Gabriel Kafka

Cold-Formed Steel Lateral + Framing

174 Martense Street, Brooklyn — 4-Story + Penthouse Residential

Open Drawing Set

Lateral system and floor framing on CMU bearing walls, with shear wall schedule and elevations.

1025 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn — 18-Story Concrete Residential

Open Drawing Set

Lead structural engineer. Designed the full building under the PM: 18 stories of flat-plate concrete with irregular shear walls.

Blower Door Envelope Test w/ SGH

Bus Envelope Optimization — WPI BSc Thesis (MQP), Dec 2021

Building envelope analysis of a 1987 school bus converted into an affordable home. Blower door testing with Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. Advisor: Aaron Sakulich.

Result: 2.24 CFM @ 75 Pa (leaky) vs 0.5–1.0 CFM for a tight home — leaky windows and floor penetrations.

Engineering Software + Research

PE Civil: Structural exam — Dec 16, 2026

V2: Tributary Plate Slab Column Load Takedown Tool

Site · GitHub

Open-source column load takedown app, especially useful for tall concrete buildings.

PE Civil Structural Exam Environment

Open the Exam Environment

Clone of the Structural PE testing environment, with reference materials loaded.

MSc Thesis: Low-Cost Cellular Accelerometer Node for SHM (Puerto Rico) — NYU Tandon, May 2026

Site · GitHub · Viability Test

Advisor: Masoud Ghandehari. Potential PhD extension.

Lab research goal: Wind fragility curves for Puerto Rico transmission lines. Thesis scope: The hardware.

Solar-powered cellular node — Nordic Thingy:91 X, ADXL367 accelerometer, LTE-M, and a Supabase pipeline streaming triaxial acceleration.

Benchmarked against a LORD S-200: magnitude correlation ≈ 0.955, RMSE ≈ 0.040 g, FFT correlation ≈ 0.952 (0–12.5 Hz).

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