Ron Mayes

Background

About Ron Mayes

On November 30th the US Resiliency Council (USRC - launched the USRC Earthquake Building Rating System. The Rating System assigns one to five stars for three performance measures—Safety, Damage (repair cost) and Recovery (time to regain basic function). This first-of-its-kind performance rating is based on decades of earthquake engineering research and observations of earthquake damage. According to Ron Mayes, Acting Executive Director of USRC, “With the USRC rating system, users will receive reliable and consistent information about a building’s expected performance during an earthquake and be able to use that information for purchasing or leasing decisions on the buildings in which we live, work and invest. The USRC rating system allows an owner to specify the desired level of performance rather than accept by default the life safety performance of a building designed to the minimum level prescribed by the building code. We intend to expand our resiliency ratings to include other natural hazards such as hurricanes, tornadoes and floods in the near future.” The link to the news release and quotes from prominent professionals can be found Ron has 40 years of management and technical expertise in earthquake and structural engineering. His technical experience includes working with many of the world’s leading authorities in earthquake and structural engineering and he is highly respected by his peers in these areas. He recently served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Structural Engineers of Northern California and is a past Vice- President of The Masonry Society. He is a Fellow of the Structural Engineers Association of California and was selected as “Structural Engineer of the Year” by the Wiley Journal “Design of Tall and Other Buildings” in 2006.