Mumbai: BMC switches to new tech for construction of piles, to shave project cost, time
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s decision to switch to monopile foundation technology from multiple-pile foundation to construct pillars for bridge and interchanges of the coastal road project will not only help reduce its cost by Rs 12 crore but also its build time by three months, officials said.
The 10.58-km coastal road project will be constructed from Princess Street to Worli. The civic body will use the new technology for the construction of piles from Priyadarshini Park to Baroda Palace and Baroda Palace to Worli end of Bandra-Worli Sea Link, officials said.
In the monopile technology, only one pile is required for supporting a pillar, while in the case of current technology multiple piles are needed. The new technology will reduce the number of piles from 704 to 176, officials said.
