Congratulations to Chris Fournier for receiving the NH Young Engineer of the Year award this year! It has been an honor to get to know him and serve with him on the BOD over the last few years. He is a great role model, especially for our younger engineers, in exemplifying all that it is to be a structural engineer technically, professionally and ethical-ly. Congrats Chris!

Tis’ the season for mailings, debates, phone calls, polls, can-didates etc. My office is located at the Center of NH in Man-chester, which serves as the “news hub” for the primaries, and it was a zoo. It seems every primary year there are more cameras and media members from all over the world than the last. I am thankful that we can now watch from afar as opposed to being bombarded at our homes and offices. Within all of this craziness of the NH primary there is a core

responsibility that we all should take seriously. As we investigate candidates and go to Town Hall meetings we are charged with getting involved and setting the tone with our votes for the entire nation.

I was reminded of this fact as I listened to Andrew Card, the speaker at the Engineer’s Banquet. He started his career as an engineer, however he ended up serving as George W. Bush’s Chief of Staff for over 5 years and under Bush Senior and Reagan before that. He spoke about the need to have more engineers involved in making policy in Washington. My first thought was, “most of us are far too logical and ethical for that job!” That was the very point he was trying to drive home, we need more smart, logi-cal, ethical people in political office. While there are many good people serving our country in government, I don’t think any of us can argue with his statement.

We, as structural engineers, are a very “rare breed”. We are good at solving problems and have to make sure that we secure the correct answers as we are held accountable to those solutions with people’s lives. Sometimes I think that attribute stands in the way of us going outside of our comfort zones. I am a bridge guy, I am not going to sud-denly jump into a building design with no preparation or guidance on the specifics of the various codes. However, that doesn’t mean that I can’t design a building at some point in my career, it just means I will have to put in extra effort, gain the appropriate licensure and reach out to many others for help. It means that I have to “sit on the sidelines” and wait until I am ready to get in the game. As a former high school ath-lete, I can attest to the fact that sitting on the sidelines is not a bad thing. You watch and learn so that you are ready to step in when the time comes.

Chris, in his acceptance speech for the Young Engineer of the Year Award, spoke about taking that first step to serve, that first step to join a committee or a team. He men-tioned how often joining requires “sitting on the sidelines” and watching how the com-mittee interacts and learn where your place is. It doesn’t mean you have to volunteer, and then solve all of the problems that the group may be facing, it just means you have to be present and ready when the time comes. I have seen that interaction on the BOD and it has been a great learning and growing experience. I know that Chris and I have also seen that in our career paths, as have many of you. We weren’t necessarily look-ing for solutions, we were simply ready when called.

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Presidents Letter Continued I know that there are members of our group that are serving on Planning Boards, NHHBA, Code Advisory committees, NH PE Board, NSCEA and many other great local, state and national organizations. Many of our members are vocal in shaping the decisions that affect structural engineers throughout the country.

I encourage all of you to join a group, even to just sit on the sidelines, for something that you feel passionate about or are inter-ested in. It might be coaching soccer, Boy Scouts, SENH, School Boards, Town Committees, or even running for political office. It may lead you somewhere that you never expected, or even to the White House!

Thank you again to all that currently volunteer! If you are interested in becoming more involved or have any questions or con-cerns, feel free to contact me at president@senh.org or (603) 647-2012.

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The SENH Board of Directors is pleased and proud to announce that SENH Member Christopher Fournier, P.E., was select-ed by a jury of his peers from New Hampshire’s Joint Engineer-ing Societies for the 2016 New Hampshire Young Engi-neer of the Year Award. This distinguished award was pre-sented to Chris on February 25th at the annual Engineers’ Week Awards and Celebration Banquet in Bedford, NH.

The Structural Engineers of New Hampshire (SENH) submitted a nomination based on his engineering accomplishments and state and national record of service to the profession. Chris attended the University of Maine and graduated summa

