<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif">As part of the NHERI-Lehigh Seminar Series, the Lehigh University EF presents a talk entitled "<a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/lehigh-ef/2020/performance-based-design-frameworks/" target="_blank">Performance-based Wind and Earthquake Design for Tall Wood-Concrete Hybrid Buildings</a>." </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The speaker is</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Professor <a href="https://people.ok.ubc.ca/stesfama/" target="_blank">Solomon Tesfamariam</a> of the University of British Columbia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">In the first part of the talk, the current state-of-the-art in timber-based hybrid systems (e.g., timber-steel and timber-concrete) together with ongoing design and research challenges will be presented. </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#333333">The second part of the talk will focus on findings of a recently completed project sponsored by the Forestry Innovation Investment's (FII) Wood First Program.<br></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#333333"><br></font><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The online seminar is slated for Feb. 27, from 4:00 - 5:00pm EST.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Find details and </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/lehigh-ef/2020/performance-based-design-frameworks/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">register for the event</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> on the DesignSafe website.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></p></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=12XbEVKyTmNxWz2zhiLdBZVYuFfNlVaKQ&export=download" width="95" height="96"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_k5jygv4c0" alt="Lehigh.png" width="363" height="91" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>