About Me

North Berkeley is a structural engineering company located in Vancouver, Canada. What we do is go to places that have recently had a natural disaster and help local government access the damage done to buildings. My job is to give an engineering opinion of exactly what needs to be done to the buildings harmed by a natural disaster.

PHASE ONE: 2-3 days this is the effort to find survivors and save them. I am a member of an urban search and rescue taskforce in Vancouver, Canada, and I can contribute expertise during this phase.

PHASE TWO: Recovery. ~2 weeks. At this point, most initial survivors have either been rescued or have perished. Therefore, this phase is about recovering and identifying bodies.

PHASE THREE: Restoration. ~1-3 years. This the main phase that I'm involved with. It is the phase where buildings are assessed and repaired or replaced. Typically, buildings in a town are done in this order: hospitals, airports, schools, city and government buildings, and finally residentail buildings.

Why Hire Me

I have three main strengths: Strong technical expertise, rapid response, and background training in working in austere environments. technical expertise means engineering knowledge, from a wide variety of countries and structural media (concrete, steel, wood, etc.). Rapid response: I have the ability to relocate rapidly, to respond to major events. austere environments means places with little to no infrastructure (like water, sewer plumbing, food, or shelter). My primary experiences with this were in Haiti, after their major earthquakes. I am also an engineering officer in the Canadian Armed Forces.

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