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nfrastructure & Engineering are two disciplines which complement each other, that emphasis on designing, planning, construction and management of infrastructures. It could be roads, tunnels, bridges, airports, building and other projects. Infrastructure & Engineering contributes a significant portion to the country’s GDP and is the second largest sector too. Infrastructure & Engineering has a vast scope in India, as being a developing nation, there is an over-encompassing need for infrastructure, developing industry and residential needs. Infrastructural demands still falls under investments by public sector, which is mainly government- for urban infrastructure, rural area and transport.

Infrastructure & Engineering Aggrandizing the Economical Development of Nation

For 2016, analysts already predicted a strong year for the industry and growth percentage will be at 6%. Prefab/offsite construction methods have came in trend which has reduced construction time, minimized waste and cost savings. The contractors have become more selective of the projects that they pursue. Building Information Modeling is another factor that has become important as it provides tangible business benefits with more accurate, less time-consuming and consistent. For larger projects of construction there is demand to produce environmental friendly structures, but at the same time consumers ask for lifecycle cost savings and higher-quality results too. Laser scanning technology has gained a lot of popularity as dimensions and positions of objects can be reproduced digitally.

Engineering itself has evolved a lot. Earlier, for design and engineering in CAD/CAM, CATIA and Pro-e has been a predominant choice among all the leading automotive design companies. But since the introduction of Unigraphics NX and Creo, companies are migrating to these softwares because of their user friendly interface, powerful surface modeling, solid modeling and easier drafting interface.

The biggest trend is interdisciplinary integration, which combining two specials into a third new specialty with cost reduction, data analytics and simulation has become HUGE and necessary.

Lean times shouldn’t come again as a surprise to the companies. For years Infrastructure and Engineering companies have struggled to disentangle themselves from foreseeable cycles of growth and decline and to seek ways of being profitable and consistent performance.

The way this industry could grow is by embracing engineering and construction technologies that leads the market well; and plan to maintain and increase strength for being cost-effective corners of the sector and makes most out of commodization.

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Convenient Construction Consultancy Pvt Ltd.: Striving to Develop

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Industry Concern

Prerequisites for Building Effective Monitoring Infrastructures

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Construction Excellence

Need of an Hour

'Bridges', Wonders Created by Engineers

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Center of Interest

Hydraulics Structure Life's Mater & Matrix, Mother & Medium

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We Move or Get Moved Our Purpose is not 'Gap' Fulď€ llment but to Facilitate 'Evolution'

CXO STANDPOINT

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Evolving from CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)

to CSV(Creating Shared Value)

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Extencore Solutions: Designing a Gateway towards the Future of Machine World

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Marvel Structural Consultants: Specializing in Structural Engineering

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SD Squared: Bring your idea to life

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Infra Support Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd.: Your Complete Engineering Partner

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Prashant Deshmukh & Associates: Imaging Imaginations

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Shivamtech: Delivering value added Services in Engineering Design

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Mr. B Rajesh Nair Chairman & MD

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“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”- William. A. Foster. This famous quote embraces Convenient Construction Consultancy Pvt Ltd., a well-known consulting firm offering exclusive services to the companies in Real Estate Industry.

Artisan behind Convenient Innovation is the quintessence that brings a company towards the zenith of success. The perfect blend of innovation, knowledge, skill and creativity marks the signature of any organization in the dome. Keeping this mantra in mind, Mr. B Rajesh Nair, made his foray into business and founded Convenient Construction Consultancy in 2011 with a thrive to challenge the status quo. Mr. Nair is also serving as the Chairman and Managing Director of the companies under Convenient Flagship, i.e. Convenient Construction Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Convenient Hospitality Services Pvt. Ltd. (CHSPL), Convenient Reality Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (CRSPL), and

Convenient Shopping Pvt. Ltd. (CSPL).

Mr. Nair is a renowned person in the consulting arena with his iron will to service the new developers who are setting up their Real Estate vertical, and put systems in place in accordance with the superior industry practices and soothes the complexities in Real Estate Operations. He is a gogetter businessman who stands out from the crowd and has already engraved his presence in the industry.

Mr. Nair has led great projects from concept till handover, across a wide spectrum of sectors like Residential Condos, Hospitality, Health Care, Retail, Commercials and IT Parks.

His outstanding knowledge in Financial Planning & Budgeting and Procurement & Client Relationship Management mingled with Modern Techniques and Critical Analysis has helped him achieve all the targets under stringent time schedules with effective cost controls.

Mr. Nair is a qualified Civil Engineer from REC (NIT), Bhopal and holds PGD in Personnel Management. His vast

Cover Story experience, spanning over more than two decades of time period is eventful and everything is punctuated by many twists and turns. Hitherto, his impeccable zeal and zest to perform enabled him cross the thorns and stones in the way and opened a gargantuan world of feat.

simplifying complex problems to help our clients build the projects successfully. As a multi-disciplined Engineering Consulting firm, we work for a variety of projects in the Construction Industry and we are committed to deliver excellence to our clients by maintaining the

His achievements include, but not limited to, “The Most Enterprising CEO of the Year” by Asian Real estate Leadership award in Dubai, he became the finalist of “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014,” and lot more.

Moreover, Mr. Nair is an active life member of All India Management Association, Indore Management Association, PMI (International), International Association of Amusement Parks (IAAPA), Indian Concrete Institute, Indian Institute of Bridge Engineers, Fellow Institute of Valuers, Life Member Institution of Engineers.

Ø According to you, who are the Support Pillars of Convenient Group?

I would like to attribute Convenient Group’s success to the promoters.

Mr. Inder Arora, a B. Tech. graduate in Civil Engineering from REC (NIT), Kurukshetra has over two decades of rich experience in Project execution involving Co-ordination & Execution of civil projects, Construction of Commercial, Residential Buildings, Office building, Golf course, Club and infrastructure projects (Highways, Runways & Telecom).

Beforehand Mr. Arora has worked with companies like EWDL, MVL, Golden Greens Golf & Resorts Ltd., Bharti DuralineBiotique, SPL Industries Ltd and Oriental Structural Engineers Ltd. He has completed more than 8 million sq. ft. of civil structures including auto, cosmetic, and textile industries, residential and commercial buildings etc.

As a company and as individuals, we value integrity and honesty; openness and respectfulness; taking on big challenges and seeing them through; constructive self-criticism, self-improvement and personal excellence; accountability to clients and employees for commitments, results and quality

Excerpts of Interview with Mr. Nair Ø What is Convenient’s Raison D’etre? And what is the key Philosophy of the company?

From concept creation to preconstruction and to project closeout, Convenient’s team of architects, designers and engineers provide proactive solutions for every construction project. The development of a positive culture is our key philosophy, which enables us to ensure that projects are completed on time, with quality and within budgeted cost.

We serve a wide spectrum of industries and construction projects countrywide and globally which includes

highest standards of quality, integrity and Cost Controls.

As a team, we look yonder conventional services by adding value at every step of the project and thereby enabling our clients to move ahead of the competition. Convenient’s valueadds are proposed as an added advantage to both the Promoters and the future occupants of the project.

Mr. Sunil Malhotra, B. E. (Mechanical), S.G.S.I.T.S., Indore, the 30 years experienced perfectionist excels in design, consultancy and Turnkey execution of core field HVAC projects and other MEP projects, trouble shooting of MEP works. He has also worked with Companies like EWDL, Batliboi and Company, and Utility Engineers. He is a life member of ISHRAE. Mr. Nitin Bhale, holds B. E. in Electronics from SGSITS, Indore, Post Graduate Diploma (telecommunication) Helsinki, and Finland Certified Course in interior and

Cover Story exterior lighting Design, Mumbai. His 25 years of splendid experience in design, consultancy and execution of electrical works took him to the zenith of excellence. He is currently involved in the development of high voltage damping resistor for EHV testing of power distribution equipment and also working on new high efficiency Module development for Solar Energy.

Mrs. Sapna Nair, the lady icon of Convenient Group is a growth-minded Civil Engineer with vast experience in execution of high-rise commercial towers, residential townships, hotels and resorts.

Mrs. Sapna has worked with various construction companies as a Senior Civil Engineer. She is one of the promoters, who proficiently guides the company with all HR activities and Administration, and Finance matters keeping a keen watch over the human asset attrition very common in every sector. Ø What is the Business Model of Convenient?

We are “Turnkey Service Consultants” providing complete solutions to Structural engineering services, MEP design services including lighting consultancy, and complete Project Management services (From Project ideation to hand over). We are currently providing services all over the country with major operations in MP, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal and Orissa with branch offices located in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai. We are planning to open an office in Eastern part of the Country too.

