A Project Manager (PM) has the overall duty for the effective planning, execution, monitoring, control & closure of a project. They must have a blend of skills counting an ability to ask sharp questions, spot unstated assumptions & resolve clashes, along with more general management expertise.

The Role

A Project Manager is a fundamental figure of any Service Team. They will be mainly answerable for the complete success of carrying out a project, attaining set marks both correctly & safely.

They must be able to perform well within the time-span, hold onto strict budgets & make an optimistic client environment such that clients turn out to be/stay in a good relationship throughout the contract.

They will bring about a set of service deliveries, which must be accomplished on time to guarantee all tasks in the program are finished on time. To overcome specific task, project managers must indicate initiative & be capable enough to find methods that best adapt a state to offer a positive overall critical path analysis.

A PM will be likely to back the growth of the leadership, both on-site and back in the workplaces. They will need to systematise the best team possible to complete the project, although training & teaching the employees on the way to the company’s core values. Praise of quality & excellence in work will lead to a great reputation among clients.

Responsibilities

• Plan the on hand delivery of the project.
• Organize the day-to-day utilisation, working, implementation & technical consultants involved on client assignments. Starting from making sure the correct material turns up in advance of the job, to explaining the work activities and ethics to associates.
• Plan and organize visits to current & new potential clients, confirming that every client gets enough provision to improve their relationships.
• Report progress on projects by appropriate media to sector management, preserve and update project reporting, checkpoints & financial reporting to a high standard.
• Co-ordinate required support levels and training.
• Develop contacts with senior staff, directors, and other important staff within each account during the implementation phase.
• Generate reports on each project at fixed intervals, and whenever substantive actions are required.

The first thing required for the development of structural framework of the building by design and construction professionals, are structural drawings. For the actual development of structural framework of the building, engineering solutions such as structural steel detailing structural drafting services, precast detailing, rebar detailing, and structural design services such as structural modeling and analysis are enormously essential. When it comes to the development of highly strong structure, structural detailing & drafting are the prime necessities.

During preconstruction, many different types of Structural Drawings are created by construction & design professionals which comprise structural shop/fabrication drawings, chimney drawings, structural connection drawings & erection drawings etc. Throughout the structural drafting process, all these drawings are generated by trained drafters with the close collaboration of structural engineers who keep on directing them. Other technical and highly important drawings which are also made during structural drafting contain roof, truss & joint drawings & foundation plan drawings etc. When it comes to the design & construction of structural framework, the role of structural drafters and detailers cannot be overlooked by engineers, architects, fabricators and contractors etc. They are solely answerable for the detailed development of fabrication drawings, erection drawings detailed technical plans and reports etc., when it comes to the importance of structural detailers.

All types of structural drawings, whether developed by detailers or drafters, must be revised, observed and approved by structural engineers before they are finally optimized by design and construction professionals for the actual development of structural framework.

Fabrication drawings and erection drawings must be made with extreme accuracy among all the above mentioned structural drawings, since they are optimized by design and construction professionals for extremely severe purposes which consist of manufacturing of structural parts & their eventual installation. Quality of those drawings can never ever be negotiated which are utilized by fabricators for manufacturing steel components as it can disturb the entire project very harmfully. Hence drawings formed for the optimization of manufacturers and steel erectors must be studied with high attention by structural services engineers so that no difficulties are confronted by them.

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What are Fabrication Drawings?

As compared to Manufacturing Drawings, fabrication drawings are generally used for 1 off’s or per job/project bases.

They are manly used in:

1. Sheet Metal
2. Structural Steel
3. Ballustrading/Handrails
4. Stairs
5. Architectural Steelwork

Manufacturing Drawings are split into 2 types:

1. Part Drawing

These drawings point the part itself that require fabrication for use e.g. by the welder. They also indicate the material and surface finish.

