Structural Condition Reviews and Structural Failures in New York
Agenda
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Friday, March 15, 2024
8:30 – 4:50 pm EST
Presented by James D’Aloisio, P.E., LEED AP
The Premise of Building Safety
- Recent events
- Industry guidelines and standard practice
- Design – codes and reviews
- Construction – codes, enforcement, special inspections
- Service life – code changes, deterioration, other changes
- Inspections and condition reviews
Illustrative Failures
- Infamous failures
- Lesser-known failures
- Disasters averted
Considerations for Structural Building Reviews
- Physical condition – two types of distress
- Environmental exposure
- Known cautionary conditions
- Load paths
- Loading – prior and future
- Importance and occupancy
- Design quality confidence
- Construction quality confidence
- Concealed defect potential
- Potential failure states
- Significance of considered assembly
- Intuition / unusual conditions
Special Considerations
- Abandoned buildings
- Adjacent structures
- Parking garages
- Residential structures
Types of Reviews
- Levels of reviews
- Structural condition review reports
- Conveying results and concerns
- “Is it safe?” “Structurally stable?”
- Acknowledging the unknowns
Managing Design Professional Risk
- Professional liability
- Review purpose, scope, and expectations
- Good Samaritan laws
- Unheeded recommendations
Review Scenarios
- Bystander
- Engaged
- Determined unsafe
- Determined safe
- Future performance
- Questions & discussion
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Credits
Engineers
7.5 PDHs
Architects
7.5 HSW CE Hours
AIA - American Institute of Architects
7.5 LU|HSW
ICC - International Code Council
.75 CEUs (Building)
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 7.5 PDHs for professional engineers and 7.5 HSW continuing education hours for licensed architects in all states that allow this learning method. Please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
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7.5 HSW LUs (AIA)
Speakers
James A. D’Aloisio , P.E. LEED AP
Principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt in SyracuseMr. D’Aloisio is a principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt, a structural engineering, landscape architecture, and building envelope services firm in East Syracuse, New York. A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a registered professional engineer in New York and Massachusetts. He is a member and past president (1997 – 1998) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Syracuse Section, and a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York State (SEAoNY). Mr. D’Aloisio is a member of ASCE/SEI’s Frost-Protected Shallow Foundations Committee, the Structural Condition Assessment of Existing Buildings Committee, and the Sustainability Committee. Mr. D’Aloisio received the Order of the Engineer at Syracuse University in 1997. His 30-plus years’ experience as a consulting structural engineer has primarily involved the design of new building structures, additions, and modifications, and analyses, assessments, and investigations of structures and facades. Mr. D’Aloisio has performed structural condition reviews of over 15 million square feet of buildings and he has performed over 150 structural forensic investigations. He has presented over 300 times.
AIA Info
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Course Title: Structural Condition Reviews and Structural Failures in New York
Delivery Method: Live Online
Course Description: This course on structural condition reviews examines the process by which structures are evaluated for safety concerns and potential failures. Topics include industry guidelines and standard practices that promote building safety, types of reviews and special considerations for various levels of reviews, discussion of illustrative failures and various review scenarios, and the design professional’s professional responsibility in the review process.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1:
Learners will be able to identify and reference industry guidelines and standard practices – such as building codes, code enforcement, special inspections, service life specifications, and condition reviews – that are designed to promote building safety.
Learning Objective 2:
Learners will be able to identify and define the types and levels of reviews, and explain how to document their findings in the structural condition review report.
Learning Objective 3:
Learners will be able to consider a variety of factors when performing structural condition reviews, including observations of physical condition, environmental exposure, load paths, design and/or construction quality confidence, potential for concealed defects, and the role of the design professionals intuition.
Learning Objective 4:
Learners will be able to discuss and reference case studies of both infamous and lesser-known failures, and apply what they have learned to various real-world review scenarios.
Learning Objective 5:
Learners will be able to handle special considerations in structural condition reviews of abandoned buildings, parking garages, residential buildings and adjacent structures.
LUs: 7.5 LU Type: LU|HSWs.
Prerequisites: Experience with structural design
Advance Preparation: None
Program Level: Intermediate
Course Expiration Date: 08/31/2024
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