Alpeshkumar Renpara, Junior Project Engineer

Alpeshkumar Renpara

Junior Project Engineer

Setu Infratech

Location
Australia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil and Construction
Experience
12 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 9 Months

Junior Project Engineer at Setu Infratech
  • Australia
  • My current job since November 2015

• Drafting of contracts, tender review reports and review AS 4000 & AS 2124 to prepare contractual claims and assist Managing Director with tender document preparation and risk management plans.
• Estimate Bill of Quantities by using CESMM4 (Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement) and develop preliminary & detailed cost estimation report for residential development (two story house) and review with Superiors.
• Plan and schedule pre-construction programs for circular hollow section cantilever retaining wall under water at Fremantle port
• Perform structural inspections of old houses for masonry cracks, slabs and structural timbers and prepare inspection report.

Structural Engineer at Robert Bird Group
  • Australia
  • December 2014 to April 2015

KEY PROJECTS

• The Grandstand Claremont on the Park, Lot 504 and 505 - 6 story residential buildings

Role: Undergraduate Structural Engineer (Superior: Gillian Forde-Associate)
Responsible for providing assistance to Senior Structural Engineer
Designed cladding structural frame, calculated wind loads, and prepared sketches in AutoCAD 2015.
Used Microstran to model stone cladding girts and analysed girt rotation.
Inspected reinforcement layout at client’s (Georgiou Group) site against IFC drawings for level 2 and level 3 and prepared inspection report.

• 5 Scarborough Beach Road North Perth - Proposed Residential and Commercial Development - 6 story building

Role: Undergraduate Structural Engineer (Superior: Maricel Atienza- Senior Structural Engineer)
Completed preliminary design and delivered drawings.
Used RAM Concept to model structural elements (ASF walls, Slabs, and Footings) and SpaceGass for the roof.
Prepared sketches in AutoCAD and performed load run down for footing design.
Reviewed geotechnical report and designed footings including pad/strip footing and tie beams.
Collaborated with Drafter team for design drawing delivery.

• Old Treasury Building Rehabilitation and

Role: Undergraduate Structural Engineer (Superior: Daniel Rose-Structure Manager)
Analysed old timber beams capacity from structural photos.
Designed steel beams to strengthen the floor.
Designed a hanging industrial plenum steel frame in compliant with AS 4100

• Austral Precast Post-Tensioned Floor Deck Analysis

Role: Undergraduate Structural Engineer (Superior: Mike Sander-Associate)
Analysed post-tensioned precast panel by varying depth and span in RAPT.
Prepared a table for optimising maximum depth and span of the panel for the post-tensioned application.

• Other Responsibilities
Answered phone calls with a smiley face and transferred to relevant Engineer.
Developed masonry design calculation spreadsheet in compliant with AS 3700.

Undergraduate Site Engineer at York Civil
  • Australia
  • April 2014 to December 2014

Responsible for development, compilation and management of work-packs, drawing transmittals, construction material records, and quality assurance/control.
Enlisted work method statements after reading multidisciplinary technical drawings, specification and safety procedures.
Maintained construction material records by weekly updating concrete and steel histogram, prepared concrete orders, analysed and stored concrete testing results after accessing Hanson’s web-site and reported to Thiess Quality Engineer.
Assisted Project Manager with progress claims by supplying kept records of constructed milestones.
Modified existing contracts for new sub-contractors (Freyssinet and Omega Construction) and reviewed with Project Manager.
Assisted Site Engineers and Supervisors with the quality inspection and management of sub-contract works. Liaised with Omega Construction sub-contractor team with reinforced concrete construction works and MSCL pipe installation including quality inspection of trench excavation, pipe laying & testing and backfilling, concrete pours, design changes, and progress claims.
Liaised with Freyssinet sub-contractor team with post-tensioned clarifier tanks construction including, design changes, NCRs, crane lift studies, tilt-up operation, stressing of tendons, and grouting quality inspection.
Regularly conducted weekly safety audits in compliant with project Zero Harm Safety Policy and submitted to Project Safety Representative and attended weekly project progress meetings and safety meetings.
Sketched site layout and traffic management plan in AutoCAD 2013.
Inspected precast panel production at PermaCAST for Post-Tensioned Clarifier tanks construction.
Performed crane lift studies, sketched crane locations and updated site layout.
Prepared ASCON (as constructed) drawing after reviewing post-construction survey reports.

Junior Site Engineer at NGO
  • India - Rajkot
  • January 2008 to January 2011

• Analysed catchment area surveys, the feasibility of sites, designed, estimated and developed a proposal to develop watershed and river obstructions for over 10 sites.
• Followed specific procedures, regulations and guidelines while working in a team to get projects approved from NABARD (National Bank of Agricultural & Regional Development).
• Monitored and supervised start to end construction and continuous reported to an appointed NABARD representative Government Engineer.
• Recorded and maintained post-construction surveys, construction materials records, quality documents and prepared project completion reports for NGO (non-profit organisation) and NABARD

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil and Construction
  • at Curtin University
  • November 2015

Four Years Bachelor Degree (Civil and Construction Engineering) First Class Honour

Bachelor's degree, Agricultural Engineering
  • at Gujarat Agricultural University
  • August 2007

Major: Water infrastructure, Watershed development

Specialties & Skills

Structural Design
Civil Engineering
Site Engineering
MS Project
AutoCAD 2D
ACADEMIC
AUTOCAD
CONSULTING
ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
Contract Adminitration
Project Management

Languages

English
Expert
Gujarati
Native Speaker
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

Engineers Australia
  • Graduate Memeber
  • November 2015