Sthapati Designers

STHAPATI DESIGNERS & CONSULTANTS PVT. LTD.


SDCPL is a leading multidisciplinary consultancy organization in India that offers design solutions and provides professional services in Architectural, Civil, Structural, Transportation, Infrastructural and Environmental Engineering.

SDCPL is into various sectors of construction, namely Urban planning & Infrastructure, Housing, Tourism & Hospitality, Educational, Earth Engineering, Commercial, Healthcare, Terminal building for Air-ports, Industrial/Logistics and Warehouses, Roads, Bridges, Highways and Temporary Structures. The Urban Planning & Infrastructure projects include water supply, sewerage, storm water, rain water harvesting, WTP/STP, Hydraulic structures, street-scaping and beautification.

The firm is adept at delivering a variety of construction projects. Its work spans rare and uncommon gamut of possibilities of constructed space including Bungalows, Residential Developments, Hospitals, Hotels, Corporate & Government Offices, Educational Institutions, Townships, Airport Terminal Buildings, Affordable Housing, Bus Terminals, Urban Planning, City Level Infrastructure Projects for Water Supply, Sewerage, Storm Water Drainage, Industrial Campuses, Light to heavy industrial Structures, Roads, Bridges, Special Structure like Chimneys, Heavy Machine Foundations including Structural Rehabilitation of old buildings including Temporary Structures for large scale Conferences, Exhibition etc.

It was Founded by Chairman Mahadev Desai in 1979 as a single man company based in the small town Navsari, Gujarat. Owning to its expertise and growing clientele, the firm has achieved a strong presence and reputation across the nation. The firm has successfully delivered more than 1000 projects. It has over 50 major clients and nearly 100’s of ongoing projects.

The team of professionals at SDCPL is a creative hub of 100 team members comprising of architects, civil structural-environmental engineers, urban planners, interior designers, highway and transportation engineers, CAD experts and graphic designers.

The firm aims to be a beacon of creative, innovative, sustainable and user-friendly designs that fit in the social, cultural, contextual and geo climatic context. The team believes in creating happiness by providing creative and innovative design solutions, right from concept to completion. The designs they create are visually striking, functionally effective, efficient and sustainable. They incorporate aesthetics & grandeur, and satisfy a larger social cause. The designs are inspired by art, culture, heritage, literature, nature and smart technologies. They deliver quality and value for money.


The firm's client base is enormously wide. It ranges from several Central & State Government Department & Institutions to many reputed Private Corporates, co-operatives and NGOs. The firm has to its credit clients like L&T, Shapoorjee Pallonjee, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Bhubaneshwar, IIM Ahmedabad for their various city level infrastructure projects involving water supply, sewerage, storm water drainage, roads, bridges and electrical works. Other prominent clients include LIC, TATA, ONGC, GAIL, Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat etc., Airport Authority of India, KRIBHCO, Govt. of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Gujarat Housing Board, Theis Precession, Omkar Group, Ariisto Shelter, Navsari Agriculture University, Affordable Housing Mission, Gujarat, GUDM, GWSSB, DGVCL, Gujarat Tourism and Urban authorities like AUDA, VUDA, SUDA apart from small Municipalities. It works as PMC for Auro University, Hotel Marriot (Gujarat JHM Ltd.), VUDA among others.

The LIC’s corporate office building at GIFT City, Gandhinagar and Central office complex- Collectorate at Vyara for Govt. of Gujarat, (the first Green Building of Govt of Gujarat), Urban Haats at Ahmedabad and Bhuj are some of the projects won in national competition.

The firm has been associated with design / PMC of more than 50,000 houses under Prime Minster Affordable Housing Project in the state of Gujarat.

Some of the exclusive and noteworthy projects undertaken by SDCPL (ww.sthapati-india.com) are Collectorate Office, Vyara; GSRTC’s, Bhuj, Patan and Nadiad Depots; Housing for Gujarat Housing Board (GHB), Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Surat Municipal Corporation, Multi-speciality Civil Hospital-Navsari & Dharampur, Temple Base Extension at Pavagadh, Terminal Building-Amritsar & Surat; Viewing Deck at Kutch (White Rann), Schools for SSA, Sugar factories, Cold Rolling Mill Plant for Tata etc.

The firm feels happy and honoured as it got an opportunity to provide honorary services in all the Health & Education related Charitable Projects undertaken by Padma Vibhushan Shri A.M. Naik, the legendary Chairman of L&T Ltd.

The firm is promotor of gharpedia.com – an encyclopedia of home, i.e. homepedia; a website that provides all information in the simplest form covering all the aspects of home right from its concept to its completion.

This is perhaps the first website in India and one of the very few in world, covering a range of topics related to houses and common man.

