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| Name | Honor (Mimi) Robson |
| Address | 6285 E Spring St
Long Beach, California , United States |
| Email | info@honorrobson.com |
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| Info | My name is Honor Robson, although I’ve been called “Mimi” since before I was born as Honor is also my mother and grandmother’s name. I grew up in Southern California; moving to Santa Monica when I was 7 years old. My parents divorced when I was nine and my mother, a licensed vocational nurse, worked two jobs to insure that my little brother and I could continue receiving the excellent education of the Santa Monica school system; Santa Monica Unified was one of the best school districts in the country at that time. Seeing my mom work so hard for her kids taught me that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.
A few years later, my mom met and married a wonderful man that was the son of Italian immigrants and grew up in Hell’s Kitchen New York. Realizing the limited opportunities in his community, where many of his class mates were already either in jail or worse, he joined the US Air Force and served in Korea. After he finished his tour he moved to Southern California where he become a licensed building contractor and started his own business.
With my parents being such wonderful role models I was blessed with the knowledge of knowing I could become anything I wanted to be. I became interested in structural engineering in the 1980’s when my step-father, a general contractor, was retrofitting brick buildings that were built before the 1933 Long Beach earthquake to make them safe for future earthquakes. Although I had been interested in the arts, I always excelled in math and science so with the encouragement of my family I realized that structural engineering was a way to combine design and the betterment of my community. I met my husband of 23 years while attending Cal State Long Beach and in 1990 I moved to Long Beach, which has been my home since.
I am now a Licensed Professional Civil Engineer and have been working at a small Structural Engineering Consulting firm since 1994, starting right after the Northridge Earthquake. The majority of my projects have been repairing and reinforcing commercial buildings that have been damaged by earthquakes, fire, wind and severe weather. As a project engineer I am involved in all aspects of the project, which include designing the structures to resist the damaging effects of an earthquake as well as getting all the required building permits for construction. My experience with the various state and local agencies in obtaining these permits has given me first-hand knowledge on how difficult it is to do business in California.
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