Please join us for a virtual presentation of Structural Engineering for SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California.
SoFi Stadium is the world-class home of the Los Angeles Chargers and World Champion Los Angeles Rams in Inglewood, California. It has already hosted a Super Bowl and is soon to host the 2023 College Football National Championship and the 2028 Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics. Located on the former site of the Hollywood Park Racetrack, the unique site is said to be the only plot of land in the Los Angeles area that could host a project of this aspirational scale. However, it sits close in proximity to an active fault and directly below flight paths to and from LAX. An approximately 1 million square-foot roof canopy with select operable panels covers the stadium and the surrounding American Airlines Plaza and sits on some of the largest seismic isolators used in the United States. To keep the roof canopy below the height limit required by the proximity to LAX, the stadium was depressed 100 feet deep in the ground. This cavernous excavation is one of the largest ever achieved near an active fault and is accomplished through a specially engineered Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall. The stadium’s bowl structure sits entirely within this excavation and remains structurally independent from both the roof canopy and the MSE wall. This structural separation presented further opportunities for innovation as access to the bowl from the surrounding grade was still essential and the upper levels of the stadium required wide concourses that extended out past the limits of the excavation. Each of these challenges was met with unique structural solutions.

DATE:
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

LOCATION:
Virtual – Link will be sent prior to presentation.

CREDITS:
1.0 PDH will be awarded

COST:
$20.00 for SEAM/NCSEA members
$25.00 for non-members

AGENDA:
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm Intro/Presentation
1:50 pm – 2:00 pm Q & A

RSVP:
by Friday, December 9, 2022

Please join us for a tour of the 201 Federal Street Project. SEAM Member Aaron Jones from Structural Integrity Consulting is the Engineer of Record for the 201 Federal Street Project. The Project is an 18 story, 180,000-SF mixed use building that will provide commercial office suites, housing, a sky lounge and many other spaces. Landry French is serving as the construction manager on the project and will lead the tour.

DATE:
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

LOCATION:
201 Federal Street
Portland, Maine

CREDITS:
1.0 PDH will be awarded

COST:
$20.00 for SEAM/NCSEA members
$25.00 for non-members
(Limited to the first 30 to sign up)

AGENDA:
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tour
Meet at 3:45pm
Informal Social Hour at a nearby establishment

RSVP:
by Monday, November 14th

QUESTIONS:
director1@seam.org

Please join us for a virtual presentation of Revit Structural Coordination Best Practices by Phil Marshall of MicroCAD Training and Consulting.

Phil Marshal has over 30 years of experience and has been with MicroCAD for 6 years focusing on structural training in Revit. This presentation will show how to use Revit effectively for structural design in the context of the complete project. It will focus on how collaboration with partners on the project can be made easy and the inevitable changes managed to minimize disruption. Recommended best practices and processes will be highlighted.

Some topics that will be covered include:

• Linking models and worksharing
• Overlaying views and model elements for coordination of structure
• Project/Model Management
• Creating and managing issues, RFI’s, revisions
• SE Productivity tools to make modeling more efficient
• Q&A and general discussion

MicroCAD Training and Consulting is an Autodesk Gold Partner and Authorized Training Center with offices in Portland, ME and Watertown, MA. Their services include the sale of Autodesk products, standard or custom training courses, and CAD / BIM consulting services and custom software setup.

DATE:
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

LOCATION:
Virtual – (ZOOM, link will be sent via email before event)

CREDITS:
2.0 PDH will be awarded

COST:
$40.00 for SEAM/NCSEA members
$50.00 for non-members

AGENDA:
12:00pm – 1:40 pm Presentation
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm Q&A

RSVP:
by Monday, October 17, 2022

Please join us for a tour of the new addition to 317 Main Street Community Music Center in downtown Yarmouth, ME

317 Main Street is a community music center offering and hosting a wide range of music lessons, jam sessions, and musical performances. The addition to the existing building provides new private lesson rooms, recording studios, a café to serve events, and a large new auditorium. Paul Designs Project is the architect of record, with Thornton Tomasetti as the structural consultant and Zachau Construction as the general contractor.
This presentation will provide an overview of the wood framed structural system, highlighting the integration of cross laminated timber panels for both gravity and lateral framing. Along with being the architect’s preferred material choice for walls and roof of the facility’s new auditorium, CLT panels were designed to significantly contribute to the building’s lateral system. Early coordination with the architect on CLT panel openings, joint connections, and base of panel to foundation wall details led to all notches, openings, and other panel cuts being captured in the shop drawings and therefore cut to precision during fabrication. CLT panels arrived on site ready to lift into place, minimizing both in-field adjustments and total construction time.

The tour will also highlight acoustic requirements of different spaces throughout the building and how this affected structural detailing.

DATE:
Thursday, September 29, 2022

LOCATION:
317 Main Street Community Music Center
Yarmouth, Maine

CREDITS:
1.0 PDH will be awarded

COST:
$25.00 for SEAM/NCSEA members
$30.00 for non-members

AGENDA:
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Plan on arriving
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm: Tour / presentation
5:30 pm Informal social hour at nearby establishment

RSVP:
by Wednesday, September 28, 2022