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A PROJECT
Rourkela Smart City

Building on its steel foundation, natural setting and
cosmopolitan character, Rourkela will be an inclusive,
sustainable and self-reliant city propelling regional
economic development with best-class infrastructure. There
are 23 projects taken under Rourkela Smart City, including
Smart Road, Citizen Friendly Parks, Football Stadium, Indoor
Stadium, Auditorium, Museum, Command Control Centre,
Pond Beautification, River Side Beautification, Smart Vending
Zones, Smart Parking, Market Complexes etc.

CHALLENGES
All significant projects like Birsa Munda Football Stadium,
Smart Road, Biju Patnaik Indoor Stadium, Rourkela One
started after the lockdown period in April 2020. The projects
continue their progress with all due diligence as per plan
with no impact on the original completion date. The project
team has adopted the latest technologies like Post Stressed
Concrete, Lean Technology, Slip Form type Form work for
Precast work to expedite the work progress. As the city is
ancient, retrofitting all the roads is very challenging. Due
to the existing utilities in the ROW and densely populated
area, the project team overcame all challenges to execute
as planned and ensure proper traffic management. Other
challenges include Encroachments, Multi-level approvals,
Rehabilitation, High traffic, Low traffic management, Multiple
players on the same site, Unorganised existing services and
Variable Soil Strata, which we overcame with some strategic
planning and sound engineering solutions.
work as we used slip form shuttering at the precast yard. In
TECHNOLOGIES continuation to above, we also took necessary care to avoid
Technologies and effective way of working were the reason. Kota finishing in sitting areas of the stadium by replacing the
We could achieve our targets. In Birsa Munda Stadium, using same with an excellent precast finish, thus saving cost and
Post Stressed Technology, we reduced our concrete work time. The project team has taken due diligence to achieve
and de-shuttering time considerably. Also, taking benefit targets by adopting such equipment that was not considered
of Lean Processes, we reduced logistic time for material earlier, like the Pile Rig machine for piling work and saved
movement. We saved considerable time in precast concrete considerable time lost due to COVID-19.

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