2026 CFSEI EXPO | MAY 18-20, 2026 | LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA

Cold-Formed Steel Framing and Building Seismic Drift - What Happens to Our Framing When Buildings Move?

Earn 1 PDH / 1 LU

 

Kirsten Zeydel, S.E.
Nevell Group, Inc.

Kirsten Zeydel

Kirsten Zeydel, S.E. is the director of design at Nevell Group Inc. She is a registered structural engineer in California with over 22 years of structural engineering design and management experience. She specializes in cold-formed steel (CFS) design, detailing, and panelization. Kirsten led the structural engineering group at a startup company where she developed a QA/QC process acceptable to OSHPD, and obtained IAPMO product certification for the framing members, sheathed panels, and pre-finished exterior panels. Her extensive experience in CFS design includes a dorm project with nine multi-story CFS load bearing buildings totaling 800,000-sq-ft, and the CFS non-load bearing interior and exterior framing for a 550,000-sq-ft hospital in California. In addition to the engineering side of CFS design, Kirsten has experience with quality programs, product certification, welding procedures, architectural building code requirements and prefinished exterior panels. Kirsten is a former member of the CFSEI Executive Committee. She is also a proud wife and mother of two children who firmly believes that being a mom has made her a better engineer.


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