Mr.Utsav Shah is a practising structural consultant with more than 900 completed projects. He has been the principal structural consultant on many highrise structures upto 150m tall as well as several extremely complex institutional and museum projects. He has significant expertise in seismic design of structures and has also undertaken several large scale sesimic retrofitting projects. With the intent to further pursue his interests on seismic resilience of existing structures, Mr.Utsav Shah decided to join the PhD program at Nirma University.