Concerted effort on up-skilling of construction workers have contributed to our brand and business growth

August 2018

During the year, we launched a new product - Everest Super - targeted at rural customers and priced at a 25 per cent premium to our regular cement ro...

Tags: Manish Sanghi, Everest Industries, Fibre cement roofing sheets, Roof Master Training Programme, GST, Everest Durasteel Roofs, Industrial, Commercial Pre-engineered buildings, NSDC, CIDC

Panvel gets the first integrated township in NAINA

August 2018

Towards the government's mission of Housing for All, Wadhwa Wise City, a first integrated township under NAINA (Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Notifie...

Tags: NAINA, CIDCO, Wadhwa Group, Housing for All

Navi Mumbai – A destination of choice

June 2018

Development of Navi Mumbai was first witnessed in 1971. This satellite city was slow to take-off, and there was hardly any growth for the first two d...

Tags: Suburban railway corridor, CIDCO, MIDC, MMR, Sion-Panvel Expressway, Mindspace, ITeS sectors, Vinod Rohira, REITs, K Raheja Corp

SKILL CRISIS: Only 4 per cent of the current 32 million workers skilled

May 2018

"We are due to see a surge in construction rates in India as it overtakes Japan to become the world's third largest construction market by 2021," say...

Tags: Construction, Global Construction Perspectives, Graham Robinson, Supreme Court, NSDC, Manish Kumar, Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, Dr Anoop Kumar Mittal, CIDC, Neerja Singh, FICCI, Construction Workers, Ajit Gulabchand, CSDCI, Rajeev Bhatnagar

Navi Mumbai Metro project deadline moved to April 2019

April 2018

Despite four years of delay coupled with the escalated costs, the Navi Mumbai Metro continues to go off-track. As reported, the deadline has been fur...

Tags: Navi Mumbai Metro, CIDCO, Taloja MIDC, Navi Mumbai Metro project

Awards Bagged

April 2018

Tata BlueScope Steel's Building Products division, LYSAGHT, has received the 10th CIDC Vishwakarma Award 2018 for Safety, Health and Environment, for...

Tags: Tata BlueScope Steel Building Products, LYSAGHT, 10th CIDC Vishwakarma Award 2018, Tata Steel Processing, Distribution project, OPCC, SLCM, Maneesh Agrawal, Nuvoco Vistas Corp, Praveen Somani

India Chapter of ACI Emphasises Rehabilitating Structures for a Better Future

February 2018

The India Chapter of ACI (IC-ACI) organised a glittering two days international conference on repairs, retrofitting and forensic engineering of built...

Tags: ACI, Khaled Walid Awad, CIDC, CCMA, ICI, Vishal Thombare, American Concrete Institute

Here are India's big construction baggers making headway into mega projects

February 2018

It's boom time for infrastructure. Just look at the number of projects awarded and bagged in 2017! While the roads segments took the lead this year a...

Tags: Infrastructure, NBCC, Sadbhav Engineering, Welspun Enterprises, Ramky Infrastructure, L&T, Tata Projects, Punj Lloyd, Varaha Infra JV, GVK Power, CIDCO of Maharashtra, Zojila Pass tunnel, Navi Mumbai International Airport, CRISIL, GDP growth