We are proud to share with you that the following individuals have been promoted. Meet Our New Principals David Aucoin, P.E. David serves as a Principal and is a 15 year veteran of the firm. As the leader of the New England office, he handles a wide variety of projects from new construction of mixed-use […]
We are so proud of our Assistant Project Managers Mary Shinners and Matt Baker. Both passed the Structural Engineering exam and are now licensed Professional Engineers in the State of Georgia. Congratulations!
David Aucoin, Senior Associate and leader of our West Hartford office, recently attended the three-day Industrialized Wood-Based Construction Conference 2019 (IWBCC) in Boston, Massachusetts. Below are his thoughts and takeaways: I started my conference sessions on Tuesday, November 5th with the morning keynote, John Burns, Founder & CEO of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, LLC […]
PES Senior Associate and Senior Project Manager, Chad Boyea, PE, recently attended the Fall 2019 ACI Concrete Convention and Expo in Cincinnati, the birthplace of Steven Spielberg; home of the biggest Oktoberfest in the country; and home to America’s oldest baseball team. Dubbed “A River of Knowledge”, the Convention boasted more than 80 sponsors, over […]
Lean, Kaizen, Kanban, Pull Planning, Waste, Six Sigma, Poka-Yoke…these are terms from the manufacturing world, aren’t they? We aren’t Toyota, so why do we care about that stuff? Although the principles of Lean date back to early car manufacturing days, or some argue even before that, these principles can be applied to any business and […]
DesignNXT Week 2019 was an emerging technologies conference being held for the first time in Atlanta this year. The really interesting part was that it was spearheaded by TVS Design, an Atlanta based Architecture firm. This is unusual since most events like this tend to be put together by software companies or larger industry organizations. […]
Matt Sweeney, PE, our Production Technology and Innovation Manager, recently attended BILT NA 2019 in Seattle, Washington. Below are some of his takeaways from this exciting and informative conference: BILT NA, DBEI’s (Digital Built Environment Institute) primary conference in the US, is probably the most interesting as well as the most practical technology conference for […]
Taylor Landry’s goal of becoming a structural engineer started long before heading to college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he would receive his Bachelor of Science degree in 2015. “Since I got my first wood working tool kit as a kid, I have always enjoyed building things and figuring out how “all the pieces” […]
TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut is southern New England’s jewel that members of the Tournament Players Club adore and is home of the PGA Tour’s Travelers Championship. PES Structural Engineers was thrilled to be part of the design team lead by Chapman Coyle Chapman Architects of Atlanta, GA which included the much-added benefit of […]
The application for Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD) is gaining strength in the design community. A recent article in ENR highlighted the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) team of 14 structural experts writing the Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design, the first document ever produced to aid in PBWD. Design considerations […]