Joshua M. Mouras

Josh Mouras is a Principal with Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), an internationally recognized structural and civil engineering firm with offices in Seattle and Chicago.  With more than 20 years of industry experience, his portfolio of engineering design work reflects a wide variety of building types, both across the country and abroad.  With extensive experience in both steel and steel-concrete composite construction, Josh has worked on steel high-rise office towers of between 20 and 67 stories and up to 1,000 feet tall, multiple convention center developments as large as 5.5 million square feet, long-span aviation and factory spaces with clear spans of 240 feet, and numerous designs in high seismic zones.

 

As leader of MKA’s Steel Technical Specialist Team, Josh is a resource for the firm, offering unique knowledge and insight for structures with complex steel designs—especially related to steel detailing, seismic design, and constructability.  He has attended AISC TC meetings as a guest for the past three years, actively participating in discussions and authoring or co-authoring a dozen separate work items, particularly for TC5 composite and the TC9 siesmic committees.  He is also a contributer to the manual committee M3 on seismic design.