The drawings should comprise the following material. (On the other hand, they should not display further information than is required.) :

• Linear Dimensions including Tolerances
• Material Specification
• Flat patterns including bend lines
• Weld Location & Type
• Weight
• Angular Dimensions including Tolerance

2. Assembly Drawing

As per the complexity, Assembly drawing are often classified into a Top Level Assembly & Sub-Assemblies. This is to give more precision for the full product. Assembly drawings should comprise:

• All parts to be fabricated
• All Sub-Assemblies used within the assembly
• Fixings such as Nuts, Bolts, Washers etc.
• All bought in parts comprising their specific part numbers, supplier or manufacturer
• Cut Lists stating angles & length
• Bill of materials (BOM) showing a full list of all parts
• The drawings should be shown in a way to obviously show how the Fabrication fits together. This should/could contain several views (Top, Plan, Side, Isometric etc.) & Exploded Views
• Additional information that might be essential such as Weight, assembly instructions should also be included if needed.

It is significant that good quality drawings show all the information that is required, but no more than needed. An example is to many dimensions or to many views.

 

What Fabrication Drawings do we offer?

Struccore offers complete set of Fabrication Drawings for wide range of industries. We believe that in order to produce good quality fabrication that will aid an excellent installation on site a certain amount of coordination is required between all parties involved.

We are used to synchronizing with architects, structural engineers and steel manufacturers to create General Assembly Drawings & the subsequent detailed drawings showing connections, holes etc.

Our service prides itself in working closely with all parties involved to ensure any queries get raised and answered prior to fabrication commences.

What information is needed to create Fabrication Drawings?

It depends on the industry involved.

For Structural Steel Fabrication Drawings (including, Ballustrading, Stairs, Architectural Steelwork etc.) we generally work from the Structural Engineers Line Drawings in combination with the Architectural Drawings. We would normally visit site to check any potential clashes.

 

How much do Fabrication Drawings cost?

All are Fabrication Drawings are usually quoted on a fixed price basis as we are normally able to quantify the work easily. All we need is the Structural Engineering Drawings or Architectural Drawings in order to provide a fixed price.

1. The Burj Khalifa stances at 828 meters (2,716.5 feet) tall, rising over Dubai. It’s nearly twice as high as the Empire State Building and three times as high as the Eiffel Tower. Laid end to end, it sections stretch over a quarter of the way round the world.
2. Apart from being the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa has six other World Records:

• Highest number of stories in the world,
• Tallest freestanding structure in the world,
• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world,
• Highest occupied floor in the world,
• Tallest service elevator in the world, and
• Elevator with longest travel distance in the world.

3. The total load of aluminum used on Burj Khalifa is comparable to that of five A380 aircraft. The mass of the concrete is the same to 100,000 elephants.
4. Each year 15 million gallons of water are collected sustainably.
5. It has the lengthiest single running elevator, with 140 levels. The elevators are among the fastest in the world and go 10 meters per second.
6. The peak of the sphere of the Burj Khalifa can be seen up to 95 kms far.
7. 12,000 workers were employed on the building per day, at the peak of construction.
8. It took more than 22 million man-hours, 110,000 tons of concrete, and 55,000 tons of steel rebar to complete the giant building.
9. Excavation began in January 2004. The Burj Khalifa finally opened in January 2010, six years later.
10. Burj Khalifa is intended to bear a resemblance to the Hymenocallis flower; the central core appears at the top and concludes in a sculpted spire.

On 31st March 2016, The Vivekananda Road Flyover shrunken at 12.25 pm, killing minimum 24 and wounding 80 in north Kolkata’s Girish Park area.  Eye-witnesses fear at least hundreds are still stuck. The flyover is situated in a heavily occupied wholesale marketplace, Barrabazaar, with a full traffic passing all day under it.

Since 2009, the flyover has been under construction and has wasted 9 closing dates until now.

 

 

 

 

Cause of failure: The great structure is a compound design. RCC deck is stayed over steel girder. Such planning is very costly but most harmless structure. The previous day there was concreting. At times a portion of deck mainly cantilever portion falls due to failure of provisional backing such as brackets etc. But such downfall occurs when concreting work is in advancement because wet concrete weigh up more than set-concrete. (Wet concrete is 3000 Kg per Cum whereas set concrete is 2400 kg/cum). From photographs it’s clear that the pier cap botched thus bringing down two spans maintained over it. Failure of pier has numerous causes.

Design aspect: It was well-known from the start that in line for traffic load and space constraint, the fly over had to be built not limiting the traffic movement. Therefore design has taken care of this part giving all steel structure. Although very expensive, steel structure is the safest structure. Standard design is checked with STAAD.PRO and therefore it can be determined that there was no defective design. Additional all other spans were alright proving that this pier/pier cap had some problems.

