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FINAL PROGRAM

      Architectural
   Engineering Institute
    Conference 2017
 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | April 11-13, 2017

Resilience of the Integrated Building:
         A Community Focus

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Contents
                                                                Schedule-At-A-Glance
                                                                (Subject to Change)

Schedule-at-a-Glance                      2                      Tuesday, April 11
Committee Members                         3                      12:00 – 7:00 p.m.        Registration
Special Events & Conference             4-6
Agenda                                                           Wednesday, April 12
Opening Plenary Session                   4                      7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.    Registration
Lunch Keynote Speakers                 5, 6                      7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.    Exhibit Hours
Hotel Map                                 6
                                                                 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.         Continental Breakfast
Technical Program                      7-10
                                                                 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.    Student Design Competition
General Information                      11
                                                                 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.        Opening Keynote Plenary
Sponsors                                 12
Exhibitors                               12                      10:00 – 10:30 a.m.       Morning Networking Break
Cooperating Organization                 12                      10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.   Concurrent Sessions
                                                                 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.        Networking Lunch
                                                                 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.         Afternoon Networking Break
                                                                 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.         Welcome Reception

                                                                 Thursday, April 13
                                                                 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.    Registration
                                                                 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.    Exhibit Hours
                                                                 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.         Continental Breakfast
                                                                 8:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.    Concurrent Sessions
                                                                 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.        Morning Networking Break
                                                                 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.   Keynote Luncheon
                                                                 2:30 – 2:45 p.m.         Afternoon Networking Break
                                                                 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.         AEI Professional Project Awards
                                                                                          Presentations
                                                                 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.         Awards Banquet

                                                                Conference Sponsors

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Invitation
                                                                                      Invitation To
                                                                                                  ToAttend
                                                                                                    Attend
Dear Friends and Colleagues,                                                                 Local Planning
It is a great pleasure and a distinct honor to extend to you a warm welcome to AEI’s         Committee
7th biennial professional conference here in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The theme              Conference Chair
of the conference is “Resilience of the Integrated Building: A Community Focus.”             Jeffery S. Volz, P.E., S.E., Ph.D., M.ASCE,
I invite you to exchange ideas, discover opportunities, reacquaint with colleagues,          University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
meet new friends, and broaden your knowledge.                                                Kevin Bahner, P.E., W
                                                                                                                  allace Engineering,
                                                                                             Oklahoma City, OK
Our technical program is rich and varied with two keynote presentations, three               Gouranga Banik, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE,
panel discussions, and 104 technical presentations spread over two very full days.            klahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
                                                                                             O
With contributions from academics and industry professionals, these presentations            Alixandra Bradford, H
                                                                                                                  enderson Engineers,
cover planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings. In            Inc., Dallas, TX
particular, I am very excited by the 12 presentations discussing new and innovative          Kasha Egan, P.E., W
                                                                                                                allace Engineering,
                                                                                             Oklahoma City, OK
methods in architectural engineering education. I hope you also take time to observe
a couple of the AEI Student Design Competition presentations on Wednesday.                   Royce Floyd, Ph.D., P.E., U
                                                                                                                        niversity of
                                                                                             Oklahoma, Norman, OK
While in Oklahoma City, I invite you to discover this Great Plains city. Just two            Lisa Holliday, Ph.D., P.E., U
                                                                                                                          niversity of
blocks east of the hotel is the Bricktown Entertainment District. Formerly a major           Oklahoma, Norman, OK
warehouse district, it is now home to more than 30 restaurants, bars, clubs, and             Michael Renes, P.E., LEED AP BD+C,
retail shops, along with family-friendly attractions, museums, and galleries. Bricktown       allace Engineering, Oklahoma City, OK
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also contains the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, home to the Triple-A Oklahoma
City Dodgers baseball team and located at the corner of Mickey Mantle and Johnny             National Conference
Bench Drives. Just across from the Bricktown Ballpark is the entrance to the Bricktown       Steering Committee
Water Taxi where you can take a fun and informative ride along the Bricktown                 Chair, Conference Steering Committee
Canal. For those interested in history, the Centennial Land Run Monument is located          Christopher H. Raebel, P.E., S.E., M.ASCE,
at the south end of the Bricktown Canal and commemorates the opening of the                  Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee,
Unassigned Land in Oklahoma Territory with the Land Run of 1889. The monument                WI

