November 12 Webinar | HSS Applications in Clean Design

Description

Title: HSS Applications in Clean Design
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. CT
Format: Live Webinar
Level: Beginner, Informational, Design Professionals, Engineers, Fabricators

Life science, food and beverage, and other similar facilities require special consideration in the built environment to promote compliance with a variety of regulatory agencies and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP). HSS framing is regularly used in these applications to promote the end goal of keeping products safe from contamination. This session will address some of the unique design and detailing challenges associated with “clean” spaces and the implications for the use HSS members, including:

• Economical design for long spans and substantial loads
• Cleanability, durability, and material finish
• Practical (and impractical) connection detailing

Learning Objectives

• Understand the application of Current Good Manufacturing Practices in the built environment.
• Identify the unique challenges with design and detailing of HSS framing in “clean” applications.
• Equip engineers with practical resources, tools, and examples for HSS “clean” design.

Speaker – Brad Fletcher
Brad Fletcher, S.E., is the senior sales engineer at Atlas Tube. In this role, Brad leverages his over 34 years of experience in engineering design and the steel industry to provide technical expertise on the use of steel hollow structural sections (HSS) and pipe piling products to design engineers, detailers, fabricators and architects.

A registered structural engineer in the state of Illinois, Brad has held senior positions at leading architecture and engineering firms, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Sargent & Lundy; and Halvorson and Partners. For the past 19 years, while working at Tata Steel (formerly known as Corus) and now with Atlas Tube, Brad has focused his efforts on serving as a liaison between structural designers and the steel industry.

Brad holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE, MSCE) from Purdue University. He is active in many industry groups, including the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI) and ASTM International. Brad participates in several industry committees such as the Technical Committees responsible for the AISC Specification, the HSS Committee of the Steel Tube Institute, the CISC Education and Research Committee, the CSA S16 Technical Committee, the AISC Committee on Research, the AISC Sustainability Committee and the NCSEA Sustainability Committee.

Speaker – Dennis Collins
Dennis Collins, AIA, serves as Architectural Department Head at CRB, bringing over 40 years of experience in architectural design and construction. Since joining CRB in 2010, he has played a key role in the growth of the company’s food and beverage team, applying his expertise to a wide range of projects. Dennis is a licensed Architect in 35 states and has practiced across the country and internationally. He holds a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and is an active member of several professional architecture organizations.

Dennis collaborates closely with clients to understand their business needs and develop practical, effective design solutions that support safe and efficient manufacturing. His work has been recognized within both the food and beverage industry as well as pharmaceutical and biotech. Awards include Plant of the Year by Food Engineering for a greenfield Mars Chocolate North America facility and two ISPE Facility of the Year awards. Through his thoughtful approach and dedication to quality, Dennis continues to support the advancement of cGMP design as related to all types of regulated manufacturing facility design.

Speaker – Dylan Smith
Dylan Smith, P.E., S.E. is the Structural Department Head at Clark Richardson and Biskup (CRB), a full-service design, engineering, construction and consulting firm for life science and food and beverage facilities. He has worked for over 10 years as a structural engineer in the field of consulting engineering, with a specific focus on the design of pharmaceutical, biotech, and food and beverage industrial buildings.

Dylan holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and Master of Science in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a licensed PE/SE in 11 states. Dylan is active on a variety of industry groups, including serving on the Board of Directors for the Structural Engineers Association of Kansas and Missouri – Kansas City Chapter, and as an Associate Member on the ASCE 7-28 Main Committee and Seismic Subcommittee.

Professional Development Hours
Each participant can earn 1.0 PDH 1.0 LU | HSW and receive a certificate of completion from the Steel Tube Institute (STI). To receive a certificate from STI, you must login to the webinar via your unique registration link, attend the webinar in its entirety, and complete all poll questions.

Any participant that holds a PE license in Florida, Maryland, New York and/or North Carolina is required to complete a quiz for your PDH. The quiz will be available to the registrant at the conclusion of the webinar.

Registration Types & Fees

• HSS Professional Member
  • Individual: Registration is free with your individual membership.
  • Group: Registration is free with your group membership.
• Non-Member
  • Individual: $95 for individual registration.
  • Group: Only available with an HSS Professional Group Membership.

Individual registration provides a unique link for one login and is eligible for one PDH certificate upon successfully completing the webinar requirements.

Group registration, only available for HSS Professional Group Members, allows multiple attendees to view the webinar in one room or multiple people from the same office to view individually.

• The office contact for the HSS Professional Group Membership will receive a separate email with instructions for group viewing. 
• If viewing in one room, multiple PDH certificates may be issued provided the poll questions are completed by the group leader during the webinar, the group completes quiz together immediately following the webinar, and the attendee list is submitted within 48 hours of the webinar conclusion. All attendees on the list must have attended the webinar for its entirety.
• To view individually, each person will need to register individually.