Profile

ANTHONY B. COURT, SE
President

Professional Registration

  • Structural Engineer/Civil Engineer, California - SE 2709, C32930
  • PE Civil/Structural Engineer, Washington - 36628

Academic & Employment

  • Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering - San Diego State University - 1979
  • Graduate Studies in Structural Engineering - SDSU, University of California San Diego - 1993
  • Structural Preservation of Architectural Heritage - IABSE, Rome, Italy - 1993

  • 1977-1981  Flores & Stedman/Stedman & Dyson - Project Engineer
  • 1981-1988  George R. Saunders Associates - Project Manager & Structural Engineer
  • 1988-2008  Curry Price Court - Principal, Vice President - Architectural Engineering
  • 2008-Present  A. B. Court & Associates – Principal, President

Professional Activities / Public Service

  • Structural Engineers Association of San Diego (SEAOSD)
    • President, 1992-1993; Various Other Board Positions, 1985-1994
    • SEAOSD Ad Hoc Committee on Seismic Zonation for San Diego
    • Sustainable Design Committee – Chair 2008-2009
  • Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) - Director, 1993-1996
    • Existing Buildings Committee, 1989 – Present – Chair 2008-2009
    • Vision 2000 Project - Development of Performance Based Seismic Guidelines
    • Performance Based Seismic Engineering ADHOC Committee - Vice Chair - Lead Guideline Writer
    • Post Disaster Performance Observation Committee – Lead Guideline Writer
  • CALGreen – CBSC Focus Group for developing updates to CA Green Building Standards Code
  • City of San Diego Board of Appeals and Advisors, 1989-1994
  • City Manager's Committee on Seismic Retrofit - URM Ordinance, 1990-1992
  • International Building Code - Performance Code Committee, 2000-2005
  • National Science Foundation - Advisory Panel for Seismic Code Development Research
  • ASCE Standards Committee - FEMA 356 Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
  • California Seismic Peer Review Board for State Seismic Retrofit Projects, 1998-2008
  • Applied Technology Council, Board of Directors, 2001-2004
  • ATC 58 – Performance Based Seismic Design Guidelines – Project Steering Committee
  • ATC 86 – Integration of Sustainable Design into Performance Based Seismic Design – Technical Director
  • L’ Aquila, Italy Earthquake – Multi-national Structural Evaluation Team, 2009, U.S. Representative
  • Christchurch. New Zealand Earthquake – SEAOC Evaluation Team, 2011

Selected Recent Presentations

  • SEAOC Observations & Lessons Learned,
    February 22 2011 Christchurch Earthquake Report     - Keynote Presentation, SEAOC Annual Convention, Las Vegas, September 2011
  • Christchurch Earthquake Report – SEAOC Observations following the February 22, 2011 New Zealand Earthquake: Parallels to San Diego -
    Presented to Structural Engineers of San Diego, September 2011
  • SEAOC Observations and Lessons Following the February 22 2011 Christchurch Earthquake - Webinar presented to the Structural Engineers of California, April 28, 2011
  • Building Inventory and Seismic Vulnerability in San Diego County considering a 7.3 Earthquake on the Rose Canyon Fault - Keynote Presentation, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Annual Convention, February 2011.
  • Sustainable Design for Structural Engineers - Presented to the Structural Engineers Association of San Diego, September 2009.
  • Seismic Evaluation & Retrofit – Historic to Modern - Presented to Structural Engineers of San Diego, April 20, 2009.
  • Seismic Retrofit of Historic Buildings - Presented to the California Preservation Foundation, March 2008.
  • Seismic Retrofit of the Balboa Theatre - Presented to Structural Engineers Association of San Diego and the American Society of Civil Engineers, December 2006.
  • Performance Based Seismic Engineering –the SEAOC Guidelines - Presented on several occasions including to SEAOC Annual Convention, SEAOSD, SEAOC Seismology Committee.
  • Vision 2000 - A Conceptual Framework for Performance Based Seismic Engineering - Presented in several venues to the SEAOC Annual Convention, SEAOC Seismology Committee, SEAOSD,  ICC Performance Code Committee, Structural Engineers Work Congress – 1998, ICC Performance Code Committee, National Science Foundation – Advisory Group for Seismic Code Research.