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2018 Award Categories Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards New Bridge or Transportation Structures ...................4 Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/Rehabilitation Structures Less an $20 Million .................................8 Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/Rehabilitation Structures More an $20 Million ............................ 12 Other Structures .......................................................... 17 New Buildings Less an $20 Million ...................... 21 New Buildings $20 Million to $100 Million ............ 25 New Buildings More an $100 Million .................. 29 Special Awards James M. Delahay ........................................................ 35 NCSEA Service ............................................................ 36 Robert Cornforth ........................................................ 37 Susan M. Frey NCSEA Educator ............................... 38 Young Member Awards Young Member Scholarship Award Winners .......... 39 Young Member Group of the Year Award ................ 39

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2018 Award Categories Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

New Bridge or Transportation Structures ...................4

Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/Rehabilitation Structures Less Than $20 Million .................................8

Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/Rehabilitation Structures More Than $20 Million ............................ 12

Other Structures .......................................................... 17

New Buildings Less Than $20 Million ...................... 21

New Buildings $20 Million to $100 Million ............ 25

New Buildings More Than $100 Million .................. 29

Special AwardsJames M. Delahay ........................................................ 35

NCSEA Service ............................................................ 36

Robert Cornforth ........................................................ 37

Susan M. Frey NCSEA Educator ............................... 38

Young Member AwardsYoung Member Scholarship Award Winners .......... 39

Young Member Group of the Year Award ................ 39

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

New Bridge or Transportation Structures

Winners

Gut Bridge ReplacementHardesty & Hanover

Lincoln Avenue Pedestrian BridgeThornton Tomasetti

Nigliq BridgePND Engineers Inc.

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Gut Bridge ReplacementHardesty & Hanover

The 80-year-old Gut Bridge, a bobtail swing bridge had undergone multiple mechanical failures. The bridge provides the only route from the mainland to Rutherford Island crossing the narrow “Gut”, and requires over 8,000 openings per year. Working with the community and Maine DOT, the firm designed an aesthetically pleasing, innovative bascule bridge under budget. The requirement of a small-scaled structure with operational reliability and quick openings was successfully delivered with a state-of-the-art structure.The new superstructure utilized a combination of details that formed a new type of bascule span which includes cable-stays, steel orthographic deck and welded steel box girders.

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Lincoln Avenue Pedestrian BridgeThornton Tomasetti

The new Lincoln Avenue Pedestrian Bridge enables walkers, joggers and bicyclists to safely cross a busy roadway. Spanning 170 feet, the cable-stayed structure features a large, leaf-shaped mast on its south end that rises 78 feet. Six pairs of cables extend from the leaf to support the bridge. The bridge sizing was a balancing act between the strength, stiffness, economy and close attention to aesthetic vision. The Thornton Tomasetti project team worked closely with the fabricator and developed local finite element models of connections to optimize the configuration and sizing of the pylon and to facilitate an accelerated procurement process.

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Nigliq BridgePND Engineers Inc.

CD5 is the first commercial oil development on Alaska Native lands within the boundaries of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPR-A). Ten years in the making, this project was a major milestone in oil development in Arctic Alaska and crossing the Nigliq Channel of the Colville River was one of the project’s greatest challenges.

The Nigliq Bridge, completed in 2015, is 1,421-feet long and consists of eight spans up to 200 feet in length. It provides access to heavy oil field service vehicles weighing up to 175 tons and supports six pipelines while surviving massive ice loads.

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/ Rehabilitation Structures

up to $20 MillionWinners

E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing ArtsBuehler & Buehler Structural Engineers, Inc.

Hotel Nikko Pre-Northridge PJP Column Splice RepairDegenkolb Engineers

Preservation and Seismic Strengthening of Congregation Sherith Israel

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

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E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing ArtsBuehler & Buehler Structural Engineers, Inc.

The historic Fremont School is a two-story concrete frame with unreinforced masonry perimeter walls. The Sacramento Ballet’s performance vision required 50 foot clear spaces in the west wing so all twelve existing interior 2-story concrete columns were eliminated, and the floor load redistributed to 4 steel columns. The Buehler and Buehler team developed a truly innovative structural solution that utilized 36 post-tensioning strands squeezed between the existing 1923 corridor edge beams that are exposed to view from the first floor studios.

