Eliot E Goldstein
Eliot W. Goldstein, AIA, an award-winning architect and specialist in timber design, is a partner with The Goldstein Partnership of West Orange, New Jersey. Called "one of the top 25 newsmakers of 1995" by Engineering News-Record for his work with timber structures, he has designed numerous large public structures, including the timber-trussed Montville Township Public Library, which Engineering News-Record said "set a new standard for heavy timber structure as architecture ... and produced an...See more
Eliot W. Goldstein, AIA, an award-winning architect and specialist in timber design, is a partner with The Goldstein Partnership of West Orange, New Jersey. Called "one of the top 25 newsmakers of 1995" by Engineering News-Record for his work with timber structures, he has designed numerous large public structures, including the timber-trussed Montville Township Public Library, which Engineering News-Record said "set a new standard for heavy timber structure as architecture ... and produced an instant landmark." Robert Lyman (Ben) Brungraber, Ph.D., P.E. (Chapter 7, Traditional Joinery), is a manager/part-owner of Benson Woodworking Co., Inc., in Alstead Center, New Hampshire, a firm that has designed and built some of the most prominent heavy timber frame structures in the United States, including more than 30 large, public projects. He has also repaired both the oldest and the longest covered bridges in Pennsylvania. Phillip C. Pierce, P.E. (Chapter 15, Covered Bridges), a recognized structural and design engineer, has led over 100 bridge design/rehabilitation projects and more than 1000 bridge inspection/evaluations, mostly in the northeastern United States. He is the author of several papers, and a popular public speaker about wooden bridges. He lives in Binghamton, New York. Fred Severud, P.E. (Chapter 9, Lateral Bracing) is a design engineer and former head of Severud Associates in New York City. He was in charge of the structural design team on the Blue Cross Headquarters, a 50-story office building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on the Madison Square Garden renovation in New York City, among many other outstanding projects. He is now an adjunct associate professor of civilengineering at the University of Missouri, Rolla. He lives in nearby Salem, Missouri. Stephen Smulski, Ph.D. (Chapter 3, Preventing Wood Degradation), is a consulting wood scientist and president/owner of Wood Science Specialists Inc., of Shutesbury, Massachusetts. A consultant to makers, sellers, and users of wood products and the editor of Wood Design Focus: A Journal of Contemporary Wood Engineering, Dr. Smulski has written extensively on moisture-caused problems in wood construction. He is an adjunct assistant professor of building materials and wood technology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. See less