Anumolu ramakrishna biography of michael

Indian civil and structural engineer and corporate executive

Anumolu Ramakrishna (20 December 1939 – 20 August 2013) was an Indian civil and structural engineer, corporate executive and the deputy managing director of Larsen & Toubro Construction,^[1] the largest construction company in India as per 2013 statistics.^[2] He was credited with the introduction of system formwork^[3] and precast and prestressed concrete technologies in Indian construction industry, procedures which helped increase productivity,^[5] and was a co-founder of the India chapter of FSL - Global Forum on Structural Longevity.^[6] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, posthumously in 2014, for his contributions to science and technology.^[7]

Biography

Born on 20 December 1939^[8] in Punadipadu, a small village near Vijayawada in Krishna district, in the south I