Zawtika marked a regional form of globalisation in offshore EPC, involving Myanmar, Thailand and India with utilisation of Omanese facilities, Norwegian, UAE and Singaporean barges, and personnel from around the world. Understandably, supply chain and safety management provided a challenge to the EPC contractor L and T. SK Mukerji and K Bagchi explain.?

L&T said that it won an EPC project from Takreer, a unit of State-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for the new aviation fuel terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport for developing storage and delivery of JET A-1, special purpose aviation turbine fuel.

There are few people in the seats of power who're more convinced about PPP than Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India. In a freewheeling interview and a mood for candour,

Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects do have certain advantages which amount to lesser amount of risk for the private company. While a successful EPC road project

Punj Lloyd, a leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) conglomerate, has received a letter of intent from GMR Projects for undertaking design, engineering, procurement and construction of 124 km of six lane of Chittorgarh bypass to Udaipur, in the state of Rajasthan. Worth Rs 1,050 crore, the project is scheduled for commissioning in 36 months.

Coming elections in the country are going to cause delay in road works. Road developers are set to see challenging business environment as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which missed project award targets in the last year by a huge margin, may not meet them.

Rohit Punjabi, Assistant Director (Strategy and Marketing Department), Liugong India, explains to Sudheer Vathiyath the importance of implementing innovative ideas in road construction activities.

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) offered five of the six road projects awarded in April 2013, covering a total length of 339 km, under the engineering procurement construction or (EPC) mode. The authority awarded the remaining one project on the BOT-toll (build operate transfer) model, the predominant format under which projects were being offer

The need of the hour is positive policy making from government while private sector should contribute by innovation and informed risk taking,