Execution aspect: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of such execution always necessities to confirm approved material sourcing, fabrication by expert workforce, pre-inspection and post inspection after assembling, detailed scrutiny of the whole thing in the list before any more load is applied. IVRCL is a reputed organization and the concerned government department too is likely to be non-compromising on quality matters mainly when it is being implemented while traffic is permitted to move beneath it.

I consider that there must be some fault of omission, which might have occurred. After doing positively most of spans sometimes mid-level & junior level engineers becomes bit satisfied. Thus inspection might be done calmly neglecting serious flaws either in joints of pier cap/pier or by mistake some surplus eccentric loading being done due to piling up construction materials. These are called human errors.

Who should be held accountable: While executing such workings, as a senior person I use to check the lot personally in spite of declaration from mid-level engineers that they have tested thoroughly. There is nothing wrong if expert and senior people check it once again as even a slight overlook may cause a serious disaster like this. Thus I think the project manager in Kolkata flyover incident was maybe over reliant on on his/her mid-level engineers missing his responsibility.

The supervising agency (in this case the concerned government department) has the duty to cross check the whole thing despite the agency is contract bound for structure and public safety. The concern engineers of supervising department must be held liable.

Third department to be held responsible is traffic police department. When such work is being fulfilled traffic division has mandatory responsibility of public safety. They may not be engineers but they could take essential safety necessities as commonsense.

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1. World One

Location– Upper Worli, Mumbai
Height– 1,450 feet (442 metres)
Type– Residential Apartment
Accomplishment– In 2016
Floor Count– 117
Structural engineer- Leslie E. Robertson Associates
Architect- Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Developer- Lodha group
Cost- INR20 billion (US$310 million)

 

 

2) Oasis Tower
Location– Worli, Mumbai
Completion– In 2016
Height– 1,220 feet  (372 metres)
Floor Count– 85 & 53
Type– Residential, Commercial
Architect- Kohn Pedersen Fox
Developer- Oasis Realty
Structural engineer– Leslie E. Robertson Associates

 

3) Palais Royale
Location– Lower Parel, Mumbai
Completion– In 2015
Height– 1,050 feet (320 metres)
Floor Count– 75 + 2 Underground floors
Type– Residential
Architect- Talati and Panthaky
Developer- Shree Ram Urban Infrastructure Ltd.
Structural engineer- Joseph Colaco
Cost- INR920 crore (US$140 million)

4) Namaste Tower
Location– Lower Parel, Mumbai
Completion– In 2015
Height– 1,037 feet (316 metres)
Floor Count– 63
Type-  Residential, Commercial
Architect- WS Atkins Plc
Developer- Jaguar Buildcon
Structural engineer- WS Atkins Plc

5) Lokhandwala Minerva
Location– Mahalaxmi, Mumbai
Completion– In 2015
Height– 1,037 feet (304 metres)
Floor Count– 82 X 2
Type– Residential
Architect- Hafeez Contractor
Developer- Lokhandwala Developers
Structural engineer- J+W Consultants

*India Tower
India Tower was once under construction(in 2010) but is now on-hold(from 2011)
Location– Charni Road, Mumbai
Height– 2,300 feet (718 metres)
Floor Count– 126
Type– Hotel, Residential, Retail
Architect- Foster and Partners
Developer- Dynamix Balwas (DB) Realtors

When completed, it will be 2nd tallest man made structure in the world.

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1) FOOTBALL STADIUM NEAR KANKARIA

An impulse of a button transforms outdoor stadium to an indoor showground — flat in six minutes. As football fans walk out of the venue after watching a game, school children steadily stream in for their annual function.

Amdavadis are all set to get one of its kind of a multi-purpose stadium with a capacity of 30,000 neighboring Kankaria Lake in Maninagar. With a project worth ₹ 250-crore, the stadium is being advanced by Trans-Stadia, technology partners of UK-based StadiArena, on the lines of Wembley Stadium.

Perceived by stadiologist Paul Fletcher, a specialized footballer who has turned Europe’s leading stadium specialist, the project will be uncovered all through the Swarnim Gujarat festivities to mark Gujarat’s 50th anniversary. It will be put up with Fletcher’s universally patented technology that adapts an outdoor stadium into an indoor field within minutes.

