A PUBLICATION OF THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION OF D I M E N S I O N S CENTRAL CALIFORNIA A Message from the President Inside this Issue Happy New Year! I hope you were able to a new mobile-friendly platform. The President’s Message 1 to spend some time with your family and goal is to integrate meeting and event Calendar 2 friends during the holidays. invitation emails, the online membership database, calendar of events, forms, and Announcements 3 2018 turned out to be a very busy year history to one website. This will allow Committee Reports 4 for all engineers. Despite crazy sched- SEAOCC members to be more in control ules, we are excited about the work we of their membership database infor- In the News 7 are doing and we are looking forward to mation and dues status, as well as make new opportunities in 2019. SEAOCC is it easier to register for events. Our goal Membership 9 helping our members to be up to date on is to complete this transition within the In Memoriam 11 the latest and greatest, as well as rein- next six months. James R. Clark, S.E. forcing the technical foundation. Contin- uing education is key to individual ca- Todd Kemen, SEAOCC Past President, Job Forum 12 SEAOC Convention reers, as well as to the competitiveness of and Darron Huntingdale, double Past 13 firms in the long run. President, rallied firms and industry part- Call for Papers ners to provide a strong sponsorship to SEAOCC Scholarships 14 2018 was full of various topics presented SEAOCC. As a result, the Board in- by SEAOCC and 2019 is set to be a great creased the scholarship contribution to Board & Committees 16 one. You'll hear several code update $11,000 this year, supporting several col- seminars from the Continuing Education lege students. Gaurav Bali, Amy Hop- SEAOCC At-A-Glance Committee (Sonia Eliseo) and Dinner/ kins, and Jim Carlson are joining forces SEAOCC Membership Lunch Meeting topics from our Program to come up with a Student Night on Dinner Meeting Committee (John Weninger). 2019 will March 12, 2019 that will include not on- January 8 also include marketing and business de- ly the SEAOCC Scholarship Awards and SEAOCC Board Meeting velopment information at a meeting Student Competition but will also in- January 8 which is a topic that is frequently asked. clude a Career Fair for firms and stu- dents. I would like to ask to all our SEAOCC Membership The SEAOCC Board of Directors is members to help us to reach as many stu- Committee Meeting working on several projects to provide dents and professors as possible. Please January 9 value to the membership. Structural en- look for event details from Bali. The 2019 SEAOC Convention gineering and business environments are Board is working on building broader Committee Meeting evolving rapidly, therefore, our organiza- relationships between the universities in January 17 tion is continuously looking at ways to our region and SEAOCC - This event keep our members up to date. To bring will be a great step in that direction. these trends and changes to our members' *Mark Your Calendar* attention, seven new committees have As a free service to our members and SEAOCC Membership Meetings been formed this year: SE3 (Caleb industry, SEAOCC and OSHPD has de- Second Tuesday of the Month Dunne), Resiliency (Roy Lobo), Social veloped the Seismic Map Design Tool. September-June Media (Kaylee Efstathiu), Membership A couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Geolog- SEAOCC Seminar (Laura Rice), Bylaws (Darron Hunting- ical Survey discontinued their Seismic March 7, 2019 - CBC Code Update dale), Strategic Planning (Chris Tokas), Map Design Website, essentially, mak- SEAOCC Student Night and Snow Load (John Corless). If we ing our website one of the few available March 12, 2019 + Career Fair add the Convention Committee (Alban alternatives. Please check out our web- SEAOCC Golf Tournament Gjongecaj) to the mix, we have plenty of site at www.seismicmaps.org. June 6, 2019—Teal Bend new activity this year. 2019 SEAOC Convention Sincerely, August 28-30, 2019 Besides new committees, the Board has Ali Sumer, Ph.D., S.E., Resort at Squaw Creek decided to migrate the SEAOCC website 2018-2019 SEAOCC President (Lake Tahoe) Page 2 C A L E N D A R JANUARY 2019 01/04 SEAOCC Membership Meeting Early Registration Deadline 01/08 SEAOCC Board of Directors Meeting JANUARY 2019 3:30-5:30 p.m. C OSHPD, 2020 West El Camino Avenue, Sacramento, 95833 Contact Ali Sumer, SEAOCC President A Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 01/08 SEAOCC Membership Dinner Meeting L Joint Meeting with ACI E 1 2 3 4 5 5:30 p.m. Social, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 7:30 p.m. Presentation N Iron Grill, 2422 13th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818 D 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 