Fari Barzegar, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. Barzegar is the founding principal of Habitat Engineering & Forensics. He is a registered professional engineer
with over 23-years of experience in engineering consulting, design, construction project management, university
education and research. He specializes in the following areas:
- Structural & Civil Engineering; Engineering Mechanics
- Expert Consulting & Witness; Litigation Support
- Insurance Claims; Analysis & Preparation
- Construction Defects, Accidents & Disputes
- Slip, Trip & Fall Accidents; Personal Injuries
- Building Design & Construction; Historic Preservation; Peer Reviews
- Seismic Resistant Design & Retrofit; Dynamic Analysis
- Structural Evaluation and Rehabilitation; Attachments to Buildings
- Concrete & other Construction Materials Evaluation; Non-Destructive Testing
- Condition Assessment of Bridges, Water Containment Vessels, Grain Silos,
Foundations, Retaining Walls, Slabs & Pavements, Conduits and Pipelines
- Analysis of Damage Caused by Vibration (pile driving, demolition, etc), Impact,
Blast, Wind, Earthquake, Fire, Hurricane & Flood
- Code Compliance; Standards of Care; OSHA Standards
- Due Diligence & Forensic Investigations
- Root-Cause & Failure Analysis
- Finite Element (linear & nonlinear) Stress, Thermal, Fracture & Plasticity
Analysis; Product Design
- Intellectual Property & Patent Infringement
Dr. Barzegar's experience in Damage Assessment & Forensic Investigations as Expert Consultant & Witness
includes facilities affected by natural (earthquake, wind & flood) and man-made (vibrations, impact & blast) hazards,
construction defects/accidents, failure analysis, and repair and remediation design. Amongst numerous projects, Dr.
Barzegar has investigated buildings, bridges, industrial installations, foundations & retaining walls, excessive floor
vibrations, failure of concrete & steel grain silos, water storage tanks and underground water conduits, distress in
slabs and pavements, concrete mix design and placement, defective concrete & terrazzo, flood and vibration damage
to historic buildings, structures affected by wind, fire and explosion, blast in coal mines and in chemical plants, pile
driving damage to adjacent buildings, water intrusion problems, failures and injuries during construction, demolition
damage, construction contracts & disputes, and slip, trip & fall cases. Dr. Barzegar has been retained by the
construction, insurance, mining, manufacturing and hi-technology industries, legal counsel for plaintiff and defense,
other organizations, and individuals.
Dr. Barzegar's structural engineering design experience includes single and multi-unit wood-frame residential, steel,
concrete and masonry buildings, and adobe custom-designed "Green Homes". He has also served as "structural
engineer of record" for additions and retrofits to single-family residences, and tenant improvements to commercial
buildings. Dr. Barzegar consults on dynamic, blast, and seismic analysis & design incorporating computer-based three-
dimensional modeling, nonlinear pushover and performance-based studies (SEMI Code, ASCE, FEMA & ATC
Guidelines) and finite element stress analysis.
Dr. Barzegar was on the faculty of the Structural Engineering Department at the University of New South Wales
(Sydney-Australia) and the Civil Engineering Department at Louisiana State University. Prior to founding Habitat
Engineering & Forensics, he also held positions at Zolman Construction & Development, Struct-Tech Group
(design/build firm), Rutherford & Chekene Consulting Engineers, and Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, in San
Francisco Bay Area.
Dr. Barzegar's Publications have appeared in various professional journals. He has served as a reviewer for a
number of technical journals.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. (Civil/Structural Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987
- M.S. (Civil/Structural Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
- B.S. (Civil Engineering, with High Honors), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981
CREDENTIALS AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
- Registered Professional Engineer (Civil), State of California, (Registration # C61998)
- Charter Member, Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- Licensed California General Building Contractor, (Registration B, 846888)
- Chartered Professional Engineer, The Institution of Engineers, Australia (Registration #1044611)
- Member: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineers Association of Northern California,
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, The American Concrete Institute (ACI), American Institute of Steel
Construction, International Code Council, Forensic Expert Witness Association, California Preservation
Foundation, The Institution of Engineers-Australia, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
- Interviewed by NPR (National Public Radio), Pacifica Radio, Bloomberg & CNN News for expertise on failure
investigations and San Francisco Bay Bridge retrofit
- Expert Reviewer for Complaints Filed against Licensed Engineers: California Board for Professional
Engineers & Land Surveyors
- Member: Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 447 on Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- Associate Member: Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 352 on Joints and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures
- Alfred Noble Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for a meritorious technical paper published
in the Journal of Structural Engineering, 1990
- Associate Editor: Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE (Committee on Concrete and Masonry Structures),
October 1991- May 1992
- Reviewer: technical articles for the Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), the Structural Journal of the
American Concrete Institute, and International Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics
- Reviewed the manuscripts of two texts on Finite Element Structural Analysis, and Fundamentals of the Finite
Element Method, for West Educational Publishing
- Chair: Technical session on “Structural Shapes”, Third International Conference on Composites in
Infrastructure, San Francisco, California (2002)
- Cited in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd Edition (1996-97)
- Principal Investigator on several research grants from U.S. National Science Foundation, Louisiana State
University Council on Research, Louisiana Transportation Research Center & Federal Highway Administration,
Australian Research Council, and the College of Engineering at the University of New South Wales
- Supervised five doctoral dissertations and eight masters theses/reports (Louisiana State Univ. & the Univ. of
New South Wales)
- Coordinator of Post-Graduate Research, School of Civil Engineering, and a member of the Higher Degree
Committee, College of Engineering, University of New South Wales (Australia), 1994-95
- Halliburton Education Foundation Faculty Development Grant, College of Engineering, Louisiana State
University, 1987
- Scholarship for graduate studies, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(1981-86)
- Dean's List for academic excellence (1979-81)
- “Construction Management” course, Cal State East Bay SBDC, Oakland, CA, 2006
- “Systems Analysis and Design” computer course, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA, 2001
- “Spread-Sheets and Data Bases” computer course, TAEF College, Sydney- Australia, 1996
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