contains 45 heroic-size bronze sculptures of land run participants and is one of the         Robert Grottenthaler, P.E., LEED, AP,
                                                                                              arton Malow Company, Baltimore, MD
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largest freestanding bronze sculptures in the world, occupying a corridor that is
longer than a football field.                                                                Amy L. Hackney, P.E., LEED, AP, M.ASCE,
                                                                                              impson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc., Los Angeles,
                                                                                             S
In addition to Bricktown, Oklahoma City hosts a number of other interesting                  CA
attractions. Just one block south and west of the hotel is the Myriad Botanical              Adam Hapij, P.E., M.ASCE, T hornton
                                                                                             Tomasetti / Weidlinger Applied Science
Gardens, a 17-acre botanical garden and interactive urban park, a key architectural          Practice, New York City, NY
component of the downtown area. The gardens include the Crystal Bridge Tropical
                                                                                             Moses D.F. Ling, P.E., T he Pennsylvania State
Conservatory, an indoor multilevel conservatory with towering palm trees, tropical           University, University Park, PA
plants, flowers, waterfalls, and exotic animals. One block south and east of the             Ali Memari, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, T he
Gardens is Chesapeake Energy Arena, home to the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder                  Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
basketball team. Finally, located a little over a half mile north and slightly west of the
hotel is the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, honoring the victims,               ASCE Staff
survivors, and rescuers from the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building            Catherine M. Tehan, Aff.M.ASCE, D
                                                                                                                              irector,
in 1995. The architect of the memorial, Hans Butzer, is giving Thursday’s keynote            Architectural Engineering Institute
luncheon presentation.                                                                       Verna L. Jameson, Aff.M.ASCE, M
                                                                                                                            anager,
                                                                                             Architectural Engineering Institute
On behalf of the ASCE Architectural Engineering Institute and the University of              Cristina Charron, M
                                                                                                                anager, ASCE
Oklahoma, welcome to Oklahoma City and welcome to the 2017 AEI Conference.                   Conferences & Meeting Services
                                                                                             Drew Caracciolo, M
                                                                                                               anager, Exhibits and
                                                                                             Sponsorship Sales
                  Jeffery S. Volz, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., M.ASCE, 
                  University of Oklahoma
                  Conference Chair, AEI Conference 2017

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Special Events & Conference Agenda
TUESDAY, APRIL 11                                              WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
Registration Hours                                             Registration Hours
12:00 – 7:00 p.m., Century Foyer                               7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Century Foyer

Academic Council Meeting                                       Exhibit Hours
8:00 – 11:00 a.m., Red Carpet Room                             7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Century Foyer

AEI Board of Governors Meeting                                 Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Frontier Room                           7:30 – 8:30 a.m., Century Foyer

Workshop For Student Chapter Leaders                           Student Design Competition
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Great Plains Room                      8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Plaza North Ballroom

Joint Meeting: AEI Board of Governors,                         Opening Plenary
Academic Council, and Executive Council                        8:30 – 10:00 a.m., Century Ballroom
Joint Meeting
1:00 – 5:00 p.m., Plaza South Ballroom                         KEYNOTE ADDRESS
                                                                             Designing Community Networks To Support
Student Design Competition Committee                                         Resilient, Sustainable Buildings In Regions Of Risk
Meeting                                                                      Louise K. Comfort, Ph.D., Director, Center for
8:00 – 10:00 p.m., Frontier Room                                             Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh
                                                                              As the number, frequency, and cost in lives and social
                                                                              disruption from natural hazards and disasters increase,
                   SAVE THE DATE
                                                               the urgency of mobilizing collective action at the community level
                                                               to build sustainable, resilient communities also increases. The
                                                               challenge is to identify the factors that engage the whole community
                                                               exposed to risk – public, private, nonprofit organizations, as well
                                                               as household units – in sustainable programs of risk reduction,
                                                               based on an informed understanding of risk coupled with practical
                                                               guides to action. In this session participants will learn about
                                                               a sociotechnical systems approach which identifies the set of

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                                                               interacting functions that are essential to maintain the resilience of a
                                                               neighborhood, and focuses on the built environment as the physical
                                                               context within which economic and social activity occurs.

    Omaha, Nebraska | April 4–6, 2018                          Concurrent Sessions
                                                               10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
                                                               Track 1 - Plaza South Ballroom
     The HEALTH of the Integrated Building
                                                               Track 2 - Kiamichi Room
                                                               Track 3- Red Carpet
                                                               Track 4 - Green Country

                                                                           Right: Recent
                                                                    earthquake activity in
                                                                             Oklahoma.
                                                                           Source: USGS
                                                                               Far Right:
                                                                          Construction of
                                                                        Devon Tower, the
                                                                        tallest building in

