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Most scientists tend to build on the already established axioms and base their work on the foundations laid by those from the generations past. Dr. Keshab Panda however, is not like most scientists; he likes to do things his way and build anew. A case in point is the company which he heads – L&T Technology Services, the Engineering Research and Development (ER&D) services firm which he not only helped build from the ground up but also guided to the top of the mound to make it the number one engineering services company in India, all within a space of less than seven years.

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The Prologue

The story of L&T Technology Services began in late 2009 when Dr. Panda was hired by L&T Group Executive Chairman, Mr. A.M. Naik and given the mandate to create an entity which would make a play for L&T in the then nascent ER&D services space. Dr. Panda who had spent a large chunk of his professional life as a scientist at ISRO and later at DRDO was ideally suited for the role. He possessed just the right blend of research orientation and business smarts needed for the job.

L&T’s engineering services business back then was no more than a tiny blip on the radar that was its vast engineering profile. Run out of disparate units spread across locations including Mumbai, Vadodara, Mysore and Chennai, it did roughly $30 million a year. There was little to no structure in place, no integration or operational synergy between sites. And so Dr. Panda’s first order of business after assuming

charge was to put in place a brand new organizational structure under which all the units of the erstwhile business merged together to form a singular entity called L&T Integrated Engineering Services (IES).

The move wasn’t simply a cobbling together of different units but there were carefully laid-out structural changes in terms of leadership and clearly defined roles based on verticals and practices. Part of the shakeup also included the formation of a brand new sales organisation. This reinvigorated the sales efforts which resulted in IES closing the financial year with $77.6 million (Rs. 365 crore) in revenues in 2010.

The business grew steadily over the next two years when in 2012 L&T IES underwent yet another strategic restructuring. The engineering services component belonging to L&T Infotech under which it serviced clients from the Telecom and Hi-tech segments was moved to IES. The company gained

an additional 2000 engineers in the bargain. It was also around this time that IES began to emerge as something more than just a fledgling engineering services outsourcing (ESO) shop and assume a stronger identity both within and outside the L&T group.

The SBU owed this recognition, not only to the impressive numbers it kept pulling in year-on-year (the company has been growing at 19 per cent for the last four years) but also because it appeared to be solving a key piece of the puzzle for L&T on the whole. Up until the arrival of L&T Technology Services (L&T IES assumed the name L&T Technology Services in early 2014) on the scene, the L&T Group didn’t have a clearly articulated strategy for exploring the emerging ER&D opportunity. While L&T could claim to house the resources and expertise for all types of engineering solutions across major industry sectors, the expertise it needed to do well in the services space were limited before L&T Technology Services.

According to Dr. Panda, L&T Technology Services operates in a highly dynamic business environment where there’s little surety as to what it might be doing on a given day. “We might do product engineering one day and do drawing changes for something else the next. We could work on hardware for a customer today and do the prototyping of a product for another client tomorrow. Such is the nature of our business. We do bit parts and we have to be ready to take on a variety of jobs from anywhere in the engineering lifecycle. This is very different from the model followed by our sister business units in Construction, Heavy Engineering, Hydrocarbon or Electrical & Automation. I think this flexibility to address very niche areas rounds off L&T’s overall engineering value proposition very nicely,” he says.

In the recent years, the engineering services landscape has undergone tremendous shift opening up opportunities in a range of new areas and variety of services. Estimates suggest

that the addressable market for global Engineering Services Outsourcing is expected to grow to $215 - $300 billion by 2020 with players from across the globe vying for a piece of the pie. Much like the IT/ITeS boom witnessed in the early 2000s, the market stands on the cusp of a major boom. This growth, experts say, will be driven primarily by an increasing demand in the area of embedded systems and software, across all major business verticals.

L&T Technology Services looks well poised to capitalise on the opportunity. It is already the leading pure play engineering services firm in India as per a recent study by market research firm Zinnov. The study rated L&T Technology Services in the leadership zone across eight verticals and two horizontals explaining its dominant position.

Limitless ExpertiseIn the six years that L&T Technology

Services has been operating, it has

developed an impressive array of expertise which it now uses to cater to a diverse range of industry sectors and serve clients across the entire engineering value chain. In terms of its industry focus, the company has identified five key categories, viz., Industrial Products, Medical Devices, Transportation, Telecom & Hi-Tech, and Process Industry.

In the Industrial Products category the company partners with OEM customers across building, home and office products, energy and machinery and offers end-to-end product development counsel leveraging its expertise spanning software, electronics, connectivity, mechanical engineering, industrial networking protocols, user interface/user experience, test frameworks and enterprise control solutions. Within this category it also covers the retail space with development and service support for products such as POS systems, Kiosk systems, Projectors and Cash Registers.


L&T Technology Services campus at Vadodara, Gujarat. Faster, smoother, safer - engineering makes it possible.

Nasscom Recognition

L&T Technology Services received Nasscom’s recognition for ‘Innovative Application of Analytics for Business

Solution’ in 2015. Dr. Panda believes that L&T’s cutting edge solutions should help bolster the wider ecosystem and therefore L&T Technology Services tied up with NASSCOM to become its strategic partner

for the IoT Center of Excellence aimed at supporting and nurturing innovative start-ups in the country.

Best Green Office Space of the Year The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce also honoured L&T Technology Services’ continued efforts in reducing its carbon footprint at its various locations by awarding the company with the ‘Best Green Office Space of the Year.’

Company of the Year AwardOrganizations do not become great overnight, it takes years of effort and perseverance by every single member to create something extraordinary, says Dr Panda. The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce bestowed L&T Technology Services with the Company of the Year Award, the highest award given by the Chamber, for its excellence in innovation, engineering and robust business fundamentals, making the company a model for others to follow.

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Medical Devices Engineering is a dedicated practice where the company provides end-to-end product development solutions across a variety of Class I, II and III devices, with concept design, embedded systems, hardware and software, mechanical engineering services, application software, value analysis and value engineering, manufacturing engineering and regulatory compliance services.

Under its Transportation practice, the firm works closely with OEMs and Tier I suppliers serving aerospace, automotive, rail, commercial vehicles, off-highway and polymer segments. Here it delivers end-to-end services from concept to detailed design through manufacturing and sourcing support. Its proven product engineering experience, focus on innovation, and highly evolved partner ecosystem enable it to deliver superior transportation solutions that help customers reach the market before anyone else.

The company’s Telecom & Hi-Tech practice delivers end-to-end embedded software design and development, hardware platform design and development, product maintenance, enhancement & sustenance, testing & validation, systems integration and implementation services. L&T Technology Services is a dominant player in the mobile devices ecosystem offering embedded software development solutions to handset OEMs, ODMs, semiconductor vendors, ISVs, mobile entertainment & media companies and operators.

Then there is the Process Industry practice where the company offers a broad service spectrum, across project lifecycle; from engineering to procurement management to construction management and commissioning support. Covering verticals including Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Chemicals, Energy and Utilities, and Discrete Manufacturing and Infrastructure, the practice brings together state-of-the-art technologies, proven methodologies and best practices

from multiple projects to enhance processes and operations across the supply chain.

