Greg Soules is a Principal Engineer and Engineering Project Manager for the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) in The Woodlands, Texas. Responsibilities include the supervision of design engineers, management of the engineering for large projects worldwide, and development of CB&I Engineering Standards on the application of wind loads, seismic loads, and building codes to tank and vessel designs. He serves on the ASCE 7 (Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures) Committee and chairs the ASCE Petrochemical Seismic Committee and the Nonbuilding Structures and Components Technical Subcommittee (TS-8) of the Building Seismic Safety Council.
Mr. Soules earned a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1979 and an MBA from the University of Houston in 1991. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Licensed Professional Engineer in 15 jurisdictions, a Licensed Structural Engineer in 6 states, and a SECB Certified Structural Engineer. He joined CB&I in 1980.
Bill is a Structural Engineer and Principal with SESOL in Newport Beach, California. He holds a BS in Architectural Engineering from the School of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California and an MS in Structural Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering from the School of Civil Engineering at University of California in Irvine, California. Mr. Warren has more than 30 years of professional structural engineering experience in analysis, design, evaluation, construction supervision, education, research and structural engineering analysis and design and analysis software development. He is President of the Structural Engineer's Association of California (SEAOC), Past President of the Structural Engineer's Association of Southern California (SEAOSC). He is the SEAOC Delegate to the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations, chair of the Structural Engineer's Association of California's (SEAOC) Publication Committee as well as the SEAOC and Structural Engineer's Association of Southern California's (SEAOSC) Certification Committee.
Stan Caldwell earned BSCE and MSCE degrees at the University of Wisconsin and has 40 years of experience as a structural and architectural engineer, including 35 years as a manager. He is a licensed professional engineer in 6 states and has supervised the analysis and design of more than 700 projects, including bridges, buildings and special-purpose structures. Stan has served as project manager for an industrial corporation, branch manager for a structural engineering analysis firm, and founder and president of a structural engineering design firm. Since 1988, he has served as a principal and group leader at Halff Associates, a multi-discipline design firm. His professional experience has included numerous leadership positions in ASCE, SEI, AEI, NCSEA, SEAoT, CEC-T and TBPE.
Jon Boyd is Chairman/CEO of Klein and Hoffman, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. He
holds a B.S. in Architectural Studies and a Master of Architecture (Structures)
from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. He is a Licensed Structural
Engineer in Illinois, a Licensed Professional Engineer in Wisconsin, and a
Licensed Architect in Illinois and numerous other states. Mr. Boyd has over 30
years of experience in the structural engineering design of buildings,
construction project administration, condition assessment and investigation,
building restoration, retrofit and rehabilitation design, and project
troubleshooting for a diverse range of project types including high-rise
commercial office and residential buildings, industrial structures, educational
facilities, parking structures, pedestrian bridges, marine waterfront
structures, and building cladding and enclosure systems.
He is a Past President of the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois, Past
Chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Building, Past President of the
Illinois Chapter of the American Concrete institute where he served as Chairman
of the 1985 Fall National ACI Convention. He is an active member of ASTM
Committee E6.55 on building exterior wall systems, and served as co-editor of
"Water Problems in Building Exterior Walls: Evaluation, Prevention, and Repair"
STP 1352 and "Repair, Retrofit and Inspection of Building Exterior Wall Systems"
STP 1493, published by ASTM. He has been a significant contributor in the
development of numerous ASTM standards related to the design, inspection and
evaluation of building exterior wall systems. Mr. Boyd holds SECB, NCEES and
NCARB Certifications.
Vicki Arbitrio is an Associate Partner with the New York City office of Gilsanz Murray Steficek, a structural engineering and building envelope consulting firm. Vicki has been with GMS since 2000 and has been engineering structures for over 25 years, both new buildings and renovation projects. She holds a BSCE from Tufts University and began her career at Weiskopf & Pickworth. Vicki is currently a Director for the Applied Technology Council (ATC), the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC-NY) Metropolitan Region Board of Directors and a Past-President of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA).
Richard Fencl is the Technical Director for Gensler’s North Central Region. Mr. Fencl’s role focuses on the technical merit and quality assurance of the Firm’s work and he brings 36 years of practical know-how and architectural engineering to the profession through a broad range of projects. Mr. Fencl’s project experience has focused on the technical development and constructability of building systems, including selection of materials and methodology; specification development; product and system research; general oversight of construction; exterior wall testing and development; and hands on troubleshooting/forensics. Fencl is past Chairman of AIA Chicago’s Technical Committee and of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings. A guest lecturer within collegiate architectural programs, Mr. Fencl has also presented at AIA and ASHRAE National Conventions and has served on the editing boards for PCI and GANA.