Le Val Lund Lecture & Symposium
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The Le Val Lund Lecture & Symposium are annual events held at both California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University of Southern California (USC) on a rotating basis, organized by the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), ASCE Metropolitan Los Angeles Branch (MLAB), USC, and Caltech. The event intends to promote interaction between infrastructure professionals, community leaders, educational institutions, researchers, and students to further expand on infrastructure resiliency and community preparedness.
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Each year, the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division awards the Le Val Lund Practice Award for Lifeline Risk Reduction, which was established to honor the late Le Val Lund, Jr., PE, M.ASCE, who was a recognized expert on protecting urban lifeline infrastructure systems from natural and human-caused disasters. Le Val Lund served as a great contributor to the infrastructure community, working 42 years for the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), where he helped design, construct and operate many significant projects including the Second LA Aqueduct, dams, and filtration plants. With ASCE, Le Val Lund was one of the founders of the Metropolitan LA Branch (MLAB), and valued industry professionals working closely with academia to further develop future generations of infrastructure stewards and protect against threatening hazards.
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The 7th annual Le Val Lund Lecture & Symposium was hosted on May 2, 2025, at the Caltech Athenaeum. The events consisted of an afternoon symposium filled with students, industry experts, and academia discussing technical topics related to Future Directions for Infrastructure System Resilience. Thereafter, the Dinner Lecture hosted distinguished guests and the annual dinner lecture by the 2024 ASCE Le Val Lund Practice Awardee, Ronald T. Eguchi.
Dinner/Lecture
7th Le Val Lund Lecture on Lifeline Infrastructure and Community Resilience
Fri, May 2 | Caltech Athenaeum
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PROGRAM
5:30 pm Registration and Networking Social
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6:30 pm Welcome
Craig Davis, ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Div. (IRD)
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6:40 pm Dinner Served
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7:15 pm General Announcements
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7:45 pm 7th Le Val Lund Lecture
"Lifeline Earthquake Engineering: A Chronology of Technological Advancements, Institutional Changes, and Events that formed our Perception of Lifeline Resilience"
Ronald T. Eguchi, President & CEO of ImageCat, Inc.
8:20 pm Presentation of ASCE Le Val Lund Award to Ronald T. Eguchi
Craig Davis, ASCE IRD
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Join ASCE MLAB, ASCE IRD, Caltech, and USC for the 7th Le Val Lund Lecture on Lifeline Infrastructure and Community Resilience. The 2025 lecture will be given by Ronald T. Eguchi. The lecture will be preceded with an open bar reception and a plated meal dinner.
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Register here: https://www.ascemlab.org/event-details/7th-le-val-lund-lecture-on-lifeline-infrastructure-and-community-resilience
About the event: Join ASCE Metropolitan Los Angeles Branch, ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Division, California Institute of Technology, and University of Southern California for the 7th dinner lecture in honor of Le Val Lund at the Caltech Athenaeum on Friday, May 2, 2025.
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Registration will open at 5:30 PM, followed by social time with open bar. This is followed by a plated dinner and the 2025 Le Val Lund Lecture titled:
“Lifeline Earthquake Engineering: A Chronology of Technological Advancements, Institutional Changes, and Events that formed our Perception of Lifeline Resilience”
The 2025 lecture will be given by Ronald T Eguchi, recipient of the 2024 Le Val Lund practice award in recognition for his internationally renowned leadership on risk analyses and risk management studies of lifeline infrastructure for natural hazard risks.
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Ronald T. Eguchi is CEO and Co-Founder of ImageCat, Inc., a risk management company specializing in the development and use of advanced technologies for risk assessment and reduction. Mr. Eguchi has over 40 years of experience in risk analysis and risk reduction studies. He was awarded the ASCE C. Martin Duke Award for his contributions to the area of lifeline earthquake engineering. As part of the ATC-61 project team he accepted an Award of Excellence for An Independent Study to Assess Future Savings from Mitigation Activities showing that a dollar spent on hazard mitigation saves the nation about $4 in future benefits. He was recognized by EERI as the 2008 Distinguished Lecturer where he discussed the topic of “Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and other Disasters: A View from Space.” In 2023, he was appointed to the California Governor’s Advisory Board on Wildfire Technology Research & Development, and in 2024, he was appointed as the Founding Chair of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Lifeline Advisory Panel.
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Dinner is included with registration and the choices are provided on the registration page. Please select your dinner option with ticket purchase.
Interested in becoming a sponsor of this event? Please visit our sponsorship page here.
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Address: 551 South Hill Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106 (corner of Hill Ave. and California Blvd., enter from Hill Ave.)
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Parking: Valet Parking is available at the Caltech Athenaeum
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Student Symposium
Le Val Lund Student Symposium on Lifeline Infrastructure and Community Resilience
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Fri, May 2 | Beckman Institute Auditorium
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Join ASCE MLAB, ASCE IRD, Caltech, and USC for the Le Val Lund Student Symposium on Lifeline Infrastructure and Community Resilience. The 2025 symposium will convene students, industry experts, and academia to present and discuss technical topics related to Future Directions for Infrastructure System Resilience.
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Register here: https://www.ascemlab.org/event-details/le-val-lund-student-symposium-on-lifeline-infrastructure-and-community-resilience
About the event: The student symposium has successfully created engagement between university students and industry professionals from across Southern California since 2017. The program is oriented to be multidisciplinary and interactive with students, professors, researchers, and professionals. The purpose for the student symposium event is to help improve the knowledge and capabilities of university students by bringing forward important issues from within the lifeline infrastructure practice and allowing students to communicate their work to prominent infrastructure system organizations.
The Symposium will be held from 1-5PM at the Beckman Institute Auditorium on the Caltech Campus. The event will include presentations from students, Lifeline Infrastructure System Organizations, and hazard researchers on topics related to Future Directions for Infrastructure System Resilience. The forum will encourage open discussion between participants. Full schedule to be provided soon.
Refreshments will be provided during breaks.
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Address: Beckman Institute (Bldg. #74 on campus map)
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Parking: Parking is available in the northern parking structure on Wilson Avenue just south of Del Mar Blvd (Bldg. #123 on campus map). All day parking fee is $9.00. Parking kiosk is on the 2nd floor of the garage.
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