Posted on 2 July 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to for an updated Design Integration Management course in coordination with the Design-Build Insitute of America (DBIA). The course is envisioned to be Instructor led, based on the revised content of the Guides, insight from DBIA, and SME’s (Subject Matter Expert). Notably the American Institute of Architects AIA, working with the DBIA has expressed an interest in providing guidance and insight to the course development. Read more
Posted on 30 June 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the award of Research Grant Agreement #03-25, "CURE - Code Updates for Reduction of Embodied-carbon". The Phase 1 effort was announced last week in Boulder, CO at the SEI Conference: Toward Zero Carbon 2025: Summit & Symposium. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of Research Grant Agreement #01-19, "Foundation Mats with High Strength Steel Reinforcement". Principal Investogator was Dr. Jack Moehle, University of California at Berkeley. Read more
Posted on 6 June 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation is pleased to publish our 2024 Annual Report titled "You Belong Here". Read more
Posted on 29 April 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation is proud to recognize our board director, Ron Klemencic, PE, SE, Hon. AIA, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Engineering from the College of Engineering at Purdue University during a ceremony on 16 May 2025. Read more
Posted on 10 March 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) along with several Industry Partners is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to continue investigation of a new, modular steel floor framing and diaphragm system for commercial building structures with broad applicability, including high seismic zones. The proposed system 'FastFloor' has key benefits of increasing the speed of construction, including eliminating the pouring of a concrete deck. This type of system is key to achieving the goals of the AISC Need for Speed initiative to reduce the time from conception to occupancy for steel building structures. Read more
Posted on 25 February 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF), in partnership with the Magnusson Klemencic Associates Foundation and American Institute of Steel Construction, are pleased to announce the new research report, Seismic and Wind Behavior and Design of Coupled CF-CPSW Core Walls for Steel Buildings, is available for free download. This product completes CPF Research Grant Agreement #06-16. Read more
Posted on 3 February 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) along with several partners is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant for advancing building code requirements for resilient design for functional recovery. Read more
Posted on 1 January 2025
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) presents a new video on what we do titled "The Future Needs You Here". Using our outstanding past to generate and accelerate innovation in building design and construction, the video is a signature calling card for the foundation to continue to expand our outreach. Read more
Posted on 1 October 2024
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to investigate Safe and Sustainable Parking Garage Live Loads In The Age Of The Electric Vehicle. The research consists of four tasks: (1) Data acquisition; (2) Data analysis; (3) Stochastic load modeling; (4) Load analysis and design load recommendation. Data on vehicle fleet compositions will be acquired from S&P Global or alternate sources. Data will be acquired that describes fleet compositions for all 50 states and for multiple years over approximately the last decade. The datasets will include vehicle make, model and model-year, in addition to vehicle weights. The raw vehicle fleet data will be post-processed to establish probability distributions for vehicle fleet characteristics including make, model, model-year and vehicle weight. Such analysis will be performed for each database corresponding to particular states and years in order to permit evaluation of temporal and geographic variation of fleet characteristics. Read more
