Taking Over and Delivering the Bombay Hospital

How We Completed a 21-Floor Hospital Without a Tower Crane?

Bombay Hospital in Jaipur stands as one of the tallest medical buildings in the region, with 22 floors of complex healthcare infrastructure. When we took over the site, the project had already seen disruption.

Originally, the construction was being handled by Shapoorji Pallonji. Most of the structural work was in place, and their tower crane stood at the site. However, due to a dispute between Shapoorji Pallonji and the Bombay Hospital Trust, the contractor stepped away from the project. That’s when the trust floated a new tender. We studied the site, assessed the complexity, and took the opportunity.

What we faced wasn’t an empty site. It was a nearly completed structure that still needed serious execution.

Working Without a Tower Crane

Tower cranes are easy to dismantle. Setting them up inside a completed structure is a different story. The layout of this hospital made crane installation impossible. The core areas were already cast. No central space allowed for new equipment. Placing a tower crane on the outside would have required four different units, just to cover all sides. That option wasn’t feasible. 

We had to find another way. We installed a passenger lift at the edge of the building. It became the main lifeline for moving labor and materials. Every brick, every tile, every fitting moved through it. The same lift also carried the workers. There was no crane, no boom truck, no external scaffold system to rely on.

Every stage of construction had to adapt to this one constraint.

Understanding What Could Be Done, and What Couldn’t

Since the building was already standing, we couldn’t go back and redo foundation work or embed support systems that would usually sit under hospital equipment. We had to deliver precision without disrupting what had already been built.

The design used traditional brick wall systems across most floors. Some internal blockwork had already been completed. We built around that. We worked level by level, often loading material early in the morning and moving it floor to floor manually through the lift and coordinated labor chains.

Execution Without Excuses

In most projects, the challenge lies in starting from scratch. Here, the challenge came from walking into a site halfway and still needing to finish at the same level of quality. Our engineers had to make the most of limited access. Our site teams had to function without the usual support systems.

This was not a site where we could push volume. We had to focus on consistency.

Bombay Hospital reminded us that opportunity often comes dressed like difficulty. We didn’t treat the crane limitation as a setback. We treated it as a fact, and we worked around it.

The result stands today as one of Jaipur’s most prominent healthcare towers, built with clarity, coordination, and zero compromise on site control.