Pedram Zohrevand

Pedram Zohrevand is the director at CES4. Prior to this, he was the Assistant City Engineer at the City of Fort Lauderdale. He was responsible for managerial and professional engineering work in the Public Works Department Engineering Division. Some of his responsibilities included: Overseeing the Engineering Division (more than 30 engineers) Supervising all engineering and architectural services/activities throughout the City of Fort Lauderdale, which includes planning, design, permitting, and construction of City’s buildings, transportation and roadway facilities Advising the City Commission, City Manager, Departments’ Directors, other City officials, neighborhood representatives, and residents on the status of important issues associated with the City’s and other agencies’ projects. His main accomplishments and projects as the Assistant City Engineer include: Developing performance metrics and monitoring system for Capital Improvement Projects. Staffing Executive pro...

Pedram Zohrevand is a highly experienced and prominent professional, who has served as a Research Assistant Professor at Florida International University (FIU). He conducted research and development projects on the application of Fiber Reinforced Polymers and Ultra-High Performance Concrete in different structural systems, including buildings and bridges. In addition to this, he has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. According to Google Scholar, Pedram Zohrevand has more than 20 scholarly papers published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals with more than 100 citations. Most recently, he published a paper titled “A super lightweight UHPC–HSS deck panel for movable bridges” in the Journal of Engineering Structures. The purpose of this study was to optimize the design of an innovative UHPC–HSS deck system to meet the weight limits for existing movable bridges. Some of this paper’s highlights include -  A lightweight waffle deck as a combination of two ...