Allied - Gift City, Gujrat
Allied - Gift City, Gujrat
Allied - Gift City, Gujrat
TEC-CITY
• GIFT is planned as a financial Central Business District (CBD) between Ahmadabad and
Gandhinagar as a Greenfield development. It is designed as a hub for the global financial
services sector. More particularly, state-of-the-art connectivity, infrastructure and
transportation access have been integrated into the design of the city.
• Location of GIFT The project regenerates the area as high-quality, mixed use district of
residential, commercial and open space facilities that optimize land and real estate
values. It is characterized to be a Central Business District (CBD) developed on “Smart and
Sustainable Development” principle thereby acting as a motivation for overall
development of the region.
L O C AT I O N
CONCEPT
• "To design a CBD that will serve as a paradigm for Next Class city in terms of quality of life, infrastructure and ambience aiming to be high-density and
high-rise, treating land as a precious resource."
• The central theme of our proposed landscape creates a forest.
• Recharges and re-supplies water.
• Generates climatically appropriate people’s places.
• It will mitigate the ecological imbalances through landscape restoration and new interventions.
• A thriving ecological, sustainable city with a variety of flora and fauna, and a gentler microclimate will be created.
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LAND USE
• The development of CBD (Central Business District) projects can be clarified as the following three types according to their characters:
• Office : Includes office and associated facilities such as conference and exhibition.
• Service : Including retail, restaurant, entertainment and cultural facilities, hotel.
• Residential facilities : Including apartment, residential buildings.
PLANNING
• A greenfield development.
• Designed as a hub for the global financial services sector.
• State-of-the-art connectivity, infrastructure and transportation access have been integrated into the design of the city.
• Advancing the ideas of sustainability and ecology. The project regenerates the area as high-quality, mixed use district of residential, commercial and
open space facilities that optimize land and real estate values.
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VISION
• The vision for GIFT is achieved through the objectives which are enumerated as follows:
• To develop a new format for globally benchmarked Integrated City
• To propose a road map for fast track development and implementation
• To make the city scalable in each & every aspect for a distant future
• To derive the city format from fast changing lifestyles & new technologies
• To achieve an image of Global city, that keeps pace with modern technologies
ZONING
• The location of these activities is encapsulated as “Enclaves” with proximity to transport, identity, image, clustering, SEZ processing and non
processing, riverfront.
• The main goal to develop GIFT as a world-class hub to facilitate the delivery of a wide range of cross-border financial services to clients in other
countries.
• Evolved Commercial (offices) land use as the predominant land use.
• The residential activity along with other social infrastructure provision is equally necessary to keep the centre alive and active.
• The other land uses have been proportionately introduced.
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LAND USE PLAN
RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL
PUBLIC-SEMIPUBLIC
COMERCIAL (32%)
MIXED (30%)
PUBLIC SEMI PUBLIC 1%
OTHER ARE 23 RECREATION-1
RECREATION-2
WATER BODY
TRANSPORTATION-14%
UNDERGROUND ROAD
LRTS STATION
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MASTER PLAN
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LANDMARK BUILDINGS
• “Diamond Tower” - The tallest tower is located on the beautiful Fortune
Island. The Diamond Tower symbolizes Gujarat’s flourishing diamond
industry. Designed to portray the elegant edges of diamond facets, each
floor of the tower is different and yet uniquely forming one large
diamond.
• “Convention Centre” - It has several halls, auditorium and an opera with
sitting capacity exceeding 10,000. It’s design is inspired by Salt Crystals
and Dandi March. It will also have Eight museums showcasing the
history, art, culture and socio-economic life of Gujarat.
• “The Crystal Towers” - The glowing crystals are one of the most stunning
buildings of the City skyline. Synonymous with their names, the four
office Crystal Towers have beautiful terraces gardens and offer
spectacular views of Dream River, Diamond Tower and the Convention
Centre.
