Lakshmana Chary K.
Professional Summary
Senior Civil Engineer with 28+ years of experience spanning consultant-side advisory and direct construction execution across infrastructure, power, water supply, wastewater, and industrial projects. Brings approximately 10 years as a consulting/owner's engineer on power plants, IT buildings, WTPs, and STPs, and 18 years executing hydropower, thermal power, jack wells, roads, and warehousing projects valued up to ₹450 Cr. Proficient in RCC structures, pile foundations, mass concreting, PEB foundations, and water-treatment structures. Skilled in quantity surveying, BOQ preparation, contractor billing, project planning, QA/QC, IS code compliance, and EHS management. Has represented promoters as Owner's Engineer on a 99 MW hydropower EPC contract and led multi-disciplinary site teams on urban water-supply and pollution-abatement schemes for municipal clients. Open to relocation and project-based assignments across India.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Supervised PEB warehouse construction from foundation to structural steel erection, ensuring adherence to approved drawings and specifications at every stage.
- Reviewed PEB general-arrangement, structural, and foundation drawings alongside BOQs to identify constructability issues before work commenced on site.
- Monitored excavation, PCC, RCC foundations, pedestals, and anchor-bolt installation, enforcing dimensional tolerances and concrete mix compliance.
- Coordinated with the client, design consultants, main contractor, and subcontractors to resolve site interface and execution issues without programme impact.
- Verified measurements and BOQ quantities to support running-account bill checking and prevent over-certification of contractor claims.
- Tracked manpower, materials, and plant productivity on a daily basis and consolidated findings into structured progress reports for client submission.
- Enforced QA/QC inspection protocols and EHS compliance requirements across all active work fronts throughout the construction cycle.
- Led quality-control and execution oversight for two sewage treatment plants, a rising-main pump station, and retaining-wall works across multiple active site fronts.
- Supervised 150 end-bearing piles of 600 mm and 700 mm diameter, verifying set criteria, pile integrity, and reinforcement placement against structural drawings.
- Reviewed structural drawings and design requirements against relevant IS codes, raising technical queries and securing consultant responses to maintain construction accuracy.
- Coordinated daily between Pune Municipal Corporation, the main contractor, and site execution teams to resolve technical, planning, and resource issues.
- Monitored milestone progress and compiled detailed progress reports submitted to the client on a scheduled basis throughout the project.
- Backed budget-tracking, cash-flow forecasting, and project-planning activities, contributing inputs to the consultant's internal project-controls function.
- Managed end-to-end construction of the pump house, intake well, jack well, and water-treatment structures, coordinating site teams to maintain programme across all work packages.
- Administered quantity surveying and BOQ measurement activities, reconciling site quantities with contract schedules to support accurate contractor billing.
- Reviewed contractor progress against baseline schedules and enforced safety and quality compliance requirements across all active construction zones.
- Prepared detailed progress reports, budget-status summaries, and cash-flow statements for submission to the client and senior management.
- Managed procurement and deployment of manpower and materials in alignment with the project schedule, reducing idle-time risk on critical work fronts.
- Coordinated with consultants and municipal-client representatives to close out technical queries and obtain drawing approvals required for uninterrupted execution.
- Supervised construction of seven 20 ML RCC elevated storage reservoirs along with a jack well, pump house, and approach bridge, ensuring structural quality at each stage.
- Reviewed working drawings, BOQs, contract documents, and technical specifications, coordinating with the design office to resolve field-level discrepancies.
- Calculated quantities from approved drawings and maintained joint measurement records with the contractor to underpin transparent billing certification.
- Monitored billed and unbilled quantities against contract schedules, flagging deviations and supporting completion documentation for final account settlement.
- Coordinated stores management, labour deployment, safety compliance, and planning inputs to sustain consistent progress across all reservoir construction fronts.
- Managed site teams for manpower, materials, and plant, aligning resource availability with construction sequences to prevent programme slippage.
- Supervised turbine-generator building foundations, deck slabs, floor slabs, and cable-trench construction, ensuring conformance with structural design intent at each pour.
- Supervised reinforcement placement and RCC construction activities as per approved drawings and bar-bending schedules, achieving consistent structural quality across all work fronts.
- Monitored contractor performance and construction progress, identifying schedule risks and recommending corrective actions to the project manager.
- Verified material quality and reviewed testing documentation — including concrete cube results and reinforcement mill certificates — before authorising incorporation into permanent works.
- Prepared billing certificates and progress reports for client submission, maintaining an accurate record of certified and outstanding contractor claims.
- Ensured contractor compliance with approved design specifications and construction methodology statements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Supervised construction of the TG building, deck slabs, floor slabs, generator foundations, mechanical equipment foundations, roof slab, and cable trenches across a 500 MW thermal power plant.
- Managed reinforcement, shuttering, and mass-concreting activities as per approved drawings and bar-bending schedules, maintaining continuous quality oversight across multiple concurrent pours.
- Verified material quality and reviewed testing reports and site-practice records before authorising placement of concrete and reinforcement into permanent works.
- Prepared and verified measurement books, billing documents, and contractor payment certifications, ensuring quantities were correctly recorded and certified.
- Monitored contractor programme and performance against baseline milestones, escalating delays and coordinating recovery plans with site leadership to protect overall project schedule.
- Coordinated among civil, mechanical, and electrical stakeholders to resolve interface issues and clear work fronts critical to the project's power-block construction sequence.
- Represented the promoter as Owner's Engineer on a ₹450 Cr hydropower EPC contract, monitoring the contractor's performance against schedule, quality standards, and contractual obligations.
- Managed deep foundation excavation, shoring, slope protection, and stabilisation works, enforcing safe-working practices during blasting and tunnelling operations.
- Supervised powerhouse raft and machine-hall foundation construction, coordinating civil interfaces with mechanical and electrical teams to protect critical programme milestones.
- Supervised mass concreting for major structural elements, maintaining strict quality controls on mix design, pour sequence, and curing to meet structural-specification requirements.
- Coordinated civil, mechanical, and electrical discipline interfaces throughout construction, resolving cross-discipline conflicts to keep the overall EPC programme on track.
- Prepared and reviewed detailed progress reports and monthly DPRs submitted to project promoters, capturing physical progress, resource deployment, and contractual status.
- Ensured implementation of safety protocols during deep excavation, tunnelling, and controlled blasting — managing a hazardous high-altitude construction environment across the full project tenure.
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