Another program that will start shortly is an "On-Line Committee", the purpose of which is to participate in standing technical committee activities. This virtual committee will conduct its business via the Internet. This committee will also be charged with development of structural engineering source information on the list server.

During Student Night next month, the Student Scholarship program (in addition to the pre-existing student membership award) will recognize four of the most exceptional nominees with cash scholarships. Criteria for student nominees include excellence in both leadership and engineering studies, an expectation of a career in structural engineering, and a letter of recommendation from the student’s faculty advisor. Members, as well as corporations, are asked to support and contribute to this worthy student scholarship program in order to help encourage engineering students to pursue structural engineering as a profession.

Another accomplishment has been the establishment of the SEAOSC Quality Assurance Committee as a standing committee. Quality Assurance is a term that came into our vocabulary in the 90’s. To most of you who are actively engaged in design consulting services, quality assurance may include such activities as reviewing design calculation checklists, construction drawings and specifications, and shop drawings; peer review; construction observation; and special inspection and special testing of engineered components and non-structural elements. Quality Assurance is part of the requirements in the UBC Chapter 17, Structural Tests and Special Inspections, and should be an essential part of our professional services to our clients.

In the 80’s, you may recall, satisfactory completion of the Quality Assurance program was one of the pre-requisites or incentives for engineering firms to satisfy insurance underwriters on professional liability insurance annual renewal. Today, one additional aspect on constructibility review must be added to the Quality Assurance program. The competitiveness of professional services seldom gives engineers adequate time to carefully plan and organize construction details to properly reflect the construction sequence. It appears more engineering time is spent on response to Request for Information (RFI) from the builders during the course of construction.

As an ongoing effort to improve our profession, SEAOSC held a seminar on "Constructibility Review" to seek common ground between the four vital participants of a construction project - owner, architect, engineer and builder/ contractor. The key points which were addressed included Buildability, Constructibility and Practicality in producing construction documents. Our profession needs to become more responsible in our work products not only to achieve an economical design, but also to help achieve economical construction. There is a need to give more attention to interdisciplinary coordination among the various disciplines - architectural, structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and other specialty trades. Remember, the builders can only build to what is shown in the construction documents.

The owner’s interest is better served with a comprehensive and complete construction document. In the competitive world of general contracting, the successful builder spends a comparatively short time prior to bidding in studying a set of construction documents which may have taken the design professional several months or even years to complete. Construction documents which lack clarity and well thought out construction details will undoubtedly increase the uncertainty level for bidders, which, in turn, results in a higher bid price. The owner's interests cannot be served by change orders resulting from an alleged lack of clarity on the drawings.

The job site observation mandated by building departments encourages design professionals to visit the project site during critical construction stages. In dealing with builders, engineers need to exercise sound professional judgment when considering suggestions on alternative construction details proposed by the builders which may help to better adapt to field conditions, particularly in retrofit projects. The success of construction projects in the 21st Century may well demand better leadership by design professionals in preparing construction documents with Quality Assurance and constructibility as primary objectives.

Los Angeles Dinner Meeting

Location: Luminarias Restaurant, 3500 Ramona Blvd., Monterey Park

Time: Social hour: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 6:30 p.m. Program: 8 p.m.

Cost: $22 Students: No Charge

Reservations: Make advance reservation by Noon, Monday, Feb. 1

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Location: Costa Mesa Country Club, 1701 Golf Course Dr., Costa Mesa

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SEAOSC, ATC, BSSC and FEMA are sponsoring a seminar on NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (FEMA 273) and Commentary (FEMA 274) Jan. 22 and 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Commerce.

Included are in-depth discussions on simplified and systematic rehabilitation; linear and nonlinear analysis methods, including push-over analysis; and example applications of the Guidelines.

The registration fee is $100, which includes seminar notes and FEMA 273-274 documents and lunch. A late fee of $20 will be charge for registrations postmarked after Jan. 15. Space is limited so register as soon as possible. See white insert for registration form and seminar schedule and details.

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Be sure to save the dates for the 1999 SEAOC Convention which will be hosted by SEAOSC Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 1999, at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort in Santa Barbara. The SEAOSC Convention Committee, chaired by Steve Perlof, is busy planning the event to make it one of the best conventions ever.