Mr. Inder Arora, Director [L]; Mr. B Rajesh Nair, MD [R] Mrs. Sapna Nair, Director [M]

We focus on all sectors of Hospitality industry, IT parks, Mega Townships, Golf developments, Hospitals, Shopping Malls, Warehousing projects, Commercial spaces, Residential Condominiums, Sports complex, Institutions. Our operational highlights include: • Total Designing (Structural, HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing and specific requirements to various industry etc.)

• Project Integration • Contract Management • Facility Management • Cost Management • Quality Management • Procurement Management My prior experience as a CEO of a large real estate

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Our aim is to serve the clients all over the world to the core, by delivering projects that spell high-value engineering, architecture, design, and delivery services

The Customer Base Team Convenient looks beyond conventional services by adding value at every step of the project. Their exclusive value-adds are proposed as an advantage to both the developers and the future occupants of the project.

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company for over 9 years has helped in understanding the developers’ requirements, which added a value addition. We collaborate with our clients to help them excel in industry standards and improve performance.

We blend diverse expertise with keen foresight to facilitate projects with mitigate risk.

have already been handed over are up to the satisfactory levels of the clients.

The team makes sure that they contribute their best. A few among the superior projects include, but not limited to Jabalpur Motors, Indore (Jabalpur Motors ), Apple Hospital, Indore (Friends Unity Hospital and Research Centre Pvt. Ltd.), Zion Hills, Bangalore (A 250 Acres Golf Development), Felicity Mall , Nellore (For-M G Brothers), The Grand Bhagwati Hotel, Indore (BCM Group), Aster Cauvery Medical Centre, Bangalore (For-Aster D M Healthcare), D N Oxy Park, Bhubaneshwar (For-D N Homes Pvt. Ltd.), The Wave, Nashik

(For Jineshwar Constructions Pvt. Ltd.), E City (Retail / Residential / Mall), Cuttack (For SGBL Group), Treasure Island Mall (Renovation), Indore (For EWDL), Orion Mall Mumbai (Phoenix Group), Fairfield by Marriot Nepal, Radisson Resort , Hosur-Bangalore, Arogyaneer Hospital ,Varanasi and D N Regalia (Mall cum Banquet Hall), Bhubaneswar.

Keeping Pace with the Latest Trends At Convenient, “We have always believed in setting new trends and not following the old ones,” opined Mr. Nair. He leads the team as a mentor and not as a boss and considers it as a

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team work. This has always helped everyone to grow and think strategically like an Entrepreneur.

“At Convenient, we have always tried to inculcate a team spirit and work in close association with contractors, clients, vendors or anybody associated with them in one or the other way,” says Mr. Nair. Convenient extends a complete start to end solutions with regards to project management consultancy by using modern planning techniques as MS projects, Primevera, BIM, etc.

With solution and designs based on NBCC, IS Codes, ASHRAE standards, NABH Standards and above all with

their experienced team, Convenient comprehends clients’ expectations of cost controls, value engineering and more importantly meeting the targets.

This experience has paved way for them as to how they read their clients’ mind and with what intent, they approach them.

Moreover, Convenient always goes an extra mile to achieve targets for their clients. “Our extensive focus is, our work should speak on behalf of us,” stresses Mr. Nair. And this is the core strength and the unique selling point of their organization, and differentiates them from others in the industry and helps to survive in the competitive world.

Advice to Young Entrepreneurs by Mr. Nair The most exhilarating experience is starting your own venture. As the vast majority of successful businesses, corporations and entities were at one time a start-up. For start-ups what is really important is to take as much as feedbacks as you can, it makes a business stronger. They should love their business and hire people, who will work not as an employee but as owners. Following their cravings; learning first-hand from various viewpoints of the industry, and then finding a unique way to do something better should be their motive. They

should encourage them against all odds stacked at one side and their business idea should always be backed by a good planning & implementation.

As today’s age is of rapid change, so they must focus on future plans along with the present execution while maintaining a thumb rule for planning: Overestimate the expenses/Underestimate the Income and not giving discount rather they should add value to their business.

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nfrastructure & Engineering is an opportunity to make positive change in the world. The dreams and imagination of passionate, challenging and creative individuals are being realized here. Inclusiveness, diversity, productivity, creativity and innovation is a desideratum for it. The construction companies should be filled with the zeal to equip the nation’s infrastructure and engineering foundation that should hold up its pillars for generations to come.

Their implementation should always rely on high quality to accomplish the task.

There are a lot of companies out there, facilitating the designs, development for Engineering & Infrastructure. But here, Insights Success has chosen prominent and efficacious listing of India’s “The 10 Most Valuable Engineering and Infrastructure Companies of 2016.” These shortlisted companies inculcate unique engineering, design, development and construction with feasibility, effective-cost and robustness.

Extencore Solutions has been shortlisted for its global engineering services company, providing CAD, CAE, CFD and other allied engineering solutions. Infra Support for offering a high class engineering consultancy services in the field of Roads & Highways, Traffic & Transportation, Urban Infrastructure, Building and structures. Marvel Structural Consultants strive to achieve innovation, efficiency and accuracy to build lasting relations with their customers, combining a team of professional structural engineers, designers and former alumni of IIT Madras. Prashant Deshmukh & Associates for providing services including Conceptualization, Designing, Costing, Budgeting, Tendering, Selection of Agencies, Project Management, etc. SD Squared for providing peace-of-mind-outsourcing through its brands; Engineer.ai for development, and CloudOps.ai for cloud billing and managed services.

Shivamtech Engineering Design offers wide range of engineering services in Product design and development for their clients. GMD Consultants Engineer , Nirman Consultants, EWE Consulting Engineers are also shortlisted for their exceptional services.

We have B Rajesh Nair, Chairman & Managing Director for Convenient Construction and Consultancy, as our cover story. The Company is a consulting firm that provides professional services to companies within the Real Estate Industry. Rajesh always aim to serve the clients all over the world to the core, by delivering projects that spell highvalue engineering, architecture, design, and delivery services.

These shortlisted companies are worth counting for creativity and innovation in Infrastructure and Engineering.

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Convenient Construction and Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. convenient.co.in

Mr. B Rajesh Nair Chairman & MD

Convenient Construction Consultancy is a consulting firm that provides professional services to companies within the Real Estate Industry.

EWE Consulting Engineers Pvt. Ltd. ewe.co.in

Vikram Kishore CEO

EWE Consulting Engineers is a specialised company offering Technology solutions in the field of Energy, Water & Environment.

Extencore Solutions extencore.com

Farzin Irani & Sundaram Rout Co-Founder & Director

Extencore Solutions is a global engineering services company, providing CAD, CAE, CFD and other allied engineering solutions.

GMD Consultants gmdconsultants.in

Rajesh Gajjar MD

GMD Consultants Engineers is a specialised company providing value added solutions for Engineering, Design and Project Management requirement of infrastructure projects.

Infra Support Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd. infrasupport.in

Rathnakara Reddy CEO & MD

Infra Support offer a high class engineering consultancy services in the field of Roads & Highways, Traffic & Transportation, Urban Infrastructure, Building and structures.

Marvel Structural Consultants marvelstructures.com

Ajith P S CEO & Co-founder

MSC strive to achieve innovation, efficiency and accuracy to build lasting relations with their customers, combining a team of professional structural engineers, designers and former alumni of IIT Madras.

Nirman Consultants Pvt. Ltd. nirman.com

Kavi Jain Co-Founder & Owner

Nirman is a Total Project Management organization, providing single window consulting including Architecture, Engineering, Interiors, Landscape & Planning.

Prashant Deshmukh & Associates pdaarchitects.com

Prashant Deshmukh Founder & CEO

Prashant Deshmukh & Associates is a renowned architecture consulting firm which provides services including Conceptualization, Designing, Costing, Budgeting, Tendering, Selection of Agencies, Project Management, and many more.

SD Squared Ltd. sd2labs.com

Sachin Dev Duggal Co-founder & Chief Wizard

SD Squared provides peace-of-mind-outsourcing through its brands; Engineer.ai for development, and CloudOps.ai for cloud billing and managed services.

Shivamtech Engineering Design Pvt. Ltd. shivamtech.com

Sunil Nandedkar Founder & CEO

Shivamtech offers wide ranging engineering services in Product design and development for their clients.

Extencore Solutions: Designing a Gateway towards the Future of Machine World

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orld of Machine’ is not an unheard phrase, probably far common in Automation and Robotics. The two fields have given a mere glimpse of the future. We are at the top of the horizon while peaking in a new dimension, the only thing we lack is a gateway. Extencore Solutions offer to carry those expectations to build a gateway, so we could enter into the new dimension, a place called Machine World.

Extencore Solutions is about design, development, research and much more for mechanical products and equipment.

Simply putting it, is a One-Stop-Shop and Homeland for all mechanical and other engineering products. A global force to reckon with, providing CAD, CAE, CFD and other allied engineering solutions such as, Design Automation, Design validation techniques and FEA, and the list goes on. Extencore Solutions offer a leveraging technology and working knowledge based on experience of different industries including Automotive, Aerospace, Oil and Gas, and Surgical equipment. That makes Extencore Solutions, an engine honking way past its competitors, blowing up the barriers and at the gateway of the new dimension, World of Machines.

Extencore Solutions: A Perfect Model without any Errors What does make a product perfect? For Extencore Solutions, the work starts from the design of a product and follows down a complete life cycle of the product, including processing, validation, testing and production; the engineering team with vast knowledge and experience continuously maintains the quality of the product through its life cycle. The process hardly stops here, Extencore Solutions takes a great pride and value for its client feedback to ensure product matches their expectations. More than often feedback comes with a big smile on client face, an expression from happy and satisfied client.

Extencore also offers a virtual extension for their clients R&D, the research team of Extencore has proved valuable contributor to clients R&D success. Extencore is equipped with the latest technology tools and world class infrastructure, able to attract a global client base. Their infrastructure includes high end workstations, standard process management

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Making Of Successor- Merging of F E Core Solutions and Extentia Information Technology The merging of two technologically advanced companies was a masterstroke in making, as Externia’s global presence in IT domain met with F E Core’s engineering expertise. They were busy in their own domain as destiny and opportunity brought them together. Together, their aim was to target larger customer segments in the field of manufacturing, automotive and aerospace industries.

Extencore Solutions is ready to take the “Make in India” initiative of the Government to a whole different level.

There by achieving a complete productivity of the product for every customer and any support if required by the customer even after project completion is catered with equal commitment.

Insights on the Findings of Co-founders: Mr. Farzin Irani & Mr. Sundaram Rout A sound management system and expertise of founder makes, enhances and speeds up the development, provides commitment to deliver a perfect working product to the clients.

Sundaram Rout, Co-Founder and Director, has been more oriented towards the Business development and growth of the company. The dynamic leader provides his attributes in product engineering design and simulation. His vast skill set includes optimizing engine design parameters

by Virtual Topology, Automotive Concept Modeling, Global Adaptivity and Probabilistic Design. The universities approached Sundaram to provide essential industrial knowledge

and expertise to their students. Not only students but also teachers, as many as 180 professors from 38 different universities have asked him to provide his expertise to them.

modeling and assembly of suspension and chassis equipment, modeling and assembly of various materials handling equipment.

Their unique skills, consistent Farzin Irani, Co-founder and performance and dedication are Director, is inclined towards the day to followed by every employee of their company. They are the pillars of an day operations of the company. His empire in the making.

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Basis of nurturing long-term relationships with Clients is a consistent attention towards the client satisfaction, timeliness, accuracy and a commitment

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systems and access to vast internal libraries.

understanding of latest technology helps to keep them ahead of their competitors in Information Technology. His work and valuable inputs are the major reasons for successful execution of every project.

For six years he has been one of the strongholds in his workforce. Some of his work includes design, assembly and drafting of various boilers, CIP & SIP skids, and assembly of disk brakes, modeling and assembly engine parts,

Steps of Excellence Structural flexibility of the company, commitment to productivity and correct costing gives the company excellence which they aim for the most. The company provides an optimization in Ideation phase and precise engineering along with much needed research data and IP to its client base. Here are some of the steps of their excellence.

Quality of the Product Extencore maintains and provides clients the standard quality of the product. Extencore have a strong base of skilled professionals which makes sure customer’s project on track all the time.

Partners for Life Extencore have a long term association with a number of different partners for each different project. The technical association brings about required quality and assures the success of every project.

A Secured Commitment Extencore follows every single industry standard in the book and makes sure clients will get enhanced sense of security, and commitment for life, alongside Non-Disclosure Agreements.

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Infra Support Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd.: Your Complete Engineering Partner

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nfrastructure sector is a key driver for the Indian economy. The sector is highly responsible for propelling India’s overall development and enjoys an intense focus from Government for initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world class infrastructure in the country.

Infra Support is an ISO 9001-2008 Certified and Crisil Rate Company having a NABL Accredited Material Testing Laboratory situated in Bangalore, is one of the rapid grown organization in infrastructure sector.

They offer high class engineering consultancy services in the field of Roads & Highways, Traffic & Transportation, Urban Infrastructure, Building and structures.

There are many rationales for the existence of an organization, but for Infra support there is only one rationale, i.e. to provide excellence oriented services to build world-class infrastructure. They also provide a complete range of services from planning stage to the completion stage of the project, which includes preparation of Feasibility reports, Detailed Project Reports, Project Supervision, project management, QA/QC & advisory services.

Mr. Rathnakara Reddy CEO & MD

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About a Successful Entrepreneur The founder and Managing Director of the company is Mr. Rathnakara Reddy KB. He’s a Graduate in Civil Engineering, a Masters in Highway Engineering, and gold medalist from Bangalore University.

He has 17 years of experience in the field of

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Striving Challenges with Hardwork India is a land of opportunities, especially in the service industry, there is plenty of scope for those who have a vision, motto and hard work. Working in Infrastructure industry has been always a challenge, because the field is demanding and very diversified. As such there are no road blocks for small projects, but for the larger projects, there is always an entry barrier as prior experience is a must for most clients.

At the beginning, the company faced lots of challenges, but they survived due to hard working nature of every person in the organization. At present, they are engaging with new projects and for that their team is putting extra effort in getting the best result for the organization.

Serving a Class Of Business Infra Support has experienced professionals who have vast and rich experience in diversified fields of infrastructure development. The company believes in team work.

They think that, for any successful completion of the project the team work is important which include

project owner, contractor, various vendors and consultants. In the entire team, the consultants are important linkage for coordinating with all, fix timelines, quality checks, work within the budget and complete the project.

In the previous years, they successfully completed supervising the works of over 1000 kms of state highways in Karnataka and were able to complete the works within the time frame.

The company always provides services little more that what’s agreed in the interest of the project. Also, they have worked on a project report for a 200

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transportation and infrastructure industry. The company was started in the year 2007 with 2 employees and has grown on to over 250 employees and consultants. Within a short span of working the company completed over 100 projects under his guidance. Prior to starting Infra Support, Mr. Reddy was worked with some of the reputed consulting firms like Lea Associates in Delhi and CDM smith in Bangalore gaining valuable experience in handling major projects. Mr. Reddy received the award of “Young Engineer of Karnataka” in the year 2015 for outstanding work in civil engineering bestowed from the Indian Concrete Institute. Because of his efforts the company also received Century International Quality Era Award, in Geneva, Switzerland, 2015.

km National highway in Maharashtra and were able to substantially complete it within the timeframe and got the appreciation from the client.

This year, the company is completing a building project of over 3 Lakh Sft within the time frame which involves classrooms, auditorium and hostels of Govt. Medical College for Karnataka Govt.

Why Infra Support While In large companies, the personal attention required for the project and

client’s requirements is always an issue. Also, because of overcrowded projects quality delivery and value addition takes second place many times. The founder of Infra Support worked for multinationals before starting the company and have well understood these disadvantages.

Infra Support’s motto is to provide quality services to build world class infrastructure and hence they are known for reliability, quality and timely completion of the projects.

They provide the Highest Quality Consultancy Services with value and innovation to help clients in realizing their goals. This is the reason why most of the company clients are repetitive and are highly satisfied. As Infra Support is striving continuously to improve the quality of services for their clients and exceeding expectations in more timely and cost effective ways. Procedures and designs are assured to be carried out and conform to the specified standards and specifications.

Where the company stands different from others because of their way of approach and deliver the project. They always ensure their designs should be practical, cost effective, and adapt to changing technologies. Infra Support has provided services for many projects in India and abroad. They have a long list of satisfied clients ranging from Pvt. Companies to Govt.

Organizations.

Vision about the Future The company is growing at 30% CAGR. Also, they spend more time on research to getting their infrastructure market growing. They analyzed about the government’s upcoming projects.

So, the scope is enormous and a lot of work to do. The company thinks that, “building infrastructure is building the nation and we are happy to contribute and be part of nation building.”

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ngineering is all about creation. Creating small things to big things, creating things for pleasure to creating things for comfort! Everything around us is a marvel created by engineers. And every small detail in every small to every big thing has a very big motivation behind it. For example, tip of screwdriver possess magnetic properties so that it becomes easy for you to collect nails and bolts. And, thickness of tall buildings gradually decreases and get curvy along with its height not just because it enhances its appearance, but also to create an airfoil to reduce the effect of wind and hence to stand intact even in intense hurricanes.

If we intend to understand all the reasons behind any engineered things especially about infrastructures, we will need hundreds of pages to get detailed information. Hence, in this article we will see the major issues involved while constructing bridges and brief explanation how engineers are taking care of those issues.

Types of Bridges After reading the title “Type of bridges”, you must have thought that this paragraph is just about introduction to bridges.

But choosing the right type of bridge is the first and the most difficult part of the problem statements. As there are different type of bridges like, Beam bridge, Truss bridge, Cantilever bridge, Arch bridge, Tied arch bridge, Suspension bridge, Cable-stayed bridge, etc. They all are different because of their structure, their way of fetching support, the material they use, the load they can carry and the maximum length they can cover. Because of all these types of bridges and their differences the engineers learn all the types in detail and they opt for the most preferable type of the bridge.

Availability of Material Responsibility of an engineer is not to design the best possible structure, but to design the best possible structure within

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the budget. Also, the types that have been listed in above paragraph need different materials, hence engineers keep the record of the material available near the site, the manufacturers who will manufacture the parts and the transport medium which is least the expensive. Also, material should be rust free, or supplementary mixtures which eliminates rust and degradation of material is used.

Self-Weight and Support for Bridge A bridge is used to carry a very large load, but the self-weight of bridge plays a significant role as the quantity of steel and/or concrete used to build the bridge is excessive. Hence, engineers try to minimize the weight of bridge as must as possible. Before even starting the design of bridge, the engineers choose a site which could provide enough support for bridge which carries thousands of tons on it. The properties of soil, type of rocks and the crust of earth is studied in detail before choosing the site.

Impact of Fire Bridges are used to improve the transportation, hence, every type of vehicle hauls through it and traffic intensity also remains high. Because of this there always remain chances of accidents, and trucks carrying inflammable substance like gasoline extends the probability of blasts that advances fire. Also, the bridges which are used for trains can get fire due to sparks generated by friction between train wheels and track. Hence, the material like wood is not used for building bridges nowadays; also soft steel which has melting point is avoided. But also because hard steels has high density, it increases total self-weight of bridge, hence, engineers finds the most compatible solution.

Bridges near Water Bodies Most of the times, bridges are made over water bodies like lakes or rivers to create a quick alternative for transportation.

For such bridges water force is another parameter to consider. Also, extra efforts are needed to make the available land bear the load of bridges, by filling them with layers of rock or with the technique of riprap. At such places effects of floods are also considered by the designers. In floods, water carries scrap, soil and tree parts with it, which gets accumulated at the beams of bridges and can destroy the bridge. Most of the time, bridges don’t get collapsed during the flood, but after months of flood, because flood damages the bridges. Because of this after floods, bridges are examined by the inspectors and necessary steps are taken.

Immunity from Earthquakes To build a bridge in an earthquake prone area involves a few more complications. Because of seismic effect not only the bridge itself but its foundation gets swayed, this may cause destruction of the whole bridge. Bridges are built to withstand the maximum credible earthquake. Suitable place is discovered to build the supports, or by using tremor absorbing materials to the foundation. Material used for constructing bridges is comparably less hard than traditional bridges.

Bearings, shock absorbers, shear links are additionally installed for further safety. Furthermore the lengths of bridges are reduced so that the complications get minimized.

Aesthetics Bridges are so massive that they represent the power and capability of that territory. Most of the bridges act as tourist attractions. Hence, even governments motivate engineers to make it symbolic.

To construct a successful bridge out of all these complications, many experts like Design Engineers, Archaeologists, Contractors, Skyway Engineers, Bridge Engineers, Superintendents, Safety Managers, Carpenters, Pile-drives, Craneoperators, Laborer, Iron Workers, comes together. When right type of people meet they take bridges to next level, and constructs Movable bridges, Double-decked bridges, viaducts, three way bridges, etc. Collapsing of bridges doesn’t only affects the self-esteem of all the engineers involved, but also affects lives of the people trapped in the accident. These things make a bridge social, cultural and political heritage. Hence, just like other infrastructures, building great bridges are great achievement for all the people involved.

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We Move or Get Moved Our Purpose is not 'Gap' Fulď€ llment but to Facilitate 'Evolution'

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uring the last few weeks I have been spending considerable time with my friends from Learning and Development domain and during the course of our discussions many topics arose; the most fundamental and critical one being - what is our purpose in this new age?

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The new age is more than ever challenging because internet and technology have made knowledge accessibility a non-competitive or nonstrategic leveller. Today anybody with a smart phone and internet access can reach any depths of knowledge and doesn't necessarily require a classroom and teacher to acquire knowledge. In this new age where the economy is

slow and every penny matters, the organizations and managers are equally not excited to nominate folks to programs. In this age of instant gratiďŹ cation wherein participants believe that by merely attending a course nirvana is granted, fundamentals are to be revisited and that includes relooking at what is the

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About The Author K Srinivas Rao, Chief Strategist and Partner, is a human capital strategist with the expertise of 23 years across Human Capital Value Chain. Prior to The Strategist, he was heading Strategy - HR at Satyam Computer Services. Formerly, he held management roles at various levels in CATS (Computer AssociatesTCG), Baan Info Systems, Ernst & Young, Videocon International.

An avid writer and guest speaker on the subject of Change Management and Human Capital, he wrote 5 books under the “101 Smart Ideas Series” published in 2015, “Managing HR Issues in a Merger” - published in the Handbook of Business Strategy 2002,“Whispers of a Devil in an Angel”, “Principles and Practices of Management”. He also co-authored a book titled ‘Unconscious Leadership Conspiracy’ and has published more than a dozen articles in International & National Publications.

K Srinivas Rao Chief Strategist & Partner

Mr. Rao holds dual Masters’ degrees and attended Indore School of Social Work, where he topped the class of ‘93 and later pursued Masters in Military Sciences.

Currently, he is a Research Scholar at XLRI Jamshedpur and a visiting faculty at ISB and IIM Indore. He was awarded “HR Leadership Award” in 2008-09 by Employer Branding Institute and Super Achiever as HR Professional in 2006 by Indira Group and Fun & Joy Institute.

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PURPOSE of the LEARNING FUNCTION.

should focus on making the organization future ready. It could be in terms of making it more flexible to Learning & Development as a function adopt to change, or having a leadership has evolved with times and is again at pipeline in place, or Institutionalizing cross roads today. Traditionally it was Values as cultural ethos and thereby seen as a function which simply creating a unique DNA for retention or facilitated ‘Fulfilling GAPS’, in terms attraction of Talent and so on. This doesn’t mean Learning should not of skills / competencies and thereby focus on the daily bread & butter enabled the overall development of issues of gap fulfilment of immediate capability building both at the needs, but it also needs to draw a line individual and organizational level.

Then came a phase where it became a on how much do we invest in today and how much for tomorrow? strategic function by enabling the business to identify its future leaders We are not responsible to make and groom them. In time, now it has again reached a threshold of evolution. Employees Resume Sexy Knowingly or unknowingly Learning function has made needs identification Learning as a function is poised to from Performance Appraisals as the enable Organizations and its Primary and only source. More than employees to ‘EVOLVE’.

‘Evolution’ is drastically different from often it has been observed that the needs identified during this process are ‘Fulfilling Gaps’ in many ways, starting from the fact where Fulfilling more aligned to the individual personal Gaps is perceived more as ‘near’ term aspirations rather than business requirements. It is no wonder that at and transactional in nature; whereas the end of the year we often realize that Evolution is more Futuristic and Strategic in purpose. Fulfilling Gaps is much of the budget could have better utilized or optimized if we gave up the seen more as a responsibility of Learning Function whereas Evolution responsibility of making employees resumes future ready. is a co-creation process between the various stakeholders. The biggest difference is Evolution thrives to make We will focus on those who are geared up to make a difference the organizations and its stakeholders Future Ready in a more comprehensive Learning is a two-way process. We can’t force adults into rooms and fashion than we do now. expect them to learn, absorb and Evolution is not possible to achieve if implement if they are not ready or keen to do so. So why do we invest equal the following fundamentals are not in amount of time and energy on those place. The Learning function has to who are keen to learn and those who ensure that foundations for these are there only to warm the seats? It is fundamentals are established: imperative that we focus only on those who are geared up to make a difference We will Focus to make as that would be a winner for all the Organizations Future Ready stakeholders.

