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Layout of the new Building - Self Redevelopment

 We did some 30 designs. Mainly 6 Designs and variations around this. I was very keen on having  1. cross ventilation and natural light  2. Min area in passage  3. No Toilet opening in Duct  4. Fire escape near each flat  Ist few designs were commercial. Like you see in Mumbai.  Zhuk Zhuk Gadi.. Ask any architect, and he/She  will explain you what is Zhuk Zhuk Gadi.  We pushed further. it was a long a painstaking process. took almost 12-14 months for designing and flat allocations. but finally, we chose a design which had 1. 2 wings and not 1 2. Easy access to fire exit 3. each flat having 2-3 way opening windows 4. Min area in passage 5. all toilets on external wall to natural ventilation and light. No Duct in the building. 6. No shared walls in bedroom 7. 1, 1,5, 2. 3 BHK options 8. Balconies for 2-3 BHK on demand So what we did was, to ask members that you can have 3 BHK Flat free of cost. or 2x1 BHK Flat free of cost or buy 2x2 BHK or 2 p...
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Appointment of PMC

 I now am a part of this new committee. Task was finding the PMC. We made an evaluation criteria  Projects handled Visit the Projects Sales turnover How is the office How many staff members ... And after meeting 5 PMCs we started to realize that one man army is also there and there are bigger companies.  We after evaluation selected one company. i wont mention the name here. Approx 20+ staff, Husband, wife and daughter all architects, well furnished office in commercial building in western suburb. We signed a contract for Ist phase up to feasibility,  IINd stage was tendering, IIRd stage was construction monitoring at % of construction cost.  After we appointed them, They asked us why self redevelopment? Its not easy, you cant do it. i know several builders, lets try that option. BUT we are clear... No Builder. So we had our feasibility at the cost of 50,000.00      Let me tell you, feasibility is a simple maths. BUT if you know the rules, FSI, Fu...
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Introduction - Why self redevelopment

 The Beginning  On a day in history, during the AGM of the society, the managing committee proposed that the building health needs attention. True it was. Building needed 3rd maintenance in under 20 years.   There were 3 prominent mishaps which could have caused injury.  : Do we spend on maintenance?  : What's the alternative? : Redevelopment  : Okay, But who will do it? We have 4 projects in our neighborhood, which are pending as the builder was not capable or may be the circumstances were not in favor. : Self Redevelopment was the option.     A Known devil is better than an unknown devil.  Normally, someone knows a builder and he or the group of people are supportive to that builder. and some builders deliver their promises on time. Some later, and some vanishes. So why handover our property to some builder whom we don't know. Logical, isn't it? A resolution was passed to explore the feasibility. Form a redevelopment committee wit...
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