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ROAD & ROAD CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
CASE STUDY

Concreting Record Creation: SPECIFICATION:
In November 2017, 2 nos Stetter Concrete Name of Project: Eastern Peripheral Expressway.
Batching Plant M2.5 worked non-stop Name of Customer: Ashoka Buildcon, Gayatri Projects, Jaiprakash Associates,
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to produce a total volume of 6750 m of Oriental Structural Engineers and Sadbhav Engineering.
Pavement uality Concrete in a single SSI Equipment: 19 batching plants, 5 chilling plants, 47 transit mixers,
working day to create a never surpassed 10 stationary concrete pumps and 6 concrete boom pumps.
"New World Record" in the Eastern
Peripheral Expressway project through the To make this expressway, 20 countries of the being done via drip irrigation.
execution by Sadbhav Engineering. World have been studied. is is India's rst Along the expressway’s length, there are
such expressway in which the weight of the wayside amenities like petrol pumps, rest
Smart, Green Expressway vehicles will be made before reaching the areas, hotels, restaurants, shops, repair
e Expressway is equipped with the latest, entry point and it will be dealt with whether services, etc. There are ambulances and
world class smart technology and road the entry of the said vehicle is within the cranes on this expressway at every 20
safety features like intelligent highway limit. Interestingly, if the vehicle overload kilometers. At every 2.5 km, there are
traffic management system, variable is found then the exit gate will open toilets-keeping in line with the Swachh
message signs, CCTV, warning devices, over automatically instead of the entry point. Bharat mission. While passing on the
speed checking system, weigh-in-motion, It is the country’s rst green highway, with Eastern Peripheral Expressway, one will
pavement management systems and ber landscaping, plantation with nearly 2.5 be able to see 36 monuments from the air
optic network, real time video incident lakh trees and fully lit by solar energy 100 temperature to the utab Minar, Hawa
detection system and a closed tolling per cent. ere is provision for rainwater Mahal, India Gate, Lalkila, four minarets,
system where the toll will be charged on harvesting every 500 metres on either side of Jallianwala Bagh, Ashok Chakra, Kirti
the distance travelled. the Expressway, with watering of the plants Colony, etc.

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