Baldridge
& Associates Structural Engineering, Inc. (BASE), Honolulu,
HI and S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc. have formed a joint venture:
SKG/BASE.
After working closely together on several projects,
Baldridge
& Associates Structural Engineering Inc. (BASE)
and S. K.
Ghosh Associates Inc. have formed the joint-venture SKG/BASE.
The new company will combine the available resources and technical
know-how of both companies to enable employees to better participate
in research and development opportunities and to better provide
consulting services for valued clients.
Project
collaboration between BASE and S. K. Ghosh Associates
Inc. has included:
Report
to NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology):
Engineering Design and Cost Data for Reinforced Concrete
Buildings for Next Generation Design and Economic Standards
for Structural Integrity
Publication
of: Prevention of Progressive Collapse in Multistory Concrete
Buildings
In
future, SKG/BASE will focus on:
Additional
work on NSF (National Science Foundation), NIST, and other
grant research projects
Design
and Building Code seminars for engineers
Technical
peer reviews for engineers and owners
Structural
design on international building projects
S.
K. Ghosh Associates Inc. celebrates 10-year anniversary.
SKGA
employees proudly wear their SKGA shirts in celebration of the
10-year anniversary.
From Left
to Right: Qiang Shen, Prabuddha Dasgupta, Dr. S.K. Ghosh,
Kunal Bhaumik, Susan Dowty, Yi Bian, Kristofor Ghosh Johnson,
Jaehong Kim.
S.K.
Ghosh Associates Inc. completed ten years of its existence on
February 1, 2008.The
last ten years have been filled with success and steady growth.We have done many interesting projects including part of
the investigation of the World Trade Center collapse as a contractor
to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.We have brought out code support publications that are
widely used by designers as well as the code enforcement community.Our CodeMaster series has been particularly popular with
all users of building codes.Our seminars on the structural provisions of building codes
have been extremely well received.The structural design and code enforcement communities across
the country have come to depend on our publications and seminars.
SKGA
would like to most sincerely thank its clients and well wishers
for their patronage and good will, which we have always strived
to deserve, and which we hope to continue to enjoy long into the
future.
SKGA
would like to express its special gratitude to the Portland Cement
Association, the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, and the International Code
Council for their sustained and continued patronage through the
years.
Dr.
S. K. Ghosh addresses Forum on Innovations in Design & Construction
organized by the Civil Engineering Department, Ports, Customs
and Free Zone Corporation in Dubai.
Dr.
S.K. Ghosh was recently an invited speaker at a one-day engineering
Forum on "Innovations in Design and Construction" organized
by the Civil Engineering Department of the Ports, Customs and
Free Zone Cooperation (PCFC) of the Emirate of Dubai. The
Forum was held in Dubai on February 26, 2008 and was attended
by approximately 500 engineers - mostly from the Emirates of Abu
Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah.
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