Kandeepan Saravanapavan

Parikh ConsultantsMr. Saravanapavan is a project engineer with Parikh Consultants, well-known California based geotechnical engineering consultants. He is a licensed geotechnical engineer and a licensed civil engineer in California with more than 12 years of experience in various geotechnical consultancy services for both the public and private sectors. He has completed numerous geotechnical engineering studies related to residential and commercial developments, schools, hospitals, multi-story structures, light rail projects, public roadway infrastructure, levee evaluations, water and wastewater treatment facilities, small and large diameter buried pipelines, and overhead power line projects. Further, he has performed geotechnical studies for trenchless pipeline installation applications for horizontal directional drilling. He is also experienced with geotechnical design, construction monitoring and testing of driven piles. Mr. Saravanapavan has experience in axial and lateral pile capacity analysis for driven piles, cast-in-drilled hole piles, and drilled shafts using A-PILE, L-PILE, SHAFT, GROUP computer software. He has also performed soil and rock slope stability, retaining wall stability including MSE walls, retaining wall bearing capacity analysis, and settlement calculations. In addition, he has performed seismic hazard analysis including liquefaction analysis utilizing CPT and SPT and determining peak ground accelerations based on deterministic seismic hazard analysis (DSHA) and probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA). Mr. Saravanapavan graduated from New Mexico State University where he received his master’s degree. He graduated from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka with his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.