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G AMMON SPEAKS 1 EDITORIAL COLUMN Dear Colleagues, organisation. May I therefore urge Project, the contract for which you to please actively contribute was recently bagged by our and also provide feedback for company. The issue also includes G reetings to everyone of you! continuously enhancing the updates on cultural and sporting quality and value of this magazine. events organised by the Gammon This is the inaugural issue of The success of this medium will Springs team as well as some Gammon Speaks, the quarterly largely be a function of employee nostalgic recollections from an in-house magazine of our engagement. The publishing Irish veteran and old timer, Mr. organisation. An in-house team is confident of eliciting an Donnelly in the column titled magazine has a two-fold active response from all you and ‘Down Memory Lane’. purpose. Firstly, it seeks to will respond constructively to all share key happenings about the your inputs and suggestions. Please feel free to correspond organisation and its people with with us at gammonspeaks@ employees. Secondly, it provides This inaugural issue features an gammonindia.com, to make the a medium for employees to share update on Signature Bridge in contents of this magazine more views with colleagues while at Delhi – a project that showcases lively and enjoyable. the same time enabling people Gammon’s technical excellence. to use it as an outlet for their It also has an interaction with Happy reading and best regards ! creative expression. This can be Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Project in the form of original ideas or Director of the upcoming Nuclear experiences that each of us have Power facility at Kalpakkam near had. Many a time, sharing of these Chennai. Other updates include leads to a collective gain for the those on the Chennai Metro Vijay Vancheswar Cover Photo: A schematic view of the upcoming Signature Bridge at Wazirabad, Delhi. E DITORIAL TE AM C ONT E NTS Editor: Editorial / Contents 2 Dr. Vijay Vancheswar Chairman & Managing Director’s Message 3 Deputy Managing Director’s Message Core Committee: Projects and Group Updates 4 Ashutosh Inamdar Senior Board of Management Inductions / 10 Deepankar Shyam Corporate Sustainability Policy Mukul Joshi Strategic Initiatives and Measures / 11 5S in Gammon – the journey’s begun... Kshitiz Bhasker (GIPL) Gammon at Kalpakkam 12 Suryakantam Bansal Achievement 15 Vinayak Nagaonkar (GTPL) News Updates 16 Coordinators: Safety At Gammon 17 Karishma Gupta Gammon Springs 18 Down Memory Lane 20 Shefali Shah 2 G AMMON SPEAKS FROM TH E D E SK O F C HAIRMAN & MANAGING DIR ec TOR I would also like all of you to wish each one of you and your actively use the medium of families the very best of success. Gammon Speaks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and opinions. This Best regards, will no doubt help in enhancing our personal and professional development. Towards the above, I once again Abhijit Rajan Dear Colleagues, FROM TH E D E SK O F Warm wishes and greetings to E PUTY ANAGING IR ec TOR all of you ! D M D Dear Gammon Knights, as Builders to the Nation. We I am glad that we are bringing have created some of the most out an in-house magazine aptly You have the first issue of memorable structures and named Gammon Speaks. As an “Gammon Speaks” in your hands, implemented many challenging organisation, we have over the if not on your computer screens. projects but that was our years’ significantly grown in From ideation to fruition, this History. What is our future? numbers, scope and presence. magazine has taken a while. Vijay What difference are we going to Gammon Speaks should therefore and his editorial team have been make as India marches ahead to be a medium which addresses pushing it and I am delighted establish its rightful place under the need for communicating and that they have succeeded. the sun? sharing information across the organisation. Some of you would be happy, Are we going to be the best some critical and others skeptical. Engineering and Construction As we look ahead into the That’s the typical journey of any Company in India even as we set new year, we have significant new initiative. In the journey our sights on global reach and opportunities. The Government from idea to execution, you recognition? Are we going to be has identified infrastructure would encounter resistance if the preferred partner for our not opposition, ridicule if not clients, our suppliers/vendors/ growth as a key driver of the criticism and meet prophets of sub-contractors and service country’s economic progress doom, even if those who question providers? Are we going to be by allocating USD 1 trillion, your very Raison d’être are in a the Employer of Choice? Are we equivalent of almost Rs. 50 lakh