Realty Round up - Real Estate Rides on Recovery Wave
After having remained in a dormant condition in the recent past largely due to high debt, curtailed demand and severe financial crunch, Indian real estate sector has bounced back opening brisk business opportunities across metros
Port Infra Set to Stage Amazing Upturn
Targeting a total port traffic handling capacity of 3.5 billion tons per annum in a phased manner by 2031, the Union Shipping Ministry has recently made a mark by crossing the coveted combined traffic handling
Indian Housing Scenario Problems and Remedies
The total housing shortage at the end of tenth plan has officially been assessed as 24.71 million dwelling units for 67.4 million Households, where 98% of this shortage was in the Low Income and Economically Weaker Sections
Evolution of Project Management in Construction Projects
Providing a good infrastructure has been neglected in the past in India. The realization came very late. Because of the neglect of this very important aspect, India was relegated to back waters. India was not
Highways Sector on Overdrive
The Indian highways sector forms the world’s second largest road network aggregating over 3.34 million km. But its national highways until recently constituted only about 2 percent at 74,000km. But things started changing dramatically
Reviving Real Estate is Good News for us all
During the global economic recession, cash flow was severely restricted both to the developer segment as well as to consumers as home loans became expensive. The stimulus package came as a relief, offering tax
Paradigm Shift: A Giant Leap Generating Power In Plenty
Placing economy on the high growth trajectory, the Union Power Ministry has assigned top priority to push power generation capacity to a new high and nearly half of the targeted $1 trillion infrastructure fund for
Construction Sector: Current Scenario and Emerging Trends
After recording a spectacular growth of over 12%, more than the country’s GDP in the past half decade, the Indian construction sector all of a sudden lost stream in last fiscal largely due to global financial turmoil. Not just this
Indian Construction 2007 and Beyond . .
The period of 2007 and further is well expected to remain buoyant for India’s construction sector. Array of new infrastructure financing initiatives and new suitable project clearance and development mechanism would
Foundation Equipment Market Set for Growth
Enhanced knowledge on the utility of foundation equipment by contractors are enabling foundation equipment manufacturers to reap good business volumes. P. P. BASISTHA takes a look at how the foundation
Mechanization in Construction of Housing and Commercial Infrastructure
A massive growth is taking place in India in the infrastructure segments. From the year 2000 a growth at 9% per annum has been consistently recorded and it is expected to continue and grow further
