Another amazing year in the books at the 2024 Degenkolb Conference! 💡 DegCon brought 300-plus Degenkolb and Ruby + Associates, a Degenkolb Company team members together in San Francisco for a day dedicated to learning, collaboration, and celebrating our people. This annual event highlights our commitment to lifelong learning, giving team members the chance to present on topics they’re passionate about. Check out the full list of presentations from this year’s event!

Topics at the 2024 Degenkolb Conference:

• KEYNOTE: Innovation – Our Earlier Years with Loring A. Wyllie, Jr.
• SESSION IA:
  • Help Me Name This Too! – Daniel Zepeda and Robert Wang
  • My learnings from the pursuit and the design of seismically isolated projects – Atila Zekioglu
  • From the Owner’s Table: Making a connection with the first impression – Matt Barnard and Laurie Lumish
• SESSION IIA:
  • Project Team Supplantation: Rescue Me! – Chris Hilson and Devon Lumbard
  • Seeing Through the Debris: Structural Engineers in Urban Search and Rescue – Jack Wegleitner and Jerry Luong
• SESSION IIIA:
  • Networking 101: Build Your Network at Every Stage of Your Career – Kenda Salisbury and Megan Schroeder
  • Heavy Lift Engineering featuring Syracuse Carrier Dome – Chad Fox and Evan Fredline
  • Tulsa Pedestrian Bridge Erection: Thermal Expansion & Constructability Considerations – Bruce Burt and Tim Francisco
• SESSION IB:
  • You Won’t Believe How Tall This Wall Is – Enrico Alvaro, Robert Graff, Tim Nelson
  • From a Whisper to a Win: How We Learn About, Position For, and Win Work! – Rebecca Weldon and Kenda Salisbury
• SESSION IIB:
  • NPC Go Forward Showcase; Innovating to Solve the Real NPC 4 Need – Laura Rice and Rory Lopez-Esce
  • Drama in the Office, theatre renovation – Octavio Cortes and Candice Hanna
  • Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve Design Problems – Daniel Gaspar
  • Elevating Equipment Anchorage – Jerry Luong and Christopher Neumann

• SESSION IIIB:
  • Hear All the Voices – How to Have an Inclusive Meeting – Jen Gross
  • Reduce, Reuse, Retrofit, Replace: Are building retrofits always more sustainable than new builds? – Elena Good and Jason Scanlan

• SESSION IC:
  • LeanSteel – Erik Ohlsson and Michael Chisholm
  • Making Connections: Degenkolb Seattle’s First Collaboration with Ruby + Associates – Addie Albro, Chris Neisius, Clare Cummins
  • How to Create S.M.A.R.T. Goals for Your Career Development – Jennie Kenhard and Mary Beth Del Vero

• SESSION IIC:
  • Challenges, new tools, and lessons learned in a New Building Design – Christian Hall, Luis Pancardo, Michael Leung
  • Pipe Wars: The Graph Awakens – Framework for Point load Derivation of MEP Systems using PyRevit + Graph Search – Yang Xie, Angshuman Deb, Hamid Koodiani, Wesley Chen
  • Inventing Solutions: Developing a TADAS-Style Seismic Fuse for Non-Ductile Steel Braces – Felipe Bedecarratz and Garrett Hagen
  • Simpson Yield-Link Braced Frame – Degenkolb’s First Use – Clare Cummins
• SESSION IIIC:
  • Moment of Inertia: Overcoming Resistance to Productive Habits – David Sommer
  • Functional Recovery… Can We Actually Predict It? – Bob Pekelnicky, Paige Kohrs-Herwig, Hannah Thompson
  • Concrete Issues in Construction & More – Alex Motzny and Austin Shakiban

 

See you next year at DegCon 2025!