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                                                                                downtown
                                                                          Oklahoma City.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 (continued)                                            Networking Luncheon
                                                                           12:00 – 1:30 p.m., Century Ballroom
Panel Discussions
Guidance and Tools for Community Resilience Planning –                     KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Implementation of the NIST Planning Guide                                  MARS CITY: The Ultimate Resilient Facility
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Plaza South Ballrooom
                                                                           What do you do if your facility suffers a power failure for two weeks
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Community             due to a global dust storm? What if there is contamination in your
Resilience Group is actively pursuing the implementation of their          drinking water? What if your building systems need emergency
Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure       spare parts and the nearest Home Depot is 48 million miles away
Systems that was published in 2016. The panel will discuss the status      – every two years. That’s just some of the issues you have living in a
and significant accomplishments to date. Participants will leave the       community on Mars. MARS CITY, a joint project of the Total Learning
session with the following takeaways: a clear understanding of the         Research Institute and NASA has had to be designed to answer
NIST Community Resilience Guide as illustrated by the experiences of       those questions. A simulation of building maintenance requiring a
the pilot communities; specific suggestions with take-home value for       robust BIM, a complete specification of MEP engineering equipment
how to start and implement the 6-step process in any community; an         and a populated maintenance management software system has
understanding of where researchers and professional designers and          been developed in concert with the National Institute of Building
engineers can engage in the future development of resilience guidance      Sciences. In this session, participants will engage in the type of team
documents; the tools that are now available or will soon be available to   brainstorming required to understand resilience issues required for
assist communities in resilience planning; and an understanding of how     building cities on other planets – and the lessons for resilience in
the each attendee can assist their community in becoming resilient.        extreme environments on Earth.
Moderator: Therese P. McAllister, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, M.ASCE                             Kerry M. Joels, Ph.D.
Panelists:
                                                                                           Kerry Joels has a Doctorate in Aerospace and
Steve Cauffman, Research Engineer, National institute of
                                                                                           Education from Oklahoma State University. His
Standards & Technology
                                                                                           professional experience includes creative and
David Mizzen, EIT, Staff Engineer/Scientist, Applied Research Assoc.                      leadership positions with NASA, the National Air and
Jay Raskin, Jay Raskin Architects, National Institute of Standards                        Space Museum as Education Division Director and
& Technology’s Community Resilience Panel                                  Curator, the White House Young Astronaut Program as Director of
John van de Lindt, Ph.D., Colorado State University                       Curriculum, and the Challenger Center for Space Science Education
                                                                           as first Director of Program Development. He was a founding
Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes and the Built Environment                      Board member of Total Learning Research Institute and is the serving
1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Plaza South Ballrooom                                    President directing the SPACE EXPLORERS Space Shuttle and Mars
                                                                           Simulator programs and the MARS CITY STEM Challenge effort. He
Experts on seismology, structural engineering, and geotechnical            served on the White House Space Exploration Initiative for Moon/
engineering will discuss the patterns of seismicity and consequences       Mars mission planning. Programs he has directed or created have
of recent Oklahoma earthquakes. Brief presentations will be                impacted millions of students over the past 30 years. He has also
followed by questions and answers.                                         been the chairman of the Space Educator Award of the National
Moderator: Muralee Muraleetharan, Geotechnical Engineering                Space Club recognizing others for 33 years. He is the author of the
Professor, Kimmell-Bernard Chair in Engineering, David Ross                Mars One Crew Manual and other books.
Boyd and Presidential Professor
Panelists:                                                                 Welcome Reception
Jeremy Boak, D  irector, Oklahoma Geological Survey                       6:00 – 8:00 p.m., Century Foyer
Scott Harvey, Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering               Sponsored by

                                                                                                                                  Mars City rendering

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           Tours                                                                                  (continued)

THURSDAY, APRIL 13                                                     Keynote Luncheon
                                                                       11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Century Ballroom
Registration Hours
7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Century Foyer                                   KEYNOTE ADDRESS
                                                                                     Tails of Successful Architect|Engineer
Student Competition Jury Feedback                                                    Collaborations”
7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m., Plaza North Ballroom                                          Hans E. Butzer, Architect, AIA, AK NW, LEED AP,
                                                                                     Dean and A. Blaine Imel, Jr. Professor, Mabrey
Exhibit Hours                                                                         Presidential Professor of Architecture and Urban
7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Century Foyer                                                  Design, Recipient of the American Institute of
                                                                       Architects Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture, The
Continental Breakfast                                                  University of Oklahoma College of Architecture
7:30 – 8:30 a.m., Century Foyer
                                                                       The Oklahoma City Skydance Bridge is a nationally-recognized and
Concurrent Sessions                                                    award-winning landmark that resulted from intense collaborations
8:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.                                                  between architects and engineers, among others. Project co-creator
                                                                       and co-manager Hans E. Butzer will share experiences from the
Track 1 - Plaza South Room
                                                                       process of designing the iconic structure. His presentation will also
Track 2 - Kiamichi Room                                                touch upon his reasons for assembling a design team that included
Track 3- Red Carpet                                                    three independent structural engineers and four independent
Track 4 - Green Country                                                architects, and how these arrived at a consensus concept.
Track 5 - Plaza North
                                                                       Sponsored by
Panel Discussion
8:00 – 9:30 a.m., Plaza South Ballrooom                                Professional Project Awards Presentation
Claims Reduction Through Understanding Failure                         4:15 – 5:15 p.m., Century Ballroom

Panel Discussion Proposal
                                                                       Awards Banquet
Architects, engineers, and other design professionals face a           6:30 – 9:00 p.m., Century Ballroom
daunting array of professional risks. We navigate the risk landscape
by carefully defining scope, performing work in a manner that is       Sponsored by
consistent of the applicable standard of care, and by effective
coordination and communication. Moreover, the lifelong study
of engineering failures can help design professionals be more
aware of those aspects of the design process where failures have
historically been most likely to originate.
This panel discussion will include brief discussions of the practice
                                                                        Hotel Floor Plan
of forensic engineering and use case studies to demonstrate the
integration between engineering practice and resulting claims.

