Rohit Ramchandra Patil

The first operational phase of Noida International Airport is being developed on 3,296 acres. Around 200 acres of Airside area is under turfing, and 180 acres of Landside area is under landscaping, along with 250,000 square feet of floor area under indoor plants inside the terminals.

• Managing airport landscaping projects with overall responsibilities of coordination, execution, resource scheduling, and constantly tracking the project progress on all fronts vis-à-vis schedule, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, goals, and customer satisfaction.
• Lead, mentor, and manage the horticulture team, ensuring effective team performance and development.
• Develop and implement strategic plans for the horticulture department in alignment with airport operations and environmental sustainability goals.
• Design coordination, preparation of tender documents, vendor management, project planning, project scheduling, execution, maintenance, and bill certification.
• Develop and manage maintenance schedules, ensuring timely and effective care of all horticultural assets.
• Work closely with airport management, operations teams, and external stakeholders to align horticultural activities with overall airport objectives.
• Submit and track the annual operating budget and a capital budget in line with the Airport Business Plan.

• Responsible for handling the activities pertinent to landscape development and maintenance at Pune (Lodha Belmondo (150 acres), NIBM (15 acres), Kharadi (10 acres), and Industrial Park at Mumbai).
• Project planning, project scheduling, execution, maintenance, and billing.
• Preparation of MIS reports.

• Landscape development and maintenance of 360 acres of landscape at Reliance refinery at Jamnagar.
• Responsible for overall horticultural services at the site.
• Coordination with landscape architects, inter- and intra-departmental coordination, preparation of tender documents, vendor management, project planning, project scheduling, execution, and billing.

GMR Airports Limited (GAL) has developed Manohar International Airport in Mopa, North Goa. Spread across an area of 2,132 acres, the airport will initially serve 4.4 million passengers per annum in Phase 1, and it will be scaled up as per traffic growth demands. Around 200 acres of Airside area is under turfing, and 120 acres of Landside area is under landscaping, along with 200,000 square feet of floor area under indoor plants inside terminals.

• Managing airport landscaping projects with overall responsibilities of coordination, execution, resource scheduling, and constantly tracking the project progress on all fronts vis-à-vis schedule, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, goals, and customer satisfaction.
• Design coordination, preparation of tender documents, vendor management, project planning, scheduling of projects, scheduling of works, execution of works, and billing.
• Foreseeing performance bottlenecks, critical paths, and taking corrective measures to avoid the same.

Palava is an integrated smart city located near Mumbai, being built on 4,500 acres of land. The first phase of 500 acres was completed in 2020. Landscaping involves one 9-hole golf course spread over 32 acres of land, two cricket stadiums, and theme-based landscaping on 135 acres.

• Responsible for handling the activities pertinent to landscape development, golf course development, cricket ground development, and maintenance activities at Palava 1 A and 1 B.
• Project planning, scheduling of works, execution, maintenance, and billing.
• Preparation of MIS reports.

Billed as India’s first hill station since independence, Lavasa City, spread over 15,000 acres of land, was being built by the HCC Group. Landscaping involves golf courses, cricket grounds, parks and gardens, theme-based landscaping, nature parks, organic farming, etc.

• Landscape development and maintenance. Landscape drawings, BOQs, specifications, estimates, rate analysis, budgeting, and scheduling of works.
• Vendor development, interactions with consultants and statutory bodies, interdepartmental coordination, billing, etc.
• Implementing project plans within preset budgets, deadlines, and coordination.
• Organic farming and organic certification.

• Handled about 200 acres of land under agronomic crops, horticultural crops, and vegetables.
• Landscape development and maintenance of gardens.

• Landscape development and maintenance: landscape drawings, plans, BOQs, specifications, estimates, rate analysis, budgeting, and scheduling of works.
• Preparation of indents, quotations, PO/WO, comparatives, billing, coordination with landscape architects, clients, etc.