professors have been a great strength to me. Even today, my Prof. Ravande Kishore, Prof. Murali Krishna, Prof. M V S Sridhar & Prof. Rajshekar stand are a great support to my career.
Favorite hangout spot in OUCE Being a Civil Engineering student, I was privileged to be a part of the OUCE Main Building and obviously, it was the steps at the entrance of the Main building where we would often hang out.
Your best Buddies in college days Ravi, Sandy, Venky, Navneeth, Partha, Uday, Rakesh, Sravan, Aruna, Monica, Preethi Leela, Sreeram and of course all my other friends too.
Your favorite subject in 4 years Theory of Structures and RCC.
Career aspects:
Can you explain us your career progression after you stepped out of OUCE? Soon after college, I was awarded with the prestigious European scholarship of 36,000 Euros to pursue my double Masters in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology from three universities i. e. University of Joseph Fourier, France; University Of Pavia, Italy & Imperial College London, UK. Soon after my MS, I got placed in Ove Arup & Walsh group. As it was a smaller firm, I preferred joining Walsh group so I could learn more. Later, I returned to India after 9months as I had planned earlier.
I joined a firm in Hyderabad where my Professor used to work and in three months I was made the Head, Operations for the Hyderabad zone. After a year, I quit that company and started my own firm in October, 2009 with the name M / s Gorle Group( Engineering & Architectural Consultants). We started with one employee and today we are 50 people with a presence across India and the Middle East.
Can you tell us more about your contributions to industries and in your area of expertise? I was very fortunate to get a break through in the early age of my career designing Krishna Phase III 410 MLD Water treatment plant, around 150 crores project which serves the city which I have grown up and live.
We are also fortunate to design almost 30 % of Telangana Mission Bhageerada Water Treatment plants.
We are part of Ganga Purification, Musi Purification and several other water projects in India and abroad.
We are proud to say that we are strong in Structural Designs of Residential, Commercial, Industrial & several Infrastructural projects to name across India. Today we serve the Top construction gaints in India right from L & T, Shapporji Palonji, Hafeez Contractor, NCC, MEIL, IVRCL, Ramky Group, Alexandria, IHP, RBI, OSMANIA UNIV., GHMC, Several others in Infra Companies, Govt bodies.
When you were in final year in OUCE, how did you see yourself( professionally) after 10 years, and how different was it in reality? When I was in the final year I had two things in mind- either to be an IPS officer or to get into business in Structural Consultancy and I have chosen the latter and it wasn’ t easy being young with not much of experience and support.
In final year I hardly had an overview of what I m going to be except that I have to do well in my consultancy.
When you look back to yourself“ as a student” in OUCE, what is it that you would like to change and why? I should have studied my subjects more as a passion rather than just trying to get good grades. It would have changed the way I would have thought about my career.
59