MARTIN, CHOCK & CARDEN - Key Persons
ACE Mentor Program of America, Hawaii Affiliate - Mentor and Treasurer
Job Titles:
- President
- President of Martin, Chock & Carden, Inc.
- Structural Engineer in Hawaii
Gary Chock is a licensed Structural Engineer in Hawaii and California, and he has a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. He has been engaged in structural engineering since 1980 and has been responsible for many projects in Hawaii and the Pacific Rim. He has been responsible for Martin, Chock & Carden's philosophy of integrating design with structural cost monitoring for value engineering. He is principal investigator for the firm's research work on tsunami, wind, earthquake, and flood hazards with an emphasis on building damage estimation, risk analysis, with applications to building codes and standards. Gary Chock is the Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers Tsunami Loads and Effects Subcommittee. He also conducts blast analysis in accordance with military and U.S. government criteria. He is the recipient of numerous awards for technical leadership in engineering. Read More.
Articles / Papers
Earthquake Hazards and Estimated Losses for the County of Hawaii
EERI SEAOH UH Report on the December 15, 2006 Kiholo Bay EQ
JWEIA Modeling of Hurricane Damage for Hawaii
Microzoned Design Maps for the Hawaii Building Code
Topographic Wind Speed-Up and Directionality Factors
He has been engaged in structural engineering since 1980 and has been responsible for many major private industry projects in Hawaii and Asia, as well as for government agencies. He has been responsible for the Martin Chock & Carden's strategy of integrating design with structural cost monitoring and value engineering. Under his leadership, Martin Chock & Carden has established multi-faceted expertise in the fields of structural engineering and blast analysis, engineering research and development, planning for natural, man-made, and technological hazards, structural performance reliability analysis, risk analysis, as well as geospatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems. In addition to the structural design of numerous buildings and infrastructure, his project portfolio also includes tsunami, earthquake, and hurricane hazard research, building risk assessments, hazard mitigation planning, coastal flooding hazard analysis, building code development, hurricane shelter evaluations, and emergency response planning.
Mr. Chock has actively led the efforts in modernizing Hawaii's hurricane wind criteria ; he completed comprehensive wind studies for new wind design mapping that were adopted in the building codes for the entire state. Mr. Chock was the chairman of the State Civil Defense Hurricane Shelter Standards Committee organized to develop public shelter criteria required by the Disaster Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005. Gary Chock authored the Multi-Hazard Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan for the City & County of Honolulu.
Mr. Chock is an approved data custodian under a DD 2345 Militarily Critical Data Agreement, and he performs Blast Effect Analysis and ATFP using methodologies of the US Army Corps of Engineers Protective Design Center, in accordance with the Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) Design Procedures, MIL-HDBK-1190 Facility Planning and Design Guide, and UFC 4-010-01 Dod Minimum Anti-terrorism Standards for Buildings. He also works with General Services Administration blast resistant criteria based on The Risk Management Process for Federal Facilities: An Interagency Security Committee Standard (2016).
AWARDS:
In 2010, he was awarded the ASCE Hawaii Chapter Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement for Windspeed Mapping for the State of Hawaii Incorporating Topographic Effects. The Hawaii State Building Code includes the wind speed mapping he developed, and is now nationally recognized in the ASCE 7 Standard, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures.
In 2013, Gary Chock was selected by Engineering News Record as one of the 25 Top Newsmakers of 2012 for his work on developing a national standard for tsunami-resistant design and for leading the ASCE reconnaissance of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Tsunami.
In 2014, he was bestowed the Western States Seismic Policy Council Lifetime Achievement Award, reflecting a multiple-decades long history of dedicated public service to the State of Hawaii in the areas of earthquake and tsunami mitigation.
In 2015, Gary Chock was selected by the Hawaii Society of Professional Engineers as the Engineer of the Year. He was nominated by the Hawaii Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his significant contributions to advancing the engineering state-of-the-art in Hawaii and nationally, particularly for improved codes and standards for earthquakes, high wind and hurricanes, and tsunamis.
In 2015, Gary Chock was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute to receive the Walter P. Moore Award for demonstrated technical expertise in and dedication to the development of structural codes and standards.
In 2016, Gary Chock was named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which is its highest honor.
Chock, G., Building Code Amendments to Reduce Existing and Future Building Stock Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards and Climate Impacts in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, State of Hawaii Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Office of Planning, October 31, 2018.
Chock, G., Guide to the Wind Design Provisions of the Hawaii State Building Code, International Code Council and the State of Hawaii Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Office of Planning, 2013.
Gary Chock is President of Martin, Chock & Carden, Inc. Under the leadership of Chairman John A. Martin, Jr., the Martin Associates Group provides world-wide coverage from offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Phoenix, Tucson, and Beijing.
Job Titles:
- Consulting Engineer
- Vice - President
- Consulting Engineer at Martin
- Professional Engineer - Structural
Lyle has been a consulting engineer at Martin, Chock & Carden in Hawaii since November 2005, where he has been involved in the design and construction management of numerous structural engineering projects for new buildings, renovations and evaluations. He has performed multi-hazard mitigation planning, post-disaster reconnaissance, development of seismic retrofit strategies and several research projects. He is also the representative of the Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii on the Hawaii State Building Code Council. Read More.
Lyle has been a consulting engineer at Martin Chock & Carden in Hawaii since November 2005, where he has been involved in the design and construction management of numerous structural engineering projects for new buildings, renovations and evaluations. He has performed multi-hazard mitigation planning, post-disaster reconnaissance, development of seismic retrofit strategies and several research projects.
Lyle is actively involved in a number of local and national professional organizations, including: the SEAOH representative on the State Building Code Council, and; WCSEA representative on the board Applied Technology Council. He is also active in education: of young engineers as a P.E. review course instructor; of high school students as an ACE Hawaii program mentor, and; formerly for undergraduate and graduate students as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawaii.
Lyle completed a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he studied the design of bridges and buildings for the effects of large magnitude earthquakes and other extreme events. He has Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering Degrees from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Prior to work in Hawaii, Lyle was involved in several research projects as a graduate student and post-doctoral fellow and practiced as a consulting engineer in New Zealand.