FILE NO. VMC/DWG/2024/NCR-001  ·  SECTION: GENERAL AWARENESS
NON-CONFORMANCE

UNCIVIL
ENGINEER

An interactive satire on infrastructure, bureaucracy, and engineering reality.

Research is 500 years ahead of practice.

Welcome to the gap.

M40 specified (IS 456:2000 Cl. 6.1).  M10 delivered.  Inquiry pending.

You are the engineer of record. Good luck.

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RECORDS MAINTAINED SINCE APPROXIMATELY 1973. ACCURACY NOT GUARANTEED.

VIKASNAGAR — BY THE NUMBERS

SOURCE: VARIOUS. RELIABILITY: APPROXIMATE.

~62%

Bridges With Overdue Inspection

IS 456:2000 Cl. 15.1. 'Annual' does not mean what you think here.

~12%

DPR Traffic Surveys Done On Site

Remainder: Google Maps, 2019 screenshot, or 'estimated from experience.'

0.7

Engineers Per 1 Lakh Population

Sanctioned: 2.1. Filled: 0.7. Remaining 1.4: 'under recruitment since 2018.'

Rarely

Mill Certificates Verified At Site

IS 2062:2011 mandates traceability. Tracing leads to a very good printer.

200,000+

IS Codes In Existence

Approximately 30 updated. Annually. Retroactively.

~15%

Building Plans Matching Actual Construction

Approved: G+2. Built: G+5 with basement. Regularised: eventually.

◆ IS 800:2007 on steel connections. IS 456 on concrete. IS 875 on loads. Site: 'noted'.◆ IS 456:2000 Cl. 15.1 recommends periodic inspection. 'Periodic' = once, at commissioning, by the contractor.◆ A DPR is a work of fiction with annexures.◆ VALUE ENGINEERING: the technical term for 'we spent the budget on tender negotiations'◆ The soil report was done for a different site. Literally.◆ IS 3370 on water-retaining structures. The structure retains everything except water.◆ NBC 2016 Part 4: fire exit width 1050mm minimum. Actual: 750mm. Through a kitchen.◆ There are more codes than engineers who have read them.◆ Tender eligibility criteria fitted to one firm is not competition. It is casting.◆ The measurement book is an anthology of creative writing.◆ IS 800:2007 on steel connections. IS 456 on concrete. IS 875 on loads. Site: 'noted'.◆ IS 456:2000 Cl. 15.1 recommends periodic inspection. 'Periodic' = once, at commissioning, by the contractor.◆ A DPR is a work of fiction with annexures.◆ VALUE ENGINEERING: the technical term for 'we spent the budget on tender negotiations'◆ The soil report was done for a different site. Literally.◆ IS 3370 on water-retaining structures. The structure retains everything except water.◆ NBC 2016 Part 4: fire exit width 1050mm minimum. Actual: 750mm. Through a kitchen.◆ There are more codes than engineers who have read them.◆ Tender eligibility criteria fitted to one firm is not competition. It is casting.◆ The measurement book is an anthology of creative writing.