• “Transit Node” - The transport node is the urban hub of the city. The
Complex is designed with hotels, malls, theatres, food streets and
multidimensional transport stations.
• “The River Front Development” : Designed for entertainment, the river
front will be dotted with restaurants, craft bazaar and leisure activities
to provide fun and relaxation in a serene ambience.
• “The Gateway Towers” - The tall archways of the Gateway Towers frame
the majestic Diamond tower and create a picture perfect setting.
Astride the main avenue of the city, the Gateway Towers have elaborate
terrace gardens and rooftop restaurant. The Gateway Towers draw this
design inspiration from Buland Darwaja and herald India’s arrival in the
new millennium.
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V E H I C U L A R C I R C U L AT I O N P L A N
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STREET SECTIONS
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VIEWS
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CITY LEVEL AMENITIES
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Integrated infrastructure for better diversity
• Technology ensuring energy conservation
• All utilities /services to be coordinated through single agency
BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIVITY/TRANSPORT
SANJAY GANDHI
NATIONAL PARK
• Uninterrupted and highly • International • Water and Power Supply • External Connectivity
reliable power supply Exhibition Complex Systems includes MRTS / BRTS/
(99.999%) Roads
• Next generation water & • Educational Institutes • Waste Management Systems • Public-Private Modal Split
waste management, district 90:10
RAILWAY
cooling
LINE
• International and • District Cooling System
WESTERN
Domestic schools EXPRESS
HIGHWAY
• State of the Art • Information Communication
Hospital Technology (ICT)
• Landscaping
PROPOSED
LOCATON OF
HOSPITAL
PROPOSED
LOCATON OF
SCHOOLS
PROPOSED
LOCATON OF
HOTELS
• The vision of “DIGGING FREE CITY” by placing all the utilities in a TUNNEL across the city so that there is no need to
excavate the roads in future for repair/maintenance /renovation/up gradation of any utility.
• The provisions are made in the tunnel for smooth access, separation of utilities, proper drainage, lighting, and
other long-term concerns, such as maintenance and security. SANJAY GANDHI
NATIONAL PARK
Power Cables
➢ Raw Water supply pipe line to Water Treatment Plant (WTP)
➢ treated water supply pipe line from WTP to various developments,
➢ chilled water supply from District Cooling Pipe (DCP) to various developments and return pipe line to DCP,
➢ ICT cables,
➢ Automated Waste Collection pipe line, RAILWAY
➢ Fire hydrant water pipe line, etc. LINE
WESTERN
• From safety point of view the tunnel is divided into WET and DRY sections which are physically
EXPRESSseparated with
each other. HIGHWAY
• Wet section is carrying utilities related to water, ICT and others
• dry section carries power cables and have access from top.
• The wet section has been designed in such a manner that material handling can be done efficiently and
SITEmay be used for material movement.
maintenance trolley
• Total length of the Tunnel within GIFT City shall be approx. 16 Km and shall be provided with Ventilation system,
• Rodent Repellent System and Fire & Smoke Detection System for the purpose of safety. The size of the Tunnel shall
vary depending on the no and size of the Utilities and may go up to as large as 8 M wide X 11M deep.
Utility Trench
Green boulevard-
udyan path Medium-
large size tree wide,
arching canopy,
robust urban street
tree Fig : St reetscape Typology
Waterfront park
Small to large size
tree , groups of
varying canopy
forms , water
tolerant
F i g : Fo r e st Tr e e M i x
ROADS • Roads in GIFT Project will be of • Up gradation of Access Road and the construction of 5 k.m. of sub arterial
International class and it is Road is completed.
planned in a manner which will • Construction of Arterial Road awarded to Backbone Enterprises Ltd. and is
make GIFT a zero accident zone in under process. SANJAY GANDHI
the city. NATIONAL PARK
WATER • GIFT Project is zero discharge city; • Construction of Raw Water Pumping Station (RWPS) and water supply
water will be drinkable from any transmission main pipeline to GIFT Zone from Narmada Canal-Completed.
tap. • Works for WTP and STP have been assigned to M/s Voltas Limited. WTP (3
• Storage of surface run-off & rain MLD) has been commissioned and STP (2.2 MLD) is completed.
water will be done and the water RAILWAY
• Consultancy work for framing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for
infrastructure will consist of next GIFT Water Infrastructure
LINE Ltd. is completed.
class Water Treatment Plants WESTERN
(WTP) and Sewage Treatment EXPRESS
Plants (STP).
HIGHWAY
DIRECT • District Cooling System is • Work assigned to ETA Engineers Pvt. Ltd. a reputed international agency
COOLING introduced for the first time in from Dubai on EPC basis.
SYSTEM India for any commercial use. • First District Cooling plant having capacity of 10000 TR to support Phase–I
• The chilled water will be supplied
SITE development is operational.
till building level and it will reduce
energy & maintenance cost,
reduce noise & vibrations,
improves air quality.
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INTRODUCTION
POWER • GIFT Project ensures • Construction power arrangement, works for street lighting on access road to GIFT
99.999% power Project, Web based LED Street Lighting system for the sub - arterial roads has
reliability, which means commissioned. 66 kv Substation is commissioned by Blue Star.
outage of 5.3 minutes • Consultancy work for framing of Standard Operating Procedures for the SANJAY GANDHI
GIFT Power
per annum. NATIONAL
Company Ltd is completed. Techno-Economic Feasibility study for setting PARK
up Gas
Based Power Generation Plant in GIFT City is awarded to Steag Energy India Pvt. Ltd.
and same is completed.
• Centralized Distribution Substation work has been awarded to Rajesh Power Services
Ltd. Design, Supply, Installation, testing and commissioning of 2750 kv, 11 kv Diesel
Generator Set for backup power supply arrangement work has been awarded to
Sudhir Genset.
ITC • Create leading-edge • Overall concept, master RAILWAY
plan, high design of ICT services including Data center is
infrastructure, services LINE
developed by British Telecom and to implement the same, a consortium consisting of
and platforms and offer reputed agencies including Tata Communications, WESTERN
Newgen ITeS services & Centios (JV
financial services & of Korean Telecom & Cisco System) has been selectedEXPRESS to provide ICT services within
IT/ITeS enterprises a GIFT City. GIFT City offers always up & running IT HIGHWAY
infrastructure with 99.995% uptime .
significant competitive • A state of art Tier IV Green Data Centre with a capacity of 900 racks is being
advantage to operate inaugurated in by last week of August-15 . The Data Centre will provide various
regionally and globally. services like Public , Private & Hybrid cloud, managed hosting. Variety of solutions like
IaaS ( Infrastructure as a services ), Paas ( Platform as a service ) & DRaaS ( Disaster
SITE recovery as a service ) will be offered from this Data Centre .
• Entire GIFT City is connected with a fault tolerant optical fibre ring infrastructure . The
connectivity in GIFT City is being provided by four major telecommunication service
providers . GIFT City uses advances of technology in form of unique IoT ( Internet of
Things ) based C-4 ( City Command & Control Centre ) to monitor and manage City
Infrastructure.
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INTRODUCTION
AUTOMATED • Automated Waste Collection System (AWCS) and Segregation Plant • Work assigned to Envac a reputed
WASTE is one of the unique next class infrastructure planned in GIFT international agency from Sweden and
COLLECTION Project. It will Maximize resource recovery / Minimal emissions, construction work for Central Waste
SYSTEM Minimize impact on environment, human intervention, space Handling Facility (CWHF) ofSANJAY
5 to 50GANDHI
TPD
requirement, impact on health hazard and no waste visibility which NATIONAL PARK
capacity has got commissioned.
will make city clean, green and healthy.
UTILITY • All utility services except gas and sewerage from plants to various • For first phase, work awarded to M. S.
