Real estate development in India is growing exponentially ever since the IT boom started back in the 1990s. But the main concern is to provide a better infrastructure to meet the increasing travel demand as new developments generate new vehicles on roads
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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Robbins achieves another breakthrough in Bengaluru
Robbins drives two competitor EPB machines to a milestone at Namma Metro.
On June 8, 2016, one of two 6.4 m (21.0 ft) diameter mixed-face Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) machines broke through at Namma Metro
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IWS 2016 | A Success Story
The India Warehousing Show 2016 was a great success story. Pragati Maidan was the destination for supply chain professionals from all over the country from 8th to 10th June 2016. There was tremendous buzz in social media over the event, due to the enthusiasm of the participants
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METRONOMICS
The experience left the planners wiser. And this was evident in the 65 kilometres of the first phase of the ambitious Delhi Metro Project getting completed a full two years nine months ahead of schedule in 2005, in a period of a little over eight years.
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Last mile connectivity to and from Metro stations is an area of concern
When the construction work of the Metro was started in Kolkata and later in Delhi, Indian engineers did not have the required experience to execute projects of such mammoth proportions. For the Delhi Metro, we had hired a consortium of foreign engineers who had supervised our first phase of construction
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Public projects require subsidy
At the moment, we have two new projects. We are working on a project on semi-high speed train to improve the travel time between Delhi and Chandigarh. This involves our recommending ways to reduce the trip to two hours instead of the present four. We are also cooperating on stations. Stations are living spaces and not just places where people come and go.
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Need to blend solutions locally
We are active in India since April 2012 when we signed the operation and maintenance contract for the Hyderabad Metro Rail with L&T, which is involved in construction of three lines of 73 kilometres under the public-private partnership (PPP) model for the past four years
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Metro systems viable for large cities
Let me clarify that the term ĆĀ“Smart CityĆĀ“ does not denote scale. We can have small Smart Cities and large Smart Cities, both successful. The Mass Rapid Transport System or MRTS is really meant for large cities which have the population and economic density to sustain such expensive infrastructure
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Logging Grwoth
The Indian logistics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.17 per cent by 2020, driven by the growth in the manufacturing, retail, FMCG and e-commerce sectors.
India is expected to register a steady uptick in logistics growth, on the back of the improvement in the countryĆĀ“s infrastructural environment.
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No toll fee hike for users of Electronic City elevated highway
A pleasant surprise awaits thousands of techies who take the elevated highway to Electronic City in Bengaluru from July 1 they will not have to shell out extra money as toll fee. Contrary to the customary 6-7 per cent annual hike in toll fee, there will be a downward revision this year for users of the elevated highway that connects Central Silk Board Junction with the Electronic City Junction on the Bengaluru-Hosur stretch.