Frontier Flood Barriers to protect Titan Jewellery at Uttarakhand from Flash Floods.

Industries in the industrial estate of Rudrapur city suffered a loss of about 800 – 1000 crore INR which caused large scale destruction to property, raw material, finished goods, machinery, electrical equipment etc.Nonoperation of factories generated another loss which is still unaccounted. Click Here
Titan Company Limited with their Jewelry manufacturing division decided to be proactive and the company management wanted to barricade all access points into the factory like main gate, fire gate, back side door, electrical panel room door etcwith flood barriers. Based on its knowledge and experience Frontier Flood Barriers India LLP (Frontier Polymers Pvt Ltd) became a natural choice for the Titan.

On appointment, team of Frontier visited the site to carry out risk assessment from boundary wall openings and back side natural drain. Titan senior Project & Maintenance team explained in detail the scenario and on inspection by third party consultants it was decided to go for 1.8 m high barriers keeping in mind future flood like situations.

Acquastop, Italy became the natural choice for barriers due to their vast global experience and great support. H-Frame barriers in 20 cm height were selected to cover longer spans and fast deployment. These barriers also formed compatibility with the factory layout as least amount of civil work was to be carried out for installation. The close collaboration between Frontier and the Acquastop technical office at Italy, allowed the design of the custom-made solution and the subsequent production of custom-made elements specifically for this project. With removable intermediate columns the entrances retain their wide openings. The Intermediate columns and flood barriers are stored away in the maintenance room when not in use.

The Project and Maintenance team at Titan was extremely fast in carrying out wall / floor rectification with their civil contractor team. They understood the work and ensured it was done effectively, suitably, and correctly. Having a good civil team is very important on site to keep timelines in check. Much of the civil work was carried out prior to the flood barriers reaching the site. This ensured immediate fixing of side brackets on various locations. Parallelly fresh civil work was being carried out at multiple locations to ensure our timelines for fixing of barriers was met.

To ensure stability and prevent displacement during flood events, the flood barriers with longer lengths were securely anchored to the ground using anchoring systems like back support or intermediate columns. This step involved driving anchors into the ground at specified intervals and connecting them to the barriers. Fixing of ground pots for these columns and laying of the Stainless steel channel into the floor was carried out by the civil team of Titan along with the supervision on Frontier.

8 meter long and 1.8 m height Flood barrier with two removable intermediate columns

Installations were also carried out at window sill levelof guard room too so that flood water breach at that height could be averted..

Guard room window barrier

Installation team at Frontier ensured positioning and anchoring of the flood barriers at various locations, securing the barriers using appropriate connectors and brackets. After installation, through inspections and quality assurance checks were carried out.

Nine planks of 20 cm height each were used to cover the entire opening width of 3.7 meters and height of 1.8 meters at the Fire gate location. The entire width is supported by a back channel which is anchored to the floor and placed away in safe storage when not in use.

Titan also has pumps to throw out water from rainfall from within their factory. Job of the flood barriers is to protect the factory from flood water entering from the road into the factory.
After installation, training to the factory personnel regarding flood barrier deployment was carried out.

Frontier Flood Barriers provided the customer with total peace of mind solution. The customer well planned the order and installation several months prior to the monsoon season thereby removing all last minute hassles of delivery and peak monsoon rush of installations. The barriers were put to test and during monsoons proved to be extremely effective. During one such heavy rains in Mumbai the security guards quickly installed the barriers and took a video. Had the barriers not been in place this year too would have resulted in heavy losses to the customer flood waters would have entered the car lift doors and flooded up both the basements.