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Technical Program

Wednesday, April 12
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.                       Opening Plenary, Century Ballroom
                                        Keynote Presentation:
                                        Designing Community Networks to Support Resilient, Sustainable Buildings in Regions of Risk
                                        Louise K. Comfort, Ph.D., Director, Center for Disaster Management, University of Pittsburgh
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.                      Networking Break, Century Foyer
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.                 Technical Sessions
TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom                 TRACK 2, Kiamichi                        TRACK 3, Red Carpet           TRACK 4, Green Country
            SESSION 1:                             SESSION 2:                              SESSION 3:                         SESSION 4:
        NIST Panel Discussion           Building Electrical and Power Systems               Sustainability                  Building Materials
Guidance and Tools for                  Enhanced Resilience ThroughInvestigation of Sustainability                 Accounting for Carbon
Community Resilience Planning –         Building Perma-PowerLinks, 
                                                                   and Resilience Characteristics of               Sequestration Potential of                  AEI BUILD
                                                                                                                                                               AEI BUILD
Implementation of the NIST          Amy Kim, Dorothy Reed          Buildings Including Existing and                Reinforced Concrete in Whole-
Planning Guide                      Hybrid Renewable Energy        Potential Assessment Metrics,                   Building Life Cycle Assessment,            AEI Deliver
Moderator:                         System Model Analysis: Pumped Vaclav Hasik, Jaskanwal P. S.                   Adriana Souto-Martinez, Elizabeth         AEI Enclose
 Therese P McAllister, Ph.D., P.E., Hydrogen Storage Compared to Chhabra, Gordon P. Warn, Melissa                  Delesky, Kyle Foster, Wil V. Srubar
                                                                                                                                                               AEI Learn
                                    Battery-bank Storage Systems,  M. Bilec                                        III
 F.SEI, M.ASCE
                                                                   Investing in Sustainable                        Energy Performance Analysis of             AEI Modular
Panelists:                          
                                    T aneasha Roberts, Hongyi Cai
                                                                   Buildings to Enhance Community                  Alkali-Activated Cement-Based              AEI Perform
Steve Cauffman, Research Engineer, Photovoltaic Systems, D iana
 National institute of Standards &  Jones                          Resilience, L ee Fithian, Naiyu                Concrete Buildings, J uan Pablo           AEI Resilient
Technology                                                                      Wang, Zahed Siddique               Gevaudan, Wil Srubar                        AEI Secure
David Mizzen, EIT, Staff Engineer/                                             Multi-Criteria Design            Transparency in the Built                    AEI Sustain
 Scientist, Applied Research                                                    Optimization of Sustainable and Environment, L uke Leung, Rebecca
 Associates                                                                     Resilient Concrete, W
                                                                                                     il Srubar, Delaney, Stephen D Ray
                                                                                Joseph Kasprzyk
Jay Raskin, Jay Raskin Architects,
National Institute of Standards &                                               Strength and Permeability of Fly
Technology’s Community Resilience                                               Ash Based Concrete Reinforced
Panel                                                                           with Steel Fibers, A
                                                                                                    nup Thakur,
John van de Lindt, Ph.D., Colorado                                             Pankaj Pushkarna
 State University
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.                       Networking Luncheon, Century Ballroom
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.                        Technical Sessions
TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom                 TRACK 2, Kiamichi                        TRACK 3, Red Carpet           TRACK 4, Green Country
            SESSION 5:                             SESSION 6:                              SESSION 7:                         SESSION 8:
Oklahoma Earthquake Panel Discussion         Building Structural Systems                    Sustainability                  Building Materials
Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes         Structural Engineering for the              A Case Study Comparison of         Shape and Size Effects on the
and the Built Environment           Future, C  aroline Field, Luke Pascoe      LEED 2.2 to 4.0, R
                                                                                                  achel Mosier,   Compressive Strength of Cement
Moderator:                          A Comparison Between Static                 Douglas Gransberg                  Stabilized Rammed Earth, D eb
Muralee Muraleetharan,             and Quasi-Dynamic Loading                   Assessing Resilience of LEED       Dulal Tripura, Souvik Das
Geotechnical Engineering Professor, on Flexible Shear Connections,              Certified Facilities in Oklahoma, Sustainability of Compressed
Kimmell-Bernard Chair in           Christopher Raebel, Megan Hayes            Suchismita Bhattacharjee, Sandeep Earth Block Design: Comparative
 Engineering, David Ross Boyd and A Sustainable Approach to                      Langar, Brent Everett            Analysis of Stabilized
 Presidential Professor              Assess the Resilience of                    The Learning Buildings            Compressed Earth Block and
 Panelists:                          Perforated Wood Shear                       Framework (LBF) for Quantifying Traditional Wood Framed Single
 Jeremy Boak, Director, Oklahoma    Walls, E lizabeth Berry, Behnam            Building Adaptability, B randon  Family Residences, S   hideh
Geological Survey                       Shadravan, Fariborz Tehrani             Ross                               Shadravan, Matthew D. Reyes,
Scott Harvey, Assistant Professor of                                                                              Daniel J. Butko, Lisa M. Holliday,
                                        Improving Seismic Resilience            The International Database of
 Structural Engineering                                                                                            Kenneth R. Hines, Juvenal Huizar
                                        Using Structural Systems with           Adaptation and Demolition
                                                                                (DAaD) Building Projects, R
                                                                                                           iley   Uses of Red Mud as a
                                        Friction-Based Fuses, M
                                                               ark
                                        Sarkisian, Neville Mathias, Rupa        Marshall, Brandon Ross             Construction Material, M
                                                                                                                                           ohamed
                                        Garai, Christopher Horiuchi                                                Abdel-Raheem, Lizeth Gomez
                                                                                                                   Santana, Miguel Pineiro Cordova,
                                                                                                                   Bilkis Olazaran Martinez

