Site Techniques

The author of this book “M. Varadarajan” was born into a very humble and poor family; his father was a teacher in a government elementary school and his mother was a housewife. Though he lost his father at the age of 12 he did not forget his father’s helping tendency prevailed in the village. With the help of his mother’s pension facing a lot of struggles in society he decided to raise in life to bring the family up. Since then he started wearing “horse eye blinders” which made him grow into a good engineer. During his service as Engineer wherever worked he maintained a good attitude to learning the work to excel in his career. His office was his family. The Company also rewarded for his “Key Positions” for having achieved 2nd rank at All India Level under “Divisional Engineering” in overall performance during 2007-08. The whole of his career he kept his father’s helping tendency in mind and tried to help all his colleague Engineers by providing necessary knowledge on the execution of works and managing engineering projects with quality and timely completion of the same. He was strong in his thought that no engineer especially a fresh site engineer gets struggles in learning the site knowledge. After completing over 38 years of service in a single spell in the engineering department of Indian Oil Corporation Limited a Government of India Undertaking a MaharathnaCompany one of the Fortune 500 Companies retired as Deputy General Manager (Engineering) & State Engineering Head in Jun’2020. However as his thirst was not over he carefully crafted this book for the Engineers who are in anxiety at the construction site for learning the site knowledge called “Site Techniques”.