Title: Structural Inventions in China

Bio:

Mark Sarkisian, PE, SE, NAE, LEED BD+C, is a Partner of Structural and Seismic Engineering at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in San Francisco, California. He received his BS Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Connecticut where he is a Fellow of the Academy of Distinguished Engineers and his MS Degree in Structural Engineering from Lehigh University. He also received an honorary Sc.D degree from Clarkson University and an honorary MS degree from the Politecnico di Milano. In 2021, he was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in the United States.

His career has focused on developing innovative structural engineering solutions for over 100 major building projects around the world, including some of the world’s tallest. His projects include the Jin Mao Tower - Shanghai, the Tianjin World Financial Center, the New Beijing Poly Plaza, Poly International Plaza – Beijing, Poly Real Estate Headquarters – Guangzhou, and the Ningbo Guohua Financial Center. Mark holds 15 U.S. and international patents for high-performance seismic structural mechanisms and environmentally responsible structural systems. He teaches studio design courses at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly, California College of the Arts, North Carolina State University, Northeastern University, and the Pratt Institute and has the written the book entitled “Designing Tall Buildings – Structure as Architecture” with the second edition released by Routledge -Taylor & Francis in Mandarin and English.