It was March of 2017, the conference room of Skymettle office echoed with the sound of YES! The Agreement to Lease between Amazon India and Skymettle Infrastructure had just been finalised.
After persistent efforts by Skymettle leasing team, Skymettle Infrastructure bagged the deal to build and develop what was to be India’s largest e-commerce Fulfillment Centre for Amazon India.
The demand was to build a warehouse/fulfillment centre, a box of 10 acres in a land parcel 22 acres big. For Amazon, this was to be the beginning of a wave of modern Fulfillment Centres, intending to be the lodestars for their supply chains across India.
The sheer scale of the effort was unlike anything the Skymettle team had ever done. Naturally, a lot of us felt incredibly nervous. This was Skymettle’s first major project in the field of warehousing and nothing could go wrong.
Our first job was to constitute a state of the art project and design team. To that end, we recruited designers and contractors with prior experience in the development of similar parcels.
As we embarked upon the process of design of the warehouse, the unprecedented nature of our enterprise became evident to us. The entire design and construction process required that we agree to most complex safety regulations all the while accounting for important movement factors in any facility management such as man, material and vehicular movement. This meant that we needed flooring quality that could withstand 50 years worth of busy operations, fire-safety mechanisms that ensured the safety of over 2,400 workers at one time, PEB sheeting quality that allowed temperature control in a building spanning over 4,30,000 sqft and road quality that allowed repeated movements of over 200 trucks.
The unparalleled quantum of material consumed would further support the unprecedented nature of our enterprise:
➔ 35 units installed for Rain-water harvesting built with Japanese Technology.
➔ 50% of the roof is mounted with Solar Panels.
➔ 28.57 long International FM Global Firefighting system (compiled)
➔ 4,550 MT Steel work
➔ 25,000 cum Concrete consumed
➔ TR34-4th edition code FM-2 flooring
➔ Fully insulated PEB structure with a seamless roofing
The project was completed at break neck speed thanks to the rigorous efforts of 1000 crew members. We broke ground in 21st June of 2017 and were able to invite Amazon to commence their fit-outs by 20th December’2017. And the facility was launched on the 31st May’2018.
Whenever we look back at what Skymettle was able to achieve in the spirited 12 months of breakneck construction, it reinforces our belief in the dictum that there really is no limitation for what a team can do if they put their minds to it.
We thank Amazon for this wonderful opportunity. Building the largest Fulfillment Centre of India has readied us to service the rest of the industry as we surely expect all across India in the coming decade!
If you wish to learn more about our capabilities feel free to reach us at infra@dfplgroup.com
