My roles and responsibilities included assisting my superiors in the design, examination, and assessment of private and public buildings for structural safety and conformity with BIS Codes. Day-to-day activities included developing appropriate ETABS models of mid-rise structures (building height ranging from 18 to 50 metres) for verifying their behaviour under seismic loading. Modelling for beam column junction eccentricities, non-prismatic beams to appropriately represent PT Beams, analysis for response spectrum cases including seismic loading in vertical direction, and using shear walls to arrest deflection/drift to meet BIS specifications were among the general complications.

Day to day tasks included modelling multi-storey RCC structures to analyze behavior under seismic load cases in ETABS based on provided architectural specifications and generate structural drawings. Complexities included modelling curved ramps for multistorey parking structures, temperature load cases for buildings exceeding 25 meters in length, load case envelops for wall-traction based lifts.