Along with the bungalow at Pune (I still haven’t got around to making a separate page for that one), the other current architectural project is an office-cum-laboratory building at Thurbe (New Bombay) for an ISO 9001 company for whom I had also designed a logo a couple of years back. Project Architects based in the area were appointed to get the required permissions, do the working drawings and supervise on a regular basis.

All was going well until we found, during excavation, that the neighbouring industrial unit had leaked acidic water into our site. Apparently they had a a broken storage tank which was promptly removed when we pointed it out to them. However, just a few days ago when we dug another pit, we found some more corrosive liquid.

Precautions had already been taken to protect the foundation but those chaps next door should really be hauled over the coals or, better still, be made to jump into their own acid!