Areas of Expertise:
Structural Engineering; Civil Engineering; Construction Defect Analysis; Construction Accidents; Building Code Compliance; Standard of Care; Slip, Trip and Fall; Patent and Copyright Infringement; Insurance Claims Support; Litigation Support; Due Diligence Reviews; Expert Testimony; Peer Reviews; Failure Analysis; Residential, Commercial and Institutional Building Design and Construction; Historic Buildings; Seismic Resistant Design; Errors & Omissions; Concrete, Steel, Masonry and Wood Frame Structures; Adobe Construction; Condition Assessment of Bridges, Foundations, Containment Structures and Retaining Walls; Condition Assessment of Conduits and Pipelines, Roads, Slabs, Pavements, Repair and Retrofit, Concrete and Repair Materials; Pile Driving Damage; Cracking and Settlement; Vibration, Blast, Impact and Earthquake Damage; Wind, Hurricane and Flood Damage; Finite Element Dynamic, Stress and Thermal Analysis (Linear & Nonlinear); Product Design; Failure Reconstruction; Intellectual Propert Infringement; Plaintiff & Defendant cases.

Credentials:
Ph.D.(Civil/Structural Engineering, 1987), M.S. (Civil/Structural Engineering, 1983), B.S. (Civil Engineering, High Honors, 1981): University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Registered Professional Engineer (Civil), State of California (Registration # C61998) California General Contractor (License # B846888) Charter Member, Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers Chartered Professional Engineer, Institution of Engineers- Australia (Registration # 1044611) Member: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, The American Concrete Institute (ACI), American Institute of Steel Construction, International Code Council, Forensic Expert Witness Association, California Preservation Foundation, Institution of Engineers-Australia, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society, Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 447 on Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures; Associate Member: Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 352 on Joints and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures; Alfred Noble Prize for a meritorious technical paper published in ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (1990); Associate Editor: ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (Committee on Concrete and Masonry Structures) 1991; Reviewer: technical articles for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, the Structural Journal of ACI, and International Journal of Structural Engineering and Mechanics; Reviewed the manuscripts of two texts on Finite Element Structural Analysis, and Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method, for West Educational Publishing; Chair: Technical session on  Structural Shapes , 3rd Internat. Conference on Composites in Infrastructure, San Francisco, California (2002); Cited in Who s Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd Edition (1996-97); Several research grants from US & Australia; 44 publications.

Summary of Experience:
Dr. Barzegar is the founding principal of Habitat Engineering & Forensics (HE&F). He has over 22 years of experience as an engineering consultant, construction project manager, educator and researcher. Dr. Barzegar's forensic and expert witness expertise has focused on performance evaluation of constructed facilities including the effects of natural (earthquake, wind, flood) and man-made (vibrations, impact, blast) hazards, damage assessment, and repair and retrofit design. He has investigated buildings, foundations & retaining walls, excessive floor vibrations, failure of concrete grain silos and water storage tanks and underground water conduits, distress in pavements, concrete mix design and placement, flood damage to historic buildings, blast in coal mines and in chemical plants, failures during construction and construction disputes and slip & fall accidents. He has been retained by counsel for both plaintiff and defendant cases. Dr. Barzegar was on the faculty of the Structural Engineering Department at the University of New South Wales (Sydney-Australia) and the Civil Engineering Department at Louisiana State University. He has also held positions with Zolman Construction & Development, Struct-Tech Group (design/build company), Rutherford & Chekene Consulting Engineers, and Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in San Francisco Bay Area.