BARKER MOHANDAS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of Barker Mohandas Middle East
- Managing Director, Barker Mohandas Middle East ( BMME )
- Managing Director, BMME
Anand is Managing Director of Barker Mohandas Middle East. In joining us in 2010 he added 30 years of diverse elevator/lift experience in the Middle East and India. Anand has assisted our US firm with major projects such as the King Abdulaziz International Airport near Jeddah, and on-site observations of the existing lifts at Burj Khalifa in Dubai. He has also led directly a long list of projects in the Middle East, now deserving a separate link by CTBUH.
Prior to joining us he led VT consulting for WS Atkins & Partners Overseas for the Middle East and India, where he provided a multi-disciplinary approach for all projects, especially high-rise and complex projects, often engaing the firm's fire safety and accoustical engineers as well. Anand's first interface with us was on the Icon Hotel "Wheel" Building in Dubai, where we were engaged to plan the very custom scenic lifts, and at Atkins he was handling the balance of the project's VT.
Earlier, Anand led marketing and technical services for the Mitsubishi Elevator agent in Bahrain, overseeing their growth to a market leadership position. Anand began his elevator career in 1981 at Otis in India, as graduate engineer trainee. This led to a successful 14 year period in various locations in India, that provided excellent elevator industry training at the time. Prior to moving to the Middle East in 1999, he led Western Region operations in India for Kone from 1994-1998, where he was involved with a number of major projects in Mumbai.
Anand holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Calicut, India. He has guest lectured at the British University in Dubai, and co-authored a paper on Evacuation Strategy presented at the International Elevator Congress, June 2008. He is also a member of the International Association of Elevator Consultants, and the International Association of Elevator Engineers.
Rick Barker is involved in most of our work and all of our tall building work. His background provides an unusually strong basis for this:
Earlier, he was Director of Technical Services at Otis World HQ, where he led pre-construction services for major projects, and product strategy for tall buildings. He also chaired the product committee for dispatching products, led a major study for product energy efficiency, co-led the Odyssey™ system integrating elevators and Automated People Movers, was the liaison with United Technologies Research Center for rope-less elevator studies, and is inventor or co-inventor for 24 patents.
Earlier, he led vertical transportation for Jaros Baum & Bolles (JB&B) Consulting Engineers in NYC, where he was involved with the firm's largest projects. At JB&B he led design of the specical VT system for the 100-story Tour San Fins in Paris, for BDNI in Jakarta, and a modernization study for Sears Tower - resulting in a side innovation for automatic door controls for stack effect. Earlier, he was with Delta Elevator in Boston (now Otis) as modernization manager, and with Westinghouse Elevator (now Schindler) in field, sales engineering, and other roles with high-rise and transit projects in the Northeast US. Co-founders' past projects.
Rick has authored works on elevators for mile-high buildings, super-speed elevators vs. double deck and rope-less sky-lobby shuttle systems, an integrated horizontal-vertical transport system, multi-purpose elevators for first responders (in 1995 with conclusions reflected in the current IBC and NFPA 5000 codes), and case studies for 200 story designs. In 2018, he published our breakthrough designs for elevator harmonized dispatching and passenger interfaces for office buildings without any restrictions. This became the cover article in Elevator World.
He was formerly a member of the National Interest Review Group of the ASME-A17 Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, and ASME-A17.1 Emergency Operations Committee (and related NYC-NYFD elevator committees for fire safety and a joint ASME-NIST-NYFD task group). He chaired the Vertical & Short-Distance Horizontal Transportation Committee for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, has guest lectured at MIT School of Architecture, and more recently at Parsons The New School for Design.
Sean joined us in 2010, and in 2013 became a key Principal. He now leads or co-leads VT system design for most of our largest projects, and leads our work for design drawings, mechanical engineering, and complex traffic circulation studies. Sean has been involved in most of our projects since 2010 which have been over 100 stories such as PNB118 in Kuala Lumpur and World One in Mumbai, as well as a large airport in the KSA, the Miami Science Museum, and various office buildings such as TD Ameritrade HQ in Omaha, One Lodha Place in Mumbai, and Reforma 432 in Mexico City. He was also a major contributor to our studies of the existing elevators in the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai. He currently leads our work for the Block & Tower of the Hudson's Site in Detroit.
Earlier, Sean was Design Department Manager at Lerch Bates Elevator Consulting HQ, where he was responsible for leading design services for projects in the USA, and several international projects. He has designed elevator, escalator, and moving walk applications under many regional USA and international codes, and worked on a wide range of projects from tall/high-rise projects such as the 2nd tallest building in Chicago (1362ft, 415m), to airports such as the Las Vegas Terminal T3, convention centers and stadiums like the Doha Qatar Convention Center, Georgia USA Gift Mart, and Charlotte Arena, to custom elevators for the LA County Museum of Art - BCAM.
Like all our key consultants, Sean also has technical experience with elevator products, in his case with KONE Montgomery where he supplied mechanical engineering designs, drawings, and materials lists for custom elevators for manufacturing and installation. In that role he also worked with architectural, structural, manufacturing, and field teams throughout the product design and installation process; provided product and process improvements, and helped train, mentor and check work for new engineers. This experience has been taken to a new level with us in provding design solutions now followed by several elevator manufacturers involved with our projects, and in providing guidance to our engineers in Dubai on their projects.
His advanced studies with us cover rope sway resonance for tall travel shuttle lifts to determine parking and opening locations, a regenerative power study for an evacuation mode to confirm advantages for emergency power, studies of drive power vs. enery consumption, special simulations of destination dispatching to show peak main lobby queues per elevator car, and he co-authored our study of elevator safety devices going beyond current codes. Sean also holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and is a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.).