{"61379":{"#nid":"61379","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ga. Tech Civil Engineering Professor Testifies before Senate Subcommittee","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Associate Chair and School of Civil and\nEnvironmental Engineering Professor Reginald DesRoches testified before\nthe Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness\nand Integration on Sept. 30. He was one of seven witnesses who spoke before the\nsubcommittee and the only presenter representing a university.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDesRoches was invited to share his expertise on earthquake\nresilience in the\nUnited States focusing on the risks associated with and the effects of\na\npotential catastrophic earthquake event. His testimony highlighted his\nbackground\non the performance of built infrastructure in the Central and\nSoutheastern\nUnited States and his firsthand experience with the earthquake in Haiti.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAn internationally recognized expert in reducing damage and loss from\nearthquakes, DesRoches\u2019 research focuses on earthquake-resistant design\nand\nretrofitting of bridges, protective systems for buildings and bridges\nand the\nperformance of transportation networks. A native of Haiti, DesRoches\nled a team of earthquake experts to the island nation last winter to\nstudy the\ndamage from the major quake that struck there in January.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Reginald DesRoches Shares Lessons-Learned from Recent Earthquakes"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Associate Chair and School of Civil and\nEnvironmental Engineering Professor Reginald DesRoches testified before\nthe Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness\nand Integration on Sept. 30. He was one of seven witnesses who spoke before the\nsubcommittee and the only presenter representing a university.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Associate Chair and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Reginald DesRoches testified before the Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration Sept. 30."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2010-09-30 17:44:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:31","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-09-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"35273":{"id":"35273","type":"image","title":"Reginald DesRoches","body":null,"created":"1449173088","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:04:48","changed":"1475894206","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:36:46"}},"media_ids":["35273"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/891\/overviewR","title":"Reginald DesRoches"},{"url":"http:\/\/hsgac.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing\u0026Hearing_ID=1bc1a3b5-1da9-437d-a714-c7f3b2cae5a","title":"Testimony"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2201","name":"Congressional"},{"id":"10819","name":"DesRoches"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"170901","name":"senate"},{"id":"1881","name":"testimony"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Grovenstein, 404-894-8835\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}