With the increased government spend on infrastructure, several new players are entering the market and taking up smaller contracts. These customers are on the lookout for ready to run products at an affordable price.

Skyscrapers, super tall buildings in the city are usually characterised as a landmark. For smooth construction, it is necessary to have experts who can manage technologies from material to maintenance, and apply them to the work.

In 2001, India had just one building conforming to the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) green building rating, spanning 20,000 sq ft. Today, the country has 4,452 IGBC-registered green projects spanning 4.79 billion sq ft!

With the Smart Cities Mission completing three years this June 2018, Smart Cities Council India, part of the global consortium of smart cities, organised the SM@RT URBANATION Co-located with 5th Smart Cities Summit, Expo and Awards in Hyderabad last month.

NBCC (India) has forayed into the road construction space with a mandate to construct an eco-tourism circuit along Kotdwar-Ramnagar Kandi Road in Uttarakhand.

Sterling and Wilson has evolved to become India's leading MEP contracting company, having integrated its various offerings and services under a single MEP entity. All five services -electrical, HVAC, fire-fighting, plumbing and IBMS - have been successfully incorporated into a single business unit, which has an order intake of about Rs 16 billion today.

The Uttar Pradesh Government has planned to construct three flyovers in the jam-prone areas of Lucknow. Initially, as reported, the departments concerned have identified three stretches – Hussainganj crossing to DAV College, Charak crossing to Haidarganj and Charak crossing to Meena Bakery exit – for the construction of flyovers.

Cities such as Haridwar and Rishikesh are expected to have a 100 per cent sewage treatment facility as sewage management interventions in Uttarakhand is near completion.

Smart cities have been provided some seed money from the Centre and the state, with some to be generated from their own budget. But the financial requirement still remains huge, as a smart city plan has to benefit the entire city and is not just limited to the area identified for development.