Next year's Structural Engineering Institute convention, a.k.a. the Structures Congress, will take place in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2-4, 2013. SEI Sustainability Committee member, Adam Slivers, summarized the sustainability sessions for the Structural Engineers Association of Washington blog. The full account is reprinted below.
Two tracks of seminars will feature sustainability, and
currently both are scheduled for Saturday morning. Sustainable Building Systems has two series
with the following presentations:
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Informed Tall Building Design:
Considering Embodied Environmental Impacts
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Achieving Enhanced Seismic Design Using
Viscous Damping Device Technologies
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Innovation in Sustainable Engineering:
350 Mission
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Sustainability Impact of Tall
Buildings
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Sustainable Structures through
Morphogenetic Design
Comparing Adaptability - A Case Study of Three Historic
Buildings
•
Structure as Aesthetic in Sustainable
Design Case Study
•
In the Looking Glass of Sustainable
Architecture
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Structure as Aesthetic in Sustainable
Design
At the same time, Sustainability in Structures has two series
with the following presentations:
Sustainable Systems and Materials
•
Specifying Sustainable Concrete: The
Role of Performance Based Specifications
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Long-term Service-Level Deflection
Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Recycled Concrete Aggregates
Sorting
Out the LCA Rhetoric: A Comparison of Life-Cycle Assessment Studies of
Structural Systems and Materials
•
Challenges and Solutions in Design of
Sustainable Building Structural Systems
•
Disaster Resilience and Sustainable
Design: Quantifying the Benefits of a Holistic Design
Approach
Taking Measure of Structural Thermal Breaks
•
A study of the thermal performance of
structural details using THERM
•
Use of Infrared Imaging to Identify
Thermal Energy Losses Due To Structural Thermal Bridging
•
Design and Performance of Constructed
Thermal Break Connections
•
Experimental investigation of insulated
concrete sandwich panels reinforced with GFRP shear connector
Click the series titles above to see the presentation
authors and abstracts. The full technical program is here.
