Walterio López

Walterio has been with R&C for 11 years out of a 16-year professional career. He has been responsible for the structural design of a wide range of multi-story buildings and for clients from universities to design/build teams. Walterio’s projects encompass courthouses, research laboratories, medical office buildings and skilled nursing facilities. He has extensive knowledge of the seismic design and detailing of cost-effective structural steel systems, earning him and his projects awards within the industry.

Walterio is an internationally recognized authority in the use of buckling-restrained braced frames (BRBFs). He has authored or co-authored technical papers on structural steel braced frames. His involvement with BRBFs resulted in his receipt of the prestigious AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award. He is a past chair of SEAONC's Steel Seismology Subcommittee, serves on two advisory boards for research projects dealing with innovative structural steel systems and is a corresponding member of AISC Task Committee 9.