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interaction COVER STORY Powered by Chowgule's mean Quality Chowgule Construction Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. (CCCPL) over the years the company has emerged as one of the leading companies offering innovative, sustainable and cost effective solutions in the construction and waterproofing chemicals industry. The company has established itself as a leading supplier of quality products backed up by a professional contracting team that is fully equipped with semi-mechanised tools to carry out large projects on turnkey basis. With over a decade of success, CCCPL is trusted by leading architects, consultants and developers and is actively supporting metro rail projects. EWART LAZARUS, MD, CHOWGULE CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS spoke to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES on the opportunities for his company in the metro rail space. As a company, give us a sense of the and we soon plan to be part of the fourth the process itself so that the specifcation gets emphasis you place on R&D and phase as well. distributed equally among the concerned innovation? contractors and DMRC ofcials. Tis will True to our mission statement to provide What are the opportunities you are open more business opportunities. We are superior products and services to our seeking in the metro space going forward? also venturing into MMRC and MMRDA. customers, both R&D and innovation form Tell us of the metro projects in which you We are trying for the second phase (Charkop a major part of our DNA. We endeavour are looking to contribute? to Dahisar) of MMRDA and the first to be the best in class in both our product Te metro projects all over the country are phase (Colaba to Seepz) of MMRC. We oferings and services that we provide. a major thrust area in the Government’s are meeting the contractors as well as the infrastructure growth plans. We are looking MMRC and MMRDA ofcials. Which are the metro projects in which you towards being an important provider are present, their current status, scope of of waterproofing in this space. We will Please share with us a Case Study of one work and timeline for completion? continue to be part of the DMRC projects of your metro rail projects, the challenges We are actively present in the Delhi Metro and are looking forward to contributing to faced and how you overcame them. Rail Corporation (DMRC) projects. Te MMRC and MMRDA. At administrative level, the frst challenge metro stations that we have catered to are that we faced was for product approval. It Ishwar Nagar, Okhla Vihar, Jamia Nagar, Provide us a brief idea of the existing took us a lot of time to reach the correct Jasola Vihar, Kalindi Kunj, Shankar Vihar market opportunities and your strategy and fnal authority. Te second challenge and Sadar Bazar Delhi Cantt. to tap those going forward? that we faced was to create awareness about We have provided our crystalline system for We have been part of the product us and our products among all the DMRC water tanks, anti-carbonation coating for the specification process only in the recent ofcials. Te only way to overcome these concourse area, PU injections for overhead past; hence we were able to get the product challenges was strong follow-up by our ceilings and deck slab waterproofng using approval from the DMRC authority in the team and continuous connection made by our liquid applied membrane which is fbre completion stage of the third phase. the company representatives with DMRC reinforced. Te fourth stage is about to start from the ofcials and the contractors at all points and We are currently providing products in the month of July/August 2017 and we will be assuring them of our support and quality third phase of DMRC which is on-going specifying our product in the beginning of service. u 68 construction opportunities|aPrIL 2017