Kolkata Underground Car Park – Perfect Example of Using Sheet Piles as a Permanent Structure and With Top Down Construction Methodology
CPWD Engineers' Association2012-05-07T11:07:46+00:00The two-level underground structure will feature a shopping mall and a carpark Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, is India's fourth largest city, a famous historic landmark, and the capital of West Bengal state. A period of economic stagnation followed the country's independence decades ago but has been replaced by a boom engendering rapid growth in all domains, including road traffic. The population of the eastern Indian mega-city currently exceeds 15 million. Several construction stages were considered when designing the sheet pile wall Part of the city's expansion included a new underground shopping mall with integral car park, to be built [...]