Trivandrum Projects & Infrastructure :News - Page 57

nik · #**1121** Posted **Dec 24, 2009, 9:22 AM**

Work on artificial reef begins at Kovalam
Source: thehinduonline

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KOVALAM: Overcoming hurdles and opposition from a section of fisherfolk, work has begun on the country’s first multi-purpose reef off the Kovalam coast.

New Zealand-based Amalgamate Solutions and Research (ASR), which is executing the Rs.7.8-crore project for Kerala Tourism, on Saturday anchored the geomat to the seabed.

The artificial reef, 110-metre-long and 38-metre-wide, will come up 150 metres from the Lighthouse Beach and 110 metres from the Lighthouse. The reef is in ‘V’ shape and the apex will face the sea.
The process

The reef will be constructed using sand-filled geotextile mega containers (geobags). Geomats, imported from Germany, have been anchored to the seabed to prevent differential sinking of the geobags and sand erosion, a project official told The Hindu.

The filling of the scour bags with sand also began on Saturday. Most of the scour bags are 38-metre-long and have an average height of 1 to 2 metres and a width of 1.5 to 4.5 metres. For the time-being, scour bags are being anchored to the seabed using concrete blocks.

Empty geobags will be attached to geomats. The geobags will be inflated with water first and later sand in slurry form will be filled through four inlets. The geobags will weigh 200-300 tonnes each when filled with sand. The filling of two bags was completed on Saturday.

Two-hundred cubic metres of sand can be filled in a day. The three-inch thick geobags, made from non-woven staple fibre and needle-punched geotextile, were imported from Australia.
Eco-friendly

The geobags are puncture resistant and will promote marine ecology. The reef will be placed below half-a-metre of the low tide level and one metre below the high tide level. Around 4,000 cubic metres of sand will be needed to fill the geobags.

The ASR has set up the project on the premises of the Department of Harbour Engineering at Vizhinjam. Around 10 experts from the ASR have arrived here to supervise the work. The project is expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2010. The work was stalled following delay in obtaining sanction for the revised estimate of the project, being taken up under the Centre’s tsunami rehabilitation programme.

nik · #**1122** Posted **Dec 24, 2009, 9:23 AM**

Flyover from Bakery Jn.

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nik · #**1123** Posted **Dec 24, 2009, 9:24 AM**

TATA Showroom of Kulathunkal Motors and Artech Lake ville

Artech Lake ville

SFS Cyber gardens and Skyline Domain (Rightmost)

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nik · #**1124** Posted **Dec 24, 2009, 9:25 AM**

Skyline Domain and Heera Infocity (Right side building with work lift)

Infosys

Asiatic business center

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Dude25 · #**1125** Posted **Dec 29, 2009, 6:20 PM**

SFS Icon, Trivandrum

The project

Dude25 · #**1126** Posted **Dec 29, 2009, 6:32 PM**

Daniel's Tower, Trivandrum

nik · #**1127** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:09 AM**

Volkswagen Showroom Update

As on 21.12.2009

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nik · #**1128** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:10 AM**

The Orange Beauties on the City Roads

JNT4 Coming out from Kaniyapuram Depot

JNT1 @Kazhakkoottam going towards Kaniyapuram

JNT2 @Sreekaryam going towards Technopark/Kaniyapuram

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nik · #**1129** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:12 AM**

Kesavadasapuram-Pattom

Big Bazaar @Kesavadasapuram

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nik · #**1130** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:13 AM**

Along Pattom-Plamoodu Stretch

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nik · #**1131** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:14 AM**

This is one among the Surveillance Cameras which will be watching you when you are in Trivandrum

Keltron Junction

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nik · #**1132** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:16 AM**

Vazhuthacaud - Thycaud Stretch

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nik · #**1133** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:17 AM**

Contd...

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nik · #**1134** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 4:18 AM**

Taj Residency @Vazhuthacaud

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Dude25 · #**1135** Posted **Dec 31, 2009, 8:35 PM**

Welcoming 2010 with new projects...

Cordial Casilda, Ulloor, Trivandrum
G+15 floors

Dude25 · #**1136** Posted **Dec 31, 2009, 8:36 PM**

Cordial Shroffs, Thycaud, Trivandrum
G+10 floors

Dude25 · #**1137** Posted **Jan 2, 2010, 8:17 AM**

Asset Homes Signature update

The project

Courtesy: website

Dude25 · #**1138** Posted **Jan 4, 2010, 7:33 AM**

Courtesy: Asianet

Sathyalal · #**1139** Posted **Jan 7, 2010, 10:36 AM**

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After hosting the 97th Indian Science Congress, Thiruvananthapuram is set to host global space meet.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hosting the next annual conference of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Co-ordination Committee (IADC) in Thiruvananthapuram from March 9 to 12. This is the first time that the IADC, a forum of spacefaring nations for handling the threat posed by man-made objects in space, is meeting in India.

ISRO is one of eleven member agencies, which include NASA and Russia’s Federal Space Agency, in the IADC. One of the important issues that will be discussed in Thiruvananthapuram is a proposal for “active removal of debris from space,’’ said Dr V. Adimurthi of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) who chairs the IADC this year.

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nik · #**1140** Posted **Jan 12, 2010, 4:09 PM**

shots from indian science congress

Courtesy: Shelly