Starts: Feb 24, 2012, 08:00
Ends: Feb 25, 2012, 18:00
The 2012 Educators Meeting is being held on February 24-25 at the Sheraton Hotel in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada's steel capital.
This 2-day gathering of roughly 45 Architectural and Engineering Professors who teach steel design and construction at Canadian Universities has been held biennially since 1985. The goal of the meeting is to renew the educators' enthusiasm for steel construction, provide updates on new trends in the industry, give them an opportunity to network and discuss educational issues, and to see for themselves various stages in the manufacture and construction of steel framed buildings and bridges, including the finished product.
An excellent programme has been developed by the Programme Committee: Terri Myer-Boake, University of Waterloo Architecture, Mike Tait, McMaster University Civil Engineering, Paolo Colucci, Maple Industries Inc., Suja John, CISC and David MacKinnon, SSEF.
The keynote speaker is David Scott, Principal, Americas Building Practice Leader, Arup followed by Peter Irwin, Chairman, RWDI. The themes for Day 1 are Tall Steel Buildings and Shaping Steel. Day 2 will start with a panel discussion on “THE “CSI” FORENSIC APPROACH” to teaching steel design, followed by breakout sessions for the Architectural and Engineering educators to present and discuss teaching methods and needs, research and resources.
Atlas Tube is sponsoring the meeting space, breakfast, breaks and lunch on the first day, CISC Ontario Region is hosting the reception and dinner on Friday night, Gerdau is sponsoring the breaks and lunch on the second day, and Nucor-Yamato Steel is sponsoring breakfast on the second day and the transportation for the "Walking Tour" in Toronto on Saturday afternoon.
Many of the CISC Fabricator and Service Centre members in the various CISC Regions are co-sponsoring travel to the event for their local Engineering and Architectural Professors.
The "Site/Shop Tour" on Friday afternoon will include Kubes Steel to see steel being formed and bent, and one other steel project in the area.
The "Walking Tour" on Saturday afternoon will start with a visit to the construction site of the Union Station Restoration and Revitalization project in Toronto, and then visists to three steel pedestrian bridges; Humber Bay, Mimico Creek and Red Hill Creek Arch Bridge, on the return trip to Hamilton.