For decades, the 2,000-seat Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium has served as a cultural hub for a range of cultural and community events in Marin County.

A 1972 ENR cover story said of Wiss Janney Elstner Associates in Northbrook, Ill., “It exists largely by looking for trouble, both before and after the fact of structural distress and failure.”

Reports from key industry events in the Midwest region.

John M. Hanson, former Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. president, helped guide it to be an industry-leading forensics engineer.