Author Archives : Russell Larsen, P.E., S.E.

About the author ⁄ Russell Larsen, P.E., S.E.

Russell Larsen is a Senior Associate at Magnusson Klemencic Associates. He is the leader of MKA’s Wind Technical Specialist Team and has been actively involved in the development of the ASCE/SEI Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design. (rlarsen@mka.com)

Performance-Based Wind Design

The Next Frontier

With the release of the ASCE/SEI Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD) in August 2019, the industry has taken an initial step toward implementing a structural engineering technique similar to well-established Performance-Based Seismic Design (PBSD) for the other most common building environmental hazard, wind. …

Jun, 2020 By Sean Clifton, P.E., S.E, Russell Larsen, P.E., S.E. and Kevin Aswegan, P.E. In Structural Design Comments 1

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