Newsom appoints Sattary
to San Francisco Building Commission

Bay City News Service

January 5, 2007

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Friday his appointment to service on the city's building inspection commission.

Vahid Sattary will join the seven-member commission that enforces the city's building, housing, plumbing, electrical, mechanical and disability access codes.

Sattary is the principal engineer of Sattary Structural and Earthquake Engineering and has more than 20 years of experience in structural engineering and seismic design, according to the mayor's office.

Sattary has worked on a variety of building and structural projects including new building design for the University of California's Haas Pavilion and San Francisco State's gymnasium natatorium and office building.

"Dr. Sattary's impressive credentials reflect a dedication to ensuring the highest level of public safety as it relates to building inspection and structural reinforcement,'' Newsom said. "Vahid is an accomplished engineer whose expertise will certainly help advance the goals of the building inspection commission.''

Sattary has a Ph.D. in structural engineering and a master's in civil engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

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