Government Of India, Department Of Space, Isro, Civil Engine

Our office is tucked away in 1/15 Sangam Apartment. It’s right near Ramdev Nagar on the Satellite Road in Ahmedabad. Most people expect ISRO offices to be these massive campuses with rockets on display, but this is just the Civil Engineering wing. We are in a regular apartment building. It’s a bit cramped with all the drawing boards and the stacks of project files, but it works for us. We are close to the main road, so it’s easy for the site engineers to drop by. The traffic on Satellite Road is a bit of a nightmare during peak hours, so we hear the honking all day long. We focus on the building side of things—the infrastructure that supports the space projects. It involves a lot of checking measurements and going through blueprints. The office has that lived-in feel, with tea stains on the coasters and piles of ledgers everywhere. We aren't here to do anything flashy. It’s just about making sure the bricks and mortar are right for the department. Some of us have been in this specific office for years, so we know all the neighbors in the apartment complex. It’s a bit of a mix, having a government engineering office right next to people’s homes. We just keep our heads down and get the drawings finished before the deadlines. It’s practical work for a big department, done in a small, local space that we have made our own.