cum laude with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 2004 and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 2005. Chris was named Civil Engineering Department Student of the Year in 2004. While at the Univer-sity of Maine his research was focused on the micromorphological modelling of wood. His professional career began and continues in North Conway, New Hampshire with HEB Engineers, Inc. where he has worked for the past ten years. During his tenure at HEB, Chris has progressed swiftly from junior engi-neer to Lead Structural Engineer and Corporate Vice President. In 2009, Chris obtained his professional engineer licensure and in 2012 joined HEB’s ownership team. In an effort to challenge himself and pro-mote structural engineering licensure Chris passed the rigorous NCEES Structural Engineering (SE) Ex-am. Chris has worked on a large breadth of structural engineering projects including renovations and new construction of residential and commercial buildings as well as rehabilitation and replacement of private and public bridges. In 2013, Chris was awarded a Young Professional Scholarship by the Struc-tural Engineers Institute (SEI), was selected as a ‘Rising Star in Structural Engineering’ by Structural En-gineer Magazine and later that year was featured in an article titled ‘A Young Engineer On the Go.” Chris’ involvement within the engineering community has intensified throughout his career. He has been a member of the Structural Engineers of New Hampshire (SENH) since 2006, and has served on its Board of Directors since 2013. Chris also serves as the Chair of the SENH Younger Members Group, which aims to increase involvement with structural engineers who are 35 years of age or younger and as-sist with the transition from academics to practice. Chris acts as the SENH liaison to the New Hamp-shire Qualification Based Selection (QBS) Coalition and as the SENH delegate to the Structural Engi-neers Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Chris also serves on the SEI Professional Activities Committee and the Structural Engineering (SE) Licensure Rationale Task Com-mittee. Additionally, Chris has served on the NHDOT - American Council of Engineering Companies of New Hampshire (ACEC-NH) Consultant Quality Initiative (CQI) Contracts Subcommittee since 2012. Chris has been supported throughout all of his professional achievements by Jessica, his wife of 11 years. Together they enjoy raising their three young children in the Mt. Washington Valley, exploring the out-doors and volunteering in the community

Chris Fournier, P.E. Named New Hampshire's 2016 Young Engineer of the Year

SENH MEMBER SURVEY RESULTS

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NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 PLACE: University of New Hampshire – Kingsbury Hall

Room N101 (Large Lecture Hall right next to Albert’s Café) McDaniel Drive Durham, NH 03824 (603) 862-1428

DIRECTIONS: From the West: Take Rt. 101 to Rt. 125 North. At the Lee traffic circle, take Rt. 4 East to

Exit for 155A (Main St.) Go right o0 155A (Main St.), pass UNH Field House, take next Right onto College Rd. Veer left onto College Rd. Kingsbury Hall is second large building on the left. Park in the visitor section of Lot H (before 6:00 pm it's $1/hour, and then after 6:00 pm most lots are available for free, unless they are designated as permit only). See attached parking map.

From the East: Take Rt. 16 North to Rt. 4 East towards Durham. Exit Rt. 4 onto Main

Street and follow directions from above. AGENDA: 5:30 pm – 5:45 pm Registration

5:45 pm – 6:30 pm Dinner and Social Hour 6:30 pm – 6:40 pm Business Meeting 6:40 pm – 8400 pm Presentations (See Next Page)

DINNER: Pizza, Assorted Sodas and Water. COST: Member: $20.00 - Non-Member: $25.00

Student: FREE “No-shows” will be billed at full amount.

RSVP: by Friday, March 18, 2016. There will be a $5.00 late fee for anyone wishing to RSVP past

this date. Please send check payable to “Structural Engineers of New Hampshire” with list of at-

tendees to:

Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. Attn. Deb Coon 150 Dow Street Manchester, NH 03101 Contact: Deb Coon, Administrative Assistant dcoon@hoyletanner.com

NOTE: 2.0 PDHs have been assigned for attendance to this program. Attendees are responsible

for ensuring their check-in on the attendance list upon arrival at the meeting.

PRESENTATIONS: 6:40 pm-7:00 pm The steel bridge and concrete canoe teams will be updating us on their progress for this year’s competitions.

