Industry Structural engineering Founder Leslie E. Robertson Number of employees 120 | Founded 1923 Type Partnership | |
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Number of locations New York City
Mumbai, India
Shanghai, China
Hong Kong, China Key people William J. Faschan
Elias S. Matar
Sawteen See
Daniel A. Sesil
Nayan B. Trivedi
Richard Zottola
Wing-Pin Kwan
Benjamin Cornelius
Leslie E. Robertson Headquarters New York City, New York, United States Locations New York City, Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong Profiles | ||
Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA) is an American structural engineering consulting firm headquartered in New York City with additional international branch offices in Mumbai, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Founded in 1923, LERA provides structural engineering design services for architects, developers, contractors and owners. Headquartered in New York City, LERA also operates branch offices in Mumbai, India, Shanghai, China and Hong Kong, China.
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The firm has worked on residential towers, mixed-use developments, offices, government buildings, and healthcare, cultural, and educational facilities, providing designs for new buildings and master plans, as well as renovations to existing structures. The firm's services include condition and feasibility studies, peer reviews and forensic consulting.
Offices
The New York office of LERA is located at 40 Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan.
LERA opened its first international office outside the United States, in Mumbai, India in 2010. The Mumbai office is located at The Ruby Tower, in Dadar, Mumbai, for which LERA had provided schematic design services. The Mumbai Office has been actively involved in the design of upcoming prominent projects including, World One, for Lodha Group and various projects for Oberoi Realty.
LERA opened another new branch in Shanghai, China to cater to its clients in the East Asian region. The Shanghai office is located in the Jingan China Tower.
Projects
LERA has provided the structural design service for several of the world's tallest building structures, including the Shanghai World Financial Center and the World Trade Center in New York City. Other prominent structures designed by the firm include the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, the Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Four World Trade Center in New York City, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, The Broad in Los Angeles, and the Columbia University Medical Center Graduate Education building, and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center renovation.