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German team in Vizag for sky tower project
Chief executive officer HUSS Park Attractions, Mirko J Schulze, the builders of high-rise towers across the world and having 30 years of experience in the related field, arrived here on Monday along with his vice-president, India operations, Vibhisha Jain, to inspect the site atop Kailasagiri Hills and interact with the local officials for building the 400 feet high iconic sky tower, said to be t
​Visakhapatnam: Chief executive officer HUSS Park Attractions, Mirko J Schulze, the builders of high-rise towers across the world and having 30 years of experience in the related field, arrived here on Monday along with his vice-president, India operations, Vibhisha Jain, to inspect the site atop Kailasagiri Hills and interact with the local officials for building the 400 feet high iconic sky tower, said to be tallest in the country.
Promoters of the project, Pradeep Sharma, chairman of Bombay Amusement Ride and Vinay Reddy of Hyderabad-based Swarnamukhi Recreation and Hospitality, accompanied him.
Speaking to this correspondent, Vinay Reddy said Schulze visited the proposed project site on Kailasagairi and collected soil samples and suggested that a typhoon grade tower has to be constructed to withstand a wind speed of 300 kmph. The super cyclone Hudhud crossed the city at the same spot with a wind speed of 240 kmph.
“Schulze suggested adding of 100 tonnes more of special steel to make it typhoon grade tower to the proposed 300 tonnes needed for the 400 feet tower. That added Rs 15 crore more to the project which was initially estimated to cost Rs 70 crore,’’ Reddy said.
He said the German company needed 12 months to commission the project since the readymade towers were not suitable for the cyclone-prone AP coast. They commissioned 350 feet tower in Singapore in just 14 weeks, Reddy added.
“If we successfully execute the project here in March next year, we have plans to erect a taller tower in Hyderabad,’’ he said.
The promoters signed an MoU with the State government during the recent Partnership Summit and probably this will be the first tourism project to be put on fast-track for execution.
