Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd., has recently launched an innovative “Software based service” under the brand of “1mnt”.

This is “The first in Industry” software which generate exact quantities and bills for contractor’s from basic CAD based drawings. It is going to be a game changer for building construction professionals.

The software apart from Bill of Quantities and Measurement sheet generates tonnes of data as “Management Information System” acting as an innovative tool, eliminating, tedious, cumbersome, boring and time consuming, inefficient, inaccurate and costly process of bill preparation by civil building contractors.

It provides detailed profit and escalation / sensitivity analysis on “Day Zero” with details of resources and management report / data for right project management i.e. resource planning and controlling cost as well as profit.

This software can handle mammoth data of all leading SORs (Schedule of Rates) of various public works department of State Govts. of India including CPWD of Govt of India. This software is going to be a big boon not only for building contactors but also for builders, developers, EPC contractors including Architects, Engineers and other construction professionals. It has a huge database of more than 5000 construction items and around 8000 materials.

SDCPL is a leading multidisciplinary consultancy organization in India that offers design solutions and provides professional services in Architectural, Civil, Structural, Transportation, Infrastructural and Environmental Engineering.

SDCPL is into various sectors of construction which includes – Urban planning & Infrastructure, Housing, Tourism & Hospitality, Educational, Earth Engineering, Commercial, Healthcare, Terminal building for Air-ports, Industrial/Logistics and Warehouses, Roads, Bridges, Highways and Temporary Structures. The Urban Planning & Infrastructure projects include water supply, sewerage, storm water, rain water harvesting, WTP/STP, Hydraulic structures, street-scaping and beautification.

The software has been developed as a joint vision and venture of Shri Mahadev Desai, Shri Ravin Desai, Shri Shekhar Parikh of SDCPL and Shri Prakash Bajaj-CEO of Computer Help, Mumbai having MS from University of Michigan, a renowned structural engineer with vide experience in research, design and development of software for structural design & drawings like “Draftwin”, “Planwin” etc. He is also a renowned trainer recognised all over India for structural design softwares like StaddPro, ETabs, Safe, Revit etc.

SDCPL is promotor of www.gharpedia.com – an encyclopedia of home, i.e. homepedia; a website that provides information covering all the aspects of home right from its concept to its completion.

This is perhaps the first such site in India and one of the few in world covering all range of topics related to house and common man.

ghapedia.com has been founded by Mr. Mahadev Desai, Mr. Ravin Desai and Mr. Shekhar Parikh, all Directors of SDCPL.

Mr. Mahadev Desai is a renowned Engineering professional having a degree in Civil Engineering from M.S. University, Baroda and Degree of Law from South Gujarat University, Surat. Mr. Desai heads Sthapati Designers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd., (SDCPL), He brings with him immense knowledge of the field, expertise that has evolved over time and leadership skills that guide the team at the organization.

Mr. Ravin Desai has Degree in Civil Engineering (B.Tech.) from VNIT, Nagpur. He has MS from University of South Carolina, USA. He mirrors the value of the organization, he leads honestly-professionalism-entrepreneurship. With 12 years of experience in US and India, he now leads the team of professional at SDCPL, which is creative hub of 100 team members comprising of architects, civil structural-environmental engineers, urban planners, interior designers, highway and transportation engineers, CAD experts and graphic designers handling around Our over 50 major clients and around 100 nos. of ongoing projects now.

Mr. Shekhar Parikh is Civil Engineer with 35 years of experience. He leads the Affordable Housing Mission projects at SDCPL, under which almost 50,000 houses are being built. He has a rich field experience and has out of box approach for solving problems which may be actual construction, repairs, maintenance or even of buy and sell.

1mnt.in gives detailed materials as well as labour requirements including plumbing fixtures like, tees, bends, elbows, union etc., and details of building hardware like no. of screws etc. It also works out formwork requirements, machine hour requirement of Plant & machinery including no. of labour required for a given work.

It performs a detailed cost analysis of RCC works, analysing cost of concrete, steel and formwork inter-se.

Besides offering such reports, it prepares exact quantity of steel based on “Bar Bending schedule”, which can also be generated on it based on detailed structural design drawings. The bar bending schedule can also be used for factory production.

It can also compare, analyse the “least cost” of structural design i.e. it can do optimisation of structural design out of multiple options provided.

SDCPL was founded by Chairman Mahadev Desai in 1979 as a single man company based in a small town Navsari near Surat in Gujarat and has now its presence across the nation. The firm has so far completed more than 1000 projects. The firm at present has to its credit over 50 major clients and around 100’s of ongoing projects now.

The firms’s client base is enormously wide. It ranges from several Central & State Government Department & Institutions to many reputed Private corporates, co-operatives and NGOs. The firm has to its credit clients like L&T, Shapoorjee Pallonjee, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Bhubaneshwar, IIM Ahmedabad for their various city level infrastructure projects involving water supply, sewerage, storm water drainage, roads, bridges and electrical works. The list of prominent clients include LIC, TATA, ONGC, GAIL, Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Surat etc., Airport Authority of India, KRIBHCO, Govt. of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Gujarat Housing Board, Theis Precession, Omkar Group, Ariisto Shelter, Navsari Agriculture University, Affordable Housing Mission, Gujarat, GUDM, GWSSB, DGVCL, Gujarat Tourism and Urban authorities like AUDA, VUDA, SUDA apart from small Municipalities. It works as PMC for Auro University, Hotel Marriot (Gujarat JHM Ltd.), VUDA and so on.

The LIC’s corporate office building at GIFT City, Gandhinagar and Central office complex- Collectorate at Vyara for Govt. of Gujarat, Urban Haats at Ahmedabad and Bhuj are some of the projects won in national competition.

The firm has been associated with design / PMC of more than 50,000 houses under Prime Minster Affordable Housing Project in the state of Gujarat.

Some of the exclusive and noteworthy projects undertaken by SDCPL (ww.sthapati-india.com) are Collectorate Office, Vyara; GSRTC’s, Bhuj, Patan and Nadiad Depots; Housing for Gujarat Housing Board (GHB), Ahamedabad Municipal Corporation, Surat Municipal Corporation, Multi-speciality Civil Hospital-Navsari & Dharampur, Temple Base Extension at Pavagadh, Terminal Building-Amritsar & Surat; Viewing Deck at Kutch (White Rann), Schools for SSA, Sugar factories, Cold Rolling Mill Plant for Tata etc.

To know more about 1mnt visit 1mnt.in.