ACI/PCA 318-08 Building Code

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Registration begins at 7:45 a.m. The seminar will begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 p.m. Lunch will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Breakfast breads/pastries, lunch, coffee breaks, and publications are included in your registration fee.

Faculty   

Two of the following will be your instructors:

Ronald A. Cook, PhD, PE, FACI, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Florida. He is past chairman of ACI 355 Anchorage to Concrete and a member of ACI 318 Subcommittee B Reinforcement and Development and ACI 349 Concrete Nuclear Structures. Dr. Cook is an ACI Fellow and recipient of the Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award. In addition to ACI activities, he is chairman of the ASCE 7 Committee on Wind Loads and a member of the ASTM Committee on Structural Connections, the International Federation for Structural Concrete Task Group on Fastenings, and the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers Working Commission on Concrete Structures. He is a registered professional engineer and his work experience includes 3 years in construction, 11 years in engineering design, and the past 19 years in engineering education and research at UF.

Charles W. Dolan, PhD, PE, FACI, H. T. Person Professor of Engineering, University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Laramie, WY. While employed by ABAM Engineers, Dolan designed and managed projects totaling $100 million in constructed cost over a 10-year period and established the Canadian subsidiary of ABAM. He has led the development of several research-related projects, and his primary research initiatives are the application and development of new materials for structural engineering applications and incorporation of these concepts into design practice. Dolan has served on the ACI Board of Direction, is a member of ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, and chair of subcommittee R dealing with the reorganization of the building code. He has served on and is chair of the ACI Technical Activities Committee; ACI-ASCE 423, Prestressed Concrete; ACI 358, Concrete Guideways; ACI 365, Service Life Prediction; and ACI 440, FRP Reinforcement. He is a Fellow of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. He has received several awards and written and co-authored many publications.

Catherine E. French, PhD, FACI, FPCI, IT Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota. French received her B.C.E. degree from the University of Minnesota, and her M.S.C.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her technical specializations are behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures; wind and earthquake effects; connections; repair and retrofit; development of effective force testing (EFT) earthquake simulation technique; bridges; new materials (high-strength concrete, FRP); corrosion; and durability. French has served on the ACI Board of Direction and is a member of ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and chair of subcommittee B, Reinforcement and Development. Her professional affiliations include the American Society of Civil Engineers, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. She has received several awards including the ACI Henry L. Kennedy Award, ACI Reinforced Concrete Research Council Arthur J. Boase Award, and ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize, and she has published more than 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

S. K. Ghosh, PhD, FACI, President, S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc., Palatine, IL and Laguna Niguel, CA, and Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Ghosh is known internationally for his work in earthquake engineering and specializes in analysis and design, including earthquake resistant design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. He is an ACI Fellow, and serves on ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and ACI-ASCE-TMS 530 Masonry Standards Joint Committee. He is a former member of the ACI Technical Activities Committee and currently serves on the ACI Board of Direction. Ghosh served for many years on the Board of Direction of the Building Seismic Safety Council and is currently a member of the Provisions Update Committee of that organization. He currently serves on the Board of Direction of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and is a member of ASCE Committee 7 on Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. He is active on many other national technical committees. He has published many papers and books on seismic and concrete design; he has also investigated and reported on structural performance in many earthquakes.

James R. Harris, PhD, PE, FACI, Principal, J. R. Harris & Company, Structural Engineers, Denver, CO. Harris received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois. His experience includes the design or evaluation of several hundred structures ranging from dwellings to high-rise buildings, including industrial facilities, long spans, buildings in the highest seismic zones, excavation bracing, pile and pier foundations, vibration issues, and historic building renovations. His research has focused on loading and response of structures, particularly earthquake and snow loadings, and on improving the formulation and use of engineering standards. He has written over 30 reports and journal articles on the results of his research and practice. His professional society affiliations are numerous. Harris is a member of ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and two subcommittees. He also serves on various technical committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Steel Construction, the Applied Technology Council, the Building Seismic Safety Council, the International Standards Organization, the Mid-America Earthquake Engineering Research Center, the Portland Cement Association, and the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. His contributions to the advancement of standards for structural engineering practice were recognized by election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Neil M. Hawkins, PhD, FACI, FPCI, MASCE, Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, and Adjunct Professor, University of Washington. Hawkins is a consulting member of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, several 318 subcommittees, and chairs the ACI 318 Task Group on Foundation Design. He is a member of ACI 215, Fatigue of Concrete; ACI 408, Bond and Development of Reinforcement; ACI-ASCE 445, Shear and Torsion; ACI 446, Fracture Mechanics; ACI-ASCE 550, Precast Concrete Structures: and ITG-5, Seismic Design of Unbonded Post-tensioned Precast Concrete Walls Systems. He also serves on several technical committees of ASCE and its Structural Engineering Institute where he is a member of the ASCE/SEI Main Committee 7 on Minimum Design Loads and a member of its Seismic Task Committee where he chairs the concrete structures sub-committee. He is a member of the Building Seismic Safety Council’s Provisions Update Committee, and serves or has served on committees of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Post-Tensioning Institute, the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Over the years, Hawkins has received numerous awards for his research and the transfer of research results into practice, and he has authored or co-authored over 200 publications.

