Games projects win construction awards

The Thyagraj Stadium has won under the social infrastructure category and the Barapullah Corridor has won under road infrastructure category.

This is the third recognition for Thyagraj Stadium — it earlier won the Indian Building Congress award for excellence in built environment and the Best Building of the CPWD.

“It is the only stadium constructed from the scratch and is a green building. A lot of thought and effort has gone into building it,” said project manager Anil Pandit. Spread over an area of 16.5 acres,the building has water harvesting and sewage treatment systems,and solar power generation units. The stadium has been constructed using fly ash bricks.

The 4.3-km Barapullah Corridor,meanwhile,was constructed in a record time of two years.

“Usually a project of this scale takes nearly three years for construction alone,but we constructed Barapullah in two years,including the time for planning,” said Sarvagya Srivastav,project manager.

The corridor spans five crossings,where work was carried out without stopping road traffic. The other achievement for the corridor is that at Mathura Road the elevated road is nearly 20 metres above the ground level.

The corridor also cost Rs 30 crore less than the anticipated cost.