Balram Gupta

Client Executive, Structural (Pasadena)

Balram Gupta, Ph.D., PE, SE, is a Client Executive with the firm. He has been practicing structural/earthquake engineering for over 30 years and has been with IMEG since 2001.

Balram earned a Ph.D. in earthquake engineering from University of Central Florida in Orlando and M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. His experience includes design of new buildings, seismic evaluation of existing buildings, and seismic upgrades related to state regulatory requirements. He is an active participant in all stages of a project including, but not limited to, managing a team of engineers, overseeing project schedules and budgets and meeting with clients. Balram specializes in seismic upgrades related to Senate Bill 1953 for hospital buildings in California. He has also been providing contract plan review services to OSHPD for more than 14 years for new hospital designs and for seismic retrofit of existing hospital buildings.

He is a member of American Concrete Institute (ACI), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), American Welding Society (AWS).