What Spanish artist Salvador Dali said this almost a century ago, has been a reality of today’s designers. The designers and professional artists have been living the era of perfection where clients demand designs and drafts to be of utmost details and unique from the competitors. As a result, designers have to rework with constantly changing requirement from the clients.
This has been one of the biggest challenges for MEP consultancies – lot of rework in projects that leads to delay in reaching milestones. Taking on this challenge Bangalore-based MEP consultancy firm QDC India Consulting Pvt. Ltd. has been dedicatedly working towards meeting client deadlines without affecting the quality work. How did QDC India manage to do this?
In an interview with C.S Nambisan, Dattatreya Bhat, Dominic Chandran, Vimal Kumar, and Jayakumar, the dynamic leaders of QDC India shared their design philosophy of ‘Patience in Concept’ and ‘Impatience in detailing’ to tackle the challenges in MEP consultancy space. “We work on a design philosophy of” they said, “We have developed a detailed questionnaire for all the MEP domains for different type of projects. It encompasses all the aspects in every project and hence all the aspects are thought thorough in the initial phase right from design efficiency, life cycle costs, and maintainability.”
This improvised approach is a fruition of the experienced and expert senior team at QDC. Read the below interview excerpt to know more about how skilled team and expert seniors together have established QDC India as a renowned name in the MEP consultancy market.
A decade of drafting empires
QDC India was established in 2010 with an aim to offer Structural & MEP Design Consultancy Services with BIM / Revit expertise for both local and International clients. QDC India is an associate of Qatar Design Consortium, Qatar, which is a ‘Grade A’ Consultancy firm in Doha for over 40 years. This has helped QDC India establish a firm base in local as well as international market. 60% of QDC India’s revenue coming from International projects shows the commendable quality work and loyal client base the company has created just over a decade.
The senior team’s three-decade long experience in local and international projects has played a major role in establishing QDC India in the international market. QDC India has been ambitiously working on wide range of projects from small to multimillion Sq. ft. projects in Residential, Commercial, Hospitals, Hotels, Sports, Infrastructure, Industrial and Theme parks.
Employees – Greatest assets at QDC India
No doubt, employees are among the greatest assets for any business. QDC India recognizes and appreciates the hard work and dedication the team has put through to take the organization to new heights. So, when the whole world was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the management at QDC India was caring and considerate towards employees.
Even after the lockdown was removed the company has allowed 70% of the staff to continue working from home. The concerned team only must attend the office on the day of review meetings. The management also ensures the sanitization of office premises are regularly conducted. The company has also been conducting meetings online whenever possible.
Setting the bar higher
Belief is a strong emotion. It has a power to make people do great things, to achieve the impossible. Whatever you believe, you can, or you can’t – you are right. QDC India is marching forward with a belief of becoming the ‘Preferred Engineering Consultancy Partner’ to its clients. The company also aims to incorporate fast-paced technological advancements to innovatively increase the efficiency and quality of the work.
An organization’s true growth is when it creates an opportunity for employees to grow with it. QDC India has put its clients as well as employees at the core of its future goals. Besides being a ‘trusted partner’ to its clients, the organization wants for its employees to feel they belong in and with QDC India.
Passing on the wisdom
A true leadership does not only think about the future, it creates the future. And for the aspiring entrepreneurs dreaming of entering the MEP consultancy space, the leaders of QDC India have a wisdom to pass on – advice they received from one of the reputed Electrical engineers in their early entrepreneurial days. The advice was, “Do not start a consultancy unless you have at least 20 years of experience Principal to head.”
Over the time, the five gems of QDC India C. S. Nambisan, Dominic Chandran, Dattatreya Bhat, Vimal Kumar, and Jayakumar have realized the power of this advice enough to firmly believe in and pass it on as words of wisdom. They also have something to share from own experience, “Building an organization requires more than technical knowledge; it is better to create a team of like-minded people with expertise in all the Technical domains and HR, Marketing, and Finance. Only when all functional units such as Delivery, Marketing, HR, Finance work aan organization, then the organization can deliver on its promise to its clients.”
The leading Experts
S. Nambisan
Director – MEP
An Electrical Engineer by profession, Nambisan started his career with MECON (India). He has also worked as a registered as Grade A consultant for over 25 years in Qatar. He is with QDC India since its inception.
Dattatreya Bhat
Associate Director – Electrical
An Electrical Engineer heading Electrical/ELV Department. He has over 35 years of design experience in prestigious consulting firms, out of which he has worked with RSP Design Consultants, leading Architects/Consultancy company in Bangalore for around 14 years.
Dominic Chandran
Associate Director – MEP
Having over 35 years of experience on Qatar and Indian Projects he has worked for various prestigious MEP Projects and tall buildings in India and abroad.
Vimal Kumar
Asst. General Manager – Plumbing and Firefighting
Vimal heads the PHE & FF Department. He has a relevant consultancy experience of over 18 years.
Jayakumar
Asst. General Manager – HVAC
He heads the HVAC department and has extensive experience in various large Tonnage HVAC Projects and projects involving special applications in India and abroad.
