Chad Fusco, S.E., LEED AP

Email: cfusco@mbcse.com

Chad is a licensed professional engineer with broad experience on commercial, residential, educational, institutional, infrastructure, seismic risk/resilience, and hotel projects throughout the US and abroad. Chad’s diverse professional background ranges from new buildings to retrofits, tall building design to tenant improvements, and prescriptive to performance-based seismic design. Chad has a wealth of experience in seismic performance and resilience, damping systems, and nonlinear numerical simulations of concrete and masonry structures, and he has been published on these subjects. Chad responds to each client's needs, providing individualized services, which can range from preliminary concept design of various options to detailed construction documentation.

Chad joined Murphy Burr Curry as a Senior Project Manager in 2018. He began his career in New York City after graduating with a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. During his time in New York, Chad worked on a diverse set of projects, including conversions of old tenement buildings to high end retail, infrastructure projects, and new buildings in South Korea and China. Since he moved to San Francisco in 2015, he has worked on new buildings and seismic retrofits all over the West Coast, with a focus on seismic performance and innovative resilient structural systems.

Highlighted Projects:

• Voluntary seismic retrofit design and risk assessment of a mid-rise 1960’s concrete building with fluid viscous dampers.
• Seismic retrofit and one-story addition to the historic 1920’s Tapscott Building in downtown Oakland, California, including analysis of soil pressures on adjacent existing BART subway tunnel.
• Structural design for new 32-story steel volumetric modular residential building at 461 Dean, Brooklyn, New York. *
• Seismic risk assessments, including ASTM-compliant PML evaluations for due diligence evaluations, on an array of steel, concrete, wood, and masonry buildings.
• Design for the new 1.8-million-square-foot Dongdaegu Transportation Hub in Daegu, South Korea. *
• Conversion of circa 1917 historic unreinforced masonry building from industrial use to new office space in Emeryville, California.
• High-fidelity numerical simulations in LS-DYNA for masonry and concrete structures in Groningen, Netherlands, as part of a regional government-funded retrofit program. *

* Experience prior to joining Murphy Burr Curry