Mr Nilkanth R. Tembe (Civil & Environmental Engineering MSc 1938)

Provided by Dr Madhav N. Tembe

Degrees:

B.E. (from karaci), M.Sc.from Imperial College, Fellow of Insititution of Engineers & instituition of stuctural engineers.

Career:

Worked In Bombay Port Trust & instrumental in development of the port & Port Trust Hospital.
Partner in Shroff & Tembe, a firm of Consulting Structural Engineers. Notable Stuctures: Air India & State Bank buildings, some of the first mutistoried buildings in India.
Chairperson of comittee appointed by the Municipal Comissioner of  Bombay to investigate collapse of  multistoried buildings.
Examiner in Theory of Structures & Strength of Materials for Graduate & Post Graduate courses of University of Bombay.
Visiting Professor in above subjects in V.J.T.I., J.J.College of Architecture. He continued to work as a Visiting Professor till the age of 87 years.