The Paul Zia Distinguished Lecture Series
Date and Time
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Location
Stewart Theater in Talley Student Union, NC State Main Campus. This event is free and open to the public! Engineers receive two PDHs for attending. To register for in-person or virtual attendance, visit the registration page!ALLEGIANT STADIUM IN LAS VEGAS & HYBRID
Fees/Admission
This event is free and open to the public! Engineers receive two PDHs for attending. To register for in-person or virtual attendance, visit the registration page.
Contact Information
https://zialecture.com/allegiant-stadium
Description
FRANK FREUDENBERGER, PE, SE, ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL – STRUCTURAL AT ARUP
Bio: Frank Freudenberger is a structural engineer and associate principal at the Arup Los Angeles office. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2011, Frank worked for Arup in other offices across three continents. In his more than 19-year career with Arup, he has delivered challenging and complex structures such as transportation facilities, high-rise structures, museums and stadiums all over the world as the structural engineer and/or Arup’s multidisciplinary project manager. As Arup’s project manager and structural engineer for the Allegiant Stadium project, Frank and the Arup team delivered the structural and façade engineering in an extremely short timeframe.
ELLEN SPANGLER, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER AT MORTENSON CONSTRUCTION
Bio: Ellen earned a degree in architectural engineering with a focus on construction management from the University of Colorado - Boulder. After graduation, she was hired as a field engineer at Mortenson Construction.
Ellen, who has worked at Mortenson for nine years, is a senior project manager currently leading construction of the St. Louis City SC Major League Soccer (MLS) Stadium. Ellen has worked on three major sports projects leading up to St. Louis MLS including U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she worked with the team handling heating, cooling and life safety systems; Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Fiserv Forum, where she was a key player in the structural steel phase and the scoreboard installation; and Allegiant Stadium, home to the Las Vegas Raiders, where she was the Enclosure Team leader.
On the Allegiant Stadium project, she led the team to a successful execution of a difficult glazing, metal panel and roofing scope. Ellen also led the formidable closeout effort, working through punch list completion and substantial completion requirements, helping the team achieve an early and under-budget turnover of a landmark project in the midst of a global pandemic. With each successive project, she continually tackles the challenges head on and aims to apply each gained experience to the next project.
Ellen loves construction due to its complexity and especially enjoys working on sports projects because they are high-profile projects that generate community excitement. Her ability to pivot and take on any new challenge thrown her way has been a huge asset to each project team she is a part of.
