Recent Urban development in Bangladesh

[Bilal9]

Domino's, the world's leading pizza chain, is planning to introduce 30-minute pizza delivery service in Bangladesh within the next three months, in a development that can fuel competition in the country's restaurant scene.

“Domino's delivers pizza within 30 minutes all over the world,” said Hari S Bhartia, co-chairman of Jubilant FoodWorks, the master franchise holder of Domino's in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Jubilant teamed up with Golden Harvest QSR, a subsidiary of local Golden Harvest Agro Industries, to introduce Domino's to Bangladesh. It will have a 51 percent stake in the company Jubilant Golden Harvest and Golden Harvest the remaining 49 percent stake.

Bhartia, who is also the founder and co-chairman of India's $5 billion Jubilant Bhartia Group, sat down with The Daily Star for an interview on the eve of the inauguration of the first Domino's restaurant in Bangladesh.

The restaurant located in capital's Dhanmondi opened its doors on March 15.

With Domino's, the total number of American pizza chains that have set foot in Bangladesh comes to four.

“I think we are late in entering in Bangladesh as we were so focused on India. We should have come here earlier.”

The other brands that are already here have created a market for pizza and it is a blessing for pizza brands like Domino's.

“But Domino's has a very special proposition: we are very good at delivering.”

Food delivery is becoming very popular all over the world as people have lesser time to spend on preparing a meal at home due to the hum of modern life.

Quizzed about the part the infamous Dhaka traffic would play in maintaining Domino's 30-minute delivery timeframe, he said: “There is traffic everywhere in the world.”

Besides, Domino's offers the 30-minute timeframe to those areas that are within a certain radius of its stores.

“When there is traffic, we increase the density of stores.”

The company plans on setting up five restaurants in the first year of its operations by shelling out Tk 10-15 crore and focusing on accelerating growth after that.

Jubilant Golden Harvest has already set its sights on making Domino's the number one pizza brand in Bangladesh over the next five years.

Being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, Bangladesh offers great growth prospect, Bhartia said.

More importantly, the country has a very large population base, a sizeable youth population and a strong middle-class.

According to estimates of Jubilant, the fast food market in Bangladesh is growing at 13-15 percent every year. And pizza accounts for one-fourth of the market, which stands at Tk 1,000 crore.

“You can see the energy. When a country grows at 7 percent annually, this business has to grow at double digit,” said Bhartia, a chemical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Both India and Bangladesh have the opportunity to grow because of having a large local market.

“It's not about only exports. And in today's environment, when a lot of barriers of trade have emerged, having a large local market will give you protection.”

The key thing for Domino's in Bangladesh would be the affordability of its famed hand-tossed pies.

“You should make it as affordable as possible and give value to the customer so that they have pizza not once in two years but more often. And more people should try.”

The starting price of Domino's pizzas in Bangladesh is Tk 149. Most of the ingredients are sourced locally; those that are not available here would be brought in from abroad.

“But we would definitely like to develop a supplier base here. Even if something is not available, in the next five years the efforts will be to develop it locally.”

As part of Domino's charm offensive, it has also developed some local flavours such as spicy curried beef apart from the regular international flavours.

Most of the staff at Domino's restaurants would be hired locally and trained by foreign experts.

Bhartia, also a former president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, has been associated with India's Ministry of Human Resource Development.

“In India and so in Bangladesh, we need to build more occupational skills,” said Bhartia.

Jubilant FoodWorks, which also holds the franchise of Dunkin' Donuts in the four countries, is the market leader in pizza segment and with a network of 1,200 Domino's Pizza restaurants across 271 cities in India.

In 2018, Domino's surpassed Pizza Hut to become the largest pizza chain in the world. The company reported $12.20 billion in global sales for 2017, edging out the former titleholder that logged in $12.03 billion.

https://www.thedailystar.net/busines...livery-1717204

 

[Bilal9]

Station 121, Gulshan-2

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Akij Uttaradhikar, Dhanmondi

Designed by Volumezero Architects

Akij Uttaridhikar, the luxury residence is a eight storied building, manifestation of ideas and strength of coherent family of individuals. The architecture reveals an intimate layer of concrete enclosing a layer of brick and wood. The detailing of brick bonding and planes of concrete in consideration of both environmental and aesthetic values of the building, creating a grand impression. The outermost layer evolves into a skin and in turn becomes a shell responsive to elements. The spacious ground and mezzanine level contain most of the amenities, the ground swimming pool and open terrace garden at mezzanine level can be enjoyed by dwellers. The lavish family dining space of 40 people at first floor level with adequate family living facilities is a place of family gathering. Manicured roof garden, green landscape at ground and sixth floor enlivens the overall ambience. Photography by @Apurbo Hussain, F. M. Faruque Abdullah Shawon, Sakib Intisar Hossain

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Quick Quiz, which residential area in Dhaka? Hint: diplomatic area.

