Structural Engineers Association of Washington

the structural engineers association of washington was incorporated in the state of washington in 1950, one year after the 1949 seattle earthquake prompted a group of engineers to meet to discuss the resulting damage. this group, after learning of the difficulty the seattle building department was having locating structural engineers available to help determine the extent of structural damage to buildings, determined to gather all the structural engineers of the city together to institute a calling service. the first meeting of the group to be known as the seattle earthquake study group was held may 10, 1949 at the university of washington's more hall. within the study group, the code research committee was formed to research the various building and earthquake resistant codes with reference to the ultimate adoption of one of them by the city of seattle and by the state of washington. by june of 1949 a roster of 28 engineers had been compiled. each of these men had volunteered to act