Antonysamy Santhanam
Founder and Managing Director / Technical Director
Structural and multidisciplinary engineering professional with more than 22 years of experience in India and the GCC, including extensive experience in Qatar.
His experience includes the design, review and coordination of reinforced-concrete structures, structural-steel structures, high-rise buildings, residential developments, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, accommodation buildings, infrastructure-related structures and existing-building assessments.
He has extensive experience in engineering design management, contractor-submittal review, value engineering, constructability review, structural assessment, rehabilitation, strengthening, geotechnical coordination and multidisciplinary project coordination.
Key Areas of Experience:
- Reinforced-concrete structural design
- Structural-steel design
- High-rise and complex-building design
- Existing-building assessment
- Structural rehabilitation and strengthening
- Peer review and independent design checking
- Geotechnical and foundation coordination
- Construction-stage engineering support
- BIM and multidisciplinary coordination
- Technical report preparation
- Contractor-submittal review
- Client and authority coordination
- Value engineering and constructability review
Software Experience:
- ETABS
- SAFE
- SAP2000
- STAAD.Pro
- Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis
- IDEA StatiCa
- PROKON
- TEDDS
- LIMCON
- Revit
- AutoCAD
- Navisworks
- Advance Steel
- Microsoft Excel engineering calculations
Design-Code Experience:
- ACI 318
- ASCE 7
- Eurocodes
- British Standards
- Indian Standards
- Qatar Construction Specifications
- AASHTO
- ACI 301
- ACI 562
- CIRIA guidance
- BRE guidance
