Haryana-based TDBD Engineering Works, house lifting and shifting service providers today said it has successfully shifted a two-storeyed building in the city by 50 feet, claimed to the first of its kind in the country.
Though the company has shifted more than 300 buildings in the last few years, this was the first time a multi-storeyed building, with first floor, weighing 400 tonnes, being shifted, Sushil Sisodia, Managing Director, TDBD, told reporters at the site.
Since the owner, M Thangavelu wanted the house to be moved 50 feet backward to build another structure, the company, which have shifted many buildings, weighing 150 tonnes, with the foundation, took up the challenge and used 300 rollers and as many jacks in the process, Sisodia said.
The shifting would cost around Rs 18 lakh to Rs 20 lakh, he said.
On problems being faced to shift such old building, Chief Engineer Gurpreet Singh said that the greatest challenge of this seven-room building, was when some of the walls were not in straight line.
"We have to rework on the railing based on the wall structures," he said.
