Dave I. Mclean, Ph.D., P.E., FTMS, has served as the Dean of the College of Engineering at Colorado State University since 2013. Prior to this position, he was a faculty member at Washington State University for 27 years. Dr. McLean has served on numerous TMS committees, including as Chair of the TMS Technical Activities Committee and the TMS Research Committee. As Chair of the Technical Activities Committee, he served an important role on TMS’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors, guiding the Society on technical issues and positions. Under his direction, the Technical Activities Committee has streamlined Committee operating procedures while ensuring TMS Rules stay in compliance with ANSI Essential Requirements for Standards Developing Organizations. He formerly served as a member of the TMS Board of Directors. Dr. McLean is a Fellow of the TMS (2006) and is the recipient of the TMS Scalzi Award (2008) and the TMS President’s Award (2015). He will complete his third term on the Board of Directors at the October meetings, and is now being nominated to serve as the Society’s President-Elect.
Peter M. Babaian, P.E. S.E., is a Principal and the Building Technology Division Head for the Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Chicago office. He has over 20 years experience designing, investigating, and rehabilitating a variety of building enclosures and structures. Peter’s projects involve exterior enclosure consulting for new construction, rehabilitating existing structures and enclosures, historic preservation, building enclosure commissioning, investigating non-performing building enclosures, and providing expert services related to construction litigation. Peter is an active member in many professional industry groups. He is a former chair of the Technical Activities Committee at The Masonry Society and serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Society. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Building Congress and Landmarks Illinois. Peter holds a Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from Tufts University. He is a licensed professional engineer in 32 US states, a licensed structural engineer in 2 US states, and a registered professional engineer in British Columbia, Canada. After service as the Chair of the Technical Activities Committee and as TMS’s Secretary/Treasurer, he is being nominated to serve as Vice President of the Society.
Jamie L. Davis, P.E., LEED AP, is Principal of Ryan Biggs | Clark Davis Engineering & Surveying, a 50-person consulting firm specializing in structural engineering and land surveying. She manages the Finger Lakes Office in Skaneateles Falls, New York. She provides structural design services of educational facilities, medical buildings, industrial facilities, corporate office buildings, and masonry repair projects. Ms. Davis is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in which she has served as President of the Mohawk-Hudson Chapter, the American Concrete Institute, the American Institute of Steel Construction, the Mason Contractors Association of America, and The Masonry Society. She is a voting member of TMS Committee 402/602 and serves on the Structural, and Reinforcement and Connectors subcommittees. She is also CD-BIM certified and a member of the BIM-M Committee for TMS, part of the BIM-M Initiative, which is focused on promoting BIM within the masonry industry. Ms. Davis lectures frequently on masonry topics. She is being nominated to serve Secretary/Treasurer after serving three terms as an Affiliate/Sustaining Member Representative to the Board of Directors.
John M. Hochwalt, P.E., S.E., is Director of Engineering for the Seattle structural group of KPFF Consulting Engineers. In that capacity, he provides technical leadership for over one hundred structural engineers. John has practiced structural engineering for over thirty years following his graduation from Cornell University where he received a B.S. in 1987 and an M.Eng in 1988. Prior to joining KPFF in 1998, he worked with RTKL in Baltimore and Barber & Hoffman in Cleveland. In addition to providing engineering services for the design of new buildings and retrofit of existing buildings, John has taught and published widely on topics related to the structural design of masonry. He has authored or edited publications for the Western States Clay Products Association, the Masonry Institute of America, and The Masonry Society. He is the current editor of the Reinforced Masonry Engineering Handbook, originally authored by James Amrhein. Organizations that John has presented to include the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations, the Structural Engineers Association of Washington, the Northwest Concrete Masonry Association, The Masonry Society, and the University of Washington. He has been a member of The Masonry Society since 2013 where he has served in a variety of capacities. He is currently Chair of the subcommittee for Seismic and Limit Design for TMS 402, and is a voting member of the TMS 402/602 Main committee and a corresponding member of the Design Practices Committee. And he recently served as co-author on the new Strength Design Guide of Masonry. He is being nominated to serve a second term as a Director of the Board to represent Zone 1.
Alireza Sayah, P.E., Ph.D., Alireza Sayah is a Professional Structural Engineer with Jacobs in Fort Worth, Texas. He has more than 15 years of experience in structural analysis and design of new structures and investigating and strengthening existing structures. In addition to his career with Jacobs, he is an adjunct professor for the University of Texas at Arlington, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, including Design of Structural Masonry. Ali is actively involved with TMS. He has served as a Voting member of the 402 Main Committee, Voting Secretary of the Design Subcommittee, Voting Member of the Seismic Subcommittee, and Voting Member of the Existing Masonry Subcommittee. He also co-authored the Chapter 19 example problems in the 2016 edition of the Masonry Designer’s Guide. He earned his Ph.D. in Structures & Applied Mechanics from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is being nominated to serve a second term as a Zone 2 representative to the Board of Directors.