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Hotel Nikko Pre-Northridge PJP Column Splice RepairDegenkolb Engineers

Degenkolb Engineers evaluated Hotel Nikko, a high-rise pre-Northridge moment frame structure, using non-linear time-history procedures of ASCE 41-13, augmented with changes proposed for the 2017 update. Column splice weld demands had consistently exceeded their fracture stress. By using emerging research in fracture mechanics, Degenkolb developed a retrofit scheme that avoided the use of intrusive supplemental damping or braces and preserved the hotel’s artistic, irreplaceable features. The project reaffirmed this empirical formulation through finite element modeling. Applying the procedure to a variety of column sizes and weld details establishes a procedure to reveal susceptibility in similar building construction types.

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Preservation and Seismic Strengthening of Congregation Sherith Israel

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.Congregation Sherith Israel is a historic unreinforced masonry building with a naturally lighted dome that rises over 100 feet above the floor of its ornately finished vaulted sanctuary. Though damaged only modestly by the 1906 earthquake, it was subject to a local seismic upgrade ordinance. Various innovative surgically-installed strengthening techniques–including the first known use in North America of super-elastic nitinol for seismic resistance and an extensive network of horizontal and vertical center cores–were implemented to supplement the structure’s inherent strengths. The design was developed to permit all historically significant features to remain virtually undisturbed by the work.

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/ Rehabilitation Structures

More Than $20 Million Winners

Aramark Headquarters - 2400 Market Street Renovation and Overbuild

The Harman Group

Many Glacier HotelJVA, Inc.

Polynesian Cultural Center RenovationJ.M. Williams & Associates, Inc.

University of Connecticut Downtown Hartford Campus

Silman

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Aramark Headquarters - 2400 Market Street Renovation and Overbuild

The Harman GroupAdaptive re-use of buildings is commonplace. What was uncommon was the challenge to the Harman Group and the Varenhorst/Gensler architectural design team to adapt a turn of the century occupied five-story concrete automobile warehouse building with diagonal column grids and 40 inch diameter columns into functional office/retail space. Additionally, while occupied, complete a 6-story steel framed vertical expansion, cut out the existing concrete core, rebuild two lateral concrete cores supported on hundreds of micro-piles and insert a 6,000 s.f. atrium and new full building-length promenade for an incredible experience on the urban waterfront.

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Many Glacier HotelJVA, Inc.

The iconic Many Glacier Hotel was built by the Great Northern Railway in the 1910s. Less than a century later, significant deficiencies in the building systems put the hotel at risk of closure. The structural design focused on strengthening the snow and seismic load-resisting systems while maintaining the building’s historic character. The phased rehabilitation included the installation of shear walls supported on micropiles, internal reinforcing of the stone masonry chimneys, and integration of the 4-story log columns into the lateral system. Retrofitting elements are largely concealed and visitors are rewarded by experiencing the building’s original charm.

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Polynesian Cultural Center RenovationJ.M. Williams & Associates, Inc.

Hawaii’s number one attraction is the Polynesian Cultural Center located in Laie, on the Island of Oahu. The center was originally constructed in 1963. The north shore of the island can be subject to hurricane winds, torrential rains, and termites. Although the center has been well maintained, it was still in need of major repairs and renovation work. This project includes converting a 1989 IMAX theater into a themed show attraction, repairing and renovating the Gateway Building into a fine dining hall, repairing village huts, building a new Chief ’s Hut, and ultimately replacing the marketplace with new restaurants and shops.

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University of Connecticut Downtown Hartford Campus

SilmanAt the University of Connecticut’s new Hartford Campus, retaining an important piece of Connecticut history, the existing Hartford Times Building (Donn Barber, 1920) facade, presented unique structural challenges. The facade was repurposed as the framework for a new state-of-the-art facility built around a public courtyard. Retaining the historic facade required Silman to employ modern techniques to problem-solve, which resulted in innovative solutions like detaching the north and south walls and designing a reinforcing system for the west wall. The 5-story building includes space for classrooms and offices for academic programs that were previously located at University of Connecticut’s West Hartford campus.

