Dr Goman Ho
Director of Innovations
Q1: Your best solution to date?
A1: Goldin Tianjin 117 Tower.
Q2: Why is it significant?
A2: This is the tallest building in China ( highest structural roof level at 597m measured from ground) when it was being designed and build. It is built on soft ground with slenderness ratio is 1:10.
Q3: Your particular skill?
A3: Tall building skills, performance based seismic design and nonlinear analysis.
Q4: Enthusiasm?
A4: Concept to detail design of tall buildings.
Q5: Why Arup?
A5: Environment which allow us to think and do it in an innovative manner.
Q6: Anything else?
A6: Structural stability is also my strength and knowledge in second-order direct analysis is also my research focus.;