Gharpedia helps the common man conceive, create, and conserve their dream home with a larger ultimate goal of health, safety and happiness for all. Gharpedia.com helps you design, build, own, rent, buy, sell, repair, and maintain your dream home by providing all the tips & tricks in an easy language. Gharpedia provides solution to all problems and clears confusions that arises in a common man’s mind during designing, construction, renovating, repairing, designing interiors and landscapes. Not just this, it offers effective advice when buying, selling, renting or maintaining their dream, helping them make informed decisions. The solutions are provided by team of experts who are experienced in their domain.

The site also provides directory of all types construction professionals including Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Material Manufacturers & Suppliers Interior Designers & more. It also has the album of the “Best Home Designs”. It also has an exceptional online exhibition of construction materials with special focus on recently-launched materials. It has number of “calculators” providing cost estimates with bare minimum inputs as a beginner’s guide.

Instead of confusing people with readymade and inappropriate plan / design, it offers an analysis rightly assess and amend their design. In its section ‘Ask your Question’ the experts offers solutions to various queries.

Gharpedia in collaboration with Auro University has established fellowship in “Comparative study of Vastushashtra & Modern Architecture”. This research provides solution to all those who gets trapped between Architects & Vaastu consultants with unfounded fears and suspicions. The series of articles are expected soon.

The firm has recently launched “Software as A service” under the brand of “1mnt”.

This is “The first in Industry” software which generate exact quantities and bills for contractors using CAD-based drawings. It is going to be a game changer for building construction professionals. The software apart from Bill of Quantities and Measurement sheet generates tons of data as “Management Information System” acting as an innovative tool, eliminating the tedious, time-consuming, inaccurate, and costly process of bill preparation by civil building contractors. It provides detailed profit and escalation / sensitivity analysis on “Day Zero” with details of resources and management report / data for right project management and controlling cost and profit.

This software can handle mammoth data of all leading SORs (Schedule of Rates) of various public works department of State Govt of India including CPWD. 1mnt software is going to be a big boon not only for building contactors but also for builders, developers, EPC contractors including Architects, Engineers and other construction professionals.

The software has been developed as a joint vision and venture of Shri Mahadev Desai, Shri Ravin Desai, Shri Shekhar Parikh of SDCPL and Shri Prakash Bajaj-CEO of Computer Help, Mumbai. He has an MS from University of Michigan and is a renowned structural engineer with vide experience in research, design and development of software for structural design & drawings like “Draftwin”, and “Planwin” He is also a renowned trainer recognised all over India for structural design softwares like StaddPro, ETabs, Safe, Revit etc.

1mnt.in


Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd., has recently launched an innovative “Software as A service” under the brand of “1mnt”.

This is “The first in Industry” software that generates exact quantities and bills for contractors using basic CAD based drawings. It is going to be a game changer for building construction professionals. The software apart from Bill of Quantities and Measurement sheet generates tonnes of data as “Management Information System” acting as an innovative tool, eliminating the tedious, time-consuming, inaccurate, and costly process of bill preparation by civil building contractors. It provides detailed profit and escalation / sensitivity analysis on “Day Zero” with details of resources and management report / data for right project management and controlling cost and profit.

This software can handle mammoth data of all leading SORs (Schedule of Rates) of various public works department of State Govt of India including CPWD of Govt of India. 1mnt is going to be a big boon not only for building contactors but also for builders, developers, EPC contractors including Architects, Engineers and other construction professionals. It has a huge database of more than 5000 construction items and equal number of materials.

The SDCPL is a leading multidisciplinary consultancy organization in India that offers design solutions and provides professional services in Architectural, Civil, Structural, Transportation, Infrastructural and Environmental Engineering.

SDCPL is into various sectors of construction, namely - Urban planning & Infrastructure, Housing, Tourism & Hospitality, Educational, Earth Engineering, Commercial, Healthcare, Terminal building for Air-ports, Industrial/Logistics and Warehouses, Roads, Bridges, Highways and Temporary Structures. The Urban Planning & Infrastructure projects include water supply, sewerage, storm water, rain water harvesting, WTP/STP, Hydraulic structures, street-scaping and beautification.

The software has been developed as a joint vision and venture of Shri Mahadev Desai, Shri Ravin Desai, Shri Shekhar Parikh of SDCPL and Shri Prakash Bajaj-CEO of Computer Help, Mumbai. He has an MS from University of Michigan and is a a renowned structural engineer with vide experience in research, design and development of software for structural design & drawings like “Draftwin”, “Planwin” etc. He is also a renowned trainer recognised all over India for structural design softwares like StaddPro, ETabs, Safe, Revit, etc.

SDCPL is promotor of gharpedia.com – an encyclopedia of home, i.e. homepedia; a website that provides information covering all the aspects of home right from its concept to its completion.

