Woodworks Innovation Network

Industry

Engineer
Services offered

Structural Engineering
Has Experience with these building types:

Assembly (Worship, Restaurant, Theater, etc.), Business (Office), Educational, Institutional, Mercantile (Retail), Mixed-Use, Multi-Family (Apartments, Condos, etc.), Student Housing
Has Experience with these material types:

Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT), Dowel-Laminated Timber (DLT), Glue-Laminated Timber (GLT or glulam), Timber-Frame / Post and Beam, Heavy Timber Decking, Hybrid (wood with steel or concrete), Structural Composite Lumber (e.g. LVL and LSL), Light-Frame, I-joists, Lumber
Has experience with these construction types:

I-A, I-B, III-A, III-B, IV-HT, V-A, V-B

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Last year, Michael bike-commuted over 125 days, offsetting as much carbon as is contained in less than two cubic yards of concrete. To him, this illustrates how critical designers' choices in building materials are in tackling our global climate challenges.

As an Assistant VIce President at WSP (formerly Odeh Engineers), Michael is proud to have been part of teams that have delivered several projects that utilize exposed mass timber as a primary structural system. Highlights range from a state-of-the-art concert facility and an all mass-timber biotech lab/office to a charter school and a housing development that has created 69 units of affordable housing in an underserved community.

Michael is also an embodied carbon champion at WSP, where he is responsible for guiding the firms’ commitments as a signatory firm of the SE2050 challenge. In this role he works across materials to find ways to reduce embodied carbon on all projects and coordinates knowledge sharing and education within WSP.