Proposed Ashramshala Project, Shirur

An Ashramshala at Shirur, in the east of Pune district - a residential school where children study and live on the same campus. The building has a basement with parking and a basement hall reached by a ramp, a ground floor of six classrooms, ward rooms, a hall, stores and toilets, a first floor of six more classrooms with a boys' hostel, the chairman's room, the office and a security post, and a girls' hostel above, all served by a lift and two staircases. The construction area is 3,737.45 sq m on a plot of 3,988 sq m. A school where children also sleep needs its lights, power and water to be safe and dependable day and night. The architecture is the architect's; our scope is the MEPF design.

We have issued the drawings slab by slab as the structure goes up, from August to October 2026. Basement: a dewatering layout with a 300 mm cast-in-situ storm water trench under a perforated RCC grating, falling at 1 in 150 to three sumps of 2.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 m, each with a working and a standby submersible pump, and the sleeves through the walls fixed in advance; and an electrical layout for the basement hall and parking with its own board - a 40 A main breaker and a 30 mA earth-leakage breaker feeding a 12-way distribution board - and a lighting-control board on timers, one circuit on from 6 pm to 11 pm and one always on, through contactors with a manual override. Ground floor: every classroom's lights, fans and sockets, LED downlights and tube lights with emergency fittings on the escape routes, sockets marked as raw or UPS supply, data points, and conduits for power, lighting and CCTV run in the slab. Slabs: MEP cutout and sunk layouts for the first and second slabs, with 200 and 300 mm sunk areas for the toilets and baths, the electrical and low-voltage cutouts and the beams that must be kept top-flush for the pipes to pass.