The structure has been an incredible effort by GVK , the airport operator, but L&T has been one of the major contractors responsible for putting up that fine piece of work.
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AM Naik and SN Subrahmanyan, whole-time director & senior EVP, Construction & Infrastructure, L&T, talk to CNBC-TV18 on the challenges and key hurdles they faced and points of pressure for the project.
Below is the edited transcript of AM Naik and SN Subrahmanyan interview on CNBC-TV18
Q: There have been delays. This has been a challenging airport to build, if not difficult. There are issues of slums. There are issues of an existing airport that is running while this is being built. What would you identify as the key challenge that L&T faced in putting this project together for GVK, especially given the nature of the project that it is?
Naik: It is more appropriate if I would. Any running airport where every one minute a plane lands or takes off, you can't even shutdown for more than few hours.
There are lots of other challenges which come with the baggage of running an airport. I would rather have my colleague Subrahmanyan who has faced these challenges day in and day out to speak on it.
Q: What would you identify as challenge - cost, time, slums. Slums affect your construction design, it affects the ability to design something that may be viable but you can't because you can't get rid of that. So, I am just curious to know what you would identify as a big challenge?
Subrahmanyan: The single-biggest challenge was to put up this massive infrastructure in the centre of Mumbai city. It is not easy because you had an existing airport, it is a brownfield development, therefore and you had keep the present Sahar Airport running.
We broke one third of it and then built this massive building right at the centre. One could hardly see it coming up and many people have wondered where this building was coming up. Just imagine the logistics, everyday in the morning 15,000 workers coming in and moving out, 850 engineers coming in and moving out. On top of it nearly 3000-4000 odd sub-contractor workers and others moving in and going out and all done without too much of hullabaloo around the city and without creating too much of fuss and other issues.
Beyond that, there is an operating airport and therefore you had workers and staff working. We had to put barricades all around, there were very strict security and airport rules on what we do and what we should not do -- the issues on dust, on materials flying around, on safety, on airport safety, issues on light sometimes. There was a Lufthansa flight which nearly landed and one of our sight lights was beaming up and the pilot took off and the airport company decided to debit us with that.
These were things which were done unknowingly but it was a security hazard. So, day in and day out to live with that was extremely difficult.
Also, we had Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue right somewhere out here where we are sitting. It has a lot of sentimental value around this part of the world and one had to be extremely careful in looking at the sentiments and handling that particular matter. Our boys did a brilliant job in doing the airport around the statue and at the right time moving it out to a much better location where one could see it from all over the place now.
Also the fact that we are putting up an edifice like this, which is something very rare around the world -- such magnificence --- and to work with GVK group which has extreme presence in hospitality (one of their hotels in Hyderabad is rated amongst the top 5 in the world) and when they expect that kind of finishing magnificence and that kind of articulation of their vision is not easy from a construction point of view. We had to come out here to get that kind of finish and that kind of polish which you see out here.
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