Shekhar Panandiker, Founder

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious’. Reinforcing these famous words of great scientist Albert Einstein, Mr. Shekhar Panandiker, Founder of Shekhar Panandiker & Associates, is steered by his passion for creating innovative and interactive project designs that eventually led his establishment to emerge as one of the most soughtafter architectural engineering solution providers in Goa. Dedicated towards using progressive and innovative designs along with a proactive team for the success of each client, Shekhar Panandiker & Associates has been synonyous with high ethical standards and professional prowess.

Recognized for providing cost effective engineering solutions within the specified time frame, Shekhar Panandiker & Associates caters various architectural services like Structural, Architectural, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing and HVAC Designs under one roof for Industrial, Residential, Commercial and Institutional buildings. Shekhar cites that, “With 23 years of experience in designing and interacting with builders, contractors and agencies across the country we have built a well based network to provide the best of services to our clients. Our

technical competence in Steel, Composite, and RCC structures, experience in design of Post Tensioned Structures and outstanding expertise in design of Formulation Plants in the Pharmaceutical industry has helped us to remain the best-in-industry.”

Shepherded under the insightful management of Shekhar Panandiker, who is a Chartered Engineer and an active member in institutions such as American Welding Society, Indian Concrete Institute, India Chapter of American Concrete Institute, Indian Society of Structural Engineers the company is conquering more heights and has already carved a niche position in the segment. Their team consists of professionals with sound fundamentals in design and detailing, dedicated in assisting clients to achieve the best quality, time and cost projects. “Our team is capable of adapting themselves to the client’s needs and display immense team work in delivering the projects on time. They’ve been trained on a plethora of industry benchmarked software, MIDAS, TEKLA, STRUDS, NISA and AUTOCAD to name a few. At each stage of design, our team ensures that every structural detail preserves the architectural design aesthetics,” Shekhar added.

Incepted in 1995, Shekhar Panandiker & Associates has grown as one of Goa’s leading ISO 9001:2008 certified organization of structural engineers and architects, having a pan India presence. The firm had a consistent growth of about 15-20 percentage for last couple of years catering to most of the MNCs in and out of Goa. Mr. Shekhar

Panandiker has received certificate of participation from the prestigious international Holcim Award for ‘innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction project’ for the project of Bal Pharma in Uttaranchal. He has been awarded ICI GOA Ultratech Award for Outstanding concrete structure of Goa -2011, building category, for his project BMW Dealership. He also bagged the ICI-GOA Ultratech Awards for well built residential villa of Goa-2011 (Architectural & Structural consultancy) for his project of Roy Medeira.

Amidst this burgeoning growth, Shekhar Panandiker & Associates also pays equal attention for CSR activities that cover, undertaking projects of Educational Institutions, Temples, Churches and Mosques. He has been awarding scholarships to needy Engineering students in Goa. Shekhar Panandiker has the extraordinary ability to push his employees to give their best, without going over the edge. He has built a high performing work culture and skill up-gradation opportunities that enables each team member to learn and grow with each other.

In the coming years, Shekhar Panandiker envisages to extend their project creativity, efficiency, superlative quality and positive reputation of being a leading Structural Engineering Consulting firm in India and other countries around the world with a reputable client base. The firm would like to diversify in providing top notch consultancy services in the infrastructure sector while focusing on the future demand for retrofitting and health monitoring of the structures.