PROJECT TEAM

Dr. Richard D. Sharpe
BE(Hons) PhD. Technical Director of Earthquake Engineering. Beca International Consultants Ltd, New Zealand.

Richard Sharpe has specialised in earthquake engineering for nearly 30 years, working in New Zealand, France, India and Nepal. A pioneer in the 1960s and 70s in the computer simulation of building behaviour in earthquakes, Richard now advises both governments and large industrial companies on how to achieve resilience to earthquakes. In 1999, Richard led the New Zealand team of engineers and disaster managers that observed the result of the Marmara Sea Earthquake in Turkey. Richard is the overall Project Director for this project.

Dr. David C. Hopkins
BE(Hons) PhD Chartered Professional Engineer (NZ). Project Manager. Beca International Consultants New Zealand.

David Hopkins is a consulting engineer with over 30 years experience in multi-discipline projects in New Zealand, South East Asia and the Pacific. He is a former President of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering and is a Director of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering. Dr Hopkins now specializes in earthquake risk management and is currently an advisor to the New Zealand government on recently-introduced legislation aimed at reducing earthquake risk in buildings.

Danyal Kubin
B.Sc. Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1984
M.Sc. Faculty of Architecture, Department of Building Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 1986

Danyal Kubin has 20 years of professional engineering experience and one of the first professionals specialized in earthquake engineering. He has participated many of the conferences, seminars and assemblies and also submitted papers and notices. He has made valuable contributions to the development of strengthening techniques within DMAM (Disaster Management Implementation and Research Centre) of Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) and Prota Engineering which are widely in use throughout Turkey.

He has experience on design and calculation of every type of reinforced concrete, steel and prefabricated structures, excellent use of computer applications, solution with Finite Element Analysis Method, Earthquake Engineering, post-earthquake strengthening and rehabilitation projects and building damage assessment techniques. He also experienced in the fields of various project design, management and coordination, technical specifications of EIB, FIDIC and World Bank projects and high level of capability on project control and coordination, quality control and project and site consultancy.

Danyal Kubin has been continuously providing consulting and engineering services to a large number of public and private institutions and bodies including; Central Bank of Turkey, Türkiye İş Bankası, Ministry of Financial Affairs, Ministry of National Education, Authority for Social Insurances (SSK), Ministry of Public Affairs, Turkish Petroleum Refineries Inc. Co.) TÜPRAŞ, Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), Gazi University, Çukurova University, Bursa Municipality, Ceyhan Municipality, Petroleum Pipeline Authority (BOTAŞ), Türk Telekom, Energy Distribution Authority (TEDAŞ), General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ).

Prof. Dr. Haluk Sucuoğlu
is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Dept. Of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He is a member of the Turkish National Earthquake Council, and coordinator of the Seismic Rehabilitation Code Committee in Turkey. Dr. Sucuoğlu was in charge of several seismic rehabilitation projects in Turkey after the recent major earthquakes, including a large number of school buildings. He is a member of the coordination committee for the Istanbul Earthquake Master Plan and Zeytinburnu Pilot Implementation Project. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering, and author of several papers in refereed international journals. Dr. Sucuoğlu served as the director of Earthquake Engineering Research Center of METU from 1995 to 2004, and currently he is advisor to the President of TUBİTAK in the earthquake research priority area.

Prof. Dr. Polat Gülkan
is director of the Disaster Management Research Center at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. Mr. Gülkan is an earthquake structural engineer, and has been active in many areas of global hazard mitigation from 1971. He has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) between 1996 and 2004, and was appointed as executive president of the same organization in 2004. He is also on the Board of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) for the period 2005–2008. His professional work has dealt also with earthquake hazard, culminating in the earthquake hazard zones map for Turkey that went into effect in 1966, spatial planning, urban hazard assessment, natural disaster insurance, structural intervention principles for buildings and nuclear safety. He is a graduate of METU (1966) and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1971).

Prof. Dr. Güney Özcebe
He is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, METU.
• He is the chairman of the Structural Engineering Research Unit (SERU), the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK, 2001-2005
• He has been serving as a member of the code drafting committee of the Turkish design code for reinforced concrete structures, TS500, (1995-present)
• He is delegating Turkey in ISO TC/71 - A technical committee of International Standards Organization on Concrete, Reinforced Concrete and Precast Concrete (2000 - present)
• He is the chair of Turkish Standards Institute Mirror Committee for ISO TC/71 & CEN/TC 104
• He is a voting member of American Concrete Institute Committee ACI 314 — Simplified Design of Concrete Buildings

He took part in nationwide large scale seismic vulnerability assessment and rehabilitation projects during the period of 1992-2004. These include: Rehabilitation of damaged governmental buildings after 1992 Erzincan earthquake, Rehabilitation of private buildings after 1995 Dinar, 1998 Ceyhan and 1999 Marmara and Duzce earthquakes, Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Rehabilitation of Is Bank branch buildings, Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Rehabilitation of Turkish Central Bank branch buildings, Seismic retrofit of several administrative, industrial and residential buildings within TUPRAS İzmit, Kırıkkale and Aliaga Refineries. He also served as area coordinator in Istanbul Earthquake Master Plan Project.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. B. Sadık Bakır
Dr. Bakır received BS and MS degrees from Middle East Technical University (METU) and his PhD (major: structural; minor: geotechnical) from Iowa State University. In 1995 he joined the Civil Engineering Department of METU and has been a staff member since then.

