Industrial Insights: Maintaining Existing Industrial Buildings (Series Part 1)
Join us for this five-part series on the design, maintenance, and resilience of industrial facilities. Each 2.5 hour-long webinar will cover a wide range of fast-hitting topics relevant to project teams and owners.
Industrial buildings are the backbone of many operations, requiring constant functionality and resilience to meet rigorous demands. These buildings can be in various states of repair, often operating under outdated standards, making proactive maintenance crucial. This session will delve into strategies for preserving and enhancing the performance of these vital structures. Through a series of discussions and case studies, we will explore the importance of proactive condition assessments, corrosion mitigation, and asset management to extend the service life of existing facilities while minimizing operational disruptions.
Key topics include structural condition assessment methods, roof maintenance considerations, machine analysis, and physical reliability. By understanding these foundational elements, participants will gain the knowledge to make informed decisions and implement effective solutions for maintaining critical industrial assets.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify key strategies for assessing and maintaining the condition of industrial buildings.
- Understand the challenges and solutions related to corrosion mitigation and roof maintenance.
- Apply best practices for seismic retrofitting and machine support analysis.
- Evaluate methods for managing large portfolios of industrial building assets.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Industrial Insights: Engineering Discussions for Critical Buildings and Structures
Manufacturing, warehousing, oil & gas processing, power generation and distribution, and other industrial facilities play vital roles in global infrastructure and public interests. These facilities are built and maintained to operate under demanding conditions while meeting the challenges of evolving safety standards, extreme environmental conditions, and enormous pressure to maintain continuous operations. Effectively addressing these challenges requires specialized knowledge, innovative solutions, and a multidisciplinary approach.
This five-part webinar series will explore a wide range of fast-hitting topics in the design, maintenance, and resilience of industrial facilities for project teams and owners. Participants will gain insights into best practices, advanced engineering approaches, and lessons learned from real-world experiences. Each session will focus on a critical aspect of industrial facility management, including maintaining existing structures, mitigating hazards, responding to extreme marine conditions, addressing aging infrastructure, and designing for future demands. This series offers a unique opportunity to learn from SGH experts and engage with professionals dedicated to improving industrial facility performance and safety.
Join us for the rest of the series:
- Wednesday, March 5: Maintaining Existing Industrial Buildings (Part 1)
- Wednesday, March 19: Hazards and Resilience of Industrial Facilities (Part 2)
- Wednesday, March 26: Inspection, Rehabilitation, Design, and Construction of Marine Structures (Part 3)
- Tuesday, April 1: Addressing Aging Infrastructure of Pipes and Tanks (Part 4)
- Thursday, April 17: Designing and Building New Industrial Buildings (Part 5)
Participants will earn 2.5 AIA CES Learning Unit (LU/HSW) for attending the live webinar. Registration is free. Please note that space is limited – email events@sgh.com to join our waitlist if the session is closed when you register.
About the Speaker
Chris Hewitt is a committed client advocate and team builder who pursues elegant and constructible solutions to complex problems. He leads a structural engineering team that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates buildings and infrastructure, specializing in structural steel design, impact and dynamic analysis, and interdisciplinary program management for complex facilities. Chris brings diverse experience to a wide range of clients across North America, emphasizing nuclear power generation, commercial, industrial, life science, and transit projects. He volunteers for various engineering organizations and technical committees—including a long history with the American Institute of Steel Construction—and has authored articles and presented papers for numerous publications.
Brian Pailes specializes in cathodic protection, nondestructive testing, concrete deterioration, corrosion, and concrete materials. He has worked on a variety of structures throughout the world, with an emphasis on bridges, ports, and industrial facilities. Brian’s expertise includes solving durability challenges for infrastructure by understanding the root cause of deterioration, its extent, and how it will progress with time. He develops rehabilitation strategies for ailing structures by understanding these core issues so that he can develop an effective and efficient strategy to extend their service life.
Travis St. Louis designs, investigates, and rehabilitates building enclosures on a wide range of projects for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential facilities. He serves as the corporate practice group leader for roofing and waterproofing at SGH. In addition to roofing and waterproofing, Travis’s expertise also includes contemporary facade and window systems. He collaborates with owners, architects, and design-build teams to develop coordinated solutions for technical challenges. Travis combines his field and design experience with excellent communication skills to deliver value-driven consultation on a wide range of new design projects, assessments, and repairs of existing buildings.
Nicholas Catella uses structural mechanics and computational modeling to serve the energy, defense, water resources, transportation, and aerospace industries. He specializes in nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis and has extensive experience with vibration; impact loading; seismic design; fatigue and fracture mechanics; and design and analysis of concrete, steel, aluminum, and advanced composite structures.
Kenneth Tam is an experienced structural engineer with a diverse array of project experience, including structural design, evaluation, and seismic retrofit of wood, steel, and reinforced-concrete buildings. He partners with clients on a range of projects, including industrial facilities, telecommunication centers, and biotechnology lab buildings, as well as commercial, residential, and institutional facilities. Much of his work focuses on providing seismic assessment and retrofit services for buildings in high-seismic areas.
Paul Kassabian specializes in structural design and investigation for a wide range of structural systems, from buildings for architects to projects on the cutting edge of both structural systems and materials. As practice leader of the SGH Digital Lab, he ensures that any new technology developed is engineering-driven and scalable for multiple clients. Along with Christian Sjoberg, he leads the growth and development of data-driven solutions for external clients.
Christian Sjoberg is a team lead for the SGH Digital Lab, an in-house consulting group that creates scalable data solutions for infrastructure and property portfolio clients. He brings a background in architecture and software design to inform his work alongside engineers. He is also the primary contact for the Digital Lab’s large clients to help identify needs that drive relevant technology development.
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