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Shankar Nair is a past chairman of the Council and a principal and senior vice president of Teng & Associates, Inc., a 400-person engineering and architecture firm headquartered in Chicago.
He received a Bachelor of Technology (Honors) degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in 1965, followed by a Master of Science degree in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1969, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All the degrees were in civil engineering, with specialization in structures at the graduate level.
He has spent his entire career, since receiving his doctorate, in consulting engineering and full-service design firms. Before joining Teng in 1995, he had served as a principal with Alfred Benesch & Company in Chicago and RTKL Associates Inc. in Baltimore.
With his focus on structural engineering for large architectural and civil engineering…
CTBUH Fellow (2010)
CTBUH Chairman (1997 – 2001)
Regional Representative, North America (1996 – 1997)
Editorial Committee, Chair (1985 – 1993)
01 August 2010
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