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
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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
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.
Listen here.
Posted by Laurie on February 9, 2010 11:34 PM
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.
To read the article, click here
Posted by Hanan Harb on February 6, 2010 12:39 AM
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 ...
Posted by Laurie on October 6, 2009 9:15 PM
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 ...
Posted by Laurie on September 25, 2008 6:39 PM
