From the director’s desk

SJ Contracts believes that maintaining an open channel of communication and information with all of its stakeholders is of prime importance. Collaborative growth can be achieved only through such an outlook on business. At SJ Contracts, we identify transactions to be transactions of business and transactions of information. In all that we do, the culture at SJCPL will always promote initiatives towards easing transactions with stakeholders. As a business partner,we will try to uphold this idea and find ways to add value to every interaction.

Suhas Jangle
Director

This newsletter is one such initiative to add value to our external relationships. Everyone at SJ Contracts is very happy to present to you its Quarterly newsletter ‘In-Site’.

Hope you enjoy it.

Events (Training, Activities, Celebration)

Tree plantation

‘He who plants a tree plants a hope.’ What better way to celebrate life than to give hope to another? SJCPL celebrated its founder Suhas Jangle’s 66th birthday with a tree plantation drive on ARAI hills.

The SJCPL family joined hands in planting close to 1000 trees that will help in keeping the green cover on the hills intact. The drive coincided with ‘Van Mahotsav’ which is an annual tree plantation festival celebrated across the country since 1950 and was conducted in collaboration with the Maharashtra Forest Department.

Over 300 employees came together for this activity that also helped to raise awareness about the rampantly depleting tree cover of the city.

We thank Maharashtra Forest Dept, Government of Maharashtra and Deputy Conservator of Forests (Territorial) Rangnath Naikade for his support, the student’s band Aradhya for lending their originally composed music to the drive and this video, and our team for their wholehearted and enthusiastic participation!

 

Felicitation for 10th and 12th

Exceptional results deserve felicitation! At SJCPL, we believe that education is the best way towards a bright future. So we decided to join in the celebrations when the children of our employees outshone their exams. The management at SJCPL held a function to appreciate the children for their hard work and outcome of excellence in their 10th and 12th exams. 15 children were felicitated for their exceptional results and presented with mementos. The children also heard inspirational speeches by senior managers and enjoyed snacks thereafter.

Statistics to be renamed to Work completed in FY 16-17

  • Total safe man-hours in 2016-17: 9108160 million hrs
  • Concrete PouredM: 162289 cum
  • Rebar Placed: 17639 MT
  • Formwork:- 968929 sqm
  • Built up area – 3906298 sq.ft
  • Concreting done – 149662 m3
  • Shuttering area – 968929 m2

‘Order Booking Numbers’ to be changed to ‘Work in Hand’
Change from current sq ft format to

  • Area – 71 Lakhs Sqft
  • Value – Rs 644 Crores

Show a Pie Chart with the following distribution

  • High Rise Residential – 350 Crores
  • Commercial – 225 Crores
  • Industrial – 69 Crores
  • total 644

Achievements

Upgrade in External Credit Rating

SJCPL has ambitious growth plans in the next five years. A good external credit rating will be pivotal in ascertaining the basis on which SJCPL will be able to raise debt to fuel this growth.In its recent credit review SJCPL was able to secure an upgrade in its external credit rating from BBB to BBB+. The rating was assigned to us by Brickwork Rating India Pvt Ltd. 

5 Million Safe Manhours Completed At The Godrej Infinity Project

SJCPL was felicitated by the Godrej team project for completing 5 million safe manhours at the Godrej Infinity project. The Godrej Infinity project is setting many progressive milestones in the construction field and SJCPL is proud to be associated with this magnanimous residential scheme.

ICare

At SJCPL, we believe in working in rhythmic cohesion with our clients and stakeholders. Our purpose is to be committed to making life easier for our clients and our employees too. Inclusive growth and prosperity are at the core of our value system. The management is personally invested in the well being of the SJCPL family and to reinstate that, we have adopted ICare as our core philosophy. At the very core of this philosophy lie four underlying values of Commitment, Adaptability, Respect, and Enjoyment. These values and purpose are the consistent force that drives us at SJCPL. We have started to cascade ICare initiatives across the company and it is slowly but surely becoming a way of life for us. ICare has helped us realign our goals with our values. For SJCPL, goals, and strategies may change each year but our ethics and values are what defines us.