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

Other Structures Winners

Halo Board at Mercedes-Benz StadiumHOK

The Grant Street PierMartin/Martin Consulting Engineers

WiikiaamiPierce Engineers, Inc.

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Halo Board at Mercedes-Benz StadiumHOK

The Video Halo Board at Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a unique structure designed and built using innovative technology at unprecedented speed. At 56 feet tall and 1,100 feet in circumference, it is the largest video scoreboard in the United States. The support structure contains as much steel as a 150,000 square foot office building, and is supported by a long span roof structure that expands and contracts by several inches under service load conditions. Through design and construction, the structural team developed project specific computational design tools in order to successfully deliver Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s centerpiece on an accelerated schedule.

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The Grant Street PierMartin/Martin Consulting Engineers

The centerpiece for Vancouver, Washington’s new waterfront district is the Larry Kirkland-designed Grant Street Pier. The triangular deck, cantilevered 100 feet over the river, is supported by a lone, cable-stayed mast creating a signature landmark for the new development. Voids in the concrete and tapered edges make the pier light and elegant while tuned mass dampers and custom connections ensure its structural integrity. Floating columnless above the water, the eye-catching pier preserves undisturbed native fish migration. The final design exceeded the expectations of the City of Vancouver; they are overjoyed with the outcome.

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WiikiaamiPierce Engineers, Inc.

Wiikiaami is a 50-foot-tall artistic structure located in Columbus, IN. The conical, wire-frame structure, inspired by the homes of the Miyaamia people indigenous to Indiana, consists of A706 reinforcement, welded at connections, with sizes ranging from #4 to #9 bars. Tapering from 30 ft in diameter at the base to 5 ft at the peak, Wiikiaami’s curved geometry was fabricated using a CNC cut wood framing system and rests on helical soil anchors. Full 3D analysis was used to minimize reinforcement that could be easily field bent to accommodate the desired curvature.

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

New Buildings Less Than $20 Million Winners

A. Zahner Company Engineering OfficeWallace Engineering -

Structural Consultants, Inc.

Ocosta Elementary School and Tsunami Evacuation Tower

Degenkolb Engineers

St. Luke’s School ExpansionSilman

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A. Zahner Company Engineering OfficeWallace Engineering - Structural Consultants, Inc.

In 2015, A. Zahner Company commissioned a radical new expansion to their Kansas City campus. Consisting of 35-foot tall vertical “pods” resembling truncated cones, the engineering office is intended to act as a showpiece of Zahner’s creativity and manufacturing capabilities.

Wallace designed custom-shaped aluminum fins consisting of CNC waterjet-cut aluminum with extruded flanges at each edge to provide strength. Assembled using stainless steel self-tapping screws, Zahner fabricated these fins at their existing factory on site. Built by and for a manufacturer of high-end architectural metalwork, the office’s exposed aluminum structure and detailing provides inspiration to both Zahner’s clients and employees.

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Ocosta Elementary School and Tsunami Evacuation Tower

Degenkolb EngineersMore than 100,000 people are at risk from a tsunami on the Pacific Northwest coastline. Tsunami waves are expected to hit the coast within 30 minutes of an earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. For locations like the Westport, Washington peninsula, this is insufficient time for evacuation. Degenkolb Engineers designed the structural system for Ocosta Elementary School and its 1,000-person capacity Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Refuge, which is the first tsunami evacuation structure in the United States. These structures represent a milestone in improving tsunami safety for the Ocosta School District and the neighboring community, and forge a path for others.

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St. Luke’s School ExpansionSilman

To avoid a costly seismic retrofit and to reduce the impact of construction on the existing structure below, the addition to the 1955 two-story St. Luke’s School building was constructed as a completely independent structure perched above the existing one, supported on eight 40-foot-tall super columns strategically threaded through the existing structure to new, independent foundations. This allows for a seamless integration between the new and old spaces all while providing necessary seismic isolation. The 19,000 sf addition, which provides additional classrooms as well as a larger gymnasium, was erected without requiring any lost school days or displacing any students.

