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Trevor “Steve” Lewis PhD PE FRSA - 1

TREVOR “STEVE” LEWIS, PHD PE FRSA +1 310 266 4756 [email protected]

EXPERIENCE

Bimcpetion Inc, Consulting Engineers Los Angeles, USA

July 2019 to Present

Owner | Principal Consultant engineering service for design and engineering of facades and specialty structures having characteristics of long span, high transparency lightweight, complex geometry, non-distinct load path, low stiffness. Utilizing experience gained over 20 years in these areas, coupled with innovative digital computational techniques, developed in house, we provide engineering design and modelling services for architects, fabricators and contractors. Including stamp and seal, deferred submittal assistance of delegated design projects, peer review, construction documents, engineer of record. We additionally can provide digital work-flow solutions and custom application solutions for clients who need solutions for interoperability, complex geometry, optimization of form and structure.

• UCSD Pepper Canyon Amphitheater, CA, USA

• Wellen Park Villages, FL, USA

• Solano College, Solano, CA, USA

• Cleveland Zoo Metro Dome, Cleveland, OH, USA

• Walt Disney Epcot, Epcot, FL, USA

• Cannon House, Australia

• UPMC hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

• Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA, USA

• Sales Force Dream Force Canopy, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Arts Club, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Google Pier 57, New York, NY, USA

• City Square Bazar, Phoenix, AZ, USA


Maffeis Engineering Inc, Los Angeles, USA

September 2018 to July 2019

Consultant | Regional Director USA Responsible for technical delivery of specialty structure type projects to US code and delivery expectations. Responsible to help develop new business area in North America, start-up operation on West Coast. Maffeis is an Italian structural engineering firm working world wide on many large and complex projects in the areas of sports stadia, building envelope, free-form geometry structures, light-weight structures. Interface with architects and potential clients. Provide project management to deliver projects in US. Review and prepare design criteria. Review and prepare Finite Element Models to local and US code. Prepare proposals for potential projects that consider scope of work, scheduling, team make-up, cost and risk mitigation Attend conferences and publish papers. Provide leadership for project decisions.

• Michigan Plaza Canopy, Michigan, MI

• La Guardia Airport, New York, New York

• Westbank Frye Towers, Seattle Walter P Moore, Los Angeles, USA

May 2014 to September 2018

Principal | Specialty Structures Leader

Leader responsible to build an enclosure and specialty structures team in LA as a new brand service for the company. Required to develop new digital tools. Mentor and teach engineers in new skills predominantly highly design based with emphasis on aesthetics and complexity. Interface with architects and clients. Provide project management to deliver projects. Deliver drawings and associated calculation packages. Attend conferences and publish papers. Provide technical engineering and design leadership for major projects

• Los Angeles Rams Stadium, Los Angeles

• Las Vegas Raiders Stadium, Las Vegas

• Jacksonville Jaguars Practice Facility/Amphitheater, Dailys Place, Jacksonville

• New Orleans Louis Armstrong Airport, New Orleans

• Allianz MLS Stadium, Minnesota

• Atlanta falcons Stadium façade and roof, Atlanta


• Golden State Warriors Arena, San Francisco

• Morpho Floating rocks Avatar ride, Disney, Florida

• Mars Pavilion for Amazon, Palm Springs Buro Happold, Los Angeles, USA

May 2011 to May 2014

Associate Responsible for technical engineering and design leadership and management for specialty structures and facade projects. Development of computational tools for engineering such structures. Mentorship of younger engineers. Provide leadership to delivery of projects. Drawing production, detail design and calculation preparation and review.

• Singapore Jewel/Trophy, Changai Airport, Singapore

• US Embassy, Simpson Park, London, UK

• Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), Anaheim, CA, USA

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) Museum, Los Angeles, USA

• Manhattan Beach Library, Manhattan Beach, CA, USA

• Mclane Stadium, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA

• Air Garden, Bradley West Terminal LAX, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Waterline, San Diego County Operations Center, San Diego, CA, USA

• Euphony, Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

• The Lens St Petersburg Pier, Florida, USA

• Jinan Winboo, China

• VOLVO Pure Tension Pavilion, Milan, Italy

• MERLETTI, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA

• Inverted Crystal Castle, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

Arup Los Angeles, USA

November 2008 to May 2011

Senior Engineer

Typical senior engineer tasks including analysis of structural systems, drawing production, calculation. Additionally developed an interoperable process for sharing engineering data and models between various digital platforms. Great deal of time spent interfacing with Gehrey Partners.,

• Grizzly Mountain Ride, Disney, Hong Kong


• Confidential large museum project in Abu Dhabi by a famous architect.