TUNNEL buildings will be routed through utility tunnel only. GIFT is planned Khurana Engineering Ltd for construction
to develop Utility Tunnel throughout city including DTA & SEZ areas of Utility Tunnel of 2.2 k.m. length in DTA is
completed. MEP Tender awarded to Blue
RAILWAY
Star Ltd. Request for Qualification (RFQ)
LINE for construction of Utility Tunnel for
WESTERN
Phase-II (4.5 k.m) is completed and RFP for
EXPRESS
the same is under process.
SAMRUDDHI • Artificial water body of 1.2 km planned which will work as a 15 HIGHWAY
• The detailed design of Samruddhi Sarovar
SAROVAR days water storage for the city and also use for the recreational has been done by Halcrow Consulting India
and entertainment. Pvt. Ltd. Design, Proof Checking and
Project Management Consultancy services
SITE (PMC) for Development of Master
Balancing Reservoir (MBR) in GIFT City is
being done by TCE.
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BUILDINGS
1. GIFT ONE:
It is office building located in Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) consists of 29 floor (122
mtrs). It is developed by ITUAL and constructed by L&T Ltd. The building consists
of 12 high speed elevators and has next class building elevation & infrastructure.
“GIFT ONE” was inaugurated by Hon’ble Chief Minister-GOG on January 10, 2013
SANJAY GANDHI
and is operational with leading Public Sector Banks, IT & Finance Companies
NATIONAL PARK
occupying space in the Tower.
2. GIFT TWO :
It is office building located in Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) consists of 29 floor (122
mtrs). It is developed by ITUAL and constructed by Al Nakra Constructions, Dubai
(ANC).The building consist of 12 high speed elevators and will have next class
RAILWAY
building elevation & infrastructure. The building will be inaugurated shortly.
Global LINE
WESTERN
EXPRESS
HIGHWAY
SITE
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SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE ALLOTMENTS
HOSPITAL
Sterling Addlife India Limited, a leading Corporate Hospital Chain is allotted 0.25 mn sq.ft. BUA and is
developing a state-of-the-art multispecialty Hospital of 200 beds in GIFT City. Design & Architectural
Specification of the facility are under finalization, construction to commence shortly.
SITE
HOTEL & CLUB
Two Hotels (4/5 star) are being planned in GIFT City currently and work for the same is expected to
commence shortly. GIFT will also have India’s first Business Club. Allotment for GIFT International Centre
(Business Club) is made to West India Hospitality Ltd. Construction of the same is in progress.
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S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y
CONCLUSION
As far as sustainability is concerned, GIFT reflects a sophisticated planning approach to ensure integration of Environmental concerns and Green
Buildings, optimum usage of energy, water and construction materials.
The project regenerates the area as high-quality, mixed use district of commercial, residential and open space facilities that optimize land and real
estate values.
Due to its efforts, GIFT has been presented with multiple awards and honours, such as “Smart City of the Future” b Cisco Technology Awards, 2014 and
many others. GIFT stands as a model for successful sustainable development of industrial and commericial areas, and it will be seen in the future as a
model, based on which the development of the other smart cities will take place.
1. “GIFT- A Smart City A Global Financial Hub”, Esri India, Dec 2014.
2. “Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT)”, Regional Best Practices Seminar Manila, Philippines 29 – 30 April, 2009.
3. Shailesh Kumar Jha, “Smart Cities in India (Towards Carbon Reduction – A Green & Sustainable Planet)” , Smart Cities – A Way Towards Sustainability
and Green Planet.
4. “Setting up of water and sewage treatment plant at GIFT city”, Vibrant Gujarat ,8th Global Summit, Urban Development, Government of Gujarat, 10-
13 Jan 2017.
5. GIFT Gujarat official website www.giftgujarat.in
6. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ 2013-01-10/ahmedabad/36257250_1_gift-city-gujarat-internationalfinance-tec-city-ramakant-jha
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