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Off the

Beaten

Track

Bombay House was inaugurated just

as planned on the birth anniversary
of JRD Tata after a 6-month

renovation. As the reverberations
of the drilling machines went silent,

the realisation of the engineering
solutions in the project sunk in. Here

is the story of the brass stacks behind
the creative glamour.

he idea of a heritage building and a modern, open
office space combine seems like an oxymoron that
is a little difficult to picture. Making this into a reality
Twith incredibly tight schedules is just the tip of the
iceberg of challenges. The Project Management Consultancy
Services (PMC) services for the transformation of Bombay
House that Tata Consulting Engineers and its subsidiary
Ecofirst Services undertook is a miracle of sorts. Most heritage
buildings the world over are modernised to serve as museums,
exhibition centres etc. But to take on the transformation of
a heritage building into a fit-for-purpose, fully-functional,
corporate headquarters, aligned to the benchmarks of the
Tatas, is indeed a story to be chronicled. The architect’s design
is a concept; HVAC, MEP, IT, Smart Building are brass stacks