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Pilgrim accommodation block Q1N at Kedarnath

Kedarnath Dham

Pilgrim accommodation at Shri Kedarnath Dham, taken from excavation to the last coat of paint in a short Himalayan season.

Blocks
Q2Q and Q1N
Category
Civil & mechanical
Location
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand
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Rooms for pilgrims at 3,583 m

Blocks Q2Q and Q1N give pilgrims somewhere warm to sleep at one of India's most sacred sites.

Every bag of cement and length of steel came up the valley; altitude and weather made the programme short and the work technically demanding. CPS did all of it, structure to finish.

  • Excavation
  • Concreting
  • Cutting, binding and fixing reinforcement
  • Formwork
  • Structural steel trusses
  • False ceilings
  • Tile, Kota stone and granite
  • Doors, windows and ventilators
  • Stone cladding
  • Plumbing
  • Electrical work
  • Painting and finishing
Roof slab reinforcement, Block Q1N
Finished doors and windows, Block Q1N
Inside a finished room, Block Q2Q

Q2Q, frame to finish

  • Block Q2Q frame going up, mixer on the slab
  • Kedarnath temple under winter snow
  • Block Q2Q facade
  • Stone-clad facade and timber windows
  • Facade, Block Q2Q
  • Finished veranda with stone flooring
  • Block Q1N facade
  • Block Q1N veranda