A PROJECT REPORT ON

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO
DOMES INTERNATIONAL
(INDIA) LTD.

PRESENTED BY:
ZENITH V VASAVA
F.Y. BBA
DIV: C
ROLL NO: 180

GLS(J.P.SHAH) INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS

ADMINISTRATION

PREFACE

The only source of knowledge is experience The

saying has played a guiding role in including visit as
part of the curricular of Business administration
program of Gujarat University.
This practical training at BBA programme develops a
feeling about the difficulties and challenges in the
business world. Only theory knowledge does not
impart
must

complete
accompany

education,
theoretical

practical

experience

knowledge

to

add

meaning to education. The BBA programme is

designed in a way which imparts practical as well as
theoretical knowledge.
The motive of going to Domes International (India)
Ltd. was very enriching. It led to giving us global
exposure about how the industry is functioned at a
corporate level. Its very motivating as a BBA student
to be a part of this visit to the industry.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Any accomplishment requires the efforts of many

people and this work is no different. I thank
PRADEEP SINGH CHAUHAN and MULRAJ SINGH
VAGHELA, the owners of the firm who habe provided
all the necessary information to my project guide
prof. KULDEEP AHUJA who has guided me and his
support was instrumental in the accomplishing of this
report.
Lastly I would like to thank my college, parents and
whom so ever at large who had directly or indirectly
helped me in finishing the report.

 OBJECT OF THE VISIT

To develop communication skill.

To know realistic behavior of industry.
To know about different assets of industry.
To bridge the gap between theoretical and
practical knowledge.
To know the system of functioning of industry.
To know the marketing situation of company.
Which marketing intelligent system company is
using?
To know about consumers behavior, brand of
the product and what are the distribution
channels that company is using?

CURRICULUM

SR.NO

PARTICULARS

01

General Information

02

Etymology of Domes

03

What are Domes

04

Early History of Domes

05

Types of Domes

06

Masonry of Domes in India

07

Introduction to the Industry

08

Goal of the Industry

09

Safety Measures by the Industry

10

Construction Overview Self Supporting Dome

Structure

11

Advantages of Domes

12

Production process

13

Organizational Structure

14

Basic Raw Materials

15

Quality Control

16

Existing Management

17

Finance Department

18

Personnel

19

Marketing

20

Conclusion

 GENERAL INFORMATION
I.

Name of unit

: Domes Internatinal (india) Ltd.

Registered office

: Ahmedabad

III.

Factory site

: Odhav Gidc, Ahmedabad

IV.

Head office

: Odhav gidc, Ahmedabad

Establishment year

: 2003

VI.

Director

: Mr. Prabatsingh M. Chauhan

VII.

Address
Gujarat,

: Factory no. 66, g.i.d.c., Odhav,

Near-g.i.d.c. Water Tank,
Ahmedabad- 382415,
India

Website

: www.domesindia.com

Main product

: Domes, Fiber

Total no. of employees

: 40

Branches

:1

Business type

: Exporter/ Manufacturer/ Supplier

II.

V.

VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.

Contact (1) Phone no.

: 91-79-22974971
(2) Fax no. : 91-79-22974971
(3) Mobile no. : 919825785044

ETYMOLOGY OF DOMES

 The English word "dome" ultimately derives from the

Greek and Latin domus, which was used up through
the Renaissance to label a revered house, such as a
Domus Dei, or "House of God", regardless of the
shape of its roof. This is reflected in the uses of the
Italian word duomo, the German/Icelandic/Danish
word dom ("cathedral"), and the English word dome
as late as 1656, when it meant a "Town-House,
Guild-Hall, State-House, and Meeting-House in a
city." The French word dosme came to acquire the
meaning of a cupola vault, specifically, by 1660. This
French definition gradually became the standard
usage of the English dome in the eighteenth century
as many of the most impressive Houses of God were
built with monumental domes, and in response to
the scientific need for more technical terms.

A dome is a rounded vault made of either curved

segments or a shell of revolution, meaning an arch
rotated around its central vertical axis.

WHAT ARE DOMES?

