Upcoming

General Information

The Portland Building Enclosure Council is pleased to announce the 2024 Symposium. This year’s Symposium will focus on building enclosures responding to a changing climate.

The symposium is a one-day event, comprised of presentations, speakers, and opportunities for sidebar conversations.

• Meet with the local representatives of leading building product manufacturers
• This all day event includes continental breakfast and seated buffet lunch.
• 6 AIA /CEU - LU/HSW expected

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Brochure

Registration Information

Cost
Members: $100 Non-Members: $125

Capacity is limited

Sponsors

Symposium Sponsor

• Soprema

Meal Sponsors

• VPI
• Kemper

Bag Sponsor

• Tremco

Exhibitors

• Neogard
• Protecto Wrap
• Siplast
• Reynaers Window Systems
• Blackline Glazing
• Window Tech
• GCP
• 3M
• Cascadia Windows
• Carlisle
• Innotech
• AVM
• Exterior Product Solutions

Mass timber is both an innovative building material and a fundamentally familiar material. This course will cover some of the challenges which can be encountered when using this material with an emphasis on the construction process. This course will address the nature of wood material and how it reacts to moisture and relate that to the practical use of mass timber as a construction material. The standards applying to mass timber moisture content during both manufacturing and fabrication and then erection and construction in general will be reviewed. The course will identify the portions of mass timber elements at greatest risk of damage from moisture exposure during the construction process and the variable conditions not directly related to mass timber which make weather protection more difficult. Finally from a practical standpoint a contractor’s basic Weather Protection Plan will be described along with a discussion on cleaning processes for mass timber.

Bill Melrose has spent 45 years in the construction industry in all roles on site for both contractors and a subcontractor. He is a Licensed Civil Engineer in Oregon and has been the Oregon Division Quality Manager for Swinerton Builders for the last 5 years. During his time at Swinerton Builders he has been directly involved in over 15 Mass Timber Projects in the Portland Area, and has assisted with other projects in other locations. Bill visits active projects 2 to 3 time per week to assess the effectiveness and adjustments of the weather protection plans as it relates to both mass timber and the final roof installations.

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