Fari Barzegar, Ph.D., P.E.
Fari is the founding principal of HE&F. He is a registered professional engineer and a licensed general building
contractor with over 21 years of experience as an engineering consultant, construction project manager, educator
and researcher. Fari provides consultancy in the following areas:
- Structural & Civil Engineering; Engineering Mechanics
- Building Design & Construction; Historic Preservation
- Seismic Resistant Design & Retrofit; Dynamic Analysis
- Structural Evaluation and Rehabilitation; Attachments to Buildings
- Concrete & Repair Material Evaluation
- Condition Assessment of Foundations, Retaining Walls, Slabs & Pavements,
Bridges, Water Treatment & Sanitary Structures, Underground Conduits and
Pipelines
- Analysis of Damage Caused by Vibration (pile driving, etc), Impact, Blast, Wind,
Earthquake, Fire, Hurricane & Flood
- Code Compliance; Standards of Care
- Due Diligence & Forensic Investigations
- Root-Cause & Failure Analysis
- Finite Element (linear & nonlinear) Stress & Thermal Analysis; Product Design
- Construction Defects, Accidents & Disputes
- Insurance Claims (Analysis, Preparation); Peer Reviews
- Slip, Trip & Fall Accidents
- Intellectual Property & Patent Infringement
- Expert Witness Services; Litigation Support
Fari's design experience includes single and multi-unit wood-frame residential, steel and concrete buildings, and
adobe custom-designed homes. He has also designed additions and retrofits to several single-family residences. Fari
is consulted on dynamic (including blast) and seismic analysis & design including computer-based three-dimensional
modeling, nonlinear pushover and performance-based studies (SEMI Code, FEMA & ATC Guidelines) and detailed
finite element stress analysis.
Fari's forensic and expert witness expertise ha focused on performance evaluation of constructed facilities
including the effects of natural (earthquake, wind, flood) and man-made (vibrations, impact, blast) hazards, damage
assessment, and repair and retrofit design. He has investigated buildings, foundations & retaining walls, excessive
floor vibrations, failure of concrete grain silos and water storage tanks and underground water conduits, distress in
pavements, concrete mix design and placement, flood damage to historic buildings, blast in coal mines and in chemical
plants, pile driving damage, failures during construction and construction disputes. He has been retained by counsel
for both plaintiff and defendant cases.
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 company), Rutherford & Chekene Consulting
Engineers, and Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr. Barzegar has published extensively in various professional journals and is currently 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, High Honors), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981
CREDENTIALS AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
- Registered Professional Engineer (Civil), State of California (Registration # C61998)
- Licensed California General Contractor (Registration # B846888)
- Charter Member, Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- 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
- 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
A Complete Professional C.V. Available on Request
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