At a recent SEAONC dinner meeting, Derrick Lind was awarded the William Kaplan Volunteer of the Year Award for his dedication and hard work with the Engineers Alliance for the Arts (EAA). Derrick has been volunteering with EAA since 2004 and has been instrumental in making key advancements in the curriculum. EAA is a program that seeks to merge arts…
Liftech Wins Another Award for Float & Gangway Portion of SSF Ferry Terminal Project
Liftech received an Award of Merit for Excellence in Structural Engineering in the Special-Use Category from the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) in recognition of our engineering work on the South San Francisco Ferry Terminal float and gangway. This is the second award we have won for this project. The award was presented at the Awards Banquet at the…
Liftech Wins Award for Float & Gangway Portion of SSF Ferry Terminal Project
Liftech received an Award of Merit for Excellence in Structural Engineering from the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) in recognition of our engineering work on the South San Francisco Ferry Terminal float and gangway. This substantial new link in Water Emergency Transportation Authority’s (WETA) San Francisco Bay Ferry system opened in South San Francisco, California (SSF), at Oyster…
Liftech Welcomes Back Simo Hoite!
On January 22, Simo returned to his home at Liftech after 13 years of other experiences in the container crane and heavy lift industries. From 1992 to 2000, Simo worked at Liftech on crane design and crane modifications and managed our Port of Oakland Berths 57/58 wharf design project. Wanting to return to Denmark where he grew up, he left…
Supporting Our Community
Liftech’s culture has always been to mentor and enrich students through education by participating in local scholarship and fundraising programs. We also take an active role in supporting local port activities. Structural engineers Erik Soderberg, Sugi Loni, Derrick Lind, and Anna Dix represented Liftech in port-sponsored events this year that included providing educational opportunities for Bay Area youth. The Port…
Congratulations Anna Dix!
Liftech is pleased to congratulate its newest structural engineer, Anna Dix. A member of the Liftech team since 2005, Anna received her California structural engineer license on June 21, 2012. Anna holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009, she received the American…
South San Francisco Ferry Terminal Opens
Liftech engineers participated in the opening ceremony for the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) South San Francisco Ferry Terminal at Oyster Point. The new San Francisco Bay Ferry services will operate between South San Francisco, Alameda, and Oakland. Liftech, as a consultant for Manson Construction Company, designed the terminal’s gangway, float, and dolphins. The Manson-Liftech team began work on the…
Congratulations Leah Olson!
Leah Olson, a Liftech structural designer, received her California civil engineer license in December 2011. Leah has participated in the design, analysis, and modification of container cranes, wharf structures, and other rigging structures. She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California,…
Happy Holidays from Liftech!
Gingerbread rubber tire gantry crane (not to scale)
ASCE Golden Gate Chapter Dinner Meeting – Findings from the M9.0 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
On October 27th Liftech’s Yoshi Oritatsu and Halcrow’s Marc Percher gave a presentation at the ASCE Golden Gate Chapter Dinner meeting about their findings from their earthquake and tsunami reconnaissance trip to Japan. Representing the COPRI Ports and Harbor Structures team, Mr. Oritatsu and Mr. Percher discussed the damage observed at various port facilities, the impact on operations and recovery…