GGBS

Ground Granulated Blast Furnace is a residue from the blast furnace used to make iron. Once the iron ore is reduced to iron, the residue materials form a slag that floats atop the iron that lead to a byproduct that resembles granules of coarse sand after quenching with water. GGBS is touted as a greener alternative building material as it is made of waste and does not reduce the quality of cement when mixed together. Widely used in Europe, United States of America, Japan and Singapore, GGBS is also picking in popularity in India. GGBS cement is added to concrete in the batching plant, along with Portland cement, aggregates and water. Portland cement is required to activate the properties of GGBS. The normal ratios of aggregates and water to cementitious material in the mix remain unchanged. GGBS is used as a direct replacement for Portland cement, on a one-to-one basis by weight. Replacement levels for GGBS vary from 30% to up to 85%. The higher the replacement, the higher is the sustainability. GGBS use makes most sense in large scale construction as it is not economical when not provided in bulk. Although the setting time is slightly extended when GGBS is used, its considerable benefits outweigh this drawback.The major use of GGBS is in ready mix concrete and it is known to have these major benefits
  • Reduces the risk of thermal cracking because of its low early rise temperature
  • Higher durability against sulphate and chloride attack
  • The production of GGBS is virtually CO2 free
  • Concrete made with GGBS has a high solar reflectance hence reducing the heat island effect
  • GGBS has considerable sustainability benefits
  • When compared to Portland cement, GGBS is easy to place and compact and retains its workability for longer.

Featured Projects

  • Name of Project: KPIT Office Building
  • Client: KPIT Technologies Limited
  • Location: MIDC Phase III, Hinjewadi, Pune.
  • Size: 300,000 sq ft

This is is KPITs new greenfield campus spread across 28 acres in Hinjewadi.

The project was envisaged as an architectural marvel, with lots of form finish concrete walls, columns, and fins.

The execution of this project involved the use and application of various sophisticated shuttering and formwork technologies like Aero Decks from PERI, Birch-ply panels from DOKA and Geoplast panels for round columns. Building the form finish concrete façade walls was the biggest challenge in this project. Specially imported birch plywood was used to achieve the required architectural finish in concrete. We were able to achieve excellent finishing quality and as a result of the clients even decided to keep almost the entire structure in exposed concrete.

Another challenge was to effectively achieve the short completion deadline which required the use of system formwork from Peri & RMD, an on-site concrete plant of 30cum/hr and two tower cranes. The office building was completed in a period of 8 months and total completion including infrastructure in a period of 16 months.

SJ Contracts also had an opportunity for the first time to execute landscaping works for 15 acres of the project which included the use of unique materials, installations of precast seating areas, water bodies, concrete roads, bus parking, etc.

  • Name of Project: Vaccines Manufacturing Unit
  • Client: SEZ Biotech Services Pvt Ltd (Serum Institute of India)
  • Location: Manjari, Pune
  • Size: 1200,000 sq ft

Industrial projects are always featured worthy given the unique specifications of each project. The Serum project was no less. The total area of construction was 12 lac square feet which constituted three buildings of 30 meters height each. Each slab was at a height of 8 meters and had a load-bearing capacity of 2.5 metric tonnes per sq ft. Total concrete poured was 100000 cum and the total quantity of rebar was 9500 MT. Phase 1 works of 1200000 sqft were completed and handed over to the client in a period of 24 months.

We undertook a fair amount of R&D for devising and arriving at a method to execute this kind of construction in the safest and economical way. As a result, we were able to design and contractually manufacture a unique table formwork and scaffolding system to address the specific challenges. The overall application of technology with respect to formwork shuttering, concrete placing equipment has been tremendous at this project which has thus allowed us to considerably reduce the input of labor as well.