Viral Patel

As a Director of Design, Viral influences Walter P Moore’s practice and projects across an extremely broad range of activities through a team of Design Managers in each of our offices. Additionally, with 30 years of specialized structural engineering consulting experience, he currently leads our Research and Development team, a group that focuses on the development of advanced solutions for our most complex structural challenges, as well as develops tools and best practices to improve the quality and consistency of all of the firm’s work. Viral is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and six other states.

Viral has a knack for making the complex simple. His technical breadth is spectacular, including advanced analytical methods for long-span structures, complex three-dimensional frames, and tall buildings. He helps improve the way that buildings are designed through his involvement as a voting member of ACI 318, 318-W(Chair), 318-F, 375, and 314. He also has industry-leading expertise in the performance-based design of reinforced concrete buildings under wind loads.

MS, Civil Engineering, Rice University