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Tag: Kolkata Metro
Metro neglect will cost us dear
Pratap Padode, Founder, FIRST Construction Council, supports Dr E Sreedharan’s suggestion that outlay for metro projects is woefully short Padma Vibhushan Dr E Sreedharan captivated the 150-plus audience at the Metro Rail Conference in Mumbai. He shared his learnings and recommended a course of action for the Government which he asked the FIRST Construction Council and Construction...
Accelerating The Project Delivery Cycles
Delays in project deliveries can now be countered to a good extent From elevating the safety standards of construction processes to addressing critical gaps like labour shortage, likewise from digitalization of project management to distribution of information to the last milestone, the scope of technology in construction is endless. It has ushered in an era...
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.
Railways on Overdrive
While all the pressure to build a railway network in India in the mid-nineteenth century came from London, it is well into the 21st century that pressures of a very different kind are at work in modern-day India.
We have constructed almost half of all the new lines that were laid last year
There are basically two kinds of projects. One is the greenfield projects where we are going to construct an absolutely new line. The other type is where we construct along the existing track, the doubling or third or fourth lines.
What lies beneath…
Indian tunnelling has gained sufficient experience in tunnelling, and as new infrastructure projects in rail, metro rail, water and hydro electric projects promise momentum underground, technology and management will be critical,