L&T marks major milestone for India’s first semiconductor manufacturing facility
Remarkable project milestones come in all sizes. A single concrete pour of 4,458 cubic metres was completed on 16 June for the raft foundation of India’s first semiconductor manufacturing facility, being developed by Tata Semiconductor Manufacturing Pvt Ltd at Dholera, a planned greenfield ‘smart’ city in Gujarat.
This feat was achieved by L&T’s Buildings Infrastructure – Residential, Commercial Buildings & Factories vertical. This logistically complex operation was completed smoothly despite challenging site conditions and tight constraints.
The continuous concrete pour over a 48-hour window, maintained an average concreting rate of 93 cu m per hour through four simultaneous pumping arrangements, utilising three boom placers and one static pump.
The team also achieved its highest-ever daily concrete pouring quantity of 3,250 cu m. This was executed through seamless coordination of three in-house batching plants, supplemented by an external Ready Mix Concrete plant, demonstrating exceptional planning and resource optimisation. Notably, this milestone was achieved while simultaneously executing major concrete activities in other project areas like piles, showcasing the team’s remarkable execution strength.
This milestone achievement builds upon the project team’s sustained performance over the past six months, during which 2,64,772 cu m of concrete was placed through effective planning, coordination and execution.
The facility is coming up across a 163-acre site. The project’s first phase comprises a built-up area of 1,46,738 sq m and is being constructed by L&T Construction as a first-of-its-kind facility in the country. This phase will support technology nodes from 110/90 nm down to 28 nm, with 55 nm as the start-up node. At full build-out, the project will feature 32,000 sq m of cleanroom space with a production capacity of 50,000 wafer starts per month.
The record concrete pour affirms L&T’s high level of professionalism and project management.
