BIM and GIS will be a game-changer in planning, designing, and executing the smart city projects. In the next three decades, the number of people living in cities will double, and this growth will require the construction of thousands of new buildings, roads, and other infrastructures. BIM fits perfectly in Smart City projects and will...
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Moving beyond Smart Cities
An estimated 30 people will leave rural India for urban areas every minute during the next 20 years. At this rate, in the next two decades, most Indian cities are likely to double their size in terms of population and more than double in area.
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Mobility solutions
The total investment required in urban transport works out to roughly about Rs.1 lakh crore per year for the next 20 years. It is important to find appropriate ways and means to be able to generate this kind of investment.The next phase of India´s growth is predominantly dependent on planned urbanisation and the key to planned urbanisation is robust.
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Brahmaputra Cracker incurs cost overrun on Assam project
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer incurred a cost overrun of more than Rs 3,400 crore on its Assam Gas Cracker Project (AGCP) because of inefficient pre-project planning, the government the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said. The CAG said this in a report tabled in Parliament. Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer is a joint venture between GAIL (India), Numaligarh Refinery, Oil India, and the
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Delhi civic bodies to get Rs 50.9 bn from state govt
The three municipal corporations in Delhi received a cumulative allocation of Rs 5,095.25 crore from Delhi government to implement various civic amenities projects during 2013-14. This is a cumulative allocation under various forms such as grant-in-aid, basic tax assignment, compensation against parking fees, share in stamp dutie
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Caution! Project creep ahead
Although all changes that are proposed are meant to be improvements in schedule, cost or performance of projects, another universal truth is that there’s many a slip between the cup and the lip.