Vipul Ahuja, SE

Email: adt6a5@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: +1-818-***-****

Address: ***** ***** **., ****** *******, CA 91607

Over 40 years’ rich experience in the Structural Engineering Profession. Willing to work anywhere in California, though preferably close to family (LA). Already relocated to CA.

Summary of Experience:

Leading the structural design firm Ahuja Consultants Pvt. Ltd. at New Delhi (established 1991) as CEO & Director, which was a leader in technology & provides optimum, safe & aesthetically pleasing and many times challenging designs & retrofitting. Serviced clients from all walks of life. Designed one of the tallest buildings in the New Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) & also the first Seismically Isolated commercial building in the private sector in India, which have extremely high earthquake resilience. Apart from that designed long span roofs, steel-concrete composite buildings, Precast prestressed, Post Tensioned flat slabs, timber & reinforced masonry buildings. Our firm’s worldwide experience includes India, Japan, Australia apart from US (Washington DC, California). Had a Joint Venture with a US firm Tadjer, Cohen & Edleson (http://tadjerco.com/about_tce_india.php). Also worked at leading organizations such as OSHPD and good firms like Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Licensed SE in CA since 1987.

Experience

CEO, Director May 17 1993 – Present

Ahuja Consultants Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India

Have designed a huge bandwidth of structures including high-rise buildings, bridges, infrastructural facilities, International Experience. Examples-- 55 story residential tower on piled raft, peer review of 650 ft tall commercial building in NCR, 1st Seismically Isolated Building in Indian private sector NCR Designed thru construction documentation stage a 36 story Seismically Isolated residential tower, Completed a Trump tower study with Seismic Isolation for an Isolator manufacturer, Kashmir’s Qazigund-Baramulla new railway line--complete infrastructure for Railways. Done Tuned Mass Damper studies, Damper studies for Retrofitting. Conducting training to other structural engineers through Structural Engineers Association on Seismic Isolation application to buildings. Did studies using Performance Based Earthquake Design (PBSD) using Non-Linear Response History conforming with the LATBSDC & TBI. Designed a residential colony with 37 towers with a covered are of 6 million sq ft comprising towers from 14 to 20 stories with floor plate length of over 350 ft with thermal analysis (the design was done twice with changed architecture). Designed steel bridges, gantry cranes, mill buildings, indoor stadium with a shell shaped roof of "mero form", several domical structures, Hyperbolic paraboloid shells, elevated water reservoirs of shell shaped water containers. Retrofit of lifeline buildings for Geohazards International—GHI (Bay Area Based Not for profit). GHI’s acknowledgement of our work mentioned on many of their websites for Ludlow Castle School buildings, Labor Commissioner’s Office Buildings, GTB Hospital & contributed to the guide to Hospital Safety. Retrofitting of Gyan Bharti Public School Buildings, New Delhi.

Sr. Structural Engineer June 20 1988 – May 15 1993

Office of State-wide Health Planning and Development, Sacramento, CA (US)

Plan check of Hospitals & Skilled Nursing Facilities including equipment anchorage calculations per California Building Code & Title 24. Created standard checking procedures with check list to standardize across the team. Worked harmoniously with structural peers & professional of other departments like Architects, MEP Engineers & Fire Marshal. Was made in-charge of the pre-approval program for some time. In a cooperative environment with the industry tried to help them expeditiously approve building plans & change orders, while construction was is full swing.

The area allotted was LA so made several trips to hospitals down there. Tried to help hospital admin get their critical path change orders & plans approved in Over-the-Counter meetings as much as possible and to reduce the backlog in the Office as well. Always had an eye for detail and could spot problem areas for the structure & anchorage details. Have letters of appreciations From Kaiser Southern CA Region Project Manager (Stan Westfall) & NBBJ Architects (Deepak Dandekar, Project Manager) for Loma Linda Community Hospital.

On the professional front, was a member of the SEAOCC and on the Seismology & Shear Wall Committee.

Completed Structural Steel Design course using LRFD (10/07/92)

Structural Engineer Jun 15 1986 – May 31 1988

Leo A Daly

Project Engineer for various buildings including parking garages in Las Vegas, Commercial & Industrial projects. Steel frame Westin Hotel at San Francisco International Airport. Kaiser hospital in the bay area (single story wood frame), including a plant room reinforce CMU block building & equipment anchorages. Used ETABS and PT software.

Structural Designer Sept 1 1985 – May 30 1986

SDE Structural Design Engineers Inc, San Francisco, CA (US)

Partners-Raj Sahai & John Laws-- Design of Stockton Office Building--steel Moment Frame structure on ETABS 84. Retrofit of Library of fine Arts, San Francisco. Structures on Pier 39. Restaurant buildings design including site visits.

Structural Design Engineer Oct 1 1983 – July 31 1985

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, San Francisco, CA (US)

Structural Analysis and Design of high-rise buildings--mostly steel frame, Eccentrically Braced Frames. 388 Market St. 333 Bush Street. Design of components, composite beams, basement walls, pile foundations. Construction support from design office on a daily basis. Checking shop drawings of own design.

Consultant Feb 1 1982 – Sept 1 1983

Nutech Inc, San Jose, US

Retrofitting of Duane Arnold Energy Center at Iowa per site specific seismic loads and Nuclear Power Plant specific loads on to the vent system such as "pool swell" (Time History Analysis). GE Mark 1 reactor vent system was upgraded. Each connection of the vent system to the Torus (a doughnut shaped structure) containing heavy water, was analysed & beefed up. Used STARDYNE software

Skills & Specialization

Department head, High-rise buildings, Structural Design, Structural Analysis, ETABS, STAAD, Feasibility, Structural Steel Design, Reinforced Concrete Design, Ram Concept, Value Engineer, PBSD, Seismic Isolation.

Education

University of Oklahoma Aug 1979 - Dec 1981

MS, Structural Engineering

Norman, OK (US)

Taught by stalwarts Prof. Thomas M. Murray & Anant R. Kukreti. Pioneering work on end plate connections in steel including material non-linearity. Did experimental work & coding of non-linear FEM program code modified from a linear program written by others & wrote a paper—worked also as a paid research assistant. Thesis work now cited in AISC-358. For some time served as a Teaching Assistant teaching Civil Engineering Courses to Undergraduate courses. Also worked part time with Frankfurt Short Bruza (http://www.fsb-ae.com/) at Oklahoma City, Airplane hangar in South Africa.

Indian Institute of Technology July 1974 - May 1979

B.Tech, Civil Engr., New Delhi, India

Licenses & Certifications

Structural Engineer Jun 2020 - Jun 2022

State of California

Licensed SE California since 1988.

Charted Engineer: Institution of Engineers, India

Websites:

https://www.ahujaconsultants.com/projectgallery2.htm

linkedin.com/in/vipul-ahuja-a136238

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