CAL EMA: CA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY POST DISASTER SAFETY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (SAP) EVALUATOR TRAINING (11/18)

• Friday November 18, 2011 @ AIA|LA
• 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM (check-in begins at 8 AM)
• Provides 7.0 HSW Learning Units
• $150 AIA Members or $200 Non-Members
• Capacity is limited to 20 registrants
• An SAP Training Manual, ATC-20 & ATC-45 Handbooks will be provided at the class.
• Course Description: The goal of the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) Safety Assessment Program (SAP) is to help local government perform accurate facility safety assessments as quickly as possible. This will allow people to use safe homes and businesses, and ensure that people are prohibited from entering unsafe structures after a disaster. SAP Evaluators survey damaged facilities to determine if there are safety hazards to building occupants or to the general public. SAP Evaluators also provide recommended posting of placards that denote the condition of each structure evaluated. This full-day Evaluator Training class trains civil engineers, architects, and building inspectors to do field evaluations of buildings and other infrastructure for safety. It includes the most currently updated curriculum prepared by the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA), practical examples of post-disaster field conditions impacting structural safety, assessing the degree of severity, posting, and barricading procedures. QUALIFIED PARTICIPANTS (see important note below) will receive the Disaster Service Worker Emergency Response Team card. Possession of this card is required in order to participate in emergency CALBO call-out operations (photos of each participant will be taken and a loyalty oath are part of the in-class registration process).
  Important Note about this Class: To receive the Disaster Service Worker Emergency Response card, individuals must be certified as a licensed Architect, Engineer, Building Official, Building Code Official, Master Code Official, Building Inspector, Combination Inspector, Residential Building Inspector, Residential Combination Inspector, Building Plans Examiner, or Combination Plans Examiner.
• Instructor: Dean Vlahos, FAIA, DLR Group WWCOT - Dean Vlahos, FAIA is a Principal/Architect and Director of Architectural Forensics for DRL Group WWCOT Architects, a full-spectrum architecture firm with offices in Chicago, Colorado Springs, Denver, Des Moines, Honolulu, Shanghai, China, Kansas City, Lincoln, Minneapolis, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, Santa Monica, Riverside, Moorpark, and Palm Springs. Through his pioneering research, material testing and investigations on landmark projects, Dean has established himself as a leading national authority on forensics, building codes, construction technology, system analysis, construction industry inter-relationships, enhancing public safety and sharing his expertise throughout the profession. Over the last 32 years, he has successfully completed a wide range of building types including: hospitals, schools, auditoriums, commercial, justice, laboratory, correctional, single and multiple family facilities totaling over seven million square feet of building program space, at an approximate construction value in excess of $9 billion. Dean has participated in numerous speaking engagements and authored and co-authored numerous articles in architectural publications.