The 11th Annual Young Members Group Presentation Competition was a virtual event with six competing presentations grouped in two noon-hour sessions of three 10-minute presentations each.
Congratulations to this year’s presentation competition winner:
Jeffrey Salmon
“Full-Scale Experiments of the Gapped-Inclined Bracing System: A Seismic Retrofit for Soft-Storey”
Contestant Presentations Day 1 (Tuesday, February 22)
- Ornagh Higgins
Design of High-Rise Mass Timber Structures for Robustness and Progressive Collapse – Industry Project - Jeffrey Salmon
Full-Scale Experiments of the Gapped-Inclined Bracing System: A Seismic Retrofit for Soft-Storey – Academic Research - Bryn Endacott
Structural Design of Large Steel Bins and Silo – A Gap in Engineering Design in North America – Engineering Reflection
Contestant Presentations Day 2 (Thursday, February 24)
- Jaime Connolly
Malahat Skywalk: A Mass Timber Viewing Tower and Boardwalk on Southern Vancouver Island – Industry Project - Sam Shulman
A High-Capacity Shear Connector for Tall Hybrid Timber Buildings – Academic Research - Navpreet Bharaj
Coping with the Coping Slab – Industry Project
The presentations were judged by distinguished panelists:
- Dr. Ahmed Bediwy, PhD
- Adam Gerber, M.B.A., P.Eng., M.A.Sc., CPHC®
- Kitty Leung, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., PE, SE, LEED AP
Event organizers:
- Kaila Spencer, Event Co-Host
- Daisy Ma, Event Co-Host
- Stanley Chan, Event Organizer/ Chairman YMG
- Camilo Granda, Event Organizer
Thank you to our sponsor for supporting SEABC YMG initiatives:
Xradar, Platinum Sponsor
The video recording is restricted to members only.