Hanns U. Baumann, S.E. was born in 1930, the son of Paul and Miriam Baumann, of San Marino, CA. Paul Baumann was the Chief Engineer for the Arrowhead Lake Company during the development of the Lake Arrowhead resort, and later, was the Assistant Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District from 1934 to 195. Paul Baumann was, himself, the son of a Swiss Contractor/Engineer, Freidrich Baumann. Hanns Baumann received his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1953, and his Masters Degree in Structural Engineering from USC in 1963. Baumann began as a structural design engineer in Orange County, CA for Robert E. Scherrer Consulting Structural Engineering. In 1961, he became a partner in the newly formed Scherrer-Baumann Consulting Structural Engineers. In 1978, his partner retired, and Scherrer-Baumann became Baumann Engineering. In 1981 he formed Baumann Research and Development Corporation, and made Baumann Engineering a division of BRD Corp. BRD Corp. was formed to focus on the development of products, specializing in the construction industry, and Baumann Engineering continued providing consulting structural engineering services in a variety of disciplines. In 1986, he formed Baumann International Inc., for the purpose of marketing products that had been developed by BRD Corp. In 1999, Baumann International was renamed BauTech, Inc. Mr. Baumann is a licensed engineer in four states. Mr. Baumann has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and seminars, including Structural Faults and Repair Conference in London, England, 2003, and the Structural Engineers World Conference in Yokohama, Japan, 2002, and is scheduled to speak at the 2004 Concrete Bridge Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in May. He was also the Keynote Speaker at the Annual NOVA Awards Presentation Dinner in 1998.Specialties: Structural Engineering, including reinforced concrete design, slope stabilization, research and development of construction industry products