Foray into a long-winding concrete future?

In what could probably a first of its kind initiative in the city, Aparna Enterprises, this week, did the largest concrete pour of 8,500 cubic metres or a project of Dakshin Infrastructure in the Financial District at Gachibowli.

It was a massive seamless concreting work for the raft foundation that was completed in six days and according to the company, is the record performance among all the Ready Mix Concrete companies in the city.

For the structure that is going to stand 22 floors tall and accommodate a hotel and IT space, Aparna used about 3,600 metric tonnes of cement for the concreting work and a large fleet of transit mixers maintained the continuous supply of concrete totalling more than 20,000 metric tonnes in weight to the construction site.

“It was a massive concreting job and demanded lot of planning and logistics. And the best part is we could do it in these days of cement shortages,” says T. Chandra Sekhar, Director - Materials & QA, Aparna Constructions. More than 150 personnel and a fleet of 40 vehicles were involved in the task.

Five pumps were deployed at different locations and were not stopped, except for maintenance, during the entire six days of operation.

The concreting work project for Ch. Marthanda Rao & Company was put at Rs.3.50 crore. By the conventional manual way, the work would have taken any where up to 45 days, the company officials say.

It was a challenge and to make it happen, lot of coordination and planning went into the task, says Mr. Chandra Sekhar.

Aparna Enterprises Limited is a building products company manufacturing PVC window and door systems, Ready Mix concrete, concrete blocks, bricks and pavers.