 A dome is an element of architectural that

resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome
structures made of various materials have a long
architectural lineage extending into prehistory.
Corbel domes and true domes have been found in
the ancient Middle East in modest buildings and
tombs. The construction of the first technically
advanced true domes began in the Roman
Architectural Revolution, when they were frequently
used by the Romansto shape large interior spaces
of temples and public buildings, such as
the Pantheon. This tradition continued unabated
after the adoption of Christianity in the Byzantine
(East Roman) religious and secular architecture,
culminating in the revolutionary pendentive dome of
the 6th-century church Hagia Sophia. Squinches, the
technique of making a transition from a square
shaped room to a circular dome, was most likely
invented by the ancient Persians. The Sassanid
Empire initiated the construction of the first largescale domes in Persia, with such royal buildings as
the Palace of Ardashir, Sarvestan and Ghaleh
Dokhtar. With the Muslim conquest of Greek-Roman
Syria, the Byzantine architectural style became a
major influence on Muslim societies. Indeed the use
of domes as a feature of Islamic architecture has
gotten its roots from Roman Greater-Syria
(see Dome of the Rock).
An original tradition of using multiple domes was
developed in the church architecture in Russia, which
had adopted Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium.

Russian domes are often gilded or brightly painted,

and typically have a carcass and an outer shell made
of wood or metal.
The onion dome became another distinctive feature
in the Russian architecture, often in combination with
the tented roof.
Domes in Western Europe became popular again
during the Renaissance period, reaching a zenith in
popularity during the early 18th century Baroque
period. Reminiscent of the Roman senate, during the
19th century they became a feature of grand civic
architecture. As a domestic feature the dome is less
common, tending only to be a feature of the
grandest houses and palaces during the Baroque
period.

EARLY HISTORY OF DOMES

 Apache wigwam, by Edward S. Curtis, 1903

The earliest discovered may be four small dwellings made

of Mammoth tusks and bones. The first was found by a
farmer in Mezhirich, Ukraine, in 1965 while he was
digging in his cellar and archaeologists unearthed three
more.

TYPES OF DOMES

1. Roman and Byzantine domes

2.

Chinese domes

3.

Arabic and Western-European domes

4.

Russian domes

5.

Italian Renaissance domes

6.

South-Asian and Mughal domes

7.

Modern period domes

8.

General types of domes

A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.

Beehive dome
Crossed-arch dome
Geodesic dome
Onion dome
Oval dome
Umbrella dome

1. ROMAN AND
BYZANTINE
DOMES

Roman domes are found in baths, villas, palaces, and

tombs. Oculi are common features. They are

customarily hemispherical in shape and partially or

totally concealed on the exterior. In order to buttress

the horizontal thrusts of a large hemispherical masonry
dome, the supporting walls were built up beyond the
base to at least the haunches of the dome and the
dome was then also sometimes covered with a conical
or polygonal roof.

2. CHINESE DOMES

 Very little has survived of ancient Chinese architecture,

due to the extensive use of timber as a building
material. Brick and stone vaults used in tomb
construction have survived, and the corbeled dome
was used, rarely, in tombs and temples. The earliest
true domes found in Chinese tombs were shallow
cloister vaults, called simian jieding, derived from the
Han use of barrel vaulting. Unlike the cloister vaults of
western Europe, the corners are rounded off as they
rise.

3. ARABIC AND WESTERN-EUROPEAN

DOMES

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the earliest

surviving Islamic building, was completed in 691 by
Umayyad caliph Abd Al-Malik. Its design was that of a
ciborium, or reliquary, such as those common to
Byzantine martyria and the major Christian churches
of the city. The rotunda of the nearby Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, in particular, has a similar design and
almost the same dimensions.

4. RUSSIAN
DOMES

Russian domes are often gilded or brightly painted. A

dangerous technique of chemical gilding using mercury
had been applied on some occasions until the mid-19th
century. The more modern and safe method of gold
electroplating was applied for the first time in gilding
the domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in
Moscow, the tallest Eastern Orthodox church in the
world.

5. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE DOMES

fter years of considering options, Filippo Brunelleschi

and Lorenzo Ghiberti were made joint leaders of the
project to build the dome for Florence Cathedral in
1420. The dome is 42 meters wide and made of two
shells. A stairway winds between them. Eight white
stone external ribs mark the edges of the eight sides,
next to the red tile roofing, and extend from the base
of the dome to the base of the cupola. Each of the
eight sides of the dome also conceal a pair of
intermediate stone ribs that are connected to the main
ribs by means of a series of masonry rings.

6. SOUTH-ASIAN AND MUGHAL

DOMES

The Taj Mahal in Agra, brick a structure clad primarily

in marble, was begun in 1632 and mostly completed in
1636; the rest of the extensive complex would not be
finished before 1643. The tomb was built for Mumtaz
a wife of emperor Shah Jahan, after her death in 1631,
The central double dome covers a diameter of 22
meters. The inner dome is three meters thick and over
30 meters below the outer dome. The outer dome rests
upon drum walls five metes thick.