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.                        Networking Break, Century Foyer

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Technical Program
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TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom            TRACK 2, Kiamichi                   TRACK 3, Red Carpet                   TRACK 4, Green Country
           SESSION 9:                         SESSION 10:                           SESSION 11:                            SESSION 12:
           Building Codes               Building Structural Systems                  Sustainability                        Building Materials
When Satisfying the Code           Observed Seismic Demand on            Nature in the Future Built              Reevaluating the Modified Shear
Doesn’t Satisfy Society, Robert   Columns in SCBFs, S
                                                      eyedbabak         Environment, S tephen D Ray,           Provision of CAN/CSA S806-12                 AEI BUILD
                                                                                                                                                              AEI BUILD
Solomon                            Momenzadeh, Onur Seker, Jay           Rebecca Delaney, Luke Leung             for Concrete Beams Reinforced
The Evolution of Wind Load         Shen                               Unintentional Sustainability in            with FRP Stirrups, O
                                                                                                                                     mar ElMeligy,           AEI Deliver
Provisions Related to Ensuring     The Monterey Conference            Schools – A Case Study of a        Amr EL-Nemr, Ahmed Deifalah                          AEI Enclose
Design Resiliency, Benjamin        Center: Creatively Taking          Newly Built School’s Accordance Strength Properties Study on                             AEI Learn
Barben, Ryan Solnosky              on the Future, M
                                                   ark Sarkisian,    with LEED Rating System, M ahdi Recycled Concrete Aggregate
                                                                      Afkhamiaghda, Marguerite Keesee, and Natural Aggregate:
                                                                                                                                                              AEI Modular
                                  Neville Mathias, Joanna Zhang,
Afghanistan Building Codes                                            lisa holliday                                                                           AEI Perform
                                  Samantha Walker                                                      Comparison of Analytical and
(ABC): Focused on Comparative
                                  Resurrecting History:               Value Engineering Evaluation     Experimental Investigations,                           AEI Resilient
Analysis and Viability of
                                  Renovating the Strand Theater Method for Sustainable                 Kaliappan Nandhini, Kaliappan                          AEI Secure
Enforcement, D    aryoosh Haziq,
                                                                                                        Usha Nandhini
Kiyotaka Morisaka                 in San Francisco, Mark Sarkisian, Construction, J oel Ochieng Wao                                                          AEI Sustain
                                  Neville Mathias,  Jeffrey Keileh,                                     Utilization of Gasifier Ash as
Improving Community Resilience
                                  Joanna Zhang                                                          Partial Cement and Sand
to Hurricanes Through
                                                                                                        Replacement in Cement Mortar,
Adherence to Building Codes       Historic Desmond Building – A
                                                                                                        Mohamed Abdel-Raheem, Bilkis
and Implementation of Code-Plus Case Study of an Integrated
                                                                                                         Olazaran Martinez, Karla Ruiz,
Practices, J . Michael Grayson   Retrofit, M
                                             ark Sarkisian, Neville                                    Angelica Neira, Lizeth Gomez
                                   Mathias, Rupa Garai, John                                                     Santana
                                   Lyrenmann
                                                                                                                 Calcium Sulfoaluminate Cement
                                                                                                                 Concrete for Precast, Prestressed
                                                                                                                 Concrete Components, T roy
                                                                                                                 Bowser, Royce Floyd
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.                   Welcome Reception, Century Foyer

