Mr. A N PRAKASH
Mr. A N PRAKASH
Mr. A N Prakash, heads A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd., which provides Construction Project Management services to a wide clientele consisting of developers, builders, intermediaries and end-users in the built environment sector of the Construction Industry.
He pioneered this concept in 1986, and has converted the company into a well-known player in the consulting space in South India. A recent survey by an independent agency has placed the company on a 100% first recall in South India wherever a project is more than Rs.100 Mn. About 15% of the major players in West India and 7% of the major players in North India also count ANP CPMC as a leading player in the construction project management space. Today the company operates from Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Jaipur and many other sites across South and North India.
He brings over 45 years of work experience in Construction Management across a wide spectrum of projects such as Industrial Structures, Multi-storeyed commercial and residential buildings, Luxury Hotels, Pharma Plants, Commercial Malls, Educational Institutions and other buildings both in India and abroad. He is well established as a specialist construction management professional in the hospitality sector having delivered a number of hotels for the Oberoi chain, Taj Group and Welcome Group.
He has worked with leading engineering and architectural consulting firms in India and abroad such as:
- M/s Gherzi Eastern Ltd., Mumbai, India
- M/s Stein, Doshi & Bhalla, New Delhi, India
- M/s SEMAC Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
- M/s Saudi Real Estate Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- M/s East India Hotels Ltd., India
Passionately interested in continuing education for the engineering professionals, he has founded the School for Construction Management Excellence (S-CME) in 2011 to train engineers at all levels – recently graduated, mid-level construction professionals and senior level construction professionals in recent advances in construction management, field engineering practices, quality assurance and control practices, quantity surveying and contract management.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Life member – Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India)
- Life member – Indian Concrete Institute
- Member – Project Management Institute (USA)
- Member – American Society of Civil Engineers, (USA)
- Fellow – Chartered Management Institute, UK
- Fellow – Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
FELICITATIONS AND AWARDS
- In 1996 by Lions Club of Bangalore South for his “Significant contribution to Innovation and Excellence in Industrial Structures”
- In 2009 on the Engineers’ day by Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India) Bangalore Chapter for his “Contribution the Civil Engineering Field”
- On February 9 2012, Civil Aid Techno clinic Pvt. Ltd.(Bureau Veritas Group Company) honoured him as an ‘Eminent Engineer’ for his contribution to field of Construction Project Management
TECHNICAL PAPER PRESENTED
- “Emergent Project Management: How Foreign Managers can Leverage Local Knowledge”. International Journal of Project Management. www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman – (Co-authored with Dr. Arkalgud Ramprasad)
- “Fostering Culture of Knowledge Sharing in Project Management” Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International conference on system sciences January 2009 (Co-authored with Dr. Arkalgud Ramprasad) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1325823
- “Construction Project Management Systems – An Ontological Framework” International Project Management held at Pune in 2011 by PMI. (Co-authored with Mr. Nagesh Ramamurthy) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2062696