Members, spouses and friends of the Consulting Structural Engineers Society and SEAOSC are cordially invited to the C.S.E.S. 35^th Annual Installation and Awards Dinner Thursday, Jan. 21 at Taix's Restaurant,, 1911 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Social hour and no-host bar at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Cost: $20 per person at the door. RSVP to Brad Smith at 818-505-9409.

C.S.E.S. members are the owners/principals of their firms and comprise the Business Forum of SEAOSC.

Jan. 6, 2:30 p.m., SEAOSC Board Meeting, Luminarias Restaurant.

Jan. 6, 5:30 p.m., L.A. Dinner Meeting, Luminarias Restaurant.

Jan. 12, 2 p.m., Quality Assurance Committee, SEAOSC Office.

Jan. 12, 4 p.m., Existing Buildings Committee, SEAOSC Office.

Jan. 13, 5:30 p.m., Orange County Dinner Meeting, Costa Mesa Country Club

Jan. 21, 3 p.m., Testing Standards Committee, SEAOSC Office.

Jan. 22, 7:30 a.m., ATC/SEAOSC FEMA 273 Seminar, Wyndham Garden Hotel, Commerce.

Jan. 23, 7:30 a.m., ATC/SEAOSC Seminar Day 2, Wyndham Garden

Jan. 23, 9 a.m., SEAOC Board Meeting, San Francisco

Jan. 27, Noon, Deadline for March NEWSletter.

SEAOSC has now automated an online reservation system enabling anyone to make a reservation for a dinner meeting or seminar by completing the form that can be found on the SEAOSC Web page at the seaint.org Web site. Members are encouraged to utilize this method to expedite the reservation process.

SEAOSC is pleased to announce the purchase of a Toshiba digital data projector for use at its seminars and dinner meetings. Speakers are encouraged to create their presentations in Powerpoint software so that presentations can be electronically shown via the projector. All presentations will be made available for sale on the SEAOSC Web page at seaint.org following the seminar.

The new unit also has a digital camera that enables projection of any type of document – whether the document is an overhead transparency or a regular, typed paper document. This feature eliminates the need to create transparencies.

SEAOSC members may also rent the projector from SEAOSC at the discounted rate of $95 per day plus shipping as a benefit of their membership in SEAOSC. The unit normally rents for $250 per day.

SEAOC’s disability insurance program, offered through Paul Revere Life, is not just for members who do not have a policy of their own or through work. Many engineers find out when filing disability claims that they did not plan sufficiently for this possibility. Here are some examples of how SEAOC’s program can be used to get you properly insured.

* Existing individually-owned policy, SEAOC’s program often offers more attractive rates, plan design, issue limits and supplemental options than your existing policy.

* National association policy, ASCE and other national programs have restrictive provisions which often result in denied claims, also, they do not coordinate well with group LTD through work.Paying a bit more for quality coverage may be worth it.

*Employer-provided group policy. Numerous problems can arise with group plans, including lack of portability, lack of inflation adjustments during claim, taxation of benefits during claims, etc. Properly designed individual coverage can help.

Principals in smaller firms. Many principals use life insurance to fund buy-sell agreements but are never told about the threat of disability to their business. SEAOC’s program offers idsability buy-sell and busines overhead expense policies to meet business needs.

To help all members see whether they can benefit from SEAOC’s efforts, Chuck Kofoed, agent for the progra, conducts personal consultations on a regular basis. For more information, please call Chuck at 800-274-9183.

SEAOSC will hold its annual Student's Night dinner meeting February 3 at Luminarias Restaurant in Monterey Park. All engineering students and their faculty advisors are invited to attend this dinner meeting as guests of SEAOSC.

This year SEAOSC will present corporate scholarships to four outstanding students to be chosen from the applicants for the SEAOSC Auxiliary membership awards. Three outstanding achievers will each receive $1,000 and the most outstanding achiever will receive $2,000. These grants will be given in addition to the annual SEAOSC membership awards given by the Auxiliary to one outstanding structural engineering student from each of the Southern California and Tri-County universities and colleges that have a civil engineering program with an emphasis in structures.