21 March, 2019 01:06:17 PM

Shark-faced jet lands at Dhaka airport for the first time
Independent Online Desk

A File Photo of Embraer E190-E2

As part of its tour around the region, World’s most efficient single aisle commercial jet Embraer’s E190-E2 arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday morning. It is a modernized re-engined and redesigned version of the popular Embraer E190 commuter jet in wide use around major aviation markets like in the US.

The test flight arrived here around 12:31 after flying from Indira Gandhi Int'l Airport in New Delhi, India for flying around one hour and 37 minutes, according to the flight chart.

Sporting a shark livery to represent the aircraft’s ‘profit hunter’ status, the aircraft will offer Embraer’s customers a closer look at the world’s quietest, cleanest and most efficient new-generation single-aisle aircraft.

“We are proud to bring this aircraft to the region for the second time to show the amazing capabilities of the E190-E2,” said Cesar Pereira, Asia Pacific Vice President, Embraer Commercial Aviation.

“The E190-E2 offers airlines the benefit of lower operating costs and is capable of achieving similar costs per seat of larger re-engined narrowbody aircraft, with significantly lower costs per trip. We have also received a lot of positive feedback about the aircraft performance, low fuel consumption, sleek and modern interior and low cabin noise and we are excited to show it to a wider audience.”

Delivered to its launch customer in April last year, and now operated by two airlines Norway’s Widerøe and Kazakhstan’s Air Astana, the E190-E2 has gained a reputation in the industry for having met all its milestones ahead of schedule, and with final specifications better than the originally expected.

The E-Jets E2’s value proposition in the Asia Pacific region is its ability to enable airlines to sustainably develop more routes secondary or tertiary cities. These are routes that can potentially bypass the major metro airports such as Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, New Delhi and Mumbai which are heavily congested. This enables airlines to achieve sustainable growth without being constrained by infrastructure bottlenecks, while offering passengers improved services with more non-stop flights.

Embraer forecasts a demand for 10,550 new aircraft with up to 150 seats worldwide, worth USD 600 billion, over the next 20 years, more than 3,000 of which will origin from the Asia Pacific region, including China.

Embraer is the world’s leading manufacturer of commercial jets with up to 150 seats. The Company has 100 customers from all over the world operating the ERJ and the E-Jet families of aircraft. For the E-Jets program alone, Embraer has logged more than 1,800 orders and 1,400 deliveries, redefining the traditional concept of regional aircraft by operating across a range of business applications. The first-generation E-Jets are operated by 70 airlines in 50 countries. This includes all the mainline US carriers, KLM, Air France, Lufthansa, British Airways, Tianjin Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Japan Airlines and Mandarin Airlines.

The E-Jets E2 is the most efficient family of aircraft in the single-aisle market burning up to 10% less fuel than its direct competitor. The E190-E2 brings also more flexibility with maximum range of up to 5,300 km or about 1,000 km longer than the first-generation E190.

In January 2018, as the aircraft neared the end of its flight test campaign, final results showed that the aircraft is better than its original specification and even more efficient than other single aisle aircraft. In fuel consumption, the E190-E2 proved to be 1.3% better than originally expected, which represents a 17.3% improvement when compared to the first-generation E190. In terms of pilot transition, pilots of the first-generation E-Jets will need only 2.5 days of training and no full flight simulator to fly an E2.

Flight test results also confirmed the E190-E2 to be better than its original specification in takeoff performance in hot-and-high conditions as well as short field takeoff.

E190-E2 also becomes the aircraft with the longest maintenance intervals in the single aisle market with 10,000 flight hours for basic checks and no calendar limit in typical E-Jets utilization. This means additional 15 days of aircraft utilization in a period of ten years compared to the first-generation E-Jets.

Embraer is a global company headquartered in Brazil with businesses in commercial and executive aviation, defense & security. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets aircraft and systems, providing customer support and services.

Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. About every 10 seconds an aircraft manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world, transporting over 145 million passengers a year.

Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats. The company maintains industrial units, offices, service and parts distribution centers, among other activities, across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.

Source: The Independent, Bangladesh

Footage at Dhaka. These CAAB nincompoops should fix the construction mess around the runways at the airport - has been several years. Damned lazy f*cks.

 

[Bilal9]

Embraer E190-E2 demo flight with local Airline execs and media in Dhaka. Reaction has been quite positive. We are for stronger South-South cooperation with the Brazilians.

 

[Bilal9]

Ventura Agnibeena Tower, Rd 11, Banani

10 storied office/commercial tower with 2100 sq. ft. units

BERC (Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission) HQ, Agargaon, Dhaka (LEED compliant building which is an ongoing trend for the last decade).