The above mentioned capabilities are aided further by the company’s focus on a range of services aligned horizontally mainly in the areas of Mechanical Engineering Services where it partners with OEM, ODMs, and Tier 1 & Tier 2 suppliers to offer solutions across the value chain from ‘create’ to ‘validate’ to ‘build and support’, making it a unique one-stop solutions provider for Mechanical Engineering Services.

It also develops embedded products and the applications by partnering with semiconductor, OEMs, ODMs, embedded and software platform providers to deliver end-to-end solutions encompassing software applications, embedded applications, embedded hardware designs and chip design services.

The company has amassed considerable expertise in the area of Product Lifecycle Management and helps industrial product companies, transportation providers, telecom players, consumer electronics giants and medical device manufacturers rethink and re-engineer their product development and management

processes, methodologies and tools. Besides, it also provides value-added services such as Sales Support, Engineering Support, Sourcing Support and Technical Publications as part of its Engineering Process Services.

L&T Technology Services also has a burgeoning solutions portfolio driven by ‘future’ as the defining theme. With offerings in the areas of Data Analytics and Power Electronics, Image Processing, and applications built around the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) & Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, the company has quietly built a handy solutions profile using which it is looking to wring out maximum leverage out of its customer relationships.

Digital PushThough it is an area that’s still

evolving, digital is where L&T Technology Services plans to make its next big push. Ever the futurist, Dr. Panda believes that customers around the world are slowly beginning to have conversations about how they will need the physical and the digital realms to coalesce so as to re-shape the customer experiences. “We are moving towards


PATENT WALL: L&T Technology Services has filed 34 proprietary patents, and 134 patents filed jointly with customers.

with other business functions to create conducive policies and systems which aid innovation. The team has also implemented an innovation portal which acts both as a springboard as well as a repository for hosting interesting ideas which employees come up with.

It also organises ‘Tech Panorama’ an annual event aimed at encouraging the company’s large employee base to ideate and innovate on a variety of topics relevant to the business. Currently in its fifth year, the initiative invites thoughts from employees on technical and strategic creations. Last year the event saw participation from more than 7500 employees (that’s more than two thirds of L&T TS’ total employee strength) as they submitted a whopping 2215+ technical abstracts as part of the competition. The ideas ranged from initiatives in the fields of image processing, driver assistance, avionics, GPS and IoT based connectivity to microcontroller based sensitivity measurement solutions for medical equipment and countless more.

Besides employee based innovation initiatives, the company has in place what it calls ‘innovation labs’ where cutting edge ideas are explored and put into practice. These facilities are also used to demonstrate the latest and best in technology on offer. The company launched the Internet of Everything lab in partnership with Cisco in Bangalore last year. The lab demonstrates a range of IoT solutions across industries. It opened a hi-tech robotics lab in Mysore back in June, marking its entry into next-gen robotic solutions. The company is a leader in medical devices and houses cutting edge medical labs showcasing extended depth of field technology in Bangalore. Most recently, L&T Technology Services opened a digital engineering center to cater to the automotive industry in Dublin, Ohio.

There’s plenty more that L&T Technology Services does to ensure that the innovation engine doesn’t lose steam and a lot of it has to do with Dr. Panda. Even before he began putting in motion

the events which eventually led to the creation of L&T Technology Services, he knew that continuous innovation and increased collaboration held the key to its future. He inherited a business which had pockets of excellence, where innovation wasn’t truly collaborative and made a conscious effort to change that. The company today has over 260 patents to its credit and employees are constantly encouraged to think outside the proverbial box.

“We’ve got 9,000 plus engineers, the best and the brightest of them all. And even if we could have one idea from each of our talented employees, we’re talking a knowledge IP that could be worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars,” he asserts.

Work & MoreOne of the reasons, the company

and Dr. Panda in particular stress on innovation is because it keeps employees engaged and passionate about the work – two elements central to the success of any enterprise. Employees tend to do well when they’re challenged, when they feel that their work is part of something bigger than

their individual contributions and at L&T Technology Services employees are never short on such opportunities. The company also makes a conscious effort to offer its employees an environment in which they can not only explore and innovate but also grow to reach their true potential.

To this end, it has made significant investments in Learning & Development programmes for employees. Its training programmes under the Performance Oriented Development Plan (PODP) include: Induction Programmes for the newest member of the family – Graduate & Management Trainees; Technical – Technology, Tools, Product & Process Training; Management/Behavioral – Functional and Leadership Training.

Then there are initiatives like as TECHLEAP which offer employees with a technical bent of mind to pursue technology as career. Piloted recently, the programme is aimed at employees with non-technical job profiles and identifies those with the passion, drive and the capability to switch over to the technical side. After testing the waters successfully recently, a plan is currently in works to roll out the same throughout the organisation.

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Fun@work at L&T TS’ office in Peoria, USA.

an era in which increased connectivity between machines will dictate the very nature of how businesses behave in the future and we have to be ready to engineer that,” he says.

As per a McKinsey report, currently most of the IoT data is not used to optimize and predict outcomes and is used instead merely to detect and control anomalies. Reversing this trend could unlock tremendous value for businesses. The company believes that for IoT to truly deliver on its promise innovators, vendors, and customers will need to join hands and is therefore extending its digital offerings through partnerships and alliances with global technology giants such as Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm and Sierra Wireless to create new M2M and IoT solutions. These technology partnerships and alliances are also indicative of its willingness to create an ecosystem of partners which will allow it to help achieve its goals.

L&T Technology Services plans to strengthen its digital engineering offerings through investments in IoT and smart manufacturing technologies and through acquisitions in product software, embedded software and computing. The company is currently working with customers across verticals on a number of interesting IoT projects and there have already been several notable use cases of IoT for smart homes, healthcare, smart appliances, security and connected enterprises. Some of these include: • The development of a unique Wi-Fi

thermostat for a US-based customer, using the company’s proprietary UbiqWeise™ platform which allows users to monitor all aspects of indoor air from their mobile phones.

• A suite of smart city solutions including iBEMS ™, a smart building framework that helps lower energy bills and cost of maintenance while extending asset life.

• An innovative energy storage project that utilizes Company’s smart inverter solutions.

• Implementation of a zigbee enabled personal protection system to enhance worker safety.

• Implementation of a number of Smart Warehouse projects where manufacturers can track the conditions (temperature, pressure, and humidity) in which finished goods are stored and where complete inventory and analysis information is available 24/7 for their use.

• L&T Technology Services has developed Stackable Inverter Solution in which low power inverter boards are stacked together for a high power inverter. The design is highly modular and platform independent. An engineer to order solution framework to reduce time to market and to address the energy domain.To augment the existing capabilities

of the enterprise in the industrial IoT (sometimes referred to as Industry 4.0) L&T Technology Services recently set up a `Smart Manufacturing Lab’ in Vadodara. The facility displays a wide range of technologies in the areas of Smart Control & Automation, IoT enabled Mobility solutions and technologies supporting Smart Operation & Maintenance of Plants.

