Interarch, one of the leading turnkey pre-engineered steel construction solution providers, has executed a fabrication shop and an assembly shop for JCB India’s Jaipur plant

 In 2014, Interarch designed, manufactured and delivered a fabrication shop and an assembly shop for JCB India Ltd in Jaipur. The buildings are spread over the area of 30,400 sq. m. and 22,800 sq. m. respectively.

The project is designed according to the latest IS design codes, IS 800: working stress design for both the buildings with consideration given to all the geographical data like wind velocity, seismic zone as per IS standard for every particular site. The lateral forces resulting from the seismic or wind loads are resisted by diagonal bracing and jack portals at intermediate column locations. The design of the building was such that temperature was kept in control for monitoring the thermal expansion and contraction.

The expertise of Interarch design department reduced the engineering time of the fabrication shop and assembly shop which was very complex and new innovation has been done to design the building. Interarch for the first time designed a building bearing heavy load of approximately 225 metres hanging from the roof and for the column grid of 40 x 24 metres. Higher grade of 450 MPa steel has been used for the built up members.

Interarch had to deploy innovative solutions like highest safety standard which were followed in line with the international standard to achieve zero accident, logistics and warehousing control at site to meet site standard norms. Daily tool box meeting to review the site status and way forward was done, regular quality check jointly with client was done and corrective measures to achieve best quality in line with global standard were taken.

The project was completed within a period of 6 months.

JCB India Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is a fully-owned subsidiary of JC Bamford Excavators Ltd, UK. The company offers 24 different machines in seven product types such as backhoe loaders, loading shovels, tracked excavators, compactors, telehandlers, skid steer loaders and pick and carry crane.