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

New Buildings $20 Million to $100 Million Winners

Austin Central LibraryDatum Engineers

Bahá’í Temple of South AmericaSimpson Gumpertz & Heger

IntuitHolmes Structures

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Austin Central LibraryDatum Engineers

The Austin New Central Library is a wonder of engineering, architectural, and construction achievement, not to mention civic commitment. Countless dramatic, breathtaking, unique spaces and features are packed inside the building, situated on a former brownfield site on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake along Austin’s beloved hike & bike trail at the south edge of downtown.

Structural engineering is on display throughout in both obvious and subtle ways including steel and glass skybridges, steel and wood-framed reading porches, zig-zagging steel stairs, exposed steel beam roof structure, a folded atrium roof and skylight, and an immense mat foundation.

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Bahá’í Temple of South AmericaSimpson Gumpertz & Heger

High in the foothills of the Andes Mountains outside of Santiago, Chile, the Bahá’í Temple of South America is the stunning vision of architect Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects, who wanted to create a temple of light for spiritual inspiration. The temple’s nine-leaf motif celebrates the faith’s spiritual beliefs and evokes oneness with nature. Despite significant challenges – including a high-seismic zone, untested materials in thin structural applications, and high-durability and reliability requirements – a collaborative team of designers, fabricators, and builders from three continents came together over fourteen years to successfully bring the architect’s vision to life.

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IntuitHolmes Structures

Holmes Structures engineered a new four-story office building with one level of below-grade parking and a stand-alone five-story parking lot. The post-tensioned concrete office building is unique in its trapezoidal shape (due to site constraints and client goals). To meet the client’s desire for an open all-hands meeting forum without structural interruptions, Holmes Structures implemented a 90-foot, concrete-encased steel truss that supports the upper two stories of the building and allows for a column-free space in the atrium. The desired solution overcame three major site constraints: limited lot lines and trapezoidal cantilevers, high water table, and anticipated uneven settlement.

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Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards

New Buildings Over $100 Million Winners

King Abdulaziz International AirportArup

Salesforce TowerMagnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA)

University of Texas Engineering Education and Research Center

Datum Engineers/Datum Gojer Engineers

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King Abdulaziz International AirportArup

King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, originally opened in 1981. The airport embarked on a comprehensive redevelopment program in 2006. This project included a new 1.4 km-long, 670,000m2 international passenger terminal, designed to handle over 30 million passengers per year with 46 domestic and international departure gates and 94 boarding bridges, an international departures hub, internal automated people mover, and the world’s tallest air traffic control tower. Arup helped deliver a structural design that satisfied the architectural expectations and met the stringent timeline, while significantly reducing the overall concrete and steel quantities in the building in comparison to the original design.

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Salesforce TowerMagnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA)

Transforming San Francisco’s skyline—Salesforce Tower is a slender, tapering, 61-story, 1.4-million-ft² performance-based seismic design office tower, and the tallest building west of the Mississippi (based on highest occupied floor). The developer’s goals include wide-open office space with column-free leasing bays and corners, without any structural encumbrances. In other words—no outriggers, belt trusses, buckling-restrained seismic braces, or dampers of any kind encumber the building. Meeting these goals in a 1,070-foot-tall tower sitting on complex soil strata, touching the adjacent Transit Center, and approximately 8 miles from the San Andreas Fault, requires creative, complex, never-done-before innovations and structural engineering “firsts.”

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University of Texas Engineering Education and Research Center

Datum Engineers/Datum Gojer EngineersThe University of Texas Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC) is THE showcase for structural engineering for the UT Cockrell School of Engineering, which perennially ranks in the top 10 schools in the country. Structural engineering creativity, ingenuity, and innovation is on display throughout the 430,000-ft² facility. While the whole building is itself an achievement of engineering, the numerous individual pieces display the beauty of creative and innovative design solutions in various functional elements such as bridges, shade structures, stairs, and roofs.

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Thank you to our 2018 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Judges!

Vicki Arbitrio, Gilsanz Murray Steficek Engineers and ArchitectsCraig Barnes, CBI Consulting, Inc.

