Presented by the Building Enclosure Council of Greater Detroit

Continuing Education will be provided

Description:

• A variety of façade investigations involving chemical incompatibility, staining, and damages to an assortment of façade materials including glass, stone, metals, and coatings.
• Field and laboratory techniques involved with the investigations will be briefly overviewed.
• Recommendations for reducing the risk of encountering chemical complications on your building.

Speaker Information: Kimberly Steiner is a chemist and manager of the Materials Science Unit of the Janney Technical Center at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates located in Northbrook, Illinois. Kimberly’s focus is with failure analysis, consulting, and research on construction materials. She conducts on-site evaluations and laboratory characterization and analysis of materials to investigate failures, corrosion, incompatibilities of materials with the surrounding environment and general chemical and compositional analysis.