In Worli, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) intends to destroy the material testing lab now occupying the aforementioned property and erect a 29-story parking and office structure at a cost of ₹519 crores.
The site is situated at SK Ahire Marg, Worli, and spans 5,179.8 square meters. There will be 548 parking spaces spread across the first 13 floors of the basement + 29-story building, with the testing laboratories situated up to the 17th floor. Up to the nineteenth story, there will be offices for road development; other BMC offices would occupy the remaining area.
This project is expected to take 36 months to complete, plus an extra six months for obtaining permits and constructing a transit facility. The BMC on Friday issued a tender for the same, inviting responses till October 7.
Presently, the area accommodates an asphalt plant and a material testing lab, with the latter set for renovation. “Every type of building material, such as aggregate, steel, asphalt, and so on, is tested there,” a department of building construction official stated. “These will be moved to a transit accommodation on the same plot during construction, and back once the building is redeveloped.”
The new structure will house testing facilities for concrete, plumbing, fire, wind tunnels, and more up to the seventeenth story. On the top 10 stories, there will be space for additional BMC offices, along with offices for vigilance.
Contractors are invited to bid on managing the project from planning to operations and maintenance, with terms including three years for the robo-parking lift, five years for the parking system, five years for technical assistance, and twenty years for parking system spare parts guarantee.
Source: Hindustan Times