This is perhaps the first such site in India and one of the few in world covering a range of topics related to houses.
Ghapedia.com has been founded by Mr. Mahadev Desai, Mr. Ravin Desai and Mr. Shekhar Parikh, the Directors of SDCPL.

Mr. Mahadev Desai is a renowned professional, having a degree in Civil Engineering from M.S. University, Baroda and Degree of Law from South Gujarat University, Surat. Mr. Desai heads Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd., he brings with him immense domain knowledge and expertise and leadership skills that guide the team at the organization.

Mr. Ravin Desai has Degree in Civil Engineering (B.Tech.) from VNIT, Nagpur and an MS from University of South Carolina, USA. He mirrors the value of the organization, honestly-professionalism-entrepreneurship. With 12 years of experience in US and India, he now leads the team of professional at SDCPL. The team is a creative hub of 100 members comprising of architects, civil structural-environmental engineers, urban planners, interior designers, highway and transportation engineers, CAD experts and graphic designers. They handle over 50 major clients and around 100 nos. of ongoing projects.

Mr. Shekhar Parikh is Civil Engineer with 35 years of experience. He leads the Affordable Housing Mission projects at SDCPL, under which almost 50,000 houses are being built. He has a rich domain experience and uses an out-of-the-box approach for solving problems encountered in actual construction, repairs, maintenance or even during buying and selling.

1mnt.in gives detailed materials as well as labour requirements including plumbing fixtures like, tees, bends, elbows, union etc. It also offers details of building hardware like the number of screws. The software works out formwork requirements, machine hour requirement of Plant & machinery, including no. of labour required for a given work.

It performs a detailed cost analysis of RCC works, analysing cost of concrete, steel and formwork inter-se.

Besides offers such reports, it prepares exact quantity of steel based on “Bar Bending schedule”, which can also be generated based on detailed structural design drawings. The bar bending schedule can also be used during factory production.

It can also compare and analyse the “least cost” of structural design i.e. it can do optimisation of structural design from the multiple options provided.

SDCPL was founded by Chairman Mahadev Desai in 1979 as a single man company based in a small town Navsari, Gujarat. Owning to its expertise and growing clientele, the firm has achieved a strong presence and reputation across the nation. The firm has successfully delivered more than 1000 projects. It has over 50 major clients and nearly 100’s of ongoing projects.

The firm's client base is enormously wide. It ranges from several Central & State Government Department & Institutions to many reputed Private corporates, co-operatives and NGOs. The firm has to its credit clients like L&T, Shapoorjee Pallonjee, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Bhubaneshwar, IIM Ahmedabad for their various city level infrastructure projects involving water supply, sewerage, storm water drainage, roads, bridges and electrical works. Other prominent clients include LIC, TATA, ONGC, GAIL, Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat etc., Airport Authority of India, KRIBHCO, Govt. of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Gujarat Housing Board, Theis Precession, Omkar Group, Ariisto Shelter, Navsari Agriculture University, Affordable Housing Mission, Gujarat, GUDM, GWSSB, DGVCL, Gujarat Tourism and Urban authorities like AUDA, VUDA, SUDA apart from small Municipalities. It works as PMC for Auro University, Hotel Marriot (Gujarat JHM Ltd.), VUDA among others.

The LIC’s corporate office building at GIFT City, Gandhinagar and Central office complex- Collectorate at Vyara for Govt. of Gujarat, (the first Green Building of Govt of Gujarat), Urban Haats at Ahmedabad and Bhuj are some of the projects won in national competition.

The firm has been associated with design / PMC of more than 50,000 houses under Prime Minster Affordable Housing Project in the state of Gujarat.

Some of the exclusive and noteworthy projects undertaken by SDCPL (ww.sthapati-india.com) are Collectorate Office, Vyara; GSRTC’s, Bhuj, Patan and Nadiad Depots; Housing for Gujarat Housing Board (GHB), Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Surat Municipal Corporation, Multi-speciality Civil Hospital-Navsari & Dharampur, Temple Base Extension at Pavagadh, Terminal Building-Amritsar & Surat; Viewing Deck at Kutch (White Rann), Schools for SSA, Sugar factories, Cold Rolling Mill Plant for Tata etc.

To know more about 1mnt visit 1mnt.in.

GHARPEDIA


gharpedia.com is the encyclopedia of home. In other words, it is homepedia; a website that provides information covering all the aspects of home, from its conceptual stage to its completion. It is everything you wanted to know about a house.


This is perhaps the first such site in India and one of the few in world covering all range of topics related to house and common man.

Ghar (gh in ghar is pronounced similar to ‘gh’ in Ghana. In many of the Indian regional languages this term relates to ‘Home.’ Pedia means “relating to learning”, Gharpedia is therefore your guide all home related solutions.

