BACKGROUND: Mr. Chock has been a structural engineer with Martin & Chock, Inc. since 1986, and he has been engaged in structural engineering since 1980. He has been responsible for the structural engineering of many major projects in Hawaii, Guam, and Indonesia including the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki, Nauru Tower, Waikiki Landmark, First Hawaiian Center, the Hilton Hawaiian Village Kalia Tower, and 2100 Kalakaua Avenue. The above projects utilized many aspects of seismic design, performance-based wind engineering, wind-tunnel testing based on dynamic analysis, and applications, of probabilistic hazard analysis. He has also been responsible for the conceptual and schematic design of numerous projects, as well as high technology, communication, and astronomy facilities. He was principal investigator for the NASA project, Orographically Amplified Wind Loss Models for Hawaii and Pacific Insular States.

Gary Chock has a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, and is a licensed Structural Engineer in Hawaii and California. Since 1990, Mr. Chock has been a member of the Hawaii State Earthquake Advisory Committee, a multidisciplinary technical advisory panel appointed by Hawaii State Civil Defense. Mr. Chock has served the Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii as a Director and as Chair of its Special Inspection, Code, Seismic Zonation, and Education Committees. He was principal author of the SEAOH publication, "Special Inspection Recommended Standard of Practice", and co-author of "Seismic Hazard on Oahu, Hawaii and its Reflection in the Honolulu Building Code". His professional affiliations also include the American Association for Wind Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California. 

Gary Chock was the founding Chairman of the Hawaii State Earthquake Advisory Committee (HSEAC), and serves as its representative to the Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) of the National Institute of Building Sciences. Committee members, comprising the best of Hawaii's scientific, engineering and emergency management professions, advises the State and BSSC on seismic hazard and related policy issues. His work with the State has involved seismic research and zoning, building assessments, hazard mitigation, and emergency response.  Mr. Chock led the efforts in evaluating Hawaii's seismic zonation in light of more recent data, hazard analysis methodology, and code criteria.  He is currently the Chairman of the Multihazard Science Advisory Committee of Hawaii State Civil Defense.  He was the engineering member of the Technical Advisory Committee to the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund, and now serves as part of the three-member advisory committee reviewing hurricane insurance rate filings for the State Insurance Division. He is the structural engineering member of the Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and Landscape Architects Advisory Committee to the Regulated Industries Complaints Office, assisting State investigation of cases relating to engineering standard of practice.

EDUCATION:

        Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1980
        Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, University of Hawaii, 1979

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION:

        Structural Engineer/Hawaii                        1985
        Structural Engineer/California                    1986   
        Civil Engineer/California                            1982

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

        American Concrete Institute
        American Institute of Steel Construction
        Multihazard Mitigation Council, National Institute of Building Science
        Multihazard Science Advisory Committee, Hawaii State Civil Defense
        Hawaii State Earthquake Advisory Committee, Hawaii State Civil Defense
        Hawaii Representative to the Building Seismic Safety Council
        Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
        American Association for Wind Engineering
        Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii
        Structural Engineers Association of Northern California

PUBLICATIONS: 

G. Chock and L. Cochran, "Modeling and Analysis of Topographic Wind Effects and Hurricane Damage for Hawaii and Guam," American Conference on Wind Engineering - 2001, Clemson University, June, 2001.

G. Chock, "Summary of the Hawaii Inventory Database," Hawaii State Earthquake Advisory Board, Department of Defense, State of Hawaii, August, 1998.

G. Chiu and G. Chock, "Multihazard Performance Based Objective Design for Managing Natural Hazards Damage," IFAC Workshop on Control in Natural Disasters, University of Tokyo, Sept., 1998.

G. Chock, D. Boggs, and J. Peterka, "A Wind and Hurricane Design Framework for Multi-Hazard Performance-Based Engineering of High-Rise Buildings," Structural Engineers World Congress, San Francisco, California, July, 1998.

G. Chock and D. Boggs, "Applications of Probabilistic Typhoon and Wind Analysis In The Performance-Based Engineering Of High-Rise Buildings," The Sixth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering & Construction, Taipei, Taiwan, January, 1998.

G. Chock, C. Alexander, P. Schubert, Design Decisions, Methods, and Procedures: First Hawaiian Center, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, September, 1997.

G. Chock, "Project Partnering: A Better Method, or Just Politically Correct?", Building Industry, January 1996.

G. Chock, "Deep and High in Hawaii", Civil Engineering, November 1995.

G. Chock and M. Yee, "Detailing and Special Inspection for Wind Resistance of Light-Framed Timber and Light-Gauge Metal Structures". ASCE Annual Convention, October, 1995.

G. Chock, "The Structural Story Behind First Hawaiian Center - Downtown Honolulu's Tallest Building", Hawaii Pacific Architecture, July 1995.

G. Chock, et al, "Special Inspection Recommended Standard of Practice", Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii, February 1994.

D.C. Cox and G. Chock, "Seismic Hazard on Oahu, Hawaii, and its Reflection in the Honolulu Building Code," Fourth International Conference on Seismic Zonation, Stanford University, August, 1991.