DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTIONS LTD.         FOUNDATION CONSULTANTS LTD.

OUR FOUNDER: MD. NURUL AMIN                                                                                                                                                             

Qualification:   

                                    B. Sc. Engineer. (Civil), Bangladesh University of Engineering

                                    and Technology, Dhaka, 1964, Post Graduate studies (Soil

                                    Mech. & Foundation Engineering).

Advance trainings:    

                                    Dynamic Testing of Pile (non-destructive test) for integrity

                                    and ultimate load carrying capacity, conducted by pile

                                    Dynamics Inc., Ohio, U.S.A., 1989.

Memberships:

                                i)  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.

                               ii)  Member, Deep Foundation Institute, Cliffs, U.S.A.

                              iii)  Member, South East Asian Geotechnical Society.

                              iv)  Member, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation

                                    Engineering.

                               v)  Member, American Society of Civil Engineers.

                              vi)  Vice President, Bangladesh Society for Geotechnical Engineering.

 vii)                                      Resource person (Foundation Engineering) Institution of Engineers Bangladesh.

viii)                                      Member of the Organizing Committee for the Fifth International

                                            Conference on the Application of Stress Wave Theory to Piles held

                                            in Orlando, Florida, USA in 1996.

  ix)                                      Convener Editorial Sub-Committee Structural Design (Foundation)

                                            Bangladesh National Building Code.

   x)                                      Specialist Resource person (Foundation Engineering) BPWD, RHD.

Nonprofessional Memberships:

                                i)  Member, Rotary Club of Dhaka North West, Paul Harris Fellow.

       ii)                                 ii)  Life Member, Gulshan Central Mosque and Islamic Research Society, Dhaka.

Publications:

                              1.  Foundations for Tall Buildings in and around Dhaka City. Presented   

                                    in the Annual Convention of Institute of Engineers, Dhaka, Bangladesh .

                              2.  Compaction Sand Pile in non-cohesive loose ground. –A case

                                    study presented in Annual Convention of institute of engineers,

                                    Dhaka, Bangladesh.

                              3.  Foundation in Swelling Clay in Bangladesh –A case study.

                                   Presented in Annual Convention of Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh.

                              4.  Geotechnical Behaviors of Soils from Coastal Region of

                                   Bangladesh –Presented in the Ninth South East Asian

                                   Geo-technical Conference, Bangkok, Thailand /1987.

                              5.  Pre-Loading of soft fine grained soil materials using Inflatable

                                   Tubes and vacuum. Presented in International Symposium on

                                   Shallow Sea and Low Land, Saga Japan / 1988.

                              6.  Some Experiences on Integrity Test of Pile in Bangladesh by Non-

                                   destructive low strain test method. Presented in the 2^nd Asian Pile

                                   Driving Analyzer Users Conference, Hong Kong, 1990.

                              7.  “Some Experiences on Bored Cast –in-Situ Reinforced Concrete

                                    Piles in Bangladesh – A Case Study” presented in U.S. FHWA

                                    International Conference on Design & Construction of Deep

                                    Foundations, December 1994 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

                              8.   Integrity testing of foundation Piles in Bangladesh-Case Study

                                    Presented in Fifth International Conference on the Application

                                    of Stress-Wave Theory to piles. Sept 1996 in Orlando, Florida,

                                    USA.

9.                                    9.  Bored Cast –in-Situ R.C.C. piles, Model Procedure and specifications

                                    Presented in Annual Conference of the Institute of  Engineers Bangladesh 1995.

                                 10.  Performance of Bored Cast –in-Situ R.C.C Piles in Bangladesh –

                                        Presented in the Forth International Conference on Case Histories

                                        of Geotechnical Engineering, St. Louis Missouri, USA on March  8-15, 1998.

Innovations:

                              a)  Compaction Sand Pile for structure foundation in non-cohesive

                                    loose ground.

                              b)  Confined Sand Column with grouted tips as structure foundation in

                                    soft ground.

                              c)   Introduced small diameter Masonry Well as Building Foundations

                                    in Bangladesh.

                              d)   Innovated and developed design & construction methodology for

                        for Pre-cast Hollow R.C.C. Drilled shaft with in-situ concrete pedestal.