March 6, 2024

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Rogers

Peyroux

Aswegan

Berahman

Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA) has promoted four employees to senior principal and principal positions.

Farshad Berahman, the firm's international projects market leader, is now a senior principal and joins MKA's Board of Directors.

Berahman has 25 years of design and structural engineering experience. His work includes complex projects in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, addressing extreme wind and seismic activity in tall towers.

Highlights of his project experience include the Marina One Office Towers in Singapore; NEMA, a residential super-high-rise tower in Chicago, Illinois; the Makkah Jabal Al Kaaba Hotel in Makkah, Saudi Arabia; and Observatory Phase 1, a 2.6-million-square-foot development featuring three residential towers in Metro Manila, Philippines.

Kevin Aswegan has been promoted to principal. Aswegan is a co-author of the book Design and Performance of Tall Buildings for Wind and an industry expert on topics related to performance-based design. His current efforts include the ATX Tower (321 West Sixth St.) in Austin, Texas, for which he is the structural engineering project manager. The design implements the world's first use of the Performance-Based Wind Design methodology.

Juliette Peyroux has also been promoted to principal. Peyroux is a project manager within MKA's Aviation Group and is a seismic design specialist. Her current efforts include being the structural engineering project manager for San Diego's new 30-gate Terminal 1 expansion.

Greg Rogers is another new principal. Rogers is a design specialist managing MKA's Life Science / R&D engineering work. His recent projects include the Gateway of Pacific development in San Francisco. He focuses on vibration control, analysis, and real-world behavior and has applied this knowledge to enhance MKA's Life Science facilities nationwide.