Bill Bast, Thornton TomasettiJonathan Buckalew, Nabih Youssef Associates

Richard Dreyer, Holmes StructuresTom Grogan, Haskell

Emily Guglielmo, Martin/Martin Consulting EngineersRon Hamburger, Simpson, Gumpetz & Heger

Tim Hart, Berkeley LabDarrick Hom, Estructure

John Joyce, Engineering Solutions, LLCPeter Lee, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

James Malley, DegenkolbJack Moehle, Berkeley University

Kevin Moore, Simpson, Gumpetz & HegerBen Nelson, Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers

Marko Schotaunus, Rutherford + ChekeneEmily Setoudeh, Buehler Engineering

Sanjeev Shah, Lea+ElliotNick Sherrow-Groves, Arup

Angie Sommer, ZFA Structural EngineersMarc Steyer, Tipping Structural Engineers

John Thibau, GFDS Engineers

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NCSEA Special Awards:James M. Delahay

NCSEA Service

Robert Cornforth

Susan M. Frey NCSEA Educator

NCSEA Young Member Awards:Young Member Summit Scholarship Recipients

Young Member Group of the Year Finalists

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The James M. Delahay Award is presented at the recommendation of the NCSEA Code Advisory Committee to recognize outstanding individual contributions towards the development of building codes and standards. It is given in the spirit of its namesake, a person who made a long and lasting contribution to the code development process.

Jonathan (Jon) C. Siu, P.E., S.E., serves as the Principal Engineer/Building Official for the City of Seattle’s Department of Construction and Inspections, a position he has held for the last 18 of the 34½ years he has been with the City. He has served on many national code and standard development committees since 1995, including several stints on ICC’s IBC Structural and IEBC Committees. He also served on the ASCE 7-05 Seismic Subcommittee, and the Main Committee and General Requirements and Seismic Subcommittees for ASCE 7-10 and -16.

Jon has served as a director with the Seattle Chapter of the Structural Engineers Association of Washington and as president of the Washington Association of Building Officials. In his spare time, Jon teaches ATC-20 classes and is helping to organize a statewide disaster response program for volunteer engineers, architects, and building officials. Jon received his B.S and M.S. in engineering from UCLA.

Previous Award Recipients2004 James Rongoe2005 John Hooper 2006 Ronald Hamburger2007 David Bonneville2008 Michael Valley2009 Larry Griffis2009 Edwin Huston2010 Robert Bachman

James M. Delahay Award

2011 James R. Harris2012 James Robinson2013 Alan G. Steinle2014 James R. Cagley 2014 James O. Malley2015 Don Scott2016 David Bonowitz2017 Michael O’Rourke

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The NCSEA Service Award is presented to an individual or individuals who have worked for the betterment of NCSEA to a degree that is beyond the norm of volunteerism. It is given to someone who has made a clear and indisputable contribution to the organization and therefore to the profession.

Barry Arnold P.E., S.E., co-owner and vice-president of ARW Engineers, has been a practicing structural engineer for 29 years. He served on the Board of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah (SEAU) for 5 years and was president in 2004. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) for 7 years and was the 2014-2015 president. In 2007, Barry was selected as the Engineer of the Year by the Utah Engineers Council.

Barry has supported the structural engineering profession by serving on several SEAU Committees, including:

Wind Committee, Seismic Committee, and the Structural Licensing Committee (acting as Co-chair). He currently serves on NCSEA’s Structural Licensing Committee, and has also served as chair of NCSEA’s 2006 Annual Conference (Summit) Committee, and as SEAU’s Delegate to NCSEA since 2006. Barry is the current Editorial Chair for STRUCTURE Magazine and has contributed numerous articles over the years. He has presented sessions on ethics, structural licensure, base plate design, and temperature effects on steel structures at dozens of conferences nationwide.

Previous Award Recipients1999 W. Gene Corley1999 Ronald F. Nelson2000 James T. Slider2001 Norm Scheel2002 Fred Cowen2004 Craig Cartwright2006 Stephanie Young2007 Ronald Hamburger2008 Jon Schmidt2009 Timothy Mays

NCSEA Service Award

2010 Edwin T. Huston2011 Marc S. Barter2012 Emile Troup2012 Mike Tylk2013 Greg Schindler2014 Susan Jorgensen2015 Craig Barnes2016 Carrie Johnson2017 James O. Malley

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This award is presented to an individual for exceptional dedication and exemplary service to a Member Organization and to the profession. Nominees are submitted to the NCSEA Board by the Member Organizations.

