The first step in any design development is clearly defining the Project's scope of development & vision. This is provided by the Board of Directors through CMD & Group CEO's offices. This is issued by way of a simple document called Project Development Guidelines or PDG. The scope and vision for the development are arrived based on market conditions, best practices, competition, government guidelines and internal targets etc. This document is the nucleus of all further activities/design/planning of the Project; hence it is a significant step in the Development Plan.
Following best practices and processes shall be adopted for issue & management of PDG (Rule 6.9)
- PDG is a summary of various requirements by the management for the development of the intended Project. This shall include;
- Overall land area
- Type of project (retail, residential, commercial, IT, Mixed development)
- Height available as per AAI (AAI ready reckoner & subject to Architect confirmation at later stage)
- Open area to ground coverage ratio
- Saleable area (intended)
- Number of basements (maximum) (subject to Architect confirmation at later stage based on land profile)
- Car park ratio (Desired & Government guidelines)
- Access to the site (opening to the road - direction)
- Number of towers
- Co-efficiencies & Design parameters to be followed for designs of all elements of the Project (to be sourced from the standardisation document)
- Insight of specific Government norms/ laws to be followed for the particular project
- SEZ and non SEZ areas with separate ingress and egress
- Proposed use of technologies for construction, such as Non-Tower area in Pre-Cast, Core in Slipform, staircase in pre-cast and panels in place of blockwork, Fibre Concrete in place of RCC etc.
- These requirements shall be the guidelines to the CDD department to prepare the Master planning & block planning.
- As a process, the CMD office shall issue necessary guidelines to the CDD detailing their requirements & outline of the development by issuing PDG, in the above lines with copy to Group CEO.
- CDD shall use the same as the basis for developing Master planning and block planning of the Project.
- TISS department shall carry out a topographical survey of trees, ponds, wells, Nala, drains, government infrastructure like cables or pipelines, village pathway etc. within the site and adjacent premises, water channels and catchment areas if any and provide the same as input to CDD.
- While drawing up the Master and block planning, CDD should make sure that SEZ and non SEZ areas are identified with clear line of demarcation, physical segregation & separate ingress and egress right during the construction stage and the operations stage. The utilities and facilities should be located in the respective zones.
- While the PDG may not always come in the form of a note or amended periodically based on the feedback from CDD, it is the responsibility of CDD to take all the verbal instructions from the management and convert the same into PDG log for easy reference.
- Any change in PDG during the process shall be updated by CDD team and recirculate to the stakeholders for reference.
- Based on PDG initial business plan would be signed off , any change to PDG shall call for revision in business plan which needs to be redrafted and signed off
- Change of instructions or further instructions/modifications should be noted in the PDG through a log. This will help CDD refer to /track all the changes in the PDG over the period of development of the design.
- CDD shall upload the PDG & the log, into the Data repository of the ERP for future reference.
- PDG is a mandatory document that must be maintained, along with any revisions which should be tracked by Revision Number and linked to the subsequent project development. This is an audit requirement.
- A PDG Project Development Guidelines are in Appendix 6.1
- A template of PDG log is given as
Appendix 6.2
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