Scott Erickson
Council Designated Expert
About
Scott Erickson's depth of structural engineering experience in high-rise residential, hotel, and office tower design is significant. For 30 years, his celebration of architectural ideas while maintaining economy of structure and ease of construction have pleased many architects, owners, and contractors alike. He is known for his strong leadership in developing creative solutions using performance based design methods that give project teams architectural freedom.
As a young engineer, he worked on one of the first seismic performance based design buildings in the United States in Seattle, Washington. He was also the first in the country to use grade 80 longitudinal reinforcing in a concrete shear wall lateral system in a San Francisco high rise. Partially due to his effort working with peer reviewers on this performance based design project and requiring low cycle fatigue tests on the bars, the newest version of the ACI code now allows this. He was also recently part of the ACI 318 Wind Performance Based Design subcommittee that produced the first appendix in ACI 318-25 for this type of design.
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