As Part of my College Industrial Visit I got an opportunity to visit the GIFT city … truly, as a 2nd year PGDM finance student who is Passionate about fintech and who has heard a lot about the GIFT city and its future projects, I was excited and its truly as u said a “ghost city”… the entry is like entering into some developed part of Gandhinagar … it was too far from the city the buildings are still work in progress … there were many well designed buildings … As you mentioned in the article everything was just like that. The host said that the GIFT city has a SEZ with an IFSC.
One of the amazing things which I saw there and is not mentioned in this Article is the “Utility Tunnel” . When explained by the host there, it felt like just an idea of “No digging zone” but in reality they are implementing the same and it’s amazing.
What is it ? It’s basically a tunnel which is three floors underground like we walked two floors down and then the utility tunnel was there below the pipes I saw some more space underneath maybe another floor for drainage. The tunnel has different pipes: one for the water supply , one for drainage, one for the AC water ,and also the city waste would be collected in this tunnel also the wires and cables which looks ugly hanging on the top of the buildings would be connected through this tunnel ..
So for the water supply if in future they want to change or repair or as they said sometimes during constructions in Mumbai the roads are dug to correct the water supply pipes and then there is this huge traffic because it might be in the middle of the road and then again poor material used can lead to Poth holes so to avoid all these problems the solution is utility tunnel. Even if there is some leak the problem would be solved without any destruction and nobody would be in trouble.
AC water pipeline they mentioned that we live in cities where in summers its impossible to live without the AC . So a separate AC pipeline where in the cool water will be passed and used in the AC cooling the used water will be passed through different pipes and the water will be filter and passed through the same pipe again like a cooling system.
Cables which are hanging in the cities looks unpleasant and can sometimes be a barrier for huge vehicles to pass also the broken wire problems during the monsoon season which could be dangerous. So utility tunnels will solve that problem connections will be passed within that tunnel.
Garbage collection they explained that the buildings waste is usually collected by the vehicle so they are trying to replace that with the hole in the buildings which are connected to the utility tunnel so that the person will throw the dry and waste garbage as if they are throwing in the dustbin but it is actually being thrown in the tunnel and then the segregation and waste management will be done in the tunnel.
When I heard all this I thought this might be just an idea which Is about to get implemented but then the host said that this is work in progress and whole GIFT city will have this utility tunnel as of now it is been constructed in small space. In the article the photo of the gift city has the LIC and SBI building just opposite to the same is this small office kind of space named as “GIFT District cooling Plant-1” where there are stairs to go underground towards the utility tunnel pipes. I saw the pipes being colored in different colors each representing the different work for the same.
When touched they were steel pipes and I was wondering … at that time that this would get corroded and … also it was just a small part which they have covered they have a plan to make a utility tunnel for whole GIFT city… which makes me wonder the pipes being used in this whole process and how this will increase huge demand for the pipes .... Towards the end of the visit a key question remained … why Gujarat and not Mumbai ? and I would say I got my answer by reading this wonderful article today so thank you so much for such an insightful article.
Hi Pooja! First of all, thank you so much. Secondly, this is an incredibly detailed and insightful comment, we had no idea about this. Maybe you should do a deep dive on how GIFT City's piping is built!
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As Part of my College Industrial Visit I got an opportunity to visit the GIFT city … truly, as a 2nd year PGDM finance student who is Passionate about fintech and who has heard a lot about the GIFT city and its future projects, I was excited and its truly as u said a “ghost city”… the entry is like entering into some developed part of Gandhinagar … it was too far from the city the buildings are still work in progress … there were many well designed buildings … As you mentioned in the article everything was just like that. The host said that the GIFT city has a SEZ with an IFSC.
One of the amazing things which I saw there and is not mentioned in this Article is the “Utility Tunnel” . When explained by the host there, it felt like just an idea of “No digging zone” but in reality they are implementing the same and it’s amazing.
What is it ? It’s basically a tunnel which is three floors underground like we walked two floors down and then the utility tunnel was there below the pipes I saw some more space underneath maybe another floor for drainage. The tunnel has different pipes: one for the water supply , one for drainage, one for the AC water ,and also the city waste would be collected in this tunnel also the wires and cables which looks ugly hanging on the top of the buildings would be connected through this tunnel ..
So for the water supply if in future they want to change or repair or as they said sometimes during constructions in Mumbai the roads are dug to correct the water supply pipes and then there is this huge traffic because it might be in the middle of the road and then again poor material used can lead to Poth holes so to avoid all these problems the solution is utility tunnel. Even if there is some leak the problem would be solved without any destruction and nobody would be in trouble.
AC water pipeline they mentioned that we live in cities where in summers its impossible to live without the AC . So a separate AC pipeline where in the cool water will be passed and used in the AC cooling the used water will be passed through different pipes and the water will be filter and passed through the same pipe again like a cooling system.
Cables which are hanging in the cities looks unpleasant and can sometimes be a barrier for huge vehicles to pass also the broken wire problems during the monsoon season which could be dangerous. So utility tunnels will solve that problem connections will be passed within that tunnel.
Garbage collection they explained that the buildings waste is usually collected by the vehicle so they are trying to replace that with the hole in the buildings which are connected to the utility tunnel so that the person will throw the dry and waste garbage as if they are throwing in the dustbin but it is actually being thrown in the tunnel and then the segregation and waste management will be done in the tunnel.
When I heard all this I thought this might be just an idea which Is about to get implemented but then the host said that this is work in progress and whole GIFT city will have this utility tunnel as of now it is been constructed in small space. In the article the photo of the gift city has the LIC and SBI building just opposite to the same is this small office kind of space named as “GIFT District cooling Plant-1” where there are stairs to go underground towards the utility tunnel pipes. I saw the pipes being colored in different colors each representing the different work for the same.
When touched they were steel pipes and I was wondering … at that time that this would get corroded and … also it was just a small part which they have covered they have a plan to make a utility tunnel for whole GIFT city… which makes me wonder the pipes being used in this whole process and how this will increase huge demand for the pipes .... Towards the end of the visit a key question remained … why Gujarat and not Mumbai ? and I would say I got my answer by reading this wonderful article today so thank you so much for such an insightful article.
Hi Pooja! First of all, thank you so much. Secondly, this is an incredibly detailed and insightful comment, we had no idea about this. Maybe you should do a deep dive on how GIFT City's piping is built!
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