He may have a name that you associate with fast food but he is a greatly respected expert in his field -
Senior Principal, Director, Western Region SE Head at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Golden Gate University Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Senior Principal, Director
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Jun 2002 - Present 19 yrs 8 mos
Direction of staff of 40 structural engineers and support staff in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Orange County, California. Project types include: - Structural design and peer review - Seismic evaluations and upgrades - Blast and Progressive Collapse Consultation - Failure investigation - Construction litigation consultation
Ronald Hamburger has more than 30 years of experience in design, construction, education, research, evaluation, investigation and repair of commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities.
He is an internationally recognized expert in performance-based structural, earthquake and blast engineering, and has played a lead role in the development of national structural engineering standards and building code provisions.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Mr. Hamburger served as the lead investigator into the collapse of New York’s twin World Trade Center towers on behalf of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Mr. Hamburger has lectured at the University of California at Berkley, the University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, and numerous other academic institutions.
He is present chair of the Structural Engineering Certification Board, a past President of the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations, a past President and Fellow of the Structural Engineers Association of California and the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, and a past Director and Vice President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.