Past Dinner Meetings

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2023-2024 Dinner Meetings

March 2024 - Design and Construction of Merdeka 118 Tower Using High Performance Concrete

Speaker: Ahmad Abdelrazaq - Rise Global LLC

February 2024 - Adaptive and Deployable Lightweight Civil Infrastructure

Speaker:  Ann Sychterz - UIUC

January 2024 -  The Fanny Appleton Bridge Design and Construction

Speaker: William Goulet - STV Incorporated

2022-2023 Dinner Meetings

December 2023 - First Hand Observations from the February 6th Türkiye Earthquake

Speaker: Mustafa Mahamid - University of Illinois at Chicago

October 2023 - 2022 Updates to the AISC Code of Standard Practice

Speaker: Lawrence Kruth - Kruth Engineering, LLC

September 2023 - Allegiant Stadium: Accelerated Structural Design and Delivery

Speaker: Kermin Chok - Arup

May 2023 - Finalists Present

March 2023 - Tall Mass Timber Construction: Ascent

Speaker: Alejandro Fernandez - Thornton Tomasetti

February 2023 - Initial Investigation into the Partial Collapse of the Champlain Towers South (CTS) Building in Surfside Florida

Speaker: Dawn Lehman - University of Washington

January 2023 - The New Campus Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois College of Engineering

Speaker: Toby Mitchell (Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill), James J. Pawlikowski (Datum Engineers)

December 2022 - Curved Tubular Flange Girders: I-95 Section BR2

Speaker: Geoffrey N. Stryker - STV Incorporated

October 2022 - Renovation of an Iconic Chicago Landmark | Tribune Tower Complex

Speakers: David Nickell, Jessica Dineen, Matthew McElmury - TGRWA

September 2022 - Salesforce Tower Chicago

Speaker: Matthew Streid - Magnusson Klemencic Associates