Thursday, April 13
8:00 – 9:30 a.m                    Technical Sessions
TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom            TRACK 2, Kiamichi                   TRACK 3, Red Carpet                   TRACK 4, Green Country              TRACK 5, Plaza North Ballroom
          SESSION 13:                         SESSION 14:                           SESSION 15:                            SESSION 16:
       Claims Panel Discussion          Building Structural Systems        Architectural Engineering Education     Design & Construction Process and
                                                                                                                             Management
Claims Reduction Through           Modeling and Design of Multi-         Letting the Kids Pick Their             The Role of BIM in Simplifying
Understanding Failure Panel        functional Floor Isolation            Grades, C  hris Ahern                  Construction Permits in Kuwait,
                                                                                                                                                              AEI BUILD
                                                                                                                                                              AEI BUILD
Discussion,                        Systems, P hilip Harvey Jr., Nisal   Team Teaching: A Solution to            Nawari NAWARI, A   del Alsaffar
Panelists:                         Halaba Arachchige Senarathna          Multidisciplinary Architectural         Parametric Blockwall-Assembly                AEI Deliver
Michael J. Drerup, P.E., ASCE     Floor Vibrations in Composite         Engineering Capstone Design             Algorithms for the Automated
                                                                                                                                                              AEI Enclose
Forensics Division                 Floor Systems, B reanna Bailey,      Requirement, J ames Glusing,           Generation of Virtual Wall
M. Kevin Parfitt, P.E., The       Anna Leija                            Breanna Bailey, Joseph Sai              Mockups using BIM, T arek Zaki,              AEI Learn
 Pennsylvania State University     A Stochastic Study on                 Nebraska Architectural                  Khaled Nassar, Osama Hosny                   AEI Modular
                                   Distribution Parameters of            Engineering Reorganized                 Design Nuances of Federal and                AEI Perform
                                   Random Individual Walking             Capstone Course, C
                                                                                           larence              Private Healthcare, J immy Bates,           AEI Resilient
                                   Excitations, Z
                                                 hiqiang Zhang, Bill    Waters                                  Susana Erpestad
                                                                                                                                                               AEI Secure
                                   Zhang, Jieqiang Wei, Peng Luo,        Building Code Educational
                                   Changhui Cui                                                                                                               AEI Sustain
                                                                         Modules for Professional
                                   Nonlinear Vibrations Based            Exposure in AE Curriculums,
                                   Damage Detection for Building         Ryan Solnosky, Walter Schneider,
                                   Structural Systems, P hilip Scott    Alexa Kottmeyer, Sarah Zappe
                                   Harvey Jr., Royce W. Floyd, Jin-
                                   Song Pei, Le Gruenwald, Peng F.
                                   Tang, Danh V. Doan, Joseph P.
                                   Havlicek
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.                  Networking Break, Century Foyer

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Technical Program                                                    (continued)

10:00 – 11:30 a.m.                      Technical Sessions
TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom                 TRACK 2, Kiamichi                  TRACK 3, Red Carpet                    TRACK 4, Green Country               TRACK 5, Plaza North Ballroom
           SESSION 17:                            SESSION18:                            SESSION 19:                              SESSION 20:                           SESSION 21:
     Building Mechanical Systems             Building Structural Systems       Architectural Engineering Education     Design and Construction Process and            Integrated Systems
                                                                                                                                  Management
Greenhouse Design with Waste Windstorm Resilience of a                       A Statistical Evaluation of the          Facilitating the Adoption of New        Designing a Resilient Prism,
Heat: Principles and Practices,       46-Story Office Building, Bsrat        Value of Pre-engineering                 Project Delivery Practices among         ark Sarkisian, Peter Lee, Rupa
                                                                                                                                                              M
 nthony Denzer, Liping Wang, Yara Ghebremariam, J ohnn Judd
A                                                                            Curricula on First-Year                  Architecture, Engineering, and          Garai, Andrew Krebs
Thomas, Gabrielle McMorrow            Effects of Balconies on the Wind       Civil Engineering Student                Construction Project Teams,             Integration of Augmented
Experimental Investigation on         Loading of a Tall Building, T ucker   Performance, C   hristopher Raebel,     Brian Lines,Kenneth Sullvan,           Reality, Building Information
Energy Performance of Variable        Morton, Thomas Mara                    Blake Wentz, Frank Mahuta                Anthony Perrenoud                       Modeling and Image Processing
Frequency Drives in HVAC Systems, Evaluation and Design of Blast-            Faculty Learning Community               New Association for Capital             in Construction Management:
 oosha Kiamehr, Shima Shahahmadi, Resistant Buildings at Refineries
K                                                                            (FLC) for BIM Education in               Project Professionals – Its             A Content Analysis, A  li Karji,
Gang Wang, Li Song                    and Petrochemical Facilities, P aul   Multidisciplinary School,                Mission: Accelerate Professional        Asregedew Woldesenbet, Saeed
Energy Savings Potential in a         Summers, Guzhao Li, Zonglei Mu         Asregedew Woldesenbet,                  Development and Team                    Rokooei
Medical Facility through Custom Blast-Resistant Design of a                  Changbum Ahn, Hee-Jeong Kim,             Innovation Across the Supply            The NIST House: Applicability in
Minimum Airflow Resets, S       hima Three-Story Glass Curtain Wall         Saeed Rokooei                            Chain, N oe Saenz, Eric Marks,         the Rocky Mountain West,
Shahahmadi                                                                   Updating the Curriculum in an            Edward Back                             Matthew Schneider, Anthony
                                      System at a Federal Research
A Review and Procedure to Select Facility, Guzhao Li, Paul B.               AE Program to Include New          Increasing the Productivity of a    Denzer, Jon Gardzelewski
Indoor Air Quality Measures for       Summers, Terry R. McDonnell,           Degree Options, J ohn Phillips    Construction Project Using          Architecturally Integrated
Educational Facilities, Irfan Anees  Ronald O. Hamburger                    Integrative Design and Project-    Collaborative Pull Planning, S
                                                                                                                                              omik Photovoltaic Panels: Residential
Mohammed, Pelin Gultekin-Bice                                                based Learning in AE Education     Ghosh, Matthew Reyes, Anthony       Design Methods and Consumer
                                                                                                                Perrenoud, Malcolm Coetzee
                                                                             - A Critical Review, L isa Iulo, Ross                                 Preferences, J on Gardzelewski,
Preliminary Tests for an Engineering
Approach to Achieve Energy                                                   Weinreb, Reggie Aviles, Moses Ling Transform Your Design Construct Anthony Denzer, Benjamin Gilbert
Efficient Airside Economizers                                                                                   Process – Crossing the Divide
without Humidity Sensors, G    ang                                                                             from CAD to Revit to BIM, B ryce
Wang, Li Song, Liping Wang                                                                                            Finnerty, Bryce Finnerty