minority. However, none of these going to reward our shareholders crore over the 12th plan period, has ever prevented change. For, and stake-holders which lead to 2012-17. This is a positive factor if there’s any constant in life– it win-win situations? for all our businesses. is change. Whether an individual or organisation, all of us have to If the answer to the above Together let us work on making constantly re-invent and exceed questions are in the affirmative, the best of this market scenario. ourselves, in our quest for growth how are we going to achieve Collaborative working, timely and development. The moment that? I hope “Gammon Speaks” completion of projects and we become comfortable and provokes thoughts and inspires attention to safety norms and think that we’ve cracked the action in that direction. security will help us progress on formula within ourselves to All the very Best, this path. Other facilitating factors success, it marks the beginning will be upgradation of skills and of our failure, if not stagnation. an openness to adopt and learn At Gammon, we share a dream Rohit Modi from within and outside. G AMMON SPEAKS 3 P ROJ ec TS AND GROU P UP DAT E S n Signature Bridge, Delhi The would be new symbol of Delhi, India’s first Signature Bridge (Client: Delhi Tourism and Transport Development Corporation, DTTDC), the ambitious project being constructed across the Yamuna at Wazirabad is a cable- stayed bridge which would link National Highway number one near existing T-point at Wazirabad on Western bank and Marginal Bund Road at Khajuri Khas on eastern bank of the river Yamuna, thereby connecting North Delhi A schematic presentation of the Signature Bridge with East Delhi. b. Bridge will feature a dual 9.6m to 13.2 m, and span varies With a length of about 575 metres carriageway of four lanes (14 from 32.25 to 49.5m Continuity and a height of 175 metres, this metres) each with a 1.2 metre of superstructure is achieved by engineering masterpiece will central verge in-situ pier segment monolithic have a bow-shaped pylon in the c. Demonstrates Gammon’s with the pier middle and equipped with four strength in use of innovative b. Superstructure is further split lanes with 1.2 metre wide central engineering design and into a spine box girders and verge, space for anchoring cables, technology side frame cantilevers with maintenance walkway and crash d. Bridge will connect marginal precast RCC ribs on the sides barrier on either side of the bund road at Khajuri Khas c. The erection scheme employed central verge. Besides, two high intersection on Eastern side in the construction is span by towers will be there to provide and Road No.45 on the Western span method using launching double cable support in the inner side girders. During erection of periphery of the carriageway. e. Design incorporates advanced segments, overhead launching technology with provisions for girder rests on temporary steel Once completed, Signature flyovers, ramps and loops to tower supported by permanent Bridge, will drastically improve decongest the high traffic zone foundations and after first access between North and West of the East-West corridors of stage stressing, whole span Delhi for the commuters besides River Yamuna in the Wazirabad also rests on hydraulic jacks facilitating movement of vehicular area of Delhi and ensure signal supported by temporary traffic. New express lanes will also free traffic movement trestles resting on permanent be constructed to connect Ring foundations till it achieves span n Wazirabad Approaches: Erection Road with the bridge. continuity. Horizontal force of precast segments using Overhead Launching Girder: n Some salient features of the project include: a. The precast segmental construction technology a. Unique cable-stayed bridge adopted for superstructure with structure-first of its kind in three/four span continuous India and amongst very few in straight/curved box girders the world with deck width varying from 4 G AMMON SPEAKS P ROJ ec TS AND GROU P UP DAT E S due to movement of launching n Some key features of this and fabricated erection girder. girder and gradient has been project include: The erection girder consists of two transferred to permanent pier a. Use of five foundations laid structural steel box girders, which through temporary steel towers below the ground water level are supported over RCC bracket, which supports overhead during the heavy monsoon one on either side of bridge launching girder. Till date six period with minimum decking projecting from pier. spans have been erected using disruption to traffic Specially designed erection gantry overhead launching girder b. Deployment of double the (named CAMEL Gantry) is used to normal number of cranes, feed the segments to launching n Nandnagari Rail over Bridge gantry and labour during girder.