Capacite Infraprojects Puravankara Order: Rs 306 Crore for a Three-Basement Andheri West Tower

Capacit’e Infraprojects has a Rs 306 crore letter of award from Puravankara for Estrella, a residential tower in Andheri West, Mumbai. The value is a mid-sized number for a listed contractor. The useful part is the scope: three basements under a four-level podium, which means a deep dig has to happen before any of the 25 residential floors go up. For owners of excavators and tippers in Mumbai’s western suburbs, that dig is the part of the job worth tracking.

What Capacit’e disclosed

Business Upturn reported the award on 4 November with the full floor-by-floor scope, and Construction World carried the same value, client and structure on 9 November. Both report that the promoters hold no interest in the awarding company, so it is not a related-party deal. Managing director Rahul Katyal described the order as repeat business from Puravankara (company-stated). Nobody has published a schedule.

Which machines this work needs

Count the levels first. Three basements, ground, four podiums, an amenity floor and 25 residential floors make 34 slab levels before the terrace. Most of the Capacite Infraprojects Puravankara order will be spent on concrete, but the job opens with earthwork.

The basement dig is the short, heavy phase. On a tight Andheri West plot, the sequence is usually a perimeter retaining system first, then staged excavation of about three storeys of soil. That pulls 20-tonne class excavators at the top, smaller machines and backhoe loaders working the lower levels, and a steady line of tippers. The filing does not say whether the dig reaches rock. If it does, hydraulic breakers go onto the excavators and output per shift drops sharply. That one fact would change the fleet more than the contract value does.

Timing favours hiring that fleet. An award in November leaves roughly one dry season before the Mumbai monsoon, and a contractor will want the basement raft poured before June rains flood an open pit. So the excavation window is a few months, which suits short hire over buying. The concrete train runs for the full build: a tower crane, a concrete pump with a placing boom, transit mixers from a ready-mix supplier, and hoists once the frame climbs. That part is long enough to justify owning or a long lease.

Capacit’e has now disclosed three orders since late August that we have covered: Mahindra Lifespace at about Rs 741 crore, Chennai Metro buildings at Rs 368.98 crore and this one. Together they come to about Rs 1,416 crore excluding GST, most of it building work. A Mumbai-focused building contractor adding tower jobs at this rate tends to keep its own cranes busy and hire the earthwork.

FAQ

What is the value of Capacit’e’s Puravankara order?

About Rs 306 crore, excluding GST, under a letter of award disclosed on 4 November 2026.

Where is the Estrella project?

In Andheri West, Mumbai. It has three basements, a ground floor, four podium levels, an amenity level and 25 residential floors, with retail space and a clubhouse.

When will construction finish?

No completion period or start date has been made public.

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Source: Construction World