A Civil Engineering Graduate with Masters in Environment Planning from School of Planning and Architecture and an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, we have amongst us, Ms Sudesna Biswas, Head Hydrology, L&T, TIIC.
Having successfully completed her work on sustainable development of Darjeeling District, she was recognized with a National level award for environmental planning, very early in her career, following which, she has acquired a rich industry experience of over 20 years on storm water, water supply and irrigation, both in domestic and international projects. She joined Larsen and Toubro in 2019 and within a short span of her successful 5 years in the organization, she went on to provide storm water and flood mitigation solutions to multiple infrastructure projects of National importance in airports, railways, highways/expressways and smart cities, including the world famous NEOM city, Saudi; for many of which she has won process innovation awards in her field, including the prestigious Pi Awards, 2023. Now she and her team are working as a centralized hydrology solution provider to multiple other ICs of L&T.
Her innovative, unparalleled work on Regional Hydrology for flood mitigation in bridges using advanced digitalization and flood modelling simulations, has been recognized by the industry, where Member NHAI & MD, DFCC, amongst others, have profusely appreciated the extensivity of her work process. Her value engineering contribution in this field is appreciated by Professors in IITs and now, in collaboration with Professors of IIT Bombay, she is co-authoring multiple technical papers for publication in International Journals, for spreading the importance of regional hydrology in bridge modelling. She and her team are also collaborating to bring in an amendment in the hydrology sections of the relevant Codal provisions.
As we all know, with the recent climate change conditions and bridge failures thereof, hydrology has emerged as one of the key pointers across projects in the world. Un-channelized water can be devastating. Today, Ms Sudesna Biswas, will be sharing her thoughts on “Introducing Regional Hydrology for Road Bridges Design through advanced digitalization tools to Mitigate the Impact of Climate Change”. We are sanguine, that after this discussion, we will be more aligned towards futuristic hydrology based bridge designing.
