SENH first began as an unorganized affiliation of several New Hampshire Structural Engineers in 1993. Our first group meeting occurred on March 23rd with twelve structural engineers attending.
Informal meetings with technical presentations continued to occur. By word of mouth, more and more structural engineers learned of these informal meetings and attendance increased. Finally, a meeting was held in Laconia on February 17, 1994, where the majority of structural engineers in attendance decided 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 grown steadily since SENH formally organized, with a year end membership tally as follows:
YEAR ENDING |
MEMBERS |
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS |
STUDENT MEMBERS |
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP |
| 2007 | 115 | 49 | 12 | 176 |
| 2006 | 115 | 47 | 7 | 169 |
| 2005 | 126 | 50 | 0 | 176 |
|
2004 |
130 | 47 | 0 | 177 |
|
2003 |
125 | 57 | 2 | 184 |
2002 |
122 | 60 | 1 | 183 |
2001 |
111 | 49 | 0 | 160 |
2000 |
110 | 62 | 0 | 172 |
1999 |
104 | 60 | 0 | 164 |
1998 |
96 | 59 | - |
155 |
1997 |
93 | 48 | - | 141 |
1996 |
76 | 33 | - | 109 |
1995 |
66 | 21 | - | 87 |
1994 |
47 | 12 | - | 59 |
SENH joined NCSEA (National Coalition of Structural Engineering Association) as a member organization in August of 1996. SENH has three standing committees that monitor issues of interest to the structural engineering community and sponsor the topics presented at membership meetings. These committees are:
Professional Development Committee
Business Practice Committee
Legislative Committee
The Board of Directors have appointed several specialty committees that have followed through on other topics of interest to our organization. These committees have been:
COMMITTEE NAME |
YEAR APPOINTED | STATUS |
| Public Relationship Committee | 2005 |
ACTIVE |
| Special Inspection Committee | 2003 |
RETIRED |
| NCSEA Conference Committee | 2001 |
RETIRED |
| Student Member Committee | 1999 | INACTIVE |
| Continuing Education Committee | 1999 | INACTIVE |
| Web Site Committee | 1998 | RETIRED |
| Specialty Licensing Committee | 1997 | RETIRED |
| Snow Load Mapping Committee | 1996 | RETIRED |