Engineer Project Manager

Joshua Marrow, P.E.Senior Project Manager

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M.S., Civil Engineering and Structural Mechanics, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., Architectural Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoRegistrations

Registered Professional Engineer (Civil), California

California Office of Emergency Services Certified Post Earthquake InspectorAffiliations

Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Member, Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)

Member, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Member, Applied Technology Council (ATC)

Member, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)United States Patents

Restraint System and Method for Protecting Barrels in a Barrel Stack Against Earthquake Damage - US Patent No. 6,050,538Distinctions

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - New Faces of Civil Engineering Award

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) - Shah Family Innovation Prize for Innovation in Earthquake Engineering

California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) - Sam Helwer Memorial AwardExperience Summary

Mr. Marrow has over 15 years of experience in the field of structural and earthquake engineering consulting for a wide variety of clients, both public and private. He has served in a variety of roles throughout his career including project designer, project engineer, lead engineer and technical manager for projects of all levels of complexity.

Mr. Marrow has consulted on a variety of projects for a broad range of clients, including architects, contractors, building owners, real estate developers and equity managers, lenders, high technology manufacturers, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, wineries and distilleries, insurance companies as well as local, state and federal government property owners.

As a seasoned professional engineer he has an exceptionally diverse technical background, with consulting experience spanning a full spectrum from structural design and construction, to complex seismic risk due diligence consulting. His expertise includes seismic risk analysis of buildings and infrastructure,, structural design of new buildings, seismic retrofit and rehabilitation of existing buildings, construction engineering, seismic hazard mitigation, forensic investigations and construction litigation consulting.

The US Wine Industry recognizes Mr. Marrow as the premier seismic risk expert for winery and distilling operations. He has worked with a wide variety of wine industry clients over the past decade to assess their seismic risk and develop hazard mitigation strategies that are sympathetic to their unique operations. He has also consulted with numerous global biotechnology companies on seismic risk of buildings and process facilities.

Recently, Mr. Marrow was the technical manager for a $400 million defense department contract for the United States Marine Corp. He lead a large team of engineers, technical writers and quality assurance engineers and was responsible for the technical development, design, construction document development, manufacturing QA/QC and construction management for modular training facilities at sites in the United States, Hawaii and Japan.

Mr. Marrow contributes to the advancement of seismic engineering and due diligence through his involvement in numerous organizations including Building Code Standards committees, FEMA pre-code technical committees, EERI earthquake reconnaissance teams, and industry technical organizations.Project ExperienceSeismic Risk Consulting

Mr. Marrow has been engaged by a wide variety of clients requesting seismic risk consulting services. His project experience includes building portfolio assessments and business disruption consulting for hundreds of West Coast wineries and numerous San Francisco Bay Area biotechnology companies, including Gilead Sciences and Genentech. He has authored and peer reviewed over 200 seismic risk reports for lenders, insurance companies and equity managers.Structural Analysis and Building Design

Mr. Marrow has been responsible for the design and construction administration of a variety of new buildings and building rehabilitation projects. He is experienced with the design and evaluation of steel, concrete, wood-framed, light-gage steel framed, and masonry construction. His projects include a 4-story steel-framed office building in San Francisco, a 4-story precast concrete and shotcrete telecommunications collocation facility in San Francisco, seismic retrofit of numerous pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Williams Sonoma Flag Ship Store in San Francisco.Earthquake Reconnaissance

As a licensed professional engineer, Mr. Marrow has been a member of numerous post-earthquake investigation teams. He has investigated building damage for earthquakes both domestic and internationally, including the 2004 Parkfield, 2003 San Simeon, 2001 Molise Italy, 2000 Yountville, and 1999 Chi-Chi Taiwan earthquakes.Structural Investigations and Forensics

Mr. Marrow has investigated a variety of complex forensics matters. He experience includes the evaluation and legal support for San Francisco State University campus, San Francisco International Airport, the WaterWorld water slide collapse, residential fire investigations, Las Vegas casino vapor intrusion and structural defect dispute, and the roof collapse investigation of a major San Francisco Bay Area retail store.Speaking

Mr. Marrow has spoken regularly at industry events and conferences. He has been invited by numerous companies to present on seismic risk assessment and hazard mitigation, and has presented numerous papers at EERI and SEAOC conferences.Articles and Publications

Mr. Marrow has published numerous technical papers and articles in peer reviewed technical journals and industry publications. Throughout his career he has augmented his consulting practice with authoring articles to better educate his clients and publish in technical journals, contributing to the state of the art in seismic and structural engineering.Publications Include:

EERI Learning from Earthquakes Report 2003 M6.5 San Simeon Earthquake, Marrow, J. with others, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Special Publication, March 2005

Applications for Italian Earthquake Damage Data, Bazzurro, P., Maffei, J., Marrow, J., Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Beyond Reconnaissance Grant Publication, March 2005

Recommended Guidance for the Seismic Design of Structural Steel Pallet Storage Racks and the Securing of Contents in Areas Accessible to the General Public, Marrow, J. as chair of contents subcommittee for the Rack Project Task Group of the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC), Chapters 3 and 9, Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), March 2005

A Mausoleum on Shaky Ground, Searls, C., Mayes, R., Marrow, J., American Preservation Technology Journal (APT), April 2005

Lessons Learned on the Fault Line, Marrow, J., Practical Winery & Vineyard, May-June 2004

Preliminary Report on the 2 December 2003, M6.5 San Simeon, California Earthquake, Hardebeck, J. et al, Seismological Research Letters, March/April 2004, Volume 75, Number 2

EERI Special Earthquake Report - Preliminary Observations on the 2003 M6.5 San Simeon Earthquake, Marrow, J. with others, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Special Earthquake Report, March 2004

EERI Special Earthquake Report - Preliminary Observations on the October 31 November 1, 2002 Molise, Italy Earthquake Sequence, Marrow, J. with others, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Special Earthquake Report, January 2003

Experimental Studies on the Earthquake Performance of Wine Barrel Stacks, Marrow, J., Proceedings of the EERI 7th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002

The Seismic Vulnerability of the California Wine Industry - An Experimental Assessment, Marrow, J., Proceedings of the 2002 Structural Engineers Association of California Convention, Santa Barbara, California, 2002

Earthquake Reconnaissance Report - 2000 M5.2 Yountville/Napa Earthquake Implications for the California Wine Industry, Marrow, J., Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Special Publication, 2000

Wineries Can Reduce Risk of Loss through Risk Management, Marrow, J., Wine Business Monthly, Nov. 1999

California Wine Industry Seismic Risk Analysis and Experimentation Project, Marrow, J., Applied Technology Council ATC-29-1 Conference, San Francisco, California, Jan. 1998

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