Dan Eschenasy of Gilsanz Murray Steficek delivered the 9th RA Lecture on March 30, 2023. The title of his lecture was "What Drives Building Code Requirements for Foundation Design?" Dan Eschenasy is a forensic engineer with over 40 years’ experience in structural engineering. In 2022, he retired from the NYC Buildings Department where he was the Chief Structural Engineer. In this position and as Chief Structural Engineer at the NYC Department of Design and Construction, Mr. Eschenasy was typically the first engineering responder and investigator to almost all major NYC building incidents, such as collapses of buildings, retaining walls, cranes, or other construction installations. On 9/11 he was tasked to organize the engineering response to the disaster. He also was a member of the Astructural and construction chapters of the NYC Building Code. The RA Lecture was established with the ASCE Metropolitan Section Geotechnical Group in 2015 to promote developments and advances in the fields of geotechnical and foundation engineering and to explore technologies developed within our industry to meet the urban geotechnical, foundation, and construction challenges. The Geo-Institute is a technical society with about 12,000 geotechnical engineers and geologists as members. Find out more or join at http://www.geoinstitute.org. #geotechnicalengineering #geotech #civilengineering Show more