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, construction project management, university education
and research. He specializes in the following areas:
- Structural & Civil Engineering; Engineering Mechanics
- Expert Consulting & Witness; Litigation Support (plaintiff & defense)
- 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 & Repair Material Evaluation
- Condition Assessment of Bridges, Water Containment Vessels, Grain Silos,
Foundations, Retaining Walls, Slabs & Pavements, Conduits and Pipelines
- Analysis of Damage Caused by Vibration (e.g. pile driving, demolition), Impact,
Blast, Wind, Earthquake, Fire, Hurricane & Flood
- Code Compliance; Standards of Care; OSHA
- 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 forensic investigations and expert consulting/witness have focused on performance and
condition assessment of constructed facilities, including the effects of natural (earthquake, wind, flood) and man-
made (vibrations, impact, blast) hazards, vulnerability and damage assessment, and repair and retrofit design. He
has investigated buildings, foundations & retaining walls, excessive floor vibrations, failure of concrete & steel grain
silos, water storage tanks and underground water conduits, distress in slabs, pavements, concrete mix design and
placement, flood damage to historic buildings, structures affected by wind, fire and explosion, blast in coal mines and
in chemical plants, pile driving damage, water intrusion issues, failures and injuries during construction, construction
contracts & disputes, and slip, trip & fall cases. He has been retained by the insurance industry and counsel for both
plaintiff and defense.
His design experience includes single and multi-unit wood-frame residential, steel, concrete and masonry buildings,
and adobe custom-designed "Green Homes". He has also engineered additions and retrofits to single-family
residences, and tenant improvements to commercial buildings. Dr. Barzegar is consulted 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 advanced 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. He has 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 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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