• Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India 1967
• Ph.D. in Civil/Structural Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 1973
Publications
• Published in Journal of the American Concrete Institute
• Published in Journal of International Association of Bridges and Structural Engineers
• Has actively participated in many International conferences
• Has contributed to the torsion and shear provisions of the Indian Standards IS: 456-2000 code of practice for plain and reinforced concrete.
Professional
• Past president of the Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (INDIA)
• Former Vice President of Indian Concrete Institute
• Past Secretary of the International Association of Shells and Spatial Structures (India Chapter)
• Founder Member and PRESIDENT-ELECT of the INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OF CONSTRUCTION TRADES AND
MANAGEMENT (INSTRUCT)
• Currently Governing Council Member of Structural Engineers World Congress
SEWC(India), a subsidiary of SEWC (Worldwide)
• Former Chairman of M/s Pc Mag Consultants Pvt. Ltd, India, a consultancy organization in Infrastructure and Heavy Industry
• Former Advisor and Specialist to M/s Total Outsource Inc., Chicago, USA on Enlisting, Training, Overseeing projectwork as also Touchpacing with US-counterparts and US Clients, on AISC design/detailing
• Former Vice-Chairman and Current-Director of M/s National Co-operative Bank Ltd., a cooperative bank with Rs. 1,000 Crore turnover
Expertise in
• Design, Detailing, Construction Management and Project Management of Steel Structures, Concrete Structures, and Unconventional Structures and Buildings
• Proof Checking of Computer Analysis and Design
• Technical Audit, Quality Audit and Quality-Systems Consultant
• Project Management Consultancy
• Project Leadership
Some of the important projects during his professional career are:
• Is the first to Design and Manage the construction of the first apartment building, RAVIKIRAN APARTMENTS, in BANGALORE in 1980 as a TOTAL PROJECT CONSULTANT AND MANAGER.
• and Designed many industrial and commercial structures with complex structural and machine vibration problems.
• Rehabilitated and retrofitted many buildings and structures
• Designed an 88 meter diameter Tubular Double Layer Grid LAMELLA GEODESIC Dome for the Coal Stacker Reclaimer Building of a cement plant near Bangalore, which is the first of its kind in Asia
• Designed and detailed the total power house of the ALMATTI DAM PROJECT
• Designed and detailed 60.5 metre STACK for gas based plant at Samalkot
• Designed and detailed the Fan-Shaped large span roof structure of NADA-MANDAPA building at Mysore for GANAPATHI SACGIDANAND ASHRAM at Mysore
Designed and detailed innovative FOLDED-PLATE-Shaped structure for dining hall of M/s WOODRICH RESORTS, Bangalore.
• Designed and detailed steel tunnel and screen supporting structures for M/s BRAC Engg., Bangalore
• Designed and detailed complete expansion of cement plant of M/s Mysore Cements Ltd., near Bangalore, including preheater towers, bucket elevators, large span conveyors and kiln structures etc.,
• Designed and detailed complete expansion of cement plant of M/s Raymond Cements Ltd., at Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh including preheater towers, bucket elevators, large span conveyors, kiln structures, Wagon-Tippler structures etc.,
• Designed and detailed 150 nos., PETRO Canopies for M/s Reliance Industries etc., all over India.
Designed and detailed spacestructure for atrium of Reserve Bank of India Mint Plant at Mysore
• Has designed and detailed extensively industrial buildings and structures for corporates like M/s USHA TELEHOIST, M/s USHA HYDRAULICS, M/s RELIANCE Industries Ltd., Mumbai, M/s Jyothy Laboratories Ltd., Mumbai, M/s Ramkumar Mills Bangalore, Ms Powergear Pvt Ltd., Bangalore etc.,
Has also designed and detailed many concrete structures such as :
The Precast-Prestressed-concrete Windsor Manor bridge, Bangalore, The Conoid shells of M/s WHEEL and
AXLE Plant-Bangalore, Multiple-barreled-cylindrical-shells of M/s BHEL(EDN)-Bangalore and M/s
Travancore Cochin Chemicals-Alwaye; Many IT Buildings at Bangalore; The SOFTWARE Park at RUSAYIL Muscat
and many other IT buildings in India etc..
• Has designed and supervised more than eight Water-Treatment Plants and
Effluent Treatment Plants in India, Malaysia etc.,
• Has designed and supervised Pharma Buildings for M/s Apotex, M/s INTERMED and M/s REXAM at Bangalore etc.,
Honours
• DR N RAMPRAKASH’s name has also appeared in the LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS in 1994 for the design of 88 mtrs diameter lamella grid dome structure, with high strength tubes, first of its kind then in Asia.
• Dr. Ramprakash was recently awarded the Title of ‘EMINENT CONCRETE ENGINEER OF KARNATAKA’ in 2016 by INDIAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE (KBC)