Chennai Projects Update thread - III

[yogivel]

On the Whites road & Pattullos road junction
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Views from the window of the adjacent building across royapettah clock tower
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The site engineer / Supervisor instructed not to take photography when I asked him. So the last three photos, were taken from the second/first floor window of the building opposite to Royapetah clock tower.

[yogivel]

Why the hell photography is not allowed at construction sites? Security reasons or sentiment?

The worst experience I had was with the office bearers of Music academy. They said I have to get permission from the president (Hindu N Ravi). I don't know the logic behind in not allowing photographs of well known landmark buildings. Recently, the DGP office - officer said no to photographs from inside the campus. (I even showed my ID card of my institution and requested that it is for my personal use) So I had to satisfy with the picture of the building taken from across the beach road. With the advance in technology, it is irrational not allowing photography of important buildings for security reasons.isn't it?

[prakstar]

According to Indian Express, Among Indian Cities Chennai has the largest number of Green Buildings.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems...hennai&Topic=0

Chennai has the most number of Green Buildings in the country. Fifteen projects have been listed as Green while four have been rated as Gold, a step lower than the top most rating of Platimum, one has been rated Silver by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).

The IGBC rates buildings as ‘Green’ on the criteria of energy saving construction, natural lighting or energy-efficient lighting, water treatment plant, sewage treatment plant so that there is zero water discharge, use of non-toxi paint, recycled tiles, wood from certified forests or recycled wood, use of fly-ash bricks and fly ash cement, air-conditioner should be highly efficient. It should also be designed to prevent outside heat from entering the building.

The number of buildings listed and assessed have been less in other cities, especially, Mumbai and Delhi. Seventeen Chennai companies have also enlisted in IGBC which showed the tremendous response for the concept in the city, said C N Raghavendran, chairman, Chennai Chapter, IGBC.

According to him, there are only 80 Green Buildings in India and Chennai leads the pack. “We expect this to increase to a thousand in three years Eighty buildings are classified as Green across the country, which will be increased to 1000 in three years,” he said.

The maximum number of completed projects are in Chennai while the rest of them are scattered in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Of the 15 buildings in Chennai, the Gold-rated Grundfos Pumps India Pvt Ltd is listed as one of the first five icon building by the Indian Green Building Council.

More Green buildings like IT parks, offices, banks, airport, convention centre, educational institutions and hotels are coming up across the country.

Corporate groups like Raheja, Wipro RMZ have announced that they would be constructing all their buildings conforming to Green specifications.

List of Green Buildings in Chennai

1 Grundfos Pumps India Pvt Ltd, (Gold Rated) 2 Vestas Wind Technology India Ltd, (Gold Rated) 3 L & T EDRC 1, (Silver Rated). 4 Olympia Technology Park (Gold Rated) 5 ABN Amro. 6 L & T & TC II Building. 7 Turbo Energy Limited. 8 ETL BPO Park. (Gold Rated). 9 World Bank building. 10 Chennai Tech Park. 11 Rane Institute for Employee Development. 12 AMTI Tech Park. 13 RMZ Millennia Business Park. 14 Ashok Leyland Properties. 15 Sunhera Realty pvt Ltd.

[wcgokul]

Originally Posted by prakstar

To fellow Forumers

Chennai has witnessed lot of activity in IT & ITES sector as well as manufacturing. Does anyone know what is our exports so far in terms of IT & ITES. Similarly how has Chennai fared so far in comparison with other IT cities in India? I request the forumers and experts to give some information in this regard

an oft-asked question in the forum.........

the Statewise software exports for the year 2006-2007 along with growth %:

1 Karnataka 37,600 crores 30%
2 Mah ~25000 crores ( assuming 50% growth)
3 TN 21000 crores 46.66%
4 AP 18500 crores 47%
5 NCR,Haryana ?? ??
6 Kerala ~1000 crores ??

a city wise ranking of exports would be:

1.Bangalore ( waaaay ahead!!!!!)
2.Chennai
3.Hyderabad
4.Pune
5.NCR
6.Mumbai

[MaduraiSelvam]

Originally Posted by goram_vlad

an oft-asked question in the forum.........

the Statewise software exports for the year 2006-2007:

1 Karnataka 37,600 crores 30%
2 Mah ~25000 crores ( assuming 50% growth)
3 TN 21000 crores 46.66%
4 AP 18500 crores 47%
5 NCR,Haryana ?? ??
6 Kerala ~1000 crores ??

a city wise ranking of exports would be:

1.Bangalore ( waaaay ahead!!!!!)
2.Chennai
3.Hyderabad
4.Pune
5.NCR
6.Mumbai

Good, can you leave the link of the source pls. !

