For 25 years, Mehrak has served DIALOG with a fearless pursuit of innovative project solutions and a distinct ability to think outside the box. Spanning building types, scales, and materials, Mehrak always finds a way to solve complicated approaches and push the status quo. Mehrak provides technical leadership to the Vancouver Structural Team and helped establish tall building structural engineering in both the Toronto and Edmonton studios. He was integral to the engineering of the award winning, zero carbon 105-storey Hybrid Wood Tower Prototype Project, as well as Living Shangri-La towers in Toronto and Vancouver, and other notable projects. His interest in computer programming and automation has resulted in the authorship of many analysis and design programs now used across the practice, facilitating data exchange and collaboration between ETABS, Excel, AutoCad, and Revit.

Mehrak is always looking to improve the quality and accuracy of the design process. In his free time, he participates in code committees and related volunteer work in programming. A respected member of Canada’s engineering community, Mehrak is also a member of Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia (EGBC)’s Seismic Peer Review Committee and Technical Review Board, and has been an active voting member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) concrete code committee since 2014.