NIBE Plot A-1-2, Shirdi

NIBE is building a defence manufacturing campus on Plot A-1-2 at Shirdi, in Ahilyanagar district - 132,079 sq m of construction on a plot of 314,357 sq m. The whole development is on the ground floor: seven large manufacturing sheds - A, B, C and E to H - each with lean-to sheds along its sides, with a painting booth among the process areas, everything a facility of this kind needs under one roof, linked by 18 m roads with a central median. A substation, the DG sets, the sewage and effluent plants and the rainwater storage sit in the service areas. A campus on more than 30 hectares sheds a great deal of rain from its roofs and roads, uses process water that must be treated, and needs fire water at every shed - and it needs an environmental clearance before it is built. The architecture is the architect's; our scope is the EC layouts and the MEPF design.

We prepared the external services layouts for the environmental clearance in May 2026, revising them three times in three weeks as the layout settled. Water: the MIDC main brought into the site, with filtration, softening and chlorination, hydropneumatic pumps, and separate supplies of domestic water, recycled flushing water and process water from the effluent plant. Tanks: at the sheds, underground tanks of 200 kL of fire water, 10 kL of domestic water and 90 kL for the effluent system, 2 m deep, with pump rooms and suction pits. Sewage and effluent: sewer and effluent lines from the sheds to a centralised plant - sewage treatment of 50 KLD and an effluent treatment plant, with bar-screen chambers, collection tanks and an aeration blower room of 7.5 x 5 m with 4 m of clear height above the tanks - and treated water piped back to the flushing system. Storm water and rain: storm drains from the roofs and roads to the external storm water chambers, two 1,000 kL storm water collection tanks, thirteen main rainwater pits with bores 50 to 60 m deep and recharge pits of 2.5 x 2.5 x 2 m for the roofs and paved surfaces, with de-siltation and oil-trap pits ahead of them. Fire: a 150 mm hydrant ring round the sheds, with single-headed hydrants, hose boxes and buried fire mains. Site: the substation, three DG sets and the organic waste converter placed on the layout, and every service coordinated on one external plumbing drawing with sections at the roads.