NCSEA 2008 Winter Institute Austin, Texas
Lawrence (Larry) Griffis, President of the Structures Division and Senior Principal with Walter P. Moore and Associates Inc., Houston, Texas.
Larry Griffis is responsible for overseeing the structural, diagnostic/forensic and parking services for nine offices around the country. He is a registered professional engineer in numerous states, including Texas, Florida and California. Mr. Griffis serves as a member of the specification committees for both AISC and ACI. He is a member of the ASCE 7 Committee responsible for the ASCE/SEI 7 load standard and is a member and past Chairman of the Task Committee on Wind Loads for ASCE 7. He is past President and serves as a member of the board of directors for the Applied Technology Conference (ATC). He currently is a member and past Chairman of the ASCE Committee on Steel Buildings and is a member of the Code of Standard Practice Committee for AISC. Mr. Griffis received the TR Higgins Award from AISC as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award. He was recently named a Fellow with the American Concrete Institute. In 2002 he was named a distinguished alumnus in Architectural and Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Sharon L. Wood, Robert L. Parker Centennial Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas at Austin.
Sharon L. Wood received her BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and her MS and PhD degrees in structural engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wood taught at the University of Illinois for ten years before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. Her research interests include seismic design of reinforced concrete structures, durability of concrete structures, and evaluation of concrete bridges. She is a member of ACI Committee 318 and is the former chair of the Technical Activities Committee and the Publications Committee within ACI.
Richard E. Klingner, Associate Department Chair, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Klingner received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the University of California in Berkeley. His field of specialization is structural engineering, with emphasis on the analytical and experimental investigation of the dynamic response of structures, earthquake-resistant design of masonry and concrete structures, and anchorage to concrete. Since 1977, he has been a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on
structural analysis, dynamics, and the behavior and design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures, conducts investigation in those areas, and has authored or co-authored more than 60 refereed journal articles, 20 books or book chapters, and 350 other technical publications. Currently, he conducts investigations of the seismic behavior of new masonry and masonry veneer, and of autoclaved aerated concrete masonry.
He takes a leading role in the activities of many technical committees of the US and other countries, including the American Concrete Institute, TheMasonry Society,andthe American SocietyforTesting and Materials. For the period 2002-2008, he is Chair of the Masonry Standards Joint Committee, sponsored bythe AmericanConcrete Institute,TheMasonry Society, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
John R. Henry, Principal Staff Engineer with ICC’s Business & Product Development Department.
John Henry received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. He is a Registered Civil Engineer in California and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Structural Engineers
Association of California (SEAOC).
Mr. Henry is responsible for research and development of technical resources pertaining to the structural engineering provisions of the I-codes. He has a broad range of experience, including structural design in private practice, plan check engineering with building department jurisdictions, and over 8 years of experience as an ICC Staff Engineer. Mr. Henry has developed and presented technical seminars on the structural provisions of the Uniform Building Code (UBC) and the International Building Code (IBC), specifically pertaining to wood design and construction. He is an ICC certified Plans Examiner and teaches structural provisions of building codes.
Michael D. Engelhardt, Dewitt C. Greer Centennial Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas at Austin.
Michael D. Engelhardt received BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Engelhardt has been on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin since 1989. His primary emphasis in research has been the behavior and design of seismic-resistant steel structures. He serves as a member of the AISC Committee on Specifications, the AISC Seismic Specification Committee, and the AISC Connection Prequalification Review Panel.
