ATC-45 Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods is an essential tool for building safety professionals and volunteers responsible for evaluating wind and flood-damaged buildings. It is patterned after the widely-used standard for post-earthquake safety evaluation of buildings (ATC-20).

Participants in this training seminar will be instructed on the contents of the ATC-45 Field Manual: Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods. The ATC-45 Field Manual provides guidelines and procedures to determine whether damaged or potentially damaged buildings are safe for use after windstorms or floods, or if entry should be restricted or prohibited. It also covers related topics including how to deal with owners and occupants of damaged buildings and field safety issues.

Ed Huston is a 1971 civil engineering graduate of the University of Washington, Ed is a licensed civil and structural engineer in Washington, and is licensed in seven other states. He is a principal in the firm of Smith & Huston, Inc., Consulting Engineers in Seattle, Washington. Ed has over 37 years of experience in structural design, evaluation, investigation and code and standards development. He has been very active in the Structural Engineers Association of Washington, (SEAW) holding positions as Seattle Chapter President and State Association President.

Ed is Former President of the Board of Directors of NCSEA. He is chair of the Code Advisory Committee – General Requirements Subcommittee and serves on the Licensing committee.

Ed has served on the board of directors and as President of the Applied Technology Council, (ATC) a national organization whose goal is the research into the effects of earthquakes and other natural forces and the dissemination of the results of that research. Ed was a member of the SAC Steel Project Joint Venture Management Committee; was on the Project Review Panel of ATC 43 - Evaluation of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall Buildings; and was Lead Technical Consultant on ATC 45 - A Field Manual for Safety Evaluations of Buildings after Windstorms and Floods. He also served on the Project Engineering Panel for the ATC Design Guide 2: Basic Wind Engineering of Low-Rise Buildings.

Ed is a member of The Masonry Society and has served on their board of directors as board member, secretary and treasurer. He also serves on the Masonry Standards Joint Committee, which writes the masonry standard and specification. He represented SEAW on The Puget Sound Engineering Council, an association of 24 Engineering Societies, and served as Secretary. Ed is also a member of the Institute of Structural Engineers, headquartered in London, England.

Ed is a co-author of the Wind Commentary to the Uniform Building Code - 1991 Edition & 1994 Editions, ATC-60, SEAW Commentary on Wind Code Provisions, as well as the SEAW RSM-03, SEAW’s Handbook of a Rapid Solution Methodology™ for Wind Design and The Masonry Designers' Guide to the ACI/ASCE 530 Code, First through Fifth Editions. He has made over 60 seminar and technical presentations.