Hare Krishna Temple

A temple complex at Bhor, in Pune district, that is a place of worship and a retreat at once: a temple on three levels (lower ground, ground and first floor, with a mezzanine), a multi-purpose hall with a stage for 400 people, an information centre, a visitors' experience centre, an ayurveda centre, a restaurant and two kitchens, staff rooms, male and female dormitories, a brahmachari ashram, 20 kutir rooms, a lotus pond and parking for 74 cars - about 6,700 sq m of built area. On an ordinary day it serves about 2,900 people, most of them visitors. Inside the complex stands a building of eight guest rooms on a ground floor and a first floor, around a central courtyard with a terrace above; each room is about 5.7 or 6.7 m by 3.7 m with its own toilet and bath, a balcony and a small pantry area. The guests' building had to be wired room by room, with every light, fan, socket and board shown on drawings the contractor could price and build from, and with the architect's beam layout and room furniture in mind.

We drew the electrical fixture layouts for the ground and first floors and prepared a switch-and-socket schedule for each pair of rooms, showing every switch board, its mounting height and the fixtures and sockets it controls. For distribution we drew the single-line diagrams: a six-way main board in the ground-floor electrical room fed from the meter room through a 63 A four-pole breaker rated for 10 kA, a 12-way board for each pair of rooms and one for the common areas on both floors, all on C-curve breakers of 7.5 to 10 kA, with residual-current protection. Each room has lighting and fan circuits, a geyser on its own 16 A circuit, a computer point on UPS, data and telephone sockets, a socket for the Wi-Fi unit, a TV and an intercom point; the common areas have foot lamps, speakers with an amplifier and pantry power; outdoor air-conditioning unit positions are marked, and a 25 mm conduit riser carries power and low-voltage cables from the electrical room to the first floor. The set went through four revisions, from late 2025 to October 2026, including a round of comments. Beyond the guest building, we worked out the numbers for the whole complex. Electrical load: every building loaded at 75 W per sq m of carpet area (about 6,736 sq m), plus a lift, the pumps, the facade, street and landscape lighting, and charging for 15 of the 74 car bays - 690.7 kW connected and 278.5 kW after a diversity factor of 2.5, which is 309 kVA at 0.9 power factor and 371 kVA with a 20% margin, against a 315 kVA transformer. Water: 92.5 kL a day for 2,923 people, with 160 kL of domestic storage, 100 kL of fire water and two sewage plants, 60 KLD for the temple and dormitory and 30 KLD for the rooms, staff and restaurant, which return 39 kL a day to flushing. Cooling: a heat-load analysis of the multi-purpose hall and stage for 415 people - 459.7 MBH, which is 38.3 tons, with 2,344 cfm of fresh air - as the basis for a VRF system.