 

[Bilal9]

Cyclone Shelter in the Coastal Belt of Bay of Bengal. © Kashef Chowdhury

With this first comprehensive European exhibition the Aedes Architecture Forum presents the work of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA from Bangladesh, who received the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016 for the Friendship Centre on the flood plains of Gaibandha in northern Bangladesh. With further projects such as the Gulshan Society Mosque in Dhaka and the Cyclone Shelter in Kuakata, he gained widespread international acclaim. Careful arrangement of structures in areas marked by extreme climatic conditions, combined with local building techniques and materials, Kashef Chowdhury’s buildings are exemplary of an architecture that serves society with radical simplicity and poetry. With an atmospheric installation, the exhibition curated by Niklaus Graber and Andreas Ruby, invites visitors on a journey to Bangladesh and the architectural worlds of URBANA.

Bangladesh, which has been stigmatized in many respects as a peripheral region, has hardly been present on the global architectural map. However, this is likely to change in the near future. One reason for this is the architecture of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA.

At first glance, Kashef Chowdhury’s buildings – such as his stormproof school or island-shaped village near the Bramaputra River – seem to have emerged directly from the local context of Bangladesh, which is one of the most densely populated regions on earth and dominated by extreme tropical climate conditions. At second glance, his architecture spans space and time from east to west, from the past to the present, and has universal appeal thanks to its masterful treatment of light, space and materiality. URBANA’s works are not only spatially and architecturally extraordinary in their immediacy; they also bear witness to the high social relevance of an architecture that thoughtfully and inventively addresses urgent issues such as population density, climate change, migration, and the reactivation of rural potential. Through local action, carefully developed from the history and geography of the world’s largest delta region, URBANA’s work acquires a global significance that moves us closer many themes, which where once thought to be faraway.

Franco-German Embassy in Dhaka​

Genesis Technology Group / Project-BD Architects
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GTG is a One-Stop IT and communications solution provider in Bangladesh. They occupy top several floors of Concord Tower. Project-BD Architects worked for their head office on the 13th floor. The client asked them to create a joyous, functional open space with brightness and clean lines. Project-BD Architects were asked to be time framed as well. These conditions fundamentally determined the direction of their work. Since it was their first commissioned work, and being very fresh in the trade they took the Carlo Scarpa way to form idea/design/detail as a moment of communication between the architect and the local skilled artisan, that is, personal and collaborative.

Dhaka Metrorail Technical update

 

[Bilal9]

Our beloved Dhaka, so old... yet new again......

'Chishty's yacht' Luxury Condo project, built at the same spot as 'Jahaj Bari' in Dhanmondi on the shores of Dhanmandi lake. Architecturally a very significant work.

 

[Bilal9]

 

[Bilal9]

Metro Rail Project in Dhaka has brought back many Bangladeshi engineers and workmen from foreign jobs. Same with Dhaka Expressway and Padma Bridge.

Dhaka Elevated expressway update - Airport to Banani section to open this June....

 

[TopCat]

@bluesky @Nilgiri

 

[Nilgiri]

@bluesky @Nilgiri

Tell me when actual credible media reports something and shows something on the ground.

Youtube channel? Seriously?

 

[fallstuff]

Domino's, the world's leading pizza chain, is planning to introduce 30-minute pizza delivery service in Bangladesh within the next three months, in a development that can fuel competition in the country's restaurant scene.

“Domino's delivers pizza within 30 minutes all over the world,” said Hari S Bhartia, co-chairman of Jubilant FoodWorks, the master franchise holder of Domino's in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Jubilant teamed up with Golden Harvest QSR, a subsidiary of local Golden Harvest Agro Industries, to introduce Domino's to Bangladesh. It will have a 51 percent stake in the company Jubilant Golden Harvest and Golden Harvest the remaining 49 percent stake.

Bhartia, who is also the founder and co-chairman of India's $5 billion Jubilant Bhartia Group, sat down with The Daily Star for an interview on the eve of the inauguration of the first Domino's restaurant in Bangladesh.

The restaurant located in capital's Dhanmondi opened its doors on March 15.

With Domino's, the total number of American pizza chains that have set foot in Bangladesh comes to four.

“I think we are late in entering in Bangladesh as we were so focused on India. We should have come here earlier.”

The other brands that are already here have created a market for pizza and it is a blessing for pizza brands like Domino's.

“But Domino's has a very special proposition: we are very good at delivering.”

Food delivery is becoming very popular all over the world as people have lesser time to spend on preparing a meal at home due to the hum of modern life.

Quizzed about the part the infamous Dhaka traffic would play in maintaining Domino's 30-minute delivery timeframe, he said: “There is traffic everywhere in the world.”

Besides, Domino's offers the 30-minute timeframe to those areas that are within a certain radius of its stores.

“When there is traffic, we increase the density of stores.”

The company plans on setting up five restaurants in the first year of its operations by shelling out Tk 10-15 crore and focusing on accelerating growth after that.

