AUGUST 2010 MEETING
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

3:30 p.m.to 4:30 p.m. Ethics Workshop (1.0 PDH in Ethics)
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Main Presentation (1.0 PDH)

LOCATION: Hess Club
5430 Westheimer
Houston, Texas 77056
713-627-2283
(Business casual dress code required)

Your reservations are appreciated. Please click here to make your reservation online, or contact: Vicky Bonds at Geotech Engineering and Testing, Tel. 713-699-4000 at least 24 hours before the meeting.

Continuing Education Certificates will be provided at the end of the meeting for attendees that are current members and who have made reservations.

This technical program is complimentary to you thanks in part to our Room Sponsors

WORKSHOP

Ethics

One-hour workshop with speaker C.W. Clark, P.E. from TBPE

For details click here

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Test Methods for Evaluating Existing Foundations

Speaker: FPA member Al Bustamante, P.E., CDT, with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., Houston, TX Tel: 832-467-2177

Al Bustamante, is a Senior Associate with the Houston Office of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE). Mr. Bustamante has been involved with the evaluation, testing, and design repairs of foundations and parking structures, non-destructive testing of concrete structures, structural metal computer modeling and analysis, and exterior wall cladding evaluation and design repair. Mr. Bustamante is a Texas licensed professional engineer, a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), and he chairs the Foundation Performance Association's Structural Subcommittee # FPA-SC-02.

PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Several years ago the FPA's Structural Committee recognized a need in the industry to produce a document that could aid forensic engineers and forensic consultants in identifying applicable test methods available to them in their evaluation of lightly loaded concrete foundations and pavements. An ad hoc subcommittee # FPA-SC-02 of ten engineers was formed in July 2007 to compile the comprehensive document that the subcommittee's chair, Mr. Bustamante will present.

Although more test methods may be added to the paper during the FPA peer review process (due to commence next month), Mr. Bustamante will summarily address the paper's current 26 test methods ranging from simple tests such as ground probing and chain dragging to sophisticated remote sensing testing such as impact echo and resistivity testing.

Those benefiting from this presentation include forensic engineers, forensic consultants, inspectors, structural and geotechnical engineers, attorneys, builders, repair contractors, building and infrastructure owners, and others interested in the various test methods currently available for the forensic evaluation of concrete foundations and pavements.

MEETING AGENDA

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WORKSHOP

Registration: 3:00 - 3:25 (door closes at 3:30)

FPA Members - Complimentary
Nonmembers - $25.00 - Pay at the door (cash or check only)

Your reservations are appreciated. Please click here to make your reservation online, or contact: Vicky Bonds at Geotech Engineering and Testing, Tel. 713-699-4000 at least 24 hours before the meeting.

Pre-registered members and pre-registered paid nonmembers will received one-hour of ethics credit at the close of the workshop.

If you are staying for the technical presentation afterwards, please sign in again after the workshop.

Ethics

Speaker: C.W. Clark, P.E., Director of Compliance & Enforcement Division at Texas State Board of Professional Engineers, Tel. 512-440-7723.

Mr. Clark will present a one-hour seminar on ethics that is designed to fulfill the Texas Board of Professional Engineers' annual one-hour ethics requirement in order to maintain a PE license.

As Director of the Compliance & Enforcement Division of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers, Mr. Clark manages the day-to-day operations of the division to include policy advisory opinions, compliance reviews of continuing education audits, seal imprint approvals, investigations of enforcement cases against violators, and providing outreach programs to educate the public and licensed engineers on engineering matters pertaining to the Board and the Engineering Practice Act.

Before joining the State of Texas, Mr. Clark worked in private industry as an Electrical Engineer with Motorola, Inc. in Austin for 21 years, and prior to that, eight years with Texas Instruments in Dallas.  Mr. Clark is a BSEE graduate of Southern Methodist University and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  C.W. and his wife, Jan, have two adult children and live in the Austin area.  C.W. and Jan have also been active with foster parenting and over the past 32 years have had the great pleasure of fostering more than 245 infants and children.