Every year, Degenkolb hosts our annual technical conference – now called the Degenkolb Conference (or DegCon) – in San Francisco, California. This event is part of the company commitment to life-long learning, offering the opportunity for Degenkolbers to present educational topics of their choosing. The 2022 conference was no exception as engineers and employees from Seattle to San Jose del Cabo descended upon the City by the Bay for a day of knowledge sharing, team building, and a celebration of what Degenkolb is all about: its people.

Continue reading for a list of all the topics presented at this year’s Degenkolb Conference.

Topics at the 2022 Degenkolb Conference:

• KEYNOTE: Trends in Seismic Resilience & Functional Recovery with Chris D. Poland, SE, NAE
• SESSION IA:
  • Enable your clients to say “no” to say “yes” – Myron Curlee
  • Going for the Win! UCSF PRAB Pursuit and Win Strategy – Laurie Lumish, Robert Graff, Holly Razzano, and Dave Martin
  • UC Seismic Where we have been and where are we going – Holly Razzano and Robert Graff
• SESSION IB:
  • Oh, Snap! – How to Structure Your Photography for Marketing Purposes – Allison Acosta and Morgan Michna
  • How to be a Super Sleuth: Records Searching Methodologies, Tips and Tricks to Help You Find the Drawings and Records You Need – Theresa Thurri
• SESSION IC:
  • Writing for Marketing” or “Ack! A Marketing Person Asked me to Write Something! Where Do I Start?” – Colette Armstrong and Kenda Salisbury
  • What’s Next for Records? Digitization & Destruction – Lindsay Miller
• SESSION IIA:
  • CE Phasing: Thinking in more than 3 dimensions – Jack Wegleitner and Enrico Alvaro
  • One Big Happy Family: Leverage Revit Families for Construction Engineering and Beyond – Thomas Hill, Tim Nelson, and Yiling Lin
  • Leveling Out at SFO: How Degenkolb Developed an Intricate Jacking and Temporary Stability Sequence to Level a Pedestrian Bridge – Alan Roberts, Rainbow Lin, and Tim Nelson
• SESSION IIB:
  • Repair of Electra Condos: 5 Feet under a Pool Vault – Valentina Couse-Baker
  • Forensics: The Plan vs. The Reality – Weil Arcade – Lisette Terry
  • To Code or not to Code – Daniel Gaspar
  • Tools Tips and Tricks for Managing the Nonstructural Inventory of a Hospital Campus (NPC Program Lessons Learned) – Gordy Wray and Laura Rice
• SESSION IIC:
  • Pile Foundation Modeling and Evaluation in Perform-3D – Evelyn Li
  • Around the World in 80 Checklists – Ryan White, Vincent Wenzel, and Vincent Kho
  • CUP of Everything: Looking into UCSD’s Central Utility Plant (CUP) from Nonlinear Analysis, Design, and Prime Coordination – Jeff Lee
• SESSION IIIA:
  • Seton – Getting Creative and Lessons Learned in CA – Erik Moore
  • High-End Residential Projects in Mexico – Jose A. Flores Ruiz
  • Working with the Feds – Hannah Johnson and Alvaro Celestino
• SESSION IIIB:
  • “Can You Come On Site? Bring a Headlamp” – Lessons in Unforeseen Conditions at Gracemont Mansion – Dan Sloat and Tiffany La
  • Making a Tricky Transfer: Adventures in a Multi-Tower Podium Structure – Brett Cates and Josh Sizemore
  • 9 Columns, 99 Problems – Josh Sizemore and Clare Terpstra
• SESSION IIIC:
  • Peering into the Black Box – Jerry Luong and Christopher Neumann
  • Leveling up our skills, design of PT parking structure for new MOB tower (PART 1) – Austin Shakiban, Octavio Cortes, and Chad Closs
  • 14-story HCAI Project. Analysis of a Bolted SidePlate tower project in Sacramento – Chris Hilson and Melissa Vickery