Even though our 2020 Committee Leadership Conference was cancelled, we’re getting ready for our conference in 2021. View the video for a message from our COO and keynote speakers.

yet another wild week and these are some of the highlights!

The CCA Un-Conference was designed to showcase sessions, award winners, expert speakers and thought leadership that you didn’t get to experience in person in San Diego. There is a wealth of information and best practices available to you – from articles and award winners to interviews and moderated panels. Check out our video highlights of what we at CCA think are some key points to remember.

Hana Gartner interviews high steel workers in New York City who have roots in Newfoundland. Gartner follows workers as they work on the third World Trade Centre tower and speaks with retired ironworkers who were some of the first to make the move from Newfoundland to the Big Apple.

The addition of cross-laminated timber (CLT) to AWC’s National Design Specification® (NDS®) and upcoming changes in the 2021 International Building Code (IBC) has given engineers exciting design options never before available in US building codes and standards. New provisions were introduced for CLT connection design in the 2015 edition of the NDS and clarified in the 2018 edition. This presentation will provide background on relevant NDS provisions governing structural design of connections for CLT members, present a design example, and discuss fire protection requirements specified in NDS and AWC’s newly updated Technical Report 10 – Calculating the Fire Resistance of Wood Members and Assemblies (TR10).

The CCA Un-Conference was designed to showcase sessions, award winners, expert speakers and thought leadership that you didn’t get to experience in person in San Diego. There is a wealth of information and best practices available to you – from articles and award winners to interviews and moderated panels. Check out our video highlights of what we at CCA think are some key points to remember.

Home to the Los Angeles Rams and the Chargers, the new NFL SoFi Stadium is the most expensive venue ever constructed.

Modern construction methods it methods that are developed in construction industry with proper planning and design so that each project reduces the construction time and cost. Today you see in this video most famous and highly applied methods of modern construction.

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after multiple screen changes, entire screener changes, we now have what I see as the best soil setup. what’d you think?

DOING THIS ONE THING CAN DRAMATICALLY ADVANCE YOUR CAREER! In this Engineering Manager 80/20 Shorts, we talk to Peggy Hagerty Duffy, P.E., D.GE, President at Hagerty Engineering, Inc. about one key driver that helped her to advance and grow in her engineering career. Doing this one simple thing has produced so many benefits in her career and helped her to look at what she is doing through different eyes. Peggy will be a guest on an upcoming episode of The Geotechnical Engineering Podcast.

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Kryton International

The Mission of the RAIC Syllabus is to provide architectural education nationally through practical experience and courses of study for aspiring and current members of the profession, and members of the public with a personal interest in architecture. An Architect administers the construction […]

SCALING AN ENGINEERING FIRM! The scaling of an engineering firm can start from an individual business owner to a small group and beyond. In this week’s episode of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I talk to Brian Saunders, founder and CEO of BigTime Software about the business of engineering, and more specifically about scaling an engineering firm. Brian provides some great advice on how to grow an engineering firm.