SAN ENGINEERING COMPANY
Pioneers in water treatment since 1964
Who We are
San Engineering company is a specialist engineering concern operating in the field of water treatment for nearly five decades. The firm has done pioneering work in design innovation and has executed over a hundred water treatment plants on turnkey basis, including design construction, erection and commissioning of water treatment plants of capacities varying from 1 to 60 million litres of water per day across Southern India. It was founded as a partnership firm in 1964 by G.B. Navale after working for 9 years with M/s Geo Miller & Co. Calcutta where he had designed and supervised execution of over fifty treatment plants situated in Northern parts of India. He was joined in 1981 by his son Gopal K Navale. The Navales are a family where water treatment is almost a tradition. K.B. Navale, father of G.B. Navale retired as chief engineer M/s Geo Miller & Co., then a British concern. His father known as Filter Navale too was in the same line, but was in the service of the government. He was responsible for the execution of the prestigious TG Halli water treatment plant for the city of Bangalore among other works.
GB Navale
Sri G B Navale was born in March 1932. He graduated in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpore University in 1955 and qualified in Sanitary Engineering from the Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta. Further he was trained as Structural Engineer under SP Bannerjee of Simplex Concrete Piles, Calcutta. With Specialisation in water treatment plants he started his professional career at M/s. Geo Miller Co., Calcutta in 1955. During his tenure there, he independently handled contracts for a number of water treatment plants ranging in capacities from 500 litres per hour to 150 million litres per day. He rose to the position of Deputy Chief Engineer in 1964. He resigned from there and founded M/s. San Engineering Co, in 1964. He undertook design and construction of a number of water treatment plants spread across South India through M/s. San Engineering Co. He has developed innovative unit operations for treatment like Clariflocculators and Clarifilters which have simplified treatment operations. His present involvement is in multi- disciplinary, cost effective approach covering design and operation of treatment plants. He has developed a customised computer programme to enable hydraulic and structural designs of water treatment plants inclusive of drafting , specifications,estimating and costing.
Gopal Navale
Gopal Navale is a Waterworks Engineer with over three decades of experience in the design and execution of water treatment plants. After finishing his graduate studies at RVCE Bangalore in 1981 he joined his father GB Navale as a junior partner in San Engineering Company. He trained extensively under him in all the aspects of Hydraulic and structural designs for water treatment plants. Estimation, tendering and execution of turnkey projects all over India has given him extensive exposure to prevailing practices in Government agencies in India as well as the diverse working conditions across the country. He has designed and executed major projects such as the 55million litres per day (mld) water treatment plant(WTP) at Davangere, Karnataka in 2004 and 57mld WTP at Shimoga, Karnataka and is now the managing partner. He is an avid environmentalist who is conscious of carbon footprints and cycles to his office. He is passionate about music and plays a number of instruments as well as being a singer and songwriter with several albums to his credit. He is the founder member of the Esperanto music project and the Freedom Jam music festival.
