Bob Pekelnicky has been practicing for over 20 years and has worked on numerous seismic evaluations and retrofit projects for technology companies and commercial building owners. His portfolio of projects includes the seismic evaluation and retrofit of many recognizable high-rise buildings. Bob is an internationally recognized leader in the field of earthquake engineering and devotes a lot of his time to developing better performance-based earthquake engineering methodologies, building codes and standards. His career has focused on taking new, innovative structural engineering concepts from research and applying them to practice to better meet clients’ needs. Bob is a leader in numerous professional societies, leading or serving on national standards committees to help advance the state of the practice. Since 2013, he has served as the chairperson for the seismic evaluation and retrofit standard, ASCE 41.