TECHNICAL NOTES OVERVIEW

CONTINUING EDUCATION: 1 PDH

OUTLINE

The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) provides must-have technical and professional resources for designers of cold-formed steel structures. A valued resource is CFSEI’s Technical Notes series, which includes more than 40 documents and continues to grow to meet the demands of users.

This presentation will provide a summary of CFSEI Technical Notes that have been published or updated this past year or will be published in the coming months. New Technical Notes to be issued include “Thermal Energy Transfer of CFS Framing”, “Cold-Formed Steel Load Bearing Wall Design” and “Coordinating with Metal Buildings”.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Andrew Newland, P.E.
ADTEK Engineers, Inc.

Andrew has more than 10 years of experience in both cold-formed steel manufacturing and design. He is the specialty structural team leader for ADTEK’s offices in Charlottesville, Virginia and Bay City, Michigan, which specialize in the design of load bearing and non-load bearing cold-formed steel projects.

Andrew is a member of the ASCE-SEI Committee on Cold-Formed Steel and participated in the development of the design guide “Best Current Practices for Cold-Formed Steel Connections to Other Materials”. He is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Committee on Specifications. He is also chairman of the CFSEI Executive Committee and serves as chairman of the Technology Committee overseeing the development of CFSEI Technical Notes. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he earned a B.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering.