Proposed School Project, Taloja

A proposed school on Plot No. 06 (School), Sector No. 07, Taloja, Panvel, Navi Mumbai, with a construction area of about 15,794 sq m. The building has a basement for parking, the pump room and the underground tanks, a double-height entrance on the ground floor with the principal's and vice-principal's cabins, administration, records, a staff meeting room, a counselling room, a sick bay and a feeding room (hirkani kaksha), and classrooms on the floors above, with girls', boys' and universal toilets, changing rooms and drinking-water points on every floor. Outside are a playground, a 6 m fire drive way, a 7.5 m drive way, a 4.5 m bus bay, four gates and security cabins, a compact substation and a DG set. A school is a building of large groups moving at fixed times: corridors and stairs that must be lit and safe in an emergency, toilets that are used heavily in short bursts, and fire protection that has to work for children. The architecture is the architect's; our work is the MEPF design that runs through it.

We were appointed for the MEPF design consultancy and issued the layouts for the basement and every floor in September and October 2026, coordinated with the architect's working drawings and the structural column and beam layout. Electrical: fixture and conduit layouts for all floors, with lighting and emergency lighting distribution boards on each floor and circuits split over the three phases, 15 W ceiling lights, 30 W tube lights on normal and emergency circuits and 6 W foot lights for escape routes, 40 A four-pole incomers and 30 mA RCBO protection, cable trays of 450 x 150 mm for power, 300 x 150 mm for low voltage and smaller trays for the sewage plant, tanks and fire system, slab cutouts at every floor, and the metering room, a 315 kVA compact substation and a 160 kVA DG set for the common and fire loads. Fire: sprinklers on every floor (pendent, upright, standard and extended-coverage sidewall heads at 68 °C and 79 °C sidewall heads in the kitchen), hose reels and single-headed landing valves at the fire stairs, a 150 mm hydrant main round the building, a 4-way fire-brigade inlet and a 2-way draw-out connection to the fire tank, manual call points and a fire alarm panel, and 6 kg ABC and CO2 extinguishers. Plumbing: 110 mm soil, 75 mm waste and 50 mm vent pipes, 150 mm terrace rain-water and 110 mm balcony drain pipes, 50 mm domestic and flushing risers, 200 mm sunk toilets and sleeves from 50 to 200 mm in every slab, with a diversion layout at the basement ceiling; for the diversion to fall properly we asked for the basement clear height to go from 3.0 m to 3.2 m. Water and drainage: underground fire, raw-water and treated-water tanks beside the pump room, an 80 KLD sewage plant on about 50 sq m, and basement dewatering with 300 mm trenches at 1 in 200 and a 65 mm rising main to the ground floor.