Indian Association of Structural Engineers

Cordially invites you to

Technical Lecture on
Precast Concrete: A Global Solution for
Buildings & Bridges
by
Mr. Vinay Gupta
Director & CEO, Tandon Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
at
Lecture Room, Consultancy Development Centre
2nd Floor, Core 4B, India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003
on
Thursday, 26th October 2017
Starting at 05:00 pm

Please confirm your participation

S K DHAWAN, Chairman, Monthly Lecture & Technical Discussion
Email: iastructe@gmail.com, Tel: (011) 45794829

The event is supported by UltraTech Cement Ltd

(Light refreshment will be served)
 ABOUT THE FACULTY

After completing his Civil Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India in 1983 Er Vinay
Gupta has served Span Consultants Pvt Ltd and STUP Consultants Ltd before
joining Tandon Consultants Pvt Ltd, India in 1987, where he is serving as CEO.
Er Gupta, has been involved in planning, designing and coordination of design,
detailing and tender preparation of various bridges, flyovers, vehicular underpasses,
long span and tall buildings, steel structures, chimneys and quality control
documents. Some of the highlights of his carrier include design & planning of prestressed structures in
India and abroad. 102m span Balanced Cantilever construction prestresed bridges with 70m tall piers of
the famous Jammu Udhampur Rail Link (JURL) for first time in Indian Railways, Delhi Gurgaon
Elevated Expressway, involving largest no of 1800 Pretensioned Prestressed Girders for the BOT project
of NHAI, 500M long Prestressed Segmental Canntilever Construction Superstructure incorporating STUs
and Dry Jointed Precast Segmental Prestressed Superstructures of 26km long LRT Metro in Malaysia are
some of the pioneering structures, designed by him. He is an active member of various Codes and
Standards Committees of BIS and IRC in India dealing with Earthquake Engineering, Special
Structures, Loads & Stresses, Concrete Bridges, Bearings & Expansion Joints etc. His contributions
include preparation of IRC:SP:65-2005 (Design and Construction of Segmental Bridges) and IRC:SP:71-
2006 (Design and Construction of Precast Pretensioned Girders for Bridges). He has been honored with
awards for the best papers titled Seismic Design and Construction of Radisson Hotel, New Delhi
and Launching Systems for Segmental Bridges both by IBC and Prestressed Concrete Design
Award-2013 by IEI (The Institution of Engineers, India). He has authored over 50 technical papers in
civil engineering journals & conferences and has been lecturing as Guest Faculty in NITHE, CRRI,
CIDC, ISDA, DPC, etc. He has been elected as all India President (Elect) of ICI (Indian Concrete
Institute). Er Gupta is the President of IIBE (Indian Institution of Bridge Engineers).
 Precast Concrete: A Global Solution for Buildings & Bridges

India is going through a peculiar phase of development, wherein the industrial development is
comparatively slow, leading to slower economic rise of the country. As a result, construction of
infrastructure projects such as roads and metro structures may be affected. However, despite all the
hurdles, India has been able to produce excellent examples of fast track bridges, flyovers, elevated
viaducts, metro structures etc.

India has taken a giant leap in the field of structural engineering over the past 10-15 years. One of the best
solutions found to solve traffic problems is to construct long elevated viaducts and metro structures. Such
structures demand a speedy construction to minimise the traffic disturbance, as they are located in urban
habitat. Precast concrete being reasonably cheap and versatile material, is found to be the most
appropriate choice of the engineers.

Precast and precast PSC has been successfully used for some of the factory buildings, so as to allow the
enterpreneur early start of production. Precast PSC roof trusses have been used for several factory
buildings, making it possible to construct 25,000 Sqm factory in mere one year. Precast PSC
(pretensioned and post-tensioned) have been successfully employed for construction of many elevated
metro stations, especially over the running road. This has distinct advantage of speed as well least to no
disturbance to the running road traffic during construction, thereby achieving public appreciation.

Some of the recent examples are 10 km long Elevated Viaduct of Bangalore-Hosur BOT Expressway,
wherein the construction speed of the precast segmental superstructure was as high as 1.75 days per
carriageway span, 26 km long Delhi-Gurgaon Toll Expressway has very successfully made use of Precast
Pretensioned Girders for continuous superstructures. Similarly, 4 km long Barapulla Elevated Viaduct in
Delhi depicted on unique example of precast segmental construction over a city drain and over the Indian
Railway Tracks, yet meeting deadlines of Commonwealth Games 2010.

Metro constructions have shown a pathway to high speed construction. Starting with Delhi Metro in the
late Nineties, many Indian cities have come up with metro construction. Precast segmental construction is
most sought after construction methodology that gives speed of superstructure construction as high as 2
days per span. Wherever the site constraints prevailed,other types such as steel superstructures, cast-in-
situ voided slab and precast girder-slab arrangements have been employed for elevated structures. A
careful planning is required while designing the associated launching girder, which may be over-head or
under-slug. Some times, weight of launching girder has to be suitably taken into account in the design of
the permanent superstructure. Associated risks with precast segmental structure are opening of joints
between precast segments, blocking of prestressing ducts by Epoxy Bonding Agent, breakage of
prestressing hardware etc. These have to be adequately taken care of in design, detailing and construction.