Description
Hi-Tech Park, Sylhet is a master plan development project to create a world-class business environment, conducive to IT/ITES industries that explore the possibility of reintroducing water edge elements into the city. The world today is moving fast towards the transformation of its regions and cities into knowledge-based societies rather than being characterized by the dawn of the new millennium. The phenomenon of high-technology industrial parks (HTPS) also referred to as “Hi-Tech Parks” is showing an exciting vitality all over the world.
The objective of the ICT Village project or Hi-tech Park project is to establish knowledge-based industries throughout the country, particularly related to Software and IT Enabled Services, thereby contributing to the national economy and helping achieve the goals of Vision 2021: Digital Bangladesh.
The aspiration for the masterplan design of B.S.M. Hi-tech Park Sylhet is to consider it as a catalyst for positive change, not only from a business perspective but also as a model for sustainable future cities. The project site is in the marshy ‘haor’ areas of Sylhet, making the project site extremely eco-sensitive. Thus, site development has been devised in a way so that it is not over-imposing or intrusive to the natural setting of the area. The masterplan includes open spaces, green buffer areas, internal waterbodies connecting haors on either side of the site and contextual natural features like Ratargul sweet water mangrove forest in this design.