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7:00 pm-8:00 pm SE Licensure by Tom Grogan, P.E. Tom will discuss the history and benefits of Structural Engineering (SE) licensure and work to date by the NCSEA Structural Licensure Committee to influence states to adopt consistent licensing laws and rules in the interest of public safety. Tom is the Chief Civil/Structural Engineer and Director of Quality at The Haskell Company in Jacksonville, FL. He has over 35 years of experience and has been a licensed Professional Engineer since 1985. He graduat-ed from Virginia Tech in 1980 and is currently registered in 35 jurisdictions including Puerto Rico. 8:00 pm-8:20 pm A Grand View, and by the way… by Jeffrey L. Tirey, P.E., SECB. Jeffery will discuss a project which started as a request by new owners of an 8 year old log kit home to enlarge some windows to take advantage of stunning views north into Franconia Notch. The owners chose the more interesting approach of removing the nearly the entire gable end wall of the house, thereby necessitating the design and installation of a re-placement steel frame lateral load resisting system for the north end of the house. It was discovered that two columns had been omitted from the construction without any corresponding change to the structural framing supported by the omitted columns, a critical tie beam with wall tie-ins intended to restrain lateral movement of the tops of the log walls had most of the required connectors omitted, the support of a loft floor was changed from the original design drawings, and one wall of the house supporting the roof was out of plumb nearly an inch and could laterally move further with sufficient load. Designs were developed to give the owners as much window area as possible, correct all the framing deficien-cies, restore stability to the building and maintain the open footprint within the main floor of the house. Jeffrey is the President of Tirey & Associates, P.C. He has over 39 years of experience in structural engineer-ing and is a licensed Professional Engineer in NH, ME, VT, CT and NJ. He graduated from MIT in 1976 and was the 2010 NH Engineer of the Year. 8:20 pm-8:40 pm Lessons Learned on Wood Roof Trusses by Linda McNair-Perry, P.E., SECB. The project was the evaluation of the entire roof structure for the Sanborn Regional Middle School – a portion of which was dam-aged due to excessive snow loading in February of 2015. Based on the field observations and a review of prior engineering evaluation reports associated with that same condition, Hoyle, Tanner developed a full set of Contract Documents to replace the entire existing roof framing system with a new wood truss system that meets the current state building code. Using the Sanborn Regional Middle School project this presentation will emphasize our recent experience working with metal-plated wood trusses and some of the pit falls. Items that we will touch on include: com-puter generated wind and snow loads on double mono-truss roofs trusses, sprinkler load requirements per NFPA13; the truss design/submittal work flow; industry standards vs. code requirements; role of truss PE when the design is stamped; detailing considerations including internal member bracing; quality control and site repairs. Linda is the Building Structural Service Group Manager for Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc.. She has over 30 years of experience as a project manager and has a comprehensive background in the design and analysis of structures and construction administration of projects. Linda was the 2012 NH Engineer of the Year.

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February Attendance List & Meeting Minutes Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation and Longfellow Pedestrian Bridge

Grappone Conference Center, Concord, NH (2.0 PDH’s) February 3, 2016

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February Attendance List & Meeting Minutes Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation and Longfellow Pedestrian Bridge

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SENH President Adam Stockin opened the SENH business portion of the meeting. Adam reported that the SENH member survey results would be available soon Treasurer Bob Champagne gave a brief budget update, 2015 finished in the black. Bob also reminded members that membership dues were due soon. Adam announced that SENH Board Member Chris Fournier had been selected as the 2016 NH Young Engi-

neer of the Year. Chris provided an update of the Younger Member Group

Reminded all of the purpose to engage younger structural engineers and assist with early career transi-tions and encourage involvement with SENH.

A planned ski trip is in the works if the snow holds up. Josif Bicja provided an update on the future meetings

March will be the annual UNH meeting May will have an open web steel composite deck system speaker September is the combined meeting with ASCE

Josif provided an update on future seminars SEAM has an upcoming Woodworks seminar on shearwalls April will be a Simpson Strong-Tie seminar Working on getting a Fracture Critical bridge inspection training at NHDOT and a refresher in-service

bridge inspection The BOD nominations have been chosen by the selection committee and are Adam Stockin and Bob Cham-

pagne to return. Voting will be in May at the annual meeting Matt Low pulled the winners of the raffle ticket sale who won Gunstock tickets, proceeds ($178) go to the

scholarship fund. SENH now has two $1000 scholarships that are given out in October. Josif introduced the technical presentations.

Presentation

Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation by Mark Ennis, PE

Mark began his presentation with an overview of the design-build team and the role of the structural engineer (STV). Mark reviewed the planning and phasing that went into the multi-lane bridge which also carries rail in the cen-ter. Mark showed the original steel framing which consists of steel arches supporting many steel columns which support the steel floor framing system. The rehabilitation consisted of replacing all of the steel structure except for most of the steel arches. Mark then provided an update of the ongoing construction.

Longfellow Pedestrian Bridge by Marian Barth, PE

Marian’s design-build team was challenged by the vision of the owner’s bridge architect, a thin profile and flowing lines. Marian described the existing pedestrian bridge deficiencies and how the new bridge would provide for better ac-cess. The bridge was designed for a 120psf pedestrian live load in excess of the code minimum due to its popularity dur-ing the July 4th fireworks. Additionally, due to its shape temperature effects were significant and resistant internally. A high level of user comfortability was utilized when considering vibrational effects. Side stairways provided much needed lateral support to the bridge superstructure as well. Marian showed a few construction photos which is currently in the pile driving stage.

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