The Pacesetters

September 2018

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is a man in a hurry. Recently, he announced the Rs 1-trillion Mumbai-Delhi Expressway, which will connect India's two mo...

Tags: Nitin Gadkari, MoU, Construction, CMIE, Infrastructure, FIRST Construction Council, 13th CONSTRUCTION WORLD Architect & Builder Awards

What's Trending in Indian Workplaces? 13 industry stakeholders in Hyderabad discuss workplace design and technology and its impact on employee productivity

September 2018

Can efficient workplace design result into a retention tool, and how? After a series of roundtable discussions across cities in India, CW brought tog...

Tags: Falguni Padode, CONSTRUCTION WORLD, Shashank Singh, Philips India, Uday Sakunala, Hexagon Capability Center India, LED bulbs, Madan Kumar Sanisetty, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Anamica Banerjee, CBRE, Srikanth Badiga, Phoenix, HVAC, Technoflair Solutions

What's Trending in Indian Workplaces? 13 industry stakeholders in Hyderabad discuss workplace design and technology and its impact on employee productivity

September 2018

Can efficient workplace design result into a retention tool, and how? After a series of roundtable discussions across cities in India, CW brought tog...

Tags: Falguni Padode, CONSTRUCTION WORLD, Shashank Singh, Philips India, Uday Sakunala, Hexagon Capability Center India, LED bulbs, Madan Kumar Sanisetty, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Anamica Banerjee, CBRE, Srikanth Badiga, Phoenix, HVAC, Technoflair Solutions

Know how advanced technologies are gradually finding acceptance in India's elevators market

August 2018

Industry estimates suggest that India has a market for 48,000 to 54,000 new elevators against China's demand for about 500,000 units a year. In fact,...

Tags: Vincent Pinto, Escalators, Amit Gossain, KONE Elevator India, Sebi Joseph, Otis India, Architect Indrajit Kembhavi, Kembhavi Architects, FSI, Charu Bahri, Affordable housing

Appointments

August 2018

Ambuja Cement continues to lead in water stewardship; it has already achieved 5.5 times Water Positive status - the highest in the industry in India ...

Tags: Ambuja Cement, Water Positive, KUTUMB, Ashok B Lall Architects, IIFL Home Finance, CREDAI, Ashok Ramachandran, Sridhar Balakrishnan

UltraTech Cement announces winners of IndiaNext 2018

May 2018

UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group Company, today announced the winners of IndiaNext 2017-18 – Building for a Billion. This is an annual initia...

Tags: UltraTech Cement, Aditya Birla Group, IndiaNext 2017-18, Building for A Billion, PMAY, Sheila Sri Prakash, AGK Menon, BV Doshi, Mahendra Raj, IIT-Bombay, Chetana Consultants, Hirante Welandawe, HW Architects Academician, FHD Consultants, Pradeep G Kedlaya

The sustainability challenge

April 2018

Indian architecture has been decorated with its crown jewel BV Doshi being honoured with the Pritzker Prize, making him the first Indian ever to have...

Tags: Indian architecture, Pritzker Prize, BV Doshi, Le Corbusier, CEPT, Tata Group, N Chandrasekaran

Sustainability – Integrating Traditional and Modern Architecture

March 2018

The built environment of any community is considered to be the reflection of regional architecture – and thereby a significant component of different...

Tags: Vernacular architecture, Non-toxic, Renewable, Biodegradable materials, Substantial energy consumption, Earth Summit, National Habitat Mission, JNNURM, Water mission, Energy Efficiency mission, Anarock Property Consultants, Santhosh Kumar, Sustainability