Gharpedia is promoted by Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd., a leading multidisciplinary consultancy organization in India that offers design solutions and professional services in Architectural, Civil, Structural, Transportation, Infrastructural and Environmental Engineering.

Gharpedia.com is designed, developed and maintained by a team of experienced professionals like Architects, Civil, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical and Environmental Engineers. The team also includes renowned Interior designers, Landscape Architects, Construction Managers, Lawyers, Business Managers. These experts are a part of Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Gharpedia’s motto is to help the common man conceive, create, and conserve their dream home with a larger ultimate goal of Health, Safety and happiness for all. Gharpedia.com helps to design, build, own, rent, buy, sell, repair, and maintain your dream house by providing all the tips & tricks in an easy language. The website provides solution to all problems and clears confusions that arises in a common man’s mind during designing, construction, renovating, repairing, designing interiors and landscapes. It' also guides people when buying, selling, renting or maintaining his / her dream house and helps them make a suitable choice. The solutions are provided by team of experts having proficient academic background and who are experienced in their domain.


The site also provides directory of all types construction professionals including Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Material Manufacturers & Suppliers Interior Designers & more. It also has album of the "Best Home Designs,” showcasing plethora of designs and views of different elements of home by the leading professional of the industry. It also has a novel type of online exhibition of construction materials with special focus on recently launched materials. It provides an online platform to compare different brands of construction materials and their properties. The platform has a variety of "calculators" providing cost estimates for buildings and its different components with bare minimum inputs as a beginner’s guide.

Instead of confusing people with readymade and inappropriate designs, it provides analysis of plans / designs, helping people to rightly assess and modify their design. In its section ‘Ask your Question’, the experienced professionals give solution to queries, free of cost.

Gharpedia in collaboration with Auro University has established fellowship in “Comparative study of Vastushashtra & Modern Architecture”. This research provides solution to all those who get trapped between Architects & Vaastu consultants with unfounded fears and suspicions. The series of articles are expected soon.

SDCPL is into various sectors of construction which includes - Urban planning & Infrastructure, Housing, Tourism & Hospitality, Educational, Earth Engineering, Commercial, Healthcare, Terminal building for Air-ports, Industrial/Logistics and Warehouses, Roads, Bridges, Highways and Temporary Structures. The Urban Planning & Infrastructure projects include water supply, sewerage, storm water, rain water harvesting, WTP/STP, Hydraulic structures, street-scaping and beautification. Some of the outstanding projects can be seen on Project Gallery.

This website has been founded by Mr. Mahadev Desai, Mr. Ravin Desai and Mr. Shekhar Parikh, who are Directors of SDCPL.

Mr. Mahadev Desai is a renowned Engineering professional having a degree in Civil Engineering from M.S. University, Baroda and Degree of Law from South Gujarat University, Surat. Mr. Desai heads Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd, he brings with him immense knowledge of the field, expertise that has evolved over time and leadership skills that guide the team at the organization.

Founded by Chairman Mahadev Desai in 1979 as a single man company based in a small town Navsari near Surat in Gujarat SDCPL has now its presence across the nation. The firm has so far completed more than 1000 projects.

Mr. Ravin Desai has Degree in Civil Engineering (B.Tech.) from VNIT, Nagpur. He has MS from University of South Carolina, USA. He mirrors the value of the organization, he leads honestly-professionalism-entrepreneurship. With 12 years of experience in US and India, he now leads the team of professional at SDCPL, which is a creative hub of 100 team members comprising of architects, civil structural-environmental engineers, urban planners, interior designers, highway and transportation engineers, CAD experts and graphic designers handling around Our over 50 major clients and around 100 nos. of ongoing projects now.

Mr. Shekhar Parikh is Civil Engineer with 35 years of experience. He leads the Affordable Housing Mission projects at SDCPL, under which almost 50,000 houses are being built. He has a rich field experience and has out of box approach for solving problems may be of actual construction, repairs, maintenance or even of buy and sell.

SDCPL has recently launched “Software as A service” under the brand of “1mnt” (1mnt.in). This is “The first in Industry” software that generates exact quantities and bills for contractors using basic CAD based drawings. It is going to be a game changer for building construction professionals. The software apart from Bill of Quantities and Measurement sheet generates tons of data as “Management Information System” acting as an innovative tool, eliminating the tedious time-consuming, inaccurate, and costly process of bill preparation by civil building contractors. It provides detailed profit and escalation / sensitivity analysis on “Day Zero” with details of resources and management report / data for right project management and controlling cost and profit.

The software also provides Bar bending schedule both for billing as well as for factory production. It gives detailed material, labour, form-work and Plant & machinery requirements. It also compares and analyse the “Least cost” structural design out of multiple design options.

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