Besides, it is also designed to support incubation of new technology ideas in Smart World environment converting them into suitable application areas.

High on InnovationOne of the hazards of being in a

technology-driven space is that only the most innovative survive – businesses that can keep pace with the market, or better yet, stay ahead of it. There is no room for those who rest easy, and are unwilling learn and adapt.

Constant learning and the ability to innovate is central to L&T Technology Services and the company takes its innovation efforts very seriously. So serious in fact that it has put in place an office for innovation with its own dedicated team and a leader to manage the efforts across the company. Called the Technical Solutions & Innovation Centre, the office is headed by Mr. Manivannan GB who in the last couple of years has cultivated a most encouraging climate for innovation throughout the company.

As part of their efforts, Manivannan & Co. conduct regular innovation workshops, encourage engineers to come up with exciting ideas, and work

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Dr. Keshab Panda

P. Ramakrishnan

Bhupendra Bhate

Amit Chadha

Paneesh Rao

Kumar Prabhas

Samir Bagga

The leadership team at L&T Technology Services comprises experienced industry veterans with proven expertise in their respective area. Dr. Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director; Amit Chadha, Chief Sales Officer & Executive Director; Kumar Prabhas, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director; P. Ramakrishnan, Chief Financial Officer; Paneesh Rao, Chief Human Resources Officer, Samir Bagga, Chief Marketing Officer and Bhupendra Bhate, Chief Delivery Officer, Industrial Products, Medical, Process & Horizontals, together make a power packed management team combining decades of expertise with agility, commitment and innovation.


In the short time that Technology Services has existed, women have played a significant role in the company’s success and whether as young engineers or senior business leaders, they continue to contribute immensely to Technology Service’s growth story. With the count of women employees continuing to grow in its ranks, the company has embarked on a mission to creating a more inclusive workplace where they are afforded equal opportunities of growth. This includes everything, right from providing better working conditions and identifying gaps which may hinder their professional growth, to strengthening their roles in the hierarchy and ensuring their rights in the workplace. Additionally, under an initiative called WINGS, it recently introduced policies on extended maternity & benefits and part time work, given how women often have to juggle the dual responsibilities of both family and work.

When it comes to matters of access and expression, employees regardless of their place in the hierarchy get to have their say through regular town hall meetings and platforms like ‘Samyuktam’, a portal where employees can engage with colleagues and seniors in an uninhibited manner.

From its very inception, the company has focused on creating for itself an identity which while rooted in the timeless values of L&T, espoused a young and modern outlook and offered equal opportunities of growth to one and all. And yet again, this organizational emphasis is a reflection of Dr. Panda’s core beliefs.

“For us our employees are everything. They are the only real assets we have,” says Dr. Panda alluding to how unlike other businesses of L&T, at Technology Services the entire business model is essentially based on selling the engineering hours which his employees put in. “And so we have to ensure that

we create for them a work environment in which they can, not only do their jobs to the best of their abilities but also one where they have all the headroom for creativity and individual growth.”

Up NextA man of science, Dr. Panda doesn’t

believe in omens. But speak to him about his run thus far at L&T Technology Services and he brings up his date of joining the company, September 9, 2009 or 09-09-09. In a lighter vein, he ascribes the growth witnessed by the company to this calendrical anomaly. Of course, in reality, it has taken a lot of work by a lot of people (think thousands of engineers working round the clock) for the company to get to the stage it finds itself today.

The growth has also been in part due to a certain doggedness which Dr. Panda has tried to build into the Company’s wider consciousness. His insistence, for example, to only focus on larger, multi-

million dollar accounts and dropping customers that didn’t scale up or show the desired Y-o-Y growth is something that not a lot of companies would be prepared to do. Certainly not a growing outfit still trying to carve a space for itself in an incredibly niche market.

“The fact that we were able to stick to something like this and still grow shows that we have earned the trust of not just our stakeholders but customers as well,” he says.

The company is now hoping to take that trust to the open markets and become a listed entity. The move it says will not only help the firm generate greater value for the investors and stakeholders but also fuel its global ambitions.

For Dr. Panda and Technology Services, it’s time to get into high-gear and aim for a larger piece of the global ER&D pie.

The Big Leagues await. Calendrical serendipities or not.

Employees at L&T TS office in Peoria, U.S.

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One of the key features of any modern-day metropolis is its airport. It is one of the more important filters

which one applies when evaluating a city’s infrastructural progress. In fact how big, efficient and smoothly

run an airport can often mean the difference between a thumbs up and thumbs down for a city. Abu Dhabi,

the capital of United Arab Emirates is a city which already has an airport of global standing – the Abu Dhabi

International Airport. The airport, however, had been finding it difficult to adequately accommodate the traffic

passing through it in the last few years on account of the city’s emergence as a major regional hotspot.

And so some three years ago, the UAE Government as part of Abu Dhabi’s Vision 2030 decided to expand

the Abu Dhabi International Airport by constructing a 7 lakh square meter state-of-the-art terminal called

the Midfield Terminal to handle an additional 40 million passengers per year. Keeping with the plan, the

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) which operates an Aviation Fuel Depot in the existing Airport,

too decided to expand the receipt, storage, delivery and fuelling facilities of Jet A1 fuel (Aviation Fuel) to the

aircrafts operating from Midfield Terminal by constructing a new, completely independent Aviation Fuel Depot.

Fuelling Abu Dhabi’s New International Airport

The ProjectTAKREER, the wholly owned

subsidiary of ADNOC was put in-charge of executing this project and in October 2013 it awarded a lump sum turnkey Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Start-up (EPCC) contract for the new aviation fuel depot to L&T Hydrocarbon (LTHE).

The project which is now nearing commissioning and is all set to supply first fuel to the airport’s network in September 2016 seemed pretty straight-forward at the beginning. But as it turned out, it had enough twists and turns to make for an engaging thriller.

Located inside the New International Airport premises the project is constructed in two plots viz. New receipt, storage and delivery facilities called ‘Aviation Fuel Depot Terminal’ and ‘Into Plane fuelling facility’ which serves as forward base for housing the Refuellers and Dispensers and associated logistics.

The following facilities are built for receipt, storage and delivery of Jet A1 fuel at the new Aviation Fuel Depot Terminal: Receipt Facilities Including Pig Receiver; Filter Water Separators and Micronic Filters; Drain/Sump Vessels (Slop Tanks); Product Pump House;

Custody Transfer Meters; Tank Farm; Refueller Loading and Bridger Unloading Bay; Spillage and Run-off Collection and Separation; Piping Network; Integrated Fire Detection and Protection System; Utilities; Maintenance Workshop; Operation Building; Substation; Diesel Generator Building; and Into Plane Fuelling Facility.

The project has been executed by team HCP-I. While the detailed engineering of the project was carried out by L&T Engineering Faridabad (LTEF), the Civil and Tankages design carried out by EDRC, Chennai. Executed in Home Office concept, Project Management Team of L&T, Project Management Consultant M/s Jacobs and Client M/s TAKREER were stationed at the Faridabad campus for a period of 8 months for speedy engineering document approvals, technical bid evaluation and placement of major purchase orders, initial planning and executing documentations and constructability studies.

