50 Flyovers-Kalina Vakola

Government of Maharashtra has specially established Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation to accomplish the task of planning and execution of various important junctions in Mumbai city and surrounding areas for easing out traffic congestion. The flyover at Vakola and Kalina junctions on Western Express Highway is one amongst the above.

Salient Features

Owner	Public Works Department, Maharashtra
Entrepreneur	Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd.
Construction Agency	M/s. Nagarjuna Construction Company Ltd. - E.C.C.I. Ltd.(JV)
Project Management	M/s. Architects Bureau & Tandon Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Design Consultants	M/s. Pragati Consultants, Hyderabad

Technical Aspects

Length of the flyover	1427 m
Width of the flyover	24.20 m
Length of viaduct	1127 m comprising of 400 nos. of precast post tensioned I - girders having 50 spans of 20 m each and 4 nos. of cast - in - situ pre stressed concrete continuous box girders spanning 44.00 - 27.00 m each at Vakola and Kalina junctions.
Approaches	In reinforced earth structures including valley curves Towards Bandra side - 138.0 m Towards Andheri side - 162.0 m
Foundation System	Pile foundation with 1200 mm dia bored Cast - in - situ piles - 524 nos
Substructure	RCC solid rectangular piers with cantilever RCC piers caps
Date of commencement of work	19th January 99
Date of bridge opening to traffic	21st January 2000

M/s. Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited is a premier construction company established during 1978. It has taken up several challenging and time bound assignments successfully completed theme of Govt. / Public / Private sector clients all over India.

M/s. NCCL has acquired modern, state - of - the - art construction equipment, developed latest construction technologies, groomed dedicated team of Technical experts and has executed several specialized structures using pre - stressed concrete, Pre Concrete. dome shell roofs, folded plate roofs, heavy structural steel works etc.