Buro Happold Los Angeles, USA

May 2007 to November 2008

Senior Engineer

Technical lead for delivering the enclosure engineering and specialty structures for large scale projects. Worked on various local installation art projects to develop a brand identity for Buro Happold in LA.

• New Doha International Airport, Qatar

• Voissor Cloud Installation, Sci-Arc, Los Angeles

• Dragonfly Installation, Sci-Arc, Los Angeles

• US Institute of Peace, Washington DC

Advanced Structures Inc./Enclos Los Angeles, USA

May 2003 to May 2007

Senior Engineer

Engineer for complex enclosures and other structures.

• New Poly Plaza, Beijing

• Puerto Rico Convention Center, Puerto Rico

• LA Live atrium glass walls, Los Angeles

• SEC headquarters, Washington DC

• New Jersey Transport Port Canopy, New Jersey

• Casino Morongo structural canopy, Morongo

• MGM People Mover, MGM, Las Vegas

• Oakland cathedral, Oakland

Tensys Consultants Ltd., Bath, UK

Feb 1997 to May 2003

Consultant Engineer

Provide concepts and sales engineering for variety of light-weight structures projects. Required to be fluent in 3D modeling and analytical non-linear analysis of complex geometry. Provide fabrication level information to construct projects. Required to act as an immediate point of contact for architects and fabricators to address on site issues or initial design requests and provide sales engineering required to produce formal reports with ISO accredited checking for every project/task Good verbal skills required to provide verbal non face to face feedback

• Inchon Munhak Stadium, Inchon, South Korea


• Pusan Stadium, South Korea

• Daegu Stadium, South Korea

• Silverstone Grand Prix New Enclosure, Silverstone

• Villa Arena, Moonwinkle Shopping Center, Amsterdam.

• Market Square Enclosure, Rotherham, UK.

• Goodwood Festival of Speed, Goodwood, UK.

• Vista Alegre Bullfight Arena, Spain.

• Ashford Designer Outlet Village, Food Court Canopy, UK.

• Wimbledon Members Enclosure, Wimbledon, UK.

EDUCATION

PhD Form-finding of Structures

Possessing a Constant Surface Stress University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

1993-1997

BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

1990-1993

Higher Education Gowerton University, Swansea, UK

1982-1990

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND RECORDS

Licensed US Professional Engineer, PE Licensed Professional Engineer for following states

• CA (Civil Engineering #C71036)

• FL (Civil Engineering #89868)

• NV (Civil Engineering #27186)

• TX (Civil Engineering #135841)

• LA (Civil Engineering #44778)

• NY (Civil Engineering #103404-01) NCEES Professional Engineering Record # 19-283-73, NCEES record may be used to obtain PE License in other US states as required for project work

DIGITAL SKILLS

Light-Weight Structures/Fabric FEM NDN, GSA, Forten, inTens General FEM GSA, Strand7, SAP2000, Robot


Modelling and Documentation BricsCAD BIM, Rhino, Catia/Digital Project, Tekla, SketchUp, MathCAD Prime, BlueBeam Revu, Excel Parametric Grasshopper, Dynamo Programming Languages .NET including VB.NET, C#, LINQ. Python Application Programming Interface SAP2000, Excel, MathCAD Prime, Tekla, Catia/Digital Project, Robot, GSA, Rhino, Grasshopper, Dynamo Zero Touch, Strand7, VSTO Scripting MathCAD programming language, Excel VBA, Dynamo DesignScript Publishing WordPress, yED

HONORS AND AWARDS FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts)

Contribution to art and science 2008

IStructE West Midlands Counties Awards

Recognition of exemplary exam results for structural steel in second year of degree

1992

Manning Memorial Prize

Outstanding results at A-level mathematics

1990

TEACHING

Woodbury University, Burbank, Los Angeles September 2018 to Present Adjunct Professor, architecture department Taught two classes on principals of structural analysis Use of graphical techniques using graphic statics to solve problems instead of using numerical or analytical mathematics Sci-Arc, Los Angelesvarious from 2010 to 2018 Teaching Assistant, architecture department Helped teach advanced structures class (AS3202) where students where encouraged to use physical and digital modelling to


assess performance of structural systems. From active, tensile, rigid and hybrid systems Developed design workshops where digital parametric tools were used Quizzed and reviewed work University of Southern California, Los Angeles May 200X to Aug 200X Teaching Assistant, Architecture Helped teach interoperable links with the processing language and analysis software ROBOT. Course was called Computer Transformations (ARCH 410) ran by Roland Snooks

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Papers (Peer Reviewed) T.S. Lewis, “Building by numbers; Digital process for analysis and Documentation of Changi Jewel Grid Shell”, Proceedings of Façade Tectonics 2020 World Congress, August 5-27, 2020, Los Angeles, USA.

