No. 163 · Education & Research

National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra, Haryana

Location: Kurukshetra, Haryana
Client: National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
PSU: NBCC (India) Ltd.
Status: In progress: some works under construction, others at HEFA approval
Built-up area: 1,34,309 m²
Site area: 292 acres
Project value: ₹534.78 crore (estimated)
Appointed: May 2025
Sector: Education & Research

About 1,34,000 m² of new buildings for NIT Kurukshetra, worth ₹535 crore: a computer engineering block, a hostel for 1,800 students, a mess, and 320 flats for faculty and staff. Some are under construction; others are going through HEFA approval.

About the project

The National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, runs its permanent campus on 292 acres in Haryana, with about 1,16,000 m² already built. To use the floor area still available on its land, the institute is adding academic, hostel and residential buildings. NBCC (India) Limited is the executing agency, under the EPC mode. In May 2025, after a design presentation before a jury, NBCC appointed ARCH-EN DESIGN to provide comprehensive architectural and engineering consultancy for the whole programme.

The work is in progress. Some of the buildings are already under construction on site, while others are going through approval and funding by the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA).

Teaching, living and housing

A new academic block of ground plus five floors for computer engineering, with large and medium classrooms, labs and faculty rooms, and a second floor added to the lecture hall block. A hostel for 1,800 students in single rooms rises in nine wings of stilts plus ten floors, joined by a corridor of common rooms and served by a mess block that can grow upwards later. Three existing hostels gain an extra floor.

For faculty and staff there are 320 flats in eight towers of stilts plus ten floors, eighty each of Types II, III, IV and V to GPRA norms, and a new residence for the director. The campus also gets covered footpaths along its main roads and a tensile fabric roof over the 1,000-seat open-air theatre.

The works

Building	Floors	Built-up area (m²)	Estimate (₹ crore)
Academic block (Computer Engineering)	G+5	7,320	33.26
Lecture hall block: new second floor	+1 floor	1,006	4.38
Director's residence (1 unit)	G+1	719	2.31
Type-V residences, 80 flats in 2 towers	S+10	20,750	73.25
Type-IV residences, 80 flats in 2 towers	S+10	16,902	60.52
Type-III residences, 80 flats in 2 towers	S+10	10,609	39.76
Type-II residences, 80 flats in 2 towers	S+10	10,109	38.10
Hostel for 1,800 students, single rooms in 9 wings	S+10	48,971	199.86
Hostel connecting corridor and common amenities	S+10	6,148	24.15
Mess block, built to take more floors later	G+1	2,344	11.83
Vertical expansion of existing hostels	+1 floor	8,880	16.64
Tensile roof over the 1,000-seat amphitheatre	–	–	1.50
Substation, STP, pump room and underground tank	–	550	–
Site development, roads, drainage and electrical works	–	–	29.23
Total		1,34,309	534.78

Areas and costs from the preliminary estimate of May 2025; they will change as designs are approved.

Our role

Architectural and Engineering consultant to NBCC (India) Limited, providing comprehensive consultancy: architecture, structural and MEPF design, specifications and bills of quantities, and periodic site supervision

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