History

History

SENH first began as an unorganized affiliation of several New Hampshire Practicing Structural Engineers whom saw a need and desire to organize and meet to share technical issues, practice issues and common issues and concerns. The first group meeting occurred on March 23, 1993 in Laconia with twelve structural engineers attending.

Informal meetings with technical presentations were organized and continued to occur for the remainder of 1993. Through networking, other structural engineers learned of these informal meetings and attendance increased. Finally, a meeting was held in Laconia on February 17, 1994, where the vast majority of structural engineers in attendance agreed to formally organize a structural engineering organization.

A Board of Directors was elected and the first Board Meeting occurred on March 23, 1994. By-laws were created and approved on January 26, 1995. SENH was incorporated in the State of New Hampshire on March 30, 1995.

Membership has remained strong since SENH formally organized, with a year end membership tally as follows:

SENH joined NCSEA (National Coalition of Structural Engineering Association) as a member organization in August of 1996. NCSEA is a national umbrella organization that represents each state member organization on national issues of impotence and interest to structural engineers.