Be of Help After a Disaster – Become a Registered Safety Assessment Evaluator!
Cal-OES SAP Evaluator Training for post-disaster building Safety Assessment Program (SAP) provides architects, engineers, and building inspectors with the knowledge to provide evaluations of facilities and buildings in the aftermath of a disaster.
Disasters create terrible consequences, forcing people out of their homes into temporary shelters and closing down communities. With SAP trainers able to deploy into an affected area, they can quickly evaluate damaged structures, identifying those that are safe for occupancy, while marking those that are unsafe or have restricted use.
ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS:
All building industry professionals are welcome. In addition, the following licensed practitioners will be eligible to perform post-disaster assessments after successfully completing SAP training as certified California Disaster Service Worker:
- Professionally licensed architects (from any state);
- Professionally registered civil, structural, or geotechnical engineers (from any state);
- Professionally registered geologists or engineering geologists;
- ICC and ACIA certified building inspectors or officials and public works inspectors.
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DATE: Saturday, February 29, 2020
TIME: 8:30 – 9:00am Registration & Breakfast refreshments; 9:00am – 5:00pm Seminar (1/2 hour lunch break – attendees to bring brown bag lunch)
PLACE: AIACV Gallery, 1400 S Street, Suite 100, Sacramento
COST: $40 for AIA Members, $50 for Non-Members (Includes training materials. Cal-OES to issue registration ID cards to eligible participants.)
REGISTER: saptraining2020.bpt.me
AIA/CES: 7 LU | HSW
INSTRUCTOR: LESTER G. MEU, AIA
Lester G. Meu, a practicing architect for 40 years and President of George Meu Associates in Oakland California, has construction field review responsibilities for firm projects, many in high seismic risk areas. Since the 1989 California Loma Prieta earthquake, he has performed post-earthquake private sector reviews of commercial buildings and also ASTM Property Condition Assessments. Lester is a California Office of Emergency Services (Cal-OES) Post Disaster Safety Assessment Evaluator, both a Cal-OES and AIA SAP Trainer, and has served on the AIA National Disaster Assistance Committee since 2019. His SAP deployments span from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to the more recent 2017 and 2018 Northern California Firestorms.
For reasonable accommodations or alternate formats, please contact AIA Central Valley at least 72 hours prior to the event: [email protected] or 916-444-3658.