The most undervalued phase of an industrial project, and the one that decides what the next twenty years cost.
Master planning is the cheapest phase of an industrial project and the one with the longest consequences. Decisions made in a few weeks on a site plan — where raw material enters, where the road runs, which corner is left undeveloped — determine whether Phase 2 is a straightforward extension or a rebuild of your utilities.
Our technical lead holds a Master's in Urban and Regional Planning alongside architectural practice, which means campus-level thinking comes before building-level thinking. Master planning exercises delivered to date run up to 500 acres for integrated industrial campuses.
The first question is not what the buildings look like. It is what moves through the site, in what direction, and what must never cross what. On a 10-acre precision machining campus that meant two parallel production buildings either side of a shared 9m service road, with raw steel entering one end and finished components leaving through an entirely separate route — because contamination from incoming stock moving along the same path as machined parts is a quality failure waiting to happen.
Each building was also split so that support functions sat on one strip and admin and visitor-facing functions on the other, keeping operational and visitor traffic from ever overlapping.
Most industrial clients build a fraction of their plot on day one and intend to expand. The difference between a good master plan and a poor one shows up years later, when that expansion either connects to existing infrastructure or requires tearing up roads and re-routing utilities.
On the machining campus, 40% of the site — roughly 35,400 sqm — was reserved for future phases and pre-connected to the existing utility routes. Phase 2 there will not require any utility rework. That provision cost almost nothing at planning stage.
Power, water, drainage and telecom corridors are planned as a network rather than run to each building as it is designed. Common facilities — administration, security, canteen, fire station — are positioned against both operational logic and statutory requirement.
For MIDC and similar organised industrial zones we prepare the layout drawings and documentation your approval applications need. We do not manage the liaison or filing process itself; that stays with you or your appointed liaison consultant.
If the plot is larger than the building, yes — and it almost always is. The master plan is what stops your one building from being positioned somewhere that makes the second one awkward or the utility runs wasteful. It is a small piece of work relative to the project and it is the single highest-leverage thing you can get right early.
It depends on your production roadmap rather than on a rule of thumb, but the important part is not the percentage — it is that the reserved land is pre-connected to utility routes and road access. Reserved land that needs the infrastructure torn up to use is not really reserved. On our Solapur campus 40% was held back and serviced in advance.
We take on industrial projects from around ₹5 Crore of construction cost upward, and we deliberately limit intake to a small number of large projects each year so that senior people stay on every one of them. We do not take residential, interior or retail work. If your project is below that threshold we would rather tell you at the first call than take it on and under-serve it.
Design and drawing production for a mid-sized industrial facility typically runs three to six months to GFC stage, depending on how settled the process layout is when we start. Construction then depends on scale — the two completed projects on this site ran 22 months and 18 months from start to commissioning, at roughly 4,00,000 and 2,50,000 sq ft respectively. The single largest cause of delay is not drawing production; it is process changes arriving after the structure is fixed. Time spent on planning at the beginning is what protects the schedule later.
Tell us the plot and what you intend to manufacture. Industrial projects from ₹5 Crore upward.
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