Lisa M. Holliday, P.E,, Ph.D, Senior consultant with Rimkus and Facuty member at the University of Oklahoma will be presenting a one (1) hour earthquake course. This event will qualify for adjuster CE. All CPCU members and their guests are weclome to attend. Lunch will be provided by Cafe 7.
Doctor Holliday received her BS in Civil Engineering in 1995 and her PhD in 2009 from the University of Oklahoma specializing in structures during her BS and further specializing in earthquake engineering during her PhD. She started her career in the design of pre-engineered metal buildings and later worked in design of all types of building construction including but not limited to structural steel, cast-in-place concrete, pre-cast concrete, concrete tilt-up, concrete masonry unit (cmu) block, and even experimented in earthen building construction techniques such as adobe and compressed earth blocks.
Doctor Holliday is a FEMA Certified Structural Specialist I, trained to work on a post-disaster urban search and rescue team and served as a member of Oklahoma Task Force One. She has been a member of several pre- and post-disaster survey teams and worked in that capacity in the US and Internationally. She was a member of the NSF survey team that surveyed the damage created by the May 2013 tornado in Moore Oklahoma. After this work she and another professor helped the City of Moore, Oklahoma update its residential building code to ensure homes will withstand an EF2 tornado.
Doctor Holliday gained tenure at the University of Oklahoma in the Division of Construction Science in the College of Architecture. She taught structures to construction and architecture students which included the design of temporary structures, construction testing and quality control as well as other typical construction and architecture stopics used in the construction and design process.
