Brief Summary: Tall CLT Workshop at Seattle, WA. Jan 24th 2014

The Tall CLT building workshop was sponsored by the NSF NEES program through the NEES Planning

grant in order to identify the societal needs and engineering challenges for Tall CLT construction in

seismic active regions of the U.S., especially the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of this document is to

provide a brief report on the event and share the contact information for all participants who provided

their information on the sign-in sheets.

A total of 62 Participants from local government and planning, design engineering and architect offices,

timber industry, and higher education institutions participated in the workshop discussion. The names,

affiliations, and emails of all participants can be found in Table 1.

The project team will summarize the discussion results and draft a Tall CLT construction challenges

white paper document for further comments by the wider community, and conduct the rest of the

planning research work accordingly.

Selected Photos from the workshop

Fig. 1. Presentation: Earthquake resiliency concept and rating system

Fig. 2. Presentation: Research and implementation of CLT building in Canada

Fig. 3. Presentation: Challenges in resilient engineering systems

Fig. 4. Break-out discussion: Societal needs and economic competitiveness

Fig. 5. Break-out discussion: Performance expectations

Fig. 6. Break-out discussion: Engineering challenges

Table 1. Tall CLT construction workshop participants list

Participant Affiliation Contact Project Team

Shiling Pei Colorado School of Mines spei@mines.edu

Dan Dolan Washington State University jddolan@wsu.edu

Jeff Berman University of Washington jwberman@uw.edu

James Ricles Lehigh University jmr5@lehigh.edu Richard Sause Lehigh University rs0c@lehigh.edu

John van de Lindt Colorado State University jwv@engr.colostate.edu

Marjan Popovski FPInnovations marjan.popovski@fpinnovations.ca

Doug Rammer USDA-Forest Product Lab drammer@fs.fed.us

Michael Willford Arup Michael.Willford@arup.com

Hans-Erik Blomgren

Arup Hans-Erik.Blomgren@arup.com

Researcher/Student Todd Beyreuther Washington State University beyreuther@wsu.edu

Kate Simonen University of Washington CBE - Carbon Leadership Forum

ksimonen@uw.edu

Michael Wolcott Washington State University wolcott@wsu.edu Ryan Ganey University of Washington ganeyr@uw.edu

Jason Cross University of Washington crossco@u.washington.edu

Don Bender Washington State University bender@wsu.edu

Omar Amini Colorado State University omar.amini@rams.colostate.edu

Vincent Bordry Washington State University vincent.bordry@email.wsu.edu

Engineer/Architect Joe Mayo AIA Seattle Chapter Rep.– Mahlum Architects jmayo@mahlum.com

Knut Hansen NBBJ khansen@nbbj.com Leif Johnson Magnusson Klemencic Associates ljohnson@mka.com Kelly Cobeen Wiss,Janney,Elstner Associates KCobeen@wje.com

Gary Mochizuki Structsol California gary@structsol.com Phil Line AWC pline@awc.org Greg Gilda DCI Engineers ggilda@dci-engineers.com

Steve Pryor Simpson Strong-Tie Co. spryor@strongtie.com Myer Harrell Weber Thompson Architect mharrell@weberthompson.com

Brian Court Miller Hull Partnership BrianCourt@MillerHull.com

Steven Rainville Olson Kundig Architects steven@olsonkundig.com

Les Eerun Olson Kundig Architects les@olsonkundig.com Cory Hitzemann Coughlin Porter Lundeen Inc. CoryH@cplinc.com

Erik Kneer Holmes Culley San Francisco ekneer@holmesculley.com

Andrew Harmsworth

GHL Consultants ah@ghl.ca

Greg Kingsley KL&A Inc gkingsley@klaa.com Kathryn Pfretzschner

KPFF Consulting Kathryn.Pfretzschner@kpff.com

Asif Iqbal BRANZ New Zealand asifiqbal02@gmail.com

Rob Curran LMN Architects rcurran@LMNArchitects.com

Steve Lidicker DGI-Engineers slidicker@dci-engineers.com

Amie Sullivan KPFF amie.sullivan@kpff.com

Eric McDonnell KPFF eric.mcdonnell@kpff.com

Wood Industry/Manufacturer Tom Skaggs APA tom.skaggs@apawood.org

BJ Yeh APA borjen.yeh@apawood.org

Jessie Chen APA Jessie.chen@apawood.org

Scott Breneman Woodworks scott.breneman@woodworks.org

Kris Spickler Structlam kris@structurlam.com

Williams Munoz Toro

Nordic wmunoz@nordicewp.com

Mathias Oberholzer Nordic moberholzer@nordicewp.com

Max Closen MyTiCon max@my-ti-con.com

Ethan Martin WoodWorks - Seattle ethan@woodworks.org

Government/Developer/Stakeholder Jonathan Siu Seattle Dept. Planning and Development (DPD) Jon.Siu@seattle.gov

Steve Pfeiffer Seattle DPD Structural Steve.Pfeiffer@seattle.gov

Jeff Foster GGLO & Urban Land Institute jfoster@gglo.com

Scott Beard City of Tacoma - Structural SBEARD@ci.tacoma.wa.us

Alan Dunbar Skanska USA Alan.Dunbar@skanska.com

Mark Chang City of Bellevue mchang@bellevuewa.gov

Douglas Beck City of Bellevue dbeck@bellevuewa.gov

Greg Huwes Idea Builders greg@ideabuilderhomes.com

Jon Riedel Skanska USA Jon.riedel@skanska.com

Lavim Sadhwani Seneca Group Lavinas@senecagroup.com

TJ McDonald City of Seattle tj.mcdonald@seattle.gov

Chris Angus Sellen Construction Chris.Angus@sellen.com