Arquitecto Chein Chung Pei - USA

Chien Chung (Didi) Pei earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Physics from Harvard College in 1968 and graduated in 1972 from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with a Master’s Degree in Architecture.  As the middle son of I.M. Pei, he was taught the vision, commitment and professional standards essential to the creation of significant and lasting architecture during his formative years.

Prior to founding Pei Partnership Architects in 1992 with his brother, Li Chung (Sandi), C.C. Pei spent the first 20 years of his professional career contributing to many of I.M. Pei and Partners’ most celebrated projects, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (1978) and the Grand Louvre in Paris (Associate Partner for Design + Administration, 1992). There, he developed nationally recognized expertise in museum architecture and medical facility design. He served as Designer-in-Charge of the West Wing extension and renovation of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (1981, 1986).  Other museum/cultural projects to which he contributed include the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Massachusetts (1979) and the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Luxembourg (2006).  He was also Designer-in-Charge for the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing (1982), the Mount Sinai Hospital Guggenheim Pavilion (1989) and the Kirklin Clinic in Birmingham, AL (1992).

Mr. Pei continues to maintain his presence in the health care domain. He has completed two projects at Mount Sinai Hospital: neurosurgery operating rooms and more recently the Martha Stewart Center for Living, a 7,800-square-foot outpatient geriatric wellness center. He led the PPA team that prepared the Master Plan for the UCLA South Campus and was Design Architect for the one million-square-foot Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center that completely replaced the existing hospital badly damaged by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. He was awarded the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, in recognition of his enduring contribution to that institution.

C.C. Pei was Partner-in-Charge of both the Bank of China Head Office Building in Beijing, China (2001) and the extension to the corporate headquarters of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s largest bank, which opened to the public in March 2011. He completed the executive offices of a well-known company on the West Coast in 2003 and led the design of the Guanajuato State Library in León, Mexico in 2006, a project which was recognized with the 2009 AIA/ALA Library Building Design award. C.C. Pei also directed the design of the new chancery building for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, DC which was completed in 2008 and the Suzhou Museum, designed in collaboration with I.M. Pei, which opened to international acclaim in 2006. In 2010, the Jianfu Palace Garden restoration, executed in conjunction with Tsao & McKown Architects, received a Citation for Design from the New York State division of the American Institute of Architects.

C.C. Pei’s design for the 103,000-square-foot corporate headquarters for the Alturki Group in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia is scheduled for completion in 2011. Two of Mr. Pei’s projects in China are currently under construction: the 904,000-square-foot Qingdao Taishan Real Estate Development in Qingdao as well as the 55,700 square-foot Commodity Exchange Building in Zhengzhou. C.C. Pei’s other current commissions include a multi-use complex with a museum, boutique hotel and commercial offices in Nanjing, China;  the Château Lynch-Bages winery in Bordeaux, France; the Museum of Islamic Art Park in Doha, Qatar and an office building along the main avenue, Faria Lima in São Paulo, Brazil.

Throughout his career, C.C. Pei has played an active role in a number of professional and civic organizations including the American Institute of Architects, where he serves as Chairman of the Delano-Aldrich Fellowship Committee. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the China Institute in New York City. He was a trustee of the Collegiate School in New York City and served on the Alumni Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has frequently been called upon to lecture to professional and educational organizations on architectural design. He has lectured on design topics to local AIA chapters in such places as New York, NY; Jacksonville, FL; Memphis, TN; Salt Lake City, UT; Orange County, CA, Los Angeles, CA; and Vancouver, BC.  He has served as a jury member for architectural design awards in many of these same chapters. Mr. Pei has lectured at the University of Texas (Austin), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Columbia University. He has also lectured at the National Gallery of Art and the National Building Museum, both in Washington, D.C. and at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. Internationally, Mr. Pei has lectured in China, France, Italy, Mexico, Aruba, England and Brazil.

Ingeniero Roger E. Ferch

Presidente AISC Instituto Americano de la Construcción de Acero)  - USA

Ingeniero Guillermo Moreno

Secretario GeneraI Ilafa (Instituto Latinoamericano del Fierro y del Acero) - Chile

 Ing. Thomas M. Murray. Msc, PhD. PE.

Profesor Montague-Betts de Diseño de Estructuras de Acero.

Francis Pfenniger B. Arquitecto chileno titulado en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, en 1977, tiene una importante experiencia en el campo de la construcción de proyectos prefabricadas, tanto en acero como en madera u hormigón, en las más diversas categorías de edificios, desde vivienda unifamiliar hasta la minería, industria y hotelería.

Dr. Green has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY (1977) and a Master of Science (1979) and Doctorate in Civil Engineering (2001) from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

Between his Master’s and Doctoral degrees he was a Structural Engineer and Engineering Manager for the A/E firm Burns & Roe, Inc., Oradell, NJ where he was involved with the design and construction of new nuclear power plants and the evaluation and modification of existing nuclear power plants.

He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL from 1998 to 2004 before joining the Steel Joist Institute as its new Technical Director in October 2004.

While at Lehigh and afterwards at the University of Florida, he conducted research on the behavior of structural materials, members and systems for over 14 years.  Some projects that he has been involved with are:

•    The Behavior of High Performance Steel Structural Members for the U.S. Navy and the Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems Center (ATLSS),

•    Bracing Requirements of Axially-Loaded Cee Studs for the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI),

•    Analysis, Behavior and Design of Extended Shear Tab Connections for the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC),

•    Improved Hurricane Resistant Housing for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and

•    The Uplift Capacity of K-Series Steel Joist Seats for the Steel Joist Institute (SJI).

•    With SJI, Dr. Green is responsible for the following technical committees:  Education, Engineering Practice, and Research.

Dr. Green currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee for the Structural Stability Research Council and is Task Group Chair of TG6 Test Methods.  He is a member of the AISI Cold-Formed Steel Main Committee on Specifications, and the Chair of Subcommittee 3 – Connections.  He is also an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Member of several ASCE Committees including the Flexural and Compression Members Committee and the Fatigue and Fracture Committee.

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