SOM, Associate Principal | San Francisco, United States
Neville J. Mathias is an Associate Principal at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Mathias is deeply committed to the integration of innovation in structural engineering. Many of the projects he has been associated with have won numerous awards for excellence in design. Mathias has worked on tall, complex and large-scale building projects across the United States and around the world. His portfolio includes new buildings as well as retrofits that span a wide range of building functional types, materials, and structural systems. Many of Mathias’ projects have required the use of non-prescriptive or performance-based design approaches.
Mathias holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Madras University in India and Master’s degrees in Structural Engineering and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He has participated in authoring numerous papers and…
Working Group: Outrigger Design, Co-Chair (2011 – 2012, 2016 – 2017)
Working Group: Performance Based Seismic Design (2015 – 2017)
01 March 2016
Neville Mathias, Francesco Ranaudo, and Mark Sarkisian, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The concept of introducing viscous damping devices between outriggers and perimeter columns in tall buildings to provide supplementary damping and improve performance, reduce structural costs,...
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26 October 2015
Three-dimensional Exterior Bracing Systems for Tall Buildings
Rupa Garai, Mark Sarkisian, Neville Mathias & Andrew Krebs, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
The use of outriggers with and without belt trusses has become an expedient of choice for harnessing the three dimensional potential of tall buildings to...
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01 February 2011
World’s Tallest Steel Shear Walled Building
Mark Sarkisian & Neville Mathias, SOM; Dasui Wang, ECADI; Sam Lee, Guangzhou Scientific Computing Consultants
Because of its iconic slender form, a key design challenge was to develop an efficient lateral system capable of resisting wind and seismic lateral load;...
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01 March 2016
Neville Mathias, Francesco Ranaudo, and Mark Sarkisian, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
The concept of introducing viscous damping devices between outriggers and perimeter columns in tall buildings to provide supplementary damping and improve performance, reduce structural costs,...
26 October 2015
Three-dimensional Exterior Bracing Systems for Tall Buildings
Rupa Garai, Mark Sarkisian, Neville Mathias & Andrew Krebs, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
The use of outriggers with and without belt trusses has become an expedient of choice for harnessing the three dimensional potential of tall buildings to...
01 February 2011
World’s Tallest Steel Shear Walled Building
Mark Sarkisian & Neville Mathias, SOM; Dasui Wang, ECADI; Sam Lee, Guangzhou Scientific Computing Consultants
Because of its iconic slender form, a key design challenge was to develop an efficient lateral system capable of resisting wind and seismic lateral load;...
01 May 2010
Sam Lee & Yun Liao, Guangzhou Scientific Computing Consultants; Dasui Wang, ECADI; Neville Mathias, SOM
The Jinta Tower is a 75-story building located in Tianjin, China, with slender steel plate shear walls (SPSW) used as the primary lateral load resisting...
01 January 2010
Jinao Tower – The Design Integration of Structural Efficiency
Mark Sarkisian, Neville Mathias, Eric Long & C. Keith Boswell, SOM
The 56 story, 232 m tall Jinao Tower in Nanjing, China, is a next-generation tower which maximizes performance, efficiency, and occupant experience. Its faceted form...
01 January 2009
New Frontiers in the Design of Integrated Exterior Wall Systems
Mark Sarkisian, Neville Mathias, Eric Long & Peter Lee, SOM
How do we see structures? Frames decorated with exterior walls? Some of these walls are quite fancy, using expensive materials to create a desired aesthetic...
01 July 2008
Steel Plate Shear Walls, Efficient Structural Solution for Slender High-rise in China
Mark Sarkisian, Neville Mathias, Eric Long & Zhihui Huang, SOM
The 329.6 meter tall 74-story Jinta Tower in Tianjin, China, is expected, when complete, to be the tallest building in the world with slender steel...
01 November 2007
Sculpted High-rise The Al Hamra Tower
Mark Sarkisian, Neville Mathias, Aaron Mazeika & et al, SOM
At 412m tall on completion, the Al Hamra Tower is set to be amongst the tallest buildings in the world. Setting it apart from other...
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