CFSEI to Host Webinar on Engineering of Steel Buildings
The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute will host a webinar on “Seismic Engineering of Cold-Formed Steel Framed Buildings and the CFS-NEES Effort” on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. EST. The webinar is designed for architects, engineers, building officials and contractors. Participants are eligible for 1.5 PDHs.
A definitive shift is emerging in the cold-formed steel framed building industry towards system-level seismic evaluation in both the codes and specifications and in the tools that engineers use to evaluate existing buildings. The steel industry has always had empirical evidence that repetitive framing benefits system reliability and efficiency. Efforts to quantify these effects through recent research grants from the National Science Foundation and long-term industry investment are starting to make broad positive impacts.