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KUL BHUSHAN
<br />PRINCIPAL ENGINEER/PRESIDENT
<br />EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
<br />Dr, Bhushan is a registered Civil and Geotechnical Engineer with over 30 years diverse geotechnical experience. His
<br />geotechnical consulting experience includes over 100 bridge and seismic retrofit projects, 20 offshore and harbor
<br />projects, 35 petrochemical/heavy industrial plants, 20 seismic hazard studies, two nuclear power plants, three solar
<br />power plants, 15 medium and high-rise buildings, six airport projects, and a large number of other projects such as
<br />schools, hospitals, commercial, industrial and residential structures, airports, highway bridges, embankments, and
<br />transmission lines.
<br />EDUCATION
<br />Duke University, North Carolina, Ph.D., 1970
<br />Panjab University, India, M.S. (Highway Engineering),
<br />Panjab University, India, B.S. (Civil Engineering), 1962
<br />PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
<br />American Society of Civil Engineers
<br />PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
<br />Registered Civil Engineer, California R.C.E. 22766
<br />1963 Registered Geotechnical Engineer, CA R.G.E. 144
<br />Registered Civil Engineer, Arizona R.C.E. 33231
<br />Registered Civil Engineer, Georgia R.C.E. 25228
<br />Registered Civil Engineer, Nevada R.C.E. 10903
<br />Dr. Bhushan has extensive experience in major development projects buildings in Southern California. He is currently
<br />the Principal -In -Charge for Playa Vista Development (over 1,000 acres in Los Angeles), the Hilton Hotel in Huntington
<br />Beach, the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove, the DPSS building in Los Angeles and a number of other projects.
<br />He served as Director of Geotechnical Engineering for Fluor Daniel for six years and, in that capacity, was responsible
<br />for providing technical direction and .overall leadership in the areas of geotechnical engineering, offshore foundation
<br />design, and geoseismicity on all chemical, petrochemical, pipeline, offshore platform, nuclear, solar, and conventional
<br />power plant projects.
<br />PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
<br />"Dynamic Testing of Large Capacity Precast Concrete Piles in.the Port of Long Beach," with Dr. Alain E. Holeyman.
<br />Fifth International Conference on Piling and Deep Foundations, Bruges, Belgium, June 1994.
<br />"Settlement of a ring foundation using cone data," with F. Boniadi. Proceedings of The First International Symposium
<br />on Penetration Testing/ISOPT-1/Orlando, Vol. 2, 20-24 March 1988, pp. 681-696.
<br />"Lateral Load Tests on Drilled Pier Foundations for Solar Plant Heliostats," with Shahen Askari. Laterally Loaded
<br />Deep Foundations: Analysis and Performance, ASTM Special Technical Publication 835, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
<br />September 1984, pp. 140-156.
<br />"Friction Capacity of Piles Driven into Clay," discussion of a paper by Leland M. Kraft, Jr., John A. Focht, Jr., and
<br />Srinath Amerasinghe (Prot. Paper 16663), Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol. 109, No. 5,
<br />Proc. Paper 1.7924, May 1983, pp. 761-762.
<br />"New Design Correlations for Piles in Sands," discussion of a paper by Harry M. Coyle and Reno R. Castello (Proc.
<br />Paper 16379), Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol. 108, No. GT 11, Proc. Paper 17435,
<br />November 1982, pp. 1508-1510.
<br />"Lateral Load Tests on Drilled Piers in Sand," with Louis J. Lee and Donald B. Grime, proceedings of a session on
<br />drilled piers and caissons sponsored by the Geotechnical Division at the ASCE Fall Convention, St. Louis, Missouri,
<br />October 28, 1981.
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