Rachel Will, P.E., is an Associate Principal and Executive Director of Knowledge Sharing with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. She has over 16 years of experience related to the investigation and repair of existing building facades. She has performed numerous evaluations of historic masonry facades and prepared repair documents along with provided construction period observations for many masonry-clad buildings. She has authored multiple articles and given numerous presentations related to masonry. Ms. Will has been involved in TMS since 2011. She is currently the secretary and voting member of the Existing Masonry Committee and the TMS402/602 Veneer & Glass Block Committee and is a voting member of the following committees: Meetings, Segmental Retaining Wall, TMS402/602 Construction Requirements, and TMS 402/602 Main. She is being nominated to serve a second term as a Zone 3 representative to the Board of Directors.
Charles J. Tucker, P.E., Ph.D., is a Professor of Engineering at Freed-Hardeman University, where he teaches introductory engineering courses. Dr. Tucker graduated from Tennessee Technological University and has been teaching for over 20 years. He is a voting member of the TMS 402/602 committee, serves on the Construction Requirements Subcommittee, and is the current Chair of the Partitions and Infills Subcommittee. Dr. Tucker has authored numerous papers regarding masonry infills and has worked on the Masonry Designers’ Guide. He is being nominated to serve a second term as a Zone 4 Representative to the Board of Directors.
Nebojsa Mojsilovic, Ph.D., is Senior Scientist at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich. He is active in teaching and research in area of structural masonry. Main research topics include deformation capacity of structural masonry, seismic response modification of masonry walls, hybrid testing of masonry, and reliability of structural masonry. Within TMS, Dr. Mojsilovic serves as Chair of the Research Committee, and as corresponding member on the Prestressed Masonry Subcommittee. He authored and co-authored about 100 referred journal and conference papers, and technical reports. He was a visiting academic at University of Newcastle Australia, at University of Genua and at Technical University of Milan, Italy. He also serves as Chairman of Swiss Structural Masonry Code Committee. He is being nominated to serve a third term as a Zone 5 Representative of the Board of Directors.
Richard Rydell, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, is an Executive Director of the Masonry Institute of America. Prior to joining the MIA, he has practiced structural engineering for over twenty years following studies at the University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland and graduating from Montana State University in 2000. He worked with several structural engineering consultants: Monroe & Newell Engineers, Jordan Engineering, Thornton Tomasetti in Oakland, CA and Gouvis Engineering. His expertise includes structural design of schools, hospitals, multi-use/residential buildings, existing buildings rehabilitation, analysis and repair of existing structures as well as seismic evaluation and upgrade of existing masonry structures. He is an active member of the Structural Engineering Association of Southern California, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the International Code Council, the American Concrete Institute and The Masonry Society. Mr. Rydel is being nominated to serve as an Affiliate/Sustaining Member representative to the Board of Directors.
Jon Merk is a Shareholder and Chief Estimator of Forrest & Associate Inc., a masonry contracting firm in Des Moines, Iowa. His duties have included consulting, constructing, restoring, and investigating masonry structures for over 20 years. Mr. Merk is an active member in many professional associations including MCAA, ASTM, and MII and serves on the Board of Directors for the IA Builders Retirement Fund. At TMS, he is a voting member of TMS 402/602 Main Committee as well as the Executive and Veneer & Glass Block subcommittees. Merk additionally serves as the Chair of the Construction Requirements subcommittee. Mr. Merk is being nominated to serve as an Affiliate / Sustaining Member representative to the Board of Directors.
Lane Jobe, P.E., S.E., P.E., S.E., is a Principal of Miller Consulting Engineers, Inc., His breadth of experience includes historic building retrofits, seismic pipe bracing, foundation designs for traffic poles, steel moment frame designs, seismic roof upgrades and investigations that require analysis and retrofits employing recognized standards such as FEMA 178, ASCE-31 and ASCE-41. He participates as an active member in various professional organizations focusing on improving existing building codes and standards. His efforts include working with Structural Engineers Association of Oregon (SEAO) helping to establish guidelines for special inspection requirements used throughout Oregon. As a member of The Masonry Society (TMS) Lane has also served on TMS 402/602 Main Committee, its Reinforcement & Connectors Subcommittee and its Seismic/Limit Subcommittee, ad on the Design Practices Committee. He recently worked on the 2016 Masonry Design Guide (MDG) and participated in a research project regarding the Harmonization of Canadian and American Masonry Structures Design Standards. In addition, Lane is currently working with other peers on the 2022 MDG. He is being nominated to serve as an At Large Director of the Board.
Todd Dailey, P.E., is President of Dailey Engineering Inc.; a structural design firm located in southern Michigan. Mr. Dailey has 40 years of experience, during which there has been a constant focus on masonry design. In addition to providing engineering services for the design of new buildings, he has performed temporary masonry wall bracing design on over 2,000 projects for masonry contractors in 33 states, and has widely promoted “internal bracing” for its unique ability to improve construction safety and lower costs. Other masonry related highlights include serving as an Adjunct Professor for the Civil Engineering Department at Lawrence Technological University teaching masonry structural design, and being a founding (and continuing) member of the Masonry Institute of Michigan’s Generic Wall Design Committee. His involvement with The Masonry Society began in 2014, and has included voting membership on TMS 402/602 Main Committee, and the Reinforcement & Connectors and Partition & Infill Subcommittees. Mr. Dailey is being nominated to serve as an At-Large Director of the Board.
