Joshua B. Kardon in The Community

Dr. Josh Kardon takes his talent and expertise to the community as a volunteer teacher at local high schools and most recently has been involved in the Three Brick Bridge Project at George Washington High in San Francisco, and at El Cerrito High School in El Cerrito.

Josh volunteers his time as a Fire Station Survey Team Member by assisting EERI in obtaining an overview of the seismic vulnerability of our fire stations.

During 2006, Josh was an instructor at UC Berkeley teaching Engineering Mechanics-statics to lower division undergraduate engineering students.

He has been a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Western Construction Consultants Association, The American Society of Home Inspectors, and the Splinter Group. Josh presented professional papers at the International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland, Ohio, 1999; the American Society of Civil Engineers 2nd Forensic Engineering Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000; the International Conference on Research in Ethics and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2002; the Society of Forensic Engineers and Scientists, Park City, Utah, 2002; the 3rd Forensic Congress in San Diego, California, 2003; the ASCE Structures Congress in New York City, 2005; ICE's 3rd International Conference on Forensic Engineering in London, UK in November, 2005; the 4th Forensic Congress in Cleveland, Ohio, 2006; the Annual Meeting of SEA New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2007; Featured Speaker at NARI November Meeting, Oakland, California, 2007.

Links to and about Josh's presentation, Structural Engineer's Standard of Care:

• Read Josh's paper at OnlineEthics.org and the following introduction:

  "The author is a practicing structural engineer with 26 years of experience, the last 21 years as principal of his own firm, Joshua B. Kardon + Company Structural Engineers, Berkeley, California. . . The author has been a guest lecturer in undergraduate and graduate courses at UC Berkeley (Professors William Ibbs and Laura Demsetz) and at Stanford University (Professor Richard Meehan), on the topics of engineering failures, professional negligence, engineering judgment, and the standard of care. Some of the material in this paper is drawn from the chapter written by the author for the Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook published by McGraw-Hill, available through Amazon."

• Read a review of Josh’s presentation, Structural Engineer's Standard of Care, by Westcon.
  

Josh is a member of the following professional organizations:

The American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, The American Concrete Institute, Post-Tensioning Institute, National Institute for Engineering Ethics, East Bay Structural Engineering Society, Sliver Group, APA The Engineered Wood Association, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Western Construction Consultants Association and American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc.

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