ABOUT US
Welcome to AB Consulting Engineers, a structural engineering consultancy based in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
We specialize in structural design of buildings and provide pragmatic solutions to complex structural engineering challenges.
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Our Team:
International Experience
New Delhi Metro Concept Design
- Riyadh Metro - elevated stations and Ancillary Buildings
- Riyadh Metro - Elevated and shallow underground stations
- Riyadh Metro - Park and Ride Car Parks: 7 distinctive car park buildings
UK
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- Waste Recycling Facility, Essex
- Bute Town Project: Community Centre, Bristol
- Allied Bakeries, West Bromwich
- New Flour Mill, Cambridgeshire
- Catch - University Buildings for Chemical and Petroleum industries, Humber
- New Cath Lab, Leicester Royal Hospital
Greencore Malt distillery Facility, Ghlin, Belgium
NZ:
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- Waikato District Health Board - New Mental Health Unit
- Foodstuffs North Island Seismic Assessments
- The Pa: University of Waikato
- Waiari Water Treatment plant - pump house building
- Kinlieth Paper Mill, Tokoroa
Avinash Bandaru
Managing Director, AB Consulting Engineers
Professional Accreditations
Executive Brief:
Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), Chartered Member, Engineering New Zealand (CMEngNZ, New Zealand)
Chartered Structural Engineer (C.Eng.), Fellow of Institution of Structural Engineers (FIStructE, London)
Chartered Civil Engineer, Member of Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE, London)
President's award for 2017 - Outstanding services to the field of
structural engineering from Institution of Structural Engineers, London, UK.
Ex - Panel Member, IStructE - Paper Awards Judging Panel,
Academic Qualifications panel, Applications, and Professional Review Panel, Professional Development Panel, and Climate Emergency Panel
Climate Change Emergency – Member of high-power IStructE
committee exploring innovative solutions for achieving the Net Zero Target for the UK by 2050
Country Representative for IStructE, Bangalore, India from 2011 to
2017
Co-opted to the council of IStructE for 2015,2016 and 2017
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Avinash is a Chartered Professional Engineer with more than 19 years of extensive experience in the structural Engineering field. He earlier has worked in the UK, ME and India. For the last five years he has been working in NZ and was involved in numerous projects in and around Waikato.
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Avinash has designed and delivered a wide variety of building projects ranging from large infrastructure projects to small new build residential buildings. He has designed buildings in the Industrial, educational, commercial, power and defense sector.
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Avinash is very committed and appreciates the importance of delivering the projects with a viable and safe design. He listens to the client's requirements and acknowledges the challenges and strives to provide pragmatic and practical solutions to complex structural engineering problems.
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He is actively involved in promoting the structural engineering field and over the years he has mentored and helped many engineers acquire professional accreditations. He is currently serving on many panels for the Institution of Structural Engineers(IStructE, UK) and his contributions to the structural engineering profession is widely recognised. He was awarded the IStructE President's award in 2017 for services to the Structural Engineering fraternity.
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Avinash is keen to undertake the design work on your next dream project or collaborate with you to solve the next structural engineering challenge. Whatever you wish to achieve, rest assured we have a capable team to support you in your endeavours.
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Harikrishnan Pannikkaveettil
Technical Director, AB Consulting Engineers
Professional Accreditations
Chartered Structural Engineer (C.Eng.), Member of Institution of Structural Engineers (MIStructE, London)
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Country Representative for IStructE, Bangalore, India from 2017 to
Till date
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Executive Brief:
Harikrishnan is a Chartered Structural Engineer with the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE, UK) and has over 10 years of experience of delivering structural engineering design projects in 4 continents. He is a member of the IStructE panel focusing on Digital Workflows and Computational Design.
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Mobile Number: +64 (0) 224556361
Address: 1074 River Road, Hamilton, New Zealand