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In 48 hours, entrepreneur sets up 10-floor
building
Saturday December 01, 2012 07:53:33 PM,
IANS
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A 10-storey building in 48 hours?
A
10-storey building, set to come up in just 48 hours! A businessman
in Chandigarh claims it is possible, and he will prove it.
Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is set to lay the
foundation stone of the 10-storey building, INSTACON, Thursday.
The brain behind the project, businessman Harpal Singh, says the
building will be ready
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Mohali (Punjab): It was
a promise delivered floor by floor. In just 48 hours, an
entrepreneur has constructed a 10-floor building in this suburban
town in Punjab.
The red and grey facade building, Instacon, stood tall on an
industrial plot in Mohali, 10 km from Chandigarh, Saturday, two
days after Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had
laid its foundation stone.
Work on the building's construction started around 4.30 p.m.
Thursday. By Friday evening, the building saw seven floors in
place.
As the deadline of 48 hours approached, all the 10 floors of the
building were in place even though the glass-panes on the windows
and other fittings inside were still being put by the workers and
engineers.
The building used pre-fabricated material, including 200 tonnes of
steel.
"Our effort was to put the 10-storeyed structure in place within
48 hours. We wanted to prove that this could be done. That feat
was achieved well within 48 hours. Just some finishing touches
remain. This is only a sample structure," an official of Synergy
Thrislington infrastructure company told IANS at the site.
Entrepreneur Harpal Singh, who heads the Rs.1,000-crore
infrastructure company, had promised that the 10-storey building
would be completed within 48 hours.
"This will be the first building of its kind in the country to be
built in just 48 hours. The model has been cleared for Zone-V
seismic area, the highest risk area (for earthquakes)," Harpal
Singh, who owns the JW Marriot Hotel in Chandigarh, said here
earlier.
Three floors of the building were constructed in just six hours
Thursday.
Over 200 skilled workers, technicians, engineers and equipment
were engaged in the building construction.
The material being used was manufactured in the past two months in
a nearby factory.
"No bricks and sand has been used. The outer wall is a
double-skinned PUF panel. The cost is almost the same as of
conventional construction material. It saves a lot of time that
goes into construction otherwise," said officials at the site.
Harpal Singh said that the idea to construct such a building came
to him when he was constructing his own house, which took two
years to complete - thanks to truant workers.
Singh's company, Synergy, took over Britain-based Thrislington
Products, a re-locatable steel partition manufacturer, to set up
the new infrastructure company here.
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