Education Webinar
Forensic / Renovation / Retrofit / Rehabilitation Structures < $20 Million: UCSF Mount Zion Faculty Housing
September 11, 2025 | Thu 12:00 America/Chicago
Duration: 1.0 Hour
CE Credits: 1.0
$Free
Constructed in 1968, this seven-story concrete building was gifted to the University of California at San Francisco to help lure talented faculty with below market rate housing. A conventional retrofit approach, documented by a previous seismic study, would have cost over $17 million due to excessive demolition and the need to replace all the windows in the process. By deploying detailed nonlinear analysis, the structural engineering team was able to devise an exoskeleton approach that strengthens the building’s existing structure while enhancing its façade. This targeted design was estimated at $4.2M, reducing the estimated retrofit cost by roughly 75% and leaving remaining funds available for other MEP and ADA upgrades.
Presented by Marc Steyer, S.E., and Abby Enscoe, S.E., Tipping
- Course will award 1.0 hours of continuing education for the live session only.
- Each series registration is per person.
- This will be available as a recording, with no PDH attached.
Please note: This webinar is part of the NCSEA Webinar Subscription; however, we ask that all individuals register to receive credit for the live event.
Constructed in 1968, this seven-story concrete building was gifted to the University of California at San Francisco to help lure talented faculty with below market rate housing. A conventional retrofit approach, documented by a previous seismic study, would have cost over $17 million due to excessive demolition and the need to replace all the windows in the process. By deploying detailed nonlinear analysis, the structural engineering team was able to devise an exoskeleton approach that strengthens the building’s existing structure while enhancing its façade. This targeted design was estimated at $4.2M, reducing the estimated retrofit cost by roughly 75% and leaving remaining funds available for other MEP and ADA upgrades.
Presented by Marc Steyer, S.E., and Abby Enscoe, S.E., Tipping
- Course will award 1.0 hours of continuing education for the live session only.
- Each series registration is per person.
- This will be available as a recording, with no PDH attached.
Please note: This webinar is part of the NCSEA Webinar Subscription; however, we ask that all individuals register to receive credit for the live event.
Marc Steyer, S.E., brings a passion for extending an aging building’s life to his role as a principal at Tipping. Since joining the firm in 2005, he’s led the structural approach on diverse projects, but he’s particularly passionate about adaptive reuse and retrofit projects and their inherent sustainable benefits. His expertise began with the multiple-award-winning seismic retrofit of 2850 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley and has since extended to many others including the ambitious vertical expansion of San Francisco’s 633 Folsom Street. Marc’s research on these projects has led to innovative approaches for seismic rehabilitation, published in journals like Structure and Concrete International.
Abby Enscoe’s, S.E., diverse experiences during her education inform her practice as a Project Director at Tipping. An enthusiasm for math, architecture, and construction led her to Structural Engineering. Through architecture classes at MIT while earning a BS in physics at Harvard, she developed a strong interest in mathematics and mechanics, as well as a deep respect for the impact that design can have on one’s experience of the world. Abby gained a working understanding of construction while building houses with Habitat for Humanity and working as a carpenter for a small design-build construction company and ultimately received an MEng in Structural Engineering at UC Berkeley.
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