COVER STORY
REPORT
KIRBY - GAME CHANGING
STEEL STRUCTURES
Steel as a construction The industr y has witnessed change in
material for high rises adaptation of steel in high rises over
the last 5-6 years mainly because of
is being accepted by
various advantages it offers such as off-
customers but only site construction, speed, quality, timely
in select cities as the completion, etc. Indian construction industry
building segment is still is fast evolving with increasing acceptance of
dominated by concrete modern construction technologies with Steel
or RCC. Kirby has taken Structures being one of them. Kirby is providing
these steel structures with more innovative
this opportunity and is
parameters such as design flexibility, easily
extensively promoting accommodating aesthetic or architectural
steel as an alternate features, factory controlled fabrication which
construction material for mitigates quality, transport and labour issues,
all high-rise buildings for green building features, longer life span,
various applications either ease of maintenance, lower project cost,
environmental friendly and many more.
in the form of only steel or
in composite form. Role in the project
Kirby Building Systems & Structures India Pvt Ltd
is involved in Connection Design, Detailing,
Manufacture, Supply and Construction of this
High Rise Building using Structural Steel works
covering the superstructure part of the building.
Salient Features
This Office Building located in the Hitech City
– IT hub of Hyderabad is being developed to
cater the requirements of IT companies within
2.65 acres allocated land area with 2 acres
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Facts Sheet
Client Name: Phoenix Infocity, Hyderabad
Project Name: Phoenix Avance H09
Building
Steel Solution Provider:
Kirby Building Systems & Structures India
Building Usage: High Rise Office Building
Steel Tonnage: 6,600 MT (Approx.)
Status: Completed
Location: Hyderabad
area covering the structure and development
of 12.37 lacs square feet – 20 floor Structure
consisting of Ground Podium and above 18
floors are Steel Structure.
Over 6,600 MT of steel involved in construction
with 5,600 MT of the built-up sections and 980
MT of deck sheeting. Most of the raw material
such as plate sections etc. used in fabrication
for this project is procured from JSW Steel,
Tata Steel, etc. and Deck Sheeting from JSW
Structural Metal Decking Ltd.
Three sides of compound is shared with
residential area and fourth side with
another high rise IT facility. This jobsite is in
a very confined space with challenges of
neighborhood residential building, site logistics
and interfaces with various construction
activities such as earthworks/excavation, RCC
works and Structural Steel works.
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The building has car parking facility up to 6th stilt level and above 12
floors as Office Space. Total Height of the Structure above ground
level is 71.962 meters with floor plate of 6,450 square meters.
The project is designed as Composite Steel Structure with Grid of
11 m x 9 m, concrete infilled box columns with optimized size i.e.
up to Stilt Parking Area 1100 mm x 950 mm and above office floors
columns of size 600 mm x 600 mm to maximise the floor carpet
area.
The floor to floor height for parking area is 3300 mm and office
area is 4150 mm. Fire proof paint used for columns is Vermiculite
Coating and Intumescent Paint.
Over 2.6 lacs safe man hours achieved with deployment of an
average 60-65 workmen crews daily.
Description about the structural elements
All the Columns are Box Columns with concrete infilled and Beams
are I-Sections. Deck Sheeting is TR 60 with composite action.
Uniqueness about the structure
The Composite Steel Structure is developed for vertical spaces.
The box columns with concrete infilled are highly optimized
and sectional element thickness, built-up “I” Section Columns
connecting with RCC central core and peripheral four corner RCC
shear wall staircases, cantilever of 2400 mm on periphery with
planter boxes.
All the elements of the building are double side welded as per
the AWS standards with high end electrodes to have the highest
precision, consistency and efficiency during welding.
Grade of Steel used is Fe450
Techniques used for erecting the structure
• Total Project Management – Alignment of the Engineering,
Production and Supply chain with site construction activity.
• Just in Time Philosophy – the production of the structural
members were as per the construction plan and shipment of
the same with continual monitoring.
• QA/QC techniques – with meticulous and methodological
approach, quality checks were implemented at all the stages
right from Raw Material to Finished Goods at plant with the
client’s QA/QC team involvement at every level for smooth
execution of the project.
• Meticulous Logistics plan – Transportation of the steel structure
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elements within the highly congested area with vary narrow
road to the project site.
• Use of special lifting tools to increase the execution such
as remote ground release shackles, site developed multiple
beams lifting tools, high speed bolting tools to achieve
specified torque values.
• Use of noise reduction bolting torque machines to reduce
the noise to 40 db without compromising on the bolting speed.
• Use of surveying tools like total stations and lasers for
measurement accuracy and importantly the verticality of the
structure to achieve the stability.
Challenges faced during the erection
• Tower Cranes inside the building - The constrained project
space area and adjacent residential area challenged the
aerial area for movement of the Tower Crane, which forced
to install both the Tower Cranes inside the building.
• Use of Noise reduction tools and tackles - Control on
noise pollution called for use of Low Noise Bolt Tightening
equipment’s deployment, without compromising the speed
of construction activity.
• Logistics – Transportation of the steel structure elements within
the city area and live IT campus.
• Dimensional accuracy of the Structure – the proper planned
structure erection works with regular level dimensional checks
to achieve the specified size and verticality of the structure.
The entire building above stilt levels i.e. office floors are having
façade with dimensional accuracy to be maintained. The
building stability calls for stringent verticality measurements,
with help of the Total Station and site developed tools used to
achieve the verticality within 6 mm.
Safety Initiatives
• Safety of Crew during Construction works – Induction of
new crews with health checkups for the vertigo test. Daily Tool
Box meeting with construction crew and orientation of daily
activities prior to start of the work.
• Stringent protocols follow-up for sanitation and hygiene of the
labour colony.
• TPI’s of all the lifting equipment and tools and tackles.
• Used special equipment for safe erection with speed such
as Tower Cranes, Deck Riders over the slabs at every level to
access the height members in above floors, use of the beam
roller crawlers for anchoring the safety harness.
• Heat stress management – Project passed through the severe
heat weather and summer climate during which daily health
checkup of all the workmen.
• Covid-19 Safety of working crew – Regular sanitization of
materials received at site and training and orientation to
the crew including daily health monitoring. Labour colony
sanitization and regular health checkups helped in retaining
the entire workforce during entire lockdown period of 45 days
and started the construction as soon as the clearance was
given for commencement.
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