Christopher Kirchner Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Horizontal development manager for Phase 2 of the Wharf.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw the monthly requisition process, including reviewing project budgets to track hard costs and pay applications against overall project progress, as well as monitoring funding requests against the projected draw.
• Conducted monthly site walk-throughs to ensure compliance with construction documents, adherence to schedule, and accuracy of requisition draw requests.
• Reviewed construction drawings, specifications, and schedules for completeness, accuracy, and coordination with other trades in order to resolve design/construction issues in advanced of project impacts.
• Analyzed project budgets against RSMeans, Marshall & Swift, and internal cost databases to verify project costs.
• Prepared corresponding construction monitoring, review, property condition (PCR), and probable maximum loss (PML) reports for clients.

Greater New York City Area

• Investigated structural issues arising from adjacent construction, contractor error, fire, and severe weather events and prepared corresponding cause and origin and/or damage assessment reports
• Designed and implemented severe weather mitigation strategies to reduce risk exposure for projects.
• Provided multi-hazard risk assessment and resiliency advisory services that maximized building efficiency and performance over the entire building life cycle

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Worked with small project teams to inspect buildings and structures damaged during the Canterbury and Cook Strait Earthquake Sequences
• Analyzed structures to determine their seismic capacity and/or expected damage
• Developed repair and/or strengthening schemes and wrote detailed reports documenting findings
• Reviewed cost estimates to confirm they accurately reflected our proposed remediation
• Peer reviewed other engineering firms’ cause and origin and damage assessment reports

Christchurch, New Zealand

Assessing and upgrading structures affected by the Christchurch earthquakes

555 12th St # 600, Oakland, CA

• Detailed, designed, and analyzed the components of structural systems
• Reviewed shop drawings
• Resolved client’s in-field constructability and coordination issues through RFI responses
• Assisted in litigation support services consisting of document review, analysis, and report preparation

• Evaluated résumés and interviewed, hired and trained new employees.
• Performed weekly and monthly inventory of food and liquor products
• Responsible for overseeing opening / closing of the restaurant including the handling of cash registers and other employees monies
• Coached and mentored new servers and bartenders regarding menu items, company policies and procedures

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey

• Inspected reinforcing steel for accuracy according to site plans
• Tested fresh concrete for slump and air and obtained samples for compressive strength testing in accordance with ASTM standards
• Supervised soil selection, placement, and compaction

Piscataway, New Jersey

• Performed research for various NJDOT and NJTA projects related to High Performance and Self-Consolidating Concrete
• Executed and supervised various ASTM and AASHTO standard tests including restrained shrinkage, rapid chloride permeability, etc.
• Regulated concrete pours using various sensors at the Croton Water Treatment Plant construction site (Brooklyn, NY; Skanska)
• Conducted field testing of Newark Bay and Hackensack River Bridges to evaluate the superstructure response and truck loads
• Installed and operated Weigh in Motion (WIM) sensors, and collected data for live load prediction and truck route identification for NJDOT WIM sites

Masters Of Engineering Studies, Earthquake Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: ASCE, Chi Epsilon, NSCSGraduated Magna Cum Laude with a capstone in Structural Engineering