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His professional experience includes: junior engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1953 to 1955; U.S. Army 1955 to 1957; instructor to professor of civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana from 1957 to 1974; and, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chief of the Structures Section, Building Research Division 1971 to 1972; Deputy Director-Technical, Center for Building Technology, 1972 to 1973; Director, Center for Building Technology 1974 to 1990; and Director, Building and Fire Research Laboratory 1991 to 1999. Dr. Wright has published over 100 articles on building and fire research, computer-integrated construction, formulation and expression of standards, performance of structures, structural design methods for earthquakes and other dynamic loads, flow and fracture in structural metals and mechanics of thin-walled beam structures. He is Chairman of the Board on Infrastructure and Constructed Environment of the National Academies; founding and past Co-chairman of the Subcommittee on Construction and Building of the National Science and Technology Council; past Chairman of the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction; past U.S. Chairman of the U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects; past president of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB); fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Association for Advancement of Science; and member of the Earth-quake Engineering Research Institute, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Pi. He registered as a professional engineer in New York in 1958 and as a structural engineer in Illinois in 1974. He received the Gold Medal Award of the Department of Commerce in 1982 for distinguished achievement in the Federal Service, the Rank of Meritorious Executive from the President in 1988; the Special Presidential Award of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America in 1983 for contributions to the organization of the Lighting Research Institute; the Federal Engineer of the Year 1988 award of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the 1998 Charles Mahaffey Award of the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, and the 1999 Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research from the Civil Engineering Research Foundation. |
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Richard N. WrightEducationSyracuse University, B.S., Civil Engineering, 1953Syracuse University, M.S., Civil Engineering, 1955 University of Illinois, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 1962 PositionGuest ResearcherBFRL Headquarters Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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