ENGR. Eruchalu is a Director of Scientific Endeavours. Prior to founding this organization, he had worked briefly for Encon Associates, a civil/structural engineering firm based in Ilorin, from March 1991 to July 1992. Following which he joined AOP-Consult Limited, a full-fledged engineering/project management firm in March 1993. He worked there for five years, having risen to the status of Senior Engineer upon professional qualification in September 1997. Subsequently, in February 1998, he joined CPMS Limited, a pioneer project management firm in Nigeria where he worked for another four years, having risen to the level of an Associate.
Within this ten-year working period, he had gained experience in the engineering design of institutional, industrial & residential buildings, office complexes, highway structures as well as multi-purpose facilities such as petrol retail outlets. His research background and extensive computational experience in numerical analysis and computer graphics have culminated in the development of an application package for the analysis and design of basic structural systems including building frames, continuous beams, columns, footings, retaining / sheet-pile walls, and piled foundations.
While at CPMS management of projects dominated the last four years of his employment, where he participated in the development of Aba branch for Guaranty Trust Bank; Private Residential Estate for First Marina Trust Limited; Office development for Vigeo Estates Limited; Mass housing development for LSDPC chiefly. In the area of training, Mr. Eruchalu participated extensively in the dissemination of project management knowledge through CPMS’s regular workshops and in-house training for institutions, as Afri-Projects Consultants and the Bureau for Public Enterprises.
At Scientific endeavours, Engr. Eruchalu’s passion centres around Extreme engineering and how Project management can create maximum value across the dominant methodologies.
Professional Qualifications: |
- Member Nigerian Society of Engineers (08734)
- Member Project Management Institute (PMI)
- COREN Registered Engineer (R.16,192)
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Education: |
- Federal Government College, Ilorin, GCE (O’Levels) 1982
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka, B.Eng (Hons) 1987
- University of Ilorin, Ilorin, M.Eng 1991
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Research: |
- Optimum Weight Design of a Cantilever Retaining Wall (Applied Functional Analysis), 1991
- Deflections of Reinforced Concrete Beams 1987
- Basic Structural Analysis/Design package
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- General 2D rigid/pin-jointed frames,
- 2D/3D Piled Foundation analysis,
- R.C. Continuous beams Analysis/Design,
- R.C. Columns Analysis/Design,
- R.C. Retaining Wall Design, Sheet-pile Wall Analysis,
- Foundation-Superstructure Interaction
- Beams on Elastic foundations (Background Theory & worked Examples; un-published) (1995),
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