UI4004 Infrastructure Project Studio (WASH) Mona Iyer Meera Mehta

UI4004

Infrastructure Project Studio (WASH)

Program

Urban Infrastructure

Unit Assistant Smeet Maniar

Students

Akshat Thakore Onkar Ghusale Rishabh Garg Mona Iyer 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 Conclusion Group Future of WASH in Ahmedabad Fig 3 Akshat Thakore Exploring Decentralized Potential for Organic Waste Fig 4 Onkar Ghusale Wastewater Management for Ahmedabad Peripheral Areas Fig 5 Rishabh Garg Monitoring of Water Supply in Distribution Network through SCADA System