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Aqueduct, the water bridges

Posted on: August 24, 2023September 10, 2023

Well, what’s an aqueduct. An aqueduct is a water-to-water crossover, like a road flyover which normally takes a canal over a river. This seriously is an ancient engineering […]

Civil Engineering / Restoration

25 years of restoring OVAL Maidan

Posted on: August 16, 2023August 17, 2023

Oval Maidan is a large Grade I recreational ground situated in South Mumbai, India. It is so named because of its oval shape and is situated just south […]

Restoration / Structural Engineering

Restoring a 100 year structure built like a castle

Posted on: August 15, 2023August 16, 2023

Around 2018 I received a call from our architect friend about an old building of 100 years built like a castle in Ranchi which she was working on […]

Structural Engineering

Back to the future Design, Kochi Biennale

Posted on: August 15, 2023August 16, 2023

Back to our natural roots and sustainable construction techniques. Architect Samira Rathod has innovative and forward-thinking design concepts for clients and one such design was about a Pavilion […]

Civil Engineering / Formwork Systems / Structural Engineering

Hybrid Slipforming

Posted on: August 15, 2023August 25, 2023

In one of our Bridge sites located in Nandurbar district, the bridge piers were reasonably high as the road level of the bridge had to be above backwaters […]

Structural Engineering

Retrofitting two bungalows into one with common load bearing wall removal

Posted on: August 14, 2023August 16, 2023

Three years ago, my friends architect couple Ajay and Meenakshi (Iraadezines) came up with a slightly different objective of combining two bungalows in to one with larger space […]

Structural Engineering

Using Tubular Sections in Structural Composites

Posted on: August 8, 2023August 25, 2023

Project Brief Located in Bholi, a Village in Khandala Taluka in Satara District of Maharashtra State, India the Office and Skill Development Center for Suhana Masala. It is […]

Structural Engineering

Charkha, Notion of New India

Posted on: June 1, 2014December 30, 2018

“What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.” Nearly four years ago, I attended a meeting between Tata Steel and OVAL […]

Structural Engineering

Launching of 50 m cantilever Truss over a creek

Posted on: May 9, 2012August 16, 2023

In and around 2010 four Laning of Mankoli Vasai road was being executed and an additional bridge had to be constructed at Kharbav creek of 2 spans of […]