Posted on 1 October 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to investigate Safe and Sustainable Parking Garage Live Loads In The Age Of The Electric Vehicle. The research consists of four tasks: (1) Data acquisition; (2) Data analysis; (3) Stochastic load modeling; (4) Load analysis and design load recommendation. Data on vehicle fleet compositions will be acquired from S&P Global or alternate sources. Data will be acquired that describes fleet compositions for all 50 states and for multiple years over approximately the last decade. The datasets will include vehicle make, model and model-year, in addition to vehicle weights. The raw vehicle fleet data will be post-processed to establish probability distributions for vehicle fleet characteristics including make, model, model-year and vehicle weight. Such analysis will be performed for each database corresponding to particular states and years in order to permit evaluation of temporal and geographic variation of fleet characteristics. Read more
Posted on 18 September 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to create an Owner's Readiness Assessment for Design-Build Projects! The proposed assessment tool has a three-pronged approach. First, this tool will compare an owner’s present capacity and staff competencies against those needed to manage various risks in design-build delivery, ultimately identifying “gaps” in readiness. Then, the tool will recommend specific publications and training resources available through leading professional organizations, such as the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and the Construction Industry Institute (CII), to fill those gaps over time. Lastly, the tool will also provide insight into hiring an Owner Advisor (OA) to complement and extend the owner’s current capacity. Read more
Posted on 16 September 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to create an Owner's Readiness Assessment for Design-Build Projects! The proposed assessment tool has a three-pronged approach. First, this tool will compare an owner’s present capacity and staff competencies against those needed to manage various risks in design-build delivery, ultimately identifying “gaps” in readiness. Then, the tool will recommend specific publications and training resources available through leading professional organizations, such as the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and the Construction Industry Institute (CII), to fill those gaps over time. Lastly, the tool will also provide insight into hiring an Owner Advisor (OA) to complement and extend the owner’s current capacity. Read more
Posted on 30 August 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the completion of research on experimentally-verified bolted splice details for Composite Plate Shear Walls—Concrete Filled, also known as SpeedCore. Principal Investigator was Michel Bruneau of the University at Buffalo. The Industry Advisory Panel for this research included: Read more
Posted on 9 August 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the completion of Phase 1 research for a new, modular steel floor framing and diaphragm system for commercial building structures with broad applicability, including high seismic zones. 'FastFloor' will increase the speed of construction while eliminating the pouring of a concrete deck. This type of system is key to achieving the goals of the AISC Need for Speed initiative to reduce the time from conception to occupancy for steel building structures. Phase I investigated the viability of their design using computational simulation and experimental testing. Phase II (designated RGA #03-23) will conduct a wide range of prototype structural analyses, including gravity loading, vibration and acoustics tests, viability of the flooring’s use in existing building designs, and assessment of the new flooring’s interaction with the rest of a building’s structural systems. Read more
Posted on 31 July 2024
The Design-Builder’s Guide to Design Management: This guide is intended to help owners, designers, and builders of design-build projects achieve greater success by understanding and fully leveraging the unique role of the design integration manager. Read more
Posted on 12 May 2024
Every year has its share of opportunities and challenges, and 2023 was no exception. With the worst of COVID behind us, the AEC industry got back to work, including in-person conferences and meetings, a resumption of laboratory-based research, and a much-welcomed re-focus on important initiatives. Not everything is the same but close enough to give us great optimism going forward. Read more
Posted on 11 May 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) in partnership with the ACEC Research Institute and the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) are pleased to announce the award of RGA #02-24, A Guide to Equitable Risk Allocation in Design-Build Projects (A Pankow-ACEC Research Institute-DBIA Partnership), to the University of Colorado Boulder. The Primary Investigators will be Dr. Keith Molenaar, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dr. Ameilia Celoza, Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering and Management in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Read more
Posted on 10 May 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) along with several Industry Partners is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to the University of Nevada Reno (UNR) to continue investigation for improving safety while working with rebar cages. The Principal Investigator will be Hamed Ebrahimian, Ph.D., P.E., along with Ahmad M. Itani, Ph.D., S.E, of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNR. Read more
Posted on 8 May 2024
Ellis honored as ASCE Distinguished Member
The Charles Pankow Foundation is proud to recognize Read more
