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Mike Romanowski, SE Regional Director, CA-South, AZ, NM, WoodWorks – Wood Product Council San Diego, CA
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Industry
Other
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Services offered
Project Support
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Has Experience with these building types:
Assembly (Worship, Restaurant, Theater, etc.), Business (Office), Civic (Recreational), Educational, Factory/Industrial (warehouse, storage, parking, etc.), Government, Hotel/Motel, Institutional, Mercantile (Retail), Mixed-Use, Multi-Family (Apartments, Condos, etc.), Student Housing, Transportation (Airports, Train or Subway Stations)
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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), Wood-Concrete Composite Systems, Light-Frame
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Has experience with these construction types:
I-A, I-B, II-A, II-B, III-A, III-B, IV-A, IV-B, IV-C, IV-HT, V-A, V-B
Mike is the WoodWorks Regional Director for Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. He works directly with developers and design teams, providing education and free technical support related to the design, engineering and construction of commercial and multi-family wood buildings. A California-licensed Structural Engineer, he has knowledge to assist with all aspects of wood building design, including allowable heights and areas and construction types, structural detailing of wood and hybrid systems, fire resistance, acoustics, and alternate means of code compliance.
Contact Mike for assistance on a project or to schedule a seminar on topics that include (but aren’t limited to) an introduction to mass timber, mass timber code changes, mass timber structural design, mixed-use building analysis, and Type III detailing.
Mike has 37 years of structural engineering design, plan check/peer review, and investigative experience. He has been involved in the production of engineering calculations and construction documents, construction administration, field investigations and report writing for educational, commercial, industrial, medical, institutional, residential, and military projects utilizing all types of building materials.