Day 1 – Tuesday June 14, 2011
I worked with Mark Sinclair and Elizabeth Hausler from Build Change during the months of March and April to help develop a retrofit procedure for Haitian buildings. The procedure is based on an ASCE-31 style checklist to identify major structural deficiencies. As one checklist item, field engineers calculate the wall area percentage in each primary direction (capacity), and compare that value to the required wall area percentage (demand). The required ...
Posted by Gordon Wray on June 21, 2011 6:04 PM
Degenkolb Associate Principal, Robert Pekelnicky, led an earthquake reconnaissance team....
Posted by Hanan Harb on April 13, 2011 9:53 PM
Our very own Mark Sinclair is quoted in the New York Times. See what he says about wireless systems that monitor structural health of buildings and bridges. Click here to read more
Posted by Alethea Odell on March 14, 2011 10:23 PM
Degenkolb Chairman and head of the New Technology Group, Chris Poland, and Associate Principal, Robert Pekelnicky, were quoted in today's New York Times.
Posted by Hanan Harb on February 25, 2011 8:15 PM
Just five miles from California’s loaded Hayward Fault stands the California Department of Transportation’s (Caltrans’) District 4 headquarters, a towering 15-story steel moment frame structure that houses the San Francisco Bay Area’s transportation operations, including its emergency response team. A team under the direction of Degenkolb Engineers, and including The Crosby Group, employed extensive state-of-the-art analysis techniques to design and test a retrofit scheme that will protect a vital community asset.
The Department of General Services has produced a video describing ...
Posted by Alethea Odell on June 1, 2010 6:41 PM
REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION OF ASCE
In an effort to learn from Chile's devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on Feb. 27, ASCE will be sending three technical assessment teams to the South American nation in the coming weeks to study the performance of critical infrastructure systems. Teams from two ASCE institutes — Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute and Structural Engineering Institute — along with a team from the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering will investigate those areas of infrastructure that ...
Posted by Laurie on April 7, 2010 11:33 PM
