Tarmat Ltd. eagerlytook on the reconstruction of the Cochin Airport runway, but that doesn’t meanthe Indian construction company expectedit to be easy.
“There is no greatertest of men and machines than an active runway construction,”says Jerry Varghese,the founder of Tarmat, an infrastructure construction company based in Mumbaithat often engages in the building of highways and runways. “It is tough,demanding work that requires meticulous planning and timely execution withstringent quality assurance.”
Tarmat Ltd. eagerlytook on the reconstruction of the Cochin Airport runway, but that doesn’t meanthe Indian construction company expectedit to be easy. The project required 3000 tons of asphalt mix to be placed daily– and, in a five-hour working window! The resurfacing also included a profilecorrection of the runway at the airport, located in the city of Kochi in thestate of Kerala, India. “We were issued a timeframe of eight months to completethe project,
but have managed toexecute over 90 per cent of the work in four months,” says Varghese.
Besides the crew,which must be productive to accomplish as much in such a tight timeframe,Varghese points to plant and machine uptime as the force behind theproductivity. “One of the key successfactors is that we did not miss out on our productive hours by even a minute,”says Varghese. “I will attribute this high productivity, which was instrumentalto our success on the Cochin Airportrun way project, to Ammann India and its employees.” Tarmat utilised severalkey Ammann products on the project, including two Ammann ABC 140 ValueTec AsphaltMixing Plants, andan Ammann sprayer. “People make all the difference,” he says,referring to the Ammann team that offered help in some specific ways during theproject.
? Customersupport: The Ammann customer support team has been very cordial andco-operative in extending on-site parts support.
? Training:Ammann India deployed trained operators and technicians at the site, which helpedTarmat significantly in becoming productive instantly.
? Monitoring:Ammann engineers monitored the condition of ABC ValueTec BatchPlants
and Machines on aregular basis, almost daily.
? Maintenance:The Plants and Machineries were maintained pro-actively, thereby ensuringzero breakdowns.
? Scheduling:The best part was that the maintenance routines were scheduled by Ammann India in sucha way that the company’s productive hours were not impacted at all. SaysVarghese, “The suggestions given by Ammann India towards pro-active maintenancewere very helpful and gaveour team a new perspective on how to achieve more with Ammann products.”
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Tarmat
Tarmat, established in 1986, isan infrastructure construction company that often engages in the building ofhighways and runways. The company is headquartered in Mumbai with operationsspread across the states of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala,Mizoram, Gujarat, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir.
Tarmat has mainly provided engineering,procurement and construction services for infrastructure projects sponsored bythe central and state governments.In 1988, the company landed its first majorcontract for construction of roads and the container yard for the Nhava Shevaport. Tarmat has an abundance of airportexperience, including resurfacing,
extending, strengthening andconstructing runways, gates and aprons. Some of
Tarmat’s noteworthy projects arethe MES Arakkonam Naval airport, which has
one of the longest runways inIndia; Jamnagar Airport; AAI Mumbai International
Airport and Delhi IGIInternational Airport.