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 John Silva is Director of Codes and
Approvals for Hilti, Inc. He is based in San Rafael, California. Mr.
Silva holds a BS in Architectural Engineering from Cal Poly and an
MS in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from U.C.
Berkeley. He was a researcher at the University of Stuttgart from
1982 to 1983, working in the area of anchorage to concrete. He
subsequently entered practice in California with the offices of H.J.
Degenkolb Associates (1981-1990) and URS/John A. Blume & Associates
(1990-1994), specializing in seismic design and retrofit as well as
deep shoring and due diligence investigations. Hired by Hilti in
1994 to manage the Construction Technology Laboratory at the Hilti
Technical Center in Schaan, Liechtenstein, Mr. Silva returned to the
U.S. in 1998 to assume a variety of technical responsibilities
related to regulation of anchoring products in North America. He is
a member of ACI committees 355 and 408 (Bond) as well as the fib
Special Applications Group on Anchorage to Concrete and BSSC’s
Provision Update Committee (Task Group for Non-structural Elements).
Mr. Silva is a licensed structural engineer in the State of
California. He is fluent in German.
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