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Is The Proposed 160-Storey Noida Tower A Flawed Project?By djain128, Section Development
The proposed 135-storey - later revised to 150 and subsequently to 160-storey high Noida tower in the City Centre has been dubbed as a flawed project by architects, town planners, engineers and the intelligentsia.
The 124th board meeting of the Noida Authority (NA) recently gave the green signal to one of the city's most ambitious project of National Capital Region (NCR). The City Centre of Noida consisting of the tallest buildings of the world with a height of 710 m (160 floors). Spread over 250 acres across sectors 25A and 32, the tower will house office space in the first 100 levels in nine modules around the central core. The entire project is expected to cost Rs 50,000 crore - Rs 4,000 crore on Noida City Towers alone according to Noida Chairman Deo Datta. According to Architect Hafeez Contractor, who has been commissioned as urban designer for the project, "This building will showcase India to the world". Dr Abed Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to the USA, says it is an ambitious project and I would prefer if priority should have been given to setting up in Noida something like India International Centre, New Delhi with good library, auditorium, conference rooms and facilities for researchers and intellectuals, with quiet refreshing ambiance of water bodies, greenery etc. According to Prof C. S. Nagpal, Director, Planning and Development IMS Educational Society: "We don't have foolproof technology to make such building safe in a porous Noida soil, which happens to lie between two river beds - the Yamuna and the Hindon." "Let the protagonist of the world's tallest building in Noida imagine an emergency scenario of a huge blaze happening on 88th or 120th floor," says Prof Nagpal. (Click on "Full Story" for more.)
According to Sushil Agrawal, president of the Federation of Noida Resident Welfare Associations, tall buildings are not good for Indian conditions and should be constructed where we are short of space as in metros like Mumbai. But in Noida, there is no such constraint as thousands of acres of rolling plain land is available for horizontal growth and development to meet all the needs of the proposed City Centre.
"We are short of power, water, fire fighting facilities and a first grade maintenance facility. Such high and massive buildings will essentially be sustained only on energy that is power. Right now, we do not have enough power and fire fighting facilities to go up to even 30 mt heights. Most of Noida water mains are condemned. Their replacements are yet to come. Hydraulic platforms are just not available. Most importantly, Delhi, Noida Ghaziabad, Meerut up to Hardwar are known to be located on seismic zone V and earthquakes with moderate to severe intensity have taken place here in the recent past. Hence, a fortune will have to be spent on making the tallest structures earthquake-resistant area. Even after spending so much, experts are not sure if we can achieve the desired safety, says Town Planner Devesh Goyal. All the space for offices, commercials hubs, entertainment, cultural centres, restaurants hotels theatres etc can easily be created in a horizontally planned City Centre with reasonably high buildings, with eight to 10-storey, which could avoid all unnecessary risks and will be easy to maintain too. Thirdly, why not spend small part of the Rs 50.000 crore on improving the existing infrastructure and services which the city woefully lacks even after almost three decades of Noida having come into being. The maintenance of such a huge structure at a cost of thousands of crores does not appear to be a wise decision. "We do not have the power and the weather (and the seismic zone) to support even the existing multi-storey buildings in the NCR. According to Lt Gen Mohinder M. Walia (Retd), Director Institute of Holistic Management, it appears to be a good idea but its success will depend on competent people with dedication and integrity translating the good idea into reality otherwise it can lead to tragedy and human loss. I would suggest the Noida Authority should spent sufficient time and get the best expertise for scrutinising and planning. Foundation is the basic character of any project and should be finalised with utmost care. Also have touch of vaastu in the whole project.
Source The Tribune dtv 24-4-2005 -160-storey Noida tower a flawed project? by Parmindar Singh 160-storey Noida tower a flawed project?
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