Dominic J. Kelly, MS, PE, SE, Consulting Structural Engineer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc, Boston, MA. Kelly has 20 years experience in the design of new structures, the evaluation of existing structures, the repair of damaged structures, and the strengthening of deficient structures. He is called on frequently to perform structural adequacy and failure analyses. He is an active participant in the committee work of several professional associations. Kelly is currently a member of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and its subcommittees on Shear and Torsion and on Safety, Serviceability, and Analysis. He is a member of ASCE 7 Seismic Task Committee, which prepares seismic design provisions referenced by the model building codes.

Cary S. Kopczynski, PE, SE, FACI, President, Cary Kopczynski & Company, Inc. P.S., Bellevue, WA, a structural engineering firm active in the design of buildings throughout the United States and beyond. The firm’s concrete projects include high-rise residential towers, office buildings, hotels, and parking structures. Kopczynski served on the ACI Strategic Planning Committee, is a member of ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code, and a past member of ACI 352, Joints and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures (Joint ACI-ASCE); and ACI 374, Performance Based Seismic Design of Concrete Buildings. He chairs the Technical Advisory Board of the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), is a Fellow of the PTI, an Honorary Member of the Wire Reinforcing Institute, and a past President of the Washington Chapter of ACI. Mr. Kopczynski was recently selected by ENR magazine as one of the Top 25 Newsmakers for 2007 based on his pioneering work in the fields of high-strength steel and reinforcing bar.

Lawrence C. Novak, SE, SECB, LEED® AP,Director of Engineered Buildings, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, IL. Novak has more than 20 years of experience as a structural engineer on high-rise, mid-rise and special use structures throughout the world, including seismic regions. He is the Director of Engineered Buildings with the Portland Cement Association. Prior to joining the PCA, he was an Associate Partner with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill where he recently served as the lead structural engineer for the Burj Dubai Tower, the world’s tallest building. Novak serves on several technical structural committees and is an active member of the American Concrete Institute including ACI 318 Code Subcommittee E, ACI 445 on Shear and Torsion, ACI 445-A on Strut and Tie Modeling, ACI 209 on Creep and Shrinkage and ACI 130 on Sustainability of Concrete. He is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois and he has served on the Board of Directors of several engineering organizations including SEAOI, TCA and the Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame. He has co-authored numerous publications on structural engineering and is the recipient of the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois’ Meritorious Publication Award for both 2001 and 2008, the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations’ Outstanding Structural Engineering Publication Award for 2001 and the United Kingdom’s Oscar Faber Award for 2002. In addition to being a Licensed Structural Engineer, Mr. Novak is a LEED® Accredited Professional and a Certified Structural Peer Reviewer.

Basile G. Rabbat, PhD, SE, Honorary Member of ACI, Manager, Structural Codes, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois. Rabbat received his MS and PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has published over fifty papers related to the behavior and design of structural concrete. He serves as Secretary of ACI 318, Structural Concrete Building Code; and is a member of ACI 215, Fatigue of Concrete. He is a Fellow of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute and serves on the PCI Committee on Bridges, and the Research Committee. Rabbat’s other professional affiliations include the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Transportation Research Board. He is a licensed structural engineer in the State of Illinois.

Julio A. Ramirez, PhD, FACI, Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN. Dr. Ramirez’ research efforts have focused on the solution of engineering problems, and his basic research interests are experimental studies on the behavior of structural concrete, use of high-strength concrete, durability and structural design of concrete bridges, and earthquake engineering. He serves on Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code and is past chair of subcommittee E-Shear and Torsion and a member of subcommittees C- Safety, Serviceability and Analysis. He is also a member of ACI-ASCE 408, Bond and Development of Reinforcement; ACI-ASCE 423 Prestressed Concrete and ACI-ASCE 445, Shear and Torsion . He chairs the ACI Board of Direction Task Group on ACI-ASCE Joint Committees. Prof. Ramirez is Purdue’s representative to the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Consortium (NEES) and a member of the Board of Direction of NEES Inc. He has served as a member of several National Cooperative Highway Research Program panels and is a member the American Society of Civil Engineers, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Chi Epsilon, and the Society of Sigma Xi. Dr. Ramirez presently serves as the chair of the Committee on Concrete and Masonry Structures (CCMS) of ASCE-SEI. He has received several prestigious awards, including the 2000- Delmar Bloem Award of the American Concrete Institute and the 2006- Joe W. Kelley Award of the American Concrete Institute. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications.

James K. Wight, PhD, PE, FACI and FASCE, is the F.E. Richart, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is well-known both nationally and internationally for his work in earthquake-resistant design of concrete structures. Professor Wight has been an active member of the American Concrete Institute where he has held several important positions including Chair of the ACI 318 Building Code Committee, Chair of the ACI Technical Activities Committee, Member of the Board of Direction, and President of the Greater Michigan Chapter. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the ASCE Student Chapter Teacher of the Year Award, the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award and the ACI Joe Kelly Award. He has also won several awards for his research and service, including the ACI Structural Research Award, the ACI Delmar Bloem Award, the ACI Alfred Lindau Award, and the University of Illinois Distinguished Alumnus Award. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Michigan.

NOTE: ACI is not responsible for the statements or opinions expressed by the Faculty. If necessary to substitute an instructor an individual with similar qualifications will be used.