Jubilant Golden Harvest has already set its sights on making Domino's the number one pizza brand in Bangladesh over the next five years.

Being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, Bangladesh offers great growth prospect, Bhartia said.

More importantly, the country has a very large population base, a sizeable youth population and a strong middle-class.

According to estimates of Jubilant, the fast food market in Bangladesh is growing at 13-15 percent every year. And pizza accounts for one-fourth of the market, which stands at Tk 1,000 crore.

“You can see the energy. When a country grows at 7 percent annually, this business has to grow at double digit,” said Bhartia, a chemical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Both India and Bangladesh have the opportunity to grow because of having a large local market.

“It's not about only exports. And in today's environment, when a lot of barriers of trade have emerged, having a large local market will give you protection.”

The key thing for Domino's in Bangladesh would be the affordability of its famed hand-tossed pies.

“You should make it as affordable as possible and give value to the customer so that they have pizza not once in two years but more often. And more people should try.”

The starting price of Domino's pizzas in Bangladesh is Tk 149. Most of the ingredients are sourced locally; those that are not available here would be brought in from abroad.

“But we would definitely like to develop a supplier base here. Even if something is not available, in the next five years the efforts will be to develop it locally.”

As part of Domino's charm offensive, it has also developed some local flavours such as spicy curried beef apart from the regular international flavours.

Most of the staff at Domino's restaurants would be hired locally and trained by foreign experts.

Bhartia, also a former president of the Confederation of Indian Industry, has been associated with India's Ministry of Human Resource Development.

“In India and so in Bangladesh, we need to build more occupational skills,” said Bhartia.

Jubilant FoodWorks, which also holds the franchise of Dunkin' Donuts in the four countries, is the market leader in pizza segment and with a network of 1,200 Domino's Pizza restaurants across 271 cities in India.

In 2018, Domino's surpassed Pizza Hut to become the largest pizza chain in the world. The company reported $12.20 billion in global sales for 2017, edging out the former titleholder that logged in $12.03 billion.

https://www.thedailystar.net/busines...livery-1717204

30 Minutes Pizza delivery is a tall order in Dhaka !

I worked as a Domino delivery driver more than 25 years ago, at a time when there was no smart phone or GPS like Garmin. Dominos had the 30 minutes delivery or the pizza was either free or discounted in those days. It was a freaking nightmare as the Pizza took 15 minutes to bake leaving you with 15 minutes for delivery. The deliveries to the Country Club gated communities were the worst as you had to wait at the gate while the guard calls the customer to confirm as the clock kept ticking !

 

[bluesky]

Tell me when actual credible media reports something and shows something on the ground.

Youtube channel? Seriously?

Yes, you are right. And tell @TopCat not to buy that shares of the Sikder Group. He will lose all the million dollars he earned in various ways. I am pessimistic about the tower on its technical feasibility. However, the presence of a strong and thick bedrock, say, 40m below the ground level may make it possible to build one.

So, @TopCat should find out an expert Japanese or Singapore company to make Standard Penetration Tests (SPT) of the subsoil. The tests will determine the pile bearing capacity of the soil. Even if everything is alright, the tall tower must be protected from the strong force generated by a stormwind by erecting smaller towers around it. I am not talking here about the impact of the seismic force.

Refer to Chicago Sears Tower (Willis Tower) conceived by FR Khan. However, the concept drawing supplied by that Sikder the swindler shows only a single building erected without smaller supporting buildings.

Picture of Sears Tower. Note the surrounding small buildings (not the buildings separated from it). This type of structure is called "Bundle Tube".

 

[TopCat]

Yes, you are right. And tell @TopCat not to buy that shares of the Sikder Group. He will lose all the million dollars he earned in various ways. I am pessimistic about the tower on its technical feasibility. However, the presence of a strong and thick bedrock, say, 40m below the ground level may make it possible to build one.

So, @TopCat should find out an expert Japanese or Singapore company to make Standard Penetration Tests (SPT) of the subsoil. The tests will determine the pile bearing capacity of the soil. Even if everything is alright, the tall tower must be protected from the strong force generated by a stormwind by erecting smaller towers around it. I am not talking here about the impact of the seismic force.

Refer to Chicago Sears Tower (Willis Tower) conceived by FR Khan. However, the concept drawing supplied by that Sikder the swindler shows only a single building erected without smaller supporting buildings.

Picture of Sears Tower. Note the surrounding small buildings (not the buildings separated from it). This type of structure is called "Bundle Tube".

 

[bluesky]

It is ok if you believe in this computer-aided image. But, do not please buy any shares of Sikder Company in the Stock Market until a reputed Japanese design and engineering company issues a clean bill of a certificate of the subsoil health.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

@bluesky I hope this report will make you somewhat delighted.

Thanks to @Bilal9 for posting it first here.