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“My professional and personal association with Dr. C S Vishwanatha was there for 34 long years. His outstanding way of treating everyone whomever he comes across equally with his gentle mannerisms is etched my memories. He was impeccably thorough in all his smaller to bigger endeavors, he used to take.” Mr. Sudharshan S Iyengar Senior Director, Civil aid Technoclinic Pvt. Ltd. (a Bureau Veritas Group Company) Technoclinic Pvt. Ltd. Under his Chairmanship, this company (A Bureau Veritas Group Company) has now become one of the leading consultancy centres in civil engineering with about 250 technical and supporting staff spread over Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. During this period, his main contribution was in setting up a state of art laboratory for testing a wide spectrum of construction materials. The laboratory “he was a guiding force has been accredited by National behind several engineers Accreditation Board for Testing (NABL) “Dr. C S Viswantha was an icon and has been serving the construction throughout the country. He fraternity around the country. Today, of civil engineering and it would would always be cherished in it is a well recognised laboratory with not be exaggerating to compare tests being conducted on almost all memories till my last breath. I civil engineering materials based on him with Sir M Visweswaraya. His exactitude to update himself was owe all my awards and honors National and International standards. such that he would never hesitate Dr. CSV has authored several to him, who was my teacher, technical papers in national and to consult even junior engineers. mentor and my promoter too. “ international journals, and his Torsteel He was a very positive person and Design handbook has always remained placing right people at right place Dr. R Jagadish in the limelight. Amongst his string of Former President, aCCE (I) awards, Viswanatha was awarded the was his strength.” and Chief Consulting Engineer, ÁCCE Gaurav Award in 2000; Indian Consultants Consortium. Dr. Syed Shakeeb Ur Rahman Concrete Institute’s Outstanding Principal, SJCE, Mysore & Concrete Technologist’ Award for Former Dean, VTU “We have lost the 2003; the ACCE Simplex Award for Outstanding Structure -2005 for his Sabhabhavana at Kudalasangama. treasure of civil Viswanatha was awarded National Design Award-2005 by the Institution of engineering and his Engineers for his outstanding contribution; the ICI-L&T Lifetime Achievement professional awareness Award -2006 by the Indian Concrete Institute for dedicated contribution in the felds of concrete technology and concrete structures. can be unmatched to any He was in several ‘Failure Investigation’ Commissions as an Expert Member, contemporary consultant. such as, Expert Committee for Collapse Investigation of Industrial Structure at Tolloja in 1987, Fact Finding Committee for Collapse of Heavy Fabrication Shop He was involved with all at Kolar Gold Fields in 1991, Investigation Committee for failure of Reactor major civil engineering Building at Kaiga Project in 1994, Expert Committee for Collapse Investigation projects of Karnataka. He of Shantiniketan complex in Bangalore during 2009 and many others. In a nutshell, he was a multifaceted personality. Though his felds of was unpretentious and specialization included ‘Concrete Technology’ and ‘Concrete and Steel Structures’, would reach out to anyone he was totally committed to serving civil engineering right from identifying and nurturing young talents to offering expertise and mentoring consultants. All to learn new things.” major infrastructure projects in Karnataka stands frm with involvement of Dr. CSV’s work, yet, he always called himself a 'student' of civil engineering, who Mr. I Ravindranath was an epitome of humbleness. Former Member Secretary, Task Force for Qa in Public Constructions, Government of Karnataka November 2014vember 2014 V PG 14 Built ExpressionsBuilt Expressions Vol: 3 Issue: 11ol: 3 Issue: 11 No PG 14