Today’s picture – Our water supplies!

Photo from Nishanth Paul

Today’s picture – Our water supplies!

Photo from Nishanth Paul

Today’s picture – Our water supplies!

Photo from Nishanth Paul

Today’s picture – Our water supplies!

Photo from Nishanth Paul

technoparkLive! – Picture of the day – Bhavani, Technopark

Bhavani Building, Technopark ( it is considered as the most beautiful building in technopark campus( see the poll ) , built by L&T )

picture courtesy : ajay

technoparkLive! – Random picture

Technopark Rainbow ( picture courtesy : Ajay & VKV)

IBS Campus in Technopark

IBS Software is constructing a 450,000 sq ft. (42,000 sq m.) office on 5 acres (0.02 sq km.) of land.

This is the first phase of IBS campus inaugurated on October 23, 2007

Technopark Infrastructure – an overview

Buildings

There are currently about a dozen buildings inside the Technopark campus intended for software development. Seven of the buildings in Technopark are named after rivers in Kerala—the Pamba, the Periyar, the Nila, the Chandragiri, the Gayathri, Bhavani and the Thejaswini. The seventh building is named Thejaswini and was commissioned in February 2007, with over 600,000 sq ft. (60,000 sq m.) of carpet area. There are also independent buildings of private enterprises such as TCS, M-Square, IVL, NEST, IBS, Leela Group and others inside the Phase I campus. These buildings aggregate to a total of about 3.5 million sq ft. (350,000 sq m.) of space, either complete or under construction.

Key parameters of buildings in Technopark
Name	Number of floors	Total area (in thousand sq ft)	Number of lifts	Generator backup
Pamba	4	60	None	50%
Periyar	4	60	None	50%
Chandragiri	4	57	2	100%
Gayathri	3	129	4	100%
Nila	7	400	6	50%
Bhavani	6	500	6	100%
Thejaswini	12	850	8	100%
TCS Peepul Park	4 to 5	400	N/A	100%
IBS Campus	4 to 10	450	N/A	100%
Leela Info Park	12	500	N/A	100%
N/A indicates no information available
10 sq ft.=~1 sq m.

Other buildings in the campus include:

Park Centre: The administrative headquarters of Technopark.

Technopark Club: Includes a gym, swimming pool, restaurant and sporting facilities.

Techno-Mall: A multi purpose shopping complex.

Ginger: A 100 room business class hotel set up by the Taj Group of hotels as part of its Ginger brand.

Technopark guesthouse.

Other privately constructed buildings, including those of firms like M-Square and Amstor.

Name	Acres of Land
TCS	40 Acres
IBS	5 Acres
Tata Elxsi	3 Acres
Dataware Design Labs	0.95 Acre
Case Consult	1.0 Acre
M Squared Software	2.00 Acre
Sea View Support	0.70 Acre
Toroid	2.10 Acres
Amstor	0.80 Acre
Leela	2.6 Acres
Root Corporation	1.00 Acres

Expansion of Technopark and New Projects

Phase II

Technopark has acquired 86 acres (0.35 sq km.) of land, for its Phase II expansion.

* Out of this, 50 acres (0.2 sq km.) has been earmarked for Infosys and 36 acres (0.15 sq km.) for UST Global.[16]

o Infosys is planning to create up to 2.5 million sq ft. (233,000 sq m.) of space to accommodate up to 15,000 professionals in the end. It plans to set up 600,000 sq ft. (56,000 sq m.) in the first phase.[17]

o UST Global is setting up a 1,600,000 sq ft (149,000 m²). campus to be complete by 2011. 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m²). of space will be complete by January 2009.[18] Work on the campus was launched on October 24, 2007.[19]

* Tata Consultancy Services has been allotted 25 acres (0.1 sq km.) within the campus for their software development centre.[20] This is in addition to the 14 acres of land allotted to them for setting up their new training centre—Peepul Park.

* IBS Software is constructing a 450,000 sq ft. (42,000 sq m.) office on 5 acres (0.02 sq km.) of land.[21] The first phase of the campus was inaugurated on October 23, 2007.[22]

IBS Campus perspective

IBS Campus perspective

* Tata Elxsi Limited which is the product design arm of the US$14 billion Tata Group, has also taken 3.5 acres (0.01 sq km.) to build its state of the art design and development Centre. The first phase of the campus has been commissioned on September 7, 2007.[23]

* The NEST group has also been allocated land to build a Development Centre, on which work has started.

Phase III

Technopark has almost completed acquisition of 100 acres (0.4 sq km.) of land for Phase III expansion. Firms like Larsen & Toubro and the Rahejas are planning major developments within and around Technopark as well. L&T has already announced its plans to set up a 35 acre (0.15 sq km.) hybrid IT-and-residential park as part of Technopark Phase III.[4][24] Patni Computer Systems has already announced that it will set up a Rs 150 Crore ($US 32 Million) Development Centre in Phase III.[25]

The IInd and IIIrd phase of expansion of Technopark along with the ramping up of operations of the existing IT units are expected to see an investment of around Rs. 1000 Crore ($US 218 Million) and an additional employment creation of 35,000.

Phase IV expansion

The Phase IV of Technopark is also referred to as the Technocity project. It involves a mixed use—IT, biotechnology, nanotechnology, commercial and residential development spread over 500 acres (2 sq km.) of land, about 5 km (1.6 miles) from the present campus. This land is currently being acquired. It will be a self contained IT township with the potential to employ a hundred thousand professionals.[26][27] The expected investment in the project is around Rs 6,000 Crores (Over US$ 1.5 Billion), as per latest estimates.[28]

Once Technocity’s land acquisition is complete, Technopark will have an extent of close to 850 acres (3.5 sq km.), making it one of India’s largest IT satellite townships, in geographic area, comparable to that of projects like the Mahindra World City in Chennai.

Special Economic Zones in Technopark

There are three Special Economic Zones (SEZs) inside Technopark encompassing Phases I, II and III.[29] Phase IV will also become an SEZ once land acquisition is completed. This provides a range of attractive economic benefits to the companies operating within Technopark

(information courtesy : wikipedia, the hindu, technopark.org, etc…)

Update on Infosys Campus

Piling equipment has arrived at the site of the 1.5 million sq.ft campus. Additional equipment is getting unloaded. Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd of Chennai is building the campus for Infosys Technologies ( courtesy : Ajay Kumar )

Technopark – An old video from Nila