About this Training Series #7
This mini treatise describes lucidly and, in a practice-oriented workman-like manner the following three important issues:
#1 ‘Construction Quality – Assurance and Procedures’
#2 ‘Construction Contract “Price Escalation” and how to pay for it’ and #3 ‘Initial Site-actions needed prior to commencing work at site’
• Item # 1 covers a large number of Important topics which deal with actual construction work including some important construction issues of the day.
• Item # 2 describes meticulously, and in workman-like detail, the most sought-after and difficult subject of ‘estimating the price escalation in a Bridge Construction Contract. The explanations might appear simple, but are the result of extensive study of the ‘art and science’, that has gone into solving this most complex subject in contracting.
• Item # 3 describes the important initial site-actions which must be taken prior to commencing a Bridge Construction Contract. This is a multi-dimensional exercise involving all the concerned stake-holders.
About the Author
Dr. V. K. Raina Team Leader of the UN Team-of-Experts for over 10 years for multi-Billion US $ Highways-&-Bridges Projects in the Middle East; Ph.D. and D.I.C. from the Imperial College, University of London, England; Double GOLD Medalist at the Engineering Graduation; Registered Chartered Engineer in the UK and Europe; Registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada; Consultant and Senior Expert for nearly 17 years with The UN, The World Bank, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and The African Development Bank, and Resource–person with The Asian Development Bank; AND Technical Advisor to many Govts. and States; ALSO Professor-Emeritus; Distinguished CHAIR Professor BRIDGES (AICTE), Life-time Achievement Awardee in Civil Engineering in the fields of BRIDGE: Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation-and-Retrofitting; recipient of the coveted S.B.Joshi Award of Excellence in Bridge Engineering.
......He has professionally worked in over 20 Countries and trained hundreds of Engineers in the above fields; has DESIGNED and SUPERVISED CONSTRUCTION of over 1,10,000 lane-meters of CONCRETE BRIDGES in different countries on various types of foundations in different substrata conditions [in POST- TENSIONED and PRE-TENSIONED PRESTRESSED Concrete and REINFORCED concrete, Straight / Skew / Curved - Continuous, Semi-Continuous and Determinate - Superstructures (voided slabs, boxes, beams- and-slab), constructed segmentally, in-place or precast in place / launched; on caisson / pile / open foundations]......has authored 16 PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE-CLASS Books of INTERNATIONAL STANDING and over 100 Professional Technical PAPERS and ADVISORIES
.......In addition, he has INVESTIGATED and EXAMINED the STRUCTURAL and FORENSIC HEALTH of many Bridges -and Retrofitted many- in various Countries: RATU, SHIVA GANGA, JHARAI and other Bridges in Nepal, MAHAD in Maharashtra, TALLAH, DUNLOP and VIVEKANANDA Flyovers in Kolkata, SUKTEL in Odisha, KATNI in M.P., being only a few examples at random.”