The WorksThe major construction of tanks,

piping, equipment erection, steel

structures, civil and buildings, electrical & instrumentation works were carried out with in-house resources while specialised works such as cathodic protection, HVAC, clean agent system, pre-engineered buildings, pre-cast panels, building finishing etc. were subcontracted to third parties.

The materials and equipment for the project were sourced from across continents. The procurement team expedited the process through continuous monitoring, follow-ups and regular visits and even stationing its own resources at the vendor locations to ensure accurate and timely delivery of the goods.

Given how Health, Safety and Environmental factors play a vital role in the successful completion of any project, let alone one inside an already functioning airport with multiple contractors at work round the clock, the project execution team had to be extra cautious to prevent any untoward instances. By employing strict HSE measures and awareness among the workforce, the project was able to complete 5 million safe man-hours without any LTI since it first began. Owing to its incident free record, the


Fuel Receiving Facility, Emergency DG building and substation (at left) in the background. South bay of the Product Pump House. Pump house contains 24 product pumps and filter water separators to deliver fuel to airport.

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high all around the tank. Additionally the floating deck is not designed to carry such load.

To overcome this, the project team had to change the sequence of work where the Tank shell up to 20 m from the top was internally epoxy coated, followed by construction of floating deck then hydrotest followed by painting of the deck and remain shell courses of the tanks.

Though, this process saved considerable time, during hydrotest the tank shells were left with loose dirt / stains from the water / unpainted portion of the tank. To ensure cleanliness of the tank, the project employed another innovative technique called ‘rope access technique’ wherein the technicians climbed up to top of the tank and cleaned the tank with high pressure water and mops.

Located inside the Midfield Terminal plot, the plot allocated for the facility was bare minimum, leading to an area that was densely packed with facilities. The utilities / underground cabling / piping / ditches and AG structures asides had to be cautiously planned including maximization of the common trenches to avoid any clashes. The constructability played a vital role in planning

of execution sequence including materials delivery e.g. identifying deep excavations and gravity line profiles to identify any construction difficulty due to proximity to other construction works and prioritise them. Co-ordinated UG composite drawing for all disciplines had to be developed and incorporated in the model also in this regard.

A very dynamic road traffic and signage system had to be deployed across the plant to ensure the machine and pedestrian movements commensurate with multiple trenches / excavations, backfilling etc.

The project involved a significant amount of interfacing with respect to Abu Dhabi Air Port Authorities (ADAC), who are the end customers with respect to fuel line tie-ins, utilities, electrical tie-ins, telecommunications tie-in, storm water and sewerage tie-ins. They were to be designed and executed in sync with various other contractors working inside the plot.

The plot also needed to be designed in keeping with the overall scheme of aesthetics of the airport.

The project team has employed pre-fabricated steel structures as against original design of conventional steel structures. This significantly reduced the

time of execution at site.Pre-engineered Steel Building (PEB)

uses specially designed built-up sections from plates for primary members & cold formed steel sections for secondary members as against standard hot rolled sections used in conventional structures. This makes pre-engineered building structures lighter than the conventional with similar design conditions.

The project team has maximised use of pre-casted structures and foundations especially the boundary wall is made of complete pre-cast panels. This has minimised time and effort that are required for in situ concreting.

Soon the aircrafts operating from the Midfield Terminal shall begin receiving the fuel from the newly built Aviation Fuel Depot. Currently in the advanced stages of the commissioning, the project is nearly complete. For HCP-I, the team responsible for executing the project, the last three years have been nothing short of an endurance test. All the challenges that the project threw, all the seemingly impossible odds, a lesser team would probably have wilted under the pressure, but not them. Having overcome great odds, glory awaits for the champions who have kept the L&T’s flag flying high.

project has received multiple accolades from TAKREER management and has become yet another shining example of L&T’s safe work practices.

Challenges Keeping everyone working on the

project safe was not the only challenge the project had to face. There were other requirements which necessitated innovation and problem solving of the highest order. The most critical aspect of the project is quality requirement of the Aviation Turbine Fuel commonly known as Jet A1 fuel. Even minimum presence of water or dirt or dissolved chemical in Jet A1 fuel can render it useless and put the aircraft engine at risk. Hence, right from design through procurement and construction to commissioning, extreme care has been taken to ensure absolute cleanliness and zero water content in the connected equipment, tanks and piping network of Jet A1 Fuel systems.

To remove water content, the project has been fitted with two micronic filters, and two incoming filter water separators and 24 filter water separators at each product delivery pump discharges.

The Micronic filters help remove dirt particles above 1 micron size. The filter water separators coalesce the water content in the fuel to less than 5

ppm water at the outlet. The separators within the Fire Water Separator (FWS) vessel also remove suspended dirt particles of size more than 1 micron.

The next step towards preventing contamination of Jet fuel is to have internal epoxy coating in all the piping, vessels tanks and equipment and for the same, the project team carefully chose internal epoxy coating paints through stringent prequalification tests and previous track record of similar aviation fuel services.

The internal coating machines for the pipes and spools have limitation with respect to reach inside the pipe and bends which required careful planning of piping spools configuration to allow internal coating after shop fabrication while maximizing the shop joints to reduce work on the field.

Post erection of the piping, the project team was faced with yet another dilemma as to which medium to use to conduct pressure test of the pipeline. The original proposal of using water as test medium (Hydro-test) and later dry if off had to be abandoned given how there was a chance that traces of water might still remain inside despite all the care due to inherent complexities of the network. This left the project with daunting task of pneumatic test to be carried out. This is something which is okay for smaller loops, but for bigger

sizes loops, the stored energy inside the piping during testing could be a cause of major safety concern. To overcome the challenge the project team used ‘Helium Mass Spectrometer test’ which utilises low pressure N2-Helium mixture to detect any minute leak.

The cumulative effect of all these steps was that the entire piping network remained completely free from dust or traces of water.

The Jet A1 Tanks are fabricated and built using time tested technique of tank jacking methodology wherein top shell courses are fabricated first followed by jacking of bottom shell course. 3000 MT of carbon steel plates were used in the fabrication of the tanks.

Towards the middle of the construction, the project was faced with yet another challenge that of construction feasibility, again with respect to internal epoxy coating and hydro-testing. Normally the internal painting is carried out after completion of hydro-testing which is done after all erection works. Painting in the internal wall can be carried out once the scaffolding of 24 meter high is erected all around. But the Jet A1 Tanks contain CS internal floating deck normally resting at 4 m height when empty. The constructability study showed that it is virtually impossible to build a scaffold on the top of the floating deck for 24 m


Tank farm houses four 36 m ID and 24 m height internally epoxy coated Jet A1 tanks of 21,000 cubic metre of working volume each. View of the control room - Visually charming and high quality ergonomic work environment.

Besides the Aviation Fuel Depot, L&T is also executing two other projects as part of the current expansion scheme viz., Abu Dhabi Airport Company and Midfield Terminal Building Car Park projects.

