Central Chapter Joint ACI Lunch Meeting: 

Changes to the Concrete Design Standard

This presentation combines two topics regarding updates to two of ACI’s reinforced concrete design standards, ACI 318-25“Building Code for Structural Concrete—Code Requirements and Commentary’ and ACI 562-25, “Assessment, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Existing Concrete Structures— Code Requirements and Commentary.” Topics covered in this presentation will include: • Understand new anchorage and development requirements • Identify changes to shear equations for shallow foundations, cantilever retaining walls, and basement walls • Learn the new requirements for mechanical splices • Describe the additions of the new appendices on sustainability and performance-based wind design • Describe the reorganization of ACI 562 • Learn the new section on fire resistance, assessment, and damage repair • Identify other new requirements throughout the Code

Speaker:

Gregory Zeisler, PE

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Gregory Zeisler, PE, is an Engineer with American Concrete Institute and has been with the organization since 2009. He works with several technical committees as staff liaison, including ACI 318, and is the secretary for the ACI 318 code committee. Greg has several years of structural design experience in parking and retail facilities, working previously as a Structural Engineer with Durrant. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Platteville and his MS in Civil Engineering from Purdue University; he is a licensed professional engineer in Indiana and Wisconsin.

Please join us!