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.                  Keynote Luncheon, Century Ballroom
                                        Tails of Successful Architect-Engineer Collaborations
                                        Hans Butzer, Architect, AIA, AK NW, LEED AP BD+C
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.                        Technical Sessions
TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom                 TRACK 2, Kiamichi                  TRACK 3, Red Carpet                    TRACK 4, Green Country               TRACK 5, Plaza North Ballroom
           SESSION 22:                            SESSION 23:                           SESSION 24:                              SESSION 25:                           SESSION 26:
           Building Envelope                 Building Structural Systems       Architectural Engineering Education     Design and Construction Process and            Integrated Systems
                                                                                                                                  Management
 A Simple Table for Selecting           Moscone Center Expansion: An Digital and Media-Based                          Collaborative Risk Management           Impact of the Virtual
 Insulating Glass Unit                  Integrated Structural Design          Assignments in the Structures           of the Approval Process of              Collaboration on Project
 Constructions, J oseph Minor          Approach, M  ark Sarkisian, Neville Classroom, M .S. Uihlein                Building Envelope Materials,            Progress Monitoring in
Optimization of Advanced                Mathias, John Gordon, Lindsay Hu, Revisiting Form and Forces: A               Anthony Perrenoud, Matt Reyes,         Construction Industry, S
                                                                                                                                                                                      epehr
Structural Silicone Glazing,            Christopher Horiuchi                 Critique of Graphical Statics,           Somik Ghosh, Malcolm Coetzee            Alizadehsalehi, Ibrahim Yitmen
Charles Clift, Peter Hutley, Vicente   Toward a Structural                  Jonathan Ochshorn                       Best Value Procurement of               An Investigation of School
Montes                                  Comprehension of an 18th              Does Gamer Personality Affect           Architectural and Engineering           Environmental Effects on
The Petersen Museum Façade:             Century Spanish Colonial Stone the Experience and Engagement                  Services: Selection                     Student Achievement, M ichael
Unique Structural Challenges,           Masonry Monument: The Church of Architectural Engineering                     Characteristics and the Relative        Kuhlenengel, Laura Brill, Shihan
Jeff Denton                            of Mission San Jose y Miguel de Sophomores in Fundamental                     Influence of Various Evaluation         Deng, Houston Lester, Jim Bovaird,
                                        Aguayo, Texas, A  ngela Lombardi, Classes? E ce Erdogmus, Ariel             Criteria, B rian Lines, Amirali        Josephine Lau, Lily Wang,
 Advances in Debris Cannon                                                                                                                                    Clarence Waters
                                        Saadet Toker Beeson                  Kousgaard, Erica Ryherd, Sydney          Shalwani
 Technology, C
              ollin Sewell, Collin
                                        Lightweight Rapidly Constructible    Brown                              A Comparative Case Study                      Laser Scanning Conversion of
Sewell, Andrew Graettinger, Thang
Dao, Ed Back, Lawrence Powell           and Reconfigurable Modular                                              Approach: Identifying the                     1.5 Million Square Feet
                                                                             The Increasing Globalization of
                                        Steel Floor System: Serviceability                                                                                    of a Private University
                                                                             Criminal Prosecutions in Disasters Discrepancy Between Energy
                                        Analysis and Design, B rian                                            Performance Results, H
                                                                                                                                      imanshu                Historic Facilities to Building
                                                                             and Tragedies, D
                                                                                             enis Binder
                                        Robertson, Eugene Baodi-Danquah,                                              Patel Tuniki, Pelin Gultekin-Bicer      Information Modeling (BIM)
                                        Matthew Fadden, Elaina Sutley, Joe Revisiting Form and Forces: A                                                      AS-Built Records for Space
