IID Anchor National Awards 2017

We are very Happy to share with you the news that,
IIID Anchor National Award 2017 presented
'IIID Design Excellence National Awards 2017' to Prasanna Desai Architects ( PDA ) on March 26, 2018,
Under the category of ' Affordable Design for The Masses ' for
Project - Smart City - Healthy Aundh, Street Redesign Project, Pune.

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This project was initiated and conceived under the stewardship of Municipal Commissioner Mr. Kunal Kumar as a part of the Mission Smart City as a quick-win project and was launched by the Hon. Prime Minister of India Shri. Narendra Modi ji on 26 June 2016.

The lead design was conceived by Architect and Urban Designer Prasanna Desai with the team from Pda along with IBI. The project was executed by a team of engineers from the road department of PMC Pune led by the HOD Mr. Rajendra Raut and Mr. Shramik Shevate DE, Mr. Ashish Pawar, JE & Mr. Vijay Patil, JE.

The project was coordinated by PSCDCL ( Smart Pune ) team. The project management consultant M/s. Pave-Tech Consultants supervised the site and was executed by M/s. Nikhil Constructions ( NIKHIL GROUP ).

The time to time support by the CEO of the Smart City, PSCDCL, Mr. Rajendra Jagtap was instrumental in completion of the first phase of the project.

The success of the project is also credited to a long term sustained research and support by organizations like Parisar ( Mr. Sujit Patwardhan and Mr. Ranjit Gadgil ), ITDP ( Ms. Shreya Gadepalli and Ms. Pranjali Deshpande Agashe ), Centre for Environment Education ( Ms. Sanskriti Menon ) and Pedestrian First ( Mr. Prashant Inamdar )

The support and valuable suggestions received time to time, from various organisations like Aundh Vikas Mandal ( AVM ), West Aundh Welfare Association ( WAWA ) and Aundh Traders association were helpful and encouraged us through the span of the project.

The project was fully backed and led by the local corporators without whose support the execution wouldn’t have been possible.

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