Y. Ishida, T.S. Lewis, K. Kane, R. Gupta, A Heang, “A Method for Flat-pack Origami Construction of Spatial Structures”, Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2019 “Form and Force”, October 7th-10th 2019, Barcelona, Spain. T. S. Lewis, J. Chen, “Engineering Breathable Tensile Skin Enclosures”, Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2018 “Creativity in Structural Design”, MIT, July16th-20th 2018, Boston T. S. Lewis, G. Fagerstrom, Nathan King, Nick Cote “Toward an Automated Robotic Fabrication Workflow for Structurally Optimized Multispecies Wooden Network Shells”, Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2018 “Creativity in Structural Design”, MIT, July16th-20th 2018, Boston T. S. Lewis and J. Chen, “COUPLING FAÇADE AND STRUCTURE: Engineering a breathable skin”, Proceedings of Facades Tectonics World Congress, SKINS on Campus BRIDGING INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA IN PURSUIT OF BETTER BUILDINGS AND URBAN HABITAT, USC, March 12th-13th 2018, Los Angeles, Volume 2, pp. 61 – 88. T. S. Lewis, J. Chen and L. Blonski, “DESIGN DIGITAL RECIPES: Facilitating Collaboration for Facade Design”, Proceedings of Facades Tectonics World Congress, SKINS on Campus BRIDGING


INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA IN PURSUIT OF BETTER BUILDINGS AND URBAN HABITAT, USC, March 12th-13th 2018, Los Angeles, Volume 2, pp. 69 – 84. T.S. Lewis “Minimizing the interface between design, engineering and fabrication for the delivery of a specialty structure”, Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017 “Interfaces: architecture engineering science” September 25 - 28th, 2017, Hamburg, Germany T. S. Lewis, “Coupling Façade and Structure: Engineering a Breathable Skin”. Proceedings of Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland, October 2-3, 2017 J. Sarafian, R. Culver, T.S. Lewis, “Robotic Formwork in the MARS Pavilion: Towards the Creation of Programmable Matter”. Proceedings of ACADIA: Disciplines and Disruptions, MIT, Boston, November 204, 2017, pp. 522-534 S. Lewis and V. Chiou, “FACADE OPTION ENGINEERING Optimization of transparency in a mega glass lite project”, Proceedings of Facades Tectonics World Congress, Face Time: The Emergence of the Façade as the Integrative Factor in Holistic Building Design, October 12th-16th 2016, Los Angeles, Volume 2, pp. 323 -334. A. Huang and S. Lewis, “NEARLY MINIMAL: How Intuition and Analysis Inform the Minimal Surface Geometries in the Pure Tension Pavilion”. Proceedings of ACADIA: Design Agency, USC, Los Angeles, October 23-25 2014, pp.209-219. T.S. Lewis and P. Skellhorn, “Performance Based Engineering design of Complex Geometry Facade Systems and Components”. Engineered Transparency, International Conference on Glass and Glass construction, Facade Systems and Solar Energy, Glasstec, Dusseldorf, Germany, October 2012. W. J. Lewis and T. S. Lewis, “Form-finding of Structural Configurations Possessing Minimum Surface Area – Art or Science?. Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 1997 “Structural Morphology: Towards the New Millennium”, Nottingham, 1997, pp 59-68. T. S. Lewis and W. J. Lewis, “The Form-Finding of Structural Configurations Possessing a Minimum Surface Area”. Annual Conference: Structures for the Next Millennium, Cambridge


University Engineers Association, The University of Cambridge, 20 September 1996, pp1-24.

Research Reports T. S. Lewis and W. J. Lewis, “An Integrated Computational Approach to the Form-Finding of Structural Forms Possessing a Minimal Surface Area”. Research Report CE52, Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, 1995, pp 1-45. T.S. Lewis and W. J. Lewis, “CRAFT Project”. Department of Engineering, University of Warwick: - Research Report 1, 06/12/96, pp 1-40. - Research Report 2, 17/01/97, pp 1-29. - Research Report 3, 22/01/97, pp 1-34. - Research Report 4, 24/01/97, pp 1-20.

References and Contributions C. Olsen and S. Mac Namara, “Collaborations in Architecture and Engineering”, Routledge, 2014, pp. 107-125. W. J. Lewis, “Tension Structures: Form and Behaviour”, Thomas Telford Publishing, 2003. Journal Publications W. J. Lewis and T. S. Lewis, “Application of Formian and Dynamic Relaxation to the Form-finding of Minimal Surfaces”. Journal International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Vol. 37, N0. 3, 1997, pp 165-186. T. S. Lewis and W. J. Lewis, “Effectiveness of the Non-linear Numerical Models for the Analysis of Lightweight Membranes”. SFB 230 – Naturliche Konstruktionen H9, 1994, pp 65-71.