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As an oilfield matures, sustaining production levels becomes an increasingly tough ask. With age, recovery

factor (hydrocarbon recovery percentage from an oilfield) tends to go down and operators often have to

devise ways of maintaining the desired levels by putting in place enhanced recovery mechanisms. ONGC, for

the last few years, has been looking to improve the recovery factor of its Vasai East Field. Located in the Heera

Panna Bassein block of Mumbai Offshore, roughly 78 km WNW of the bustling metropolis, the field was

discovered in 2001 and ONGC has been engaged in the exploration of the field ever since.

Sustaining ONGC’s Vasai East Field Ambitions

The jacket sails out on the barge.

On November 15, 2014, with a view to boost the recovery factor of the field, ONGC awarded a contract to L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) worth 140.72 Mn USD + 25.75 crores INR or approx. 144 Mn USD for the additional development of Vasai East project. The scope of work consisted Surveys (Pre-engineering survey, Pre-construction surveys and post-construction surveys),

Designing, Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, Load-out, Tie-down, Transportation, Installation, Hook-up, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning and make ready for use the facilities of:• Two new well head platforms, VSEB

(9 slots) & VSEC (16 slots) including Production header, Test header, Test separator, Water-cut meter, Hydro-pneumatic shut down panel, Deck

crane, and SCADA.• 5 segments of pipeline (2 W/F, 2

G/L and 1 W/I) connecting the well platforms and nearest process platform, BPA and BCPA2 including supply and installation of sacrificial anodes, all cables and accessories for the complete cathodic protection system.

• Topside modifications on existing

Loadout of VSEC deck.Mid-sea installation of the VSEC deck.

ON SITE

BPA and BCPA2 process platforms including installation of risers, well fluid header, well fluid receiver, 3-phase process separator etc. The entire installation, as per

the terms of the contract, was to be completed in a phased manner from December 2015 to April 2016.

L&T Valdel, Bangalore, carried out the detailed engineering for the project. The scope of work involved detailed engineering of H2S adsorber skid in IUG system and CCVT for providing 1 kW power back-up. While L&T Hydrocarbon had worked with ONGC before, this was the first time that such facilities were being provided on its wellhead platforms.

The project deadline was particularly challenging and it coupled with the obligation of adhering to an approved vendor list and stringent material testing requirements presented the project team with sourcing challenges which would’ve tested the resourcefulness of even the best of them. However, thanks to L&T’s vast network of suppliers around the globe, these challenges were overcome, ensuring that the delivery of materials and equipment did not hinder the fabrication processes in any way. The key topside equipment including deck crane, DCP skid, IUG, chemical injection system were procured quickly and delivered at the yard as planned.

About 14,000 MT of structure was fabricated at L&T`s in-house fabrication facilities achieving a milestone of two million safe man-hours. Fabrication of two topsides, HP separator skid, PWCS skid and piles was carried out at L&T`s fabrication yard in Hazira. The jacket structures were fabricated at L&T`s fabrication yard located at Kattupalli. Precise planning, engineering, synchronised teamwork and coordination across the facilities allowed the structures to be ready ahead of schedule and despite heavy rainfalls in Chennai in December 2015, the project team achieved the milestone of sailing out the jacket structures a full

HPS installation in progress.

month ahead of schedule. The installation of structures was

carried out by L&T’s own installation cum pipe lay vessel LTS 3000. The offshore installation season began with installation of a 480 MT, HP separator module on BPA Process Complex. Installation of the pipeline was completed by January 2016, on time and as per the original plan. This was followed by the installation of the wellhead structure a week ahead of schedule in March 2016.

L&T Hydrocarbon’s exploits in the waters of the Arabian Sea are far from over and ONGC’s Vasai East Field project is sure to witness plenty more from the determined bunch executing the project.

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CUTTING EDGE

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then surely a video must be worth at least ten thousand; there’s just so

much more that one can learn from a moving image than a static one. Given the obvious advantages offered

by video, it is hardly a surprise that it has come to be the preferred choice for security professionals and those

invested in the field of surveillance. And now with the government putting its much talked about smart cities

initiative in high-gear, the profile of video-enabled monitoring and surveillance systems is only going to grow

further with the technology becoming even more mainstream.

iVisionmax—VAS – Putting the ‘Smart’ in Video Surveillance


CUTTING EDGE

However, even as this happens, experts have come to notice certain inefficiencies in the

traditional CCTV-based systems currently installed in most places. According to them, the single biggest issue which undermines the effectiveness of any such system is the human intervention which it requires. It is practically impossible for a human being (or even a group) to keep an eye on feeds coming in from multiple cameras. Research has shown that an operator watching just two cameras misses half the action after around ten minutes, and detects almost nothing after 20, leaving the commonplace CCTV based systems pretty much useless. Also, once an event has occurred, these systems do not offer an automated mechanism to analyse the huge volumes of footage. It’s all on people to examine the same. It’s a tough ask and stats show that in most cases 90% of the video footage is never viewed. And therefore while an expensive command-and-control centre may look good on paper, it can

rarely deliver the kind of value that one might expect from such an investment.

Thankfully in the recent years, considerable progress has been made in the area and video-based monitoring systems now come with features which require very little human intervention and at times, none at all. L&T’s Control & Automation business – in partnership with iOmniscient of Australia – offers a range of sustainable and scalable video surveillance systems that consist of many such advanced analytics features. Its flagship offering

iVisionmax—VAS offers the advantages of speed of detection, response and customisation.

The biggest challenge in security systems is to cope with crowded scenes. iVisionmax—VAS ’s patented technology for Object Detection in Crowd and Face Recognition enables the software to operate in a complex environment. It provides a ‘many-to-many’ facial recognition system and is able to perform under low resolution and variable face angles.

Featuring a highly sophisticated facial recognition system ‘iQ-Face’, the solution is equipped to detect and record faces in busy environments for manual review. Its patented capability can recognise faces by comparing them against numerous faces in multiple databases. It is effective even in uncontrolled conditions – such as variable lighting, continuous movement, low resolution and variable facial angles.

Highly accurate object detection in a crowded environment is also enabled by the system. Unlike traditional Video Motion Detection (VMD), which relies on motion to perform its detection, the solution can detect objects (even tiny objects that are invisible to the human eye) that are placed in the most common and dangerous environments, busy or crowded scenes, despite obscuration and constant movement. It can distinguish between objects that are left for a few seconds and objects that have been abandoned for much longer periods of time. The system is flexible

enough to adjust the detection time so as to suit the needs of the user and the constraints of the environment.

The system is also capable of detecting and recording license plates for further review. The more comprehensive system incorporates license plate detection, and then automatically reads the required characters in any image.

The system’s Non-Motion Detection feature enables it to detect the removal of multiple objects from crowded and busy areas – despite obscuration and constant movement in the camera’s field of vision. The system can detect when someone has removed an object from its location, and identify the suspect using the many-to-many face recognition system. The detection time is fully configurable to suit the constraints of the environment and the needs of the user.

