Architecture Workshops
Designing in Stainless Steeel
This new, comprehensive one-day workshop be leading architectural consultant Catherine Houska will cover the range of techincal information necessary to successfully execute designs in stainless steel.
Sponsored by the Nickel Institute, The Ornamental Institute of New York, and the International Molybdenum Association (IMOA) the seven-hour program offers valuable training not only for designer and specifiers, but also for fabricators and building owners.
Ms. Houska has organized the subject matter into eight well-defined sessions, beginning with a look at the aesthetic, envronmental and practical reasons for using stainless steel, followed by tutorials on stainless steel design fundamentals and selection and maintenance considerations for optimal life time appearance. Each session will descuss features of award-winning projects found world wide that illustrate where knowledge of stianless steel design and fabrication methods helped achieve design objectives and avoid costly, embarrassing mistakes.
Lunch is included in the registration fee. participants in the workshop with earn 7.0 AIA/CES (HSW) learning units.
The Workshop will cover eight important subject areas:1. Sustainable Stainless Steel Design
Understand why using stainless steel helps conserve resources, improve air and water quality, and minimize construction waste and its need for landfill. Review the point benefits attributable to stainless steel that are important in evaluating a building design for LEED certificiation |
2. Design , Selection and Maintenance
Learn how to evaluate the corrosiveness of a site and select a stainless steel that is appropriate for architectural applications. Become familiar with the mechanical properties of stainless steel, and how to tighten specifications to avoid problems and facilitate maintenance, including specifying stretcher or tension leveling to achieve flatness and installation checklist items. |
3. Stainless Steel Finishes
Review the rules of specifying stainless steel finishes to obtain a uniform appearance and select the right finish for the applications. Examples of all possible finishes - from mill to the increasingly popular electrochemical, sputtered, terne-coated, embossed, coined, spangled, woven, and vibration finishes - will be illustrated with photos of award-winning projects worldwide. |
4. Fabrication
Watch a video and review the principles of forming, fabricating, machining and welding stainless steel. Learn how to protect it from damage and contamination, preserve its corrosion resistance, and maintain its optimum mechanical properties. Discover what tools should not be used in fabricating stainless steel. |
5. Interior Applications
Learn how basic stainless steel and finish selection and design principles were applied to achieve award-winning projects worldwide. Get to know the characteristics of stainless steels that make them ideal for medical, transportation, and food preparation applications. |
6. Exterior Applications
Elements of designs by Rem Koolhaus, Frank Gehry, Pei Cobb Freed, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Cesar Pelli and others are used to illustrate how proper detailing helps ensure that stainless steel maintains its beauty and functionality over the life of the building. |
7. Structural Applications
Find out how stainless steel's strength, fire and corrosion resistance, and earthquake performance are used effectively in structural applications around the world. Case study examples from Sydney, London, and Dublin, and by Helmut Jahn, Ian Ritchie Architects and others, are used to demonstrate successful designs. |
8. Roofing Systems
Explore many of the exciting, new designs in stainlesss steel roofing from around the world and become familiar with the issues of thermal expansion, finish, reflectivity, thickness, and installation that were critical to their success. Lean about the advantages of stainless steel when reusing roof runoff or when high winds or fire are a concern. |
Speaker
Catherine Houska is a leading international expert on the use of stainless steel in architecture. As an architecural consultant for the Nickel Institute, the International Molybdenum Association (IMOA), and Specialty Steel Industry of North America (SSINA), she has assisted designers in selecting the right stainless steel and finish for high profile projects around the world.
Program Details
1 Day US$75 AIA, AEI, CSI Members; $95 others.
Locations & Dates
Thursday Junee 22, 2006
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
To Register, click here.
Seating is limited. You must be pre-registered.
Phone: 212-697-5554
Fax: 212-818-0976
Email: info@ominy.org
Contact person: Gary Higbee AIA
For More Information
For answers to questions about the technical content of the workshops, please contact:
Catherine Houska, Nickel Institute Consultant
Technical Marketing Resources Inc.
3209 McKnight East Drive
Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
15237
Tel: 412 369 0377
Fax: 412 367 2353
Email: chouska@tmr-inc.com
