{"id":9,"date":"2012-06-25T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:43:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Michael B. Fergus, P.E., President<\/h3>\nRegistered in two states: Louisiana and Colorado.\n\nMembership in professional organizations: American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Steel Construction, American Concrete Institute, and the Louisiana Engineering Society.\n\nGraduate of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, BSCE 1985. First licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of Louisiana in January 1990.\n\nMike is the son of a civil\/structural engineer, Richard Fergus, who himself spent the majority of his 45 year engineering career in private practice as a consulting structural engineer. Mike greatly benefitted from a 10 year partnership with his father, Richard, learning all of the aspects necessary for success as a structural consultant. Mike also spent time working under the tutelage of Ed Morphy at Morphy, Makofsky, Inc. in New Orleans and in bridge structure design with T. Y. Lin International.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael B. Fergus, P.E., President Registered in two states: Louisiana and Colorado. Membership in professional organizations: American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Steel Construction, American Concrete Institute, and the Louisiana Engineering Society. Graduate of Louisiana State University, Baton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/?page_id=9\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fergusengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}