board of Governors, the Committee on
Curricula and Accreditation of ASCE’s Education Activities
Committee, by ASCE’s Education Activities Committee and have been
forwarded to ABET for final approval. The Academic Council has
also established a comprehensive commentary to the
criteria.
ASCE Charles Pankow Foundation Annual
Architectural Engineering Student
Competition
Following the approval of the
grant proposal submitted by AEI to the Charles Pankow Foundation to
establish and support an annual architectural engineering student
competition, AEI established a Task Committee for the ASCE
Charles Pankow Foundation Annual
Architectural Engineering Student Competition, chaired by a former
President of AEI, Kenna Chapin, P.E. The Task Committee developed
the rules and selected the theme for the competition. An attractive website
www.aeicompetition.org was created
to promote the competition which was officially announced on
September 21. Twelve teams from seven institutions registered for
the competition whose final was held at the 2010 AEI National
Student Competition on April 9-10, 2010 in Kansas City,
Missouri. The 2011
edition of the competition was announced last
September.
The AEI leadership trusts you will continue to support
AEI and its activities. If you are an ASCE member, one way you can
do this is to be sure you continue to indicate AEI as your institute
or one of your institutes. You can do this either as you renew your
ASCE membership, or by updating your member profile on ASCE’s web
site http://www.asce.org/. Your first institute membership is part of your ASCE
membership, and membership in subsequent institutes is only $30.
Another way of showing support is to make a voluntary contribution
to AEI either as part of your ASCE or AEI-only membership renewal.
We are asking each member to consider giving a $50 voluntary
contribution to support EMI’s activities. This important source of
funding allows AEI to truly “make a difference” by providing seed
money for new ideas for products and services that are developed by
the committees during the fiscal year.
Thank you for your past and future support of the
Architectural Engineering Institute!
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