Councilmember Mark Filanc

Mark E. Filanc was elected to Del Mar City Council in November 2008.  He previously served twelve years on Del Mar’s Planning Commission. 

Mr. Filanc is President and CEO of J.R. Filanc Construction, a general engineering construction firm founded in 1952 which specializes in the construction of water and wastewater treatment plants and related facilities.  Mr. Filanc holds a BS degree in Environmental Engineering/Water from Cal Poly University at San Luis Obispo and an MS degree in Civil Engineering, specializing in Construction Management, from Stanford University.  He has extensive expertise in all areas of project management including: technical engineering, CPM scheduling, estimating, planning, safety, quality assurance/control, value engineering, groundwater evaluation and control, shoring systems, cost control, concrete design, formwork and falsework design, piping and mechanical installations, client relations, labor relations, jobsite organization, and resource allocation.

Mr. Filanc is a registered professional engineer in the State of California and has been designated as a Design-Build Professional in Design-Build Institute of America’s (DBIA) charter group for lifetime experience.  This designation is intended to create an accepted and recognized educational standard for experienced, professional and knowledgeable practitioners who possess a qualified and quantified level of expertise in design-build project delivery.

An experienced negotiator, Mr. Filanc has negotiated labor agreements for both Filanc and the Associated General Contractors for over 20 years.  He is past chairman of DBIA’s Water Committee, and an instructor at the national level for AGC’s Supervisory Training Program.

Mr. Filanc is also a member of:

• Boy Scouts of America, Imperial Council (Board of Directors member, 2008)
• Scoutmaster, Troop 713, Del Mar
• Faculty Advisory Board, SDSU School of engineering
• Associated General Contractors of America, San Diego Chapter (Secretary/Treasurer, 2008)