Robert Otani

Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., Chief Technology Officer | New York City, United States

About

Robert K. Otani, PE LEED AP is Chief Technology Officer at Thornton-Tomasetti, Inc., a 1400+ person multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm, and founded the CORE studio, an applications development, advanced computational modeling, and R&D group at his firm. He has extensive structural design and project management experience involving commercial, infrastructure, institutional, cultural and residential structures on projects totaling over $2 billion USD of construction. His professional and academic interests focus on informed architecture relating to optimized structural typologies, high performance structures, and structural sustainability. He has served as President of the Structural Engineers Association of New York in 2007 and has been an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Robert Otani

CTBUH Roles

Annual Conference, Presenter (Chicago 2019)

CTBUH Initiatives

Skin New York

Skin New York

27 August 2015

Skin NY

Skin NY

27 August 2015

27 August 2015

Skin New York

Skin NewYork focus on bringing together different spectrums of the façade industry and the challenges in designing and building facades.

27 August 2015

Skin NY

CTBUH New York, in association with the New York Young Professionals Committee hosted an event entitled Skin:NY that focused on high-rise façade design and construction