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November 2023 Technical Speaker

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An Overview of the Upcoming ASCE Report on Design of Modular Structures for Industrial Facilities

This technical session to be presented by members of ASCE Energy Division’s Task Committee on Onshore Modularization for Heavy Industrial Applications will focus on ASCE’s state-of-the-practice engineering report on Design of Modular Structures for Industrial Facilities. This report, is planned to be published in 2024, will provide guiding principles that help practicing engineers design modules in petrochemical and other industrial facilities. Topics are addressed in this report include onshore module types, philosophy, modularization study, detailed engineering, fabrication yard fabrication and assembly, transportation & logistics, site construction & installation, and case histories. In this technical session, the presenters will provide an overview of this report, definitions of various module types, and two important topics of modularization – module dimensional control and weight management of modules.

Presented by:

Silky Wong

Silky Wong, Ph.D., S.E., P.E., is a licensed Structural Engineer in Illinois and a registered Professional Civil Engineer in Texas and California. She is a Fellow of SEI, vice chair of ASCE energy division executive committee, and a member of ASCE Task Committee on onshore heavy industrial modularization. Silky is currently a lead Civil/Structural Engineer and Modular Construction Specialist at Dow Inc. She has been a practicing Structural Engineer in the non-building industry for more than 17 years. She has been a recurring speaker and session moderator at the ASCE/SEI Structures Congress since 2011.

David Kerins 

David is the semi-retired ExxonMobil Senior Principal Onshore Civil & Structures Engineer. He has over 45 years of experience in civil structural engineering in industrial facilities.  His civil engineering experience covers a broad range of applications, building blast resistance, cooling tower structure assessments and project support on sites around the world. He is a Fellow of American Concrete Institute (ACI) is past chair of ACI 370, Blast and Impact Effects and past Chair of ACI Committee 351, Equipment Foundations, He received the ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award in 2014 for his leadership of ACI 351.   He is a past chair of the Energy division Executive committee, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  He has served on taskforces developing civil engineering reports and standards for Process Industry Practices (PIP), ACI, API and ASCE. He is currently chair of the ASCE Task Committee Onshore Heavy Industrial Modularization Guidelines.  He is a member of Committee on Technical Advancement and a voting member of ASCE 7-28.

Robert Hundl

Robert is Fluor’s Weight Control Manger and a Fluor Fellow.  He has over 25 years of experience in weight management in various industries.  He was the Technical Weight manager for NASA’s Space Shuttle Orbiter and the Lead for Boeing’s Commercial Space Capsule program prior to joining Fluor.  While at Fluor, he has been the lead weight manager for several multi-billion dollar projects that utilized modular construction.  He is currently the International President of the Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE) and an Honorary Fellow.  He has written several papers for SAWE.