7. MODERN PERIOD DOMES

New production techniques allowed for cast iron and

wrought iron to be produced both in larger quantities
and at relatively low prices during the Industrial
Revolution. Iron was used in place of wood where fire
resistance was a priority. Walther Bauersfeld created a
16 meter wide dome that was just 30 millimeters
thick. The second dome was still thinner at 40 meters
wide and 60 millimeters thick. These are generally
taken to be the first modern architectural thin shells.
These are also considered the first geodesic domes.

8. GENERAL TYPES OF DOMES

A.

Beehive dome

C.

Geodesic dome

B. Crossed-arch dome
D. Onion dome

E. Oval dome
Umbrella dome

F.

 MASONRY OF DOMES IN INDIA

The first key buildings date from the end of the
12th century with the capture of Oelhi in 1192
by the forces of the Afghan Turk, Muhammad of
Ghor (Sharma 1990, 52). The leader of the
invading army, Qutb-ud-Oin Aybak, was placed
in charge of the conquered areas and
established Oelhi as his capital.
In the same year a mosque was built, later to be
called the Quwwat-al-Islam or Might of Islam
which, as we have seen, used stonework from
destroyed Hindu and Jain temples; re-Iaid by
indigenous masons following their traditional
technique of beam and post construction

INTRODUCTION TO THE
INDUSTRY

 DOMES INTERNATIONAL (INDIA) LTD. Started

its commercial production in September 2003 at
Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The plant, machinery and the
technology are sourced from the USA origin. The
production people are well trained by well qualified
and experienced personnel.
They can manufacture and assemble various types
of prefabricated fiberglass buildings as per the
customers requirement. Our products are extensively
used for the construction of residential houses, site
offices, security cabins, school-class rooms,
warehouses, garages, hospitals, cafeterias, etc.
As a diversification program, they have started
manufacturing hydroponics indoor vertical farming
devices. This product is made out of fiberglass, which
is first in India. For demonstration, a pilot plant is
installed in our factory at odhav, Ahmedabad.

GOAL OF THE INDUSTRY

The mission of the DOMES INTERNATIONAL
(INDIA) LTD. is to provide domes at those
regions where there is extreme amount of cold

where people can not live in houses which are

made of bricks and sands, so this are specially
meant to be made for those regions. They are
used where transportation is in question. Over
there many people cannot go so domes are
helpful there because they are easy to transport
from one place to other.
Their second goal and the most important is to
provide domes to the Defense sector at the
boundaries of India. As they live at a very low
temperature so domes can give them a warm
place to live in. Domes are very easy to build so
it does not take time to build homes at different
places.

SAFETY MEASURES BY THE

INDUSTRY

No snow or debris pile-up on roof due to dome

shape

 Aero-dynamic shape makes dome building virtually

wing proof
High impact resistance (> 8,000 psi)
High structural load capacity
Fire resistant
Integral fire barrier incorporated in each panel with

added fire retardant

Flexibility of the fiberglass shell reduces risk of

damage or personal injury due to earthquake

No painting, no mildew, no rot
No rust, no corrosion
No deterioration, no weathering
No shingles, no siding, no termites - simply
washing the shell is all that is required to get new

look
Easily repairable should a panel ever get damaged
Outstanding energy efficient
Very cost effective and rapid construction
Low maintenance and low life cycle total - cost

CONSTRUCTION OVERVIEW SELF

SUPPORTING DOME STRUCTURE

Comprises curved panels

Basic panel is triangular
Some panels provide for doors and windows
Curved rectangular expansion panels allow
virtually

limitless

size

and

configuration

possibilities
Concrete foundation is poured on site provides
anchoring

surface

for

panels

Soil

within

foundation

perimeter

sand

scaffolding used to assist in dome erection

Conventional wood foundation also possible
Panels are bolted together and anchored to the
foundation
Panel seams are protected by silicon sealant
(manufacturer (GE) warranted 70 + year life
apan)
Windows and doors are installed to complete the
outside shell

1.

ADVANTAGES OF DOMES

AFFORDABILITY
Lower construction cost.
Construction time is reduced to 50%.
Sizes from 330 sq. ft to 3000 sq. ft+, 1 or 2
storeys.

2.

MAINTENANCE FREE

No rust nor rotting.

Insect/ animal resistant.
NO painting required.
No roofing no replace.
High UV protection.

 Resist snow loads.

3.

ENERGY EFFICIENT
Upto 30% more efficient than a
conventional home
1/3rd less air space to heat or cool
Roof/ walls equivalent to R28

4.

SOTRM/EARTHQUAKE PROTECTION
dome houses have been subjected to both
hurricanes in
florida and
tornados in mississippi with no structural
damage.
many houses were demolished or damaged
during the terrible earthquake of january 26,
2001, but the dome houses in ahmedabad
was left standing without a scratch.