The student’s faculty advisor must nominate the student, who can be either an undergraduate or graduate student. Criteria for nomination include excellence in both leadership and engineering studies with an expectation of a career in structural engineering. The student needs to provide a resume of his/her achievements and activities and a short paper (maximum two pages) about his or her interest in structural engineering. A letter of recommendation from either the nominating professor or one of the student's lead teachers is also required. Nominations for financial awards must be received by Friday, January 15^th. Please contact Diane Thompson at 714-639-9838 or Nancy Cochran at 310-207-6638 for more information.

Also any individual or company interested in participating as a sponsor of the student scholarship program should call Ming Yang Yeh at 626- 449-9886 for more information. A donation of $1,000 or more will enable the scholarship to be named after the donor's company even though donations of any amount are appreciated.

Donations to offset the cost of student dinners are requested and greatly appreciated. Please send a donation in any amount to the SEAOSC office.

Case studies of building seismic retrofit are being sought in connection with developing Seismic Risk Management Tools for Decision Makers for the California Seismic Safety Commission. The case studies should illustrate the practical aspects of the risk management decision-making process. Projects that include retrofit of structural and/or nonstructural systems may be of interest. Selected case studies may be included in a CSSC publication and will be broadly distributed.

Examples of desired case studies include building for which owners considered the benefits and costs of retrofitting, were retrofitted, and subsequently experienced strong ground motion; buildings that were retrofitted but have not yet experienced strong ground motion but whose technical or project aspects are of major interest or where owners considered cost benefits to be of prime importance; and buildings considered for but not retrofitted, where the project aspects offer valuable lessons and where it was determined not be economically viable.

Firms interested in submitting candidate case studies should provide a description of the project including location, owner, relevant dates, a summary of the technical, unique or interesting aspects of the project and a photograph or sketch.

Project descriptions should be forwarded by Nov. 15, 1998 to CSSC Case Studies, EQE International Inc. (project contractor), 44 Montgomery St., Ste. 3200, San Francisco, CA 94104-4805. Inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Charles Scawthorn (crs@eqe.com) or William Bruin (wmb@eqe.com).

Considerations for Steel Moment Frame Buildings (9/99) 1" binder. New building relevant documents and steel update including unresolved issues, evaluation of test results/design methodology; existing buildings damage inspection, repair and modivication. Members: $43.30; nonmembers: $54.12. Includes tax and shipping.

Practical Design and Detailing Seminar Notes, Dec. 2, 1998: Concrete Slabs on Grade by Ken Bondy; Dynamic Analysis and the 1997 Code by Shafat Qazi; and Compaction Grouting by Steve Chandler. No binder. Cost: $14.06. Includes tax and shipping.

The dues of the following 165 members are past due as of Dec. 3, 1998. All membership benefits, including the monthly newsletter, have ceased as of the above date. If you see the name of a friend or co-worker, please alert him or her. To reinstate or cancel a membership, call the SEAOSC office at 562-908-6131.

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Taylor & Gaines seeks California P.E. or S.E., three to five years in wood, steel and concrete. Prefer Ph.D. or M.S. Written communication skills, teamwork skills and computer proficiency required. Send resume to 320 N. Halstead St., Ste. 200, Pasadena, CA 91107; Fax: 626-351-5319, attention Ed Gharibans. No calls please.

Structural engineering firm in Irvine & Las Vegas, designing Type V single and multi-unit housing for the nation’s top builders. We offer a complete benefits package and competitive salary. We need strong individuals to join our ever-growing team as:

Project Engineer needed to be able to start designing immediately. You must have 5 years residential design experience with computer proficiency. Customer-minded with excellent communication skills. Handle multiple tasks in today’s rapid-fire building industry. P.E. preferred.

Engineer needed with some field experience. Customer-minded with excellent communication/writing skills. Your personality must enable you to handle multiple tasks while interacting with both our clients and demanding construction personnel. Requires daily car travel. Construction background a plus.

This is an entry-level position for a recent graduate or a newcomer to residential design. We would like to train the right person in our drafting department, then promote him/her to be a member of our residential design group. An engineering degree and proficiency in AutoCad Rel. 14 required. A strong drive to move up in the company and learn as much as possible is necessary.

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