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 […]
Chad Boyea, P.E., a Senior Associate and Senior Project Manager at PES, just returned from beautiful Québec City, Canada, where he attended the Spring 2019 ACI Nordique Concrete Convention held at the Hilton Québec . The chilly spring temperatures of about 8 degrees didn’t stop the attendees from sitting in on a variety of robust sessions at […]
Erik Swerdlow, P.E., a Senior Associate and Studio Director at PES, recently attended the Mass Timber Conference at the Oregon Convention Center. Here are four highlights from his time at this engaging and informative conference: IBC 2021 provisions introduce Tall Wood Structures New provisions included in IBC 2021 will include (3) new construction types – Type […]
PES’s Dynamo journey truly started about three years ago. Over time we’ve created a handful of graphs that are used throughout the company to help with tedious day to day tasks like propagating grid changes from plan to plan, creating .dwg files of sheets without titleblocks, and even some modeling tasks like placing embed plates. […]
This year John O’Brien, P.C., S.E., Neal Turbow, P.E., S.E., Sarah Scarborough, P.E., and Mary Shinners, E.I.T. represented PES at the NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit in Chicago, Illinois. As always, the sessions were extremely informative and sparked numerous conversations. Read their recaps and takeaways from the conference below: “One theme that appeared in several of […]
This year, Matt Sweeney, P.E., our Production Technology | Innovation Manager, attended Autodesk University in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read his recap and takeaways from the conference below: Autodesk University, held annually in the Fall, is an exciting, sometimes overwhelming, and exhausting week. This year I was fortunate enough to get out to the conference early […]
When Ashley Brammer, P.E., S.E. joined PES in June of 2017 she also returned to her hometown. A Gwinnett County native, Ashley made the move back to the ATL after spending eight years in Metro DC. She knew PES was the fit for her when she found a company that not only works on cool […]
When speaking with clients and other industry professionals there seems to be a common trend; the work is good and firms are busy! Great projects are being built, while new and increasingly complex projects are making their way into design. Owners and developers are continually pushing the design team to produce a one-of-a-kind building faster […]
Renovation means to “restore to a good state of repair”. In other words, dilapidated or poorly maintained buildings are sometimes considered to be in a state of disrepair. To renovate a building means to resurrect that structure from a condition of disrepair. Renovations can be subtle, improving on the existing building. Or, they can be […]
Lured to PES by a friendly workforce and an intriguing mix of projects in regard to both size and type, Neal serves as a Project Manager. In this role, he is responsible for managing projects under the guidance of the studio director and is heavily involved with the design and modeling of projects. He also […]
