Sri Lanka Armed Forces gets a New Defence Headquarters

[Lankan Ranger]

Sri Lanka Armed Forces gets a New Defence Headquarters

The government of Sri Lanka has today presented a supplementary allocation of Rs. 20 billion for parliamentary approval.

Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne has presented the supplementary estimate for the construction of the Defence Headquarters in Akuregoda, Battaramulla.

The new Defence Headquarters is to house the Defence Ministry, Headquarters of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, office of the Chief of Defence Staff, the offices of the Commanders of the three armed forces, training centers, operational rooms, research centers, and other facilities.

The Sri Lankan government expects to complete the constructions of the new military complex in Battaramulla by 2013.

Sri Lanka : Sri Lankan PM presents Rs. 20 billion supplementary estimate for the Defence Headquarters to parliament

 

[Lankan Ranger]

Our Pentagon coming soon.....

 

[Pak_Sher]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[airpower183]

Just to update some photos of the on going construction work. So far 35 BillionRs has been spent on construction of this massive defence complex.

Just to provide a scale to how huge this complex is, here is a satellite image of whole of Colombo, the defence complex construction site is visible from here.

 

[kurup]

What will be the final look of the HQ ??

Any CGI .

 

[Chronos]

Off topic but this is my personal opinion.

Sri Lanka > (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh)

Remarkable too, since their civil war finished couple of years ago.

 

[airpower183]

What will be the final look of the HQ ??

Any CGI .

Unfortunately there is not, as with this photos there are 15+ floors, but cannot tell you how many more there will be as it hasn't been released.
Going by this photo there appears to be a number of underground floors too.

As there was an adverse security assessment made in relation in providing Engineering design and construction contract to private companies, the construction was awarded to the Tri-Forces Engineering Corps, and the Engineering design and consultancy awarded to the state owned CECB *Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau.

We can only keep guessing as to what the final design will be, as its a defence complex there are security concerns that prevent the release of such information.

 

[kurup]

Unfortunately there is not, as with this photos there are 15+ floors, but cannot tell you how many more there will be as it hasn't been released.
Going by this photo there appears to be a number of underground floors too.

As there was an adverse security assessment made in relation in providing Engineering design and construction contract to private companies, the construction was awarded to the Tri-Forces Engineering Corps, and the Engineering design and consultancy awarded to the state owned CECB *Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau.

We can only keep guessing as to what the final design will be, as its a defence complex there are security concerns that prevent the release of such information.

That does not make any sense .

Any security threat will emerge only if they release the pictures and data about the interiors .

I don't think releasing the CGI of exterior of proposed HQ will pose any security risk .

 

[airpower183]

That does not make any sense .

Any security threat will emerge only if they release the pictures and data about the interiors .

I don't think releasing the CGI of exterior of proposed HQ will pose any security risk .

This wasn't my decision.

We can only keep guessing as to what the final design will be, as its a defence complex there are security concerns that prevent the release of such information.

Sorry I do retract this statement, I advice that this was my opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the MoD.

I advice that the adverse security assessment was made in relation to the tender to private companies.

I advice that I am not aware of the MoD releasing any such statements relating to the final design rendering.

 

[kurup]

This wasn't my decision.

We all know that it wasn't your decision .

Sorry I do retract this statement, I advice that this was my opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the MoD.

I advice that the adverse security assessment was made in relation to the tender to private companies.

I advice that I am not aware of the MoD releasing any such statements relating to the final design rendering.

OK ......

 

[airpower183]

Some more photos.
Chief of Defence Staff visits Defence Headquarters Complex

 

[Helasat]

I happen to stumble upon the construction drawings of the head quarters. There are 8 towers of same specs arranged in an octogon. So we are not getting a Pentagon, an Octogon instead.