[wcgokul]

Originally Posted by MaduraiSelvam

Good, can you leave the link of the source pls. !

was compiled from various articles...........try searching on google for 'chennai software exports',' bangalore software exports' or ' hyderabad software exports'.....

[ferrari_fan]

thanks for the update Yogivel.. Express Estates Mall looks humungous!!!!

[Leo_r]

TBM Consulting opens office in Chennai

TBM Consulting Group is making its foray into India, with the objective of providing transformation and consulting services to industries. The launch in Chennai marks TBM’s second office location in Asia, the other being in Shanghai, says a release.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/08/stor...0856741800.htm

[wcgokul]

http://www.tn.gov.in/pressrelease/pr...80907_MOUs.pdf

two huge townships in the list...........

[scrapper]

hey all could you please tell me the purpose of the flyover outside the airport??? is it goint to be used by people who come out of the airport or is it for those who come from Tambaram, pallavaram etc... or is it for both???

[ferrari_fan]

the flyover's meant for traffic from Tambaram side to go towards the city.. so traffic from the city will enter the airport from under the flyover, thus doing away with the existing signal there..

[Anniyan]

Originally Posted by ferrari_fan

the flyover's meant for traffic from Tambaram side to go towards the city.. so traffic from the city will enter the airport from under the flyover, thus doing away with the existing signal there..

A picture is equal to 34 words

[Kingmaker]

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...0351501500.htm

It looks like we would just have two parallel runways after the airport expansion. The current secondary runway will be converted to a taxiway connecting the two runways. Also the new runway is going to come on the other side of the adyar river.

[nashcode]

US Component maker Federal-Mogul plans new plant in Chennai

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2353860.cms

[scrapper]

This again confuses me.. so if people from tambaram etc can take the flyover then wot bout people who exit out of the airport... they need to take the road under the flyover is it.. n if that's the case... there will be a signal in any case.. for the people who need to take right to enter the airport and for people who need to go to Guindy from the airport....

am i right???

[MaduraiSelvam]

Originally Posted by Renault

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...0351501500.htm

It looks like we would just have two parallel runways after the airport expansion. The current secondary runway will be converted to a taxiway connecting the two runways. Also the new runway is going to come on the other side of the adyar river.

Regarding the Adyar river, will they deepen and beautify it? It will be good for the river and the citys water table.

No Coconuts trees though!

[satsukhoi]

Originally Posted by yogivel

On the Whites road & Pattullos road junction
image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


Views from the window of the adjacent building across royapettah clock tower
image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr


The site engineer / Supervisor instructed not to take photography when I asked him. So the last three photos, were taken from the second/first floor window of the building opposite to Royapetah clock tower.

Hi Yogivel, i can't able to view these pics since, images posted in flickr are getting blocked by my company firewall. Can you please upload it in imageshak which is accessible to me.

[Kingmaker]

Originally Posted by MaduraiSelvam

Regarding the Adyar river, will they deepen and beautify it? It will be good for the river and the citys water table.

No Coconuts trees though!

No idea. I really hope they will do it at some point in time.

[yogivel]

Originally Posted by satsukhoi

Hi Yogivel, i can't able to view these pics since, images posted in flickr are getting blocked by my company firewall. Can you please upload it in imageshak which is accessible to me.

Hi satsukhoi,

Here are those pictures uploaded with Imageshack

[satsukhoi]

Originally Posted by yogivel

Hi satsukhoi,

Here are those pictures uploaded with Imageshack

Thanks Yogivel, i can view the images now. Whenever i pass that way, there was no chance to see what is happening inside because of the huge asbestos sheets and now i can see the progress with the help of ur images.