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

Paper Presentation

T Chuparkoff and S Lewis AS119954: “Parametrics in Design and the Project Execution” Autodesk University, Las Vegas, 2017 BIM on a Wire: using digital workflow to preserve design intent in an austerity age, BIM 2016: Effective, Productive, Profitable Workflows: The Tenth Annual USC BIM Conference “BIM


on a Wire: using digital workflow to preserve design intent in an austerity age”, USC, Los Angeles. ELIMINATE THE SCARY: A Multi-Disciplinary View to Realize Complex Structure Projects, FACADE T E C T O N I C S 13, Fall 2013, Los Angeles, California, USA Textile Membrane Architecture, ENGINEERING FORM FOUND STRUCTURES: Digital Processes and Tools for Analysis and Design, FACADE T E C T O N I C S 10, September 21, 2012, Los Angeles, California, USA

Invited Lecture “Future of BIM”, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, 2009 “Façade Collaboration”. ARC-499 POLY SKINS, Department of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, May 2018

Workshops: “The Future of ETFE Skins”2, Afternoon workshop, Facades +, Los Angeles, October 19 – 20, 2017 “Multi-species Optimization of Long Span Wooden Structures”, Workshop 05, ACADIA 2016, University of Michigan, October 24-26, 2016.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Work Provided multiple computational solutions to links between structural analysis and design modelling platforms. Tekla/Digital Project/Catia/Excel/GSA/Robot/Sap2000/grasshopper/Dynamo Developed common object model to represent data from different digital tools in a single one source format to facilitate interoperability. Developed calculation digital library in MathCAD Prime including design of steel connection/members/data processing/glass design/interoperability/data tables


Developed “data mining” plugin in for excel to search and document digital assets in a user specified folder including automated filtering and assignment of live hyperlinks. Personal Eyas – data management plugin for working with BIM digital models using Rhino/Grasshopepr. Data processing in excel.

https://www.food4rhino.com/app/eyas Macaw– interoperable link between Rhino/Grassshopper and MathCAD prime to automate engineering calculations.

https://www.food4rhino.com/app/macaw OTHER

US/UK Citizen Secondment 1996 Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK), Stuttgart, Germany. One month secondment at the ILEK founded by Frei Otto. Research and physical modelling to facilitate PhD thesis.

REFERENCES

Provided on request

PORTFOLIO 2019 to Present – Bimception Inc.


Dream Force Canopy


Under construction


2018 to 2019 – Maffeis

Calder Plaza, Michigan

Calder Plaza, Michigan 2011 to 2018 – Buro Happold/Walter P Moore

Allianz Field, Minnesota

New Orleans Airport


Chase Center, SF, CA LA Rams, Inglewood

Aura Sculpture, Moffet Place, CA

Immerse Sculpture, Angle Lake Transit Station and Plaza, Seattle, WA

Mercedes Benz Stadium

LAX Midfield Satellite

Concourse, LAX, Los

Angeles, CA


Avenida Sculpture, Houston, TX

GENESIS Campus Point Building Two, San Diego, CA

Pandora – The World of Avatar, Disney Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World Resort, Bay Lake, Florida, United States

Vidant childrens hospital, NC


Singapore Jewel

Singapore Jewel

ARTIC Anaheim

Amazon Mars Canopy

Manhattan Beach Library

Dailys Place, Jacksonville


Mclane Stadium, Waco

US Embassy London

Manzanita Hall Canopy, AZ

Lens St Petersburg, Florida


AMPAS Los Angeles

Air Graden, Tom Bradley, LAX


2009 to 2011 – Arup

Mobius Ring, Mexico City,

2007 to 2009 – Buro Happold

New Doha Airport

New Doha Airport

Dragon Fly Sculpture


US Institute of Peace Merletti Sculpture

Vouissor Cloud

Aortic Heart

Jiersulaem Museum

Sworkvoski Scuplture


2003 to 2007 – Advanced Structures Inc/Enclos

Puerto Rico Convention Center

SEC exchange

Time Warner

Cathedrral of Christ the Light

Weehawken Ferry Terminal

Casino Morongo


New Poly Plaza, Beijing

LA Live


1997 to 2003 – Tensys

Incheon Stadium

Busan Stadium

Goodwood Festival of Speec

Daegu Stadium

ROtherham Market

Vista Alegre


Bridge canopy, London

Ashford Design Outlet Village

Silverstone Clubhouse

Cheyne Park

Nautica Amphitheater

Broadmead Sail

National Space Science Center

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