Jay is a Senior Engineer and has 19 years experience in a variety of areas of testing and inspection business. Jay manages the metallurgical and TempScrew TM departments within CEL Consulting. His expertise includes metallurgy and associated testing, welding, electronic instrumentation and data acquisition, failure investigations, building condition surveys, corrosion investigations and consulting, load testing of structures and components, cyclic testing of shear walls and panel systems and specialty testing.

Representative Projects

St. Regis Museum Tower (Williams Building); San Francisco, California
Building Materials Evaluation and As-Built Documentation - During this historic building retrofit project, Jay conducted extensive documentation of as-built conditions, repair consultation services and a failure evaluation of a parking level slab due to construction overload.
Marin County Civic Center; San Rafael, California
Consulting Engineer. Consolidated Engineering Laboratories is performing full-time materials testing and construction inspection services for this $22 million, 800 thousand square foot seismic renovation. The work includes structural steel retrofitting, installation of brace frame collectors which incorporate state of the art "Shock Transmission Units" especially designed for this structure. Jay and his team performed a corrosion evaluation study of the cooling tower during this project.
Alaska Airlines Maintenance & Repair; SFO
Consulting Engineer - Roof Truss Corrosion Evaluation - Jay performed an extensive corrosion evaluation of the structure including ultrasonic testing thickness gauging and repair recommendations.
Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Consulting Engineer - Phase VII Exterior Column Field Measurements & Documentation. Project consisted of extensive corrosion documentation performed on exterior columns as directed by structural engineer.