For large industry campuses, power plants, various manufacturing units, O&G pipelines, it helps in perimeter security by its intrusion detection feature to detect unauthorized access for

the restricted zones at all times or after hours.

It also detects whether intruder is human or animal, which may help security agencies to take appropriate action. When it comes to Smoke and Fire Detection, standard offerings rarely work in busy city environments, especially in the open air. L&T’s solution visually identifies smoke and gas leaks in situations where traditional smoke-detection products are ineffective. It can operate during both day and night, and is particularly useful for forest-fire detection, industrial and tunnel safety applications.

iVisionmax—VAS features a counting

facility which can give a cumulative total of the number of objects that have passed through one or more areas specified. This is useful in determining occupancy levels that have multiple entry and exit points. Furthermore, the solution features a vehicle speed-detection capability which can raise an alarm in the case of over-speeding. Not only this but L&T’s solution can help road

and traffic authorities with applications such as intelligent traffic monitoring, law enforcement and parking. It can alert authorities when there is a traffic violation, and can handle complex and changing environments, such as different time periods for parking regulations, parking specifications for particular vehicles and unexpected incidents. The module’s comprehensive monitoring system captures the entire city’s traffic – from high-speed freeways to low-speed areas.

Speed, Security & Privacy, Sophistication and Customization features make iVisionmax—VAS one of the best and most comprehensive video surveillance systems in the market with the ability to be tailored to a diverse variety of applications. It could work seamlessly in urban environments, across industries and all sorts of structures which may require constant vigil. L&T’s video analytics can protect every facility – no matter how complex in terms of structure, crowd density or situational intricacy.


Video Analytics acts like a brain to CCTV cameras, which helps in comprehensive surveillance. Alarms generated from Video Analytics System are integrated at Command and Control Centre for effective response management.

The system can detect when someone has removed an object from its location, and identify the suspect using the many-to-many face recognition system.

INAUGURATION

Doddaballapur Machinery Works of LTCEL Inaugurated The new machinery works of L&T Construction Equipment Limited (LTCEL) near Doddaballapur, Bangalore rural district in Karnataka, has a huge covered area of 11608 sq. m. and it was built in a record time of 10 months.

On June 15, 2016, the facility was formally inaugurated by Mr. S.R. Subramanian, Executive vice President & Head - Industrial Machinery & Products, in the presence of Mr. R. Shankar Raman, Whole-time Director & Chief Financial Officer, Mr. J.P. Nayak (former Whole-time Director & Member of Board of L&T), Mr. S. Raghavan (former Senior Vice President & Business Head-MIP), Mr. H. Mahadevan, President of L&T Employees Association, Mr. Kiyoshi Mijuhara, Managing Director, Komatsu India Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Arvind K. Garg, Executive Vice President & Head-Construction & Mining Machinery Business, Mr. N.V Venkatasubramanian, Chief Executive, L&T Valves, Mrs. Revathi Ashok, Independent Director, LTCEL, and Mr. D. Keshava Kumar, Chief Executive, LTCEL.

Doddaballapur Machinery Works inauguration: Unveiling of plaque by Mr. S.R. Subramanian.

The works has improved layout integrating machining, welding and assembly in line concept

for smooth process flow. The facility is a unique framed steel pre-engineered building (PEB) structure matching to world class manufacturing needs with broader span of cranes.

Mr. Keshava Kumar delivered the welcome address and highlighted the key project milestones. He complimented the team for completing the project as per the schedule and within the budget. He recalled the accolades received by the employees at state level and national level and advised the employees to excel further at the new premises.

Mr. Arvind K. Garg in his address said that with the inauguration of this plant, L&T will offer complete solution to the customers with product ranges from LTCEL, Scania and Komatsu.

Mr. S.R. Subramanian congratulated LTCEL team for delivering the project on time with zero accidents and complimented design team from Product Development Centre for creating innovative products that he said will take care of requirements of the customers.

Mr. Shankar Raman in his address advised those gathered about the key metrics in business.

Mr. H.S. Hande, Head - Machinery Works, proposed a vote of thanks and brought the inauguration ceremony to a close. The programme was ably compered by Mr. R. Ravi, Head - Technical Services.

The dignitaries were then taken

around the shop on a guided tour where they not only got to see the various machines up close but also got to switch them on. Mr. Shankar Raman also took part in a ceremony in which he handed over a number of machines and hydraulic products to customers.

The dignitaries also planted a number of tree saplings in the campus on the occasion.

Mr. Shankar Raman hands over a machine manufactured at Doddaballapur Works to a customer.

Dignitaries and employees at the Works.


This year a record number of Indian and foreign companies, from close to 45 countries, participated

in the exhibition, owing largely to the favourable shift in the Govt policies in defence and the untapped opportunities in the India market.

L&T which has always managed to make its presence felt at the event in the past, displayed the full might of its defence capabilities at the prestigious event. The Defence & Aerospace SBG of L&T has established track record over three decades in the domains of Warships, Strategic Submarines, Artillery & Air Defence Guns, Weapon Launch and Fire Control Systems, Communication systems for Network Centric warfare, Radar Systems, Missile systems, Naval Engineering & Electrical Systems and Military Bridging systems. Together with the Defence offerings in Software solutions, Special Valves, Hydraulics, Special steels, Heavy Forgings and Avionics from various

other Group companies, L&T is the largest private sector company in India providing indigenous, design-to-delivery solutions across the defence spectrum – from surveillance to strike capabilities.

True to the sobriquet of ‘Builders to the Nation’, L&Ts contribution in the Defence sector aims at providing ‘The Decisive Edge’ to our armed forces, and this was rightly chosen the theme for this edition of DefExpo where L&T’s capabilities across segments were presented in an integrated and highly impressive manner.

L&T’s stall was chosen at a strategic location within the exhibition area, and its professionally designed layout with prominent branding ensured prompt attention of everyone who visited the venue. The main attractions in the stall were the prototype ‘Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)’, ‘Waterjet Propulsion System’ and Technology Demonstrator systems of Turret & Hull

for Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle, all of which are completely indigenous solutions designed and developed in-house by L&T’s Product and Technology Development Center based at Powai. All these live systems attracted the attention of every VIP visitor, including the Defence Minister, MoS for Defence and Defence Service Chiefs, who were astonished to see the level of maturity attained by an Indian company. All the dignitaries appreciated L&T’s capability of developing indigenous solutions from concept to realisation. Besides these, live demonstration of K9-Vajra Tracked Self-Propelled Gun systems developed in collaboration with Hanwha Techwin of Korea, and the Air Defence Fire Control Radar System developed indigenously managed to grab the plenty of attraction from the visitors.

Other systems on display at L&T’s stall included the scaled models of Warships, viz., the Aircraft Carrier being offered by L&T in collaboration with Navantia,

L&T’s Defence Might on Full Display at DefExpo 2016

India’s biennial Defence Exhibition (DefExpo) organised by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was held in Goa from the 28th to 31st March 2016. The biggest and most sought after defence exhibit of its kind in the country was inaugurated by Defence Minister, Mr. Manohar Parrikar, amidst a gathering of numerous dignitaries including high-ranking officials from the defence establishment and business leaders from around the world. The four-day exhibition served as an excellent platform for companies from all over to showcase their offerings for Land, Naval and Internal Homeland Defence requirements, and for business networking.

