A Civil Engineer with Post Graduation in Structural Engineering from BITS Pilani. He has more than 33 years of professional experience in R&D and in the execution of Mega Civil Engineering Projects. He has been instrumental in implementation of National Highways Development Plans (NHDP) and Bharatmala Pariyojna.
His main area of work has been in the field of Bridge Health Monitoring Systems, Bridge Management and Rehabilitation of structures through sophisticated instrumentation and theoretical evaluations.
He has contributed to the evaluation of Railway bridges to study the effect of higher axle load. Shri Goyal has provided leadership to many projects in SERC/CRRI sponsored by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Indian Railways, State PWDs, Public Sector Organisations.
Shri Goyal has contributed significantly in Developing Infrastructure Information System for Maintenance of Bridges in India under Deptt. of Science and Technology and several Govt of India’s Sponsored Projects.
He has been recipient of Swedish Road Authority (SIDA)’s Road Sector Management program.
As Project Director in NHAI he has handled the Golden Quadrilateral Projects in the State of Jharkhand and West Bengal. Also as Chief General Manager at National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), he was instrumental in framing several key provisions for Roads and Bridge Asset Management through scientific means in the Model Concession Agreements.
So far, Shri JK Goyal has published more than 150 Research papers, reports and contributed to IRC Publications.
Presently he is Chief Scientist and former Head of Bridge Engineering Division in CSIR-CRRI.
