Mission 300! This is what's being used to build tall in India

May 2017

When it comes to building tall, India ranks 16th in the world with 39 buildings of 150 m+ having been completed and another 69 under construction! Th...

Tags: Construction, CTBUH, Ashish Rakheja, AEON Integrated Building Design Consultants, Dikshu C Kukreja, CP Kukreja Architects, RK Arora, Supertech, EPC, Raman Sapru, Formwork, Aluminium shuttering

Smart building technology contributes to workplace strategy

May 2017

Organisations now understand that smart workspaces can be a powerful tool to support employees to achieve better productivity and performance. 'An of...

Tags: Shabbir Kanchwala, K Raheja Corp, Green buildings, HVAC systems, LEED Core and Shell Gold, IGBC

Tenders for lifts, escalators and BMS for Navi Mumbai Metro to be floated

April 2017

The Navi Mumbai Metro Line No. 1 stretches from Belapur to Pendhar. The salient features of the project include a standard gauge width of 1,435 mm an...

Tags: Navi Mumbai Metro Line, CBTC, CIDCO, Lifts, Escalators, Building management system

AAI wins ‘India Pride Award’ for infrastructure development

April 2017

The Airports Authority of India has won Dainik Bhaskar's ‘India Pride Awards—2016-17’ for ‘Excellence in Infrastructure Development’ in the category ...

Tags: Airports Authority of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Excellence in Infrastructure Development, Guruprasad Mohapatra, Manoj Sinha, Air passengers, Building infrastructure, India Pride Award

India to invest $375 billion in infrastructure upgrading

April 2017

Expected to become the third largest in the world by 2030, currently, India’s construction market is contributing to more than 8 per cent of the coun...

Tags: GDP, Railways, Airports, Roads, IIA, Council of Architecture, FICCI, Alfredo Baracchini, Steel-studio Mech studio, Big 5 Construct India 2016, BAI, Annual Conference, Building materials, Construction technology, Plant

Smart Workplaces

April 2017

The roundtable discussion, organised by CW, revolved around factors that set these workplaces apart; the roles that design and technology play in the...

Tags: CW, Smart talk, Arvind Nandan, CW roundtable discussion, Shresht K Kashyap, Milind Pai, KNS Architects, Sukanto Aich, Philips Lighting India, Philips Lighting India, HVAC system, Building management system, Mahesh Mudda, False ceilings, Lighting

Seamless Cover

April 2017

The size of the total Indian roofing market is over 1 billion sq m, with a continuous evolution in the market for cladding. ...

Tags: Cladding, Manish Garg, Everest Industries, Gautam Suri, Interarch Building Products, Dr Prashanth Reddy, FunderMax India, Aluminium colour-coated roofs, Chuck Houk, Tremco, Jawahar Lal Das, Safintra Roofing India, SAFZIP 400, GRC, Façade systems

Chandigarh railway station set to get a makeover

April 2017

Chandigarh's railway station will soon get a makeover. As per the plan, the railway station will be redeveloped in two phases by 2019. The first phas...

Tags: Chandigarh railway station, Five-storey building, Railway Board, VIP lounge