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Structural Engineering with existing structures of all types, including: assessing problems with buildings under construction; evaluating historic (and old) structures; seismic structural assessments, including voluntary upgrades and ordinance-mandated retrofits; and structural failure investigations. Laboratory research and testing in Structural Engineering, including reinforcing steel and related products. Notable structural investigations include a building that suffered complete collapse due to the Christchurch earthquakes of 2011/2012, the remnants of the collapsed WTC1 and WTC2, and a fire-damaged 38-story steel-framed highrise office building.Active in numerous professional society organizations related to structural engineering. Appointed as a voting member on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), Committee on Specifications, which writes the structural steel building code, and the American Concrete Institute (ACI), Structural Concrete Building Code Committee for Reinforcement and Development. A contributing coauthor of SEAOSC Design Guide No. 1 – City of Los Angeles Mandatory Earthquake Hazard Reduction in Existing Non-Ductile Concrete Buildings (NDC), and Chair of AISC Committee TC 7, which prepared AISC’s Seismic Provisions for Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Structural Steel Buildings.Specialties: Structural Engineering for existing structures. Seismic structural evaluations, including ordinance-mandated seismic retrofits. Assessment of Historic (and old) structures. Structural engineering aspects of steel bar reinforcement for concrete. Laboratory research and testing in Structural Engineering.

Listed skills include Structural Engineering, Construction, Forensic Engineering, Structural Analysis, and 10 others.

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  Principal

  Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

  Jun 1982 - Present