Ryan A. Kersting, S.E., is an Associate Principal at Buehler with over 20 years of experience specializing in performance-based seismic design and evaluation of various types of buildings. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and his Master’s degree from University of California, Davis.

Throughout his career, Ryan has consistently served our profession through activities with SEAOC, ATC, NCSEA, ASCE, and other organizations. He is highly respected for his technical expertise, thoughtful leadership, and commitment to the profession. Ryan has served as

SEAOC President (2014-15); was on the SEAOC Seismology Committee for many years including serving as Chair (2010-11); was SEAOC Convention Committee Chair (2007); and is currently Chair of SEAOC’s Legislative Committee (2013+). In this most recent role, Ryan’s active advocacy and tireless effort has extended the influence of SEAOC and our profession, beyond building codes and design projects, into the realm of public policy.

Previous Award Recipients2001 Emile Troup2003 Benjamin Baer2003 Marc Barter2004 Mike Tylk2005 Craig Barnes2009 David Bonneville2010 William Holmes2010 Robert B. Johnson

Robert Cornforth Award

2011 Edwin T. Huston2011 William L. Lavicka2012 Ronald Milmed2014 Dustin Cole2015 Carl Josephson2016 Robert Paullus, Jr.2017 Theodore E. Smith

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This award is presented to an individual who has a genuine interest in, and extraordinary talent for, effective instruction for practicing structural engineers. The award was established to honor the memory of Sue Frey, one of NCSEA’s finest educators. Nominees are submitted to the NCSEA Board.

Ronald O. Hamburger, S.E., Senior Principal with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, has nearly 45 years experience in structural design, construction, education and failure investigation. He is a past President of NCSEA, SEAOC, and SEAONC, past chair of SECB and current SEI Governor. He is internationally recognized for his work in failure investigation, building code and standards development, and performance-based design approaches. He served as a member of the select FEMA/ASCE panel that investigated the 9/11/2001 failures of New York’s World Trade Center towers;

and was co-Project Director for the FEMA/SAC project on welded steel moment frames. A past chair of NCSEA’s Code Advisory Committee, he currently chairs the

ASCE 7 Standards Committee, is a member of the ASCE 41 Committee, the AISC Committee on Specifications, the Connection Prequalification Review Panel, and the BSSC Provisions Update Committee. He holds the ASCE Norman Medal and Walter P. Moore award, AISC’s Higgins award, NCSEA’s Delahay award, is a fellow of SEAOC, SEAONC and SEI and is a member of IStructE. Ron has presented more than 200 lectures on diverse areas of structural

engineering practice ranging from earthquake performance and resistance, to blast effects, progressive collapse and performance-based design. In 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Previous Award Recipients2013 Susan M. Frey2014 Timothy Mays2015 Emily Guglielmo2017 Edwin T. Huston

Susan M. Frey NCSEA Educator Award

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Young Member Scholarship WinnersFor the fifth year, NCSEA awarded Young Member Scholarships for the NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit. The scholarship competition was open to any current member of an NCSEA Member Organization who was under 36 years old.

Jennifer Arrowood

Scott Kinney

Christopher Barlow

Alicia Klaubert

Maher Eltarhoni

Edward Major II

Landon Harman

Lena Raffin

Swarna Karuppiah

Ted Saltz Christopher Smith Lenard Tran Hunter Wheeler

Young Member Group of the Year AwardThe emphasis of the Young Member Group of the Year Award is to recognize Young Member Groups that are providing a benefit to their young mem-bers, member organization, and communities. This year, 10 Young member Groups (YMGs) applied, four finalists were chosen, and the winning group was announced at the Young Member Reception on Wednesday, October 24.

Congratulations to the 2018 finalists:Structural Engineers Association of MassachusettsStructural Engineers Association of New YorkStructural Engineers Association of UtahStructural Engineers Association of Washington

NCSEA thanks Computers & Structures, Inc. (CSi) for their sponsorship of this year’s Young Member Award recipients.

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