Community Involvement
JAMA is deeply involved with the ACE Mentor Program of America, Inc. at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles. Chuck Whitaker of our office is the Chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the program, and many other employees volunteer their time to the organization.
ACE’s mission is to enlighten and increase the awareness of high school students to career opportunities in architecture, construction and engineering, and related areas of the design and construction industry through mentoring and to provide scholarship opportunities for students in a manner reflective of the diverse school population.
In addition to our community involvement, JAMA also supports many professional organizations. The following is a list of our professional affiliations:
- Structural Engineers Association of California
- Structural Engineers Association of Southern California
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- American Concrete Institute
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- Consulting Engineers Association of California
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Structural Engineering Institute
- OSHPD Hospital Building Safety Board
- OSHPD Surgery / Dialysis Clinic Committee
- UCLA Seismic Engineering Oversight Committee
- Los Angeles Tall Building Structural Design Council
- State of California Peer Review Board
- California State University Seismic Review Board
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- SAC / FEMA 267 Guidelines Committee
- Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii
- American Institute of Timber Construction
- International Concrete Repair Institute
- International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Member
- Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
- Seismological Society of America
- City of Los Angeles / SCEC / SEAOC Joint Task Force on Ground Motion
- Post-Tensioning Institute