The project will occupy around 10 acres of land just on the outer edge of Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Maninagar Assembly constituency and will be an added masterpiece for him, together with the renovated Kankaria lake complex which he revealed last year after expenditure of ₹ 30 crore.

CEO of TransStadi, Udit Sheth said, “While India has other indoor stadia, including large ones in Bangalore and New Delhi, the Ahmedabad project would be the first StadiArena — a stadium that adapts into an indoor showground”. The project would be completed in 18 months after construction is started.

The stadium’s main use will be for hockey and football, but it will also stock an auditorium, exhibition area, conference rooms, table tennis courts and restaurants.

Company officials state the stadium will be designed to sport around 10 sports.

TransStadia with the state government, has signed a memorandum of understanding. “The final plot allotment will end shortly,” said a senior official in the chief minister’s office.

2) Revamped Sardar Patel Stadium to be World’s Biggest: Gujarat Cricket Association

 

3) VS Hospital will soon have three towers

In terms of seating capacity the Sardar Patel Cricket Stadium would be the biggest cricket stadium in the world, after the make-over & reconstruction, Gujarat Cricket Association on Friday.

“In line with the dream of Amit Shah, GCA President and Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Sardar Patel cricket stadium will be converted into Melbourne-like cricket ground, which will be the largest cricket stadium in the world,” said a joint statement by joint secretary Jay Shah and GCA vice president Parimal Nathwani.

The renovated stadium will have a seating capacity of 1,00,000. The pulling down of the present stadium, situated in Motera, on track before few days and will be completed in four months.

Building of the new stadium will take approximately two years, GCA said. The design, estimates and construction plans of the fresh stadium were totally approved by executive committee of GCA, said the release.

GCA said, Presently the stadium has a capacity of 54,000, with its six pavilions which was not enough in view of the rush of cricket fans during the matches.

The stadium has beheld many exciting moments in the cricket’s history. In this stadium, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar turn out to be the first batsman to touch 10,000-run mark. Likewise, breaking Sir Richard Hadlee’s record, Kapil Dev attained his 432^nd test wicket in this stadium to be the highest wicket taker in the world.

Sachin Tendulkar recorded his first double century in Test cricket on this ground.

Medical Education Trust, the governing body of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation today permitted Rs 99.92 crore work of rebuilding of city’s Vadilal Sarabhai (VS) hospital. The construction order has been given to M/S Patel Infrastructure Private Limited via the bidding process.

The VS hospital was incorporated in 1931. A medical college was added to its 23 acre campus in 1953. Currently the hospital has 1155 + 88 bed facility.

The recreated version of hospital with 1.20 lakh square meter built-up area will contain 1450 beds.

The reconstruction project will be done within period of three years.

The entire project is worth Rs 331 crore.

The new multi-storied hospital will be erected through Chief Minister’s Swarnim Shaheri Vikas Yojna grant money.

• It will have three towers
• It will be built through green sustainable building norms
• Helipad for emergency on terrace
• 19 floors including two basements, ground floor and 16 floors on the land
• Height of about 70 meter
• OPDs,  emergency, radiology, trauma, low & high diagnostic sample collection, 36 operation theaters, blood bank, orthopedic, neurology, cardiac cathlab, pediatric, intensive, neonatal etc treatment facilities
• 222 super specialty bed
• 900 general bed
• 200 paid bed
• 128 ICU bed
• Emergency fire ramps
• Separate service block
• JCI prescribed planning for infection control
• Solar panels, geothermal cooling through earth air tunnel, eco soil escape
• State of the art steel structural construction technology
• Integrated building automation system
• LED lights in common area and all LED automated street lights
• Green roof technology
• Rain water harvesting
• 28 lift elevators in three towers, 2 stairs in basement, 6 fire stairs, 2 central stairs, 4 separate stairs
• Landscaping and facility to park 2200 cars
• Solar power panels/solar hot water system

4) Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad

Metro Link Express for Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, shortened MEGA, or Ahmedabad Metro is an under construction mass-transit rail system for the cities of  Gandhinagar  and  Ahmedabad  in Gujarat. The Phase–1 of project was permitted in October 2014 and is likely to finish by December 2018. The construction of building started on 14 March 2015

 

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