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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Air Content in Concrete ACI 301 – Specifications for Structural Concrete currently limits the air content in concrete slabs that are to receive a hard trowel finish to 3%. There is no magic to this value other than it has historically worked well to limit the probability of surface imperfections, such as delimitation, that can […]
This year John O’Brien, P.E., S.E., Sarah Scarborough, P.E., and I had the opportunity to attend the NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit in Washington, D.C. The sessions were informative and sparked thought-provoking conversations amongst the diverse group of engineers that were in attendance. We compiled a list of our favorite takeaways from the conference. Enjoy! 1.Whenever […]
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