Er. G. Shivananda has had over 28 years of experience in the civil engineering industry of which over sixteen years have been overseas, including Africa; the Indian Sub-continent; the Gulf; S.E.Asia principally in Construction Supervision, Quality Evaluation & Monitoring, Institution Development, Capacity Building, Contract administration, Procurement, Road Safety, Technical auditing, training, highways and materials engineering both in design and construction supervision. He also has extensive experience in business development: multi-cultural liaison with Companies; Clients and Statutory Authorities of many nationalities. Since 1988 he has been involved as an Independent freelance Consultant with extensive experience in Contract and Quality Management relating to the design and construction supervision of projects that involved roads, bridges, drainage structure, pipelines and remediation of contaminated landfill of Quarry sites. He has worked on all types of geotechnical investigations, General Engineering (GEC) and Engineering, Resource and Procurement (ERP),Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT), Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) and Turnkey project(s). He has experience in the design and reporting for all types of pavement structures, instrumentation, slopes, embankments, rock bolting, rock drapes, blasting. He has also been responsible for the establishment and management of numerous testing facilities for a wide range of construction material to various International Standards like AASHTO,ASTM, MoST, MoRTH, CoLTO (East Africa), SHTC (EA), TRH (sch 4-EA), ERA(Ethiopia), IDS (Afghanistan), RAS(Malawi), GHA, DGUR etc both on and off the site. He is familiar FIDIC conditions and ICB/NCB procedures of contract. He is computer literate and has an excellent working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheets. Surveying with latest Total Station Equipment, Data Collection and Investigation, Materials selections with identification of their source, Design, Tender document preparation, Bid Evaluation Project Implementation, Monitoring physical and financial progress, Quality Assurance and Quantity Surveying etc. His countries of work experience include Ethiopia, Eritrea, India, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Burundi, ReCongo, Middle East (Omen), Afghanistan and Ghana