Cary Kopczynski
PE, SE, FACI, FPTI
Senior Principal & CEO
Cary Kopczynski is CEO and Senior Principal of Cary Kopczynski & Company (CKC), an award-winning structural engineering firm with offices in Seattle and Chicago. CKC designs major urban buildings throughout the United States and beyond. The firm has won over eighty regional, national, and international awards for engineering excellence.
Mr. Kopczynski was the 2021-2022 President of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), a global concrete industry leader with over 30,000 members in more than 100 countries. Among its many activities, ACI publishes the structural concrete building code used in all 50 states and over 60 other countries. Mr. Kopczynski also serves on the ACI Board of Directors and served for many years on ACI Committees 318 and 352. He is an ACI Fellow and has been honored with ACI’s Charles S. Whitney Medal and Alfred E. Lindau Award for his outstanding contributions to the industry. He is a Past President of the ACI Washington State Chapter.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently selected Mr. Kopczynski as one of its Outstanding Leader OPAL Award winners for 2024. OPAL awards are given to only five of ASCE’s 150,000+ members each year and are considered one of the highest honors in the profession.
ENR magazine twice selected Mr. Kopczynski as one of its “Top 25 Newsmakers” for CKC’s pioneering work in the fields of high strength reinforcing bar and Steel Fibrous Reinforced Concrete (SFRC), particularly for seismic design. CKC has continued to advance the use of high strength reinforcing and SFRC by implementing it in major high-rise buildings on the west coast.
Mr. Kopczynski served on the Post-Tensioning Institute’s (PTI) Board of Directors and Executive Committee and chaired PTI’s Technical Advisory Board. He is a PTI Fellow and served on many PTI committees related to building design and professional development.
Mr. Kopczynski served on the Board of Directors of the Structural Engineers Foundation of Washington, is a Past President of the Seattle Chapter of the Structural Engineers Association of Washington (SEAW), Past Chair of the SEAW Education Committee, and served as an instructor for SEAW's Structural Engineering Refresher program for many years.
Email: caryk@ckcps.com
Office: (425)455-2144
Cell:(206)419-6876