                                        Colistra                           Critique of Graphical Statics,                                                     Management, Z     iad Salameh
                                                                           Jonathan Ochshorn
2:30 – 2:45 pm                          Networking Break, Century Foyer
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2:45 – 4:15 p.m.                      Technical Sessions
TRACK 1, Plaza South Ballroom              TRACK 2, Kiamichi                   TRACK 3, Red Carpet                 TRACK 4, Green Country                 TRACK 5, Plaza North Ballroom
          SESSION 27:                           SESSION 28:                          SESSION 29:                            SESSION 30:                             SESSION 31:
         Building Envelope                 Building Structural Systems       Community Planning for Resilience    Forensic Studies and Lessons Learned              Occupant Safety
Building Envelope Systems with        Inter-Story Drift Measurement        A Comprehensive Approach to           A Decision Support System for            Increasing Seismic Activity in
Transparent Solid-Solid Phase         With Surveillance Camera Video:      Building & City Resilience,           Condition Assessment of                  Oklahoma: Are Historic
Changing Material, Towards            An Experimental Investigation,       Caroline Field, Richard Look,         Distressed Concrete Buildings,           Buildings at Risk?, J eanne
Resilient Zero-energy Buildings,      Philip Harvey Jr., Nisal Halaba     Thomas Lindsay                       Barkavi Thanuskodi                      Homer, Daniel Lao Davila, Carisa
Gert Guldentops, Steven Van Dessel   Arachchige Senarathna                 Sustainable Resilient Temporary       Hidden Corrosion in Existing            Ramming
 Numerical Simulation of Forced       Torsional Bracing of Cold-            Home, S hannon McDonald, Lauren      Curtain Walls and Cladding              Addressing Severe Crowding in
 Convective Heat Transfer             Formed Roof Systems, S  hideh       Ovca                                   Systems, G wenyth Searer, James        Entry to Prayer Areas at
 Coefficients on the Facade of        Shadravan, Shideh Shadravan,         Five Years after the April 27,        Chiropolos, Steven Hovland,              Shopping Malls in the Gulf
 High-rise Buildings, M
                       eseret        Chris Ramseyer                       2011 Tuscaloosa Tornado: A            Andrew Bishop                            Region, A hmed Mokhtar
Kahsay, Girma Bitsuamlak, Fitsuam     Reliability Analysis in Structural   Study in Community Resilience,        A Tale of Two Sites: Settling for        Balancing School Safety with
Tariku                                Fire Engineering, Q
                                                         ianru Guo,       Patrick Crawford, Andrew             Less, M
                                                                                                                        ichael Lester                    Healthy Learning Spaces,
A Comparative Analysis for            Ann Jeffers, David Jacoby            Graettinger, Lawrence Powell,         Incorporating Case Studies in            Marguerite Keesee, Amanda E.
Three Residential Wall Insulation     Finite Element Analysis of           Sebastain Awondo, Ed Back,            the Civil and Architectural              Janitz, Lisa Holliday, Hans-Peter
Systems in Hot-arid Climate           Reinforced Concrete Beams            Samuel Spector                        Engineering Curriculum, N   orbert      (Hepi) Wachter, Pamela Skraastad-
Using Simulation tools and            With Temperature Differentials,      Predicting Tornado Damage and Delatte                                          Jurney
Experimental Testing, K
                       haled         M.Mehdi Mirzazadeh, Martin Noel,    Recovery through Coarse                                                        Tornado Width for Computer
Tarabieh, Ahmed Aboulmagd             Mark Green                           Modeling of Physical-Socio-                                                    Modeling from Google Earth
                                                                           Economic Interactions at the                                                   Data and Period of the Vortex,
                                                                           Community-Level, H assan                                                      Damaso Dominguez, Panneer
                                                                           Masoomi, John van de Lindt,                                                    Selvam
                                                                           Lori Peek, Jennifer Tobin-Gurley,
                                                                           Kathrina Simonen
4:15 – 5:15 p.m.                      AEI Professional Project Awards Presentations, Century Ballroom
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.                      Awards Banquet, Century Ballroom

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