That’s a wrap on the 2023 Degenkolb Conference! 💡🏗️🎉 Degenkolb’s annual company conference—also known as DegCon—brought together 200-plus Degenkolbers from every office to San Francisco for a day of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and a celebration of what the firm is all about: its people. This event is part of the company commitment to life-long learning, offering the opportunity for Degenkolbers to present educational topics of their choosing. Continue reading for a list of all the topics presented at this year’s Degenkolb Conference.

Topics at the 2023 Degenkolb Conference:

• KEYNOTE: Wellbeing at Work: The New Organizational Competitive Edge with María G. Hernández, PhD
• SESSION IA:
  • What’s the collapse probability of my building? – Daniel Gaspar
  • Don’t let Torsional Irregularity twist you into knots: Lessons from HUCLA Project Plan Check – Anuj Bansal, Robert Pekelnicky, Dhawal Desai
  • UCDH California Tower: Quantifying the Cost of Irregularities – Elena Good and Robert Wang
• SESSION IB:
  • Brace Yourself: The design story of the UCI Medical Center – Irvine – Daniel Lin and Eden Wong
  • Carving out a Chunk of Mt. Sutro: The Soil Nail Wall at UCSF NHPH – Amy Inhofer, Claire Killian, Alan Roberts
  • Using Shotcrete on an HCAI New Building…Who does that? – Carmen O’Rourley, Daniel Zepeda
• SESSION IC:
  • You too can have a virtual twin! Introducing our new Navis VLX Scanners – Sal Hernandez, Tracey Cornell, Laura Rice
  • Tools + Technology in Forensics Data Collection – Fabian Cortes and Bianca Casem
  • Specialty Systems Engineering: Experience Working for an Elevator Manufacture – Hagen Tam and Erik Moore
  • Elevation Sickness – an Insight into Elevator Modernization Projects and Lessons Learned – Andrew McHale
• SESSION IIA:
  • The Degenkolb Brand: What is it? How does it work for you? – Laurie Lumish
  • Effective Impromptu Public Speaking Tips & Tricks – Bianca Casem and Chris Neisius
  • Don’t talk about my engineer like that! – Megan Schroeder and Chad Closs
  • Therapy Needed: A project management story – Matt Barnard and Ariel Creagh
• SESSION IIB:
  • Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Big Changes at the Degenkolb Library! – Lindsay Forgione
  • Oh, Snow! Forensics Project Considerations, Approach, and Looking into the Future – Jared Ouellette, Catherine Moore, Jordan Rutledge
  • Cold-Formed Steel Building: Not Too Simple – Charlie Chi
  • SPC-4D: What Wood You Do? Alternative approaches to Light-Framed Building Evaluations – Jaelen Pearson, Chris Hilson, Devon Lumbard
• SESSION IIC:
  • We, we, we…all the way home! Why Proposal Cover Letters Aren’t About You – Kenda Salisbury
  • REVIT… don’t be scared of it! – Luis Pancardo and Hector Martinez
  • Oh Snap! Lessons from a PT Tendon Failure Investigation – Torrey Bolden
  • What’s the Point? Communicating Our Goals for Point Load Submittals – Christian Curameng
• SESSION IIIA:
  • Really? No Way. The construction story of the UCI Medical Center – Irvine – Matt Barnard
  • Who Doesn’t Love a CA Lessons Learned Presentation? – Curtis Siegfried, Alex Barnes, Brendin Randall, Robert Wang, Wayne Low
  • Not-so-smooth Sailing: Lessons from Friction Damper Design and Testing for a Healthcare Retrofit Project –Justin Tan and Christopher Neumann
• SESSION IIIB:
  • P58 Analysis at Degenkolb – An additional dimension for performance-based engineering – Hannah Thompson
  • Taming the Wild ASCE 41-23 Shear Wall Provisions: Crestmont and Harrison Tower Voluntary Retrofit – Ariane Rosario and Fendy Setiawan
  • FEMA P-2055-2: Recommendations for Cordoning Earthquake-Damaged Buildings – Amy Inhofer and Jack Wegleitner
• SESSION IIIC:
  • The Business of Structural Software Development: Lesson Learned from Pushing the Edges – Peter Fobel and Andrew Scott
  • The Catacombs: Spelunking through Tight Spaces and Concrete Assessment and Repair at the Bay Scene – Valentina Couse-Baker
  • Dynamic characteristics of buildings in the vertical component of motion – Andres Acosta

See you next year at DegCon 2024!