CEO, Chris Poland discusses the Bay Area's preparedness in the event of the next big earthquake. KQED interviewed Chris and Jeanne Perkins, earthquake hazards program manager with the Association of Bay Area Governments and research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Tom Parsons.
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The new Senate Bill 499 is the focus of a San Francisco Business Times article, which features Degenkolb Engineers chairman and CEO Chris Poland. Last year, Chris testified in favor of the new law since the previous 2013 deadline was not economically feasible for many hospitals. Among other things, Senate Bill 499 allows hospitals to have an extension for structural upgrades.
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Degenkolb Engineers' designer and Indonesian national, Nick Alexander will be joining the EERI led team on a reconnaissance trip to Padang. The magnitude 7.6 earthquake devastated the western region of Indonesia. A mall and two hospitals collapsed trapping thousands of people. The death toll is expected to triple as rescuers called off the search for survivors.
EERI reconnaissance trips are funded by a grant from the US National Science Foundation. Updates will be posted on EERI's website ...
Below is an exerpt of an article on the University of California Berkeley Stadium written by Caroyln Jones for the San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, September 25, 2008
(09-24) 19:40 PDT -- Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. It took decades of research, experimentation and head-scratching, but a team of San Francisco engineers says it has found ...
A New Tool for Achieving Seismic Safety by Chris D. Poland, S.E., F. SEAOC
September 2008--Earthquakes wreak havoc on our lives, our businesses and our communities. For the last 140 plus years, scientists and engineers have been working to understand where they can occur and how to best mitigate their effects. What started as a concern centered along the West Coast has become known as a real threat that affects the vast majority of states in the United States. Thanks to ...
The City of Los Angeles is hosting an International Earthquake Conference (http://iec.lacity.org/) November 12-14, 2008, focusing on policy, planning, and preparedness, in partnership with the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative and in conjunction with the Great Southern California ShakeOut (http://www.shakeout.org/).
Chris Poland, CEO and Chair of Degenkolb Engineers will speak alongside former Councilman Hal Bernson who will talk about the URM process LA undertook in the 1980s and Craig Comartin, president of President of CDComartin, Inc. to talk ...