Leslie E. Robertson Associates, a structural engineering firm known for the design of landmark projects including New York’s World Trade Center, the Shanghai World Financial Center in China, and the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas announced its 2010 promotions.
Nayan B. Trivedi, P.E. was promoted to partner. Trivedi has been involved in the firm’s client relations in South Asia, spearheading the opening of the firm’s Mumbai office. In India, Mr. Trivedi is managing the structural design of a range of projects including the Hyderabad Office Tower and the 60-story Oberoi Skyz Residences. Other projects Mr. Trivedi has managed include the 68-story Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and the 442 meter Canal Point Hotel in Dubai.
Murat Baykal, P.E. was promoted to Promoted to senior associate. Baykal has managed the design of several of the firm’s commercial and residential projects. Mr. Baykal is currently project manager for the design of the Lotte Jamsil Super Tower 123 in Seoul, Korea, and has been involved in the design of New York’s World Trade Center Tower 4, the Cooper Square Hotel, and the Bitexco Financial Tower in Vietnam.
Matthew D. Melrose, P.E. was promoted to senior associate. Melrose is currently involved in the design of the Staten Island Courthouse in New York and served as surveillance engineer for the Newseum in Washington, DC. He has contributed to the design of other structures including the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Expansion in New York and Public Farm One, an innovative, sustainable structure on view at the MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2008.
Seokkwon Jang, Ph.D., P.E. was promoted to senior associate. Jang is currently a project manager for the design of prototypical building studies for super-high rise structures in his home country of Korea. He has also served as project manager for an addition to the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University and the Hanoi Marriott Hotel in Vietnam. Recently, Mr. Jang had worked on the design of the Hyderabad Office Tower in India, the Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and World Trade Center Tower 4 in New York, and had performed security enhancements for government facilities in the Northeastern United States.
Hari S. Nair, P.E. was promoted to senior associate. A native of India, Mr. Nair first joined our firm in 2001 and relocated to Dubai in 2004. In 2009, he rejoined LERA as the Manager of our Mumbai office. Currently, Mr. Nair is managing the design of several residential projects in Mumbai, including the Alpha Mill Mixed-Use Development for the Lodha Group. While with LERA’s New York office, Mr. Nair was project manager for the Buffalo Life Sciences Complex in New York and the Bentonville Plaza in Arkansas. He has also been involved in the design of structures including the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas; a Capital Master Plan for the United Nations; the 47 East 91st Street Residences in New York City; the Baseball Hall of Fame Renovation in Cooperstown, NY; and the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Visitor Center in Nevada. Mr. Nair holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master in Computer Aided Structural Analysis from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India. His Bachelor level studies were completed at South Gujarat University in Surat, India.
Hugh D. Kelly, P.E. has been promoted to associate. With LERA since 2005, Mr. Kelly was recently involved in the design of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, currently under construction in Charlotte, NC. Mr. Kelly has also participated in the design of the Butler College Dormitories at Princeton University, New York’s Cooper Square Hotel, and a peer review of the Parc1 Mixed Use Development in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Kelly earned his Master of Science in Structural Engineering from Princeton University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.
Tanya Lüthi, P.E. has been promoted to associate. Lüthi joined the firm in 2005 and has been involved in the design of a number of LERA’s cultural and civic projects. She is currently project manager for the design of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, and has also worked on the Westchester Community College Gateway Building in Valhalla, NY, the Staten Island Courthouse in Staten Island, NY, and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Expansion in Midtown Manhattan. In 2009, Ms. Luthi was named recipient of the T.Y. Lin Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Ms. Luthi earned a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Princeton University.
