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Walter Gatti, President, Calculator
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Walter J. Gatti, President and Office Manager, founded Tensor Engineering Company in 1958. Born in 1933, in the Bronx, New York; educated in the public schools of New York; attended the State University of New York and graduated in 1952 with an Associate Degree in Structural Technology.
Mr. Gatti has 56 years experience as a Structural Steel detailer and project manager and has been involved in most of the major steel structures built in this country. He has personally supervised the structural steel fabrication detail and field erection drawings for over 3300 bridges. Among these, many large monumental structures including large trusses, arches, cable-stayed, continuous trapezoidal box girders and reconstruction of large structural steel viaducts.
In 1960 Mr. Gatti was retained by the joint venture of Roberts and Schaefer to develop the details and connections for the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Kennedy Space Center. In 1983 he was the Project Manager for the structural steel detailing of the Greater New Orleans Bridge No. 2, which is one of the largest steel truss bridges built in the United States.
In l988 Mr. Gatti was in charge of all structural steel detailing and coordination of the mechanical system for the Burlington Northern lift span at Portland, Oregon. This is one of the largest vertical lift bridges in the United States with a lift span truss spanning 600 feet. It was featured on the cover of “Engineering News Record”. He also was in charge of all structural steel detailing for the Navajo Bridge over the Grand Canyon which was featured on the cover of "Civil Engineering”, November 1994, and featured in “ENR” February 13, 1995.
Tensor Engineering has completed the first suspension bridge in the United States in 35 years at Carquinez Straits in California, and is now involved in detailing the new San Francisco Oakland Bay suspension bridge. Tensor Engineering has also detailed all the major cable-stay bridges in the United States.
Mr. Gatti has been retained by the American Institute of Steel Construction and has given many seminars including presentation of a paper at the National Bridge Symposium in 1993, 1996 and 1998. He has participated in Steel Bridge Seminars for Caltrans and the Departments of Transportation of Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Florida. He is presently the Chairman of the NSBA/AASHTO committee on standard presentation for design drawings, detail drawings, the approval process, and electronic data transfer.
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