Special Guests - Brooke Whitsell, Shiling Pei and Jonathan Heppner - NHERI Tall Wood Project Show

In this special guest episode I speak with Brooke Whitsell,
Shiling Pei and Jonathan Heppner about the Natural Hazards
Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI, project. NHERI is a
US nation-wide, shared-use network of facilities tailored for the
natural hazards engineering research community. Investigators
employ our sites to test innovative ideas for mitigating damage
from earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis and related water hazards.
NHERI Tallwood project is an NSF-funded research effort to
develop and validate a resilient-based seismic design methodology
for tall wood buildings. The project started in September 2016
and will last till 2020. The project team will validate the
design methodology through shake table testing of a 10-story
full-scaled wood building specimen at NHERI@UCSD. It will be the
world's largest wood building tested at full-scale.

For further information: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/

An NSF-funded planning project was completed in 2016 and provided
the conceptual and technical preparation of this project. More
information about the planning project and its (downloadable)
deliverables can be found here: NEES Tall Wood Planning
Project.

Brooke Whitsell - Swinerton Timberlab - Structural E.I.T. working
for a holistic mass timber contractor in Portland, OR. Special
interests in mass timber and topology optimization in tall
buildings. Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-whitsell-3a798b159/

Swinerton Timberlab: https://timberlab.com/

Shiling Pei - Dr Pei received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from
Colorado State University in December 2007 and joined the faculty
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of
Mines in Fall 2013. Dr. Pei is an expert on wood building
performance in post-hazard reconnaissance studies. Contact:
https://cee.mines.edu/project/pei-shiling/

For further information: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/

Jonathan Heppner - Jonathon is a Principal at Lever Architecture.
Jonathan directs the firm’s timber research, including the 40+
mass timber tests completed for Framework. He has worked closely
with the US Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture, and
Universities researching the adoption of mass timber to better
understand it's role in building life cycle assessment studies,
benefits for seismic resilience, and associated design
methodologies for new and existing timber buildings to better
support owner and occupant's physiological, jurisdictional, and
aspirational needs. Contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-heppner-649bb58a/

Lever Architecture: https://leverarchitecture.com/

Production by Deeelicious Beats
Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest
Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production
www.masstimberconstruction.com



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