Design for Deconstruction

Principal Investigators

Prof. Jerome F. Hajjar - Northeastern University

Jerome Hajjar is the CDM Smith Professor and University Distinguishd Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, where he served as Department Chair from 2010 to 2025. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Structural Testing of REsilient and Sustainable Systems (STReSS Laboratory) at Northeastern University. He received his BS in Engineering Mechanics from Yale University and his MS and PhD in Structural Engineering from Cornell University. He has also worked as an engineering consultant at Skidmore, Owings & Merill in New York and Chicago. He served as a Professor at the University of Minnesota from 1992 and 2005 and as a Professor and Narbey Khachaturian Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 to 2010. His research interests include experimental testing, computation simulation, steel and composite structures, structural stability, earthquake engineering analysis, and sustainable structures.

Mark D. Webster - Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.

Mark D. Webster, PE and LEED AP BD+C, is a structural engineer in the Boston-area office of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH). Mr. Webster has nearly twenty-five years of experience in the design, analysis, and investigation of concrete, steel, masonry, and wood structures. His lifelong concern for the health of the natural environment has led him to investigate the intersection of sustainability and structural engineering practice. This work has made him a leading authority in the field. He has written and lectured on topics such as the practical measures structural engineers can take to improve the environmental performance of their designs and the life-cycle environmental impact of building structural systems. He is a founding member and former Secretary of the Structural Engineering Institute’s Sustainability Committee and former Chair of the USGBC Materials & Resources Technical Advisory Group. He received a BA degree from Haverford College and BS and MS degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.

Graduate Students

Lizhong Wang - Ph.D. - Northeastern University

Clayton Brown - M.S. - Northeastern University

Jared Schultz - M.S. - Northeastern University

Undergraduate Students

Majed Alnaji

Kayla Arruda

Madeline Augustine

Michael Bangert-Drowns

Corinne Bowers

Ian Carver

Marissa DeCarlo

Steve Earl

Morgon Foster

Hector Grande

Daniel Gray

Saif Jassam

Brian Liang

Julietta Moradei

Edward Myers

Dennis Rogers

Michael Tormey

Luke Troup