John G. Shipp, S.E., F.ASCE

Mr. Shipp is a licensed civil and structural engineer with over 40 years of diversified professional experience. Mr. Shipp has served as a structural engineering manager for numerous projects ranging in cost from $10 million to more than $200 million, and has supervised staffs of structural, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, architects, and designers. He has performed structural analysis and design, site-adaptation and proto-typical facility design, and seismic retrofit design of various municipal, commercial, residential, and industrial buildings, high-rise office and medical buildings, modular structures, offshore structures, petrochemical plants, and nuclear facilities. He has also been responsible for the development of structural design criteria, and the design and analysis of many buildings for retrofit construction to strengthen these structures to meet current building code criteria, and/or to repair damage caused by earthquakes. Mr. Shipp has also developed detailed analysis/design criteria for numerous essential facilities that require analysis for tornado-induced pressure and missile loads, ANSI wind and snow loads, seismic qualification of equipment, seismic analysis including two- and three-dimensional response spectra and time histories, blast design, and in-structure response spectra generated from both time histories and site-specific response spectra. He also has extensive experience in the application of FEMA 350-353, FEMA 273/356, and FEMA 310 (FEMA 178, ATC-14, ATC-22) methodologies.

Mr. Shipp has performed structural evaluation and retrofit analysis for damage caused by earthquakes to a variety of structural systems, including both low rise and high rise buildings, for most of the major earthquakes dating back to the 1971 Sylmar California earthquake, with extensive studies of damage from the 1987 Whittier, 1989 Loma Prieta, and the 1994 Northridge California earthquakes. Mr. Shipp has also performed similar studies for damage caused by wind and/or water (storm surge) due to Hurricane Katrina for buildings located in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Shipp was a Vice President and Office Director with ABS/EQE. Mr. Shipp was a part-time faculty member at the California State University, Long Beach, where he taught courses in structural analysis, timber design, steel design, reinforced concrete design, and advanced structural design and analysis

• Structural Engineers Association of California (Past President)
• Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (Past President)
• National Council of Structural Engineering Associations (Past Member Board of Directors)
• Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (Past Member Board of Directors)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Life
• ASCE Forensic Engineering Technical Group
• American College of Forensic Examiners
• Forensic Consultant’s Association of Orange County
• CSULB; American Institute of Steel Construction
• American Concrete Institute
• Portland Concrete Association
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
• The Masonry Society
• International Conference of Building Officials (Professional Member)
• Applied Technology Council (Past Member Board of Directors)
• National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying