Vebhav Berera is seeking a senior structural design engineer position where he can utilize his 6.5 years of experience designing tunnels, bridges, buildings, and power projects. He has extensive experience using structural design software like STAAD Pro, SAP, ETABS, and ABAQUS. He holds an MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Liverpool and has worked on projects in India, Afghanistan, and Uganda.
Vebhav Berera is seeking a senior structural design engineer position where he can utilize his 6.5 years of experience designing tunnels, bridges, buildings, and power projects. He has extensive experience using structural design software like STAAD Pro, SAP, ETABS, and ABAQUS. He holds an MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Liverpool and has worked on projects in India, Afghanistan, and Uganda.
Vebhav Berera is seeking a senior structural design engineer position where he can utilize his 6.5 years of experience designing tunnels, bridges, buildings, and power projects. He has extensive experience using structural design software like STAAD Pro, SAP, ETABS, and ABAQUS. He holds an MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Liverpool and has worked on projects in India, Afghanistan, and Uganda.
Vebhav Berera is seeking a senior structural design engineer position where he can utilize his 6.5 years of experience designing tunnels, bridges, buildings, and power projects. He has extensive experience using structural design software like STAAD Pro, SAP, ETABS, and ABAQUS. He holds an MSc in Structural Engineering from the University of Liverpool and has worked on projects in India, Afghanistan, and Uganda.
PERSONAL PROFILE Seeking a position as a senior structural design engineer in a dynamic organization where I can utilize my knowledge, skills and abilities, and further learn and contribute in positive ways for challenging, creative and diversified projects. I look forward for professional growth and training to become resourceful, innovative and flexible. Recently completed my MSc (ENG) in Sustainable Structural Engineering with distinction under the Commonwealth Scholarship award 2015/16. I have an extensive experience of 6.5 years of working on all major technical aspects of tunnel/ underground structures, bridges, buildings (Data Centres/mission critical facilities), and power projects at detailed as well as feasibility stages.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS Comprehensive problem solving abilities with analytical thinking, good verbal and written communication skills, ability to deal with people, willingness to learn, team facilitator and a hard worker. Open minded to work in complex environment and projects. Extensive experience in design of RCC structures and steel structures using STAAD pro/ GSA and FEM based software like LUSAS, ABAQUS, ANSYS. Experience in design of mass concrete structures like dams, RCC and steel bridges, and complex building structures like powerhouses. Software proficiency: C, C++, Visual Basics,3-D BIM tools REVIT, AutoCAD, STAAD Pro, SAP, ETABS,SAFE, SketchUp, OASYS GSA, SQL (DBMS), LUSAS, MIDAS and ABAQUS, ANSYS APDL and Workbench. Well conversant with International design standards like BS/ Eurocodes, DMRB, IRC, IRS, IS, AS 5100, AASHTO and USACE. In addition to these technical skills, extensive involvement in Project/ Design Management, Design coordination of major Infrastructure projects. Acted as Design coordinator/ Assistant Project Manager in couple of major Infrastructure design projects and gathered valuable experience related to all other interrelated disciplines.
EDUCATION Passed AISSE of C.B.S.E from Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi in the year 2005 securing 90% aggregate marks. Passed AISSCE of C.B.S.E from Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi in the year 2007, securing 80% aggregate marks. Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India (July, 2007 to June, 2011) B.Tech Civil (First Division With Honours), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, with a CPI of 9.38/10. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Sept,2015 to Oct, 2016)
VEBHAV BERERA 1 MSc (ENG) Sustainable Structural Engineering (First Class with Honours)
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS Structural/Hydraulic Modelling of Spillways & Water Conductor System at CWPRS, Pune, November 2011. Remote Sensing and GIS for Environmental Management (RSGIS - EM 2010), Jamia Millia Islamia, NewDelhi, August 2010.
PUBLICATIONS Research paper under consideration for being published, “Study of dynamic behaviour of cable- stayed bridges under transient loads to prevent disproportionate collapse.” in association with ARUP using OASYS GSA and LUSAS. Study of existing Boyne Bridge, Ireland for robustness assessment. Published research paper on, “An experimental study on use of hypo sludge in cement concrete” and comparison of mechanical properties of hypo sludge added concrete with that of conventional cement concrete, in IIT Bombay Journal and International Journal on Progresses in Civil Engineering (IJPCE).
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/BODIES
Associated with ISET, Delhi Chapter. Working towards getting ICE and IStructE chartership.
ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS
An enthusiastic guitar player. Headed the inter-faculty football tournament winning team.
Period: July 2018 - Present Location: Afghanistan Type Feasibility & Detail Tender Design Client Ministry of Public Works- Afghanistan Designation: Structural Design Engineer Activities: Responsible for structural design of tunnel related underground structures like main highway Tunnel Lining, underground box culvert/ cut & cover tunnel sections using STAAD Pro. 45m span Steel girder – concrete deck composite bridge PSC – I girder bridge 110m (4x27.5m) Conceptualization, analysis & design of tunnel portal/ ventilation buildings and
VEBHAV BERERA 2 other auxiliary structures using 3D ROBOT models as per Eurocodes. Preparation of structural drawings and steel & concrete quantity calculation.
Nxtra Data Ltd.
Assistant Manager SME -Civil/Structural May, 2017 to July, 2018
Project: Pune Hinjewadi Data centre - Microsoft
Period: May 2017 to July 2018 Location: Pune Type Design Review Client Microsoft Designation: Assistant Manager Activities: Responsible for coordination & review of civil, structural & architectural designs and drawings for data centre complex using REVIT & ROBOT/ ETABS having a framed structure with conventional beam-slab system. The project consists of a five- storey Tier-4 Data centre consisting of 24 MW nominal IT load and 99.999% availability for servers. Total area covered is around 20,000 sqm inclusive of office facilities and utility support areas. Inter-disciplinary coordination alongwith conceptual design review for CSA alongwith HVAC/PHE and electrical and other related disciplines apart from clash analysis and design optimization to achieve low PUEs and better space utilization. The systematic design and review was taken up as the models were developed in stages from LOD 100 to LOD 350 from conception to detail design as per RIBA plan of framework.
Project: Chennai SIPCOT and Mumbai Data centre
Period: Dec 2017 to July 2018 Location: Chennai and Mumbai Type Design Review Client Airtel Designation: Assistant Manager Activities: Led the structural engineering design team Responsible for review of structural design and drawings of data centre complex. The projects consist of five- storey and six- storey Data centres respectively with 30-50MW DC campus. Post tensioned slab system along-with the frame and composite steel-concrete building proposed for the two data centres respectively
Assistant Manager – Civil and Structures
Energy Infratech Pvt. Ltd. Nov, 2016 to April, 2017
Project: KARUMA and ISIMBA HEP
Period: Nov, 2016 to Present
VEBHAV BERERA 3 Location: Uganda Type Detail Design and review Client Uganda Electricity Generation and Transmission Company Limited (UEGCL& UETCL) Designation Assistant Manager Activities: Responsible for team management, interdisciplinary coordination, coordination
with the site supervision team
Structural design and review of documents, concrete outline and reinforcement
drawings for all major project components like powerhouse machine hall and auxiliary buildings, switchyard and transmission structures, tunnels and shafts using ANSYS and SAP. Structural design of composite steel-concrete bridges and culverts as per BS
5400 and Eurocodes.
Attending planning and design meetings with the business unit and client to ensure activities are aligned with client’s requirements and on site. Ensuring that all objectives to be clearly communicated on a regular basis to team and related site personnel.
(University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Sept, 2015 to Oct, 2016))
MSc (ENG) Sustainable Structural Engineering (First Class with Honours- Distinction)
SMEC India Pvt. Ltd, Gurgaon
Engineer July, 2011 to Sept, 2015 Working as a part of the Civil Infrastructure Group
Project: ROHTANG TUNNEL PROJECT
Period: Jan 2015 to Aug 2015 Location: Jammu & Kashmir, India Type Detail Design
Client SAJV (Strabag Afcons Joint venture)
Designation: Assistant Engineer Activities: Structural modelling and analysis of north portal ventilation building and
emergency egress passage using STAAD. Stability analysis of the ventilation
building against snow and avalanche loads based on GOI Ministry of Defence- R&D Centre Snow & Avalanche Study Establishment report. Conceptualization, analysis & design of tunnel portal/ ventilation buildings and other auxiliary structures using 3D ROBOT models. Preparation of architectural and concrete outline drawings for the
ventilation building.
Project: CHENANI-NASHRI TUNNELWAY LIMITED
VEBHAV BERERA 4 Period: April 2014 to June 2014 Location: Jammu & Kashmir, India Type Detail Design
Client IL&FS Designation: Assistant Engineer Activities: Structural design of roof space structures for toll plaza and underground structures like main highway Tunnel Lining and underground box culvert using STAAD Pro Conceptualization, analysis & design of tunnel portal/ ventilation buildings
and other auxiliary structures using 3D ROBOT models.
Preparation of structural drawings and steel & concrete quantity calculation
Project: TEHRI PUMPED STORAGE PROJECT
Period: June 2014 to August 2015 Location: Uttarakhand, India Type Detail Design Client THDC Designation: Assistant Engineer
Activities: Structural design of tunnels (including tail race tunnels, adits, busbar and other tunnels) Structural design of powerhouse machine hall, auxiliary building and control building
Project: Regional Cooperation and Integration Project - Rail Component
Period: Jan 2013 to Jan 2014 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Type This project includes 7 subprojects out of which 3 are Detailed design and rest are Feasibility design.
Client Government of Bangladesh
Designation: Assistant Engineer Activities: Structural design for the construction of missing links/ new bridges along
the alignment Strengthening of existing concrete/ steel beam and truss bridges.
RCC T-Beam and Solid Slab
Substructures (Abutment and Pier) for major and minor bridges
Foundations (Open, Well and Pile foundation)
Project: Parnai HEP
Period: May.2015 to Sept 2015
VEBHAV BERERA 5 Location: Jammu & Kashmir Type Detail Design
Client J&KPDC Designation: Assistant Engineer Activities: Structural Design/stability and sizing calculations of anchor blocks and
other penstock supporting structures
Project: Nyabarongo HEP
Period: May.2012 to March 2013 Location: Nyabarongo, Rawanda Type Detail Design Client Angelique International Designation: Graduate Engineer Activities: Structural Design of dam components like spillway pier, divide wall,
training wall, Breast Wall and galleries in dam body by finite Element Modelling STAAD Pro and comparison with stress results from LUSAS model which were found to be equal upto first decimal which verified the correct manual discretisation adopted in STAAD. Structural stability of dam.
Structural Design of other components like Control & Power Pack
buildings, Transformer Foundation
Structural Design of RCC Bridge on the dam top.
Preparation of concrete outline and detailed reinforcement drawings
Structural Design of Switchyard Steel Supporting and transmission
Structures using STAAD Pro
Pseudo-static seismic analysis studies for auxiliary structures like control
room and power pack room and modal analysis to rule out torsion in primary modes.
Project: Thana Plaun & Triveni Mahadev, Sirkari Bhyol- Rupsiabagar & TAMAK- LATA HEPs Period: Feb 2012 to Sept 2015 Location: Himachal Pradesh, India & Uttarakhand, India Type Preparation of Feasibility Study Report and Detail Project Report
Client Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited & Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited Designation: Graduate Engineer/ Design coordinator/ Assistant Project Manager Activities: Structural design/stability of all the major components like dam (sizing
based on stability calculations of OF and NOF sections), super passage,
headrace tunnel (lining) by FEM analysis in STAAD where the modelled geometry is discretised using plate/solid elements and the system uses stiffness matrix method for formulation of stress results. Preparation of Detail Project Report and detail drawings and managing
VEBHAV BERERA 6 the project from scratch directly under the Project Manager. Managed a dedicated team of graduate engineers and CAD technicians to deliver planned works. Provide a commercial interface with other internal support functions and with clients. Correctly planned the submission schedule in coordination with other respective departments the other activity won’t be delayed. Monitoring of information relating to all aspects of the assigned project and their correct completion. All objectives to be clearly communicated on a regular basis to team and related site personnel. Attending planning and design meetings with the business unit and client to ensure activities are aligned with client’s requirements.
Project: Kameng HEP
Period: July 2012 to Sept 2015 Location: Sikkim, India Type Detail Design Client NEEPCO Designation: Engineer Activities: Review of structural design & support in preparation of As-built drawings
of powerhouse Finite Element Analysis and Structural Design of Tenga Dam Block-4 using
STAAD
Project: Anuppur Thermal Power Project
Period: Nov. 2011 Location: Madhya Pradesh, India Type Detail Design Client Moserbaer Ltd. Designation: Graduate Engineer Trainee
Activities: Structural Design of box culverts below Road intersections and Air- Release Valve Chamber, thrust blocks, preparation of concrete outline and reinforcement drawings. Anuppur barrage Training Wall Stability Analysis
Engineering Intern June, 2010 to July, 2010 (1.5 Months)
Undertook an industrial training at Badarpur Flyover BOT Project (a 4.4 km six-lane Elevated highway that connects Delhi with Faridabad) construction site, India. The internship included various aspects of site as well as design for the elevated RCC highway with segmental construction.
REFEREES Mr Bala Ganesh Jeyanathan, Tunnel Civil Specialist, SMEC International, Gurgaon (Haryana), India. Tel. +91-9599207717 Mr Michael Kastner, Functional Manager, Tunnel & Geotechnics, SMEC International, Gurgaon (Haryana), India. Mr Sanjay Suman, DGM, Data Centres, Nxtra Data Ltd., Gurgaon (Haryana), India. Tel. +91- 9971150164 Dr Steve Jones, Tutor and Supervisor, School of Engineering and Technology, University of Liverpool, Chatham Street, Liverpool L69 7ZS Tel.01517942801 Mr Vikas Gupta, Technical Principal Engineer. SMEC (India) Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon (Haryana), India. Tel. +91-124-4552800, 4501100 Dr Mehtab Alam, Tutor and Supervisor, Faculty of engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Tel. +91-011-26985227, 26981717 Dr Nazrul Islam, Tutor, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Tel. +91-011-26981261