He is specialized in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering and has participated in numerous government and private sector projects involving seismic hazard assessment and mitigation/rehabilitation. He is currently a member of the Turkish National Earthquake Council.

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Adnan Özeren
MSc. Geological Engineer (Turkey), General Manager, ASM
Research Drilling & Engineering Ltd. Co.
He is a consulting engineer with 20 years experience in multi-discipline projects in Turkey. He is especially specialized under main titles such as: geological – geotechnical engineering, ground water and evolution of environmental effects.

Prof. Dr. A Nuray Karancı
Prof. A.Nuray Karancı is a lecturer in the Psychology Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey since 1980. She completed her M.S in Clinical Psychology degree in Liverpool, U.K and her PhD in 1980, from Hull University U.K. Since 1993, she has been extensively involved in research on psychological consequences of earthquakes, disaster management and facilitating community participation in disaster management and preparing disaster preparedness guidelines and training of trainees programs. She has also worked with earthquake survivors as a clinical psychologist and provided individual psychological services and group debriefing programs. She is one of the founding members of, METU, Disaster Research and Implementation Center and has been involved in applied and basic research in disasters. She is a member of the National Earthquake Council and vice president of the Natural Hazards Society. She has got numerous international and national publications related to her research interests.

Dr. David Johnston
Research Scientist Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand,
David's research is focused on reducing the vulnerability of society, economy and infrastructure to natural hazards. He has been involved in developing integrated risk management strategies for many different hazard events, using techniques such as scenario development, mitigation planning and community education programs. He has a particular interest in assessing social and economic impacts of natural and environmental hazard events.
He is outreach co-ordinator for New Zealand's ‘GeoNet Project’ and advisor to the New Zealand Earthquake Commission on their education strategy. He holds adjunct positions at School of Psychology at Massey University (New Zealand) and the Geology Department at the University of Hawaii (USA).

Joseph Kubin
BSc. Civil Engineer, Middle East Technical University, 1979, MSc. Earthquake Engineering Reasearch Institute, Middle East Technical University, 1982.

Joseph Kubin, having a 25 years of professional engineering experiences, he is the one of the first professionals specialized in earthquake engineering. He has participated many conferences, seminars and assemblies and also submitted papers and notices. He has made valuable contributions to the development of strengthening techniques within DMAM (Disaster Management Implementation and Research Centre) of Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) and Prota Engineering which are widely in use throughout Turkey.

Jozef Kubin has been continuously providing consulting and engineering services to a large number of public and private institutions and bodies including; Central Bank of Turkey, Türkiye İş Bankası, Ministry of Financial Affairs, Ministry of National Education, Authority for Social Insurances (SSK), Ministry of Public Affairs, Turkish Petroleum Refineries Inc. Co.) TÜPRAŞ, Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), Gazi University, Çukurova University, Bursa Municipality, Ceyhan Municipality, Petroleum Pipeline Authority (BOTAS), Türk Telekom, Energy Distribution Authority (TEDAŞ), General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI).
He is the developer of the well-known integrated structural computer program Orion (on FE Analysis, Design and Detailing of R/C Building Systems), widely used in Turkey and many developed countries.

He has experience on design and calculation of every type of reinforced concrete, steel and prefabricated structures, excellent use of computer applications, solution with Finite Element Analysis Method, Earthquake Engineering, post-earthquake strengthening and rehabilitation projects and building damage assessment techniques.
Jozef Kubin has 25 years of experience on Experience on project design, management and coordination, technical specifications of EIB, FIDIC and World Bank projects and high level of capability on project control and coordination, quality control and project and site consultancy.

Dr. Metin Arıkan
is a lecturer in Civil Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He completed his Ph.D. Studies on effects of earthquake excitations on suspension bridges in University of California at Berkeley in 1976, and lectured at METU till end of 1978. Then, he worked in construction companies in Saudi Arabia and in Turkey, managing their planning and data processing departments. He was the executive board member of a gypsum plaster board company, in Ankara, from planning to erection, including commissioning and running from 1987 till end of 1991. He rejoined METU in 1993 to teach construction engineering and management related courses such as engineering economy, construction cost accounting, construction site management, etc. His research interests are construction contract administration, safety in construction works, construction cost control and financial analysis of construction related issues. He has articles published in international and national journals and in several conference proceedings.

Rob D. Jury
BE(Hons) ME (Cant) MIPENZ (Civil and Structural) Chartered Professional Engineer (NZ). Technical Director. Beca International Consultants New Zealand.

Rob Jury is a consulting engineer with over 25 years experience in multi-disciplinery engineering projects both in New Zealand and internationally, specialising in the assessment and mitigation of earthquake effects. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering and a member of the Standards Committee for the recently published New Zealand Earthquake Loadings Standard. Mr Jury is currently chair of the team preparing guidelines for the assessment and retrofit of earthquake risk buildings in New Zealand.

Grant Wilkinson
BE(Hons) Canterbury, Chartered Professional Engineer (NZ), FIPENZ.
Grant Wilkinson is a project director with Holmes Consulting Group, specialist structural engineers, and is based in Christchurch. He has been a study group member that has prepared the guidelines for strengthening earthquake prone buildings in NZ. He was involved with the design of the seismic base isolation and strengthening Parliament Buildings in Wellington. Similarly he directed the seismic strengthening of the Anglican and Catholic Cathedrals in Christchurch, buildings on the University of Canterbury campus and the seismic review of all public hospitals in Christchurch.

Aydan Özmen