Biography
Sean Kennedy is a principal at BEI Structural Engineers, Inc., in Fairfax, Virginia, with more than 19 years of experience in the structural design of a wide range of commercial and private buildings. Kennedy is also a long-time member of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue where he has been deployed as a structural specialist to assist with the rescue efforts as a result of disasters around the world, including to Japan in 2011, Haiti in 2010 and 2008; and Hurricane Katrina damage areas in 2005. He is currently the lead structures specialist for the team and is also an elected member of the structures sub-group for Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), which dictates the qualifications and policies for all of the structural specialists on all 28 urban search rescue teams within the FEMA system. He joined the CEIE adjunct faculty in 2011, bringing the benefit of his extensive and varied design experience into his teaching of structural design.