Field notes
Engineering, written down.
Not a blog. Notes from jobs that already happened — so an owner, an EPC or an engineer can see how this house thinks before they send a drawing.
Owners · 6 min · 2025-11-12
A chimney does not miss by a little. It misses by a plant.
How a 135 m RCC stack at NTPC Kanti was hinged into a five-degree corridor, forty metres from a live ID fan.
Owners · 5 min · 2025-12-03
Four hyperbolic shells. One outage window.
Why cooling towers are felled as a sequence, and how KTPS took eight — including four at once — inside an operating station.
EPC · 7 min · 2026-01-18
How an EPC should prequalify a demolition subcontractor.
A practical PQQ: CIN, GST, PESO, own crews, owned plant, signed manhours, and a film of a job that looks like yours.
House · 5 min · 2026-02-09
PESO is not a logo. It is the day of the shot.
What Indian explosives regulation actually governs on a live-plant felling — magazine, transport, charging, firing, record.
Talent · 5 min · 2026-03-04
Ten lakh manhours are not a labour contractor.
Why the people who survey, hinge, charge and fire are EXIQUDE people — and what that means if you want to join the house.
Owners · 5 min · 2026-04-21
Two 17-floor towers. Houses nine metres off the plot.
Urban designed collapse is a public act. Alpha Serene, Kochi — mass into the footprint, neighbours standing.
EPC · 4 min · 2026-05-16
The most expensive shot is the one you should not fire.
Hybrid mechanical and non-explosive work against live kilns, crushers and near-zero vibration budgets.