IMI Webinar Series - A New Blueprint for Delegated Masonry Design
Join us to explore how delegated design can reshape the way masonry systems are engineered, detailed, and delivered. We’ll define what delegation truly means, how liability and performance specifications intersect, and how collaboration can drive better project outcomes.
For decades, engineers have faced real challenges in masonry design. Most engineering programs focus on steel and concrete, leaving limited exposure to masonry behavior, modular coordination, and detailing. In practice, engineers are often tasked with designing masonry systems without the time or budget to fully develop them, while masonry contractors see firsthand how those design gaps play out in the field.
Explore how delegated design leverages the invaluable field knowledge of skilled masonry contractors to create more coordinated, efficient, and resilient systems. By working together from concept through construction, teams can achieve masonry solutions that are smarter, faster, and built to last.
Learning Objectives:
- Define delegated design and how it changes the relationship between the general contractor, engineer, architect, and mason.
- Compare traditional and delegated workflows to see how control, risk, and efficiency shift in each model.
- Examine real examples from framing and precast industries that show how delegation improved detailing and constructability.
- Discover how masonry can adopt similar methods to close design gaps, strengthen accountability, and raise quality.
About the Speaker:
Jamie L. Davis, PE, LEED AP
Principal, Ryan Biggs Clark Davis
Jamie Davis, P.E., LEED AP, is President and Principal of Ryan Biggs Clark Davis Engineering, DPC, a 50-person consulting engineering firm located in Clifton Park and Skaneateles, New York. With the firm for over 30 years, Jamie manages many of the firm’s higher education, healthcare, and municipal projects, and her areas of technical expertise include BIM, masonry design and restoration, and investigations and studies of existing buildings. A graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, Jamie maintains professional licenses in NY, CT, and GA, is a LEED-accredited professional, and is CD-BIM certified. She is sits on the Executive Committee of The Masonry Society (TMS) as Vice President, is a voting member on TMS 402/602 Main Committee, is the past chair and current member of the TMS BIM-M Committee and is a current voting member on the TMS 402/602 Structural members, Reinforcement and Connectors, and Construction Requirements Subcommittees. She is also a member of the Mason Contractors Association of America, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the American Institute of Steel Construction, and sits on several committees for the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York. Jamie is a frequent lecturer and author on masonry topics.