Jon Heintz, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, a structural engineer and executive director at the Applied Technology Council in Redwood City, California, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Heintz has more than 35 years of practice in structural design, structural engineering applied research, natural hazard mitigation, policy development, and strategic planning on research needs at the national level.
His design practice has included new buildings as well as seismic evaluation and strengthening of existing buildings, on projects ranging from historic and iconic unreinforced masonry buildings, through older concrete shear wall buildings, to modern structural steel hospital and office buildings, and unique transportation structures. In more than two decades at ATC, Heintz has led 100-plus applied research and technology transfer projects and produced more than 200 technical reports contributing to the advancement of engineering practice and the update of model building codes and standards.
Heintz’s professional activities at ASCE have focused on existing buildings. He served as a member of the ASCE Standards Committee on Seismic Rehabilitation, which produced the first editions of the ASCE 31 and ASCE 41 Standards on seismic evaluation and rehabilitation, as well as subsequent editions that merged both documents into the single ASCE 41–Standard for Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings. His projects at ATC have provided the technical basis for updates to ASCE 41 and ASCE 7 design criteria in the seismic, wind, tsunami, and coastal inundation hazard areas.
He has been recognized as a fellow by the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) and the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC), and is a recipient of the Helmut Krawinkler Award, for leadership in implementing state-of-the-art research into engineering practice.
Heintz received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degrees in civil (structural) engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
