Initial Environmental Examination of Karachi IT Tower Complex

Narrative Description of Project: IT Tower Complex is a project of such nature that will provide 10,000 seats call centres, a three basement car parking area to facilitate 2,500 cars at a time, food courts, high class shopping arcade, Cineplex for entertainment purposes, a hotel and other office spaces. Tower will have 47 stories. A total covered area of 2.8 million ft2 will be occupied by the tower. It is a project of IM Technologies.

This project is a multi-use complex and will fulfil office needs as well as providing accommodation and entertainment facilities. It will have world class support facilities and services to manage the whole building through a centralised building management systemAn Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) has been carried out to provide all necessary information on potential environmental and social impacts at the different stages of construction of the project.; an IEE document has been prepared to meet the legislative requirements of Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997

Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff: Study was made to develop the baseline and identify the potential impacts of the proposed project; a mitigation matrix containing technical and non- technical measures was developed for both the project phases. Future monitoring requirements were also identified.