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We are not responsible for food & sanitation In the quest for evolution, we can’t be held ransom on issues like food or sanitation of the training facilities etc.

We should refocus our energy on issues like the alignment of learning programs and aspirations, the applicability of the learning’s at the workplace and so on. It’s time to dump the existing measuring parameters of our learning interventions and focus on issues which would truly reflect the spirit of evolution.

We are ready to Risk it As a true business partner, we should be accountable for some measurements which we strive for and should be ready to risk our reputation on the same in a similar fashion in which business does. Our measurements should focus on how much more businesses we could generate, how much the productivity and profitability grew, how ready are we for future in terms of a leadership pipeline, how ready are we in terms of organizations overall capability, what is our build v/s buy ratio and so on. Evolution isn't easy, but it is the top priority in all the CEO agenda. Evolution is the opportunity for us to recast ourselves from being perceived as a reactive support function to being projected as a futuristic business partner. It is up to us now that how we make the move and move on...

Marvel Structural Consultants: Specializing in Structural Engineering

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ased out of Chennai and founded by IIT Madras alumni, Marvel Structural Consultants (MSC) specializes in Steel Structural Engineering. They provide all types of structural engineering solutions including steel design, and detailing services of structures such as, Industrial, Equipment skid design, Silo, Pre Engineered Buildings, Blast Resistant Buildings, Ware-houses, Residential designs, Infrastructure, Power, Onshore, Offshore, Solar Panel Support Structure, Inverter Room, Control Room, Cable Trenches Equipment Support, Oil & Gas etc.

Headed by talented and experienced professionals specializing in Structural Design, Marvel aims to understand the needs and aspirations of their clients to help their dreams come true.

Marvel focuses on all structural design solutions and building design services, including concrete and steel detailing services. Marvel boasts of some well-known, satisfied and repeating clientele, including Hitachi Power Europe GMBH, Germany, Yousuf Machines & Structurals, Dubai, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Tata Power Ltd., Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, Vamshee Shipping Carrier (P) Ltd., DH Glabe & Associates USA, Petrofac Engineering Services India Ltd. and Technip India Ltd.

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An Exceptionally Talented Mentor Coming from a family of civil engineers, it was natural for Ajith P S, CEO & Co founder, to venture into civil engineering. However, he was completely hooked to the technicalities and went ahead to IIT Madras for M. Tech. in Structural Engineering. During a brief stint at TCE, working on Nuclear Reactor Design, he got a lot of exposure to technical details and the specific acumen to move ahead with business while also learning corporate discipline and working with huge volumes. He then returned back to his alma mater, where his guide Dr. Arul Jayachandran

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(Associate Professor) introduced to his includes routine quality-based training, future partners, whose dreams proper mentoring, and providing perfectly aligned with his vision of freedom for exploring new starting a business in the field of possibilities. Offering a highly structural consultancy. customized package for their customers, Marvel will commit only As the CEO for past four years, he has what they can deliver and gives been involved in major decisionextreme care to deliver their services making, management and financial with no errors at all. The team has planning and leading the team. made innovative strategies to market Operating during the changes and and expand the company with limited challenges over the course of varying available resources, in a quick span of market situations, has been the most time. Marvel believes in having a challenging and rewarding experience culture of mutually motivating for Ajith. His motivation to excel, open colleagues which will create a cohesive mindedness to embrace change, ability team, motivated to give the best to spread enthusiasm has helped service to the clients.

Marvel to grow from a single person’s dream to a 20 men reality.

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As structural engineers, we design, create, solve problems, innovate and use everyday mathematics and science to shape the world

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Founding story Co-founder of Marvel, Mr. Sivaprasad was too committed that he decided to forgo placements offer at IITM and joined Marvel immediately after graduation. Mr. Gijo John, left his job and moved back from Delhi to join the team on this fabulous journey. The fourth partner, Mr. Anoop Baby, who joined later, is a wonderful addition to the team with his experience and expertise for over a decade. They named their dream ‘Marvel Structural Consultants’ and registered it as a company in 2012.

Marvel has been serving clients from different market sectors like hospitality, education, power plants, healthcare retails, corporate and science and technology. Working with architects, and other professionals, they Being Different while maintaining create conceptual designs and ensure Highest Standards of Quality that the structure can be realistically Marvel was started with a strong spirit built and is stable and durable. Marvel to compete alongside established and also undertake structural analysis to experienced senior consultants and understand the effects of loads/stresses MNC’s. MSC is keen to make a caused by gravity, daily use of the difference in this established structure, and cater to the widely conventional business, with their varying climatic conditions and ground innovative marketing, technical and conditions around the world. The team strategic solutions.They concentrate on is well versed with the advanced behavioural aspects rather than design practices and codal provisions procedural orientation of a structure, of different countries and they take due making their solutions highly specific care in incorporating green concept in and valuable to the client. The the design of buildings. motivated team of Marvel staff is handpicked after rigorous interviews Inculcating true Values in their and molded into efficient engineers Services through their in-house program that The perseverance showed by the

Marvel team along with their capacity to adapt and evolve during fluctuating market conditions gave them a good leverage over the years.

Satisfied customer feedbacks provide the confidence to express different ideas and strive for innovative solutions. Support from the staff is marvel’s unique strength for adapting to change, rising up according to the market demand and overcome all crisis situations. Professionalism in delivering products without losing moral code of ethics of the company has helped MSC, not only to overcome the lows, but also to stand out from the crowd.

A Privileged Achievement MSC was invited to conduct structural analysis and design of a unique landmark structure, the Kochi Muziris Biennale Pavilion, envisioned by the internationally acclaimed architect Mr. Nuru Karim. It was a challenging landmark structure which made Marvel explore more unconventional options and appreciate the technical aspects.

This can be shown by the fact that the project is selected for presentation at Structural Engineering Convention 2016. It has also been listed as a Nominee for the ‘Be inspired Award 2015’ for Structural Analysis Criteria, conducted by Bentley systems.

Optimistic Future Expansion Marvel is looking forward to a stabilized expansion of their presence in India and other international markets in the segment of delivering quick and best structural design solutions to their clients. Marvel is excited about designing landmark structures, special structures and aiming to become one of most trusted structural consultants in the world. MSC sees itself advancing technically, in its design capacity, in its global presence, in providing simple solutions to challenging problems, addressing the gap between resources and demand, while maintaining satisfied customers across all sectors.

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Prashant Deshmukh & Associates: Imaging Imaginations

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amous English Writer, G. K. Chesterton once said, “Architecture is an expression of the true strength of a society because the things humans value most are those that are irrevocable”. Unlike the other forms of art, architecture lies in its full view and is difficult to get rid of. It is a relatively permanent expression of how society as a whole sees itself and how it views the environment, and it can serve as a time capsule of human history and human thought.

With the same vision of changing the lives of people with world-class architecture services, Prashant Deshmukh & Associates, started in 1986, has made to one of the finest and prestigious architecture service providers in the last 30 years.

PDA has since then delivered numerous projects to the clients such as, WMI Kone Cranes, Case Construction, Ecorea & Kurado India, TATA Batteries, Toyota Forms India, KAESER, Dell Orto India, Dong Kwang, ZIEMANN, TENNECO, Bharat Forge, ADOR, STARION, ORIENTAL, KIRLOSKAR, John Deere, Lupin and many more.

Prashant Deshmukh Founder & CEO

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Redefining the Market with World-Class Services PDA is renowned for providing services which includes Conceptualization, Designing, Costing, Budgeting, Tendering, Selection of Agencies, and Project Management. However, clients also opt for PDA’s allied architectural services including, Structural Designing, Interior Designing, Electrical Designing, Plumbing and Piping,

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Landscaping, HVAC, Fire Fighting, and Building Management Systems.

PDA is an ISO certified company which is audited every year and they have been proudly getting the certification for maintaining values each year. PDA has special training sessions including, product knowledge and application of various new and improvised materials.

Oberoi and Lanka Oberoi gave him volume of experience on various types of Hotels and Resorts.

Keeping in mind the growing need of architectural consulting, Prashant started his Prashant Deshmukh & Associates (PDA) in 1986 with office bases in Mumbai & Pune and has since then, designed and executed many Industrial, Commercial and Educational Projects which have won highest appreciation at the National and International Level.

With its team of experts, PDA is expanding and rendering its services on a world stage in countries like USA, Middle East, Vietnam, Sri Lanka to PDA has established branch offices at name a few. It is also a design house Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad and for various renowned international has added another support company firms for their projects across the globe.

In this ever-growing construction market, a new competition arises everyday providing new techniques and visions. It becomes important and essential for companies to keep upgrading to modern techniques, while preserving and cherishing their core values, and PDA never failed to adopt modern techniques and kept upgrading themselves with technological advancements.

Ar. Prashant Deshmukh, Founder and CEO of PDA is a ranker from J.J. College of Architecture (Mumbai University) and has been a practicing Architect Consultant since 1976. He has specialized expertise in industrial projects due to his successful contribution to the leading business groups in India and abroad, e.g.

Godrej, Mafatlals, Mahindras, Bajaj, L&Ts, Bombay Dyeing, TATA, etc.

The work on Taj Group of Hotels, Hyatt Regency, New Delhi, Yak and Yeti, Kathmandu (Nepal), Saulty

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We are the Utopians who have vision that unfolds clients’ dream of the dawn to happenings of the day, creating Architectural and engineering history of newer milestones that we always strive to achieve

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Also, PDA provides project management services which include, Project Planning, Tracking of project for time, cost and quality purposes, Project cost control, and daily, weekly, monthly reporting of the project.

known as Prashant Deshmukh Projects Pvt. Ltd. (PDPPL) for providing turnkey solutions to new and old industrial setups that give engineering back up of services and utilities and Project Management.

Prashant asserts on the challenges he faced, “We have faced many challenges in our path to reach where we stand today. Challenges of various faces, sometimes of varied momentous giving us a new energy and zest to hike into the unknown. Series of challenges

led us to intellectual solutions, hence we have satisfied & happy clients.”

Awards and Honors that appreciated PDA The Prestigious AESA (Architects Engineers Surveyors Association) Award for the year 2013 was honored to Prashant for the industrial project designed by them for Ecorea Kuroda & Electric (I) Pvt. Ltd. Ranjangaon.

Has also won AESA Award 2010 for Well Built Structure for Kaeser Compressor India Pvt. Ltd. PDA won AESA Silver Award 2008 for Kirloskar I-4 Project, Ahmednagar and was recognised for AESA Jury’s Recommendation Award 2008 for John Deere equipment’s Pvt. Ltd., for Allied Services.

The Team that Contributed to the Highest Team of young achievers supported by professional stalwarts is the backbone of the company and has brought PDA to the top while making them stand strong and clear. The PDA team comprises of Senior Architects, Project Architects, Junior Architects, Project managers, Co-ordinators, Engineers, estimators, and many more.

At PDA, new joined architects have a good chance to develop themselves into fully grown and matured professionals under the valuable and inspiring guidance of Prashant. The team has worked closely in association with Prashant since the beginning and is encouraged to lead to better designs every single day.

“With our team of creative experts with a blend of young and experienced professional forming a strong fabric that can always render fantastic results of qualitative quantity outputs satisfying to clients. This has been the endeavor for more than 3 decades and the best is yet to come,” concludes Prashant.

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ffective management is a crucial thing for every Infrastructure Monitoring, which enables you to monitor the performance of your on-going systems and the availability in that manner you can proactively take decisions to keep up high uptime.

While adopting a monitoring system, it should solve the problems for you rather than you solves for it. It has been observed that same tools have been implemented by the company A and company B, but what benefits company A receives is not for company B. What are those practices implemented by successful companies? It’s required to implement a few definite combinations of practices for the

betterment of the organisational monitoring systems which are discussed here.

Use Data-Centric Way Monitoring tools are specifically collecting data. Better monitoring tools cover metrics and telemetry data at toptier, thus it’s easy to export the data. They are trying to move the data “up” to be stored, processed, and analysed in combination with data collected by all the other tools, on all the other systems, throughout the organization.

Thus, treating the data-collectors in a data-centric way rather than a tool-centric way ultimately means tools that can be adapted is no longer depend on each other, so that we create a unique source of telemetry data that we can connect to any new tools we want to use in the future.

Use Monitoring for Feedback Most of the successful monitoring systems are driven by intension. They are developed to provide an operational feedback about the production systems to those who interpreted that how those systems work. Importantly, for those who have chosen what to monitor regarding those systems, supported that information. Your organization’s

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Industry Concern Engineers should understand the metrics, whatever is being monitored because each metric should be designed by an engineer to answer a selected question, or provide a concrete insight about the operational features of your service.

Monitoring is not a shot to undo itself. It’s not even a disaster recovery plan or backup system. It’s an engineering process, which exists to provide feedback from the things we build, maintain and care for. It’s your best understanding of the operational characteristics systems on which you rely upon. Through monitoring, you can gain visibility into those places where we cannot even reach. It’s useful for quantifying the success and to prevent explosions occurring accidently.

An Effective Dashboard A good monitoring system should provide a single and unified dashboard which will display an effective overview of the entire system state. One alternative is Turn-key dashboards, but at the other end, it’s also important to create a system that motivates the people who understand how the system functions to curate significant collections of metrics.

Best monitoring systems always made in such a way that should be convenient and interact easily with the engineers.

As per the function time period, engineers could make their code by observing the feedback status. If there is an outage, its first code has to transform to the dashboard for those services before attempting to SSH to the host which is associated with the suspect.

Implement an Alert System A monitoring system with alerts will be beneficial to draw graphs without stress; also it will remove the man-made errors at the critical time of completion. While implementing an alert system, for analysing and isolating the alerts, it’s very important that the system uses the same data for generating both alerts and the graphs. If one monitoring system generates positive alerts and other generating negative alerts, means they are measuring different things under the same machine. But, there is no way to identify which one is telling the truth. Ultimately, the unavoidable result is that your engineers will start to ignore both monitoring systems because of no trust.

Therefore, good monitoring systems require a single source of truth.

Great monitoring systems inspire and invite adoption. A monitoring system that requires coercion for using it is solving theoretical problems, predefined, rather than actual problems in usage that your team members have to fix.

Systematize processing Most of the enterprisers create a plan of lists first, and then choose the monitoring system as per the plans to fulfill it.

But, unfortunately, it has been observed that the good monitoring system will do the opposite of it. They plan and develop a substrate, which is a common, company-wide service for processing telemetry data from the monitoring system. After that, they empower and motivate every engineer in spite of team affiliation to send monitoring data whenever it’s required.

Develop Rather Than Remodel Most of the strong monitoring systems don't require the periodical maintenance procedure. As they are continuously iterated by the engineers. Engineers add new metrics for instrumenting a new service to solve the looming problems with infrastructure. The team that makes measurements, delete them if they observe that there is no longer use of it.

In fact, collecting, visualizing new metrics and storing is much accessible that engineers append new metrics all the day.

Great monitoring systems standardize on metrics processing, storage, analysis, and visualization, but they declare open season on data collectors. Every engineer should be free to execute whatever means they consider appropriate to monitor the services that are responsible for.

And, monitoring new stuff should be easy for an individual.

So, it is mandatory that with the focus of data, look for the accuracy of the results, and with the engineers, it is required to fix the code of pieces to make the healthy monitoring system that could be an efficient tool and will evolve as per your organization requirements.

Monitoring in the Software Development Lifecycle Instrumentation rather than testing the operations would be preferable for the good performance of all your production applications. Instrumentation is an appropriate part of your application, and not an additional debugging text.

Therefore, the instrumentation is an authorised part of your application, and not the extraneous debugging text that can be loosely implemented with the absolute assumption that could be removed later.

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Evolving from CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) to CSV(Creating Shared Value) -By Meena Vaidyanathan niiti consulting Pvt. Ltd. The Need India is the world’s second most populous country in the world, and the fifth largest economy in terms of GDP when adjusting for international price differences. However, its per capita income in 2011 is only $3,600, placing India 129 out of around 184 countries. Despite this, India’s economy grew at a pace of 7.45% between 2000 to 2011, making it the world’s second-fastest growing major economy, according to, “Indian Social Enterprise Landscape Survey 2010”.

The increasing urgent need to tackle social issues in more effective ways. At present, India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate the extreme poverty

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of nearly half the country’s population that lives below the $1.25 per day poverty line. There are several reasons for this, including non-uniform infrastructure, low quality public good provision by the government (especially in health and education), and resource limitations. Successive governments have dealt with the complex problems at the root of tackling and alleviating the social challenges.

Despite several initiatives, social inequalities remain even as we begin 2016 and we are very far from resolving some of our urgent social challenges like homelessness, malnutrition, illiteracy, substance abuse, gender-based violence, etc. The social sector has admirably addressed many of these burning issues but they have also been woefully underfunded, despite the CSR Bill and increasing

CXO Standpoint Philanthropic donations. It is imperative that we look at addressing the social challenges in an innovative manner.

In the traditional bifurcated system, social needs are primarily met through grants, CSR funds, non-repayable contributions, while capital markets are focussed on financial returns and economic growth. In addition, while the industry deals remarkably with economic consequences but more often than not, it largely doesn’t take into account social consequences in its primary business models. In recent times, however, a new sector that is bridging private, public and social sector is emerging.

Emergence of a New Converging Economy A rising wave of social entrepreneurship is seeking to make meaningful difference to people’s lives.

India’s vibrant social enterprise space is young in terms of years of operation,

and nascent in terms of revenue size per enterprise.

According to the Beyond Profit 2010 survey, about 68% of SEs have been in existence for five years or less.

The social enterprises have several innovative business models. Enterprises could have a for-profit business models like Udhyogini; include collective ownership structures such as cooperatives and producer companies, like Waste Ventures, which “incubates solid waste management companies owned and operated by waste pickers”, not-forprofit structures, which make up a fifth of all social enterprises, such as Aravind Eye Care Hospitals, or have a business model that can be categorized as hybrid, wherein two or more entities, while not legally bound, work in close synergy with each other, usually because they are both founded by the same individual or individuals, like LifeSpring Hospitals.

By definition, a social enterprise is a means to achieve sustainability through earned income. However, it is important to note the financial objectives differ among organisation. Social enterprises do not need to be profitable to be worthwhile. They can improve efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation by: - reducing the need for donated funds - providing a more reliable diversified funding base; or

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- enhancing the quality of programmes by increasing market discipline

ensuring sustainability of critical stakeholders in the supply chain.

Globally, there are multiple experiments in this space linking CSR, entrepreneurship and livelihood, including helping existing/traditional community businesses as CSR (e.g.

Indian public sectors like Oil and Natural Gas Corporation- ONGCtrying to promote local craft); using/leveraging social innovations/businesses as an extension of the company’s business strategy with tighter alignment (e.g. U.S. company Patagonia using recycled denim for their textile products); and linking social innovation with entrepreneurship, while keeping and treating them distinct from core businesses (e.g. Tata Steel / Usha Martin’s effort to empower local communities through entrepreneurship). Many companies in India are looking to this model for bringing about sustainability to their programmes.

Small-scale initiatives of this nature could also be important test-beds for large-scale sustainable solutions.

Strategically implementing and networking among small scale initiatives can create an environment that supports large-scale change by connecting relevant stakeholders and groups, such as from the policy or business domain. Many new emerging businesses like solar energy storage and distribution, waste management, etc. were considered as small scale social innovations just a few years ago.

But they are considered the sunrise industries of today. The impact investment market is currently worth around $50 billion (£30 billion) globally, but it is estimated to be worth $1 trillion (£600 billion) in the next five years. This is because the lines between investment portfolios and philanthropic objectives are becoming blurred and impact investing could soon be part of everyone’s asset allocation, according to blue and green tomorrow.

lowering costs through innovation • Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Companies can improve the quality, quantity, cost, and reliability of inputs and distribution while they simultaneously act as a steward for essential natural resources and drive economic and social development • Enabling Local Cluster Development - Companies do not operate in isolation from their surroundings. To compete and thrive, they rely on an ecosystem of players, all collaborating to create enhanced value and improved sustainability.

Our future ability to meet growing needs in education, healthcare, energy, climate change, and the inclusion of vulnerable populations such as seniors, people with disabilities, requires an integrated approach to link and unlock economic and social value.

About Meena Meena Vaidyanathan, has a double Masters degree in biotechnology and business management and a certificate The Concept of Shared Value could holder in Social Entrepreneurship from Lead to Large Scale Social INSEAD, has worked with Monsanto, Innovation This trend is gaining ground in India as Honeywell and HCL Technologies. She The concept of shared value seeks to founded niiti consulting Pvt. Ltd. in well. Mahindra Finance and Marico promote inclusive growth as a key 2010, with the aim of supporting and have partnered with social venture agenda in India’s economic growth enabling programmes and fund Villgro to finance startups by story. Corporations are finding new organisations that create large scale ways to accelerate growth and increase using their corporate social responsibility (CSR) budget. The new social impact. Meena has led many competitive advantage through projects with educational and Companies Act amendment allows innovative business models that meet healthcare institutions, NGOs, societal needs and help create impact at such funding though incubators as corporates and social enterprises alike.

CSR contributions, according to scale. A well-known shared value niiti also conducts training workshops example is that of Nestle, that decided economictimes. on topics of social relevance for to train and assist cocoa smallholder professionals like sexual harassment at Companies can create shared value farmers to foster rural development work place, monitoring and evaluating opportunities in three ways: while ensuring a reliable supply of social impact, CSR reporting, • Reconceiving Products and high quality raw materials. This rural Markets - Companies can meet social leveraging social media for community development strategy has had a direct mobilization, etc. through its needs while better serving existing impact in furthering the company’s programme called Doer’s Labs. markets, accessing new ones, or business goals while at the same time

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SD Squared: Bring your idea to life

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rief us about the CEO/Founder.

Give us some details about his experience with SD Squared.

Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO & Co-founder, SD Squared At 33, Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator exemplar, a multi venture maverick, and a strong advocate of enterprises that create social impact, benefiting the world at large.

With SD Squared, Sachin leads Product Innovation, Design & Strategy, while overseeing core executive functions & investments. A team of over 150 come around “Sach” with engineers from tier I engineering institutions and fortune 100 companies, over the last 3 years Sachin has steered a very successful venture in SD Squared with over 300 percent year on year growth. In the last few months, his sharp focus has been in next generation path breaking technologies working on Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Advanced Virtual/Mixed Reality Technologies and can often been seen working with the SD Squared Research & Experience center on the Microsoft HoloLens or HTC Vive. His long term future thinking helps in the company’s innovation to stay ahead of the race and take both short term bets as well as moonshots.

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Among his achievements include being awarded the Youth Leader - NCEC of ASSOCHAM, The MIT TR35 Indian Innovator of the Year, The Price Waterhouse Coopers Leader of Tomorrow, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, The BBC Young Asian achiever of the Year,

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Tell us about SD Squared professional services, solutions and expertise areas?

SD Squared provides “peace-of-mindoutsourcing, using A.I. , ridiculous brain power & mad love to bring ideas to life; always, timely and beyond expectation”. The entire business model is disrupt on behalf of the consumer the entire outsourcing model from over-pricing, under-delivery and inconceivable opaqueness in how competitive firms deliver.

SD Squared is the trusted partner to several start-ups and enterprise companies providing them mission critical solutions for their customers to ensure that their business is always on and accessible. Be it the start-up ecosystem or enterprise businesses, SD Squared brings customer value through its brands; Engineer.ai for application development, and CloudOps.ai for cloud infrastructure services, billing and managed services. The centerfold strategy of using artificial intelligence, automation, ridiculous brainpower & deeply vested partnership help bringing customer ideas to life.

SD Squared is one of the leading reseller and consulting partners of Amazon Web Services and manages cloud infrastructure of 400 customers and a large majority of the e-commerce industry accessed the AWS cloud services through us as a partner. The company has also built applications that reach over 50 million users and a billion views.

How SD Squared differs from its peers and how it maintained the highest standards of quality?

SD Squared’s business philosophy is based on three key principles; automation, transparency, and financial control. Quite frankly, the SD view is

that most outsourcing companies are not aligned with their customers.

expertise on technology stacks that we work on. To overcome this, we hire from premier institutions such as IIT Be it a startup or an enterprise; budget and Tier I engineering colleges and overruns, delayed timelines and quality train fresh talent on skills that are in demand. issues are always a top concern. SD Squared has addressed this by using complex machine learning technology, We also train our teams to be multiartificial intelligence and automation to skilled to ensure that they always have replace nonstandard processes, a project to work on in the event one of published pricing and zero risk on the technology stacks has lesser delays. Customers get a commitment adoption as things change. on maximum cost and timeline and if The management team encourages an there is a delay, customers do not pay open-door policy at SD Squared and extra and if the project is completed this helps keeping the rockstars (employees) as we call them engaged and motivated.

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before the committed timeline, they only pay for the weeks that the team took to complete the project.

What are the key values which helped you to overcome the roadblocks/challenges, that SD Squared faced during the establishment?

We follow a set of core values codified into “HEARTT”. They are; Have Heart, Think Entrepreneurship, Always Accountable, Always Respectful, End to End Transparency and Never Compromise on Trust. This has helped us overcome all roadblocks.

What benefits your clients are getting from SD Squared? Give us some examples of your satisfied clients.

For clients who are looking at us to build their application, we provide transparent pricing, maximum timelines, gold standards in code development, automated and manual code testing and guaranteed peace of mind. We have also built components that reduce the time to build each application and today, we have been able to shrink the time by 50% to build applications and the cost benefit is passed on to the clients.

Where is SD Squared going? What excites you about the future?

SD Squared is fixing the notion of bad outsourcing. Our focus on working with machine learning technology, automation and artificial intelligence will move us to be a leader in the next outsourcing revolution; one ecstatic customer as a time.

With a growth of over 300% year on year, we see ourselves as one of the reckoning forces in the next age technology solutions; leading the wave One of the key challenges we see in the of ‘unscrewing Outsourcing’. industry is the availability of trained

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Hydraulics Structure Life's Mater & Matrix, Mother & Medium

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ngineering is the greatest award bestowed on humans. An engineer is a person who designs which works with as few creative, innovative, and imaginative ideas as possible. They have vision which require guts as no construction and not even a story is created without it. Be a bridge, dam, building, all of them which should suffice to make known the splendor and brilliance of a nation and they should be robust enough to be conserved for maximum years possible, and even if it’s susceptible to change the basic structure would remain as it is.

Engineering always involves the advancement of technology and it is an art where designs and construction being done with proper organization. Like that, Engineers created Hydraulic Structure which is partially or fully submerged structure which multi-tasks, that can be used to divert, stop, restrict or manage the natural flow of water. The materials required to construct can range from large rock and concrete to obscure items. Hydraulic structures amplify conservation practices where vegetation and constructed channels are not competent to do the job.

The selection of the most suitable and economical kind of structure to use in a specific situation will depend on the hydraulic parameters of the site which is Discharge and Controlled head.

Hydraulics Structures getting Better In engineering, things got advanced, machines and their component parts have become stronger, lighter, cheaper and

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Center of Interest productive. Component operating pressures have raised, design like seal and hose has improved the way additive and filtration technology boosted. Better the materials and manufacturing techniques, efficient the hydraulic components with high power densities.

General Electric has planned to launch a four turbine project, which is going to store energy from the blades of the turbine to gather water which could generate hydroelectric power which will be first instance of combining two energies to provide reliable sustainable energy.

Higher operating pressures and closer tolerances are the factors that leads to hydraulic machine more vulnerable to wear and damage ensuing from oil contamination and inadequate lubrication. This leads to the importance of proactive maintenance. The things to focus on may vary: Oil Life is the issue that must be talked of as at 110°C and above for extended periods will turn into black as ink and smell unmentionable, it emerges the need of hotter oil as it will rapid the speed of reactions exponentially.

Oil viscosity is the important element for both adequate lubrication and proficient power transmission.

Seal and hose life, the standard of elastomers used to create hydraulic seals and hoses are also getting raised.

Types of Hydraulic Structures A dam is a Hydraulic Structure which holds the water in a reservoir as potential energy, like a weir is a type of hydraulic structure which can be utilized to pool water for irrigation, establish grade control or as a new way to divert the flow away from eroding banks, they are again sub-divided into Gravity Dam, Earth Dam, Rockfill Dam, Weir Dam, Barrage, Arch, Buttress Dam. In that, some are used for storage and some for diversion purpose.

Factors Affecting Site Selection Topography could be one of the most important factors as a narrow site will reduce the amount of material required in the dam which will reduce the cost to invest in. Faults and shears should be not present in the foundation of the dam. This makes a requirement for the better and expensive foundation which is leads to another factor Geology. Another element to be inculcated is Appurtenant as the cost of these structures is not high than the cost of the dam, economy in design could be achieved by considering their consequence at the time of site selection. Site should be chosen where proper water supply, disposal, electric power should be available while construction is under process, so Local Condition is too crucial. Easy excess to all these factors will be a great relief for the contractors and engineers.

Pursuit and Purpose of Dams Various aims could be there to construct a dam, be it the production of electricity; water storage for irrigation or human consumption; flood management; and also navigation and recreation. With the dam, majorly production of Hydroelectricity is done which offers a great advantage in electric networks to adapt the power supply to quickest changes in power demand.

A huge crowd surrounds the area which is exposed to the flood, the usage of dams for flood control should be raised.

Experts advise dams shall be built for the sake of unpredictable weather conditions from drought condition to heavy rainfalls and that will also ensure the stability of power grids as large dams are good at storing energy.

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Shivamtech: Delivering value added Services in Engineering Design

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ndia’s engineering design and development industry is growing rapidly as the country makes deeper inroads into the global engineering space.

The advent of computers changed the task of engineering into elements that can be outsourced by a firm. At the same time, vendors to whom the work is outsourced are usually better equipped to perform this as it forms their core competency. The Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and product engineering companies face unvarying challenges to focus on continuously upgrading industrial environment and meeting the demands of new products. Another hurdle in this is a shortage of experienced engineers with the depth of industry knowledge. Therefore, wide number of organizations have started providing services in CAD/CAM/CAE to cater the industry needs.

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Established in 2001, Shivamtech Engineering Design Pvt. Ltd. has a vision to be the pioneer organization in CAD/FEA and CFD Engineering Services to meet industry needs and specifications. The company offers a comprehensive range of engineering services from the conception of the product to the design and development of the product using customized software solutions. Shivamtech delivers wide ranging solutions across industry verticals: Automotive, General Engineering, Heavy Engineering, Oil & Gas, Power Generation, and Aerospace & Marine Engineering.

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A Leader with Experience and Vision Sunil Nandedkar, Founder and CEO, has 20 years of overall Corporate and Business Experience.

Since its inception, he has led the company as director until he took up the mantle of CEO in 2010. Sunil founded Shivamtech with an inspiration to provide world-class industry oriented CAD/FEA/CFD Services for the engineers in the industry with an aim to bridge the gap between skill and the industry need.

Under his leadership the company has grown from a single resource to 125 resources in the span of 8 years.

Providing range of Quality Services Following the industry needs and their migration from traditional softwares like CATIA and ProE to more advanced and much easier interface of Unigraphics and Creo, Shivamtechoffers all the major CAD softwares, including Idea, Hypermesh and Ansys for meshing and analysis.

Apart from this the company also focuses on Engineering Drawing, GD & T, Tolerance analysis, Product Design of Plastics, Casting, sheet metal & Tool Design in their Training Program.

Dedicated Services in CAD/FEA/CFD Shivamtech provides a varied range of CAD and CAE services, it includes Concept Design, Product Design, Engineering Analysis (FEM/FEA), 3D model generation, 2D detailing & drafting, Fixture Design to Customized software solutions.

Quality along with timely delivery of our solutions has been the hallmark of Shivamtech

Shivamtech provides an in-house support to their clients in product design, Design Automation, 3D Modeling and Drafting, Detailed Design, Engineering Analysis and Plant Design Engineering.

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Since its incorporation in 2001, Shivamtech has grown to be a dedicated service provider in engineering design. The company had also initiated their international presence from London UK, from where they began operations since Jan 2009. In Nov 2011, Shivamtech inaugurated their US sales office in Iowa. They have also implemented a Quality Excellence Program (ISO through BVQI) since Jan 2013.

Growing exponentially over the years, Shivamtech added their 50th Client in Dec 2013.

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Shivamtech lays great emphasis on innovation and quality. It works in collaboration with its clients across the product development lifecycle by constantly innovating its processes, upgrading team skill-sets and creating resources of well trained engineers to meet the scalability required for the growing demands of the industry. The company inculcates key values of

respect, culture and a never ending endeavor to cross road blocks, to modernize and mold the organization according to the changes in market dynamics.

An ISO 9001:2008 with a BVQI certified company, Shivamtech integrates a three level of Quality Check to deliver error free services to their clients.

A Step by Step Involvement in Product Development Shivamtech team provides an excellent product development knowledge and strong industry experience, which helps their clients in deriving better and advanced services. They work in collaboration with their clients across the product development lifecycle by constantly innovating in its processes, upgrading team skill-sets and creating resources of well trained engineers to meet the scalability required for the growing demands of the industry.

Shivamtech offers engineering support services for full product design through production coordination for the entire product development stage under a single roof. It provides scalability in terms of services, from a single engineer to a dedicated team with excellent product development knowledge and strong industry experience to handle a project.

Shivamtech team has Product Design & Development expertise that includes Design, Analysis, Multi-body Dynamics, Virtual Prototyping & Testing, Digital Manufacturing, Product Data Management and Technical Documentation.

Shivamtech is looking forward to do business across borders, mainly in the USA and Europe. The company is committed, passionate about their business and wants to bring the same in their client services.

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