Damon Weiss Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Ethos Collaborative is a collective of integrative designers, scientists, and educators dedicated to realizing regenerative and resilient communities through collaborative planning, engineering, analysis, and shared learning. Our core competencies lie at the nexus of water, energy, climate, and community. The systems-thinking and life-cycle approach we employ honors the interconnected nature of ecological, economic, and socio-cultural systems.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Urban Rain Studio is a civil engineering consulting firm, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and specializing in green infrastructure design and water resources engineering within the urban environment. We strive to differentiate ourselves from traditional engineering firms by staying focused on the social, environmental and economic aspects of design – the triple bottom line of sustainability – and by executing our entire design process in accordance with this basic belief structure.

Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Us

AE Works is a full-service architecture and engineering firm, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a strong emphasis in the design of healthcare and institutional facilities within the federal sector. As the site/civil lead within the organization, I work closely with architects, interior designers, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers on a wide range of inter-disciplinary projects. I have a strong belief that good design requires that there be synergy between the exterior site layout, the building appearance and the interior building space. As such, I strive to bring to the Design Team that unique "site perspective", using GIS, Civil 3D, renderings and other visual communication tools to address design issues relating to site topography, drainage patterns, utility locations, and environmental permitting requirements during the early stages of design, when such efforts have the most significant impact on the final product. I also work closely with the Business Development Team to identify new site-civil opportunities, within the local Western Pennsylvania region and in neighboring states.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Led the water resources, land development and GIS design efforts for both the Transportation and Site/Civil Divisions at Pennoni Associates' Pittsburgh Office. Within the Transportation Division, responsibilities primarily included stormwater management and closed drainage design, hydrologic/hydraulic design of roadway culverts, design of accessory site components outside of the roadway, E&S / NPDES environmental permitting and preparation of waterway obstruction permits for in-stream work. Within the Site/Civil Division, responsibilities included all aspects of design from preparation of proposal to full production of construction documents for land development projects. Specific tasks included site layout, grading, design / coordination of sanitary sewer, water, natural gas, electrical and telecommunication infrastructure, design of E&S and stormwater management systems, preparation of E&S, NPDES and waterway obstruction permits, renderings and coordination with stakeholders. Typical clients included colleges and universities, local school districts, developers, and architecture firms.In addition to working with the Transportation and Site-Civil Divisions, I also worked as a GIS and software development resources within Pennoni Associates, as an organization, working on several large-scale GIS mapping projects, developing geodatabases and desktop and web-based GIS applications and exploring new GIS opportunities. Helped establish a GIS Experts Team within the organization.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Worked under the direction of multiple municipal engineers on a wide range of planning, land development review, ordinance writing and municipal support projects. Attended regular Planning Commission and Zoning Hearing Board meetings, supporting the designated Township Engineer and serving in his absence, as needed needed. Prepared GIS maps, renderings and other presentation materials, as needed. Supported the active of the designated Authority Engineer at several additional water and sewer authorities in the region. Provided plan review, coordination and construction inspector support to the Authority for the planning and construction of new infrastructure to support large-scale residential growth, including several wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, water booster stations and related utility lines, generation of Consumer Confidence Reports, Chapter 94 reports, drought contingency plans and Act 220 reports. Representative projects includes the coordination and implementation of a five-year wet weather remediation projection to reduce inflow and infiltration of stormwater into the existing sanitary sewer system, under a Consent Order from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PaDEP)

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Generated structural analysis models of telecommunication towers and prepared structural analysis calculations of foundation and tower member capacities for one of the leading U.S. and international providers of wireless communications transmission infrastructure. Developed procedures and protocols relating to the sub-contracting of structural analyses to outside engineering consulting firms and acted as point-of-contact and quality-assurance. Developed a database to aid in the tracking of projects and deadline and the generation of purchase orders and invoices for the client.

Worked as Staff Engineer on various commercial, industrial and retail building design projects in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Experience includes structural steel, concrete, composite, masonry, post-tension and tilt-up design. Representative projects include 1600 International Drive, McLean, VA – seven-story composite steel office building and Lowe’s retail store in Houston Texas.

M.S., Advanced Infrastructure Systems

B.S., Civil Engineering

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