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Biggs Consulting Engineering, PLLC

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Biggs Consulting Engineering, PLLC

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David Biggs, P.E., S.E., Biggs Consulting Engineering

The structural engineering firm specializes in forensic engineering, masonry design, and restoration. In addition, the firm is involved with research projects and provides consulting for the development of new masonry products. Additional work includes design and review of new construction, evaluation of existing structures, disaster investigations, and lecturing.​


Services

  • Structural engineering
  • Masonry design 
  • Historic restoration
  • Forensic structural engineering
  • Peer reviews​
  • Product development and consulting

News

Current/Recent Projects

Current/Recent Projects

David Biggs, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Helen Davidson of Engineering New Zealand

April 2023

Presented with recognition as a 50-year member of American Concrete Institute at the ACI Spring 2023 Concrete Convention.


February and March 2019

Presented nine seminars throughout New Zealand on Structural Forensic Engineering. Pictured above with then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Helen Davidson of Engineering New Zealand.


February-March 2023

Biggs received Fulbright Specialist grant from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Served as a Lecturer/consultant to the International Masters program Structural Analysis of Historic Monuments and Constructions at the University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.


March 2023

Presented five master classes on masonry design and detailing for architects and engineers sponsored by the Upstate Chapter of the Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA)


March 2022

Received a grant from NCMA  Education and Research Foundation for Hosting a Concrete Masonry Design Center Summit in St Louis, MO June 15-16, 2022.  


Recertified as a Safety Assessment Program Evaluator for the State of California to be assigned Essential Emergency Duties during times of disaster or emergency.


December 2021

Appointed to the International Scientific Committee as plenary chair and speaker for 7th WORLD ENGINEERS CONVENTION 2023  (WEC 2023) in Prague, Czech Republic for the program on "Historical monuments - maintenance and preservation".


November 2021

Completed teaching the first Forensic Structural Engineering course for the University of Auckland NZ.


March 2021

Upstate NY ACI Chapter awarded CABVI project.  Biggs was masonry consultant to design team.

 

February 2021

David Biggs was appointed an Honorary Associate Professor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. 


December 2020

David Biggs became a member of New Zealand Structural Engineering Society (SESOC)


Radio interview - 2020 https://player.fm/series/hudson-mohawk-magazine/ancient-architecture-and-engineering-w-david-biggs


April 2019

Interviewed by BBC World News regarding the Notre Dame cathedral fire.

Lectured for the International Course on Stone Conservation sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles, CA and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome, Italy.


September 2018

Presented: "Stabilizing the Early Phrygian Gate Complex at Gordion, Turkey - Conservation Preparation" 11th at SAHC (Structural Analysis of Historic Construction) Conference, Cusco Peru.


May 2015

Leader of an international team of structural engineers who went to Nepal for earthquake damage assessments.


April 2018

David Biggs was presented the 2018 Dennis L. Tewsbury Award by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of ASCE.  


July 2015

Lectured for the International Course on Stone Conservation sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles, CA and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome, Italy. 

Current/Recent Projects

Current/Recent Projects

Current/Recent Projects

Historic restoration consultant for 

Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Bologna, Italy.


Structural condition assessment of 1906 Civil War Monument, Delhi, NY


Renovation of an 1880s brick and timber cottage in Saratoga Springs, NY. 


Structural and masonry design for 2 - 60,000 sf warehouses on Long Island, NY.


Preservation consultant for historic French Old Fort Niagara. Oldest building in the Great Lakes basin (c.1726).


Member of Masonry-industry Task Group to develop prototype tornado storm shelters for communities.


Prefabricated masonry design and development.


Peer reviews, forensic evaluations,  and masonry coalition solutions - school buildings, warehouse, chapel, prison buildings, and residence halls.


Completed the temporary stabilization of an historic clock tower (c.1887).


Completed the historic restoration of walls from Gordion, Turkey (c.900 BC).


Completed assessment of historic concrete construction (C. 1950) for the George Nakashima Foundation, New Hope, PA. Funding support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.



Publications

Current/Recent Projects

Publications

Since January 2017

Columnist for Masonry magazine - "Marvelous Masonry" and Masonry Design magazine - "Technical Talk"

  

April 2023

Co-authored " Effect of Opening Size in Unreinforced Masonry Walls Subjected to Lateral Loads: Computational

Modeling and Code Comparison" published in ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics,   2023, 149(7) 


May 2022

Authored New Dry-Stack Guidelines from The Masonry Society in the May 2022 issue of Structure magazine.


December 2021

Published a 20-year retrospective article titled "THE RESILIENCY OF MASONRY FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001" on the World Trade Center Disaster.  This was an invited article from the Brazilian Structural Association for their magazine Revista Estrutura.


Co-authored " Design and Construction Guidelines for Dry-Stack Concrete Masonry, TMS 1430-21" for The Masonry Society.


Sept 2021

Presented a paper "Restoration Authenticity or Reality - A Case Study" for 12th International Conference on Structural Analysis for Historic Construction.


May 2021

Presented a paper "The Environmental Benefits of Using Masonry-Specific Building Information Modeling Software". Co-authors Tom Cuneio of 3DiQ and Mark Swanson, IMI for the 14th Canadian Masonry Symposium.


September 2019

“FEMA P-2062, Guidelines for Wind Vulnerability Assessments of Existing Critical Facilities, contributing Author on Masonry Veneer, Federal Emergency Management Agency


June 2018

Co-authored "Comparison of Modelling Approaches to Analyzing Masonry Arch Bridges" with Jonathan Knudtsen and Petr Kable for 10th International Masonry Conference in Milan.


August 2017

Authored “Crossings: Bridges in the Adirondacks”, included in "The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region" by Janet Null, SUNY PRESS,  ISBN13: 978-1-4384-6666-8


August 2016

“Compressive Strength of Dry-Stacked Concrete Masonry Unit Assemblies”, S. Atamturktur, B. Ross, J. Thompson, D. Biggs, J. Mater. Civ. Eng., American Society of Civil Engineers, 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001693 , 06016020.


“In-situ assessment of the physical and mechanical properties of vintage solid clay bricks”, D. Dizhur, R. Lumantarna, D. T. Biggs, and J. M. Ingham, Journal of Materials and Structures, Springer (2016) 50: 63. doi:10.1617/s11527-016-0939-9


June 2016

“Post-tensioned concrete masonry roof panels: A case study”, D. Biggs, Proceedings of 15th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, Padua, Italy.

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