Posted on 22 August 2019
A Recommended Alternative to the Prescriptive Procedures for Wind Design of Buildings
The Charles Pankow Foundation is pleased to make available for download the ASCE/SEI Prestandard for Perfomance-Based Wind Design,the final deliverable associated with RGA #01-18. The Prestandard development team was led by Principal Investigator Don Scott, P.E., S.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE. These efforts were made possible with co-funding received from these industry partners: ACI Foundation, American Institute of Steel Construction, ASCE Industry Leaders Council and the MKA Foundation. Read more
Posted on 13 August 2019
Ductile Reinforced Concrete Coupled Walls:
FEMA P695 Study Read more
Posted on 4 August 2019
Substantiating Design Coefficients and Factors for Coupled Composite Plate Shear Walls-Concrete Filled
Composite Plate Shear Wall-Concrete Filled (C-PSW/CF) is an efficient seismic force-resisting system for buildings and is already addressed by ASCE-7 2016. Coupled Composite Plate Shear Walls-Concrete Filled (Coupled C-PSW/CF) are more ductile and have more redundancy than non-coupled composite plate shear walls, but ASCE currently does not assign them seismic design coefficients and factors. This FEMA P695 study was conducted to substantiate the design coefficients and factors that should be used for such CC-PSW/CF structures. Read more
Posted on 12 June 2019
New Research Grant: Systematic Study using Modern Wind Tunnel Test Methods Will Inform Code-based Design Read more
Posted on 6 February 2019
Our 2018 Annual Report is now available. Read more
Posted on 21 September 2018
The Board of Directors of the Charles Pankow Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne M. Ellis, PE, FACI, F.ASCE, as the organization's new Executive Director, effective October 1, 2018. Anne, founder and chief executive officer of Ellis Global, previous served as a special advisor to the Board to rally support for collaborative innovation in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries. Read more
Posted on 15 March 2018
The Charles Pankow Foundation is pleased to announce a new research grant on Project Delivery. Read more
