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When Maryann Phipps started Estructure, she knew that she wanted to mentor emerging engineers and sought out talent from the Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials Program at UC Berkeley. This led her to Alix Kottke (Broadfoot at that time), who was completing a Master of Science degree at Cal. In July 2010, Alix became Estructure’s […]

  Maryann opened the 11th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering (PCEE) held April 4-6, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand with a keynote speech delivered to nearly 500 attendees from 15 countries. The conference, sponsored by the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE) and the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, is held every four years and […]

Estructure used cutting-edge drone technology to identify damage and deterioration in the brick cladding on a 6-story 1927 San Francisco building. In 2006, a six-story reinforced concrete structure with brick masonry cladding was investigated for water infiltration. A close-up inspection of the entire façade was performed from a hanging scaffold and a boom lift. The […]