SPOT LIGHT

India’s Defence Minister checks out L&T’s K9 Vajra self-propelled howitzer, built in collaboration with Hanwha Techwin.


and the Floating Dock for Indian Navy, Ground Penetrating Radar System, Handheld Mine Detectors for Army, Waterjet Propulsion System, various Communication & Control Systems, and our offerings in Infotech, Hydraulics, Valves and Forgings.

During the course of the exhibition, a number of VVIPs visited the L&T stall and appreciated the company’s contribution to the national cause. Among the visitors were the Defence Minister, Minister of State for Defence, a number of Secretaries in the Ministry of Defence, Chief of Army and Naval Staff and several other senior personnel from the armed forces.

GoI’s ‘Make in India for Defence’ initiative and its thrust on ‘Defence Exports’ from India resulted in a large number of foreign players visiting the event. Unlike previous editions of DefExpo, this one was unique on the account of multiple foreign delegations holding detailed interactions/meetings with a private sector company like L&T. While several international delegations visited L&T stall, delegation from US,

Bangladesh, Czech, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Spain and Serbia had detailed discussion on various opportunities that are of interest to L&T and promised to explore further avenues for collaboration in the future.

L&T’s leadership position among Indian companies in the Defence sector was effectively communicated and

appreciated at DefExpo 2016. The co-ordination between various Groups of L&T and the pivotal role played by the Corporate Brand Management team resulted in L&T retaining its title of the undisputed defence leader from the private sector in India.

SPOT LIGHT

L&T had recently won the mandate to construct a four lane, 103 meter bridge across Rua De Ourem creek connecting Mala to Patto Complex in Goa. Scheduled to be completed in 18 months, the bridge is located merely 300 metres away from L&T’s existing Mandovi bridge project, one of India’s longest cable stay bridge. Mr. Manohar Parrikar, Defence Minister, laid

the foundation stone for the project on April 08, 2016, in the presence of the Chief Minister of Goa, Mr. Laxmikant Parsekar and other Government dignitaries. From L&T, Mr. P. Niranjana, VP & Head -Nuclear & Special Bridges BU, and Mr. Arvind R. Nerurkar – Project Manager, Mandovi River Cable Stay Bridge, graced the occasion.

Defence Minister Lays Foundation Stone for L&T’s Rua De Ourem Creek Bridge Project

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Erects India’s first-of-its-kind inner containment dome liner

Taking a g iant leap towards modularisation in construction methodologies, L&T’s Heavy Civil Infrastructure BU team at Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant lifted to position and installed a 355 t Inner Containment (IC) dome liner as a single unit.

June 9, 2016, proved to be a red letter day for L&T-ites at Kakrapar as they witnessed history being created with the momentous lifting of the IC dome structure which they had meticulously and painstakingly built over the past four months. Many familiar with the development claim that this could well be one of the first instances in the world considering the unique geometry of the dome and the provision of large openings that further complicated the lifting process.

The gigantic, 355 t circular steel structure that was supported on the ground by trestles, comprised 53 individual panels of varying geometries that were precision welded together in sequence to achieve a distortion tolerance of only 18 mm. The team completed a whopping 53 km of welding to piece the structure together to form a unique tori-spherical shape brought about by the two dimensional bending of the backing members.

18 lifting lugs were integrated and special lifting tools and tackles, 55 t bow shackles and 45 t turn buckles were used to lift the dome. The imported bow shackles with special in-built load cell arrangements and telemetric monitoring of the load cells ensured uniformity of loads on all the slings. The profile and elevation of the structure was maintained using the support of 106 t heavy duty towers along with specially fabricated timber packing. The main component for lifting however

was a specially fabricated 12.5 t evener beam that was heat treated to release stresses and was tested using 1.25 times the actual load.

The IC dome structure included a pair of large openings for steam generators that warranted a 54 t special supporting trestle of 19.2 m height. With only 200 mm clearance to work with, team L&T lifted and placed the trestle in position between the pair of steam generators that were ready to bear the load of the IC dome when placed atop the IC wall.

The iconic dome structure that measures 47 m diameter and 8.25 m in height does not require the conventional steel support assembly leading to huge savings in the quantity of structural steel used apart from savings in cost and construction time.

Beginning at 5.45 am, the process of lifting and placing the IC dome structure atop the inner containment wall onto the waiting 144 stools took 2 hours. The alignment and anchoring took another 3 hours after which the crane was released. It is commendable that the team achieved 6 mm tolerance at the centre of the dome as against the permissible 30 mm. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), one of the toughest regulatory bodies of the country, complimented the feat by stating that they were unable to differentiate between the 3D model of the dome liner and the actual one created by L&T.

This feat comes as the crowning glory to the exceptional team at Kakrapar which has already set several benchmarks including the modular erection of a pre-fabricated ring liner (PRL) for the inner containment wall, 5 consecutive RoSPA Gold Medals and 3 consecutive Sarvasreshta Suraksha Puraskar from National Safety Council of India for their impeccable safety records.

L&T Creates History in Nuclear Construction

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Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India, visited LTHE’s Modular Fabrication Facility, Kattupalli (MFFK), on July 24, 2016. He was received by Mr. Subramanian Sarma, CEO & MD, LTHE.The Minister’s visit focused on LTHE’s collaboration with ONGC on the ONGC 98/2 project. MFFK is well poised to play a major role in the manufacturing of FPSOs, offshore platforms and other subsea systems for this prestigious project of ONGC.Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Pradhan, lauded the progressive role of LTHE in the oil & gas sector and also stressed on the need to leverage the technological advancements to make a mark globally now that markets have recovered all across the globe.Mr. T.K. Sengupta, Director-Offshore, ONGC Ltd., expressed his satisfaction on the current projects being executed

at MFFK, which are progressing well ahead of schedule and also predicted that the Vashishta project which is being executed in partnership with McDermottat at MFFK will result in more sub-sea project orders for LTHE.Mr. Subramanian Sarma, reiterated

his vision for company to become a truly global player by consolidating the operations in both domestic and international markets. He also stressed that MFFK is strategically well placed and has necessary infrastructure to cater to the demand.

Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Visits Kattupalli

Mr. Subramanian Sarma arriving with Mr. T.K. Sengupta at MFFK along with senior executives of LTHE.

Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan planting a tree at MFFK.


The Gold Line team of Doha Metro achieved a major milestone on May 19, 2016, when the last TBM out of the six TBMs made its final breakthrough at Msheireb station. It was a joyous moment for ALYSJ JV, Qatar Rail Company and PMC as it has happened almost a month ahead of the project’s master schedule.

