First ’offsite fabricated’ building at Deralakatte

First ’offsite fabricated’ building at Deralakatte

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Oct 21, 2015 :   ’KEF Infra’, the infrastructure arm of the Singapore-based KEF Holdings, has completed India’s first wholly offsite (factory) made structure,  a residential project for staff and students, at Yenepoya University campus in Deralakatte.  The project, a residential buildings covering an area of 1 lakh sq ft, has been completed in a record time of nine months, and marks the successful initiation of a game-changing offsite construction technology that helps significantly reduce the duration and cost of construction. In comparison, conventional construction methods would have taken anywhere between 24 and 36 months to complete a project of similar size.


All elements of the buildings were manufactured/prefabricated at "KEFInfraOne" wholly owned and operated by KEF Infra in Krishnagiri. It will be the world’s largest integrated facility for offsite construction. The 208 bathrooms in the project were fully prefabricated, inclusive of all Mechanical Electrical and Plumbing (MEP), sanitary ware, tiling and fittings, in KEFInfraOne and transported to the project site in Mangalore. 

The complex for staff and students, comprising 96 apartments, with each floor featuring 12 two-bedroom units, was completely designed, pre-engineered and manufactured at KEFInfraOne. The state-of-the-art facilities is the only plant in the world to design, pre-engineer and manufacture every element of a building, which include wall panels, hollow core slabs, bathrooms, facades, windows, doors etc. - at a single location.

"KEF Infra’s construction technology is well poised to bring speed, skill and scale for projects that will enable greater value and impact creation. This is evident from the fact that we were able to handover the Yenepoya residential project in a record nine months since its groundbreaking. If the traditional method of construction were to be deployed, a project of this magnitude would have taken up to two to three years to complete, said representatives of KEF.