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		Dr. Prabodh V. Banavalkar Ingenium, Inc. .
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Dr. Prabodh V. Banavalkar has over 40 years of professional practice designing the structural systems for some of the tallest buildings in North America, including the 73 story U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, and the 75 Story J.P. Morgan Chase Tower in Houston.  His distinct ability to work within the intricacies of architectural beauty, and create form from specific engineering makes him a favorite of famous architects around the world, such as Cesar Pelli, I.M. Pei, and the late Phillip Johnson. Dr. Banavalkar has developed unique structural solutions for many of his most noteworthy projects.  The US Bank Tower, designed by I.M. Pei and completed in 1990, remains today the tallest building in seismic zone 4 as well as the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.  Its structure is designed as a dual frame system, providing the tower enough ductility and redundancy to withstand an earthquake of up to 8.3 on the Richter scale, while maintaining the necessary stiffness to resist the ever changing wind conditions in southern California.  Working on the Cira Center, designed by Cesar Pelli, required structural solutions for entirely different problems.  Its complex geometrical twisting form required state of the art wind tunnel analysis and comprehensive intelligent design to develop an interactive dual structural system composed of core bracing and perimeter moment frames. Mr. Banavalkar has also remained active in the academic community, both as a professor at Rice University, and through publishing articles that advance the field of high rise structural design.

JP Morgan Chase Tower Houston, TX, 1982 .		US Bank Tower Los Angeles, CA, 1990 .		Cira Center Philadelpha, PA, 2005 .

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