J. GILBERT KAUFMAN, CEO & President, Atlantic Engineering Services of Pittsburgh

Position: Principal in Charge

Education: Department of Architecture, Carnegie-Mellon University, Bachelor of Architectural Engineering; Pennsylvania State University, 1986

Experience:

Mr. Kaufman has been providing consulting structural engineering service and expertise to architects and owners throughout AES’s market region since 1981. His background in architecture gives him an unusually strong appreciation for the needs of his architect clients. His projects include apartment complexes, extended nursing care facilities, office buildings, hospitals, theaters, and parking garages. In addition, he has developed an impressive list of structural rehabilitations of historic structures.

He is one of the regions experts in historic masonry restoration. This, along with his architectural sensitivity and extensive high-tech background in computer applications in structural engineering, produces originally creative solutions.

Professional Memberships: American Institute of Steel Construction, American Concrete Institute, Association for Preservation Technology, ASTM Committee E-9

Published Structures: "Wall Design Cut Costs"; ENGINEERING NEWS RECORD, October 6, 1983, "Century Old Church Saved"; ENGINEERING NEWS RECORD, November 24, 1983, "Saving Sacred Structures"; presented at the Structures Congress 1990 of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Baltimore, MD, "Saving Structures: What to Look For"; COLUMNS-AIA, May 1993, "Masonry Restoration & Conservation"; presented at the AIA Pittsburgh Seminar, April 1994, Pittsburgh, PA