A cake cutting ceremony was organised by Qatar Rail Company (QRail) to celebrate the tunnel completion works on May 24, 2016, at ALYSJ JV Project Office premises. The ceremony was graced by CEO of QRail, Dr. Eng. Saad Ahmed Ibrahim Al Muhannadi, Project Director of QRail, Mr. Samuel

Adair McChesney, Steering Committee Members of each partner Company of ALYSJ JV, Project Director of ALYSJ JV, Mr. Carlo Germani and other senior officials from QRail, PMC and ALYSJ JV. This programme was attended by Mr. A.L. Sekar and Mr. Jens Huckfeldt as Steering Committee members of ALYSJ JV and Mr. Aloke Kumar Dey from Tunnel Execution team from L&T.

Speaking on the occasion, the CEO of QRail appreciated the dedication and the work of ALYSJ JV tunnel team and declared that this JV has performed the best with respect to Tunnelling works despite awarding the contract 6 months later than the other lines.

The Project Director of Qatar Rail, Mr. Samuel McChesney, declared that ALYSJ JV has been the best in terms of timely completion, quality and safety packing along with it several records such as:

• Highest No. of Rings installed in a day by One TBM- 39 Nos.

• Highest Weekly Production by 6 TBMs- 164 Rings.

• Highest Monthly Production by 6 TBMs- 491 Rings

On this occasion, Qatar Rail also declared completion of 100 km of tunneling under phase 1 of the Doha Metro Project.

L&T’s Doha Metro Gold Line Team Achieves Tunnelling Milestone

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Hyatt Regency, a 5 star luxury hotel project in Chandigarh was inaugurated on April 2, 2016, by Mr. Kurt Straub, Vice President (Operations), Hyatt India, along with Mr. Manoj Agarwal, Head Operations (MUD Chandigarh), L&T Realty, Mr. Madan R.R.D, DGM - L&T Realty, Mr. L. Rama Krishnan, CPM Delhi Cluster, L&T Construction, and Mr. Kapil Dev Singh, Project Manager, L&T Construction.

Hyatt Regency located at Business Park Phase 1 in Chandigarh adjoining Elante shopping mall consists of 2 Basments + Ground Floor + First Floor with a swimming pool, Spa and 6 floors with 211 guest rooms. The built-up area is 584,000 lakh sq ft.Inspired by Le Corbusier style of design

are contemporary and spacious guest rooms including 25 suites from the 2nd to the 6th floor. The recreational facilities are spread over 900 m2 (9688 ft2) with spa and an exclusive Regency Club Lounge which is an executive accommodation concept. More than 3345 m2 (36000 ft2) of meeting and event area is pillar-free. Regency Ballroom (809 m2 /8711 ft2) is divisible into three equal parts and can accommodate up to 1000 guests theatre style with a clear ceiling height of 25 ft. / 7.5 m. Six well-appointed meeting rooms and boardrooms can accommodate between 10-100 guests. All event venues feature state-of-the-art technology including Bose® sound, live broadcast and teleconferencing facilities, broadband and wi-fi connectivity. There is natural

daylight in the meeting rooms and the ballroom with a dedicated entrance to the events block. The first floor open terrace has a temperature controlled outdoor swimming pool and pool bar. There is a 24-hour state-of-the-art health and fitness center and an exclusive salon for men and women.

The HVAC plant room with chillers is located in the services building away from hotel main building. There are 3 guest lifts and 4 service lifts for vertical movement in the hotel. The treatment plants are located in the basement 2 level. The majority of basement space is placed with parking facilities lower and stacks lift parking.

L&T-built Ultra-luxury Hotel Inaugurated in Chandigarh


While timely project handover still remains an aspiration for developers, L&T Realty has created history by giving before time delivery of 300 apartments at its project - Emerald Isle, Powai. This accomplishment has enabled the company to not only outdo its own standards, but also become a torchbearer for the industry in terms of customer commitment. Assuring peace of mind through timely delivery and quality as promised was the sole proposition with which L&T Realty’s flagship project, Emerald Isle was launched in 2013.

Being Process drivenBeing guided by its ultimate goal of fulfilling the customer commitment, L&T Realty undertook thorough project planning which ensured that there was no hindrance on account of labour, material or finances during the execution phase. This, together with the requisite approvals being in place well before the launch, helped in meeting the construction timelines consistently and at times even surpassing them. Accurate construction sequence was followed so that the project stayed ahead of schedule and set new industry benchmarks.

Customer first In the process of achieving this utmost care was taken not to compromise on the amenities and features which would delight the customer. Building Lifestyles, the L&T way is about building world class products which incorporate unique design elements like optimal utilization of space, plenty of fresh air, sunlight & ventilation, traffic-free podiums, amenities that cater to all age groups, using high quality materials and creating green spaces

where families can experience a stress-free lifestyle. Right from the very start, podium, car parks, ramp, entry portal, landscaping, etc. at Emerald Isle were given equal weightage in conjunction to the residential part whilst construction so that at the time of the handover, the resident gets to enjoy and take pride in the complete development. Maintaining transparency in communication, regular construction updates were sent to the customers keeping them informed of the progress at site. This provided them the comfort and confidence of having put in their hard earned money in a safe haven.

A moment of great pride

At a time when project delays and lack of transparency remain rampant in the real estate sector, L&T Realty created history by delivering on its brand promise with the handover at Emerald Isle well before its committed time. And by doing so, the company has lived up to its assurance of credibility and reliability. Leading by example, L&T Realty has added another feather to the legacy of L&T brand and also reinforced its position as a respected real estate brand in the industry.

300 Promises Delivered Before Time:L&T Realty creates history by delivering before time at Emerald Isle, Powai.

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‘Kingfisher Towers’ project at Bangalore accomplished yet another construction milestone by completing the erection of the Truss mid segment weighting 100 MT after disengaging from the temporary structure installed at the fifth floor level using Strand Jack technology (2 jacks of 200 MT capacity) placed on temporary cathead truss at both ends of the tower. Each jack was operated through individual power pack of 18.5 kW each and contained 8 strands (15.7 mm dia) of 15 MT SWL for each strand with strand recoilers. The entire process was monitored through a computer.

The truss structure called ‘T3’ joins the towers which are 119.9 m high and 40 m apart. The 26 m long mid-segment of truss T3, height 5.5 m, 100 MT has been fabricated out of 3135 MT of steel. Truss T3 is the outer part of the structural steel truss at 33/34th floor amenity (630MT) over which two floors of penthouse and a Helipad rests. 33rd floor serves as a service floor.

The truss has to be lifted horizontally to an elevation of 100 m height and welded with the end segments on either side of the towers. The entire fabrication and erection of the truss was completed in one day (on April 15, 2016).

The Prestige Group headed by Mr. Anand Basal (Vice President), Mr. Anand (Vice President - UB Group) along with Mr. Nagendra (Director - Sterling Design consultancy) and Mr. Thomas (Director –Thomas Associates Architects) team witnessed the erection. Mr. V Nagesh

(Head Residential – South), Mr. M. Gopinath (CPM RBF-2, Bangalore Cluster) and Mr. Madhu Anand (Head – CMPC) graced the momentous occasion

and appreciated the efforts and work executed under the leadership of Mr. A.V. Ramesh (Project Manager – L&T).

Kingfisher Towers Project Completes Erection of Heavy Truss

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