01/09 SEAOCC Membership Committee Meeting 5:30-6:30 p.m. A Barrish Pelham, 301 E Street, Sacramento, CA 91816 R 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Contact Laura Rice, Membership Committee Chair 01/10 2019 SEAOC Convention Technical Committee Meeting O 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Topic: Invited Speakers 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. F Lionakis—Beaumont Room 27 28 29 30 1920 20th Street, Sacramento, CA 95811 Contact John Weninger, 2019 SEAOC Technical Committee Chair E 01/17 2019 SEAOC Convention Committee Meeting V 12:00 Noon to 1:30 p.m. E OSHPD, 2020 West El Camino Avenue, Sacramento, 95833 N Contact Alban Gjongecaj, 2019 SEAOC Convention Chair T 01/18 YMF Snow Trip Sign Up Deadline S February 2019 Contact Matt Quan, YMF Chair 01/23 SEAOCC Newsletter Deadline Sun Mo Tue We Thu Fri Sat 01/25 Resilience Committee SEAOCC Interest Deadline Contact Roy Lobo 1 2 02/08 2019 SEAOC Convention—Abstracts Due Contact John Weninger, 2019 SEAOC Technical Committee Chair 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 02/12 SEAOCC Membership Dinner Meeting—Camp Fire Hussain Bhatia, Ph.D., S.E., OSHPD 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 5:30 p.m. Social, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, 7:30 p.m. Presentation Iron Grill, 2422 13th Street, Sacramento, CA 95818 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 02/12 SEAOCC Board of Directors Meeting 3:30-5:30 p.m. ENGINEERS WEEK OSHPD, 2020 West El Camino Avenue, Sacramento, 95833 Contact Ali Sumer, SEAOCC President 24 25 26 27 28 02/17-23 Engineers Week 02/20 SEAOCC Newsletter Deadline SEAOCC Dimensions Please submit articles of information to the membership. Newsletter Deadlines February January 23, 2019 SEAOCC Newsletter Editor March February 20, 2019 Rachel Leung, [email protected] 916-920-2020 April March 20, 2019 May April 22, 2019 SEAOCC Executive Secretary June May 22, 2019 Lori Campbell, [email protected] 916-572-3177 Special Edition June 19, 2019 JANUARY 2019 A N N O U N C E M E N T S Page 3 NEW YEAR, NEW YOU, NEW COMMITTEE? Whether your goal is to shape the direction of the profession, learn more about the industry, improve yourself, or to learn what goes on behind the scenes of the organization, it’s time to get involved a committee. In addition to the newly formed committees, the SEAOCC Standing and Technical Committees are always looking for interested members to get involved. Upcoming meetings are listed on the calendar, and you can always contact a Committee Chair for details of the next meeting or to find out more about the committee’s work. A new Membership Committee, headed by Laura Rice, is having its first meeting this month. The committee will discuss topics such as membership onboarding, engagement, and retention. Other Committee spotlights include: SE3: Focuses on examining and improving engagement and equity in our profession, contact Caleb Dunne Newsletter: Disperses news and information, from writing articles to gathering content, contact Rachel Leung Snow Load Maps: Creates a new mapping tool for snow load designs, contact John Corless Seismology: Develops, updates, and maintains the SEAOC Blue Book, reviews SEAOC Seismic Design Manuals, and provides code change review and proposals to the International Building Code, contact David Palmer CALLING ALL NEWLY LICENSED P.E.s & S.E.s! If you or a coworker just earned your license, email Rachel as newly licensed engineers will be recognized in an upcoming newsletter. DID YOU KNOW? Steve Hiner, Chair of the SEAOCC Disaster Emergency Services (DES) Committee, updated the Board of Directors on Tuesday, Janu- ary 8, 2019 that the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Ser- vices (Cal OES) offers free Safety Assessment Program (SAP) Training. The next session hosted by Cal OES will take place on Friday, Janu- ary 25, 2019, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the Rocklin Event Center. If you are interested, register early as space is limited. If you do complete this, or other SAP Training, please notify Steve Hiner with a copy of your completion certificate so that he can in- clude you in the SEAOCC DES Callout List in the event of an acti- vation request. For more about the Cal OES Safety Assessment Program, as well as the new online SAP Evaluator Refresher Training, please visit their website at https://www.caloes.ca.gov/cal-oes-divisions/recovery/ disaster-mitigation-technical-support/technical-assistance/safety- assessment-program. Page 4 C O M M I T T E E R E P O R T S JANUARY 2018 RESILIENCY– A CALL FOR SEAOCC MEMBER PARTICIPATION By Roy Lobo, Ph.D., S.E., SEAOCC Board Member Are we adequately prepared for the next big disaster to • Informative Community Resilience Topics hit our most vulnerable cities and towns and how soon i.