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CPUC Risk Assessment
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has issued a draft decision on exemptions from rotating outages. They retained Exponent to evaluate and prioritize requests from business customers for exemptions from rotating outages based on potential impacts to public health and safety. Click here to read recent news on this project.

Ali Reza, P.E. Appointed Office Director
Mr. Ali Reza, P.E. has been appointed Office Director of Exponent's Southern California offices. He specializes in the engineering analysis of fires, explosions and detonations. Much of his research is focused on studying the cause, origin, and propagation of fires and explosions, particularly in relation to heat transfer, gas dynamics and fluid mechanics associated with combustion processes. He also has specialized expertise in the design and performance evaluation of combustion devices including pressure vessels, boilers, heating systems and home appliances. Mr. Reza has investigated several hundred fire or explosion incidents including chemical plant incidents, dust explosions, munitions disposal/ accidental ignition and residential or commercial fires. Mr. Reza has been a member of Exponent's Fires & Explosions practice for 12 years and will continue his consulting activities.

Dr. David Sykora
The Irvine office welcomes David W. Sykora, Ph.D., G.E., Managing Engineer, to Exponent's Civil/Structural Engineering practice. Dr. Sykora joined Exponent specializes in and earthquake engineering as well as the evaluation of failures and natural disasters. He has a wide range of project experience in the planning, feasibility assessment, analysis, design, construction, and monitoring phases for new and existing projects.

"Exponent acquires Lockwood-Singh & Associates"
Exponent acquires Lockwood-Singh & Associates, a Los Angeles based provider of geotechnical engineering and geologic consulting services...

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