UI4001 Infrastructure Project Studio Ashwani Kumar Meera Mehta

UI4001

Infrastructure Project Studio

Program

Urban Infrastructure

Unit Assistant Smeet Maniar

Students

Aditi Modi Amita Thakwani Anushika Chintaluri Anushri S Alatagi Basundhara Karki Bhuvaneshwari Peddi Devas Pathak Dhwani Chawla Gina Acharya Kishan Shah Sahil Patel Sakshi Sharma Shivani Singh Sravanthi Vantipalli Srushti Thakur Vivek Panchal Ashwani Kumar Meera Mehta

The absence of a comprehensive city wide infrastructure plan and an inadequate understanding or attention to cross cutting issues in water and sanitation sector often results in poor project formulation. It is possible to improve on this by developing integrated projects within the framework of comprehensive urban water and sanitation plan. This studio focuses on developing integrated infrastructure projects for stormwater, water, sanitation and solid waste management for a given city and its immediate periphery. This year the case city was Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Infrastructure development activities for these sectors whether in public or private domain, involve plan preparation, project formulation and implementation. This requires to be supported with appropriate institutional, technical and financial analysis. The learning from this studio equips students of the wider understanding of plan formulation process; tools and techniques of project identification, costing and phasing to ensure service performance improvements and resource efficiency for aforementioned key water-sanitation sectors.

The projects are identified with due consideration to on-going national programmes and emerging sectoral concepts of integrated urban water management, water sensitive urban planning and design, circular economy, fecal sludge and septage management.

Fig 1 Introduction Group Water and Sanitation in Ahmedabad Fig 2 Stormwater Group Baarish ka Paani – Stormwater in Ahmedabad Fig 3 Water Group Jal Ahem Hain – Saving Ahmedabad from Day Zero Fig 4 Sanitation Group Safai Sab ka Farz – Sanitation in Ahmedabad Fig 5 Solid Waste Group Waste isn’t Waste until you Waste it– Solid Waste in Ahmedabad