PRODUCTION PROCESS
Each dome structure is made up of curved
panels, some of which have opening for doors
and windows.
The major component panels are hand made of
energy-efficient, corrosion free fiberglass
sprayed onto a mold, this layer is followed by a
1 to 1 1/2" layer of high-density urethane foam
for insulation and them a final layer of fiberglass
is applied.
He basis configurations are, the 17 foot
diameter dome to 40 foot diameter dome.
The color of the outside of the dome is bonded
into the surface during the molding process thus
assuring durability and virtually no surface
maintenance other than an occasional wash.
On site the panels are bolted together and
anchored to an ordinary foundation.
The seams where the panels meet are protected
with silicone sealant.

 It generally takes four people 12 hours to erect

a 1000 sq. ft. dome and somewhat less time for
the small structures.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Director

General Manager

Supervisor

Employees

Mr. Parbatsingh M. Chauhan, Mr.

Pradip Singh

Jadeja, Mr. Mulraj Singh Vaghela are the director of

the Domes International (India) Ltd. They are the
founder of the Domes international (India) Ltd.

 There are 24 employees working in the Domes

International (India) Ltd. All work are being done on
machines. No manual process is performed.

Basic Raw materials

The basic raw materials required by the company
was imported from foreign. But now import has been
stopped as it was banned by the government as
more cost was incurred by importing the material.
No exports has been done in last 2years. Exports
had been done to Australia.
The basic raw material required by this company are
as follow: Limestone
Kaolin clay
Other chemicals

 QUALITY CONTROL
It has been our practice since inception to ensure that
each batch of production goes through stricy quality
checking and we aim at providing to our valued
customers quality products and consistency thereof.
We make sure that the right product reaches the right
customer. No compromise on quality.

 EXISTING MANAGEMENT

Management is the Heart of any built up of institute.

Without management nothing is possible in any unit.
It is the Soul of organization for its better success.
When management is well planned in uniformity the
whole cycle of organization works smoothly.
Management means a group of persons who
manages the affair of an enterprise. DOMES
INTERNATIONAL (INDIA) LTD. is having a better
management which is controlled by all sufficient &
responsible persons. As this company holds a good
quality management it is more beneficial for its
success & high achievements.
Due to power of management DOMES
INTERNATIONAL (INDIA) LTD. also incurs a great
profit & good standard of work. It holds its business
in Domestic as well as strengthfull exports work in its
business.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

 Finance is the foundation stone of every business

in present period. We can not consideration of
finance. Finance is primary element in each &
every organization activity either directly or
indirectly related with each & every activity of our
life.
Finance is one of the most pivotal function areas of
management. The effectiveness of a business
enterprise significantly depends upon the efficiency
utilization of its resources.
In the business organization to manage the
finance property & to make the finance
management effective special finance department
is created which mainly performs the function like;
Finance planning
Raising of funds
Allocation of funds
Financial controlling
Thus finance is like blood & heart of business.

PERSONNEL
There are total 20 fixed labour working in the
company. The variable figure of labour is around 35-

40. There is no special qualification required for

employing

the workers only orally conversation is

done between the manager and worker. In the

company 60% of workers have worked for 5 to 8
years Promotion is based on the performance of the
worker.

This

is

fair

choice

made

by

the

management as the worker will get more encouraged

to work more and earn the respect.

MARKETING
Domes international (India) Ltd. captured not only
nation but international market of Domes. It has a
large field of market. One of the most important and

critical areas in marketing management is the pricing

of products decisions on pricing have considerable
effect in marketing. A wrong pricing can nullify the
effect of all right decisions relating to products
physical

distribution

and

promotion.

Decisions

relating to price reflect many things. How consumers

perceive the product.

IMPORT MARKET

Company Import only raw material but because of more

amount the government band on raw material.

EXPORT MARKET

Company doesnt do marketing. Earlier they used to

export to Australia. But now they have stopped it from
last 2 years.

CONCLUSION
The industrial visit as a part of our practical studies
gave one golden opportunities to known all about
DOMES INTERNATIONAL (INDIA) LTD.

 The experience of industrial visit as a report of

F.Y.B.B.A. programmer is the unforgettable
experience to me. Through this project report, I have
come to know about the product of DOMES
INTERNATIONAL, its quality, its deferent types of
process & its demand in region or domestic as well
as international market. This industrial visit is
enough to know about practically in Management.
This visit of DOMES INTERNATIONAL has become
a very nice experience for me.
The product of DOMES INTERNATIONAL is widely
in demand because of their affordable price.
My best wishes for future success of the company
are an important of my visit.