Tim Reinhold
Tim Reinhold joined the Institute for Business & Home Safety as director of engineering and vice president in 2004 after 12 years as a civil engineering professor at Clemson University. His professional career includes 10 years as a consulting engineer with firms in the United States, Canada, and Denmark and five years at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). He earned a bachelor’s, masters and PhD in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1973, 1975 and 1978, respectively.
While at NIST, Reinhold assisted Dr. James Harris with the committee that adapted the ATC 3-06 Guidelines for use as a national standard. He serves on the boards of the NIBS Building Seismic Safety Council, the Multi-hazard Mitigation Council, and the Executive Advisory Board for the Mid-America Earthquake Center. He has been involved in a number of investigations of structural failures including the Hyatt Regency walkways collapse in Kansas City and the collapse of a cooling tower at Willow Island, West Virginia.
Reinhold has conducted research on wind effects and structural capacities of members, connections, and systems for most of his professional career. In addition to directing numerous studies to determine wind loads for tall buildings and specialty structures, he has been heavily involved in research relating to the performance of housing and low buildings in hurricanes and other severe wind events. His work has involved model and full-scale laboratory studies as well as field studies. He has participated in studies of building performance in numerous hurricanes and chaired the organizing committee for the ASCE Conference on Hurricanes of 1992.
Related Resources by Tim Reinhold
Tropical Cyclone Destructive Potential by integrated Kinetic Energy
with Mark D. Powell, April 2007