Matthew Barnard, S.E.
SEAOSC President
If you had any doubt about how SEAOSC and our members are making a difference, those doubts must be gone after the wonderful celebration of our fellow SEAOSC members and our Community partners on Sept. 2nd. What an evening! Thank you to all who joined our celebration of our 2020 Safer Cities Awards and our 2020 Excellence in Structural Engineering (EISE) Awards! Congratulations to all our awardees including our Safer Cities Awardees of ICC, Cynthia Zabala of West Hollywood, the City of Beverly Hills. Congratulations to our EiSE Award winners. See the announcement in this newsletter and on our social media accounts for which projects were celebrated.
Huge special thank you to Optimum Seismic for their support that made the videos possible and to Patti, Kelsey, Ken, and Co-Pilots for your tireless efforts in pulling this event together.
With it already being mid-Sept, SEASOC Program Year has already begun. Our Committees have started working on their goals for the year. To realize those goals though, they need help. They need you!
- Our Diversity & Inclusion Committee is embarking on an ambitious agenda. Join Lorena and team and help us transform our Association and our Industry. This effort is critical to our future.
- Women in Structural Engineering (WiSE) is preparing for multiple events including our Feb. Summit on personal mastery and other keys to personal and professional success.
- Do you feel that we can improve our Communications, websites, graphics so we better share all the great work and insights by SEAOSC Members? Join our Communications Committee.
- Want to maximize the benefit of SEAOSC Membership? Join the Membership Committee.
- Under 35? Interested in shaping your Association while getting to know your fellow members who are also early in their careers? Join our Young Members Committee for fun times, engagement with our Student Chapters, and much more.
- Passionate about our Professional Development and our events that build our SEAOSC Committee? Our Education Committee needs you.
- Our Existing Building Committee (EBC) continues to move forward on numerous initiatives improving how we evaluate and retrofit existing structures. One of our more active Committees, EBC is always looking for passionate members willing to move forward technical concepts.
- Interested in exploring how ramps should be considered in parking structures or about fire, tsunami, wind, or other hazards impact structural design? Seismology & Hazards need you to help develop these topics.
- Do you have a passion for Concrete, Steel, or Wood? If so, we have Committees that need your talent and passion. Each Committee is actively moving forward on key initiatives.
- If preparing for the next big earthquake drives you, our Disaster & Emergency Services Committee needs your help.
- Sustainability and Resilience is just getting re-energized (pun very much intended). Help us bring a focus on sustainable and resilient practices in Southern California.
- Codes & Standards is already preparing to review and comment on upcoming code proposals.
For all these amazing Committees to realize their goals, we need you, your friends, and your co-workers to renew your membership. If you know individuals in our industry who should be members, invite them to join. Let our Association Manager (seaosc@seaosc.org) know their name and email address and we will do the reach out for you.
This Association is dependent on your support and the support of our friends and partners of this Association. SEAOSC is pleased to announce the release of our 2020 Sponsorship Program. This program has something for everyone including those partners whose support sustains this Association and the firms who support both their employees membership and participation in this Association. If you know someone who should be a sponsor, let our Association Manager (seaosc@seaosc.org) know their name and email address and we will do the reach out for you.
On behalf of the SEAOSC Board, thank you for your support of the SEAOSC Community. We are excited to see what we will all accomplish in 2020/2021 together.
