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MARK R. PIEREPIEKARZ P. E . , S . E .
P R E S I D E N T

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mark Pierepiekarz has nearly 20 years of professional experience focusing on structural and earthquake engineering. He has performed structural analysis, pro-active retrofit and upgrade design, and repair of impacted commercial, industrial, and public buildings and other facilities throughout the U.S. and abroad. His structural engineering experience also includes seismic upgrade design and analysis of bridges, reservoirs, and lifeline systems. Actual strong-motion earthquakes have tested his structural designs with successful results. Mark has also investigated damaged and distressed buildings and structures, and performed rootcause analyses.

Mr. Pierepiekarz remains at the forefront of earthquake engineering technologies. He has authored and presented a number of technical papers on the seismic design of structures. He teaches seismic design and is a co-author of the “Seismic Design Manual”. Additionally, Mark currently serves as a Director of the Structural Engineers Association of Washington (Seattle Chapter), and represents this organization in the current Earthquake Engineering Research Institute’s “Seattle Fault Scenario” project.

Mark has personally performed post-earthquake damage investigations and has written reconnaissance reports following the Nisqually (2001), Northridge (1994), Landers/Big Bear (1992), Upland (1990), Loma Prieta (1989), Whittier Narrows (1987), Superstition Hills (1987), and Satsop, Washington (1999) earthquakes.

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EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Champaign-Urbana, M.S. Structural Engineering, 1985
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Champaign-Urbana, B.S. Civil Engineering, 1984

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REGISTRATION

WASHINGTON:
        PROFESSIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER;

CALIFORNIA:
        PROFESSIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEER;

OREGON:
        PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER;

TEXAS:
        PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER

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AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Civil Engineers, Member;
Structural Engineers Association of Southern California, Member;
Structural Engineers Association of Washington,
       Director – Seattle Chapter;
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Member.

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SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Structural Engineers Association of Washington, Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, Seminar Co-Chairman, Seattle, Washington, April 12, 2002

Structural Engineers Association of Washington, Seismic Design Using the 1997 UBC, Seminar Co- Chairman, Seattle, Washington, April 4, 1998

Canadian Risk and Insurance Management Society, An Intelligent Approach to Natural Hazard Risk Management Worldwide, Calgary, Canada, October 4 to 5, 1998

Risk and Insurance Management Society, Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation, Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, BC, May 1996

Irvine Institute of Technology, Seismic Principles for Professional Engineers, 1994 to present.

ASCE, Earthquake Risk Reduction for Utility Lifelines, Seismic Design for Tanks and Nonstructural Components, May 14 to 15, 1993.

City of Los Angeles, Department of Building and Safety, Anchorage to Concrete: UBC Provisions and Design Examples, March 1993.

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PUBLICATIONS

With H. Zhang and E. Henley, “Seismic Vulnerabilities of Steel Bridges,” Sixth U.S. Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, June 1 - 4, 1998.

With J. Shipp, D. Smith, and K. Binder, “Seismic Design of a Combined Standpipe and an Elevated Tank in San Diego County,” 11 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, 1996.

With S. Shekerlian, “Seismic Principles Design Manual,” California State University, Long Beach, 1995.

With H. Koza, “Seismic Performance of Commercial Building Support Equipment,” 1994 Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, November 6-11, 1994.

Contributing Author, “The Northridge, California Earthquake of January 17, 1994: General Reconnaissance Report,” edited by J. D. Goltz, National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, State University of New York at Buffalo, Technical Report NCEER-94-0005, March 11, 1994.

With M.W. Johnson, “Northridge Building Case Studies Project, The Broadway Store and The Newhall Land and Farm Building,” California Seismic Safety Commission, Prepared by Rutherford and Chekene, Second Draft, September 26, 1994.

With M.W. Johnson, "Seismic Strengthening Methods for Unreinforced CMU Partitions and Infill Systems," Proceedings, 1993 National Earthquake Conference, Memphis, Tennessee.

"Uniform Building Code Anchorage to Concrete Provisions," Building Standards, July-August 1993, International Conference of Building Officials, Whittier, California.

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