Water rarely gets attention when it's working. We work where it's tested.
IECONI designs and builds water and wastewater systems in the places where the margin for error is thin, surfacing risk before it's poured in concrete, and standing behind decisions that have to hold up for decades.
[OUR MISSION]
A water system can meet every spec and still be the wrong system. We engineer for the decades after handover, surfacing hard questions early, challenging assumptions that don't hold, and building infrastructure sound enough to be trusted long after we've left the site.
Risk, surfaced early
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Built to be defended
The Team
IECONI is deliberately small: eighteen in the office, thirty-six in the field, self-performing across four disciplines. Two of our four engineers are licensed PEs.
Raghu Iyer
Founded IECONI in 2015 on the conviction that water infrastructure should be built by people who understand its operational consequences. Earlier career spans $250M offshore energy projects at FMC Technologies and value engineering programs for Saudi Aramco and Qafac — depth of engineering judgment now embedded in the firm.
Puneet Gupta
Spent 18 years at Shell maturing chemical processes from the lab bench to commercial scale, including rescuing a mostly nonfunctional biofuels demonstration plant and returning it to safe, reliable operation through redesign and disciplined hazard analysis. At IECONI he leads design and process-engineering assurance: catching the deficiencies hiding in as-bid scope before they reach the field, and driving the firm's R&D into emerging water treatment. He is the named inventor on a portfolio of process patents.
Subhas Chakrabarti
20 years of financial leadership across global manufacturing, energy, and start-ups. He has turned cash flow from negative two million to positive three within six months, halved a month-end close from ten days to five, and managed $100M in turnover across operations in four countries. At IECONI he oversees financial operations and the surety and credit relationships that underwrite the firm's bonding capacity.
David Munoz
Came up running electrical and instrumentation on offshore gas-compression platforms, where a missed cable run means a helicopter trip eighty miles out to fix it. He has brought that standard to IECONI's electrical and controls work: switchgear, motor control centers, VFDs, PLCs, and SCADA, installed to energize on schedule and pass inspection on the first try. A Texas master electrician, he runs the division and the commissioning that proves the system actually works.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Water and wastewater infrastructure, self-performed across civil, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation. We're at our best on technically demanding projects where the engineering genuinely matters and the cost of getting it wrong is high.
Because most contractors aren't engineers, and it shows up in the field. We are. Keeping design and construction in the same hands is how design intent survives the realities of a job site instead of getting lost between parties.
We say so early, with the math. Following a flawed spec to the letter isn't a service to anyone. We'd rather surface a hard question before construction than manage its consequences after, when fixes are expensive and public.
Most of it, yes. Real systems come with real constraints — limited envelopes, legacy assumptions, equipment that has to stay live. That's usually where the engineering is, and where our self-performing team earns its keep.
A conversation, ideally before the design is locked. The earlier we're involved, the more value there is to engineer back in.
A hard question now is cheaper than a change order later.
Every water project carries assumptions that look fine on paper and cost real money in operation. We'd rather spend an hour pressure-testing those with you than watch them surface after the concrete is poured. The conversation is free. The regret isn't.