by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | Construction Chemicals And Materials
Pune Metro’s Mangalwar Peth station will wear a unique ‘Mavala Pagadi’ look once it is completed, thanks to advanced structural designs generated using Tekla Structures, the world’s leading Constructible BIM Software. Tekla Structures is the flagship construction software of the Global construction technology leader Trimble.
Mangalwar Peth is one of the seven elevated stations on the Pune Metro’s Vanaaj to Ramvadi line. All stations on this line will feature unique and iconic looks designed to pay homage to the city’s cultural heritage. The Mangalwar Peth Metro station was designed to draw inspiration from the appearance of a ‘Mavala Pagadi’ – a type of turban, which symbolizes honour and is a significant part of the Maharashtrian culture.
Pune-based Telge Projects Pvt. Ltd. was awarded the project for designing and engineering the metro station’s steel structure during the COVID-19 induced lockdown. Working on a tight deadline, the company took advantage of Tekla’s cloud-based collaboration tools. It delivered the project in just 20 working days and with only two engineers working on it. “With the central government mandating BIM for all important projects constructed in the country, and considering the complexities of the structure, we could trust only Tekla for super accurate and constructible models,” says Mr. Vrajesh Lad, Team Leader at Telge Projects.
The design and engineering team faced a daunting task in accurately imitating the Mavala Pagadi design. When the Telge Projects Team joined this project, it was under construction, and other teams had started working already, which meant that the Telge Team had to match and adjust their timelines with other stakeholders. Working in tandem with other teams that already had a head-start on the project added a challenge of a whole other level to the project.
The unique challenge faced by Telge Projects was the execution of this assignment amidst an unprecedented, global pandemic lockdown. This was the first hands-on experience for the Telge Team to
work in the new normal. Telge Projects had to remotely deliver this project with no prior preparedness with the limited resources available and within a very strict timeline. “It is only because of Tekla Model Sharing that we could continue working as efficiently as we had been working from our office,” adds Mr. Lad.
“Executing such an ambitious project successfully within such tight timelines and in the middle of a global pandemic and shutdown clearly demanded the best in design and engineering prowess,” says Paul Wallett, Regional Director, Trimble Solutions, India and the Middle East. “We are content that Tekla Structures has proved its mettle yet again as a reliable BIM solution that can deliver any designing marvel in the hands of a capable team. Kudos to Telge Projects for a marvellous job done.”
Telge Projects Pvt. Ltd. is an ISO (TUV-SUD) 9001-2015 certified structural engineering services and solutions company.
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by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | International News
AECOM has been awarded a contract to provide the civil engineering design for Sydney’s A$2.6bn ($1.9bn) Gateway Road Project in Australia.
The project will include the construction of a new 5 km, above-ground, toll-free connection from the St Peters interchange, to Sydney airport, Port Botany and beyond.
Upon completion, the project will provide a high capacity connection from the Sydney Airport and Port Botany to the new WestConnex St Peters Interchange.
Under the contract, AECOM will be responsible for the concept, environmental approvals and detailed design of Elizabeth Drive West.
The construction of the new road will complete the missing link in the Sydney motorway network and improve traffic flow around the airport and towards NSW’s busiest container port.
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | News
The expansion of JSW Steel’s Dolvi Works plant from five million tpa to 10 million tpa is expected to be completed by the end of FY21. Located on the west coast of India at Dolvi in Maharashtra, Dolvi Works is JSW Steel’s integrated steel plant.
The company is in process to double its capacity with an investment of about Rs. 15,000 crore. The company received permission to restart activities towards the end of April 2020.
The expansion includes installing 4.5 million tpa blast furnace with supporting five million tpa Steel Melt Shop (SMS) and five million tpa Hot Strip Mill (HSM).
The plant will also have an eight million tpa pellet plant and four kilns of 600 tpd Lime Calcination Plants (LCPs), besides a captive power plant.
About 95 per cent work related to the expansion is completed. With the expansion of the Dolvi Works, JSW Steel’s total steelmaking capacity will reach to 23.1 million tpa from 18.1 million tpa at present.
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | News
KEC International, a global infrastructure EPC company and an RPG Group Company, has secured new orders worth Rs. 1,438 crore across its various businesses.
The company’s railways business has secured orders worth Rs. 475 crore in the urban infra/emerging segments.
It has secured order from Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) for construction of depot-cum-workshop for the Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor from the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC); contract for ballastless track (BLT) and associated works from Kochi Metro Rail (KMRL).
The civil business of the company has bagged orders of Rs. 383 crore for infra works from private players in the chemical, cement and residential segments and a government order in the water pipeline segment in India.
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | News
Welspun Flooring, a part of line pipes and home textiles major Welspun Group, is investing Rs. 200 crore to enhance its production capacity.
The company is currently at three million sq. m capacity on the hard flooring. It will be ramping up this capacity to 12 million sq. m.
The additional investment will be about Rs. 200 crore for hard flooring and also for soft flooring for which it is adding its capability.
It is looking at around Rs. 250 crore revenue by the end of 2020. This will be 2.5 times of 2019. In FY21 it is looking at over Rs. 500-600 crore revenue.
